Weirdness at the Gym (Page 6)

I think it's fair to say that "in season" a triathlete generally gets plenty of leg days.

When I lived in Boston, my favorite was the woman who showered, walked around naked and then sat on the carpeted floor of the gym (no towel under her) and went through her locker for a good 20 min, brushed her hair, etc.

My absolute favorite is when my boyfriend came home from the gym with a piece of paper he found in the shoes he left in his locker with an email and a note saying someone had his eye on him.  

I haven't read all 7 pages of this thread. 

Has anyone mentioned the "New Years Resolution crowd"  The week after New Years there will be a 30 to 40% increase in moderately overweight people in sweats.  They last about 2 months then disappear for the rest of the year.

2 Months? Try 3 weeks... until the "oh crap, its almost summer and my bathing suit does no fit crowd!" in late spring.

LOL, in all fairness, I have seen women assume guys were into them when they simply were not.  There was a young lady at the gym doing kneeling ab crunches and someone had put the v-bar behind the rack she was using.  I walked around to get it and she actualy said to me, "like you are really going to use that."  I said, "why else would I get it?" She said something about guys looking for an excuse to get near the girls.  I really didn't want to over-offend but this girl was nothing special and definitely wasn't as good looking as my gf at the time so I simply said, "it's at least cool that you are self-confident... misinformed.. but at least self-confident."  ha!

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He gets email in his locker? Nice gym.

Here is an odd one for you guys.  After a car accident, I had a broken femur and lost a lot of blood.  After my surgery (they had to insert a steel rod in my leg) they let me go home but told me to take it easy because I could get light headed easily.  Being stubborn and upset about the weight loss after the couple weeks in the hospital, I couldn't wait to get back to the gym.

I was doing a back workout and was strapped into a wide bar for lat pulldowns.  My workout partner was standing beside me.  He said he thought I was just getting tired because I let the bar up a little faster than normal then my head went over to rest on my arm.  Turns out I actually passed out but never fell over because I was strapped in rather well. 

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I think I mis-worded that.  He got a note in his shoe with an email address and someone telling him he was cute. 

This is one of my favourite threads so far!!

Wow the note in the locker is a little awkward...

I like the lady at my pool that swims along in the medium lane doing the breast stroke without getting her hair wet for lap after lap (very very slowly).  If you swim near her, you get the stink eye for splashing and possibly getting any water near her hair... 

GO TO THE SLOW LANE!!!!

You swim at my pool? 

Donate one of your swim caps from a race to her.

It's a damn disease man.

My favorite - guy on the treadmill next to me cranked it up to about 9MPH just so he could go faster than me, then had to hold on for dear life to the side bars just to stay on it. Seriously, I don't think his feet were even touching the tread most of the time. He managed to hang on like this for about 20 minutes before he quit after almost falling off the back of the treadmill. I don't think it did much for his legs, but boy did his arms get a workout.

This has happened to me before. I'm running and minding my own business and someone gets on the treadmill next to me and seems to want to race. I recall one woman that stared me down while I was running. She got on the treadmill, cranked the speed up and tried to keep up while she kept looking at me. She managed to keep the pace for no more than 5 minutes when she gave up, got off and left the gym.

See, I like the "help" who stand around trying to drum-up personal training customers because they make me feel like a super-athlete!

Since my gym recently went women-only and they sold off all of the machines that were worth-while, the circuit machines have never seen anyone raise the pin to anything higher than the 10 pound plate.

They also kept only the free weights that were in the regular area (I guess the free weights in the women-only area from before were different). I've heard women have been coplaining that the grips on the dumbbells "hurt their hands" and can they bring the women's ones back? One acquaintence has complanined about this to me repeatedly... I just want to scream, "WTF!! It's weight lifting not a manicure!

But my all time favorite is the woman who is trim but not particularly fit, who does a dozen crunches, then stands up and lifts her shirt and admires her stomach in the mirror. And repeats this three times.

Treadmills are an endless source of weirdness. There was a guy who used to run on the treadmill dressed in docker pants, a full sleeve shirt, a t-shirt over his full sleeve shirt and wearing hiking shoes. It wasn't as though he forgot his gym clothes, every time i saw him that was his gym outfit.

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a few more weird things:

- Dude was in the locker with his tattered undies.  I glanced up and noticed not a tear, but they had pulled away from the elastic band so the rip was easy 10-12 inches, meaning there was more showing than covered and they were hanging pretty low.  Wow, how did you choose those to wear to the gym? perhaps they are his good luck undies?

- A single swim lane was reserved at the gym, notes were posted.  That morning I went and in the reserved lane about 15-20 teenagers were this single lane.  A coach was one the side leading them in high steps, side steps, etc.  They would all just circle in the lane and then perform whatever new step was begin shown.  After a while I realized a huge current was setup in the pool, and I could not come close to swimming in my lane, without begin tossed into the lane divider.  When they started running in their lane, I got out and just watched the whitecaps and the poor people left to swim in the rip currents and breakers.  I did list it as an OWS in my log though!

Thats awesome! When I first started lane swimming in a pool, I was very timid swimming with others because of making contact or a small wave disrupting my form. Now I'm like, "Bring it on!!!"

A woman accidently hit me because we were sharing a lane. She stopped me and was really apologetic. I just told her I was a triathlete.

Edited by wstchstrTriathlete 2009-09-02 3:49 PM

I tend to keep my head down at the gym, go in do my thing, get out.  But what gets me is that I rarely ever see anyone stretching.  I can't be the only one that starts my routines with some basic stretching can I?  (Am I 'that guy' to other people?)  I've seen some woman do some stretching, but is it taboo for guys to stretch?  I swear I'm the only one that has ever stretched before getting into the pool as well.

I guess I must be 'that guy that always stretches' to the people watchers at the gym.  Or maybe there's a "stretching area" in the gym that I've yet to ever find and am the only weirdo that doesn't use it.