Are You A Gym Idiot?

Anyone who uses a barbell in the squat rack to do curls.....

Super skinny guys in under armor...sorry, bud, it says the size is 'S' on the outside for everyone to see.

Hate it when there are groups of people constantly taking up the benchpress/squat rack and most of the time they are talking instead of working out.

The guys that use the benches and machines as lawn chairs to gawk in the doorway of the women doing yoga and TRX.....

If there scrawny asses spent less time staring and more time lifting, they might just have a body of confidence to talk to the girls instead of staring at them like Pee Wee Herman in a kiddie movie....

Hadn't seen anything odd in my new gym until the 2 week Christmas break then the gym was taken over by noobs and high school kids. For some reason the high school ballplayers are unable to workout alone. Instead they roam in packs of 4 or 6 taking up the Smith machine for over a hour and must constantly congratulate each other after every set and rub each other's back, shoulders or waist. The anorexic high school girls appear in two's using the machines as places to sit and text and doing 5 reps of 5 lbs about every 15 minutes all the while pointing and making fun of the overweight older women who are actually working out and sweating.

The worst though was during the Christmas break the gym runs a coupon in newspaper for free week's membership and there are like 20 noobs during rush hour in this tiny gym. The funniest was this 40 something guy, hate to say it but he was Asian, who does a set on leg machine, then races over to the other side of gym to lift his shirt and check out his abs in the mirror. Then runs back over to a different leg machine for another set then races back to the mirror to check again to see if he has a 6-pack yet. He did this like 4 times. Funniest thing I've ever seen.

[QUOTE=qksc2;1012510033]The guys that use the benches and machines as lawn chairs to gawk in the doorway of the women doing yoga and TRX.....

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This reminds me of the creepers that sit on the leg abduction machine because its in front of the room with the new Hydromassage machine. They just park there so they can stare whenever a woman is on the table so they can stare at her boobs as the hydromassager moves her body up and down. I've looked up while on the table to see guys grinning like idiots with their eyes locked on my boobs. Get a life!

Bicep curls in the squat rack, people who lift for 30 seconds then rest on the machine and talk for 5 minutes, people who only ever seem to do chest and biceps.

[QUOTE=Ang123;1013276063]This reminds me of the creepers that sit on the leg abduction machine because its in front of the room with the new Hydromassage machine. They just park there so they can stare whenever a woman is on the table so they can stare at her boobs as the hydromassager moves her body up and down. I've looked up while on the table to see guys grinning like idiots with their eyes locked on my boobs. Get a life![/QUOTE]

There is a gym in my area that has all of the treadmills facing out towards the parking lot through massive glass windows.
If you thought the creepers [B]in[/B] the building were bad...

Some guy in the gym today strolled up in jeans, converse hi-tops and a longsleeve buttoned up shirt, Bieber hair in full force and about a million various bracelets on, carrying a 1L bottle of lucozade like he was ready for some great workout. I thought the new years resolutioner period was over but apparently not.

I feel I could come to this thread every day and post something...so I'll leave it be after this.

Guys that shadowbox between sets while looking in the mirror. This pretty much guarantees that they don't actually know how to box. Does anyone else's gym have these people, or am I the only one "lucky" enough?

Some jackhole using the squat rack safety bars to do dips when there are dip bars not 20ft away.... Then, the same douche-canoe is seen later using the seated row machine's seat to do what???? You guessed it.... dips!

[QUOTE=wizgf19;1013694553]I feel I could come to this thread every day and post something...so I'll leave it be after this.

Guys that shadowbox between sets while looking in the mirror. This pretty much guarantees that they don't actually know how to box. Does anyone else's gym have these people, or am I the only one "lucky" enough?[/QUOTE]

I have them, so many in fact there is probably a League.

Females who are convinced, despite my explanations, that they will Look like Lou Ferrigno if they so much as look at a weight higher than 3lbs. Even though I'm living proof that isn't the case. I lifted for two years for my High School with considerable weight and have never gotten close to what some of these women look like, and my diet was pretty on point then too. Not so much gym idiots. Just idiot mentality.

****ers texting between every set. Had at least eight of those in the gym I go to during my workout today. Now I remember why I stopped going after work and went early morning instead. ****ers wearing singlets that have 50% less material than they should, do you need to your nipples during bicep curls in the squat rack, had two of those. Girls looking helpless and lost, wearing too much make up....if you need help, just ask, if you want advice, there are trainers available, don't know correct form, ask the massive bodybuilder next to you. Stop acting like a damsel in distress and taking up space.

[QUOTE=BleuSam;1013744383]Females who are convinced, despite my explanations, that they will Look like Lou Ferrigno if they so much as look at a weight higher than 3lbs. Even though I'm living proof that isn't the case. I lifted for two years for my High School with considerable weight and have never gotten close to what some of these women look like, and my diet was pretty on point then too. Not so much gym idiots. Just idiot mentality.[/QUOTE]

Absolutely agreed, believing the weights room is a 'mens area'




Also people who belive they own the gym, swaggering about the place staring at everyone like they dont deserve to be there.

And what we call in Scotland 'Willie Watchers'
i.e People who only come to the gym and spend 70% of their time in the changing room naked, 20% of their time walking aimlessly around the gym staring at their iPod (i swear this one guy must know his playlists off by heart) and 10% of the time loading up machines, doing 2 reps, then unloading.

pregnant woman jumping up and down in front of me. scared the **** out of me.

[QUOTE=dyuv001;1013851173] ****ers wearing singlets that have 50% less material than they should, do you need to your nipples during bicep curls in the squat rack, had two of those. [/QUOTE]

One gym I used to go to I used to see numerous men always playing with their nipples during workouts. That was one weird place.

[QUOTE=Ang123;1013977223]One gym I used to go to I used to see numerous men always playing with their nipples during workouts. That was one weird place.[/QUOTE]

that's just wrong

[QUOTE=Ang123;1013977223]One gym I used to go to I used to see numerous men always playing with their nipples during workouts. That was one weird place.[/QUOTE]

It's actually quite logical.
Playing with nipples = getting horny = more testosterone flowing through body = more gains

I thought this was common knowledge?

There is these 2 guys, 1 is probably in his 30-40s the other younger around 20, could be a father son duo. The older guy wears a tight shirt, looks like a medium, fto showcase his muscle which just looks puffy fat and he has a belly sticking out of his shirt. This guy walks around with his chest puffed out and thinks he is buff when really he is just fat.

The younger kid isn't as bad but both could go on a cut........but its their routine that is really stupid.

They only use machines, load up a heavy weight and lift as many time as they can. I think they only do 2 exercises like that and call it good.
There was this one time where I was using a barbell to do bent over row and the kid was on a smith machine and asked me if I wanted to use the smith machine for my lifts case it "was easier"....I just laughed and said no....

I go to a really small gym in my area.. I swear 90% of the people use machines or benches don't wipe off machines or put back their bells or plates. I usually go between lunch (12pm) and 3pm (HS folks gets out at that time and head there). Its some-what empty in the bell/weight room during that time on weekdays, but I manage to find just about every machine or bench to have some sweaty wet spots or some weight lying around it. AAAAAAAAaanddd.. At times that I go when its really crowded, it is a ghost town in the leg-machine rooms. Completely empty. Not sure if no one wants to train legs or what, but seems like everyone lingers around the gym with long pants/sweats.

Earlier today I walked past a PT who had his client down on the floor doing push-ups. The idiot bit was that he was counting them out while he was in front of her, balancing on all fours on a gym ball like a circus animal.

Full srs. Didn't have my phone on me, would've taken a pic otherwise.

One time I saw a woman on a stationary bike with 3lb weights and as she was riding as fast as possible, she was doing overhead presses and bicep curls. I just shook my head and wondered what she was trying to accomplish. "Toneing" most likely :P

[QUOTE=Osbornezo;1013298103]Bicep curls in the squat rack, people who lift for 30 seconds then rest on the machine and talk for 5 minutes, people who only ever seem to do chest and biceps.[/QUOTE]

this for sure!

[QUOTE=Ang123;1013274423]Hadn't seen anything odd in my new gym until the 2 week Christmas break then the gym was taken over by noobs and high school kids. For some reason the high school ballplayers are unable to workout alone. Instead they roam in packs of 4 or 6 taking up the Smith machine for over a hour and must constantly congratulate each other after every set and rub each other's back, shoulders or waist. The anorexic high school girls appear in two's using the machines as places to sit and text and doing 5 reps of 5 lbs about every 15 minutes all the while pointing and making fun of the overweight older women who are actually working out and sweating.
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It's been like this in my gym ever since the new year.

We have a new member who wears Joe Boxer pajama pants and the same nasty cut up tee that shows his D-cup manboobs every day. Apparently he is trying to pull off the samurai look with his long blonde scalp lock with shaved sides, complete with several generic Asian tattoos. Got a flash of his buttcheeks while he was doing the sit down calf machine so saw that he is not wearing underwear under his pj pants that have a fly front. So that's not any different really than working out in your boxers. Ewww. And its the funniest prints on his pj's like lipstick lips, smiley faces, skulls and crossbones. Why would any self-respecting thirty-something man be seen like this in public? Even worse he is one of the many New Years Resolutioners who work out the whole body every day with machines only. But it is rather nice he stays out of the free weights section.

Today, I was the gym idiot. Sat down at an ab crunch machine and who ever had used it before me had moved the seat right up so I reach under to find the little lever that adjusts the seat height and accidentally pulled it while I was still sitting down. The seat (and I) zoomed straight to the bottom and I fell forward onto my face. I would've been embarrassed but I found it far too hilarious

lol, nice!

Only thing that really bothers me is inconsiderate people (not putting weights back, not wiping down a machine, txting and using your phone while occupying a workout station, filling up water bottle after water bottle at the fountain, etc.). To me, inconsideration = idiot.

you'r a gym idiot; if you say to a woman that you can do the reps for her if the dumbells are heavy for her.

The guy that walks around the gym with his 2lb ON Whey Protein Jug and shaker filled with water, because he needs to consume his protein shake IMMEDIATELY after finishing his last set.