funny gym observations, feel free to add to the list

[PeterHuntRKC]

Originally Posted by fatman

A mullet thread? It was about time one of those was started!

Originally Posted by Chris Fleming
Men trying to press the kettlebell but are using women's weight (the heaviest one in the gym is a 16kilo).

Would 17kilo qualify as a "men's weight"? One has to wonder.

Hello, fatman:

Wondering about that myself. I use the 16 quite a bit in my kettlebell practice. Sometimes that particular bell does hurt my vagina though.

Regards,
Peter.

[fatman]

Originally Posted by PeterHuntRKC

Hello, fatman:

Wondering about that myself. I use the 16 quite a bit in my kettlebell practice. Sometimes that particular bell does hurt my vagina though.

Regards,
Peter.

I'm with you brother, I also feel pain over being inadequate. I cried during my fifth set of 5-lb lateral raises (in the curl rack) after reading this.

I heard some dude on Oprah had the same problem. He couldn't press a Manly Weight after months of training. He still can't, but now he's written a best-seller and travels the land offering self-empowerment seminars to masculinely challenged pressers.

Perhaps someday we can overcome this and morph into True Manly Men. Someday.

[irongpj]

How about these:

1. Guys who put 15 plates on each side of the leg press, scream, yell, slap themselves in the face, unrack the weight, then bang out 10x 1/8th range of motion leg presses.

2. Guys who put 45's on each end of the bar, grab the weight then proceed to do 5 "reverse grip/ hang clean/ standing back extension/ cheat curls"

3. Women who stand in a "ballet" stance and do 1/4 "sumo/ plea/ calve raise/ modified squats" for 50 reps then complain that these are the reason their butts look big.

4. The 5'4" inch, 115 pound guy who drinks protein and carb drinks throughout his Freemotion cable machine workout and can't for the life of him figure out why he isn't getting bigger.

5. The same guy, who is told that he should squat and deadlift to increase his strength and size says "I can't, I have a bad back"

6. Women using 3 pound dumbells worrying that "all this weightlifting will make my muscles too big!"

7. People complaining that their workouts just aren't working...they're not losing weight. The next sentence usually goes 'I went to this great restaurant last night...."

8. "Madonna is doing this...."

9. Doing squats on a giant vibrator??? isn't there something like this on the Howard Stern show?

Gotta stop now....I could go on forever with this stuff!

[Snakebite]

How about this one - in a local gym in East London.

- A guy spending 20 minutes practicing getting up from the floor with a shoe in his hand. Then throws a dismissive look in the direction of a few blokes finishing their 10k runs and wonders off mumbling something about hardstyle, effing mullets, etc...

[greg57]

Originally Posted by Snakebite

How about this one - in a local gym in East London.

- A guy spending 20 minutes practicing getting up from the floor with a shoe in his hand. Then throws a dismissive look in the direction of a few blokes finishing their 10k runs and wonders off mumbling something about hardstyle, effing mullets, etc...

Yeah, but you need to consider functional strength mate, what is more likely, having to run for your life or getting trapped under the weight of your own shoe?

[firetrainer33]

Originally Posted by EricJMoss

there was a guy that went to a gym i used to train in that wore a leotard with a thong on the outside of it. he would do these ballet moves (which you could tell he never had training) and told everyone he worked in the NY ballet. it was a classic

I think we were called out to the same guy on a 'psyche' call the other day; however; I'm pretty sure he was on meth.

BTW, thanks for directing us to one of the more influential songs of the 80's. I prefer this version though.

YouTube - Family Guy - Brian Sings Never Gonna Give You Up

[comanighttrain]

Originally Posted by greg57

Yeah, but you need to consider functional strength mate, what is more likely, having to run for your life or getting trapped under the weight of your own shoe?

It could happen man....one day your sitting there, eating bacon and bam...your shoe lands on your chest...

- Advice guy. Had him on sunday telling me i should help my friend do chins. I hate advice guy more than any other idiot in the gym. I hope advice guy gets trapped in a car thats on fire then i can run up beside the car and be like "maybe you should get out?"

[greg57]

Well, there's advice and there's "you're doing it wrong stupid" In my gym days I saw much more of the latter than the former. Advice is good if presented well and actually intended to help the recipient. Of course that is a hard thing to do in a gym full on testosterone and ego.

[fatman]

The funniest (or saddest) thing one sees in the gym is the dude who's doing absolutely everything wrong both training and nutrition-wise but is about twice as big and ripped as the "functional" trainees and the obsessive-compulsive twats who set their alarms to remind them when to toss protein shakes down their gullets in order to "fully utilize the window of nutritional opportunity" or take advantage of some other pseudo-scientific imaginary concept.

I can't believe I wrote all that in one sentence.

[EricJMoss]

Originally Posted by firetrainer33

I think we were called out to the same guy on a 'psyche' call the other day; however; I'm pretty sure he was on meth.

BTW, thanks for directing us to one of the more influential songs of the 80's. I prefer this version though.

YouTube - Family Guy - Brian Sings Never Gonna Give You Up

does this mean i have yet another victim ?

another one that drives me nuts is the person that gives advice to the person that i am training WHILE I AM TRAINING THEM the pearls of wisdom from the shape magazine they read on the human hamster wheel