A guy that grunts every single rep.
A guy that does cleans with 135 and then proceeds to drop the weight to the floor from shoulder level every rep!
Way to many old wrinkly naked guys at the sinks and outside the sauna.
Way to many old Philipino women in 80s spandex.
Way to much Under Armour on guys that shouldn’t be wearing it.
A Leg Press with 5s on it looks pretty funny. I’ve also seen a seated calf raise with one 5lb plate, haha.[/quote]
I know dude… what is with dudes with concave chests wearing under armour?
[quote]Massif wrote:
I saw this old Greek guy standing on a chair drying his nutsack. He was in front of one of those hot-air blowing hand driers, but he had turned the nozzle upside down so the air would shoot up under his balls.
I still can’t look at one of those hand driers right. Nasty.[/quote]
I’ve had almost the very same thing! Only this guy – 40’s, bald except for side hair, hairy body, skinny/fat – would put one foot up on the bench and use the hand-held hair dryer that they have attached to the wall (the cord extends out) to dry his jewels! Worst thing on earth!!
Have any of you guys, when seeing this, said in a loud voice, “Ugh that’s disgusting! What the hell man?!”
I know I will if I ever do.
[quote]Damici wrote:
Massif wrote:
I saw this old Greek guy standing on a chair drying his nutsack. He was in front of one of those hot-air blowing hand driers, but he had turned the nozzle upside down so the air would shoot up under his balls.
I still can’t look at one of those hand driers right. Nasty.
I’ve had almost the very same thing! Only this guy – 40’s, bald except for side hair, hairy body, skinny/fat – would put one foot up on the bench and use the hand-held hair dryer that they have attached to the wall (the cord extends out) to dry his jewels! Worst thing on earth!![/quote]
[quote]nanjingldv wrote:
My gym LA Fitness.
At 16 I witnessed a older lady probably in her late 30’s early 40’s wearing red tights working out on one of those leg abducter or adductor machines. I happened to stare at her crotch area and see it sweating like a whore at church. I couldn’t help but continue to stare and get a hard on.
Hey I was 16!!![/quote]
LOL!!! I don’t remember ever laughing at a post the way I did about this one haha. Awesome dude!
[quote]ron33 wrote:
We had a guy that wouldnt train unless he got high first,he fell over backwards 2 times that i know of while doing squats.When he did inclines he would push the bar up and sit it on his chin then try to push from there.he didnt want you to spot him,then usually he would get stuck and yell for help.on days when the gym was humid his weights would slide off one side of the bar and the bar would fly out of his hands.The dude stunk real bad and it was funny to watch when he went to an area everybody would keep movin to other areas of the gym to get away from the stench.[/quote]
i am laughing so damn hard it is tough to type!! Fell over doing squats…that is a classic!!
One time I saw this little guy do this this strange robot dance/aerobic warm up. Fruitiest thing I ever saw, almost like the gay Spiderman dance. I almost lost my shit.
Then he proceeds to do 1-arm pull-ups (pronated grip). Do all the gay robot dances you want, 1 arm pull ups are hard!
[quote]VinceDee wrote:
One time I saw this little guy do this this strange robot dance/aerobic warm up. Fruitiest thing I ever saw, almost like the gay Spiderman dance. I almost lost my shit.
Then he proceeds to do 1-arm pull-ups (pronated grip). Do all the gay robot dances you want, 1 arm pull ups are hard![/quote]
This reminds me, I recently saw this dude doing benchpress on the smith machine. He’s one of these really tall, thin western African fellows that can touch the ceiling without jumping. In between sets of bench press he would stand up and start body popping, and he was good too! Him being so tall just made it look that much more bizarre.
[quote]cap’nsalty wrote:
I think probably the worst was the time I walked into the locker room and there was this naked middle aged man drying his hair under one of those hand dryers that blows hot air.[/quote]
I have seen a dude blow dry his pubic hair in the locker room. At least it was his own hair dryer.
This couple working out together, got into a bit of an arguement. As the workout progressed, the discussion escalated to f-bombs, and her throwing a few right hands. Another staff and I jumped in, as he was getting ready to feed her a couple himself (she was about a buck 20 and he was over 200). She grabbed her stuff, walked outside, and slashed all four of his tires in the parking lot. What kind of chick carries a blade to the gym?
He sees this, takes off out the door. She yells at him to f*** of or she’s going to go Lorena Bobbit on his ass! Needles to say, the fight was over. Never saw either of them again. That’s what you get for working in an a gym on the wrong side of the tracks.
[quote]bigdaddy wrote:
This couple working out together, got into a bit of an arguement. As the workout progressed, the discussion escalated to f-bombs, and her throwing a few right hands. Another staff and I jumped in, as he was getting ready to feed her a couple himself (she was about a buck 20 and he was over 200). She grabbed her stuff, walked outside, and slashed all four of his tires in the parking lot. What kind of chick carries a blade to the gym?
He sees this, takes off out the door. She yells at him to f*** of or she’s going to go Lorena Bobbit on his ass! Needles to say, the fight was over. Never saw either of them again. That’s what you get for working in an a gym on the wrong side of the tracks.[/quote]
[quote]buckaroo wrote:
Curious about weird or humorous sights that you’ve witnessed in a gym.
Here is one: I had an akward request from a guy to spot him while he was doing heavy stiff dead lifts. I wasn’t sure how to respond or really what to do. Should I just mount his ass like a dog? So I just kind of stood there and said “good set” when he was done.
How about this…a guy was doing stiff deads while standing on top of a bb bench. I about shit myself as he almost toppled over from loss of balance. Funny thing, he was using small plates. I guess he liked being up high! Try to beat that one![/quote]
I’d suggest if you’re eating, not to read this one.
Back in the day when I thought the steam room was cool, I was sitting there and this old man came in. He started to make conversation asking how old I was. He didnt believe me and the conversation moved unto how old he was. I dont remember quite right, but I think he was somewhere around 80. Told me that once you start getting old, things stop working for you. Started talking about all kinds of things and moved bowel movements. Said they werent the same anymore. Sometimes, he said, you just gotta lube up your finger, stick it up there and stir it around to get it going.
That was just way too visual for me. I thought he was gonna show me how he did it any moment…
Did I mention he was sitting there, dripping wet from being in the pool, in his tightie whities and black socks up to his knee? White wet undies don’t cover up things well…
[quote]YGuy wrote:
A friend of mine witnessed a guy stroking it in the dry sauna at our local Y and I’ve seen nude men with one leg up on the bench putting deoderant on their nut sacks. Also, plenty of nude shaving going on.
[quote]irweasel wrote:
sign at broken urinal @ gym:
“This machine is under maintenance, please ask Lifestyle Consultant for alternative exercise.”
That’s exactly what I did…[/quote]
Speaking of out of order signs…
A couple of weeks ago I noticed there was an out of order sign on the dip/chin up station. Keep in mind this is basically just a solid piece of metal with no moving parts. I examined it for a couple of minutes and I’ll be damned if I could figure out what was wrong with it. Maybe it was someone’s idea of a joke.
I came in a couple months back to find a beautiful leather sofa, coffee and end tables and a 60" big-screen television in the front room. Pointed at the front desk no less, I guess the staff needs to check their soaps between cell phone calls.
This is especially sad in a gym with NO POWER RACK! Weird indeed.
When I was using one during the summer I saw the exact same thing.
Say . . . there wasn’t a true power rack in my Golds either and I’m in MA. Which one are you at?
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
I work out in a Golds:
I came in a couple months back to find a beautiful leather sofa, coffee and end tables and a 60" big-screen television in the front room. Pointed at the front desk no less, I guess the staff needs to check their soaps between cell phone calls.
This is especially sad in a gym with NO POWER RACK! Weird indeed.[/quote]
I used to work out sunday mornings, when there was like 3 people in the whole gym. Obviously, in a situation like that, you recognize the regulars pretty easily. So one day, one of the regulars (a solidly built, handsome young man) was doing some arm work, and an out of shape, unattractive fat girl goes up next to him, and starts doing alternating curls by swinging the weights up. So she starts talking to the guy, swinging away the whole time, for about 5-10 minutes while he does several sets, and she’s not even counting. Things are really going great for her, they are having a great conversation, and he really seems to like her already. After being dazzled by countless (literally) swinging curls, the young man announces he has to leave, but he’ll see her around. As soon as he left, she put the weights away, and moved on herself. You should have seen the happiness on the fat girls face! She thought she might actually get to date this great guy she just met. She’d done everything right! There were no awkward silences, the had so much in common, she was outgoing but not intrusive, and she showed him she is totally into fitness too! What she didn’t know is he’s gay.
My gym is the “gym of partial reps”. There is not ONE person (myself not included) who does a full rep of anything. I normally would think they were training for form or to bust through a sticky spot, but no. No way. They do 1/8th squats (with less weight than I do, and yeah, I am a small woman), 1/8 bench and then congratulate themselves and tell me that I am going to hurt myself doing ATG.
Then there is the big guy who comes in, walks around the gym for 5 minutes, stretches for 10, picks up weights and twists them 20 times and leaves. All while wearing a plastic suit and kamikaze headband.
Then I must mention that pull-ups are non-existent here. The guys only swing from the bar to stretch.
But, the strangest of all is the guy that has a HUGE chest and is missing triceps. I dont understand the mechanics at work here. Genetic freak perhaps?
Oh yeah, and I am the ONLY woman in this gym (that is free to all members of the community) next to a bunch of lightbulbs…
[quote]LittleJohn wrote:
~karma~ wrote:
At my 24Hr we have the “Interpretive Workout Dude”. If you can imagine someone doing artsy-fartsy-stupid-ass interpretive dancing and combine that with the worst form known to mankind for everything you’ll have a pretty good idea of what he looks like.
My wife saw this same person at the 24hr fitness in downtown Portland. He must have been traveling. =)
LJ
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He really must be traveling because I just saw him 3 hours ago at LA Fitness in La Vern, CA
Way to many old Philipino women in 80s spandex.
.[/quote]
I’ve seen this one old Phillipino lady at my gym probably in her late 50’s early 60’s in real good shape, ripped and muscular with huge,fake,skin tight C-cups soaked in cheap ass perfume wearing a leotard. I don’t think she’s a MILF more of a GILF(Grandmother I Like to F***)