This one guy at my old gym, let me describe him. He’s in his early 40s, bald, with a gut on him. He wears his back support belt EVERYWHERE, even when not deadlifting or doing anything that a normal person would wear a belt for. So I had never seen this guy work out really, I was always leaving as he was arriving. Then one day my schedule changed, and I got to watch this beast in action.
The first exercise he did was DB curls. Now we’ve all seen people using piss poor form and lean back, or rock the weight back and basically use their backs to lift the weight. This guy did something I have never seen before, nor ever again. He starts grunting with the DBs hanging at his sides. I think they were 30s. So he’s grunting and getting himself pumped. Then he lets out this roar, takes a deep breath and starts leaning back. Not a little. Like he’s trying to limbo or something.
As he’s leaning back he starts spraying spit everywhere, like the Game does before a wrestling match. He curls the weight with his arms maybe 6" while doing this awkward lean, and doesn’t stop leaning until his back is about 30 degrees from being parallel to the ground. Then to reverse the motion he drops his arms limply to his sides and snaps back to upright in one sudden jerk.
Next up it was time for the lat pulldown. He started out sitting at the pulldown, bar gripped in his hands. Then literally mimicking the form he used for db curls, he leans back, but without bringing his arms down at all. He keeps his arms fully extended while leaning back, and only moves the weight stack when his leaning pulls his arms far enough back to do so.
The part that really pisses me off is that he has a son that’s always with him. Over the next couple of years I saw this guy workout dozens of times, always with his kid there, learning his father’s awful form, perpetuating it for another generation.
I’m sure some of you have more annoying people at your gyms, I’d love to hear about them. And yes, I’m sure I’m the annoying person at my gym now, so shove it haha
The most annoying people at my gym I have to say people because Its more then one, are those who mimic my screams and laugh while im suffering agony, because there to pussy to do the same.
[quote]triple-10sets wrote:
The most annoying people at my gym I have to say people because Its more then one, are those who mimic my screams and laugh while im suffering agony, because there to pussy to do the same. [/quote]
it’s only because you sound like a girl while you do it.
my neighbors or mates that come to gym with me sadly anytime i do squat or deadlift or bent over barbel rows they come up behind n mimic my movement whilst pulling funny faces to trying to put me off, while its generally just one of them occasionally the other one joins in
also my other friend asking how he can get bigger every time we’re at gym then confessing he doesn’t want to get bigger(he’s barely 74kg) because it’ll look gross or he doesn’t want to squat or deadlift or bb row because his knee’s are dodgey
i try to avoid going to gym with them and go by myself but at times i need a spot when benching
oh well…also the women in the morning dont seem to understand the towel on the machine means its being used whilst i get a drink of water…
actually almost 99% of the people at gym annoy me(sadly its main clientel are 45 yr old women on cardio machines) getting asked how to get bigger…or being told to drop the roids
The palest lady I have ever seen, who wears latex doctor’s gloves because she’s a germophobe and took one of the 45’s off of the leg sled when my partner was about to do 1200. I promise this happened. We had loaded another two plates onto each side, and he was about to attempt it, and right as he sat down, the lady walked up, took one off, and put it on her other leg press. Just one. None on the other side. There were plenty of 45’s around in the area since there were two people doing SRC’s right next to it. I was floored. My lifting partner had to get up and collect himself before he attempted the lift because we were both so confused. Oh, and because we had to find another 45. That lady is too weird to talk to.
There is a lady at my gym who wears food service gloves. Yeah, I said food service gloves- like the kind the cafeteria lady in elementary schools wear.
[quote]triple-10sets wrote:
The most annoying people at my gym I have to say people because Its more then one, are those who mimic my screams and laugh while im suffering agony, because there to pussy to do the same. [/quote]
People who dont get off their machine between sets so that someone else could jump in between. The worst are the ones that take a 60 sec pause whilst holding onto the fucking pulldown/row/whatever bar.
Anyone who doesn’t let people work in with them, or who doesn’t share the weight between sets, etc.
But if I had to pick just one, I’d say this girl named Barbie. Now, the only reason I say she’s annoying is because she’s so damn hot that it’s almost impossible to get my work done. So, many not annoying, but distracting. In a good way.
So there is this guy in my gym, I would guess he is in his mid to late thirties. He is fat, and kind of bald.
He wears a black sports hoody from some weightlifting website, very nice black sweatpants, and top class trainers. He must be a rich guy, because all of the clothes he wears are very high quality and look quite professional. He also has a very expensive looking stop watch. But this isn’t the annoying part.
So I have watched him do his workouts sometimes as I sit between sets. He lies down on the bench and does about a dozen reps with the bar. Then he moves to the chest-supported row, and with 10lbs on the machine, he does about 5 reps. Then as he rests the weight he has this very tortured, concentrated look on his face with his eyes closed. As if he prays or something.
Next he moves to do like these ‘wrist twists’. It’s like he grabs a 2.5lb dumbbell and twists it in and out. He does like 30 reps of these. And all the while he has that same, fucking annoying look on his face, like he is meditating or doing some very difficult and excruciating.
Then he lies on the mat and ‘stretches’ (more like just sleeps there) for 15 minutes.
What annoys me the most is that he always glances at me in this repulsed way. When he walked past me as I was on the chest-supported row (obviously doing more than 10lbs lol) he had this look on his face as if I had suddenly smothered shit on my face.
I change the CD player to what ever I want to listen to.
I sing really loud if “Just Got Paid” comes on.
I never wipe down the benches unless I feel like it.
And I fart like a stud horse when I am squatting.
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None of this bothers me, except for the farting. Have some consideration, man. You could cause an injury to the person squatting in the next rack. I would start laughing and lose concentration if the fart is loud, then lose consciousness when the stench comes up.
I was doing squats last week. Gym is kind empty. Skinny middle aged guy comes over to where I am working out. He is clearly one of the “yoga” people. They don’t make it over to the iron side of the gym very often.
This fucker gets down on his hands and knees about 4 or 5 ft. behind me and starts kicking back his legs one at a time, alternating them like some aerobic class girl. I got a bar across my back and I’m watching him in the mirror kind of holding back a chuckle. I add some weight to the bar and say to him “your in my drop zone” he says to me “what?” I tell him “I might have to drop the bar and if I do I am going to drop it on you”. He says “are you telling me you are going to drop that weight on me” I said “yeah probably”. This prick then goes and gets the manager and complains that I threatened him. I know the manager and he says to the guy “why are you doing that excercise right behind a man squatting…it’s kind of annoying”. He mumbles something about quitting and getting his money back and walked off. We had a good laugh. As I’m leaving this guy is staring at me in the parking lot as I walk to my car. Now that was funny in a twisted sort of way.
theres this one guy who looks like a fucking pedophile retard or something, really short, fat, and just weird. he performs curls by picking up say the 60DB and does hammers by jerking his shoulder/back.
then theres this skinny guy, like fucking 5’9 120 lbs or something and i never actually see him lift but hes always drenched in sweat. like ill do the hack squat, hell be on the machine next to it just sitting there, then i finish and move on to something else and i see him at the leg press once again just sitting.
then there was this lady i saw who just fucking pissed me off. i go to the bathroom to fill my water bottle up and i see her on an ab machine with a fucking hard-cover book in her hand. she does one rep, reads…im not sure if she ever does 2 because i passed her at that point. then when i come back i see her on some chest machine (i think. i never go to that part of the gym with all the “circuit training”) and shes laying there with her book held above her face reading again.
i think i should get a camera and start filming these people and make a documentary about the fucking weirdos at the gym.
A few years ago I wanted to use a shoulder press machine (no idea why I wasn�??t using DBs or a BB, but I digress). There�??s a stack of magazines on the seat. Not one or two, like 12. So I figure someone�??s using it. I wait for a good solid 6 minutes, then move the stack to the floor next to the machine and do my set. Of course as I end my set some dink comes over and says �??you are NOT to use the machine if someone else is on it. That�??s the protocol. You let the other person finish, then you may use it. I was using it, therefore you may not�??
I didn�??t say a word. I just stood in front of the machine staring at this asshole, basically just trying to fluster him by not responding. After about 30 seconds of silence he grabs his stack of magazines in a huff, places them on the seat of a chest press machine, then wanders off somewhere.