There is a dress code in gyms now? I whatever the fuck I want and tell them I pay to workout here and not dress for sucess or some other corportate slogan bullshit!
There’s no dress code at my gym. There are some fairly crazy looking people there, too. It’s pretty entertaining. I love my gym.
The gym I used to go to didn’t really have dress code.
They wouldn’t let my 10 year old cousin watch me workout one day though. He wanted to learn about it so I brought him along… I guess you have to be 13 to go to gyms, at least that’s what I was told.
So, I had to take him home.
Ever since, I’ve more or less worked out at home and increased my lifts by quite a bit.
Just workout at home.
[quote]caladin wrote:
There is a dress code in gyms now? I wear whatever the fuck I want and tell them I pay to workout here and not dress for sucess or some other corportate slogan bullshit![/quote]
Exactly! I can understand a sign with the ususal “Any clothing, which is considered profane, obscene, suggestive, morbid, or displays violence, drugs or alcohol, is prohibited.” But cargo shorts that is getting a bit ridiculous.
[quote]Jetric9 wrote:
Cprimero wrote:
Outdoor shoes I can understand, but prohibiting cargo shorts?-weird
The reason is that the bar can get stuck in your pockets if you accidentally bump someone lifting weights. And the buttons can wear down the material of the bench. [/quote]
DING DING DING!!!
We have a winner! The “no cargo pants” rule is there for your own safety and protection. While she was probably too stupid to point this out to you, and give you a reasonable explaination. Besides, how the hell can you deadlift in cargos without the bar dragging across the buttons and pocket seams?
Jeans and Doc Martins should be cool, though.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
so my work out clothes are usually a pair of boots (or barefoot), cargo pants a black cut off and the Animal zip-up hoodie…since my JR year of HS at this gym (about 4 years now)
anyway today, this new receptionist came up to me all smacking her gum and blowing bubbles like “um excuse me sir, those pants and shoes are not allowed here…you either have to change or leave”
I explained to her how long I’ve been wearing this to the gym and that I’m doing back/chest and that my pants wont nterfere with anything or cause harm…but she called the day manager that doesnt really know me and said “this guy is being difficult and giving me all kinds of attitude for no reason”
at this point I’m getting angry which probably made her story seem more believeable, anyway the manager says " we don’t want any trouble, can you just follow the dress code and relax"
then I put my mp3 on and blasted it and went to every guy breaking the dress code…there were a few shirtless fuckers in there
i pointed ut boots,jewlery, bandanas, girls wearing pajama pants.flip flops…just all kindsa shit
manager ignored all of that which I pointed out and asked me to leave
wtf?
now I gotta blow my plans to get there at 1 am to redo my workout…this shits lame, anyone else ever been kicked out of the gym for dress code “violation”[/quote]
First of all cargo pants are ghey. What kinda cargo ya carrying anyway?
B) had you just worn the “tapout gear” shirt like I told you, everything would be fine. Damn kids
Christ. How damn hard is it to wear a t-shirt, shorts, and sneakers? You can be a unique little snowflake before or after you enter the gym.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
StevenF wrote:
they are racist, sue them.
The girl was black, I’m half black
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Which half of you is black? Maybe she couldn’t see the black half? That would be my guess.
V
I never though there could be a dress code in a gym
just one rule (or two), in most gyms you are not allowed to workout barefoot and you have to bring a towel with you when on machines
but to forbid wearing cargo pants- thats just ridiculous…
The gym I used to go to, they had another rule… “Don’t drop the weights!”
Not because it would damage the weights but it could bust the pipes under the floor.
I wouldn’t let some goth wannabee in either.
Ive kicked lots of people out for that exact reason, its all about the rivets on the outside of the cargos. Same thing with jeans, as long as people don’t do sit on any equipment I let it go though.
I had a guy that wanted to bench press in jeans and went I told him he couldnt he started to take them off right there because he said he was just gonna bench in his boxers which are “exactly” like shorts.
I let him know that they in fact are not, and that I really didnt want to have to see his junk coming out of the front of those and that he needed to leave right now and not enter the rec for the rest of the day.
People are really really stupid.
[quote]WS4JB wrote:
Ive kicked lots of people out for that exact reason, its all about the rivets on the outside of the cargos. Same thing with jeans, as long as people don’t do sit on any equipment I let it go though.
I had a guy that wanted to bench press in jeans and went I told him he couldnt he started to take them off right there because he said he was just gonna bench in his boxers which are “exactly” like shorts.
I let him know that they in fact are not, and that I really didnt want to have to see his junk coming out of the front of those and that he needed to leave right now and not enter the rec for the rest of the day.
People are really really stupid.[/quote]
What he meant to say was “sir, we do not allow benching in boxers, and you are wrong, they are not like shorts. It would be better to strip naked, so I could see your junk as you bench, I would be ok with that”
I’ve been having trouble from one new helper at our gym since I do overheads and deads without shoes. Argh!
Good story is one of my buddies – who is really burly – lifts right after he gets off work. He was there in his overalls doing heavy front squats. The helper shows up and says that he is “inappropriately attired” – while he’s in the middle of more or less setting a PR. I promptly jumped in frantically with “SSSSHHHH would you be quiet?! Do you have any idea how hard it was to get him out of all that *^$## pink spandex?!” She just sort of looked at me then left.
If you can’t convince 'em, confuse 'em!
– jj
[quote]VealChop wrote:
My goodness, people are such babies these days. I think there are two entire generations out there that must have gotten babied to death by their parents. Just go get yourself a pair of shorts, tshirt and sneakers and go workout.
Or, the other alternative is to dress like a retard, and when a gym employee tells you you have to go, lay down on the floor, start crying, and screaming that you are not leaving, and when they try to pick you up, refuse to put your feet on the floor. Dont push it too far though, you might get a timeout.[/quote]
While I tend to disagree with your view point on this particular subject, I like your attitude.
But dude, your friends list is kind of creeping me out. I’m not sure I want you in the upper percentile.
[quote]WS4JB wrote:
Ive kicked lots of people out for that exact reason, its all about the rivets on the outside of the cargos. Same thing with jeans, as long as people don’t do sit on any equipment I let it go though.
I had a guy that wanted to bench press in jeans and went I told him he couldnt he started to take them off right there because he said he was just gonna bench in his boxers which are “exactly” like shorts.
I let him know that they in fact are not, and that I really didnt want to have to see his junk coming out of the front of those and that he needed to leave right now and not enter the rec for the rest of the day.
People are really really stupid.[/quote]
have you ever bench pressed before? or seen a pair of jeans?
jeans generally dont have rivets on the back of them, as it wouldnt be comfortable to sit on them. therefore, taking one’s knowledge of a bench press, how the fuck are the rivets on jeans going to hurt the bench?
i can also think of 4 pairs of cargo shorts that i own, theres not a damn rivet on any of them!
(by the way, the cargo im carrying could be anything really, but at the least: car keys, cell phone, work blackberry; enough that id look like a pretty big tool having it all bulging out of my front pockets)
you need to stop kicking people out of the gym for bullshit like that. thats a blatant power trip if ive ever heard of one.
[quote]kross001 wrote:
caladin wrote:
There is a dress code in gyms now? I wear whatever the fuck I want and tell them I pay to workout here and not dress for sucess or some other corportate slogan bullshit!
Exactly! I can understand a sign with the ususal “Any clothing, which is considered profane, obscene, suggestive, morbid, or displays violence, drugs or alcohol, is prohibited.” But cargo shorts that is getting a bit ridiculous. [/quote]
What’s wrong with profane clothing (or morbid for that matter)? A gym is not a professional environment, I can understand clothes that damage the equipment being banned but why the hell is the content of someones shirt an issue?
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
Stop trying to get us to think you actually work out.[/quote]
I lol’d
[quote]dez6485 wrote:
WS4JB wrote:
Ive kicked lots of people out for that exact reason, its all about the rivets on the outside of the cargos. Same thing with jeans, as long as people don’t do sit on any equipment I let it go though.
I had a guy that wanted to bench press in jeans and went I told him he couldnt he started to take them off right there because he said he was just gonna bench in his boxers which are “exactly” like shorts.
I let him know that they in fact are not, and that I really didnt want to have to see his junk coming out of the front of those and that he needed to leave right now and not enter the rec for the rest of the day.
People are really really stupid.
have you ever bench pressed before? or seen a pair of jeans?
jeans generally dont have rivets on the back of them, as it wouldnt be comfortable to sit on them. therefore, taking one’s knowledge of a bench press, how the fuck are the rivets on jeans going to hurt the bench?
i can also think of 4 pairs of cargo shorts that i own, theres not a damn rivet on any of them!
(by the way, the cargo im carrying could be anything really, but at the least: car keys, cell phone, work blackberry; enough that id look like a pretty big tool having it all bulging out of my front pockets)
you need to stop kicking people out of the gym for bullshit like that. thats a blatant power trip if ive ever heard of one.
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I do not write the rules, the university does.
You really think its weird I asked him to leave when he wanted to workout in his boxers ?
These threads make me appreciate my gym soooooo much more. I dont think theres really ANY rules, except dont kill anyone. But my gym is fairly hardcore