We also had:
Zorba the Reek (Greek student who didn’t seem to wash)
Ugly guy
The coffee crew (two guys who always had a thermos of coffee with them on Sunday mornings)
The Italian Stallion AKA purple dickhead.
got this guy hair everywhere squats barefoot, sometimes no shirt really strange looking,
shit i really need to stop looking in the mirror
good thing i train at home might scare da children
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
[quote]biggjames wrote:
When I trained in a commercial gym, the one that would crack me up the most was the one I coined “Harry Half Rep”. Would lift a ton of weight with no range of motion.
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So funny. There’s a young guy who recently started lifting at my gym. At first I thought maybe he’s working around a shoulder injury or something. Nope. It’s every lift, every body part, every machine. Always with a tiny ROM, but with sort of a speed set tempo. Like 100 tiny ROM partial BB Curls, all very, very fast.
He will do pushups like that, where he barely lowers himself a couple of inches, but the reps are so fast it looks like he’s going to give himself whiplash. I don’t normally notice what other people are lifting, but he’s moving as such a manic pace, it’s hard not to notice. Same thing for all the leg machines. I don’t think he ever puts a muscle group in a fully stretched position and then contracts it. I wonder if he’s drinking too much coffee. [/quote]
There is no end to the weird shit I see each and every day at the gym. Looking at some of these people, from a span of 3 to 5 years, they’re still pushing the same amount of weight and not making any gains.
Got a couple I haven’t seen in a while.
Quasimodo: Guy around 55 with an obvious foot or lower leg issue, wears an oversized thick soled shoe on the one foot. He has a hulking shuffle and some size to him. So the nick name fits.
The Girl Who Walked Into The Worst Fart Ever: Nice looking lady around 30, does a ton of cardio and that’s it. But what a mug… a very dour expression all the time. Like Stevie Van Zant on The Sopranos.
This thread would be great with pics!
I’ll try to add some this evening after I go to the gym…hopefully none of the ones I put on here are members…
[quote]BARDUKE wrote:
This thread would be great with pics!
I’ll try to add some this evening after I go to the gym…hopefully none of the ones I put on here are members…[/quote]
That sounds really creepy. Are you comfortable with strangers taking pictures of you and posting them online? Because odds are, they aren’t.
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
That sounds really creepy. Are you comfortable with strangers taking pictures of you and posting them online? Because odds are, they aren’t.[/quote]
I agree completely.