Mr. Quarter Squat does a 3/4 BW deadlift to impress a girl.

Posted on | September 12, 2008 | 3 Comments

Over this past summer, I went to the gym with my boyfriend. I was on the sideline for the day because of an injury and agreed to go in and help him with his form on some Olympic lifts. We set up at one of the squat racks and I sat down on a bench about 3-4 feet out from him. Enough room that if he lost one, I wouldn’t get hit but I could still critique his form.

While we were there, a guy we had seen around a few times and remembered due to his unimpressive grunting and half squat routine, showed up. Going forward I will be referring to him as “toolbox”, half because I don’t know his name and half because he’s a perfect example of a toolbox.

Anyways, he walks in and comes over to where we are. Now… this is Sunday morning and the gym is pretty much empty, but whatever. I notice he’s looking at me, but I ignore him. Apparently he didn’t get the point. He pulls out a bar and starts to do “heavy” dead lifts… if you count 160lb dead lifts for a guy heavy. Where does he decide to dead lift? Right on my boyfriend’s ass… in the 3-4 feet between him and I. Keep in mind that my boyfriend is doing snatches, with bumper plates, and missing one here and there. Annoyed, I get up and move to the other side, so I can continue to critique the BF. And what does toolbox do? He moves over and gets between us. Apparently he didn’t get the point.

Frustrated at this point, I move again and stand between him and my boyfriend. Toolbox then goes and sits down behind me (apparently he needed a break after two dead lifts)… okay dude…You made your point, stop staring at my ass. This routine went on for most of the morning/afternoon. I don’t think at any point he did any real lifting, he just kept trying to get into my view.

Seriously, I get that you see some “cute” girl at the gym and you want to see if she’s interested. But when she’s always there with the same guy and she’s moving to get away from you, I think that’s a red light. Not to mention I can deadlift just as much as he was struggling with. Ouch. Maybe next time he’ll try his half squat routine? Needless to say, I wasn’t impressed.

I was impressed by my boyfriend’s patience though… It would have been so tempting to accidentally loose a snatch backwards.

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3 Responses to “Mr. Quarter Squat does a 3/4 BW deadlift to impress a girl.”

The Boyfriend.
September 12th, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

But he did bang his plates REALLY LOUD and walk like he had buckets under his arms.
Clearly he is not a man to be taken lightly.

Besides, he can probably out bench me.
Blair Lowe
December 23rd, 2008 @ 2:06 pm

I think you should have asked to try that weight and bang out twice as many reps as him. Then you should have chewed him out for lifting such a light weight and told him to fuck off.

Grunt, go silverback, pound your chest a bit. See Jane smash.
Rayna
December 23rd, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

I guess I could have done that, but I try my best to be rather supportive in that environment, since though most people aren’t effectively working out, they ARE working out. What was more obnoxious was that he thought his light, poor formed lifts would impress a girl who has shown no interest in him what so ever and his denial to see her getting out of his way and still thinking he was bad ass. Though, to think of it, I could probably DL what he was doing with poor form pretty easily with good form now. Then, not so much, but now I could. I’d imagine his DL is probably about the same.