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

[HiDnGoD]

I have one to add -- at the local community center gym in a little beach town in Alabama - very nice facility, small, most of the machines you'd expect, small weight rack, preacher curl, squat rack, smith machine, couple benches.

In walk home boy 1 & home boy 2 - these are guys who look about 17 w/ the baseball cap turned slightly as if they were cool rap artists - except they are skinny white rednecks from 'Bama (not saying people from 'Bama are all skinny white rednecks - just these guys who are posing as big hot rappers, but are more the un-rapper....)

Anyway - they spend 90 minutes walking around that gym doing the same curling motion on every piece of eqpt. I'm guessing it was "bi's nite" - but they never changed anything - all curls, all nite, all eqpt.

Whatever.

I was so tempted to suggest 21s or something. Or at least slap those silly hats off their heads & send 'em home to mama.

Sounds like an advertising hook.

 

[GSP]

I suppose this belongs in this thread. A family friend was a member of a ladies only fitness club in town that was recently bought out by my club. When getting the tour of the facilities, she was shown the cardio equipment and the machines. When she asked about the free weight area, she was told they were too dangerous to point out to the average gym-goers, and that she would have to sign up for personal training sessions if she wanted any instruction on the free weight area.

 

[blut wump]

I suppose this belongs in this thread. A family friend was a member of a ladies only fitness club in town that was recently bought out by my club. When getting the tour of the facilities, she was shown the cardio equipment and the machines. When she asked about the free weight area, she was told they were too dangerous to point out to the average gym-goers, and that she would have to sign up for personal training sessions if she wanted any instruction on the free weight area.

That's sensible. Very poor form or outstanding stupidity on a free weight can lead to irreparable harm. From what you write, they didn't insist that she have instruction to be permitted to use the area.

I went to check out a gym once and asked to see the free-weights area and was shown a corner of the gym about 12' square with a few DBs, no plates and no bar. The guy said that they have a few 'big guys' who bring their own wieghts in.

 

[GSP]

That's sensible. Very poor form or outstanding stupidity on a free weight can lead to irreparable harm. From what you write, they didn't insist that she have instruction to be permitted to use the area.

I went to check out a gym once and asked to see the free-weights area and was shown a corner of the gym about 12' square with a few DBs, no plates and no bar. The guy said that they have a few 'big guys' who bring their own wieghts in.

Meh, I guess I can agree with that logic. I thought it was poor that they wouldn't even show her the area and where the various free weight equipment was located though.

 

[xblitz44x]

Yesterday when I got done squatting I decided to do some bent rows. The only real space to do them is in front of the squat rack, but I thought: "Just incase somebody wants to squat, I'll move into the corner" (where there isn't much space). I did a set then looked over at the squat rack area only to find somebody setting up for, you guessed it, curls in the squat rack. Never again will I give-up that area.

 

[heatherrae]

Meh, I guess I can agree with that logic. I thought it was poor that they wouldn't even show her the area and where the various free weight equipment was located though.

LOL...I think that is pretty silly. They probably don't know how to use them, themselves. I would be pretty pissed if they did that to me. When I joined Golds here in FL, they showed me all the cardio equipment, the aerobics room and the machines. Then they pointed at the free weights and said something to the effect of "over there are the free weights. It's mainly only men over there." Ummmm....thanks.

 

[xblitz44x]

LOL...I think that is pretty silly. They probably don't know how to use them, themselves. I would be pretty pissed if they did that to me. When I joined Golds here in FL, they showed me all the cardio equipment, the aerobics room and the machines. Then they pointed at the free weights and said something to the effect of "over there are the free weights. It's mainly only men over there." Ummmm....thanks.

Gold's is such a god-damn joke anymore. They have a reputation for being this hard-ass gym and when I visited it was filled with 50 year olds and Abercrombie's pumping their arms for Friday night's frat party. Yet they have the balls to post pictures of Arnold all over the joint.

And didn't you know that free-weights are for men only? Women want to get toned and you can only do that with machines. Free weights bulk you up...obviously.

 

[GSP]

LOL...I think that is pretty silly. They probably don't know how to use them, themselves.

I don't think they know how to use them either. The irony in the whole thing is that I've seen a bunch of people being trained in the free weight area, and every single one of them was on the Smith Machine.

 

[Tweakle]

I may have a winner in the 'most retarded imaginary thing to do in a gym' category - the golf swing, hoop shooting, shadow boxing guys were all close to taking this one but last night I saw the beseterest evar - an A&F type fella practicing his 10-pin run up in the mirror.

5 steps back, narrowly avoid tripping over the decline bench then take a lil run and skip up to the mirror to send that imaginary bowling ball flying. Pause to flex guns, repeat.

Who are these people and why are they in my gym?

 

[heatherrae]

I may have a winner in the 'most retarded imaginary thing to do in a gym' category - the golf swing, hoop shooting, shadow boxing guys were all close to taking this one but last night I saw the beseterest evar - an A&F type fella practicing his 10-pin run up in the mirror.

5 steps back, narrowly avoid tripping over the decline bench then take a lil run and skip up to the mirror to send that imaginary bowling ball flying. Pause to flex guns, repeat.

Who are these people and why are they in my gym?

You can't be serious! OMG, I would have rolled around laughing at him