Do you ever see anything unusual at the gym?

[TheManofSteel]

5. The Over the Top Under Armour guy. I hate the guys who come in decked out in Under Armour and all kinds of expensive apparel, and look like crap. No one wants to see your beer belly wrapped in skin-tight UA like a jiggly Christmas present of disgust. I LOVE Under Armour, but feel like a D-bag if I go to the gym wearing it, so I just use it (the loose stuff at that) when I run on the back roads near my neighborhood when I go home for the summer (TN is hot and humid...really humid).

9. Sweatband hero. The guy (usually some emo or punk wannabe kid) with sweatbands on his bicep, wrists, head, and for some reason, his ankles. I kid you not, I've seen it. Plus, the sweatbands are different colors or rainbow colored. Nothing wrong with sweatbands, but seriously, there's a point where they become unnecessary.

I totally agree with #5; somehow people think they are stronger when wearing Under Armor.


I am #9 but I only have two, one on each forearm... there not rainbow and they match so I guess I am OK

[Wild_Weasel]

I totally agree with #5; somehow people think they are stronger when wearing Under Armor.


I am #9 but I only have two, one on each forearm... there not rainbow and they match so I guess I am OK

You are definitely ok. In lieu of wearing a headband I have an Under Armour hat that I wear because I sweat so dang much. It's just weird when some guy comes in with every possible variation of the sweatband on. I don't think anyone sweats THAT much, lol.

[Grandfather]

the underarmour/spandex guys are the worst
i forgot to add that recently ive seen a couple of high school aged kids working out
and while they are fit, the **** that kills me is that after every set they seem to go into a sort of pose-off trance staring at them selves and each other in the mirror and i think they feel wearing stunnashade sunglasses in the gym makes them lift harder or look better

[mpipes]

You are definitely ok. In lieu of wearing a headband I have an Under Armour hat that I wear because I sweat so dang much. It's just weird when some guy comes in with every possible variation of the sweatband on. I don't think anyone sweats THAT much, lol.

I use this stuff on my head, it's called hair, I have a lot of it, it soaks up sweat quite nicely

Sweatbands? meh.. I wear the whole sweatSHIRT to soak up the sweat, and even with that I still leave puddles on the floor.

[MattT84]

The Yeller

I hate this guy, im struggling with my last set on the bench press and some guy yells out "AHHHGGHHH.......WOOOOOOOOOOOO!" like hes Ric Flair or something.

[Wild_Weasel]

The Yeller

I hate this guy, im struggling with my last set on the bench press and some guy yells out "AHHHGGHHH.......WOOOOOOOOOOOO!" like hes Ric Flair or something.

Hahaha. Yep. And the guy usually lifts less than you do or he has a lot more weight and does a tiny range of motion. Both equally entertaining.

[churn]

hahaha

not just in the gym

i remember around the time that underarmor started becoming popular a fat kid at my high school wore it to class, i guess thinking that he would look swoll but it just emphasized his fat

he didn't even play any sports or even P.E. for that matter

[tomjones42]

I had a guy ask me walking out of the gym if moving my baseball cap from front to back made me think I'm a badass? I was like what? No, maybe it's because I was doing BB shoulder press and the bar hits the bill of my hat jackass.

Why would you wear a baseball hat in the gym?

I like the guys who wear lifting belts for every exercise they do. None of which are lifts that would warrant the use of a belt.

[churn]

i forgot to mention the guys that are working out and have a bottle of coke with them

[kroum]

Man, there's alot of anger here...

The only thing that buggs me at the gym is the old old guys in the locker room, stark naked and drying their balls on the hand dryers, they look like they're trying to screw the damned thing! you have a towel, don't hang it on your shoulder while humping the blow dryer, use it!

I also get pissed at the gym staff because people keep moving the freeweight benches and half the time there are 3 benches with WAY too much room to either side of them, and another three standing in the corner next to one another COMPLETELY F*ING USELESS!

[v1l2u5]

Why would you wear a baseball hat in the gym?

I like the guys who wear lifting belts for every exercise they do. None of which are lifts that would warrant the use of a belt.

Why shouldn't I wear a cap to the gym? Unless your thinking I wore a "Baseball Helmet" which it is not. Just a cap..

[johnderriLLL]

hmm i sure dont miss the gym much.

prolly the weirdest thing i ever saw was guys showing up to the body zone gym gym in jeans thinking they were goona get a good work out.

also people doing some sort of triceps extentons on cable crossovers by almost laying on the ground and haveing me or my friend hold thier back down so they dont go flying up.

[rascoqaz]

Lots of old men who stand around naked and talk to one another in the change room, also we have a ****phile type that always wears a bright green shirt and stares at me and my friends will we work out, always says hi to my friend too.

[Keltron]

I've been working at this gym for about a year and a half. There is this older guy who's been wearing the exact same thing every single day. He wears a white t-shirt and these short blue shorts with a fanny pack. God help you if you're ever behind him while he's on the back extension thingy because when he bends all the way down, his shorts rise up... simply wretched!

One lady sits at the end of a bench and lies down w/her legs hanging off of the bench. She grabs hold of the bench just below where her head is and proceeds to these really jerky explosive leg lifts. I'm surprised she's not a paraplegic by now.

There's this elderly lesbian looking woman who's hunched forward so badly that she could play Igor in a Frankenstein play and save the producer a ton of money in costumes and prosthetic humps. I wondered how in God's green Earth someone could fxck up their posture like that until I saw her doing single arm dumbell rows one day. Then it was clear as day.

There is this attractive older woman who is probably in her early 40's. She's beautifully strong and her form is impeccable 99.999% of the time but for some reason, when she does seated dumbell shoulder press, her ass slides away from the backrest little by little until her tailbone is at the edge of the seat and her face and chest are facing the ceiling. Her exercise goes from dumbell shoulder press to incline chest press.

There's a guy who for some reason likes to let himself air dry for a little bit before he towel dries. He stands in front of the sink buck naked and paces back and forth.

The Aqua Aerobics instructor is more obese than the people who attend her class. Bare in mind that most people who do aqua aerobics are those who's joints can't take any impact due to their obesity.

Every morning before I start work, I arrive an hour early to do a litttle cardio and shower. Every morning I see a small empty liquor bottle inside of the exact same locker. Sometimes it's hennessey, sometimes it's Johnny Walker Black Label, sometimes it's Patron. Whoever it is, has good taste at least.

There's this hot chick who I always see staring at me from behind when I see her in the mirrors but acts totally snobby and oblivious to me when we're face to face. lol.

[Wild_Weasel]

Every morning before I start work, I arrive an hour early to do a litttle cardio and shower. Every morning I see a small empty liquor bottle inside of the exact same locker. Sometimes it's hennessey, sometimes it's Johnny Walker Black Label, sometimes it's Patron. Whoever it is, has good taste at least.

There's this hot chick who I always see staring at me from behind when I see her in the mirrors but acts totally snobby and oblivious to me when we're face to face. lol.

I wish I could get away with drinking a little at the gym...

All the hot gym chicks are the same way, go there to look cute and stare at the boys and refuse to acknowledge you exist; they think we don't see them and relish in trying to keep our ego in check by ignoring us.

[legendaryMSN]

once i saw a muslim man quite fat, trying to bench press a weight he no way was able to lift, he was trying to impress his mate, the barbell fell on his chest and couldnt move his mate couldnt lift it off too. I had to walk out probably would of batterd me if they saw me laughting. Then the guy sumhow got his beard stuck to the barbell ROFL!! Priceless

[Terve]

I saw an obese woman being "trained" by an only slightly less obese woman in my gym the other day... It kept me entertained throughout my workout =D

and the worst - old guys with the little ass short
i am genuinely surprised i haven't seen their old shriveled up balls yet.

thers this guy who has lost about 200lbs in the last two years. i congratulate him on that but now i have to rant. this guy looks like crap. the reason it is a problem is he sits naked in the locker room for an hour and eats. the reason that is a problem is because he openly stares at you while your changing. he follows some people into the shower(including me) and just gawks at you, and thats a big problem. i have fliped him off ( he temporarly looked away)I have told him to knock it off, I have farted, sneezed and blew my nose, coughed without covering my mouth all while he's eating his sandwich and staring. this guy won't stop. i quit showering. i started going in the evening but he's there then too. same friggin routine. i don't shower any more. everyone is sick of this guy. he's a sick freak.

the 60+ year old dangling harry ball sack of doom.

I don't know why, I don't even want to know why, for some reason there is always an old guy who smells of aqua velva and feels totally comfortable being naked and dragging his nuts around the locker room.

If it was one old guy I'd feel bad, two I'd think there was an epidemic, now that I've seen an unhealthy amount of stretched testicals I'm planning on euthanizing myself at 50.

Thanks a lot old naked dude!

6. "Power walkers." While hilarious, I feel embarrassed for them. I find it very unusual watching their exaggerated hip movement and almost dangerous arm swing. No offense to anyone who does this, I probably just an @$$hole.

7. The locker room perv. He's there, he's fat, he's not using his towel to its full covering-of-the-junk potential, and you know he's checking you out. I hate that creep.

8. Smoothie King. The guy who goes to the food bar and gets himself a smoothie with every additive offered. Still not sure if this guy works out or not.

9. Sweatband hero. The guy (usually some emo or punk wannabe kid) with sweatbands on his bicep, wrists, head, and for some reason, his ankles. I kid you not, I've seen it. Plus, the sweatbands are different colors or rainbow colored. Nothing wrong with sweatbands, but seriously, there's a point where they become unnecessary.

The Yeller

I hate this guy, im struggling with my last set on the bench press and some guy yells out "AHHHGGHHH.......WOOOOOOOOOOOO!" like hes Ric Flair or something.

Man, there's alot of anger here...

The only thing that buggs me at the gym is the old old guys in the locker room, stark naked and drying their balls on the hand dryers, they look like they're trying to screw the damned thing! you have a towel, don't hang it on your shoulder while humping the blow dryer, use it!

Lots of old men who stand around naked and talk to one another in the change room, also we have a ****phile type that always wears a bright green shirt and stares at me and my friends will we work out, always says hi to my friend too.

Then the guy sumhow got his beard stuck to the barbell ROFL!! Priceless

Just wanted to thank all of you for the incredibly hilarious laughs, my stomach hurts now lmfao

[Tireman84]

hmm i sure dont miss the gym much.

prolly the weirdest thing i ever saw was guys showing up to the body zone gym gym in jeans thinking they were goona get a good work out.

also people doing some sort of triceps extentons on cable crossovers by almost laying on the ground and haveing me or my friend hold thier back down so they dont go flying up.

yea i hate when guys show up wearing jeans to the body zone gym gym...

[MichelleAntonia]

As far as I know, I'm the most unusual thing at my gym - because I actually break a sweat.

LOL! same here, at my last gym. depending on the time of day, it was somewhere between 70-80% old dudes (70+) and mildly overweight women reading good housekeeping while going 0.00076 mph on the elliptical.


ppl actually stared and commented when me and my sister would roll in and sweat so much that we looked like we just got outta the shower. i happen to sweat a lot naturally.... whoops haha.

[MichelleAntonia]

and i'm gonna complain about something in yet another gym, although at the many gyms i've been at and all the weight rooms i've spent countless hours and months in, it's only happened ONCE, to be fair it seems very rare (or maybe i'm just not all i think i'm cracked up to be, lol).

me & my twin work out together and we both look like CRAP. i mean sweating, totally not hot workout clothes, we're both bitching at eachother's form whilst helping one another, etc.

one day this mario lopez clone on steriods starts coming out and hitting on us both, at once, all under the guise of "form" and ****, i know i have good form, ok dude? lol. then he proceeds to ask us both out at once, all the while doing his sets RIGHT THERE so i can see him flexing. uhhh, no thanks. LOL. he told me he was 28, me & my sis were 19 at the time. i told him that he didn't care. eww LOL. then i told him i was a lesbian and left. maybe telling him that was a mistake? haha



but 99.99% of the time, guys at the gym are completely respectful and don't bother us or stare or talk to us or anything. we're nothign to stare at anyway.

[phatryde]

...one day this mario lopez clone on steriods starts coming out and hitting on us both, at once, all under the guise of "form" and ****, i know i have good form, ok dude? lol. then he proceeds to ask us both out at once, all the while doing his sets RIGHT THERE so i can see him flexing. uhhh, no thanks. LOL. he told me he was 28, me & my sis were 19 at the time. i told him that he didn't care. eww LOL. then i told him i was a lesbian and left. maybe telling him that was a mistake? haha



but 99.99% of the time, guys at the gym are completely respectful and don't bother us or stare or talk to us or anything. we're nothign to stare at anyway.

You can't blame the guy for attempting or even having the balls to try and Pull off a Twin 3some fantasy . The ODDS are rare for that, and I applaud him.

[churn]

yeah, come to think of it, i really can't blame the guy

i'm not saying what he did was good or applaudable, i just can't blame him

[2k5 Rex]

Just the other day I had some middle aged guy standing right behind me stark naked at the sink after he had just gotten out of the shower... he was waving his hand in front of the damn automatic paper towel dispenser and ripping off sheet after sheet to dry himself off, then tossing them into the trash can 2 inches from my hand (we have little cut outs in the sink where the trash cans are underneath)... I was waiting for one of them to hit me and wig out!

[tomjones42]

Why shouldn't I wear a cap to the gym? Unless your thinking I wore a "Baseball Helmet" which it is not. Just a cap..

Just don't see why you would wear something you know would get in your way.

I saw someone using lifting straps the other day to bench press. That was new.

[Keltron]

The thing next to the sink that blows out hot air is called a "hand dryer" not a "Pube Jet 2000". Keep your godforsaken crotch away from it. Ever since I noticed that old men were drying their Cocknballs on this thing, I haven't been using it. I just use my pants to dry my hands.

I wouldnt call this a bad thing but it's definitely strange in the sense that it's out of the ordinary. There is this 65year old woman [i know because I scanned her in one time] who can do like 4 pull ups with immaculate form.

And I've always wondered why these obese and borderline obese guys love doing heavy bench presses. You've been at this for a year and you look exactly the same. Take 10 minutes out of your heavy lifting routine and try a little cardio or spend some time learning about calorie counting or portion control. Who cares if your strength will go down. And don't even mention that you're hesitant because of muscle loss since your muscle isn't even visible.

[TheManofSteel]

The Aqua Aerobics instructor is more obese than the people who attend her class. Bare in mind that most people who do aqua aerobics are those who's joints can't take any impact due to their obesity.

My mom does Aqua Aerobics because of arthritic knees and her instructor is the exact same way... this "fitness instructor" was suppoesdly a "competitive swimmer" yet it didn't look like she had exercised a day in her life

Very nice & funny woman, but didn't look like a "Fitness Professional"

[mjs21]

A few odd things I've seen or notice have been...

1. Kid running full speed on treadmill proceeds to trip and eat ****...one of the funniest things i've seen.
2. I have a sweatband guy that come into the gym...seriously has a sweatband on ever limb and all he does is walk on the treadmill...real slow.
3. Old guys walking on the treadmill while doing curls and stuff..it's very strange.
4. The best is theres a guy whose probably about 130lbs who walks around with his chest puffed up and his arms out wide and tells everyone how bad there form is...I was on the leg press and he comes over and he's like you should take some weight off it's bad for your knees. And he watches everyone do there sets and waits to show them the "proper form" he's a jackass.

[glendb79]

Yesterday I saw these 2 guys doing single arm rows over the weight rack, and they were trying to impress some girl who was with them. They were lifting 100 lb db's, but they were jerking it up at a fast pace, using a lot of shoulder. Well, in the middle of a set, the guy watching makes a fart sound to make the other guy lose concentration, and he starts to laugh. Man, if anybody did that to me, he'd have a serious problem. Am I right? Guys who goof around in the gym bug me to no end.

Oh, and this is the topper. I was doing cable crossovers the other day. When I do them, I stand forward a little so that I'm not directly between the racks. In the middle of my set, this little teenage jackass hops up on the pull-up bar that spans between the racks, and starts his set 2 or 3 feet behind me. I didn't realize he had done this, and when I finished my set, I bumped into him, and he nearly fell on top of me. I went off on him - I was livid.

[kinged854]

I saw an obese woman being "trained" by an only slightly less obese woman in my gym the other day... It kept me entertained throughout my workout =D

lol..on being entertained

[lee4]

i watched a girl face plant on a tread mill while trying to take a pic of me with her phone.

all i heard was "hey you, turn around"

turned to see what was up..

*phone camera clicks*

*shoe skids on tread mill soon followed by girls face thumping the belt*

end of story. it was the funniest thing i ever saw, yet i still felt bad for her.