I get some weird looks when I walk in with my XBox 360, router, and mobile broadband card, plug into the TV above a treadmill, and get my marathon training on. I get some dirty looks when the pizza guy shows up around the 2 hour mark for my mid run snack, but I need the carbs. Don’t hate, it’s been cold out, and yes my stride is a bit awkward while holding a controller.
this is by far the strangest thing i’ve seen at my gym; I guarantee no one has seen this:
This guy (about 50-55 years old) was laying on a bench backwards (feet toward the end of the barbell) with his head hanging off. On his FACE he had a pillow that he brought in himself (it had some cartoon character on it or something) plus a white shower towel…and on top of that literally sitting ON HIS FACE was a 45lb plate. He proceeded to lower and raise only his head, as if he were replying ‘yes’ to a question for 3 sets of about 12 reps…
craziest shit i’ve ever seen at my school gym.
[quote]UNCheavylifter wrote:
this is by far the strangest thing i’ve seen at my gym; I guarantee no one has seen this:
This guy (about 50-55 years old) was laying on a bench backwards (feet toward the end of the barbell) with his head hanging off. On his FACE he had a pillow that he brought in himself (it had some cartoon character on it or something) plus a white shower towel…and on top of that literally sitting ON HIS FACE was a 45lb plate. He proceeded to lower and raise only his head, as if he were replying ‘yes’ to a question for 3 sets of about 12 reps…
craziest shit i’ve ever seen at my school gym.[/quote]
No 4 way neck machine huh?
[quote]UNCheavylifter wrote:
this is by far the strangest thing i’ve seen at my gym; I guarantee no one has seen this:
This guy (about 50-55 years old) was laying on a bench backwards (feet toward the end of the barbell) with his head hanging off. On his FACE he had a pillow that he brought in himself (it had some cartoon character on it or something) plus a white shower towel…and on top of that literally sitting ON HIS FACE was a 45lb plate. He proceeded to lower and raise only his head, as if he were replying ‘yes’ to a question for 3 sets of about 12 reps…
craziest shit i’ve ever seen at my school gym.[/quote]
You’ve never seen anyone train their neck before? Sounds like a smart guy to me, having done them without any padding I can say having strange scratches on your forehead can get some questions. I should start doing those again, see if I can’t add a couple of inches to it this year.
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
I will always remember this black guy who would always stand naked in front of the mirror and lather up his entire body with lotion. I mean, it was a lot of lotion! We aren’t talking like a dime sized amount, he would literally fill his entire palm with it and just start rubbing down his body. On top of that he would always whistle some random tune. It was pretty creepy.[/quote]
"give me some lotion to feel emotion:
-Gunther.
Hmmm, worst I’ve seen goes back to my early 20’s…
My workout partner and I worked out at a local rec center, so we’d hit the weights, then relax afterwards in the pool…
My friend ended his workout before me and headed out… When I finished, I walked into the change room to see this dad with his 2yr old kid… The kid was standing on a bench with diarrhea all over his ass, down his legs and up his backside…
The kid had a look of horror on his face…
The dad just slipped on the kids swim trunks and said “No problem, it’ll wash off in the pool” and proceeded to take his kid into the pool…
As for actual gym oddities, I’m the culprit of some of these, as the gym I workout at is extremely limited, so I’ll slide a pin out of the rack a bit, just so I can add a 45lb plate to the pressdown machine, as it won’t go heavy enough… Or I’ll piss off the step classes (which seem to have 75% more space that the weight room), grab some of their steps and throw them under a bench so I can do some decline presses… Hell at one point, I worked out at this place that the cable row had so many pulleys on it, you could do the stack with one arm and barely breake a sweat, so I’d have my buddy actually stand on the stack (yeah I got some strange looks)…
Sometimes it’s just about making due… But blow drying and massaging your balls and crapping in the shower is a bit over the top…
[quote]dianab wrote:
[quote]thekid24 wrote:
Someone took a shit in the shower at the YMCA last friday.
If that’s not a fucking gym crime, I don’t fuckin know what is.[/quote]
fuck yeah, the phantom shitter has moved to Ontario and out of my gym.
vive le quebec libre!![/quote]
I think that turd spawner has multiplied and came to my LA fitness aswell. One of the janitors in the place told me that someone crapped in the shower and then tried to squish the crap into the drain with one of those spray bottles. I don’t understand people sometimes.
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
I will always remember this black guy who would always stand naked in front of the mirror and lather up his entire body with lotion. I mean, it was a lot of lotion! We aren’t talking like a dime sized amount, he would literally fill his entire palm with it and just start rubbing down his body. On top of that he would always whistle some random tune. It was pretty creepy.[/quote]
Just a heads up, I am betting the majority of the black population does that to a degree. I can’t avoid lotion when it is cool to cold outside. White people can’t see when their skin gets dry like we can. I turn white if I don’t use lotion…and we can’t have that. I just don’t stand there naked and do it in public…no matter how many offers I get.
I used to train at a gym where one old man would floss his ass with his towel and then prop one leg up on the counter and blow dry his balls before he powdered them! Shit stained towels!!!
yeah i got some violations. At one of my first gyms we had 2 shower stalls so they got alot of usage. Well the one day after some serious cardio i decided i need a shower and when i opened the stall there was pile of pubs on the drain. Who ever this guy was he mjusta let undergrowth go for a while cause it looked like a dead cat on the shower floor. FUCKED UP!
Ditto - on dry skin. Gotta have it, But I don’t tease the locker room.
So, I workout about 5:30 AM. Here in Houston its dark as midnight right now at that time.
I see a guy about 5’10 maybe 185lbs come in wearing dark shades(I guess its cause his future is so bright).
Well the guy starts working out near me and moves over to the Decline Bench. I’m no longer paying him any mind because I got my chuckles already.
I start hearing somebody yelling “hey broh, help me - please”. Shades has 135lbs ready to about decapitate his ass. He’d better be glad I could hear him over my music otherwise he’d have NO future.
now i dont want this coming of as wrong but this is a true story. I hod a membership to a major gym. It had everything. Pool sauna you know the works. Well this one day i had a major cold and thought i would go in the sauna to try clear out my nose. well after a couple minutes of being in there by myself with my IPOD on a guy comes in and sits right next to me. Thought it was a little odd but let it go .
so i was siting there with my eyes closed listening to my ipod right. when i get a tap on my shoulder. When i open my eyes the guy next to me is naked and when i take my ear phone off he asks “i bet you got a nice cock under them shorts”. I lost it and punched the dude square in the face and left. I didnt know what to think. I mean i didnt know saunas were a gay sex hangout still. I thought that was like the in the 70’s.
To make a long story short i have not been in a sauna since and cancelled my membership the next day. has this happened to anyone else or am i the only one???
I always feel like the cardio people who read/surf the net/watch TV/etc/ think they’re being clever by multitasking when in actuality they’re running at the pace of a SNAIL by doing so.
It’s as if they’re thinking “Oh, look at me. I’m awesome because I can run and read at the same time! I’ve beaten the system!”
There was a thread on here a while back where someone’s Golds had a sign saying that if the sexual activity in the sauna didn’t stop, they would be secured. Some people are just weird.
[quote]AmericanGirl wrote:
I always feel like the cardio people who read/surf the net/watch TV/etc/ think they’re being clever by multitasking when in actuality they’re running at the pace of a SNAIL by doing so.
It’s as if they’re thinking “Oh, look at me. I’m awesome because I can run and read at the same time! I’ve beaten the system!” [/quote]
Yeah, totally.
I was the gym criminal today
The Gym police (elderly woman, 70+) was glaring at me after my first set of close grip pulldowns. After the second set she started saying something to me. I calmly removed my headphones “I’m sorry what?”. Old hag: “Are you going to bang that weight down again??”. I was a little stunned, But told her “uhh, yeah…” and put my headphones back in. After My third set she comes over AGAIN and starts bitching…
Again, CALMLY i try to explain that I’m pulling 80lbs more than my bodyweight, and setting the weight down may be a bit loud. She tells me i need to do less weight. I laugh and proceed to my fourth and final set, where i actually did make an attempt to lower the weight more slowly. “That better?” i ask her, and she storms straight to our GM’s desk and begins complaining. I wave to the GM (i work at the gym) and continue working out. Didnt hear anything more about it.
Should have asked her if her retirement home has a gym she could try out, or maybe just turn her hearing aid off…
I’m sorry, since when were we supposed to keep it down at the gym? Go join a planet fitness bitch.
/rant off
[quote]boatguy wrote:
There was a thread on here a while back where someone’s Golds had a sign saying that if the sexual activity in the sauna didn’t stop, they would be secured. Some people are just weird.[/quote]
yeah i guess i was a little ignorant to what goes on at big gyms. Learned my lesson though. I also only go in locker rooms to piss now. I guess i’m tramatized by the incident.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]AmericanGirl wrote:
I always feel like the cardio people who read/surf the net/watch TV/etc/ think they’re being clever by multitasking when in actuality they’re running at the pace of a SNAIL by doing so.
It’s as if they’re thinking “Oh, look at me. I’m awesome because I can run and read at the same time! I’ve beaten the system!” [/quote]
Yeah, totally.
WOW. That’s all I can say.
[quote]blackngrey609 wrote:
now i dont want this coming of as wrong but this is a true story. I hod a membership to a major gym. It had everything. Pool sauna you know the works. Well this one day i had a major cold and thought i would go in the sauna to try clear out my nose. well after a couple minutes of being in there by myself with my IPOD on a guy comes in and sits right next to me. Thought it was a little odd but let it go .
so i was siting there with my eyes closed listening to my ipod right. when i get a tap on my shoulder. When i open my eyes the guy next to me is naked and when i take my ear phone off he asks “i bet you got a nice cock under them shorts”. I lost it and punched the dude square in the face and left. I didnt know what to think. I mean i didnt know saunas were a gay sex hangout still. I thought that was like the in the 70’s.
To make a long story short i have not been in a sauna since and cancelled my membership the next day. has this happened to anyone else or am i the only one???[/quote]
I think some guido just wanted to give you The Situation.
I’m kind of glad I read this, I’m never going to go to a sauna at a gym.
[quote]blackngrey609 wrote:
he asks “i bet you got a nice cock under them shorts”. I lost it and punched the dude square in the face and left.[/quote]
That was the right decision
While doing behind the back shrugs in the squat rack I had someone ask how many more sets, and stand around waiting for me to finish…then proceeded to do SRCs once I finished, working up to a fucking crazy weight of 95 lbs. wtf people.