The dumbass workouts some crazy people do in the gym.

[odoyal rulez]

I got one for ya.

Last night i was doin some benches..im on a modified 5x5 and recently cut back on weight to ramp up. Its like midnight and usually the only people their are the hardcore guys, but since its winter vacation about a dozen 13-14 year old kids are up stairs playing big boy with the rest of us. Last night some guy ive never seen shows up milling around. He puts 135 on the bar and lays under it for a minute...goin through some weird pull up ritual, and setting up and moving around like a real ass clown..then instead of even lifting it he wanders off to do some leg abductions on a machine.

Laughing i finished up a 225x5 and went over to do incline. This asshat walks back over to the bar..and throws another plate on each side (225) and gets under the bar. Now let me tell you this guy was probably 6'2 and all of 160lbs..wearing swimming trunks with socks up to his knees and some grass stained shoes, hes also in his late 40's and was chewing on a toothpick and obviously doesnt work out often.

Anyways, i actually put my shit down and walk over to wear he's at because I just know hes gonna drop this shot on himself. He grabs the bar, his hand placement is different on each side, start grunting and proceeds to do 6 half ass repd, uneven reps. Barely managing to get the bar back up on 6, he gets up gives me a look like "oh yeah i did one more rep than this guy" then walked over to the pull up machine so he could do some assisted pullups with the pin set on 200lbs...

 

[Smokescreen]

I can't believe some of the silly shit I see certain people do in my gym. There is this guy who wears a black karate ghi in the gym and whenever I see hime he has got one arm in one of the handles of the cable crossover and his "Foot" is in the other handle on the other side. He proceeds to try and do karate moves while hoioked up like this. Every time I see him he's doing some silly ass thing that I think he thinks is helping him and I'm just weighting for the day he hurts himself. I have seen people try to tell him that the things he does are going to hurt him but he never listens. We also have an older lady that I guess is a past ballerina or somthing that does all these silly ballerina hand movements when she gets on the cable crossover also. She's wearing headphones and is totally lost whipping her head and hands around while she's on the machine. It's the funniest thing. Sometimes she get's a full audiance of people just standing and looking going "WTF?"

I wonder if these people will ever "Get it" that there is a right way and a wrong way to work out!

Bro, that is funny shit. But honestly...those people are in every fucking gym. And they sware they know what they are doing. And the funny part is that you can't tell them shit because they get pissed off! The jokes on them because after them doing that shit for months. They are still either fat or just skinny little twigs.

 

[LAN T]

Small to medium shirts to look bigger always amuse me.

 

[52_21_30]

underarmour spandex shirts with a puss gut is also a classic...I've always found that unless they're prepping for a show and they have to pose after they train, anyone who competes (myself included) will train in pretty baggy sweats/oversized t-shirts. Just feels more comfortable. That tight shirt look is just so obviously looking to accentuate every last attribute that in actuality is not there.

 

[Little Jack]

Hello all,

I am knew to the forum but here is my dumbass workout award. How about the people that do nothing but jaw exercise. "My little Suzy" this, and "Did you see Bob yesterday at the water cooler?" I wish my Gym had a smoothie bar for these people to talk. Sometimes it looks like a Starbucks with weight.

Later

 

[goaler]

18 yr old, no offense, in the gym at 5 am this morning doing push ups with his feet on the bench..oh did I mention, in his jeans, Dallas Northstars shirt with a t-shirt underneath..swear he was heading in to high school after an hour work out...smelly!!!!!

 

[cipherking]

theres this skinny older guy at my gym that wears spandex and a white tee shirt with a bra under it. I havent figured out why he wears a bra but i seen him put it on while i was in the locker room. He doesnt speak to anyone even if u say hi to him. All he does is throw slow jabs in the mirror with a 5lbs weight in his hand. he freaks me out.

 

[thedreamthief]

theres this skinny older guy at my gym that wears spandex and a white tee shirt with a bra under it. I havent figured out why he wears a bra but i seen him put it on while i was in the locker room. He doesnt speak to anyone even if u say hi to him. All he does is throw slow jabs in the mirror with a 5lbs weight in his hand. he freaks me out.

You mean like the "bro" or the "manzierre"?

 

[harbinator]

We have quite a few of these "special" people at my gym.

I love the 80 year old guy that must have been a boxer in his day, he takes a shower, IN HIS CLOTHES (its windbreaker jacket type jumpsuit) then works out totally wet. Ive even seen him side stepping, running backwards etc... on the treadmill and shadowboxing while on the treadmill all while soaking wet.

Or, the guy who does EVERY excercise wrong, this guy was working on a hammer strength ab machine where you are seating and lean forward toward your knees. This guy had the weight clanging so loud everyone in the whole gym was watching him and he still kept going. Watching him do hyperextensions almost made me cry, he seemed to think going backwards and curving the lower back as much as possible was better than how far you go down....

 

[Kabeetz]

There used to be a guy at my gym who had to be damn near 100 and moved like it. Also he wore the same jack lalane jumsuit he's had since the 60's complete with hiked up sox. And he benches the bar every time he comes in. Whenever he walks through the gym and goes into the locker room, one of the firemen that work out there always yells DEAD MAN WALKING!!! (in reference to the undertaker, lol).

Hilarious.

That being said, I fully support the elderly and their doing whatever working out they can to prolong and enhance their lives, so try not to be too offended by that.