People at Your Gym

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I work out at my old high school gym training with my rugby coach. So we pretty much getter junior versions of most stereotypes…

The Just Come of Age Kid - Just turned 15 and is finally allowed to use the gym. Most have never looked at weights before. They are taken through an induction by my training partner. They all do half reps of everything with a weight that they could throw around like a basketball.

The 17/18 Year Old Gun Show Fan - Come to the gym 4 to 5 times a week to do arms and on the odd occasion chest. Spent 40 mins doing every curl combination known to man and then asked my training partner for more arm exercises only to be told that they have done enough to last them a month. They proceed to continue with negative preacher curls.

The Rugby Player - In my day these along with the Rowers where the only reasonable trainers in the gym. These days the rugby boys are more like the typical yank bro. Do chest and the odd chin up while wearing singlets 5 sizes too small.

The Rowers - Currently the only people to use most of the free weights and the power rack. Most consistent leg trainers. Some even branch out to power cleans and deadlifts. Can be identified by the water bottle in the back pocket.

Me - A grade rugby player/powerlifter. Leave chalk mess everywhere. Hog the power rack for my whole leg session. Occasional grunts when going max but mainly just crude jokes and stories from the weekend.

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We have a pretty good bunch in my gym but there are:

The Spot Twins - The bigger one is reasonable, but he basically lifts the weight for his partner every time, who is giving ever rep his all, until the set is over then laughs like he’s barely lifted a finger.

The nice, but huge guy. - Massive black dude, weighs about 240-250 (he says 225), really nice guy, but has the shittiest form on everything. Deadlifted 440 last night, but did it all with his upper body, including rounded back and a little shrug. Has a bendy curl contraption that he “cant do up because my arms are too big”.

The Owner - Grunts at everyone, before I joined full time, he would get pissy if you didnt have the correct change, which meant he had to get off his chair and away from Facebook for 2 seconds. Holds the British Bench Press record for age and weight (140kg @ 55 yrs+, under 65kg class), but only ever benches now. Has started to talk to me now he knows i’m not a douche in his gym and wants to powerlift. He’s really angry, a personal highlight for me was watching him throw a DB at a kid who was dicking around for not putting it back and shouting “Get the fuck out of my gym, and never come back”

Me - The guy who wants compete - talk to a lot of people in the gym to try and get some tips, worked as i’ve been invited to train with the really strong dudes on Thursday, who seem keen to take me under their wing. Usually train on my own. Grunt a little bit, but only when necessary. One of the few that uses chalk, because the owner doesnt really like the mess!

At the old gym we’ve had the “Let me spot you guy”, the “Naked balls out everywhere guy”, the “PT who doesnt train”, the “cardio bunnies” and the usual “curl boys”

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The Rock of Love Tour bus: In Nashville we have these musician wanna be’s everywhere, we have one group in particular that come in the gym with long hair and ed hardy shirts, hats, and jeans. And they roll with chicks that are all fake looking ex-strippers. They are all on roids just to look prettier when they play on the weekends.

The 90’s all-star: the guy that comes in with the doorag and cutoff shirt, he has done the same exact workout for 3 years and has only gotten fatter. But at the same time thinks he is the strongest most experienced guy in the gym. He also takes 5 minutes between sets and knows when every 17 year old girl in the gyms birthday is.

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[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
Murder She Wrote- Older lady, probably mid to late sixties. Comes to the gym at 11 pm (wtf?), and stretches against every fuckin machine in the place and the swiss ball, but never exercises. Listens to a Sirius Channel on the gym radio that has rap/new stuff. Then takes a shower in the mens bathroom. Likes to talk to me while I have my headphones in…and then finally realises that I CANT HEAR HER.
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Wait… what…?
Showers in the mens room…?

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I lift at a college gym, so I have a bunch of them:

The Indian grad students: Never really know what they’re doing, and I actually saw one doing bench press with a spotter. The spotter was straddling his stomach.

Old guy 1: I guess he comes in right after work. He doesn’t bother to change and just lifts in a dress shirt and dockers. Always has a goofy-ass smile on his face.

Old guy 2: I hate this guy. He’s absolutely worthless. He just comes in to do hanging leg swings (I think he’s trying to do pullups), 2" leg raises on the captain’s chair, and everything else he does only has a 2" ROM. He mainly comes in to flirt with the college chicks. He literally wears the same thing every day (a dirty-ass blue polo with cargo shorts) and he drives a scooter.

Guy who enjoys lifting way too much: He honestly sounds like he’s nutting when he lifts. It’s really loud, too. All I see him do is curls and he only thing that has gotten bigger on him in 4 years is his bear gut.

Guy who wants you to know that he’s working hard: This guy will do high reps on the leg press and scream and swear for the last 10 reps. Also, on the rare occasion that he does deadlifts, he’ll slam the weights down after each rep. He has 2 or 3 minions that do the same thing.

Gym Nazi: The guy who walks around the gym making sure nobody drops or rolls the dumbells.

Guy who wants you to know how strong he is: He never unloads the bar.

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[quote]the Danimal wrote:
I lift at a college gym, so I have a bunch of them:

The Indian grad students: Never really know what they’re doing, and I actually saw one doing bench press with a spotter. The spotter was straddling his stomach.

Old guy 1: I guess he comes in right after work. He doesn’t bother to change and just lifts in a dress shirt and dockers. Always has a goofy-ass smile on his face.

Old guy 2: I hate this guy. He’s absolutely worthless. He just comes in to do hanging leg swings (I think he’s trying to do pullups), 2" leg raises on the captain’s chair, and everything else he does only has a 2" ROM. He mainly comes in to flirt with the college chicks. He literally wears the same thing every day (a dirty-ass blue polo with cargo shorts) and he drives a scooter.

Guy who enjoys lifting way too much: He honestly sounds like he’s nutting when he lifts. It’s really loud, too. All I see him do is curls and he only thing that has gotten bigger on him in 4 years is his bear gut.

Guy who wants you to know that he’s working hard: This guy will do high reps on the leg press and scream and swear for the last 10 reps. Also, on the rare occasion that he does deadlifts, he’ll slam the weights down after each rep. He has 2 or 3 minions that do the same thing.

Gym Nazi: The guy who walks around the gym making sure nobody drops or rolls the dumbells.

Guy who wants you to know how strong he is: He never unloads the bar.

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i sound like “the guy who wants you to know how strong he is”

yeah i make noise on my last 10 reps of leg press, because if you have to say ‘LAST TEN reps’ it means you were going hard.

i leave the weight on a lot of machines. i left 4PPS on the Hammer Lo Row today, that machine is easy to max on, im assuming other people wont be too far off from me as i was still doing 12+ reps for my LAST exercise. i put the weights away when i deadlift though because i usually take the bar from a bench press, which is funny, and because i know that statistically there will be no one else deadlifting in my gym for at least 3-10 hours and over a week before that person deadlifts near that kind of weight again…because sadly, no one at my gym can lift over 4 plates…although theres a guy here and there that are trying, so i give those guys credit.

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[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
Ty Carlson wrote:

Wait… what…?
Showers in the mens room…?
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Yeah, I don’t know why she does it. Its a small place with only one shower in each of the two bathrooms. Surprised the shit out of me one night when I walked in, heard the shower going, put my stuff out on a bench and then went back to take a piss and had her open up the mens locker room/shower/bathroom door.

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[quote]kylec72 wrote:
B rocK wrote:
If I had to classify myself I’d be “Dude who lip syncs while between sets and paces around a lot between sets and looks angry”

Wait a second… I’m That person.[/quote]

X2. small world huh

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I always make sure to leave at least 1 45 plate on either side of any leg machine, with the philosophy that if you can’t do 1 plate on each side, you shouldn’t be using this machine.

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Wolverine: Some Mexican guy with a wolverine haircut, does decline bench EVER day. Puts on 225, slams the plates on, pauses, and looks around with an angry face like you did something wrong.

The most impressive thing ive seen at my gym, was 2 powerlifters who were repping 405 on bench, and doing incline DB presses with the 150’s.

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[quote]jasmincar wrote:
This is the thread where you write about the clowns in your gym

The clueless roider:

He started taking roids before even starting to lift weight. First time he got into the gym he went to the pec-deck, set the whole stack and starting struggling to do one rep because he wanted ‘‘mass’’.

one year later he still cant bench 225, having made easy and super fast gain. besides doing bench occasionally he do curls. Spend more time talking to his cellphones and his clueless friends about which club in the old montreal they are gonna go this evening than working out

The village idiot:

He works in a factory where he spends his days throwing bags of flour around. Still don’t understand that he needs to progress with the weight to make gains. Been rowing 35’s DB for a year. He ask the 140lbs personnal trainer ‘‘what’s the secret ?’’. Took 6 month just to learn the proper form on machine movement.

The deadlifter:

has the worst deadlift form ever and thinks deadlift are for the hams. Won’t listen to other people, he has been working out for SIX years so he know his stuff. can’t deadlift 3plates tought.

The frog:

He is 5’6 and weight 230lbs. He weight himself on the gym scale at the end of each workout, that’s his way of measuring progress. The problem is he is probably 25-30% percent fat. But at least it’s proportionnate fat. Looks like a big bloated frog.

The gym rat:

Goes to the gym even when he is injured and can’t workout so he can meet his buddies. I think he just enjoy being there. Like all his friends in the mid thirthy who are not worthy of being wrote about, he can’t bench more that 155, don’t squat and don’t deadlift.

The PT:
I caught him complaining on how he hates squat. Don’t workout (or at least don’t look like he workout). One day he took the only rack to set his trax rope (I don’t know how it is called) to do his bodyweight exercise. .

He is a wanna-be strenght coach with a shaved head. He is a total failure like the two other PT with the shaved head.In his head he is really jacked. He his as clueless as the average lifter if not even more. Total dick with the customer.
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Hey, you train at my gym.

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Forearm and calf lady: carries a grocery bag of food around with her and eats between every machine exercise, primarily trains her calves and forearms

Starving uncertified PT: walks around at 5% bf, you could draw a each muscle for a medical journal from him, yet has no strength what so ever. Usually found hanging from my squat rack, doing strange flying like exercises. Can’t pick up a bar loaded with 135 off the floor and can’t squat without going way up on his toes.

My Haitian bros: pull-ups, flat, incline or decline bench, military pressing and hammer strength for the shoulders. They leave me alone because I confuse them, little white girls should not be that strong. But they do clear out of the rack when I walk that direction, so we have mutual respect.

The gangbangers: they don’t fuck with me and I don’t fuck with them. They see me watching them train and pick up their stuff, otherwise they leave shit everywhere and spit on the floor. Now and then one will hit on me, my standard response is learn to squat, then I’ll think about it.

The wanna be deadlifters: we have a lot of these and most will listen when I correct their terrible form, props for trying though

Me: Floor trainer, little white girl, maybe one of 5 people who knows what that squat rack is for, occasionally wrapped and stuffed into a suit or carrying a bucket of chalk to the DL platform.

Now and then an old timer will give a me a nod, and then I know I did good that day. I’m sure I fit into the strange people in the gym category, but I can out squat and DL most of the guys in the place, so fuck ya’ll.

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One more…

There’s a few guys in my gym who only spot people on bench with one hand because they are “too strong” to spot with two.

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Starvin’ Marvin - this guy can be seen doing cardio everyday of the week - either treadmill or elliptical. He reads 1-2 novels a week while at the gym. He looks like he has never eaten - his legs and arms are the same size - the size of his bones. I want to invite him home w/me for my post-workout meal every time I see him.

The ass-hat - this man in his 40’s feels the need to move the bench right next to the dumbell rack for his set of dumbell bench press. Yet he is only using the 40’s. He then goes on to his next exercise and leaves the bench in the way. When he comes back he gets mad if someone has moved the bench out of the way.

The anti-progress PT’s - thess PT’s have the nerve to tell you to set your weights down quieter, not realizing what it sounds like to re-rack a back with more than 25’s on it. Then they go do their kettlebell swings and snatches, bosu ball training, and continue to not make any damn progress.

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I like “Mr. Critique”. He’s all over this thread. I prefer the example of Mr. Workouthengetout.

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[quote]BBriere wrote:
I have some good ones. Used to workout at a local rec center and saw the following:

…Eventually for obvious reasons I joined a new gym[/quote]

I concentrate on my working out too much to notice all the others. The locker peeves are funny, though. One can’t help but to notice sometimes.

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The Indians (No racist) - most of them are around 30+ and are always with at least 1 friend if not more. Talking 90% of the time then doing the set with horrid form and too much weight. Then when you ask them how many sets they got like 8 sets left. I didn’t realize I was training with a bunch of olympians. (Side note: majority of my gym population = indians)

Frank Mcgrath - just a fuckin ANIMAL.

PTs - Just lame, they obviously hate their job and even laugh at their clients half the time. None of them are really jacked either.

The sexy blonde - has the nicest ass probably in her late 20s. Wears skin tight grey sweat that contour her curves perfectly. Has every guy starring at her when she walks by.

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[quote]ArmyOf1 wrote:

PTs - Just lame, they obviously hate their job and even laugh at their clients half the time. None of them are
really jacked either.[/quote]

After all the negative PT comments on here, are there any good PTs? Makes me glad I come on here instead of getting a PT.

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I remember the PTs at my gym. I don’t think they work in the mornings, but there is one really big guy with no legs and a lesbian and they both creep me out. They’re pretty much the gym in a nutshell: Guys that do not work their legs and lesbians.

Another group of people at my gym is pissed off old ladies. They just sit around and look pissed, and one in particular works out the same time I do, and I always try to not make eye contact with her because i’m afraid she’ll throw something at me.

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Marital Discord Man: he presses 25lb dumbbells and talks to the trainer about his wife through the whole set. The trainer, to be fair, is pretty good; one of these days I’m tempted to shell out the $40 and have him tell me how to bench with better form, because he knows his stuff.

Big gruff Israeli guy. But his morning client – I don’t understand it. He’s middle-aged and a little paunchy but there’s no reason he should be weaker than me and never make any progress.

Jacked Gay English Professor: is a jacked gay English professor. He’s over fifty. He looks … well, not as big as a bodybuilder, but like a fitness model or a Hollywood actor who’s supposed to be “ripped.” He is always in the gym. It’s unbelievable.

Old Mathematician Gym Rats: I swear, whether I come in morning, afternoon, or evening, they’re in there. Mostly doing leg curls (I think they’re cyclists.) I met one of them after he gave a lecture and he said, “Oh, I’ve seen you at the gym.” When you have tenure, I guess, you can spend ALL DAY working out if that floats your boat.

Honey: the spitting image of Honey from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Also looks like she shares her … er … projectile proclivities. Curls 8lb dumbbells. Terrifyingly skinny.

“We Come Here To Chill”: I seriously heard this conversation while I was deadlifting.
“Dude, you need to push harder. I mean, look at that girl over there.”
“But I don’t come here for that kind of intensity. I come here to chill.”

Skinny Asian dudes who use gloves on everything. There’s nothing wrong with being skinny, or Asian, but you do not need lifting gloves to pick up a 45lb dumbbell.

Russian Tracksuit Man: very strong, so I shouldn’t judge. But he never takes off his full-length tracksuit, even in the middle of summer. Is he afraid he’ll drive women into paroxysms of lust with his majestic calves?