I’m with Pansy on this one. Usually I’m too focused to notice anything else. But sometimes when those people are taking up the power rack or when I’m catching my breath I’m in total disbelief at how fucking stupid people are at the gym. I propose a T-Nation Gym where you must be a t-mag reader to even enter. And oh yeah unless you’re a docotor, cop, or someone else on emergency call get the fuck off your cell phone and get off the equipment!
I shit you not…
In doing over-the-head shoulder shrugs, I had a Ballys personal trainer approach me. He looked at me like I HAD NO CLUE WHAT I WAS DOING. So he asked me if he should show ME some stuff.
I laughed at him to his face and he STILL didn’t get it. He grabbed a 25# plate and started doing front raises, while trying to explain to me how it worked. After I explained to him that his form was horrible, I walked away.
One week later, I saw him showing someone else the same exercise with the correct form (that I pointed out to him). He looked a little embarrased when he saw me.
(good thread – there are so many more stories)
I hate when really fat people get off the equipment and leave a big ass HIV infested sweat blob on it…(You know thats what they give your fat ass a towel for)…Oh yeah and those same cows on the stairmasters changing the TV to oprah and shitt…set that bitch to “walk around the world mode” and by time you are done you may have lost enough wieght!
Thats why I primarily work out at home and occasionally make a trip to my gym to be seen…
I know what you mean Jack, I am the only person in my, or any, gym that I have seen do over-head-shrugs, and alot of people look at me like I am an idiot, but hey I don’t care, I love that exercise.
I hate when people stand right beside a bench to do curls, just so they are close to the mirror. then when you need the bench they act like you are the dick for making them move.
T-nation gym!
That would be the shit!
we are all PISSED OFF HUH!
i zone out in the gym, i really dont care what anyone else is doing… as for approaching people to tell them about their form/how the exercise they are doing sucks… who cares? why waste your time.
as for cell phones… again, who cares? RELAX DUDES, be selfish
only thing that bothers me is when someone interrupts my workout… curls in a squat rack for example, you can do them anywhere and you have to hog the squat rack for some unknown reason…
oh and that american idol thing in a gym is fucking odd! 
05:30:00 AM
Walk into the largest Ballys in KC (1000+ members daily), and what is on the f*cking loudspeakers?
Easy listening! I’ve heard Barry Manilow at 5:30 AM when I’m tryin to get a f*cking pump. After MULTIPLE complaints, they still will not change the damn station. I just quite going there all together.
Anyone in KC area want to build a T-Gym? I’m in! I’ll quite my cush job tomorrow!
Bump to that commercial gyms play the WORST music to get pumped too but at least thats easily fixable w/ headphones. I remembered one weird thing. There’s this douche at my gym that always does these shaolin-type martial arts stretches in the free weight area while he is lifiting or not. Although doing this while he’s lifting would explain his apparent lack o strength. It just bothers me because its not like he can’t do that at home or in his dojo. Its as if he’s going" hey check me out I know kung fu"
we have a varsity gym here at school that i have access to but i only use it on speed days. otherwise i lift at the main campus gym where all the sexy sorority girls run while wearing next to nothing.
I’m with some of the others as far as zoning out while in the gym.
My lifting partner and myself develop a plan for the day and get psyched before we step foot in the gym. We hit the ground running and push through everything rarely saying anything to each other. Even when theres a hot chick around we just kind of nod in her direction.
While in the gym I visualize myself as a big Belgian horse that the Ahmish use to haul lumber out of the woods, barreling through three feet of snow with a full load on the sled…
So with that being said, the thing I hate the most is when someone wants to chat beyond grunting hello. These are all friends too, mostly, but damn, I’ll get back with ya after I’m done. Then we can sit down and shoot the shit for as long as it suits us, just not while I’m training…
The other thing I can’t stand is the lockers in the locker room. They’re too narrow for my bag and too short and shallow to adequately hang up my uniform. Granted, a locker room is just a place to store your shit while you train and to shower after you’re done, so extravagence isn’t necessary, but a locker bigger than a vertical mailbox would be nice.
If we move ahead with this T-gym the lockers have to be enormous. I’ll frame 'em and mount the doors myself. Just don’t ask me to lay tile, it’ll look all fucked up.
B.
I once saw this woman, and she was a big woman, 260 if she was a pound.
she would take a 5 plate, hold it like it was a krispy kreme, raise her elbow to shoulder height and swing it like a pendulum. The first time I saw that I thought WTF? I almost asked her what she was trying to do, but then I thought, fuck it whats the use.
another favorite is the lat pulldown/tricep push combo.
A T-Nation gym? Im in!
I hear that lumburjak. Those sorority girls always break my concentration. Hahaha. For the most part, nothing really bothers me in the weightroom. However, I hate it that all the free benches are taken by a bunch of pencil necks doing wrist curls with 5 lb weights when I need one to do one arm rows or something.
my fucking gym doesn’t have a squat rack. I lift off from the bench press. It is either squat light or kill my back… I alternate.
Sounds like we all have issues at our gyms…
lumburjak: Where is this varsity gym ? Sorority girls wearing next to nothing running ?! (Big smile)
As for pansy: Dude, I wold love to have your level of focus but when this shit happens on a daily basis it does make for good gym story fodder.
I better jack up my PowerDrive servings…
i don’t know if this is true of other gyms. is monday’s not the worst day for your chest workout to fall on? i have noticed that when the week starts off the gym is super packed with everyone taking up the benches, and by thrusday there’re half the people that started off the week lifting.
Bad experience at the gym today. Got bitched at by some scrawn little estrogen boy because I took his towel off of the chin-bar. I just wanted to do my set and move through, but he screeched at me. He hit higher notes than I thought humanly possible. I appologized out of shock (he was really damn loud) The little shit was ranting about getting the manager, god I almost broke his face (after the shock from the noise he was making wore off)
Where would we make this T-gym? Better yet, we could make a T-commune and skip the rest of the world like the hippies do.
T-commune, hell yeah! I’m down with farming. Also, we’d have our own livestock, so plenty of protein. If we needed money we could always charge a stud fee, like they do with thoroughbreds, for T-deprived guys who want their women to have a man-child and not a little bitch. Where would this commune be? Mountains or ocean?
I’m with BradTGIF, if we’re gonna start a T-Man Gym I’m all for it. I can’t lay tile either but with some hot T-Vixens I’ll the first there laying pipe…hehe
I vote we have the commune next door to Biotest labs, no shipping cost. Think of all of the free range beef and the forearm exercise from farm work.
Holy shit! I just saw this thread. You guys are killing me! I especially like the “stud fee” comment. Hilarious!
There’s all kinds of interesting folks at my gym. We have the weird naked guys in the locker room, the “curl in the squat rack” morons, just like y’all. But does anybody have a disco fugitive? I shit you not, this guy pushing 45 or so decided yesterday that it would be a good idea to dress like John Travolta and take a couple of 5 lb weights and do what appeared to be jazzercise in front of the mirrors in the free weight area. I also like the guy who wears his polo shirt and blue jeans to work out in. It’s funny because of the “fashion trend” thread about polo shirts – this guy had his collar up. He’s like 45 years old, too.
Even cooler about all this: none of these guys would dare set foot near the power racks. That’s MY territory, bitches. I’d growl at them if they came near me.
Seriously though, my gym is great. I think that it’s the freaks I see in there that makes it even more entertaining than it would be already. I can’t wait to see what the next goofball looks like!