What Is Your Most Awkward Spotting Story

[Exiled Martian]

True story : So this geeza comes over to me and asks for a spot...I said yea cool & proceed to follow my man.....to the fukkin hammer strength vertical bench. I said "are you serious?" and walked away straight....


What's even even sadder is these PT's in my gym "spot" each other on the hammer strength machines all the time. They basically overload it with plates and then the other guy helps pull them up, it's sort of like doing forced negatives but more like one guy pressing while the other guy curls the same weight.


If you've witnessed/ experienced some truly atrocious spotting add on in this thread fam

 

[chuckifubuck]

Only one I can think of is those way too active spotters that be pushing the bar up for you, then when you call them out on it they like "Nah bruh that was all you"

 

[OSUBaneBrowns]

Only one I can think of is those way too active spotters that be pushing the bar up for you, then when you call them out on it they like "Nah bruh that was all you"

I had this issue this morning at the gym. I asked this guy if he can spot me while I try to lift 305 on the bench. I told him to help me lift it off on 3 and do not help me unless I said so. He just nooded his head and said OK.

• When I counted to 3, he didn't help me lift it off and I had to do it myself
• When I started to come up with the weight, he grabbed the bar when I started to hit the half way point back to the top of the rack
• When I told him that I had it, he didn't let go of the bar completely and I said fukked it and finished the rep
• After that he just gave me the face and bounce.

And this is one of the main reason that I can't max out at my gym because a lot of these jackasses cannot spot properly when asked.

 

[Jesus]

One cac dropping sweat in my eye while spotting me and then on next rep had the weight uneven on the bar.

 

[﹏﹏⛴﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏]

One cac dropping sweat in my eye while spotting me and then on next rep had the weight uneven on the bar.

That's messed up about the sweat. As soon as you lift that uneven weight up=
I just tell people I ask to spot to let me fail if I don't get. Simple with no gray area. Got tired of the bad spotting. Especially that two-hand tap garbage.

 

[Uncle Trill]

One cac dropping sweat in my eye while spotting me and then on next rep had the weight uneven on the bar.

 

[Exiled Martian]

One cac dropping sweat in my eye while spotting me and then on next rep had the weight uneven on the bar.

That is some unfortunate nastiness fam... or ever had:

The roided Guy spotting you on bench & my manz crotch is pretty much over my face on lift off as he screams' Your BAR' with his plums right above your forehead smh

 

[RTF]

"Only help out if i've 100% failed"

Proceeds to spot every rep smh.

I once almost let off a sweat drop on a dudes face. Don't ask me to spot you straight after a hypertrophy squat session

 

[Soundwave]

Back when I was maybe a year or so into lifting, I was doing military presses and a dude comes over to me and asks if I can spot him on the bench press. I kind of waffled on it, and he took that as me not wanting to help him. It wasn't that I didn't want to help him, but he was (still is) much bigger than I am, and I didn't think I was strong enough to do it. It was more about me than him

 

[Exiled Martian]

Back when I was maybe a year or so into lifting, I was doing military presses and a dude comes over to me and asks if I can spot him on the bench press. I kind of waffled on it, and he took that as me not wanting to help him. It wasn't that I didn't want to help him, but he was (still is) much bigger than I am, and I didn't think I was strong enough to do it. It was more about me than him

If only he knew you were just keeping it 100...... on some 'Its not you its Me' cliche


Yea man I feel you fam.... when the gym monsters asks you to pass him that 140Lbs DB for incline presses after you've just fried your lower back doing deficit deadzzzz

 

[Loose]

I always make my friends finish failed reps most I will do is guide it up by evening the bar

 

[King Koopa]

One cac dropping sweat in my eye while spotting me and then on next rep had the weight uneven on the bar.