People at the Gym :/

King Damager said:
I wasn't really going out of the way to stare at anything.. It just happens that I got out of the pool just after him, so was kind of stuck doing everything at approximately the same time... Most of it I got a [sarcasm]lovely[/sarcasm] view of him from behind.. Whilst I was trying to overt my eyes, you can't really help but notice...



Even FF walks around with a towel on! :p And as for not caring when drying/changing, in many ways that's actually ok so long as you're keeping yourself to yourself and not frollicking everywhere... xD

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yeah you notice it then realise "damn this guy has his wanger out" then you just get on with what your doing, by constantly staring at it, its more an issue of you and your inability to stop looking at his penis than his issue that its out, its a changing room, loads of guys do it and some don't, it comes with the territory.

if i go into a male changing room i can expect to see a load of wangers, the same with if i go to a strip bar, i expect to see a load of breasts. but in both situations i dont stare, its normal. unless its a private dance, then i can stare at those jubblies, and motorboat all day long.
 
Just had to forfeit our oppurtunity to squat, because a guy got on the Bench 10 seconds before we got to the gym. What makes the matter worse, is he hogs the bench for 45 minutes, in these 45 minutes he did 5 sets, each set containing 5 reps, each rep moving the bar an entire inch. The rest of the time was spent trying to move the bar with Jedi mind concentration.
If someone is doing a serious workout then I don't mind working around them, just wish these kind of people would hog something less useful.
 
Love my gym, for those that know the term dungeon gym you'll understand. I used to go to DW but it's not 'personal' if you get me..

If you leave weights out, you get warned, if you do it again your membership is revoked.

Cash in hand membership payment (hate DD's), people who know what they are talking about and protein shakes on the cheap :)

Pool table as well, and a boxing bag ^_^

It's all local lads who know each other so theres not much of the 'weight hogging' etc

They also play The Annual 2011, loud :D
 
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Josh107 said:
Just had to forfeit our oppurtunity to squat, because a guy got on the Bench 10 seconds before we got to the gym. What makes the matter worse, is he hogs the bench for 45 minutes, in these 45 minutes he did 5 sets, each set containing 5 reps, each rep moving the bar an entire inch. The rest of the time was spent trying to move the bar with Jedi mind concentration.
If someone is doing a serious workout then I don't mind working around them, just wish these kind of people would hog something less useful.
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You should have asked if you could work in with him. Seeing somebody do real squats might have broadened his mind
 
N19h7m4r3 (Lord dude, what's with the awkward name?), I love your sig. Really hits home. I'm going to write it down and plaster it on my desk at work and home.
 
Skunkworks said:
I was in on my pulling day and as usual a couple of pussies are doing their 2 hours of bench press on the cage. There’s about 8 other ways of doing bench press in my gym, but cretins like this are always attracted to the cage, as they see it as the manliest machine.

Anyway, I’m having to do some powercleans with the 5ft bar while waiting for these hairdressers to finish, when I notice that they haven’t done anything for about 10 mins - they’re just sitting on the bench, in silence, both just dicking around with their phones. I stroll over and ask if they’re going to be much longer, when one replies [I paraphrase]:

“Yeah, we still have incline bench, decline bench, sideways bench, reverse incline bench, inclined decline bench, concentration bench, narrow bench, wide bench, sideways inverse bench, reverse inverse bench, reverse concentration inverse decline bench” etc.​

I just wanted to punch these 2 beta cupcakes in the face.
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I feel for you just reading that mate, listen thats never happened to me but if that did ever happen to me after maybe 10-15 mins max I would just tell them, I'm not even sure how I'd word it but I'd try be nice and explain gym etiquette and say your gona have to come back because I need to use the wrack and it will only take me 5-10 mins to do what I need to do and then you can have it again.

I wouldnt let anyone tell me that they're gona be 30-60 mins on one peice of equipment, thats obsurd, and selfish, as far as I'm concerned those guys are delusional, and you cant let people like that get away with it.

In my gym at Virgin Active Leeds the only thing that really ever annoys me is when I see 4-5 lads in a group on one bench, we have 4 benches so 99% of time it isnt a problem and I never usually have to wait for anything, but the other day I had to wait for first time in a about a year and so I decided to do something else whilst I waited, and I managed to do like 4 other exercises with 3 sets in each exercise by the time that those 4 lads had finished doing one exercise on a bench which took them like 20 mins.

I dont mind when people work out in 2's, but anymore then two is just stupid in my opinion.

I hate as well that people workout so slow, I have like 10-20 seconds between sets depending on the exercise and other people have 5-10 mins and above and between sets mess with their mobile phones and talk.

I reckon more then 90% of the members in the weight section at my gym are just wasting their time and mine, and dont know what they're doing and dont take it seriously.

I just dont understand why they come to virgin active, because I go to the big one in Leeds, its £46 a month, if they want to mess about why pay £46 a month, there's other ones in leeds that cost £10 a month (that are the kind of gyms I class for newbies where dumbells go upto 20kg lol).
 
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regulus said:
N19h7m4r3 (Lord dude, what's with the awkward name?), I love your sig. Really hits home. I'm going to write it down and plaster it on my desk at work and home.
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Ah sorry mate, I grew up with leetspeak back in South Africa and I registered with it year years ago long before 2008 though when I started buying here.

I'm up for a name change if you lads here want to pick one and vote on it, also if FF doesn't have a problem changing it haha.
 
King Damager said:
Swimming - gym changing rooms - naked men

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I think this pretty much sums it up....

But I'll take the one example,
Guy gets out of pool, walks through the door to the male changing room, over to the trunk drying machine (about 1m from the door) and strips off... Whilst drying trunks he's drying his upper half with a towel failing to cover anything... Walks over to the showers (with doors) and showers stark naked with the door open.... Finishes shower walks through the changing room completely stark naked and then dries himself without attempting to cover anything... Pretty sure he made sure that his boxers were basically the LAST thing he put on!

kd
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I think there's a lot of gay guys at gyms that like walking around naked infront of other men...the other day I was in showers and ours dont have doors and anyways this guy wasnt even stood in his shower, its hard to explain but it was like he was stood half way out his shower looking at other guys lol it was so blatently obvious and he was touching himself as well, what the hell?

And then in changing rooms I always get guys staring at me, and my parents keep saying to me that a lot of gay guys go to gym.

And I also see some guys stood at the mirrors naked looking at themselves and using hair dryer to dry their private parts, all of this just seems dodgy to me.
 
Josh107 said:
Just had to forfeit our oppurtunity to squat, because a guy got on the Bench 10 seconds before we got to the gym. What makes the matter worse, is he hogs the bench for 45 minutes, in these 45 minutes he did 5 sets, each set containing 5 reps, each rep moving the bar an entire inch. The rest of the time was spent trying to move the bar with Jedi mind concentration.
If someone is doing a serious workout then I don't mind working around them, just wish these kind of people would hog something less useful.
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Is there only one bar in your gym or do you have to use the bench rack as a substitute squat rack?

Either way it's annoying having to alter your workout completely because of someone else.

N19h7m4r3 said:
Ah sorry mate, I grew up with leetspeak back in South Africa and I registered with it year years ago long before 2008 though when I started buying here.

I'm up for a name change if you lads here want to pick one and vote on it, also if FF doesn't have a problem changing it haha.
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Freefaller can't change your name himself but he can certainly point one of the Commissarios in the right direction if you want to select another name - or just email them yourself with a preferred choice.
 
Since I have become more confident again on free weights I just go in and get on with it, I am not like a mouse now, dont pose, get in, eye up the kit i need, get it done then move on, I plan everything before I even enter the gym.

Also people that have phones in a gym, I know people use them as mp3 players but texting even ringing people while in a gym, wtf.

One lad was hogging a plate back machines, sat there texting, I went off and did 3x and he was still on it. So went on something else, went back to it and someone else was on it. Sods law
 
semi-pro waster said:
Is there only one bar in your gym or do you have to use the bench rack as a substitute squat rack?

Either way it's annoying having to alter your workout completely because of someone else.



Freefaller can't change your name himself but he can certainly point one of the Commissarios in the right direction if you want to select another name - or just email them yourself with a preferred choice.
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Freefaller said:
"Gym Bitch"
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Hahaha "gym bitch".

I think if the lads want me to change the name FF should make a thread and people can put suggestion there and then use a poll to vote.

There was talk of that last year after I made that 190kg deadlift at 68kg BW, something on the lines of "Pocket Rocket" I think Tank said.
Something the people here can type out without thinkg "WTF?"
 
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