Almost as annoying as doing curls in the squat rack...

[67alecto]

...was the guy doing calf raises. Apparently, he had to use the full cage and Olympic bar to hoist those 10 and 5lb plates.

We had to wait nearly 20 minutes before my wife could do her squats.

[This is Seth]

Perfect opportunity to have you wife go over and ask him if she can get in there to move some real weight.

If the guy had a couple actual plates on there, it'd make sense; assuming your gym doesn't have a calf raise machine.

[Kewilson]

I've seen people doing stretches in the cage. Usually it's 2-3 girls/women basically just treating it like it's their own personal jungle gym. They'll stretch for 15 minutes and spend another 10 just standing there chatting. And the stink eye you get if you ask them if they're done/using the cage. I've missed my squats and deadlifts a couple of times due to this before I just started going at 5:30am.

[67alecto]

I've seen people doing stretches in the cage. Usually it's 2-3 girls/women basically just treating it like it's their own personal jungle gym. They'll stretch for 15 minutes and spend another 10 just standing there chatting. And the stink eye you get if you ask them if they're done/using the cage. I've missed my squats and deadlifts a couple of times due to this before I just started going at 5:30am.

Luckily we actually have this cage-like contraption specifically for stretching:

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