Inconsiderate Trainer

While working out at the gym yesterday, I came so close to going off on one of the "personal trainers". For anyone that knows me well, I don't often get upset by the little things that happen in the gym but this had me mad.  Here is what happened.

There I was... on my second set of bench presses ... right in the middle of lowering the weight...when suddently at the top of my vision I see a red shirt snagging weights from right above my head! It startled me so much that I lifted the weight back to the starting point and had to reset my focus. To make matters even worse, he grabbed two 2.5lb plates and then walked half way across the gym (past 4 empty benches with weights) to an incline bench and proceeded to have his trainee do some sort of swimming motion with the weights while laying down on her stomach.  I am not really sure what that exercise was going to do for that woman or why he felt he needed MY weights from MY rack instead of from the weight tree that was 5 feet from where he was now stationed.  On a good note,  I was able to bottle that anger and use it for the remaining workouts that I had.

On a side note, I thought I would share another "awesome" exercise I saw being done by my new favorite trainers. It sets up in the walk in squat rack. The weight is grabbed off of the bar and it looks like its going to be a clean and press. That would have been impressive as heck if that was what they were actually going to do! But instead the weight stays in the pressed position and the shoulders begin to do some sort of reverse shoulder shrug???? That's right. They were shrugging the weight higher!  You know the look someone gets when they are about to throw up?  Their head goes down a bit and their shoulders sort of heave higher? Now put an Olympic bar with 25lb plates on each side.  That is what these guys looked like

As painful as it looked, I think throwing up might be more enjoyable.  Second, what happens when they have fatigued themselves and drop the entire setup on their head? Or lower the weight with such poor form that they pull a muscle in that heaving shoulder?  I am also curious as to why they just didn't grab some dumbbells and do some standard shrugs? I guess it's just not as impressive as doing a clean and press with shrugs. *shrugs shoulders* Don't know.