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

[Tweakle]

Mr shadowboxer is funny, but I prefer his older relative - Golf Swing man, when he's not tying up the rack doing cheat curls he'll be wandering around swinging an imaginary golf club (or whacking invisible snakes, I can't tell which)

a harmless character but annoying as fuck to have next to you when you're trying to lift weights

 

[que_66]

I think I got your 'kah...kah...kah...' guy beat. The other day there was some PT doing some leg press/lat pulldown/hammer strength chest press circuit and each rep he was doing some loud version of the valsalva technique: 'HSSSSSSAAAAH...HSSSSSSAAAH...HSSSSAAAH'. Sounded like a basket full of cobras.

^^^Sounds like a he's having a "Harry Ptter flashback" and speaking "Parsel Tongue" without knowing it.

 

[*Bunny*]

Mr shadowboxer is funny, but I prefer his older relative - Golf Swing man, when he's not tying up the rack doing cheat curls he'll be wandering around swinging an imaginary golf club (or whacking invisible snakes, I can't tell which)

a harmless character but annoying as fuck to have next to you when you're trying to lift weights

LOL ... I'm sure you'd have to see this older man in PERSON to appreciate this, but he was the Baseball Pitcher man ... (going on the sports theme here ... )

He was on the Life Fitness Dual Cable Machine, using one of the cables like he was a pitcher ... It would have been ok I 'suppose if the weight wasn't AS heavy and he wasn't so old, with his form ... The whole motion ended up looking like he was throwing a shot put when he was finished & he paused at the end of the throw in the most ackwards position, arm full extended, then he'd wind up again & do it over & over ... I COULD not block it out ...

Part II is the guy with the bluetooth growing out of his ear ... I cannot STAND a person who train with a cell phone hanging outta his/her ear ... I train early, who does he call at 5 am to talk to for an hour doing cardio?! I leave before he hits the weightroom b/c I'd have to drop a 55lb DB on his foot while doing my Shrugs .... whoopsie ... No he's not a doc/lawyer/surgeon/etc ...

I don't get it

 

[Jim Ouini]

^^^Sounds like a he's having a "Harry Ptter flashback" and speaking "Parsel Tongue" without knowing it.

Nope this guy was definitely a muggle.

 

[02gixxersix2]

Anyone else have one of those guys that wears their shorts about 6 inches too short and then feels the need to put their leg up on a bench or something so everyone in the gym gets a nut shot. We had one in my gym back home when i worked out at God's and he would wear short shorts and knee high socks everyday to the gym. The leg lift never failed.

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

Mr shadowboxer is funny, but I prefer his older relative - Golf Swing man, when he's not tying up the rack doing cheat curls he'll be wandering around swinging an imaginary golf club (or whacking invisible snakes, I can't tell which)

a harmless character but annoying as fuck to have next to you when you're trying to lift weights

omg! we have a Mr Golf Man at my gym & this guy runs backwards on the treadmill...says it strengthens his hammys for golf & helps his coordination

my fav/bizarre person tho is this stripper that does leg press on the smith machine. she lies on the flat bench, sticks her legs up & presses the loaded bar w/her feet. pretty ridiculous since the gym has at least 5 leg press machines.

 

[que_66]

OMG there's a guy at the gym (apparently a regular there) he's a big guy and wears bib overalls and has his black tshirt on overtop. You know they are bibs because he's drenched in sweat when he gets off the treadmill and you can see the outline of the straps in the back.

I'm short but I get to see a lot of stuff when I'm up on the assisted chinup machine! woot woot

 

[Iliketolift]

Ya well I go to a college gym, and golfer and shadow boxer are there everday, not to mention buddy who benches 225 for 10 and leaves. Or the 1MILLION types of crunches people do, and oblique work that looks like a retard just overdosed on gasoline. Or the guy who uses dumbbells for everything, does like whole body workout with almost the same weight of dumbbells. Or the guys who go sit on the machine preacher curl, watch tv for 5 minutes then do a rediculous set, and repeat til' their buddies leave. Or the people who go on the tread mill for 5 minutes get bored then walk around, then bike for 5 minutes, then get bored and do the eliptical for 5 minutes...

Orrr..... How about Smith machine squatter, who just bends his knees a bit, the form is so bad it makes me wonder if he knows its for legs.
Or the guys who need a "spot" for everything...USE LESS WEIGHT DAMN YOU!!!


Or the guy who doesnt do deads or squats because it might hurt thier back. Ohhh boy,... I need to make a reality show "getting big"... It would be a comedy if it was filmed at my gym though.

Ps. Yesturday there was a water puddle (i think) on the calve raise machine, and a guy looks at my smiles and says "taste it"....taste the mysterious puddle in the gym?

 

[blut wump]

I saw some impressive DB curls today. The first guy was managing to heave up his concentration curls which I thought was worth a mention and an impressive feat in its own right.

Five or ten minutes later another guy was sitting in the same place. He was sat with a good straight back which, while not as good as an incline bench, was fine but his range of motion went from about 10 or 15 degrees from full extension to about 50 degrees.

He was basically getting the weight just past half-way to horizontal in the kind of motion that someone briskly shuffling along might make with their arms. He wasn't sweating, grunting or straining so I reckoned that was his set. He took a rest and did the same again.

 

[gstacker]

im jus getting tired of the guys using the sqaut rack to do curls........and if that wasnt bad enough they do like 15 sets