Morons at the gym (the official thread)...

[Tweakle]

Not a specific example of idiocy, but I have to grumble that my gym is a freakin sauna this time of year thanks to the NYE crowd. Canadians panic and turn the heating up to 90 at the first sign of snow on the ground, unfortunately the gym is in an unventilated basement and packed to the gills with perspiring college students.

I've taken to wheeling the industrial sized fan out of the aerobics studio and standing it next to the squat rack in an effort not to stroke out.. 250+ and wearing sweats = no fun in a hot gym. But the wee men in their beaters and shorts appreciate it I'm sure.

 

[NJL52]

i keep saying jan brings the hottest chicks

Not in my case. Just more 15 year olds then normal.

 

[Chambewy20]

On one of our shirt nights a couple of weeks back, on our way to the water fountain... while wearing a closed back bench shirt, I had a dude ask me "Is that one of those bench vests?"

Yeah dumbfuck, its a vest with sleeves, otherwise know as a SHIRT... sorta like asking "How many beers in a six pack?..."

 

[crossy]

Dunno if its classed as a moron or not but he looked stupid. A guy using straps doing barbell curls never seen this before.

I was doing bench short grip and some guy was spotting me and he was trying to move my hands wider i was like wtf you doing i tried to explain i was doing short grip he said i was doing it wrong and they should be wider (wide grip) dipshit.

And finally some indian guy got stuck under the bar on the decline bench, i was doing abs on the otherside of tehgym when i spotted him and fucker would help him (there were numerous ppeople about) i finished my set and he was still there so went over and pulled it off him (he had been there a few mins)

 

[silver_shadow]

fat slob who's been coming every day since i first joined this gym 3 yrs ago - i moved out of town and back again, he's still as regular as before - seems to come every day. he does the same weights and same exercises EVERY DAY. he also walks around with ILS. occassionally i see him squatting weightless... and just as i think he's warming up for real squats, he goes and does leg extensions looking all badass and grunting loudly. then he wears a belt and walks grunts out some "heavy" tricep pressdowns. BTW, he looks exactly the same as he did 3 yrs ago, and i try not to notice, but he seems to wear the same thing too... the stink from him seems to be unchanged as well

 

[HiDnGoD]

On one of our shirt nights a couple of weeks back, on our way to the water fountain... while wearing a closed back bench shirt, I had a dude ask me "Is that one of those bench vests?"

Yeah dumbfuck, its a vest with sleeves, otherwise know as a SHIRT... sorta like asking "How many beers in a six pack?..."

I personally have never seen a bench shirt. If it looks different froma normal shirt, I'd have prolly asked, too.

 

[anotherbutters]

I saw a guy put on a belt to do bent over rows with 25kg (55lb) today

 

[mad dipz]

I got a pretty fucked up story. This happened a few years back when I was a senior in highschool. We had a weightlifting class and we basically had to do specific core workouts and supplement workouts since our teacher was the football coach. So one day we had to do squats, and I'm a few squat racks down from this other kid, who was on the football team. A friend of mine walks up to me and goes "watch this" with a grin on his face. I have no clue what he's about to do, so I'm watching him walk over with a squat belt in his hand to the other kid that's squatting. In the middle of his squat (half-way coming up), my friend whips him in the back of the leg with the squat belt, kind like you'd whip someone with a wet towel. The kid freaks out, falls to the grounded, and luckily all 275 lbs. fell on the little "bar saver" or whatever you'd like to call it. He's freaking out crying, and I'm in fuckin shock at what just happened as our coach run's over and he's like "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!?!?"

When the belt snapped against his leg, his leg was stretch to the max since he's lifting up all that weight, and the belt snapped a tendon, and he was out for the rest of the season and had to walk on crutches for awhile.

My friend never got caught because strangely with the whole class in the weightroom, no one seen him do it except me. The only thing he said afterwards to me was "don't tell anyone."

 

[Phaded]

I got a pretty fucked up story. This happened a few years back when I was a senior in highschool. We had a weightlifting class and we basically had to do specific core workouts and supplement workouts since our teacher was the football coach. So one day we had to do squats, and I'm a few squat racks down from this other kid, who was on the football team. A friend of mine walks up to me and goes "watch this" with a grin on his face. I have no clue what he's about to do, so I'm watching him walk over with a squat belt in his hand to the other kid that's squatting. In the middle of his squat (half-way coming up), my friend whips him in the back of the leg with the squat belt, kind like you'd whip someone with a wet towel. The kid freaks out, falls to the grounded, and luckily all 275 lbs. fell on the little "bar saver" or whatever you'd like to call it. He's freaking out crying, and I'm in fuckin shock at what just happened as our coach run's over and he's like "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!?!?"

When the belt snapped against his leg, his leg was stretch to the max since he's lifting up all that weight, and the belt snapped a tendon, and he was out for the rest of the season and had to walk on crutches for awhile.

My friend never got caught because strangely with the whole class in the weightroom, no one seen him do it except me. The only thing he said afterwards to me was "don't tell anyone."

if someone did that to me and ruined my football season and possibly disabled me.. i wouldn't hesitate to prob. kill him..

 

[blut wump]

It shows that there is a need for mirrors in gyms. I think I'd have to charge someone an extremity for such a lack of consideration of my need to have legs.