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

[AAden]

ever see them reading the paper in between sets, fully suited up with belt, gloves, and coffee mug?

I have.

Yes I have. our guy puts 225 and change on the bench press and goes 3 inches for sets of 8. Then takes a 10 minutes coffee break.

Today, I decided to do some cardio after lifting. I get on one of the bikes and behind me are all of the tread mills. This skinny guy gets on the tread mill and I kid you not ramps that thing up to the maximum and sprints for all of 20 secs and then punches the emergency stop button and dives off the side. He then checks off his paper and goes over and does rediculous plyometerics for two minutes. He gets a drink and starts over again.
It sounded dlike a 737 was takeing off behind me mixed in with a dryer machine that somebody threw a pair of boots in.

 

[bran88]

Just the simple dude who looks at himself more in the mirror than actually working out...drives me nucking futs.

 

[Mass Insanity]

Had this dude in my gym that was by no means big or super strong.. he would put sun glasses on before he benched pressed. He would load the bench up with 225 and try to rep the wieght with the worst form I have ever saw in my life. After he woould get done with the set he would jump up poke his chest out role his shoulders, shakes his arms, then role his head from side to side and lastly he would make a mean face in the mirror. Me a my bro's would get so distracted from holding laughter in we couldn't work out on the same side of the gym.. this dude did this after every single set.. he would also strut around the gym like he was the nxt Mr. O .... his sqauts were even funnier.. this dude loaded the bar with 315 starting off.. he would maybe go down 2 inch's,... just a basket case.. to bet it all he's a lawyer in Michigan, you would think he should have a little common since.

 

[moya]

im doing weighted dips the other day... and in walks the tag-team bench crew... now out of a brown paper bag he pulls out a can, and opens it and chugs it, ..and when he gets closer i hear him tell his buddy somthing or other about how its some great workout drink...
i look over ...
and its a SPARKS malt alcohol drink!!! WTF!

 

[SpyWizard]

hahah..

Heard a guy telling another one that being overweight wasn't a bad thing to him, it was a sign of prosperity..

 

[djeclipse]

Glad to see this thread is still going. Stories of Morons in the gym never get old.

Is there an award for the longest ongoing thread? This one is over 3 years and running

 

[eliteandy]

Glad to see this thread is still going. Stories of Morons in the gym never get old.

Is there an award for the longest ongoing thread? This one is over 3 years and running

And 126 pages long!

 

[iggy]

i saw two tools screaming at each other in the squat rack curling. then they would both do a set each and talk for five minutes.

then they would get all hardcore and curl again. it was funny. one guy said, "DO YOU WANNA GET BIG? DO YOU WANNA GET BIG LITTLE MAN?"

when the other was curling. a guy was waiting to squat and i felt bad for him as i was doing triceps and he was waiting for this squat

rack forever. then the douches left the bar sitting with a shitload of 10's and 5's on each side and didn't even re-rack it. what tools.

 

[JHorn31G]

Theres this big guy at my gym, I would say he can lift heavy. Maybe weighs bout 240 or so. Whenever he does leg day he uses the leg press and yells. I don't mean like short little yelps because the weights heavy, but this dude is like ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! It makes everyone in the gym O.O wtf is he screaming for. I find it's especially funny bc I will come after him and do the same 14-20 plates on the leg press and not make a peep.

 

[bigrig2015]

There really needs to be a correlation scale for beginners regarding machine bench press and actual free weight bench press. This high school kid worked up to 300 lbs. on the nautilus bench and decided to try it with free weights. He put 295 on the bar and told me he wanted to get 3-4 reps and a negative. Right after lift off...boom, right on his chest. I had to do one hell of an upright row.

And I'm sure every gym has the headphones guy who doesn't realize he's singing to himself out loud....

we have the white kid from the suberbs dressed like 50 cent or some crap rapping and bebopping his whole workout for us to hear at my gym