were your coaches a bunch of dummies?

**raylove** · 03-10-2009, 10:38 PM

so a thread over in the training forums got me thinking back to my hay day when i played football and how NO ONE knew anything about weight lifiting even the coaches.

i remember one kid telling me i wasnt supposed to deadlift with a straight bar i was supposed to use a hex bar only and i had to shrug at the top or i wasnt doing it right lol

anyone else have any stories of stupid trainers or coaches or any stupid old guy who thinks he knows what hes doing in the gym try to tell you how to lift?

BK · 03-10-2009, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by raylove

so a thread over in the training forums got me thinking back to my hay day when i played football and how NO ONE knew anything about weight lifiting even the coaches.

i remember one kid telling me i wasnt supposed to deadlift with a straight bar i was supposed to use a hex bar only and i had to shrug at the top or i wasnt doing it right lol

anyone else have any stories of stupid trainers or coaches or any stupid old guy who thinks he knows what hes doing in the gym try to tell you how to lift?

There are a bunch of coaches at all levels of play that are total douches. You would be surprised.

**SonOfPluto** · 03-12-2009, 06:43 AM

The stupidest thing our high school coaches did was make us run through an extensive leg of callestinics as a warm up for the game, which expended quite a bit of energy that we could have used for better purposes. Also, they didn't put enough emphasis on guys training legs properly, especially doing squats.