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Do you put back all your plates?

do you put back plates when finished?

  • yes

    Votes: 125 74.9%

  • no

    Votes: 14 8.4%

  • sometimes

    Votes: 28 16.8%
  • Total voters
    167
Unless I get injured and require medical attention, yes. If you can put them on the bar and lift them, you can take them off and put them back.

BTW, I once tapped Rickson for leaving 2.5s on the EZ Curl bar. Of course, he was at the water fountain and I hit him over the head with a 45 from behind first. All technique after that though. :)
 
Always, even after I got injured and required medical attention, I still had one good side to lift the plates with.
 
rgjujitsu said:
Madcow no one has ever questioned your technique, or your ability to smack people with 45lb plates.
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LOL - for the record, I put the plate back on the rack after that too.
 
im not gona lie (not that any of u are)... i dont.

someone is always wanting to work in with me or after me, so i just leave at least 1 plate on s othey can warm up or w/e.

i do put the dbs away, though
 
I workout at home so I would only screw myself if I did not clean up afterward.

However, I would do the same at a gym.
 
I hate it when I want to use the squat rack and I see plates on it. I have to look around and see if anyone is using it(usually not).

I always put plates back when I am done cus I know how PO'd I get when I have to take them off when someone else left them on. PLus, its a good use of functional strength, hehe.
 
always. i never leave plates on the bar, and i never leave dumbells on the floor. i busted my ass once tripping over a dumbell some dumbass left on the floor. never found out who it was, but if anyone would have owned up to it, that dumbell would have had to have been surgically removed from their asshole.
 
Usually it is skinny ass punks that leave the weights on the bar.

Also i can't stand assholes that stand right in front of the dumbell rack. I always move back a few feet for others can come up and grab the weights.
 
Crying Brian said:
Usually it is skinny ass punks that leave the weights on the bar.

Also i can't stand assholes that stand right in front of the dumbell rack. I always move back a few feet for others can come up and grab the weights.
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not only does it piss me off when i have to take other peoples weight off something before i use it( unless i tell them to leave it) but when people stack the weights wrong like the 25's on top of the 10's or anywhere else but where they belong. :mad:
 
I always replace weights in the correct place - even if someone else left them on the bar or floor before me.

Something I hate is when people assume that "Oh, you're a big guy, I'll just leave all of my plates on the bar for you."
 
Yeah, the WORST is when you want to get a plate, only having to remove 5 others, of varying poundage, off that peg to get to it.

I don't understand how people can't match up plates on the right pin. It's like little kids trying to hammer a square peg through a round hole. (not that hard)
 
Yes, I put the weights back, mainly because in my small town I'm one of the only strong guys around & everyone is literally doing bunny weights, basically. I can't stand it when some idiot does, say, upright rows with 65 lbs. in the squat rack, takes 15 minutes, then walks off without removing the weights. I gotta weight for his weeny ass, then remove his puny weights, THEN readjust the barbell & the rack pins so I can finally begin squats, etc. I hate even more people who fucking leave dumbells any old place & everywhere but where they belong.
 
I take my weights off of everything except bench. At the gym I go to it is kind of expected to leave 45s on because 99% of everyone there uses at least 1 45.
 
I do it 99% of the time. Sometimes I leave the 45 on the bench because 99% of the time people just throw them back on any way.
 
rgjujitsu said:
Would you guys say something to someone who does leave plates on the bar? Not 135, but like 315 or more?
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Hell, yes! Just because you lift heavy doesn't mean you get a free pass on gym etiquette. Besides, I can say it from behind him while I'm holding a 30lb dumbbell in my hands. He gets pissed, it's just one to the temple.
 
Lupercal CATS said:
I take my weights off of everything except bench. At the gym I go to it is kind of expected to leave 45s on because 99% of everyone there uses at least 1 45.
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Whist this is true for WORKING weight, it's still a poor assumption.

Warmups require starting lower than 135 even if you are woking up to over 300lbs...

45 (bar) x 20
95 x 15
135 x 10
185 x 8
225 x 6
275 x 4
315 x 3...
 
If someone in the rack next to me leaves weigths on, I clean it up while they can see me do it. It gets the point across.

And I always rack my weights, which is funny b/c I'm a total slob when it comes to my room and car.
 
When I used to do leg press, I reckoned that by the time I'd loaded the thing up there was just about enough energy left to unload it again. Any sets in the middle were a bonus.
 
redguru said:
A lot of people can't lift the 100lb plates on the 45° leg press machine, so I feel it's only polite to remove them.
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I can agree with that. It is only polite to remove people who can't work with the 100lb plates.
 
musketeer said:
Whist this is true for WORKING weight, it's still a poor assumption.

Warmups require starting lower than 135 even if you are woking up to over 300lbs...

45 (bar) x 20
95 x 15
135 x 10
185 x 8
225 x 6
275 x 4
315 x 3...
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I am saying this from what goes on at the gym I go to now. At my old gym people ALWAYS racked the weight back up but at the one now there is always a 45 on the bar.
 
yes.. unless the guy waiting to use it is a complete douche in which case I walk off and leave the sweat covered bench or blood stained bar for him. The guy who wears a leather kilt with nothing under it for example, or the little richard simmons look alike who once threatened to get the manager because I wouldn't let him in the curl cage
 
Lupercal CATS said:
I am saying this from what goes on at the gym I go to now. At my old gym people ALWAYS racked the weight back up but at the one now there is always a 45 on the bar.
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You have a point actually!

I can imagine some people actually getting offended by you stripping the bar down instead of leaving the plates - they're thinking that you are thinking that they can't go that heavy!

Pleanty of people don't warm up correctly and go right in to 60%+ of their RM. If that's the status quo at your gym then your damned if you do and damned if you dont!
 
i think its fuckin ignorant when people leave plates on. i hate walkin up to the only open bench and thers like 275 on it thats been sittin there for like an hour and i gotta take all that shit off.
 
At the gym I go to now, racking the weights covers up a host of other sins. I can curse and stomp around after missing a lift but get a smile from the trainer because I always strip the bar down.
 
At my old gym if you got caught leaving weights on the bar or not returning your dumbells you got 1 warning and then a weeks suspension. It was in the contract you signed for the gym membership.

Before this there wasn't one straight bar in the place, they were al bent form sitting there with a few hunderd pounds on each end.

Another thing is those tools that can't controle their weight and trop the dumbells on the ends. Hate doing dimbell curls or press with dimbells looking like this \-/
 
always... cause sometimes when i walk up i assume it's still in use and waste time hanging around

worse is the idiots who leave the bar loaded ON ONE SIDE
 
Woah speaking of not putting back plates. Today I saw a guy doing deadlifts. A few minutes later the bar was still on the floor with all the weight on it but he was loading up the squat press machine. I figured, ok well he's going to come back to it and clean up. He used 900lbs for his squat press and then left every plate on the squat press and walked off. I then thought, ok he is going to get water and will come back to move the weight. About 30-45 seconds after I hadn't seen him I walked around trying to find him to remind him that he had over 20 45 pound weights and a barbell that he hadn't put back. Next time I see this guy do that I might just throw a 45 at his face.
 
rgjujitsu said:
I am wondering everyone's thoughts on this.
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my thoughts are that it pisses me off when someone deadlifts 300+ lbs, and leaves them on the bar, in the squat rack, on the ground, and is nowhere to be found. it's disrespectfull to the others who pay to use the facilities if you just leave the crap when you're done with it. i take the extra minute to put back the weight, and it doesn't kill me. it's just a friggin' hassle when i go to squat...

RESPECT, have some people.
 
My last gym was a disaster for people not giving a shit. Not only did they leave the plates on the Bars, but dumb-bells were either left on the floor, or were put on the rack mixed up. It was like an obstacle course when it was busy. Great gym, but some serious jerks in there.
 
i f*cking hate coming into the gym in the morn only to find the nite crew left their plates and dumb bells out!!
 
if you're strong enough to load it, you're strong enough to unload it...

i would not have a problem if someone was injured and was unable to unload though...
 
I always do its just the curtious thing to do. If a guy who is waiting for bench/preacher or something I will ask if he wants me to rack the weights or just to leave it though.
 
Always. In fact I seem to spend most of my time between sets re-organizing the whole fricken dumbbell rack.

Do any of you prefer how the plates are racked. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer them to be facing out, they're easier to grab. There seems to be an epidemic at my gym lately with everyone putting them back facing in. :mad:
 
I like to go around the gym and put the 5 and 10lb plates in between the 45's on the squat and bench racks.

...then I like to watch people fling them off the racks while they're getting off the 45's - makes my night and gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling. :)
 
Quadsweep's Sister said:
I like to go around the gym and put the 5 and 10lb plates in between the 45's on the squat and bench racks.

...then I like to watch people fling them off the racks while they're getting off the 45's - makes my night and gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling. :)
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It's even better when they don't notice the 10lb plates or pull off two 45's at once, so they drop them on their feet. Classic!
 
Endless hours of fun. I reckon if the weights are strewn all over the floor then it's much easier to choose the one you want. We have a variety of Weider, York, Olympic and un-named plates and I hate using mis-matched plates when lifting. I'm sure people reckon I'm odd when I take a plate off the rack and then use the one that was underneath it.
 
blut wump said:
Endless hours of fun. I reckon if the weights are strewn all over the floor then it's much easier to choose the one you want. We have a variety of Weider, York, Olympic and un-named plates and I hate using mis-matched plates when lifting. I'm sure people reckon I'm odd when I take a plate off the rack and then use the one that was underneath it.
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I'm the same way, they have to be the same make for me to use them. Also when on the bar they have to be facing in.
 
vin01 said:
Yeah, the WORST is when you want to get a plate, only having to remove 5 others, of varying poundage, off that peg to get to it.

I don't understand how people can't match up plates on the right pin. It's like little kids trying to hammer a square peg through a round hole. (not that hard)
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Even better, at my gym they even have the pegs numbered, 45, 35, 10, 5, 2.5 etc. and the lugheads stil can't get it right.
The 35's are in the 25 spot which meand the 10's don't fit properly, everything is everywhere.... idiots!
 
They tried to do that at my last gym with the labelled pegs. The trouble was that the 45s were all on one side of the rack along with the 35s. Too much hassle to follow that one.
 
Yes I put the weights back in the right spot and if someone has put them in the wrong spot Ill take the time to move them around...And if your one of the few meatheads that dont put the weights back or say "thats what I pay the gym for" Ive got a bullet with your name on it.
 
blut wump said:
I hate using mis-matched plates when lifting. I'm sure people reckon I'm odd when I take a plate off the rack and then use the one that was underneath it.
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I'm exactly the same. Gotta be the same make. Also i dont like mis-matched sides, eg 1x20kg and 1x10kg on one side and 1x20kg and 2x5kgs on the other. It just dosen't feel right! I usually put my plates back but no-one cares at my gym. Sometimes there is one bench with 6 sets of dumbells scattered around it!
 
i do this most of the time... why don't i do it all the time? well, i sometimes return to the same bar and then remove as many plates as i need.
 
usually i dont on ME squat/dead days. i usually just lean the plates up against the wall. i'm too fuckin gassed after my last set, but i take the weight off so the next person doesn't have to
 
Yeah I dislike the plate leavers and the dumbbell leavers and the dumbbell standers... but I can understand their stupidity and laziness. But what I DO NOT understand at allis how every single 2 1/2 pound plate ends up at ONE station... (the bench...) Each station only needs 2!!!!
 
The only time I don't is if someone is waiting for the equipment and when I am finished, I leave whatever they ask me to. Other than that, it is common decency to replace the weights after use.
 
I used to until I inevitably found it was a fruitless exercise because everyother fucker would just leave there shit on the bar, usually on the floor, sometimes on a ez-curl bar in the rack. So I don't anymore.

I hate my gym and everyone in it... but there is no-where else with a free weight area that is usable... so im stuck with ass jockeys, and the stupid little kids who I pull bars off of seemingly on a daily basis... fuckers.
 
chicknlegs said:
Other than that, it is common decency to replace the weights after use.
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As we can see from the comments, the decency necessary to return the weights may not be very "common".

I return the plates every time.
 
You best put them plates back on that tree if you wanna call urself a man, i hate whenmutherf#@$ers dont.
 
I consider it lazy not to. I mean, I put the plates on the bar, shouldn't you clean up after yourself? Then again, pulling the 5 or 10lb plates off when I get there isn't a big deal, no one leaves anything heavy on :-D.
 
Bars at my gym are typically left with a plate at each end so that's how I usually leave them. I think people consider it unmanly to use less than a plate on each end for bench or semi-squats so that's what most start with.

My first action on getting to a fresh station, though, is to remove the two plates since I almost always begin my sets with an empty bar.
 
I feel guilty now, I always leave a plate on bench and two on leg press, but I totally strip everything else. My gym is terrible for people leaving their crap everywhere, today I went to the squat rack and someones left a 2 1/2lb plate on each side.
 
Lupercal CATS said:
I am saying this from what goes on at the gym I go to now. At my old gym people ALWAYS racked the weight back up but at the one now there is always a 45 on the bar.
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Guess they must not have too many girlies working out there...really makes me mad when some ass leaves plates on the f*****g bar. Especially when it's 2-3 of them on each side...and yes, I do bitch and make the boys unload if I catch their asses leaving the shit on :evil:
 
blut wump said:
Bars at my gym are typically left with a plate at each end so that's how I usually leave them. I think people consider it unmanly to use less than a plate on each end for bench or semi-squats so that's what most start with.

My first action on getting to a fresh station, though, is to remove the two plates since I almost always begin my sets with an empty bar.
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ya, I always get wierd looks when I go to use the bench as someone is just finishing up. They always ask if I want the 45's on the bar and I always say "I warm up with the bar". A lot of the times it's the 150lb team bench press kids and they look at me like I'm a retard, lol.
 
I only leave the weight on the bar if I'm immediately returning for another set. If theres weight on the bar I assume someone is using it and I pass it by. So, yes, I remove the weight every time. Theres no reason to tie other people up into thinking that the bench/bar is currently in use (reserved).

When I see these little cocksalad twerps leaving their 35lb plates on the straight bar, I go curl it real quick before I pull the plates off and replace them with 45's.
 
Crox said:
I feel guilty now, I always leave a plate on bench and two on leg press, but I totally strip everything else. My gym is terrible for people leaving their crap everywhere, today I went to the squat rack and someones left a 2 1/2lb plate on each side.
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Squatting the bar was finally getting too easy for them, I guess... lol
 
I can't stand it one some asshole leaves their weights on the bar. If you put em on take em off. I go to the gym to workout, not to clean up after some lazy punk.
 
not in my new gym I don't, unless I know someone's waiting to use the equipment after me and asked nicely. Everything I come to use is loaded down with plates so I'm damned if I'm going to be the only one unloading the bar
 
I put all my plates back but I'm definitely starting to feel less and less inclined to do so every week. The thing that I hate is not as much when people leave their plates (I'm ok with taking off a couple 45s) but how they completely screw up the weight order. People are putting 10s and 25s where the 5s are supposed to be, filling up one rack while leaving the other completely bare, etc. I always end up organizing the squat rack in between my sets, putting all the plates where they're supposed to be. Such a waste of time but it helps the time pass heh.
 
Dposey said:
I put all my plates back but I'm definitely starting to feel less and less inclined to do so every week. The thing that I hate is not as much when people leave their plates (I'm ok with taking off a couple 45s) but how they completely screw up the weight order. People are putting 10s and 25s where the 5s are supposed to be, filling up one rack while leaving the other completely bare, etc. I always end up organizing the squat rack in between my sets, putting all the plates where they're supposed to be. Such a waste of time but it helps the time pass heh.
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I find myself doing the same thing. Smith machine is right next to the squat rack and all the weights migrate to the smith machine.
 
Monday was great.... I always put my plates back...always have, always will. BUT - trained w/ a guy that works at the gym, ex-Div1 powerlifter, anyway he was pissed at some of the kids the gym has working the desk, keeping the weight racked, clean, etc, and he wouldn't let me put anything away....leg day, so triples on squat and everything the sled can hold...then SLDL..I can go on... it was actually really fun watching them put it all away....I stretched for almost 30 minutes watching these 135lb boys struggling w/ each and every plate.
 
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