Most Annoying Person at Your Gym?

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[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
dude i went to this new gym today, Mike Gym (medford) incase anywhere here goes there…please dont touch my fucking dumb-bells when im doing antagonisht exercises you fucking dicks.

today was my first day lifting there and they have a strict rule about placing back the weights. anyway evertime i go to alternate between exercises i go back to my spot to see someone fucking re-stacked my dumb bells. keep in mind my logbook and water bottle were still there. i know im gonna catch one of these motherfuckers doing it soon.

pee on the db’s your using. You gotta mark em as your own[/quote]

or maybe ill pee on them. like hey bruh you need a spot on that bench? cant get it up? ok i got it broseph…psssssssssssssssss…sssp…dont touch my fucking dumbbells, jackoff.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
AccipiterQ wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
dude i went to this new gym today, Mike Gym (medford) incase anywhere here goes there…please dont touch my fucking dumb-bells when im doing antagonisht exercises you fucking dicks.

today was my first day lifting there and they have a strict rule about placing back the weights. anyway evertime i go to alternate between exercises i go back to my spot to see someone fucking re-stacked my dumb bells. keep in mind my logbook and water bottle were still there. i know im gonna catch one of these motherfuckers doing it soon.

pee on the db’s your using. You gotta mark em as your own

or maybe ill pee on them. like hey bruh you need a spot on that bench? cant get it up? ok i got it broseph…psssssssssssssssss…sssp…dont touch my fucking dumbbells, jackoff.[/quote]

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I used to work out at local gym filled with idiots, there were a couple of big dudes but they were out number 20 to 1 by tools. One guy in particular pissed me off to no end. He was 5ft nothing 100 and nothing and he seemed to follow me around and jump into what ever I was doing. Granted I�??m not nearly the biggest guy in this gym, got a bit of gut on me so I�??m not sure why he�??d choose me to follow but he did.

I remember several times I�??d do a lift and run to grab a drink, leaving some kind of marker to let others know I was using that machine or bench, what ever, and come back to this guy trying to lift the weight I was using with the worst form you�??ve ever seen. One time I remember specifically I was using the chest supported row machine, had a good amount of weight on there, ran to restroom and came back to this scrawny old fuck using every muscle in his body to even move the weight, I�??m thinking to myself this cat is going to seriously F him self up if he keeps doing this and finally decided to say something, as soon as I got with ear shot he stopped, grabbed his towel and headed out the front door.

I didn�??t see him for a month or so then one day he showed back up this time with his family in tow and of course he was trying to train his son and wife. I quit that gym about a week later I wonder still if he�??s blown anything out.

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The really annoying one is a flamer at my gym that is always staring at me! Everytime I look he is staring at me. One of the only movements he does is the DB bench press. What he does isn`t actually considered a db bench press because as he presses it up he smashes the weight togeahter. I have seen other people do this before also but he actually does it really hard so the entire gym can hear him. Not only that but after he is done his piece of shit workout he goes into the lockroom, gets totally naked, and just sits in this chair naked doing nothing… just sitting there.

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The rope jumpers. Seems to be a new trend since now several people are doing it. The only place with high ceilings is in the free weight area so they’re always right behind me as I’m trying to concentrate on my lifts. Distracting and dangerous. Plus, one of these guys actually pulls benches and equipment toward the walls where they can’t be used to give himself enough room for his fancy skipping moves.

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theres a few at mine, first this fat fuck that does about 1/8th movement on every excersize and grunts profusely doing it. Then this old fuck that will do endless sets of pulldowns ( i think i counted 17 sets one time) and everytime hes done a set he’ll puff out his chest and give an angry look like he just moved the earth.

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Well there is the guy I saw last night talking on the phone and playing with himself with his hand down his pants in between sets

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To the OP: you don’t happen to lift at Universal Health and Fitness in Northampton, do you? The guy in your first story sounds a little familiar.

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[quote]mundele wrote:
To the OP: you don’t happen to lift at Universal Health and Fitness in Northampton, do you? The guy in your first story sounds a little familiar.[/quote]

I don’t know about the OP, but I work there (and workout there)! I’m trying to rack my brain to think of who you might be thinking of. I can think of a couple of guys who wear weight belts through their entire workouts, but none that does what the guy in the OP’s original story does.

Cool to see another UHF person on T-Nation. :slight_smile:

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There’s an older guy who used to wear a belt all the time. He would make the worst screams I’ve ever heard. He did high-rep sets on the hack squat machine with no weight and scream real loud. Then he started training with one of the coaches there, and he would say shit like “You’re killing me man, you’re killing me!” I don’t know if he’s still around, as I don’t lift there when I’m away at school. Great gym though, I love lifting there.

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[quote]mundele wrote:
There’s an older guy who used to wear a belt all the time. He would make the worst screams I’ve ever heard. He did high-rep sets on the hack squat machine with no weight and scream real loud. Then he started training with one of the coaches there, and he would say shit like “You’re killing me man, you’re killing me!” I don’t know if he’s still around, as I don’t lift there when I’m away at school. Great gym though, I love lifting there.[/quote]

LOL. Not only do I know who you are talking about, but I’m the coach who he worked with. :slight_smile:

Yeah, that was a trip working with him. He’s got great motivation/intensity when he wants to. But when I first started training him he was mentally weak. I remember thinking while training him that everyone would think I was some sort of heartless nazi and not want to train with me. LOL.

In reality it was just him. I’ve put several people though some of the same workouts and none of them were screaming that I was “killing them”.

He’s still there, only I convinced him that wearing a weight belt on a constant basis was neither beneficial or necessary. He still makes plenty of noise when he works out though and still loves those high rep extremely low weight workouts.

I also agree with you, it’s by far the best gym in Noho (if you actually want to workout and lift).

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[quote]Sentoguy wrote:
mundele wrote:
There’s an older guy who used to wear a belt all the time. He would make the worst screams I’ve ever heard. He did high-rep sets on the hack squat machine with no weight and scream real loud. Then he started training with one of the coaches there, and he would say shit like “You’re killing me man, you’re killing me!” I don’t know if he’s still around, as I don’t lift there when I’m away at school. Great gym though, I love lifting there.

LOL. Not only do I know who you are talking about, but I’m the coach who he worked with. :slight_smile:

Yeah, that was a trip working with him. He’s got great motivation/intensity when he wants to. But when I first started training him he was mentally weak. I remember thinking while training him that everyone would think I was some sort of heartless nazi and not want to train with me. LOL.

In reality it was just him. I’ve put several people though some of the same workouts and none of them were screaming that I was “killing them”.

He’s still there, only I convinced him that wearing a weight belt on a constant basis was neither beneficial or necessary. He still makes plenty of noise when he works out though and still loves those high rep extremely low weight workouts.

I also agree with you, it’s by far the best gym in Noho (if you actually want to workout and lift).[/quote]

Wow, small world. I definitely noticed that you were working him harder than he used to work himself. I remember him once telling me and my friend about the benefits of wearing a belt after one of his sets on the hack squat machine. I just remember he’d be screaming away during a workout and it got to the point where people would just stop what they were doing to listen. Funny stuff.

You may or may not know who I am, I’m 6’1" with red hair, and I usually train over winter break and summer break with my buddy and my little brother. My buddy is pretty big with long hair.

Related to the OP, another guy that used to bug me back when I lifted at the Smith College gym is this older guy, probably a professor or something, who would let his air out with every rep with kind of a PSSSST sound. Now I think it’s pretty common to do something like that.

I do that too to a little bit when I’m working pretty hard. But the way this guy did it, it was impossible to concentrate. It was this harsh, piercing sound that could be heard across the gym. I would be in the middle of a set and just laugh when I heard it.

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[quote]mundele wrote:
To the OP: you don’t happen to lift at Universal Health and Fitness in Northampton, do you? The guy in your first story sounds a little familiar.[/quote]

this was at Fitness First in Feeding Hills, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he went to another gym now haha

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[quote]mundele wrote:
Wow, small world. I definitely noticed that you were working him harder than he used to work himself. I remember him once telling me and my friend about the benefits of wearing a belt after one of his sets on the hack squat machine. I just remember he’d be screaming away during a workout and it got to the point where people would just stop what they were doing to listen. Funny stuff. You may or may not know who I am, I’m 6’1" with red hair, and I usually train over winter break and summer break with my buddy and my little brother. My buddy is pretty big with long hair.
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LOL. Yeah, I remember when I’d be training him people would just stop what ever they were doing and watch in amazement. My girlfriend actually nick named the guy “Grunty Grunterson”. LOL.

Does your buddy play football? If so I know who you are. I didn’t realize that you guys only used the gym during winter and summer break. Now that I think about it, I did see you guys during the summer quite a bit and then once school would start I wouldn’t see you anymore.

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All the above.

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I’m probably one lol… Though when i use a bench or w\e I make sure there is at least one other open…

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[quote]Sentoguy wrote:
Does your buddy play football? If so I know who you are. I didn’t realize that you guys only used the gym during winter and summer break. Now that I think about it, I did see you guys during the summer quite a bit and then once school would start I wouldn’t see you anymore.
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Yeah, that’s us. Man, small world. That’s funny.

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I workout at an LA Fitness in the Atlanta area, and let me tell you there are annoying people wall to wall there. Just today I was in there working arms, and who should step next to me, but some strapper who picks up 2.5 dumbells and proceeds to shadow box. Why do people do this?

Then if that wasn’t enough some f*cking guy comes in wearing clogs, and can’t get off the phone. He is also talking about the different girls he is boning. This also happened yesterday with the same guy, same clogs and same phone stories.

Maybe I am just getting old, but these tools make me want to get my own home gym and never enter a public gym again. Oh well had to vent!

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I don’t know about annoying, but there are several very peculiar people.

There’s this young Arab guy who has like really long arms and terrible posutre. The word ‘doppleganger’ comes to mind. He’ll go hang from the pull-up bar and writhe around. I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be leg raises or something, but it looks very peculiar. Then he sits down in the corner by the water and does concentration wrist curls… strange guy.

Another guy looks how I imagine someone who has been doing nothing but bench press for 30 years would look. Real puffy chest and front delts, completely flat back and pencil legs.

Most are you typical ‘don’t want to get too big’ types though.

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[quote]butterbean43 wrote:
I workout at an LA Fitness in the Atlanta area, and let me tell you there are annoying people wall to wall there. Just today I was in there working arms, and who should step next to me, but some strapper who picks up 2.5 dumbells and proceeds to shadow box. Why do people do this?

Then if that wasn’t enough some f*cking guy comes in wearing clogs, and can’t get off the phone. He is also talking about the different girls he is boning. This also happened yesterday with the same guy, same clogs and same phone stories.

Maybe I am just getting old, but these tools make me want to get my own home gym and never enter a public gym again. Oh well had to vent![/quote]

how the fuck is that dude boning anyone if he wears clogs?