Weirdness at the Gym (Page 3)

Sir, please cut up your man card.

This one takes the cake.

But a close second is the guys airing their junk out with the hair dryer. I just dont get that. I see that way too often.

Just thought of another one: I remember in the winter I used to see a guy take his clothes, wrap them in a towel with a hair dryer and turn it on. He would then leave it there while he showered for like 10 minutes. (a) WTH are you doing? and (b) It just said "fire hazard" all over it.

It may be bad timing on my part, because I swim on my lunch hour so I'm there between 11:30-12:30.  I always run into "naked let me hold the door for you guy"  There is a door that seperates the main locker room from the sauna/shower section, and this old dude will be buck naked and wants to hold the door open for people.  I stay as far away as possible, but it's weird.

Admitted recovering biceps bigger than his calf guy. Love the people who come in and dont change and sit around on the machines talking to their friend who did manage to change to spend 30 minutes doing 3 sets of curls. Not that i mind much but the women who sit on those thigh machines in really short shorts looking around to make sure people are noticing them. The guy who is using the machine across from you but is staring unblinking at you. The old man with the front locker right by the door that you could just never manage to prepare for. The other old guy who would stretch naked on the locker room floor. The idiot trying to do squats with way to much weight with improper form screaming loudly as his eyes bulge. Hmmm more later that should be good for now. A college weight room is a strange yet fantastic place.

This is wrong on so many levels.  You win. 

Ohhhh, and while doing those straight bar curls he is bending way over and swinging the weight up wildly, and the negative??? yeah, there is no negative, that weight falls back faster than you can blink!! Yep I've seen that guy.

Yeah, agreed.  I never thought until injury I'd use a recumbent bike to "warmup" my knee.  Mercifully it only lasted a short time.

What GETS me is the (morbidly) obese deluding themselves by hardly pedaling, busy on the phone and then leaving the gym telling all their friends how "WOW, I spent an hour on the bike at the gym" when it burned, what, 14 calories? 

I give a lot of credit to the overweight who are there to make a change in spite of the oft judgmental atmosphere of a gym. 

I suppose all walks of life have their posers

Edited by travljini 2009-09-01 1:22 PM

Working at a gym.. I see some some crazy things.. i endorse spray and wipe/sanitation towels.. big time. the things i see are scary sometimes. (makes me not want to go sometimes) YUK!

but i do see some funny things too.. conveyor shots off the treadmill.. (not funny until person gets up and is ok).. many many more..

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I can't stand the guy that throws his soaking wet with sweat clothes in the swim suite spinner. Gross.

Hah, that's pretty disguisting and I have never used this device and now I have a reason. 

I forgot all about Chicken Legged Body Builder Guy.  What's comical about this guy is that they are usually the worst about long stares in the mirror.  I swear some look at themselves so long and hard you think they are going to go up and give their reflection a big wet kiss.

First of all I think that cell phones should be banned from all gyms. I mean you can't go 30 min to an hour with out missing a call or txt.

I used to go to a gym and there where a couple of guys who would wear blue jeans and no shirt to lift weights. They would give each other high fives after every set. Granted there upper bodys where huge and I never saw them do legs.

If it qualifies since my pool is at my gym, when I go to use the pool, 4 lanes with 4 walkers, 1 in each lane, damn that gets all over me, when they just walk up and down and do not offer to let you in/ share, or get with another walker.  I have gotten to the point now, I wait for them to do a down and back and see me, if no acknowldgement, once back I ask if I can get in, 99% say yes and actually jump out, the 1%, old fa#t has to be an a$$ and say "can you wait" and I say, "I really can't, I paid the same as you and I'm using the gym the same as you, at the same time", now Im the a^^ at the pool....AND I LOVE IT.  They probably write threads about me, called "a^^holes at the pool"

What a frigin great thread!  Here are a few of my favorites, I have given them all nicknames to keep me entertained...

"The Grunter"  Not a meathead, not in great shape, reminds me of Steve Carell, cranks the treadmill up to 9+ and grunts so loud I can't hear my Ipod on 100% over his moans. Very disturbing grunts/moans, very disturbing!

"Jailbait"  Cops blow into the gym and this guy gets arrested in front of everyone in the Gym, dissapeared for 2 years, just showed up again 2 weeks ago like nothing happened.

"Rockstar" In a gum full of weights, this guy brings in two fist size rocks and walks on the treadmill with them.

"Transparent Cougar" This woman is easily in her 50's and in tremendous shape with some "enhancements" and she likes to flaunt it.  She wears these sheer leggings with a thong, is very agressive and always has a possee of women around her. 

"TCP" Transparent Cougar Possee, the clan of women that work out with the transparent cougar, they are quite a group, do anything the TC says.

"NYSC (New York Sports Club) Idol"  This dude sings along to his ipod at the top of his lungs while working out, like he is by himself.

"Operaman" Yes, he sings opera full blast while taking a shower, did I mention my Gym is right next to Juliard?

"Naked Guy" no explaination needed

"Diaper Guy" really old guy who rocks a depends diaper around the locker room.  

"Broseph" Staff member named Joseph that calls everyone "Bro" 

I could go on forever!  I Love the Gym!

 

One More, My favorite....

"The Lightbulb"  These dudes work their chest and arms all day, every day and never do legs or cardio, shaped like a lightbulb.

ok, I'm done!

Hey, it's not at the top of my lungs.

I haven't seen that guy since college (6 years ago). But I remember him well. He is still talked about at my gym.

In early to mid-90's, there was a guy that would powerwalk and roller disco while singing to the top of his lungs with his walkman around the Esplanade/Charle's river in Boston.

People would look annoyed at first, until they realized that he was actually hearing impaired.
Then everyone would adopt a "good for you!" attitude.
(His '70's throwback shorts are another thing entirely.)

I wonder if he is still around?

I was at the sink and a puffed up steriod boy was beside me 90 deg to my left at another sink, he is looking in the mirror:
"Hey there big fella"
"Hey Mr good looking"
"You're a such a stud"

After about the 3rd piece of self-talk from him, I turned and he saw me and said, "I wasn't talking to you"....thank god!

Gym grossness: fat guy that comes out of the sauna all nice and sweaty - straight to the pool, sits down to cool off for a few minutes, then back to the sauna....  back and forth... The first lane in the pool has steps going down into it, and he just walks in and sits down up to his neck..  ewwwwww!!!!

outside of the gym weirdness: I lived in FL on a barrier island for awhile.  There was an older gentleman (70's?) that looked EXACTLY like Charlton Heston... he would power walk around the island: tight shorts, shirtless, sweatband, aviator shades, carrying a big-a** maul handle.... he would march into Publix to weigh himself on the big scale, then back out into the sun... marching around with his maul handle... I was never tempted to remark on his eccentricity - not out loud anyways!! :D


Mel

I didn't mean to offend. I wasn't talking about those physically unable to jog/run/ride standing because of injury or physical limitations. I'm just talking about the 30-40lbs overweight folks who don't break a sweat sitting, and aren't even breathing hard on the recumbent. Usually while reading a book or magazine. I was 35-lbs overweight myself not too many years ago, but I still knew that any exercise that is barely above "resting heart rate" isn't going to do any good.

How about the drivers that stalk people in the parking lot to get that front-row parking space? I mean, you drive to a gym to workout but you can't walk 30 yards to the door? I think that other than 5-10 handicapped spots in front of the door, the entire parking lot should be 1/4 mile away!

Yeah... cause you know we triathletes are not sweating at all when we swim

Its a parts per million thing... (Search Cup of Joe Forum for the Peeing in the Pool Thread)

This thread is great!

I had a friend in CT who self-titled himself "lightbulb" out of frustration.  He definitely trained legs but he just never developed calves or quads in proportion to his upper body.  He was about 6'3" and would always tell me that black guys don't grow calves.
I watched him workout!  But his upper body grew and his lower body stayed the same.