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

Where do I even start!

Saw someone once with a fully loaded bar on his back, try to run on a treadmill. And I mean, I saw at least 80kg on the bar.

Used to be a guy in my gym back in the UK that use a jerrycan as a 'water bottle', complete with nozzle.

Seen someone strap himself with at least 50kg of weight for doing chin ups, then had to use 3 mates to spot him for one single rep. Then he took the weights off and still couldn't do a single rep on his own

Then the changing rooms are the worse. In the last gym I was in before coming to NZ, there was only a single mirror (small gym). I was there on a Monday night when it was busy and guys were standing in line, waiting on their chance for the mirror to take a selfie.

I have heaps more of these.

Now I'm a member of a very exclusive private gym with a strict member count. I done it mainly to get away from incessant attention whores and the hordes of idiots that infest these places. It's one of those gyms that rich people join and then never attend. Only the swimming pool gets used often. In the gym section I've never seen more than 5 people. In fact, this week I never saw anyone at all bar the two PTs that work there. Love it!!
 
- Dudes doing squats in the curl/shrug cage...
- Other dudes doing deadlifts on the shrug platform...
- More dudes monopolising the barbells for GMs, RDLs, squats and rows. The leg press and leg curl machines exist for a reason.
- Even more dudes hogging the curl racks by hanging off them and flailing like hooked fish... Do you even lat pull-down machine?

Haterz gonna hate...
 
mrthingyx said:
- Dudes doing squats in the curl/shrug cage...
- Other dudes doing deadlifts on the shrug platform...
- More dudes monopolising the barbells for GMs, RDLs, squats and rows. The leg press and leg curl machines exist for a reason.
- Even more dudes hogging the curl racks by hanging off them and flailing like hooked fish... Do you even lat pull-down machine?

Haterz gonna hate...
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Genuine lol :D
 
I once got stuck trying to do Rocky type situps on the pullup bar 10+ years ago... came in next day and someone else had got stuck doing it... learning from the best of course lol

Few notables:
Stick insect squatting 2 plates on left and one on right after rescuing him asked what he was playing at "training my left leg more because my right legs stronger" :rolleyes:

Was passing up a dumbell to a mate for shoulder press and tripped over weights barely missing his head and dropping said dumbell. Mate then proceeded to get in the face of this new lad who had got about 10 weight sets out... never saw him again. Ironically my mate is probably one of the biggest offenders of leaving weights out

Guy stuck under a bench that was clearly too heavy

Friend getting his member out and putting it on a guys shoulder he was spotting


Seen a few people get injured over the years too, usually because of horseplay or trying a lift wayyyy beyond them eg 1rm bench is 100kg trying a 150kg *facepalm* "i nearly did it!".... "yes mate you did nearly kill yourself"
 
stuie said:
100kg deads may actually be hard work for some people, do you scream out doing whatever you max is?
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No. I may grunt a bit but I don't feel the need to tell everyone else about my gainz bro.

100kg was a weight plucked out of the air and wasn't meant to suggest that I think someone who can't lift that weight is inferior - the point I was trying to make was that I don't think it's considerate to scream and shout when lifting any weight.

There, have I stroked you enough *patpat,therethere*
 
ExRayTed said:
No. I may grunt a bit but I don't feel the need to tell everyone else about my gainz bro.

100kg was a weight plucked out of the air and wasn't meant to suggest that I think someone who can't lift that weight is inferior - the point I was trying to make was that I don't think it's considerate to scream and shout when lifting any weight.

There, have I stroked you enough *patpat,therethere*
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:D
 
I mostly keep myself to myself in the gym, but I do have some pet peeves.

Large groups of mates training together drives me up the wall. I'm talking 3/4/5+ people all doing the same exercise. Will use up a piece of equipment for an hour plus and also a lot of floor space taking pics for instagram and blabbing about how much protein they ate for breakfast. GTFO pls.

I also hate the changing room phenomenon of 'Who can sound the most knackered'. Seriously some guys come in and are just panting and wheezing for 10 minutes getting dressed. Wtf have you been doing and why are you in here?


I do train in a great gym which means that you inevitably get pro/semi-pro people, and they do stand around posing a lot. At first I thought what a ****, but then you realise it's really part of their training and what they do so I understand now. I've legitimately seen men in thongs doing lat spreads in the corner.

Oh also, people squatting in moon boots ;).
 
I normally keep to myself at the gym, I go there focus on my workout routine and get out. I'm not there to be sociable really but I do chat to a few of the "regular's". But a few of the things that do make me laugh I have spotted.

One rather large girl comes into the gym pretty much same time twice a week. Sits on a bike, rides very slowly while texting or whatever on phone for about 10mins then leaves the gym lol. I once overheard her talking on the phone saying she was working really hard in the gym.... yea ok. I mean I guess something is better than nothing. But is really sitting on your ass on a bike while peddling slower than walking pace for 10mins really going to achieve anything ?

Once in the changing room a couple of rather small guys where just talking absolute smack about overweight people being in the gym saying it was ruining it for them. To which two regular's who are quite well built guys decided to walk over to them completely butt naked and ask them if they thought they was overweight. I couldn't help but physically laugh. The smaller guys backed down quickly and actually ran out of the changing room. Never seen them again.

Lastly I saw one guy on a treadmill who had it going super fast. But when watching him it was so funny he would run for about 5 seconds really really fast. Then stop resting on the sides with the treadmill still going super fast... stand there for about 2-5 mins, then get back on run really really fast for 5 seconds and then stop again. To me it just looked so stupidly funny. Every time a slightly attractive women started to walk past in front of the treadmill he was on he would immediately jump on the treadmill and run as fast as possible until they was out of sight.... very odd behaviour.
 
Having been forced to move from my small privately run gym to a commercial gym (opening hours at the small one meant I basically can't train anymore) means I probably am the weird one doing snatches and front squats while they curl... they probably stare at me and post about it on some bro forum somewhere :D

On a more serious(ish) note I did remember seeing someone do a weird like upside down pull up walk thing on a pullup bar. To which I told my friend he looked kinda like spiderman, and that was it... until a few minutes later when I looked down at my routine and noticed 3 sets of Spiderman To Failure written at the end of it :D
 
There was a poor lad at the gym today doing bench press, he didn't look like he'd been near a gym until today and he put 10kgs either side of the bar, without the clamps.. Did a couple of very wonky reps, pushing one side up then following with the other.

Just about to start my shoulder press set and all I hear is a loud bang where he's been unable to lift it and the bar has dropped on the one side with the weight flying off and him looking like a tool!

Pretty confident he wont be doing it again soon, or I'll never see him again cause he will definitely end up with an injury if he carries that form over to other areas. :D
 
Defy Belief said:
Just about to start my shoulder press set and all I hear is a loud bang where he's been unable to lift it and the bar has dropped on the one side with the weight flying off and him looking like a tool!

Pretty confident he wont be doing it again soon, or I'll never see him again cause he will definitely end up with an injury if he carries that form over to other areas. :D
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We've all been there :D

I've had it with a 105 incline before. Yes you look a tool but you live and learn.

Reminds me of loading a hollow steel bar with 150kg once, first lift the entire bar buckled right in the middle. Gym owner wasn't too happy
 
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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D.P. said:
Indeed. Typically comedy gold watching testosterone fueled boys thinking they're the bomb, beating their chest and measuring each other's dick sizes.
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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?
 
ethan said:
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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He's probably just butt hurt that he has no testosterone and can't bench an empty bar. :p
 
People using the platform for anything other than Olympic type lifts. Fine, deadlift on it if everywhere else is taken, but use the smaller platform for that!

People who are over friendly also. If I wanted to use the bench or bar after you, I'd ask???
 
Someone I used to work with was a fencer (as in swords as opposed to garden fences). For his training he used to run sideways, really fast on the treadmill - going forwards on one side then the other. Looked like a crab - absolutely hilarious. He never fell off though.
 
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