TN Lady Vol weight room Olympics

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lvocd said:
😳 There really needs to be a spotter for each arm when they’re lifting heavy dumbbells. How they’re lifting is dangerous.
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🤮 🪣 … 😉
I know it’s been awhile but we only spotted bench press. I do remember working out wit’ fitties and curls with forties. Their teammates should be taught better, i agree.

You probably wouldn’t agree that heading to the sweat box with gloves and head gear, was an appropriate method of establishing the depth chart… 🤣🤙🏼🧡
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Of course the first reply to that post on X is our old friend Coach Jumper complaining about the coach's header photo.
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Jumpy has been coaching the LVs for many years, to hear him talk. Maybe Jumpy can loan Ferrara one of his thousands of action shots of himself surrounded by our players and coaching in-game from the LV bench. The ones with Pat asking for his advice at a crucial moment, as she often did, you know, might be even better.
 
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Orange. said:
Jumpy has been coaching the LVs for many years, to hear him talk. Maybe Jumpy can loan Ferrara one of his thousands of action shots of himself surrounded by our players and coaching in-game from the LV bench. The ones with Pat asking for his advice at a crucial moment, as she often did, you know, might be even better.
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A very good friend of mine who is much closer to the basketball program than I am told me people in the administration were so disturbed by Coach Jumper’s actions last season and on into the spring that there has been strong consideration in issuing him a campus ban. Supposedly he would drive up to players and ask them to get in the car with him. Seriously, like a 1980s movie of the week special. I’ve never met the guy, but I’m kind of interested to see that happen to watch the ensuing meltdown he would have.

Maybe he would be happier in the warmer climate of Orlando assisting our former recruiting coordinator with his new efforts.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Without a bar in the middle to fall on you should not be a problem even with just one spotter.
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If the weight suddenly collapses and it is not handled evenly and it wrenches their arms around trying to hold on to it, it might not be okay.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
A very good friend of mine who is much closer to the basketball program than I am told me people in the administration were so disturbed by Coach Jumper’s actions last season and on into the spring that there has been strong consideration in issuing him a campus ban. Supposedly he would drive up to players and ask them to get in the car with him. Seriously, like a 1980s movie of the week special. I’ve never met the guy, but I’m kind of interested to see that happen to watch the ensuing meltdown he would have.

Maybe he would be happier in the warmer climate of Orlando assisting our former recruiting coordinator with his new efforts.
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Sorry to hear about all that.

I'm predisposed--maybe naively--to look for the best or the buried best in everyone. But even in offline communications with him, "normal" just seemed to time out for him after a few weeks, and he'd go off on another tear, checking off boxes on my mental MMPI.

There's always a reason people get off track. Evil is predatory, looking to pick off the young and the weak. It'd be sad if his issues left him alone in life. But that'd be much preferred to allowing those inner poisons to effect other lives.

I guess that's another good reason for us old survivors to invest in young people's lives, so fresh wounds don't fester for years in isolation.
 
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BigBadVol said:
Was about to say the same thing. You can always tell who has zero experience training.
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That’s not true at all of me.

As someone who tore their rotater cuff lifting free weights, I just believe strongly that it would be infinitely safer if they did. I know very well how highly competitive amateur lifters can be stupid when trying NOT to show weakness in front of teammates.

Just because someone historically hasn’t done something doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a safer idea.
 
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lvocd said:
That’s not true at all of me.

As someone who tore their rotater cuff lifting free weights, I just believe strongly that it would be infinitely safer if they did. I know very well how highly competitive amateur lifters can be stupid when trying NOT to show weakness in front of teammates.

Just because someone historically hasn’t done something doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a safer idea.
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Actually having a person spot you on each arm during dumbbell presses is a HORRIBLE idea. If one assists more than the other you have problems that’s why only one spotter is used.
 
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BigBadVol said:
Actually having a person spot you on each arm during dumbbell presses is a HORRIBLE idea. If one assists more than the other you have problems that’s why only one spotter is used.
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I’ll agree to disagree on this. You okay with that?
 
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“I’ll agree to disagree on this. You okay with that?”

If it makes you feel better. Ignorance is bliss I guess.🙄
 
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BigBadVol said:
LOL! Emotional? When your ignorance is exposed pull out the Jr High School insult. That’s some weak sauce. Try again.
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Out of (IMO) justifiable concern for the health and safety of our beloved Lady Vols, lvocd voiced an opinion. We do a lot of that around here, and sometimes they read with some ambiguity. But, "ignorance?" I don't think that applies here.
From the limited snippets, I was struck by the way the players who had just completed their reps began to stand while in an off-balance/awkward profile. Granted, I'm old and clumsy - can hardly rise from a chair while holding an empty coffee cup; still, I would advise that, upon completion, the weights be placed on the deck or handed to teammates.
*As a means of compromise, how-bout we not call them "spotters"?
 
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