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

[JDid23]

new year..... new morons

today i was waiting patiently for the 45 pound DBs, and some man was reading the newspaper with the DBs by his side with his ipod on so i couldn't even get his attention. He still read the paper during his reps, so i had to wait until he was done.

 

[Tblock1]

The other day some mom brought here kid in. The kid had never worked out a day in his life and just kept whining how he wanted to leave. The mom told him he had to exercise so he started doing jumping jacks super loud, practically screaming 1,2,3, etc. Then his mom showed him how to do the leg press and he had like 50 pounds on there and eas screaming in agony after every rep.

 

[forged71]

Best one yet my office has a two way mirror don't know how many times I've looked up to see some moron checkin the for hanger in his nose or late night when I'm doing the books I have a regular that does a 30 minute pose down all 140lbs of him...you would think if they see a mirror next to a door a light bulb would go off.
Peace, Forged{

 

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>>Anonymous 02/18/10(Thu)20:13 No.2335904
I just did squat curls at the gym today. I couldn't balance the bar on my traps, it slipped and slammed into my lower back. I bruised a vertebrae.
Thanks for nothing /fit/

>> C1Classic !!6Fyam3hxEXk 02/18/10(Thu)20:14 No.2335914
I'm intrigued. What's a squat curl?

>> Coach McGuirk !!pocXKbSb24E 02/18/10(Thu)20:14 No.2335917
Why would you actually do them?

>> Anonymous 02/18/10(Thu)20:15 No.2335924
>>2335917
YOU TOLD ME TO TO DO THEM!

>> Anonymous 02/18/10(Thu)20:17 No.2335954
>>2335914
You squat on a smith machine balancing it on your traps and you curl a dumbell in each hand.
>>2335938
This is what I get for listening to /fit/? You get ragged on for not listening to you, I listen to you and now everything feels numb and walking hurts. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO

Anonymous 02/18/10(Thu)21:52 No.2336885
>>2336857
I'll say it again, all this shit is foreign to me. The first time I did Power Cleans I thought it was made up because I couldn't fathom how people can DO that shit. It feels like you're chucking a barbell at your neck. After I fell over a few times, someone at the gym helped me. Still sucked at them, but it didn't careen to my neck.
For the squat curl, I got hurt on the first one.

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It's funny as hell but the poor guy actually did get hurt doing an exercise a prankster made up.
So maybe we should intervene with some of these morons.... lol

 

[CitizenKane]

^ Simply can't be real.

 

[ExtraMile]

lol @ squat curls if that is real its hilarious hahaa

 

[ledhead]

Plenty of morons to go around in every gym. What gets on my nerves more than anything is when 3or 4 guys train together and the majority of the time their just bullshitting instead training it's like social hour,that irks me more than anything! Secondly, what gets my goat is when these young newbies strut around the gym wearing wife beaters as if they were Coleman or Cutler. In reality they need 50 to 75 lbs to fill the beater out. Lastley,what makes me sick is that one guy that walks around the gym giving advice to everyone,and doesn't have a clue about what he's talking about.

 

[JDid23]

this is more of a fuckin douche bag than a moron, but today as i was leaving the gym i got my shit in a box where i leave it (wallet and keys). as i was looking for my keys, this guy sprayed some windex or something on a towel to wipe up a machine. The shit went completely in my eye, and it stung like hell. I turned around and kind of smiled because it was an accident and i was expecting the guy to apologize, but he just laughed and walked away. I started walking towards him because my eye was hurting like fuck and he didn't even say anything, but i decided it wouldn't be worth it. The guy must have been 50, and this really ticked me off.

 

[jdbaker82]

Personally nothing makes me laugh harder then when I see 75 year old men swinging a barbell doing curls as fast as they can as if they are trying to commit suicide and have a heart attack. When I say swing I mean full range of motion swinging lol

 

[uamaverick]

Last one is the faces ppl make when lifting. This one guy had this crazy bitter beer face. I hella walkd off bc I was laughing hella hard.

I close my eyes and sometimes puff out my cheeks like a starfish when I'm gassed and on one of my last sets for the day. Is that abnormal?

Anyway, today it was the 60 year old man staring at me and following me around the entire gym. What a creeper. Yesterday it was the two guys on the leg press machine for at least 45 minutes solid. Monday it was me. I was doing seated tricep extensions and I got 130 for 6 solid reps, so I figured what the hell, I'll go up 10 lbs. I guess my energy levels really bottomed out quick, because I barely got the db from my waist to rest on my shoulder, and couldn't even budge it off of my shoulder into lock out position. I bet the guy sitting next to me was like WTF. Hey, sometimes you gotta know where you stand.