interesting things you've seen at the gym

[SearMeCarefully]

Those older guys that come in and box themselves in the mirror.. I'm always amused by them.

The girl in the mini..is..is that a skirt? doing an abs machine lifting up her legs for all to see (huh..)

Oh yeah and the group of guys that do squats on the smith machine. They have like 2 45's+ and they all do the same weight, and go down like 3 inches. I swear one day I'll see them mess themselves up..

[SpittfireDA]

There's a big dude at the gym on post who attaches rings (like, olympic gymnast rings) to the only squat rack and when he's done doing whatever ... he leaves them there while to finishes the rest of his workout!

I'm sorry, but with only one squat rack, I flip out. He ties them so that you can't adjust the hooks, and I'm WAAY too short to try and undo his mess.

Turns out he works in the physical therapy dept ... not making an appt with him ...

[SearMeCarefully]

Originally Posted by Spittfireda

I'm sorry, but with only one squat rack, I flip out. He ties them so that you can't adjust the hooks, and I'm WAAY too short to try and undo his mess.

Turns out he works in the physical therapy dept ... not making an appt with him ...

Oh! Speaking of which this guy that works at my gym, when he works out there he stands in front of the weights, he looked at my workout partner and went right in front of him while he was trying to watch his form. And then his girlfriend sat there watching him workout the whole time taking up machines and benches (scarce) I almost spazzed on him I mean come on! I would think have better etiquette than that..

[amyoz]

The chick who wears short shorts. She leans on the bench and does triceps with half her ass hanging out, oh and she is old.

The old lady, maybe 60 who wears a sweatband, arm bands, full make-up and those socks from the 80's where you scrunch them down, girls... you know the ones?!

[amyoz]

Originally Posted by AFDestruction

Work out at home now, but when I used to go to 24 there was a middle aged man who farted like a champ on every rep he squatted or leg pressed. Didn't even try to hide it. It was like his ass grunted for him throughout the workout. Hawwwwt!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I would seriously have to run away laughing!

[SearMeCarefully]

Originally Posted by amyoz

The chick who wears short shorts. She leans on the bench and does triceps with half her ass hanging out, oh and she is old.

The old lady, maybe 60 who wears a sweatband, arm bands, full make-up and those socks from the 80's where you scrunch them down, girls... you know the ones?!

lol oh man I totally know! And you had like 3 different colours all layered lol

[SonKev]

LOL these are all so great!

I havent really seen anything too funny, but probably this guy (heavy dude) who just sat on the quad machine and was reading a magazine doing like 1 rep every 50 seconds...

i was trying to be patient for him, seriously waited like 10 minutes for him, eventually went over there and asked him if he was done, than he got all pissed off at me...

I was like, wow....

[176boxingchic]

Originally Posted by HardcorSancez

I can't help but stare at the naked women in the locker room doing things you shouldn't do naked.....in public.

I was getting dressed and a naked lady passed me....ok, seems normal right? Then she stands in front of one of the sinks and starts splashing water all over herself, dripping on the floor, getting all over the counter. Then she puts on shaving cream.......her legs, her armpits and her "flower" (thats what I call it). By this time I'm just standing there staring along with others. Then she throws her leg up on the counter, bends over and starts shaving away. All of this when we have private showers just feet away!

I wonder what I do that people think is funny and I think is normal.



Thanks for starting this tread!

that's something I would <b> NEVER </b> do in front of other people! If you have private showers, there is no reason for that at all...gross...

Anyways, last night at the gym there was a woman that I know from work (the place I work at has a nice free gym) was reading a magazine and doing seated calf raises on the machine without weight...what kind of workout can you get from that???

There was an older guy (60 plus) wearing these shorts that were way too tight and left nothing to the imagination...the worst part of it was that something was turning him on in the gym because it was apparent that he was excited. I wanted to puke!

[176boxingchic]

Originally Posted by HardcorSancez

I can't help but stare at the naked women in the locker room doing things you shouldn't do naked.....in public.

I was getting dressed and a naked lady passed me....ok, seems normal right? Then she stands in front of one of the sinks and starts splashing water all over herself, dripping on the floor, getting all over the counter. Then she puts on shaving cream.......her legs, her armpits and her "flower" (thats what I call it). By this time I'm just standing there staring along with others. Then she throws her leg up on the counter, bends over and starts shaving away. All of this when we have private showers just feet away!

I wonder what I do that people think is funny and I think is normal.



Thanks for starting this tread!

that's something I would NEVER do in front of other people! If you have private showers, there is no reason for that at all...gross...

Anyways, last night at the gym there was a woman that I know from work (the place I work at has a nice free gym) was reading a magazine and doing seated calf raises on the machine without weight...what kind of workout can you get from that???

There was an older guy (60 plus) wearing these shorts that were way too tight and left nothing to the imagination...the worst part of it was that something was turning him on in the gym because it was apparent that he was excited. I wanted to puke!

[dani5162]

I'm always amused/annoyed by the 14-yr-olds with the floppy buns DIRECTLY on top of their heads....they work out like that? uncomfortable....

There are many others, but i am drawing blank now.
mostly strange old people with no sense of modesty, lol.

[176boxingchic]

I just got back from the gym and I was doing db chest presses with 35lbs db. In the middle of lifting, an older asian woman stood right behind the bench (there were 3 people in the entire gym and she had to stand right behind me!) and started doing db curls with the one pounders as fast as she could...needless to say, it was distracting!

Anyways, what was annoying was that while I was lifting, she asks me (i'm wearing headphones too) if those weights will make me big...

i don't know what was more irritating...her ignorance or her stupidity by standing right over me while I lifted

[teenyP]

Originally Posted by cfaith

There is this 70 year old pervert dressed in short shorts...of course his form is horrible with every exercise....but it is particularly disturbing when he does cable rows...does a really light weight and pulls it forward and lets it go with a jerking type motion with his hips gyrating...literally looks like he is humping the machine...all while watching me and my friend workout...nice.....

ok now that's just gross and disturbing! ..my question is why do all the older men feel the need to wear these short shorts and cut off shirts? could it be that those are their gym clothes from 20 years ago when they were in their prime?? lol

also have this one guy at my gym that wears bicycle shorts and a spandex shirt..complimented with a couple long gold chains...i'll still waiting for the chains to get tangled up in a machine and hearing him cry out..heeeeelp!

[.Phil]

Examples of what ive seen at my gym:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_iHaGwgFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAioDQ5dnQ

the second one I have done myself, went to throw up some heavy DB's on the flat bench but some how misjudged myself with respect to the bench. The result was me falling off the edge and landing on the floor followed by both DB's which proceeded to use my face as a trampoline and then the bench itself which had also fallen over onto me. LOL

It was busy and no one laughed at me, if someone did that next to me I would have laughed hard.

[JSasha]

a guy that talks to his weight before he lifts them

[SearMeCarefully]

Originally Posted by JSasha

a guy that talks to his weight before he lifts them

Lol! I do something similar, on my last rep sometimes I mumble angrily to my muscle like "come on come on you son of a.." as it goes up an inch a minute

[skookamaroo]

I go to the campus gym and there are always people there in jeans...and theres this lady who wears high heels and a lonng canvas type skirt on the bike... i dont get it, is that even possible..

some cool things I see all the time though are old 70 year old dudes with sweat bands out doing the 18 year old guys who think they are hot ****

[cfaith]

Originally Posted by 176boxingchic

I just got back from the gym and I was doing db chest presses with 35lbs db. In the middle of lifting, an older asian woman stood right behind the bench (there were 3 people in the entire gym and she had to stand right behind me!) and started doing db curls with the one pounders as fast as she could...needless to say, it was distracting!

Anyways, what was annoying was that while I was lifting, she asks me (i'm wearing headphones too) if those weights will make me big...

i don't know what was more irritating...her ignorance or her stupidity by standing right over me while I lifted

ha ha ha!! I just bought my 3 year old daughter a pair of 1 lbers....didn't even know they made weights that light. They are sooo cute! Even my daughter could curl more than that, though!!

[JohnTheBlaze]

I hate seeing people in general.... but mostly guys specifically... at the Gym who think they look or train really good but they really don't. They are tossing weight around and not concentrating on form or smoothness in motion ...or using WAY too much weight or WAY too little weight and not doing enough reps... or sets for that matter...or they think they can JUST use weights and do NO cardio...or use all the supplements in the world and look like crap....I mean...some things that people do are so useless...sometimes people are just mindless in the things that they do....

[gecko...]

Originally Posted by cfaith

ha ha ha!! I just bought my 3 year old daughter a pair of 1 lbers....didn't even know they made weights that light. They are sooo cute! Even my daughter could curl more than that, though!!

haha - we have purple 1lb weights for my 3.5 year old. She loves them

[thomashenry]

I gotta tell you guys, these post`s are hillarious, I was laughing our loud at work to some of them, most are too funny, and true, Personally Just FYI, I wear a nike nylon sweats Tank top and hoodie, so everyones safe ;}

But @ the gym I workout at LTF, some guys in the locker room, stand in front of the mirror with their Beans and Frank laying on the sink and shave and blow dry their hair, and it`s not as if I want to look but as I am walking out I am like WTF cmon dude, # 1 that aint right & # 2 that aint right, hope everyone has a great day

[joanntheartist]

Originally Posted by AFDestruction

Work out at home now, but when I used to go to 24 there was a middle aged man who farted like a champ on every rep he squatted or leg pressed. Didn't even try to hide it. It was like his ass grunted for him throughout the workout. Hawwwwt!

Dude! I just LOL'd so hard, my coworkers were asking what was wrong with me!!

Too funny!!!

[Fitness-Chic]

Originally Posted by .Phil

Examples of what ive seen at my gym:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_iHaGwgFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAioDQ5dnQ

the second one I have done myself, went to throw up some heavy DB's on the flat bench but some how misjudged myself with respect to the bench. The result was me falling off the edge and landing on the floor followed by both DB's which proceeded to use my face as a trampoline and then the bench itself which had also fallen over onto me. LOL

It was busy and no one laughed at me, if someone did that next to me I would have laughed hard.

That was funny as hell...... It would have been sad but I would have laughed my ass off..... well that is if it wasnt me that if happened to...lol.

[rockinro]

I work out at the local YMCA and there's this old guy who wears these horrible short shorts! I'm doing EZ bar curls and he's behind me on the bench press and I could see his tighty whiteys in the mirror when he layed down! yuck! did not want to see old man crotch!

[joanntheartist]

I currently work out at home, but, if I ever do join a gym, I will certainly make sure to NEVER do these things.....

Thanks to all for your wisdom and insight.......LOL

[javyn]

Person 1: Woman who apparently hasn't got her routine or motivation in check because she's too busy judging what everyone else is doing and wearing rather than what she should be doing while at the gym.

Other than that, I don't notice anything. I go in, lift, and leave. I'll leave the gossip spreading and judgmental attitudes to the cardio bunnies who haven't got their priorities in order.

[Fitness-Chic]

Originally Posted by javyn

Person 1: Woman who apparently hasn't got her routine or motivation in check because she's too busy judging what everyone else is doing and wearing rather than what she should be doing while at the gym.

Other than that, I don't notice anything. I go in, lift, and leave. I'll leave the gossip spreading and judgmental attitudes to the cardio bunnies who haven't got their priorities in order.

Hmmmm.... sounds like the judgmental monster's coming out in you....lol.

Just kidding...... dont read to much into it.

[joanntheartist]

It's not judgement IMO......it's just poking fun at people's attempt to be......well, just to be.....

[AmandaFit]

I love watching this one girl come in, in pink lu lu lemons and her US weekly mag and use the bike and go on speed one makes me laugh, also her little tank top haa, wow.

Or the guys who put on 3 plats (45 pnds) and think their all big and squat like down an inch haha.

Once I saw a guy in friggin flip flops? can you say retarded.

ahhah these are funny good post.

[Fitness-Chic]

Originally Posted by joanntheartist

It's not judgement IMO......it's just poking fun at people's attempt to be......well, just to be.....

Just doin a little pokin fun of my own....lol.

We all do things that others think may be odd in one way or another. I'm no exception. It's just human nature. Oh well.... what do you do?????

[amberlyann2005]

Makes me sick to talk about it but I took a hot yoga class one time and there was a man in his 50's in front of me wearing really really short loose shorts.. lets just say I couldnt look away.. just like a train wreck.. NO more down dogs please!!!