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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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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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.
 
A miss "busy body" in the gym caught me lifting my neck up to look at the bar whilst doing 60kg skull crusher (lying tricep extension). She meant to say If I catch you doing that again, I'll sit on your chest (not that it was any of her business). What she actually said, right in front of everybody (including her husband) was, " If I catch you doing that again, I'll sit on your face" :eek:
 
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Indeed. Typically comedy gold watching testosterone fueled boys thinking they're the bomb, beating their chest and measuring each other's dick sizes.

I've spent over twenty years in the gym and I have never seen anything like the description given above. I don't say that this doesn't occur but for the most part I have only witnessed people trying to better themselves, not attempt or try to be better than anybody else?
 
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