Loading the Bar

JoRocka

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HOW TO LOAD/UNLOAD PLATES WITHOUT A LOADER:
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Ever have problems loading your plates on a platform?
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I found using a lifting belt easier and safer than roiling a barbell on a small plate.
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Thank you!!! Loading those plates is so much more awkward for me than the steel plates - I’m definitely using my belt from now on.

And I hadn’t thought about using a small plate either...

Some of the guys at my gym actually use the squat rack for deadlifts just because it’s easier to load the bar. It was so hard not to say something snarky when I asked and that’s the reason he gave. Grrrr...

Not a bad idea if there's plenty of racks and no dedicated deadlift platform with with a loader.

Yeah...in that case it would be fine...but there was only one squat rack

There is no reason he can't share the squat rack with you- loading and unloading takes 1-2 minutes tops. and you don't leave it there when you're between sets- he could have shared. #dontbeadick

My gym is full of the worst lifters for sharing I swear. Too many young and clueless about gym etiquette. The gym is horribly crowded and even if you offer to let them work in they won't because they just want to do "there thing". Seriously? Is anti-social the new norm?

Based on the amount of posts here about people who don't want to speak to, or so much as look at another person while they are in the gym, there is definitely a prevalent anti-social vibe going on.

I gotta be honest- I am really shocked by this as well. I get not wanting to chit chat for hours- you get cold- most people don't have 4 hrs to burn at the gym daily- but saying hi and being generally social- I find it odd that SO many people are "head phones in death glare on" mentality. But I'm an ambievert- and I get hyped with other people- until I go home and do nothing. LOL