Characters in your gym?

[Dare81]

Any of you got any 'interesting' characters in your little old gyms?. A couple spring to mind where i train.....

A muscular dude who always wears a T-Shirt with the message 'F**k da Smith Machine' emblazoned across the back. He's always telling people in the gym to lift heavier...or rather shouts at people.

A guy in his early 60's who wears a Cambridge University sweatshirt and loads up the bench with some enormous stacks and seems to lift half the damned building at times. I call him 'Senior Citizen Schwarzenegger'.

[connorc12321]

There's this one guy who wears those weird toe shoes and short shorts and a weird t-shirt that ends around his belly button. He puts in these over ear headphones from like 1980. Then he fast walks, on the verge of running, multiple laps around the entire gym. Then he sits down on a bench and slaps his back like Michael phelps for 2 minutes straight. Then he will do one set and run out of the gym. I see this guy every Tuesday, never any other days.

[kevsworld]

I wrote about this a while back

http://musclereview.net/gym-etiquette-five-violators/

[drudixon]

Let's see, there's Mickey, Goofy, Donald, The Little Einsteins....

We store my sons old toys down there.

[JimmyJonny]

Guess Im lucky, no weirdos at my gym.... Dont forget that its almost Jan 1st and all these new year resolution fitness freaks will be out. Im workin on my mean look as I type, hopefully they dont last long.

[ironwill2008]

[dharlow410]

Two people pop to mind when I read this thread

1) A old guy who is probably 65-70 comes in daily on the treadmills he is a chubby old dude, he wears a headband on his bald head (Not making fun Im bald too) and Suspenders on Sweat Pants.. Never saw that before

2) Musclar top guy.. Meaning his upper body is HUGE but from the hips down it looks like his body was transplanted, never seen him work legs, but despite that he flexes his legs in the mirrors after every set... I am unsure why..

[egoatdoor]

Good timing. I was thinking about this this morning.

I train weekends at 5AM in a 24 hour Golds and sometimes have been there at same time weekdays if i have a day off.

EVERY DAY between 5 and 5:30, this 50 or so guy comes in. Puts his gym bag on the bathroom sink counter. Walks out and sits on a bicep curl machine under an overhead TV showing ESPN. Watches TV for 5-10 minutes, doing a couple of sets in between. Then he does couple of pushdowns. Then he goes to one of those adductor or abductor machines, again right in front of the TV. Watches more ESPN. After about 20 minutes of so in the gym, probably 16 of it watching TV, he then goes into the bathroom and takes his bag into the shower. Showers and shaves. This probably takes as much time as he spent on the gym floor. Then he leaves about 45 minutes after he came in, only to return the next day, same time, same station.

This guy comes to the gym to watch TV and take a shower.

He is WEIRD.

[gunny7258]

i work out at home, got sick of gym idiots and the sausage swallowers walking around the locker rooms

[OutdoorsinCO]

I work out at the Y, so not to many weirdos persay, there were two guys in there today who took over an hour to do 3 sets of preacher curls. 50 mins of that was bs'ing...

[tryintorebuild]

There is always one strange character at every gym. So if you haven't figured out who it is...

[DubfromGA]

I see this Sasquatch looking mofo who has a look on his face like he's either in pain or having bad gas pain every time between sets.

I see him everytime I glance up in the mirror.......

[IronCharles]

There is always one strange character at every gym. So if you haven't figured out who it is...

.... you might be too busy focusing on your own training to be studying the behavior of others?

[LiftBig315]

One guy wears yoga pants and a spandex top...seen him twice in the AM.

[MartinMaggie]

Once there were few younger dudes who laughed at me quite openly and one even filmed me with with mobile phone. I was exercising my rotator cuffs. Probably they thought that I do biceps or triceps with very bad form.

[Smelly bull]

.... you might be too busy focusing on your own training to be studying the behavior of others?

This x1000.

[beachguy498]

There is a new crop of resolutioners I've seen in the past week. Some of them come in wearing normal every day clothes, winter gloves, hat, coat, etc. They do a few reps of this and that and leave within 5 minutes.

Rob

[mal1ce]

Randy White.
He's cool as hell, I really cant express this enough. He's so down to earth and "normal" considering who he is. He has no problem talking to you, giving advise on techniques if you ask, taking pics with fans, talking about last weeks games, etc. even though he's there to work out. He makes time for everyone.

[bigtallox]

My gym has this tall guy who's crazy enough to do yoke runs on an icy driveway.



Lately, my gym has one member, hopefully after the new year or possibly after my driveway melts, the other members will be back training again.

[Corbi]

There is a new crop of resolutioners I've seen in the past week. Some of them come in wearing normal every day clothes, winter gloves, hat, coat, etc. They do a few reps of this and that and leave within 5 minutes.

Rob

There was a woman in the gym yesterday had to be in her mid-late 60's wearing a blue pants suit like something you would see Hillary Clinton wear.

[upchuck1383]

We have a guy who wears womens tank tops from time to time. We do workout at 5am, maybe he just grabs one of his wifes by accident? As other days he is wearing the mens version...

[OutdoorsinCO]

Randy White.
He's cool as hell, I really cant express this enough. He's so down to earth and "normal" considering who he is. He has no problem talking to you, giving advise on techniques if you ask, taking pics with fans, talking about last weeks games, etc. even though he's there to work out. He makes time for everyone.

I've already noticed this influx. I was the first one through the doors yesterday and saw a whole new group of folks in there. At least one guy was honest with himself, he came in wearing jeans and stayed about 10mins and left.

[WonderPug]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't really notice anybody in the gym unless they bump into me, step on me (and this has happened more than once) or hog equipment that I wan't to use.

[smee342]

there are 3 guys at my gym who all work out together, 2 of them are trainers for my gym ! they seem like great guys ive talked to them a few times. but what bugs the heck out of me is after every rep ! they get up and go running to the mirror ! looking at there abs or arms or what ever ! its annoying lol

[-=FLEX=-]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't really notice anybody in the gym

I notice when people are complete retards.


My last gym there was a skinny dude that came in every morning for about an hour and did nothing but abs and pullups, and in between every set he would pull up his shirt and check out his abs in the mirror.

1 set of pullups, check abs in mirror, 1 set of abs, check abs in mirror; rinse and repeat for an hour every day.

That kind of **** is hard not to notice.

[WonderPug]

I notice when people are complete retards.

I tend to go to the gym first thing in the morning, partly because retards tend to sleep in.

[-=FLEX=-]

I tend to go to the gym first thing in the morning, partly because retards tend to sleep in.

Same here; 5am.

Doesn't eliminate the problem, but greatly reduces the likelihood.

Been off work for the holiday season and trained a few times mid-afternoon and seen some real stupid ****.

[BlackSwan88]

This girl looks like Megan Fox...except even prettier. Long dark hair, full pouty lips, deep dark blue eyes. To make it worse, she ALWAYS wears a tight rippled white tank top that, as she starts to sweat ends up shows off her "headlights".

If that weren't bad enough, when she does squats she lets out these soft low grunts..almost moans...uh...uh...uh...as if she is having sex. Drives every guy in there absolutely nuts. Really, it is such a turn on that it's a turn off, if that makes sense...because there is no way you can concentrate when you have her around. And yet if she isn't there...you miss her. F's with your head.

[carbkilla]

Working out at the Y one year this muscular guy came in and put a ton of plates on the bench press and did reps to failure, then he couldn't get it up with no one around that could spot that much anyway. He started tilting the bar from side to side dropping plates off of both sides making crazy noise yelling with plates dropping everywhere. he got up laughing saying "I've had enough". Apparently he was a regular and did stuff like that just joking around.

CK

[DocHoss]

Let's see, how about this skinny old dude pushing 50 with long hair that struggles to squat a measly 225 and then throws up even lighter weights over his head? His benches are pathetic and he always carries around this silly Looney Tunes towel.

Oh wait, never mind, that's just me

There is a guy about my age who does a lot of calisthenics and grunts like he's passing a kidney stone. Really distracting. And the sweet 80-yo lady who comes over to do triceps pushdowns after very thoroughly wiping down everything she's going to touch. At my old gym there was a 70-ish guy who would workout dressed in loafers and a sweater tied around his neck - looks like he hasn't changed style since college in the 50s'. Not too many other characters.

This girl looks like Megan Fox...except even prettier. Long dark hair, full pouty lips, deep dark blue eyes. To make it worse, she ALWAYS wears a tight rippled white tank top that, as she starts to sweat ends up shows off her "headlights".

If that weren't bad enough, when she does squats she lets out these soft low grunts..almost moans...uh...uh...uh...as if she is having sex. Drives every guy in there absolutely nuts. Really, it is such a turn on that it's a turn off, if that makes sense...because there is no way you can concentrate when you have her around. And yet if she isn't there...you miss her. F's with your head.

There is a woman like that I see/hear (not often) at my gym. She doesn't squat, but she does have the moans down pat.