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

[blut wump]

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?

We have a winner!

 

[treilin]

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?

I would have said, "Damn if only you had a little more spin you could have had a strike on that last one... Especially with that gun show to follow... Man of many talents I C! Must be all that effort you put into practicing in front of a mirror. Hey, maybe I can lift more weight and get big by shadow lifting."

 

[djeclipse]

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.

Ya, screw that, I do all my deadlifting, rows, military press in front of the only squat rack inthe gym. It's the only place to do them.

When someone asks if I am using the squat rack I say no and imediatly ask "why, are you going to do squats?" If the answer is yes I move back and give them room. 99.9% of the time the answer is "no I was gong to do curls, or some other lame exercise. To which my reply is I'll be hare a while.

I recently found out I'm known as the guy that does all his w/o's in the squat rack area, none of it being curls. I am proud of that.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Yesterday as I was incline benching I saw some guys standing in a circle chatting away, kinda looked like a Dockers commercial but no biggie, right. Anyway a couple of 'em pick up a 'curling bar' (those ez curl barbell's with set weight) and start pumping out some curls. Again, pretty normal, although you have to wonder if the yak formation is really necessary.

But then what I saw after that really gave me pause - they begin passing the bars around like some kind of musical chairs/curling circle jerk. One guy would pump out 10 or so and pass it to the guy to his right. Then take a break until the guy on his left handed him the next set. rofl.

 

[*Bunny*]

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?

Seriously ... stfu ...


and at hearing you say " beseterest evar "

lol

 

[Sassy69]

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?

GUTTERBALLL!

 

[al420]

GUTTERBALLL!

Exactly! I sometimes yell FORE when I see the golf swing guy........ I am actually the shadow boxer, but I am doing it for a reason....guess the golf swing guy is as well.....must learn compassion as a personality trait in the next year or so........

 

[SgtSlaughter]

GUTTERBALLL!

He uses the bumper lanes

the moron of last night:

Pretty big dude (from my perspective) probably around 240-260 (with his gut it's hard to tell )... Very thick guy, jacked up top ... just with a prego belly... odd looking... wanders around the gym aimlessly inbetween sets killing time I assume.... oh and he's wearing jeans.

He gets this guy reping out single arm reverse grip tricep somethings on the cable (forget what they're called.. i've done them, but in NO WAY as friggin' fast as this guy... it was more of an elbow exercise for this numbnut )...

Big Dudes got a bench loaded up with 325lbs...
... He lays down... Arches his back like he's doing a damn Bridge thingy... has his feet out wide... grips like he's doing a "normal" bench... so it's like part powerlifting stance part "normal" lol...

... Now he's got the weight above him... when it goes down is the scary part ... It goes down... I see in the mirror... Literally going 1.5-2 inches into his chest/belly area... "HOLY SHIT" i though... dude's just bouncing the weight up and down, mostly negative.

The "bro" is yelling "you got it, YOU GOT IT" ... with his hands on the bar pulling

... The bar dipped into his body deep about 5 or 6 times

All the while the A&F kids on the seated preacher curling "station"... are going to town helping eachother do reps.

 

[Sassy69]

He uses the bumper lanes

the moron of last night:

Pretty big dude (from my perspective) probably around 240-260 (with his gut it's hard to tell )... Very thick guy, jacked up top ... just with a prego belly... odd looking... wanders around the gym aimlessly inbetween sets killing time I assume.... oh and he's wearing jeans.

He gets this guy reping out single arm reverse grip tricep somethings on the cable (forget what they're called.. i've done them, but in NO WAY as friggin' fast as this guy... it was more of an elbow exercise for this numbnut )...

Big Dudes got a bench loaded up with 325lbs...
... He lays down... Arches his back like he's doing a damn Bridge thingy... has his feet out wide... grips like he's doing a "normal" bench... so it's like part powerlifting stance part "normal" lol...

... Now he's got the weight above him... when it goes down is the scary part ... It goes down... I see in the mirror... Literally going 1.5-2 inches into his chest/belly area... "HOLY SHIT" i though... dude's just bouncing the weight up and down, mostly negative.

The "bro" is yelling "you got it, YOU GOT IT" ... with his hands on the bar pulling

... The bar dipped into his body deep about 5 or 6 times

All the while the A&F kids on the seated preacher curling "station"... are going to town helping eachother do reps.

 

[*Bunny*]

^^ ... you lie ...