Increasing your weights to impress people

gerripho
gerripho Posts: 479 Member
edited January 4 in Fitness and Exercise
When you're in the gym and working your way through the resistance machines, do you ever increase the weight before leaving the machine so the person following thinks you must be super strong?

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  • sarah44254
    sarah44254 Posts: 3,078 Member
    hahah, no. that sounds awesome though
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    Weird.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    I don't use machines much. And for free weights it's polite to re-rack your weights.
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    I don't use machines much. And for free weights it's polite to re-rack your weights.

    This.

    When I do use a machine, no I've never thought about doing that BUT I feel pretty good when I can put the weight up after the last person, or have it stay the same. Everyone else at my gym is male so that's always a good thing.
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    No but I love actually lifting more than the guys in the free part of the gym.
  • a_mandolin_
    a_mandolin_ Posts: 336 Member
    I just saw that the other day! Real sneaky.

    I was going to say, why do it, nobody will notice, but I obviously did :laugh:
  • lilpoindexter
    lilpoindexter Posts: 1,123 Member
    Why do you care what a bunch of strangers think about your weight lifting ability?
  • wmagoo27
    wmagoo27 Posts: 201 Member
    When you're in the gym and working your way through the resistance machines, do you ever increase the weight before leaving the machine so the person following thinks you must be super strong?

    This sounds absolutely ridiculous. You must work out with some very important people to care that much about what they think of you. To answer the question, no, I've never even thought of that.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    Trick question. After all, who actually uses those machines?
  • gauchogirl
    gauchogirl Posts: 467 Member
    no, LOL, but if I'm on the elliptical, and you happen to get on next to me, the answer is yes, we ARE RACING.
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    no but i've done it before on the versaclimber when some guy kept hounding me about using it and hovering til i finished even though i had 30 minutes. so for 15 minutes he was like all over my girl nutsac. before i hopped off i cranked the resistance knob all the way up to the highest.


    i got off and used the elliptical. for like 5 minutes i watched him struggle trying to use it (dude didnt know that he could lower the resistance!) he gave up and started another machine then i went back to the versaclimber (turned down the resistance) and started another 30 minute workout :laugh:
  • LJCannon
    LJCannon Posts: 3,636 Member
    no but i've done it before on the versaclimber when some guy kept hounding me about using it and hovering til i finished even though i had 30 minutes. so for 15 minutes he was like all over my girl nutsac. before i hopped off i cranked the resistance knob all the way up to the highest.


    i got off and used the elliptical. for like 5 minutes i watched him struggle trying to use it (dude didnt know that he could lower the resistance!) he gave up and started another machine then i went back to the versaclimber (turned down the resistance) and started another 30 minute workout :laugh:

    My kinda Girl!!
  • lina011
    lina011 Posts: 427 Member
    no, LOL, but if I'm on the elliptical, and you happen to get on next to me, the answer is yes, we ARE RACING.
    ha ha i like this"
  • Gr82smile
    Gr82smile Posts: 2 Member
    Ok...we need to be MFP friends on here! You're awesome!! Is it bad I get such joy out of imagining him struggling on that machine?? NAH....lol
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    Um . . . I don't use the machines, and I never leave all those 45# plates on the Olympic Bar to impress anyone -- that would be rude.

    I always clean up after myself and restock the plates ;)
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    no, LOL, but if I'm on the elliptical, and you happen to get on next to me, the answer is yes, we ARE RACING.

    If deadlifts were easy, they'd be called ellipticals :laugh:

    jk. not really :laugh:
  • Mighty_Rabite
    Mighty_Rabite Posts: 581 Member
    When using free weights, I re-rack everything I can.

    On machines.. I'll leave it where it was at. On some machines (such as the seated triceps press or when I use the lat pulldown for scapular retraction) it is already at or near the max load so no option to put on a facade anyway - but even on machines where I could go up (leg curls/extensions go to like 295, I only go up to 215 currently), I just leave it where it was.
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    used to do this when i was starting out... then you realize that no one gives a sh-t, and that ultimately "lighter" weight and better form with time under tension is what gives you the gains you want.
  • babyblake11
    babyblake11 Posts: 1,107 Member
    no i get my highs from actually lifting heavier.

    ;)
  • jesz124
    jesz124 Posts: 1,004 Member
    The proof is in the pudding. If you don't look like your lifting that heavy your probably not. Pointless.
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