I wanna hear the stories…
Mine is a guy I see at my gym pretty regularly. He must be a Hasidic Jew because he has the full beard, the little curly Q things on the sides of his face and wear a yamulka. He also has a near competition quality physique.
In my mind I have nicknamed him “Jew Ferrigno”
Theres a guy that sometimes comes into the gym and trains with a pink bandana and sunglasses, day or night, rain or shine.
The best is this guy that would come to the gym and pretend he was Triple H from wrestling. He wore jean shorts and a wife beater. After every one of his sets he would take a swig of water and spray it into the air. Hilarious.
[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
Theres a guy that sometimes comes into the gym and trains with a pink bandana and sunglasses, day or night, rain or shine.[/quote]
That guy works out at my gym, too! Does he always wear work boots?
There’s another guy at my gym that always wears pink spandex with purple leg warmers. I think one time we wore blue spandex with white leg warmers, but most of the time he goes with the pink/purple combo.
There’s a guy at my gym who wears a white t-shirt, timberland boots and jeans. He’s pretty large(meaning FAT) and I have only seen him doing crunches. Did I mention he does these while on his cell phone?
Oh excuse me it’s his ear piece not the actual phone, and he occasionally grunts or yells.
The real treat is looking around at everyone shaking their heads in disbelief.
5 foot tall bald guy who wears a red wife beater and running shorts. Really short running shorts. He puts 135 on the squat rack, gets under the bar and shifts his weight from hip to hip.
I guess it is his Flashdance impression.
[quote]RWElder0 wrote:
5 foot tall bald guy who wears a red wife beater and running shorts. Really short running shorts. He puts 135 on the squat rack, gets under the bar and shifts his weight from hip to hip.
I guess it is his Flashdance impression.[/quote]
ROFL!
One dude at my college comes into the gym and sits on a bench for hours… doing curls. Not even full curls, about 1/4 of the full range of motion. Oh, and he doesn’t bend his arm–he pulls his body forward to the dumbell. It looks like he is humping the air/dumbell. He even has is eyes closed as if he’s about to orgasm any minute.
After he “climaxes”, he flexes in the mirror like a badass.
There was a guy who was a regular squatter. Always squatted in boots for the elevated heel.
One time he had a brown hiking boot on one foot and a mid calf, black Hi-Tec on the other. Guy didn’t realize it until he was almost through with his workout.
That guy was me.
These two kids at my gym at school walk in with there abercrombie shirts on and jeans with their bling swinging from their neck always benching 135 for singles then moves on to curls. Its the only thing i have ever seen him do.
It probably wasn’t the strangest thing I’ve seen, but just the other week a women was standing in the weight room, swaying back and forth in front of the mirror, all the while cross-body punching. I think she probably did this for at least 15-20 mins of my workout.
[quote]alaw4516 wrote:
These two kids at my gym at school walk in with there abercrombie shirts on and jeans with their bling swinging from their neck always benching 135 for singles then moves on to curls. Its the only thing i have ever seen him do.[/quote]
I actually think that’s pretty common lol.
For me it’s this little old (maybe 5’3 and 70 years) bald man who works out for about 20 minutes. That 20 minutes consists of machines that are at least twice as much weight as he can actually do, he shifts the weight about an inch for maybe 30 reps, eyes closed and head tilting side to side. At first I thought he was having some kind of stroke.
Old bald dude that smells like garlic, he does dozens and dozens of reps on the leg press using 40lbs and with maybe 2 inches range of motion.
At my gym the weirdest ting are two bodybuilding twins, with two chicks as girlfriends who are also twins and they all workout together-all identical twins btw-. It looks like something out of the twilight zone, especially since their attire never changes since I only see them at the gym.
I saw a guy doing dumbbell shrugs the other day—with 35 lbs. dumbbells.
He was using straps.
This is when I unfortunately had to go to the public rec center gym near my house one long weekend…
I saw this middle-aged guy over by the mirrors and dumbells doing a lot of rotator cuff work. Whatever right? But in between the sets, he had a golf club and practiced his swing form in the mirror, right in front of the dumbell rack. He was very serious about it too… very determined.
Ok, this might just be weird to me, but here goes anyway:
There is always this one guy who talks of playing football so much and how good and strong he is. Yet, I have never seen him attend any pre-season practice, never lifts with the team, and didn’t go to our football camp in full pads at CSU. Still thinks he can make varsity though.
A trainer turn the only squat bar into a giant ab wheel when there was a perfectly functional ab wheel lying around. of course this was on my leg day
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
Ok, this might just be weird to me, but here goes anyway:
There is always this one guy who talks of playing football so much and how good and strong he is. Yet, I have never seen him attend any pre-season practice, never lifts with the team, and didn’t go to our football camp in full pads at CSU. Still thinks he can make varsity though.[/quote]
If he looks big then he might, I missed most of my pre season and almost never lifted with team and made varsity freshman year. I was on a pretty shitty school though, and was 6’4 at the time.
Sadly got lazy and gave up all of sports after that and just drank smoke and played games rest of high school, though getting back into lifting now.
rmccart whos that in your avatar dude?
the funniest thing that ive seen in recent times is when this kid came in wearing jean shorts and hopped on the leg press. he put on as many plates as you could on it, moved it down about 6 inches and put it back up.
After this amazing feat he looks over to me and says “hey thats good right?” i say, “well you should probaly put on like 2 or 3 plates and actually go down further so you get the full range of motion” the kid doesnt say anything runs off to get his boys then points to the machine and says something like yo look at that, thats me.
Then his boys are like nah dude you aint movin that then he does the same fantastic again. im not sure how he managed to do it not once, but twice. i wouldve thought his CNS was fried.
at a different gym there was a guy who would where sunglasses and breath really heavy, he also always seemed pissed. in addition to his hilarious attire i saw him actually lifting once and he was on the floor with an e-z curl barl and some retarded weight i dont know what he was doing, i just know it was wrong.
there was also this big guy, who seemed a little slow. guy was fuckin scary though. anyway hed talk to himself and say weird shit. i think he called me a “little hunky punk” when he first saw me. i was talkin to him and he said he liked the H.S. lat pulldown, but the cubans were better because they row boats. then he compared the t-bar to riding a donkey and i think hurting his balls.