General, comical and bizzare day to day experiences in the gym

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Hope I'm not the only one, but will start this off:

Once saw a guy using a pair of gardening gloves in the gym and also saw a guy wearing a skirt and trying to do his workout wearing a Parker :D

About a week ago had an argument with a guy who insisted on hogging all the equipment. I waited for him to finish with a bench and watched him walk over to the other side of the gym where he started to use a pair of dumbells. I got off the crosstrainer and walked to the bench and placed my hand on the bar, ready to use it and the same guy come running across to tell me he was still using it? Rather than cause a scene I asked him how many more sets he had to do, to which he replied two. I told him I would come back in a couple of minutes to allow him to finish and so in the meantime, attempted to use the chin up bar. He then got off the bench and walked up to me and told me he was using that also? A bit of a row ensued and I walked off before really losing it. I walked up to the management and told them they had better sort him out pronto because if I go back up there and try to use something and he comes back up to me again and tells me he is "using it", there is going to be trouble. I haven't seen him since but other users have received the same idiocy from him and a little later that afternoon I saw the management chasing after him and giving him a hard time for not putting his weights back :D

On a lighter note saw a hardly clothed guy "pirouetting" about the changing rooms wearing nothing but a pair of pink socks and a disabled elderly guy turbo charging around the place on his mobility scooter honking his horn at everyone just for the he'll of it?
 
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The funniest thing I ever see at the gym is those that go there to people watch and worry about what others are doing, instead of just concentrating on their workout.

The gym is just another public place like a train or a park. Idiots are everywhere, it's no surprise.

That said I once saw someone use a rowing machine as a bicep workout.
 
I've never heard of anybody paying to go to a gym to specifically "people watch" (unless they are turning up to see Branch Warren, Rich Gaspari and Kai Green. The latter who is turning up at the Strength Asylum in Hanley in November) ? This being said, most of the staff have given their" notices" in yesterday giving the overall impression they can't get out of the place fast enough (DW Tunstall) . The lunatics are effectively running and ruining the asylum :D
 
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I remember a guy wearing some very questionable compression shorts - nothing over them. Yes you could see everything. At least he was happy.

Oh yeah, and they guy who reads his book in the steam room.
 
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Begbie said:
See people doing cardio all the time, it's hilarious.
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I find the ones that do it then still look like crap and need to have all their knees and ankles and everything strapped up any time they go near a treadmill just so they can run in less pain really funny.
 
Looking on YouTube last night just for some more extreme examples, and there is actually one in which some guy is hanging from a cable (apparatus) by his teeth; suspended in mid air, doing a set of dumbell curls? It was part of a compilation otherwise I would have posted the clip.
 
tom_e said:
I find the ones that do it then still look like crap and need to have all their knees and ankles and everything strapped up any time they go near a treadmill just so they can run in less pain really funny.
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I saw this one guy doing cardio, and he was looking at all the guys doing functional strength training to improve their bodies' natural movements, get fitter, stronger and more flexible, thus reducing potential back, knee and general joint problems, as well as generally improving their physique and losing fat - he was looking so hard with so much disdain, that he dropped out of the cardio zone. He was so furious he had to keep running for another hour to make up for the lack of cardio gains.

He should have just gone for a run outside - what a waste of a gym membership to gawp at all the fit men that he'll never be.
 
Freefaller said:
I saw this one guy doing cardio, and he was looking at all the guys doing functional strength training to improve their bodies' natural movements, get fitter, stronger and more flexible, thus reducing potential back, knee and general joint problems, as well as generally improving their physique and losing fat - he was looking so hard with so much disdain, that he dropped out of the cardio zone. He was so furious he had to keep running for another hour to make up for the lack of cardio gains.

He should have just gone for a run outside - what a waste of a gym membership to gawp at all the fit men that he'll never be.
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I give them a little wink while breaking out my best gloot spread, they love it.
 
Freefaller said:
I saw this one guy doing cardio, and he was looking at all the guys doing functional strength training to improve their bodies' natural movements, get fitter, stronger and more flexible, thus reducing potential back, knee and general joint problems, as well as generally improving their physique and losing fat - he was looking so hard with so much disdain, that he dropped out of the cardio zone. He was so furious he had to keep running for another hour to make up for the lack of cardio gains.

He should have just gone for a run outside - what a waste of a gym membership to gawp at all the fit men that he'll never be.
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Are you being sarcastic to the person you quoted here? How would you ever know what he was thinking?

This thread started well but has degenerated into a perfect example of why so many people find it difficult to go to the gym. People leering and judging is hardly the kind of environment people want to enter when they are conscious of needing physical change.
 
To answer the OPs questions (and to pacify Mr D3K), a lot of people who are new to gyms don't always know what they are doing. Where I am, because it is a small privately run gym, but also when I went to commercial gyms, I go up to them and help them out, or warn them if they are likely to hurt themselves and give them some proper training/help. Often they come up to me to ask for help too.

I don't have time to sit and stare at others I've got work to do at the gym. Unless there's a girl in yoga pants, or short shorts... but erm.. yeah. Seriously though, just go on and get on with your workout. Unless someone is doing something dangerous, just crack on with it and leave them to it. (I know I'm a bit of a hypocrite as I will go and help people too).

The one thing that I will take issue with are people doing curls in the squat rack - but this doesn't happen very often.
 
D3K said:
Are you being sarcastic to the person you quoted here? How would you ever know what he was thinking?

This thread started well but has degenerated into a perfect example of why so many people find it difficult to go to the gym. People leering and judging is hardly the kind of environment people want to enter when they are conscious of needing physical change.
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Freefaller said:
It was dead serious. Deadly.
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FF follows me around and bullies me.

Srs.
 
Freefaller said:
Shut up or I ban you.
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:(

Anyway back on topic, in the first gym I trained at when I came up to uni there used to be an older guy who would come in around lunch time everyday in his flat cap, trousers and brogues and workout.

Apart from that I'm too busy dying, checking myself out in the mirror, checking out women in lycra or actually lifting some weights to notice much else.
 
MrMoonX said:
They guys doing weights is generally enough amusement
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D3K said:
Are you being sarcastic to the person you quoted here? How would you ever know what he was thinking?

This thread started well but has degenerated into a perfect example of why so many people find it difficult to go to the gym. People leering and judging is hardly the kind of environment people want to enter when they are conscious of needing physical change.
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If we are playing the "he said, she said" game... ;)

But otherwise, low bar squatting is pretty weird... :D
 
Idiots curling in the squat rack - *rage*

The 'I'm still using that' brigade - ****-*** you, I'm here now. You will wait for me *rage*

People not wiping down the bench after leaving a pool of sweat on it - *rage*

The guys who scream at the top of their lungs while dead-lifting 100kg - *rage*

All of the above is partly why I now rent a garage and workout there with my equipment :D
 
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