what grinds your gears at the gym?

[16vracer]

Quote, originally posted by thirty-two »

had a good one today I have to share with everyone. I've been working out at my lunch break, at a condo complex gym next to my work. I've seen this guy twice there so far, but didn't pay attention to him last time. I definitely did this time, because he made a point of mean-mugging me when he strolled out last time. this dude is about 5'10", 250lbs, chubby, red hair, freckles, probably like 30-something and looks like an all-around choad. The best is what he wears to the gym - those warm-up sweat pants that go swish-swish-swish loudly and haven't been sold since 1992, a striped polo, and a sleeveless fleece thermal top over the polo. Then to top it off, a camo trucker hat. I absolutely love it. Its like watching a fashion gang-bang. Keep in mind this is Arizona. In the middle of the summer. Today my car read 107 degrees in the parking garage. I don't even know where they would sell a sleeveless fleece within 600 miles of here. Anyway, he does the cheesiest stuff - I'm talking cable chest flys, box jumps, leg lifts with a cable attached (lol wut), and with every rep, he grunts like he's in a f*cking Olympic dead lift competition. Usually I don't mind this, to each his own, but when he gets done with each set, he makes a point of looking at everyone in the immediate area directly in the eye, as if to say, "yeah, that just happened". Then, the kicker. Today he gets a call on his cell phone. He proceeds to talk at full volume for a solid 30 minutes. In this time, he sat on the stationary bike and did some lazy cycling, and then moved over to the leg press machine and proceeded to do ultra-low-weight presses in no sort of organized manner for the duration of the call. I don't know what was louder, the grunts during his hardcore workout, or the cell phone conversation. Literally everyone in the immediate area is completely blown away by what an idiot he's acting like. When he finished the call, he put away his phone, went over to the cables again, banged around a bit, and then hastily left, slamming the door. I exchanged looks with like 5 of the people there like WTF was that about?

I hope you keep seeing him there, maybe a few cell phone pics? That was a funny read

[Fritz27]

Old ladies seem to only do one exercise at my gym other than cruising the treadmill/elliptical/stationary bike, the MOTHERF**KING lat pulldown. God only knows why it's this workout alone that makes them do it, but they do it with a meaningless weight and bang out enormous amounts of reps while staring off into space or reading Cosmo/Vogue. I don't get it. Last few times I've been to the gym, that's all they've done. No curls, no other stupid crap that most people tend to do, just the lat pulldown.

At least I saw a hot chick doing flies on a bench to put my mind at ease.

[fowvaydriver]

This am ... locker room. Farmer guy walks in wearing flannel and crusty jeans and workboots with mud all over them. Super skinny and way tan. Gets undressed and i happen to catch a glance of him while dropping pants. No lie.. wearing just about thong looking like straight up womans panties glossy black with little sequins on them.
I just about threw up. I b-lined outta there feeling very violated.

[ClockworkChad]

thats hilarious.

[stoves]

Quote, originally posted by fowvaydriver »

This am ... locker room. Farmer guy walks in wearing flannel and crusty jeans and workboots with mud all over them. Super skinny and way tan. Gets undressed and i happen to catch a glance of him while dropping pants. No lie.. wearing just about thong looking like straight up womans panties glossy black with little sequins on them. I just about threw up. I b-lined outta there feeling very violated.

dude, wtf. that is terrible. and sadly sounds like you described my roommate, minus the womens underwear. I have no idea what he wears. seriously, i'm not into that.

I've got nothing to share with this thread other than how much i miss seeing the ridiculous stuff people do. I've been out for a little over a month. I thought i pulled a muscle in my back, but there is a pinched nerve, caused by a cyst in my lumbar region inside the spinal column. not good, i'll be getting surgery on the 24th of september, then another 4-6 weeks from then i can hit the gym again. all told, it will be about 3 to 3 1/2 months out of the gym. I'm so disappointed. I will have to bust my ass and dedicate myself to losing the weight i'll gain, clean up my diet once and for all, and take it slow so i dont **** anything up after this back surgery.

oh right, and then i'll have to work on the addiction to Rx painkillers i'm currently rocking right now. it sucks, but at least my back/leg/hip/ankle doesnt hurt right now. I'd rather be high and having trouble functioning than in crippling pain and having trouble functioning...



Modified by stoves at 7:01 PM 8-21-2009

[jnm2.0t]

im rather glad we dont have a locker room, theres a lot of weird people at my gym.

[bansheelos]

Cant stand these young juicers who make love to the mirror between every set!

[skaterhernandez4]

1. Freeballin old men in the locker room. Saw a guy drop trow' with nothing underneath. ...no homo.

2. An old guy, coulda been the same one, sitting ass naked right on the bench. He decided it was best to put his socks on BEFORE underwear. Seriously wtf.

[wagenbob]

Very skinny cougar doing crunches with one hand curled in front of her mouth, exhaling on the crunch. From where I was, it looked like she was blowing the invisible man.

Awesome.

[stoves]

Quote, originally posted by skaterhernandez4 »

2. An old guy, coulda been the same one, sitting ass naked right on the bench. He decided it was best to put his socks on BEFORE underwear. Seriously wtf.

i do this everymorning before work. haha. no, i'm kidding, weird as hell.

[arcem]

Quote, originally posted by wagenbob »

Very skinny cougar doing crunches with one hand curled in front of her mouth, exhaling on the crunch. From where I was, it looked like she was blowing the invisible man. Awesome.

[vwgilly]

Quote, originally posted by wagenbob »

Awesome.

Thanks for the lawlz.

[MightyDSM]

Quote, originally posted by thirty-two »

"yeah, that just happened".

lol
this post was very funny

[SurferbobGolf]

Granted I'm still kinda new to this, I saw something yesterday that struck me as odd. Saw a biker looking guy (Leather Vest, Bandana, Gym Shorts, Long Hair, Tattoos) dancing around with a pair of 35lb DBs. It looked like he was doing his own form of Tae Bo mixed with Jazzercise.

[vwgilly]

lol

That dude was doing Xtreem Xfit Bikerz Workout. It comes with 12 dvds some therabands, and a henna tattoo kit for only $300. Billy Mays was going to promote it but decided to blow rails off an asian hooker instead.

[SurferbobGolf]

Well when given the choice, I think he made the right decision.

[DubUnit]

This is more of a wtf were they doing? question.. First time I have seen this exercise done at my gym. It's like a benchpress but your grip is opposite, with your palms facing you. Whats the point? I saw it twice in 1 day and it blew my mind. Both of these kids proceeded to do biceps for the rest of their workouts, so I just assumed it had something to do with ... you know.. noob ****.

[ClockworkChad]

ive seen kids doing it before. its usually kids in wife beats and flat brimmed hats that do alot of wrist curls after so i never bothered figuring out what they were doing.

[FBMphil]

I got into an argument with the building supervisor of my school's rec center today over their new chalk policy because I was told I can no longer use my ecoball.

I pay $9000 a year in ****ing tuition and the bitch told me "if you don't like the policy you can just go to the gym down the road, you can use your chalk there."

I can't ****ing wait to drop a 225lb push press from 8 feet up and just laugh.

[ClockworkChad]

lucky dog, i paid 36k a year to not be able to use chalk.

[leakypipeDCI]

I get a kick out of the guys that grunt out the rep number as the go. "ONE! TWO! THREE!"

[ClockworkChad]

i count every rep as 'one' anyway...

'onneeeeee'.... 'onnnnneeeeeeee'

[wagenbob]

****ing cigarette smokers loitering at the front door of the gym.

Mouth guards. I can see if you are going big, but are these really necessary for the zero-weight lat pull downs?

The guy that has to ask people in the gym for help taking off his shirt.

And finally, why is it that people feel the need to hover nearby when it's leg day? I am grunting for a reason; you will smell poop.

[MightyDSM]

Speaking of dancing...
I'm thinking about sending a letter to gym owner to try to talk him into installing few dance poles for the Flirty Girl Fitness:

I'm sure the membership would go up

[JosephTheRed]

Quote, originally posted by DubUnit »

This is more of a wtf were they doing? question.. First time I have seen this exercise done at my gym. It's like a benchpress but your grip is opposite, with your palms facing you. Whats the point?

Pavel Tsatsouline has wrote about this. I've never seen anyone actually do it. From what I remember he suggested it as a way of working out when you bascially run out of weight to lift--like you got started working out with a two hundred pound barbell set you bought at a yard sale for $10, it ain't going to last forever.

[MightyDSM]

Quote, originally posted by DubUnit »

This is more of a wtf were they doing? question.. First time I have seen this exercise done at my gym. It's like a benchpress but your grip is opposite, with your palms facing you. Whats the point? I saw it twice in 1 day and it blew my mind. Both of these kids proceeded to do biceps for the rest of their workouts, so I just assumed it had something to do with ... you know.. noob ****.

Reverse-grip benchpress?

Good workout for triceps and pecs.

[ClockworkChad]

if its not better than straight benching then im not into it.

[MightyDSM]

Quote, originally posted by ClockworkChad »

if its not better than straight benching then im not into it.

Just a variation...

[CTAC2003]

also an official usawa lift

[nuppal]

So, today I am finishing up my back day with my last 3 sets of weighted pullups.

One of the pullup areas is located in front of a giant glass window that faces the movie theater box office as well as the escalator leading up the movie theater, so towards 6-7 PM there is a fair amount of traffic and you get some good looking girls watching you workout (never a bad thing).

So, today I am doing aforementioned pullups and two ****ing hipster faigs (complete with Kanye West sunglasses, tights jeans and some ****ty band tshirt or stupid ass emo/existential saying) start walking away from the box office. They see everyone working out in the gym and start laughing and flexing in the glass. Keep in mind these were "true" hipsters, like the article posted in here earlier this week alluded to, they had the chicken legs, scrawny arms and pillsbury doughfaig mid section.

I wish I could have asked them what was so funny...

I want to punch something. Why has the human race unevolved to the point where being unfit is cool? That goes against every single evolutionary trait that humans have developed up until the invention of machines. How has being fat become so normal that being fit is looked down upon (by so called "hip" people).

[GTRaavv]

Excessive grunting. Im all about proper breathing but no reason for the whole gym to hear your taking a dump.

[WhitePoloCT]

Gym has been fairly good to me so far... only thing I can think of is this one guy shrugging 180kg(396lbs) in the squat rack... then leaving the weights on the bar. Meh... I didn't let it get to me, I just took it as extra exercise packing the weights away. I only had to put away 80kg(176lbs) anyway.

[thirty-two]

Quote, originally posted by 16vracer »

I hope you keep seeing him there, maybe a few cell phone pics? That was a funny read

update: today this guy was back in the gym, and he was supplementing his workout with a family-sized back of peanut M&M's. I really couldn't make this up. He honestly left his hat and vest in the corner with a couple bottles of gatorade and bag of M&M's that he would periodically take a handful of and eat DURING his workout

[16vracer]

Quote, originally posted by thirty-two »

update: today this guy was back in the gym, and he was supplementing his workout with a family-sized back of peanut M&M's. I really couldn't make this up. He honestly left his hat and vest in the corner with a couple bottles of gatorade and bag of M&M's that he would periodically take a handful of and eat DURING his workout

Guess he probably figures it's more convenient than a PB sandwhich and tastes better than a protein bar

[Knock Sensor]

Quote, originally posted by nuppal »

I want to punch something. Why has the human race unevolved to the point where being unfit is cool? That goes against every single evolutionary trait that humans have developed up until the invention of machines. How has being fat become so normal that being fit is looked down upon (by so called "hip" people).

Simple solution, lure said hipsters into maze like structure with no exits. Introduce large predator. Enjoy the screams. You must nod with satisfaction as well.