Spotters

I think I might be going crazy. I keep seeing the same thing every time I see a guy spotting someone. The person will be benching and start to struggle and the spotter basically deadlifts the weight while saying "its all you, bro!"

I got one of these guys when I asked for a spotter today and, quite frankly, it's annoying. I was only half-way through my set and he starts pulling up the weight for the rest of my reps.

When you spot someone, you don't pick up the weight as soon as the person starts to slow down, you wait until they are unable to move the weight up anymore.

A good rule of thumb is if they are pushing the weight and haven't moved it for more than three seconds then it's safe to help. But don't just pull the weight up right away, take off just enough weight so that he still has to push to get it up.

I just needed to get that off my chest(wow, unintentional pun). Be a good spotter, people will thank you for it.