What's the funniest thing you saw in the gym????

[Thaashit]

good ass stories..i just laughed out loud in the computer lab at school at some of these

i've seen some funny ones, sometimes just people you can't explain, you just have to see them for yourselves...

but last week this guy was doing incline bench, and come out too far with the weight, the bar hit him in the stomach and rolled down onto his croch...he layed on the ground in the fetal position after for about ten minutes...then one of the trainers threw a bag of ice at him and called him "steamroller" we couldn't hold it in just started crackin up and had a shitty work out cuz everyone kept laughing so much

 

[ballast]

This was a few years ago.I trained in the same gym as a bunch of friends of mine.Around November we would all start training for the local toughman contest that always came to town around February.One of my friends who was grossly overweight spent a majority of his time on the treadmill.To torture him alot of us who had the washboard stomach would stand in front of him and lift up our shirt to display our toned and trim abs.This would really piss him off.One day, he's on one of the treadmills that face the windows looking outside.Eric , who just finished his workout goes outside and does his stomach display.My overweight friend on the treadmill,Matt, gets upset as usual and begins running faster throwing dirty looks at Eric who is still standing in front of him showing off his abs.Eric leaves for a few minutes. then shows up outside the window with a paper bag.From the bag he produces a big mac and a vanilla shake and proceeds to devour them in front of Matt, who is extremely upset now(we all knew he was on a strict diet of veggies and tuna).Matt is running almost at top speed and snarling.Finishing his meal, Eric lights up a cigarette and starts drinking a beer, all the while smiling pleasantly at Matt and looking very content with himself.Matt who is a big drinker and smoker when not training, is really pissed now and is shouting obscenities at Eric through the window.This draws the attention of the rest of the gym and the manager who starts coming over to see what the problem is.Thats when Eric does the ab flash at Matt.Matt goes berserk, tears ass out the front door, knocking the manager over and chases Eric out through the parking lot.Even though it was a cruel thing to do, I've seldom laughed that hard in my life.I guess you had to have been there.

 

[Garza]

guy tried to do the incline after me.... i didn't bother taking the weights off the bar and he just went and did it after me, he struggled to just get it up, it dropped straight on his chest and his friend had to bring it up for him... lol the look on his face, hahaha

Dude that is what you said last time about barbell curls. It must be great to be you; 17 inch calves, living in a polish neighborhood, being polish, having a father who is featured in the forbes magazine every week, having arms that "girls can't get enough of...", having the ability to put 3 plates per side on the "big red machine" and then telling everyone on elite that it was a squat.

Grow up bro.

 

[diablo135]

There was this guy that was doing incline db presses next to my buddy and I. He grabbed a pair that was WAAAYYY to heavy. I mean, he could barely get them off the rack. ANyway, he somehow managed to lie back on the bench and get the db's up to arms length. Now imagine this, Before he could even start to bring them down to his chest, he starts to lose control and falls sieways off the bench! The db's were still at arms length. The bench even fell with him. It had to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen in the gym.

 

[DaCypher]

This very good-looking woman (25 years old, if that) with rather large breats was doing cable flys. She was working so hard she squeezed one of her breasts completely out of her spandex tanktop. Best part was she asked me to spot her so I had a front row seat.

 

[tr2001]

Funny Story

This was NOT FUNNY but FUNNY (because the guy did not get hurt) This happened at a small gym in W. Virginia. Well, there was a dude that was about 6'2" maybe 145 soaking wet with lead boots. My wife and I were doing squats and were about mid way through. I had 315 on the bar and he walked over and said "can I work in". (Please note that he was not even training legs or had even warmed up). Knowing this dude was a complete idiot, I said "sure dude help yourself" Well, this skinny, limber stick figure gets under the bar (Also, note that his neck was sooo long that you could land a friggin 737 on it). He backs up wobbling and his pair of pencils shaking. He starts (what appears to be be bending his legs - but actually was a Hyperextention with a 315 pound loaded bar. Well, needless to say WHHHHAMMM! His neck is pinned on the ground - it happened so fast that I was like "FUCK DUDE" This was an OLD STYLE squat rack with nothing to catch the bar. This man got up unhurt because his neck was so skinny there was room between the bar and the floor. The dude got up and his neck was purple and had permanent criss cross Knurl Marks from the bar. The whole gym busted out laughing (after he was OK of course). He slowly walked out with his head drooping (he he)..... pun intened of course!

 

[Garza]

There is this guy at the gym who must weigh 300 lbs. Anyway, one day someone was complaining about the scale being off a few pounds and the guy was like, "yeah, it says I weigh 329, I know I only weigh 325." I was laughing but had to hold it in. Everyday before he has his "work out" he smokes in his car for about 30 mins, sometimes he falls asleep out there. His workout is ridiculous, he moves the weights in a very limited ROM. He is the type that has alll sorts of health complilcations becuase he is just lazy ass.

I was coming in to work out one day and the guy working at the counter was like "Hey man I saw your brother out there...." I laughed and someone was like "holy shit man, tell me that is not your brother" lol. Whenever he was using the dumbells for the bench press he threw down the dumbells, since we only have one set the owner had to get it repaired.

Yesterday at the gym they were talking about how he shit on the wall, apparently he could not make it to the bathroom. The owner is normally the type that minds his own business, never really cusses or jokes, but yesterday he was like "Man that 300 pounders ass must have just exploded......"

 

[DanielBishop]

There's a guy at my gym who's obviously been doing it for a while.... I'll try and paint a picture of this guy.

He's about 5'7", has almost like an Elvis hairdo except without as huge a bulge on the front.... but it's pretty much the same, sideburns included. He's probably in his mid-late 30's, bald spot, drives a sports car, name is Derek. His body is okay, he's pretty lean and has okay muscle tone.... he's not BIG by any means, but he looks okay for the most part, except his arms are seriously lacking (you'll soon see why) and I don't think he trains his back. But he does a lot of cardio and he's tanned and shaven so.... y'know. Looks better than average.

This guy has the biggest ego I have EVER seen. He wears the regular training top thing (dunno what they're called in North America, but back home we call it a "singlet".... like the basketball ones, but for working out) but all the time, I see him checking himself out in the mirror, turning sideways and checking himself out, adjusting and readjusting his weight belt while checking himself out.... if you can imagine standing there looking at the mirror, pretending that he's not admiring himself.... then he undoes the weightbelt a notch, and then puts it back again....

.... when he walks, he has the most blatant "strut" I've ever seen.... walks almost like he's dancing. Shoulders rotating back and forth, arms out sideways like a lobster.... Most of the time looking sideways and checking himself out in the mirror anyway.

Anyway, the funniest part is his workout. He lifts about the same weight as me with most exercises (like bench) but he doesn't do many of those exercises. He works his biceps every time he trains, and stands there with 12lb dumbbells (literally) and one arm at a time, does these pathetic "half reps" where he doesn't lower his forearm past parallel.... that's fine, but the really funny part is the faces he makes to pretend that it's difficult. He screws up his face, looks to the ceiling, sticks his tongue out, clenches his teeth, closes his eyes real tight like he's in so much pain.... from 12lb half rep dumbbell curls. All the while, checking himself out in the mirror.

He supersets those with triceps kickbacks with the same 12lb weight. When he's done, he drops the weights from waist-height like they're 100lbs dumbbells or something.... too heavy to put down in a controlled manner.

Then on chest day, he does those dumb dips where you put your feet on a bench in front of you, and dip from another bench.... his range of motion is about 3" for each rep. Then he supersets those with pushups, and (I'm not exaggerating) his ROM wouldn't be more than a few inches.... it's almost like he's trembling.... he just bounces up and down so slightly, I can't help but laugh.

Then he gets up, checks himself out in the mirror.... adjusts his weight belt a few times (why he needs one for those exercises, I don't know) and struts off to talk to people.

He's hilarious.... gives me a good laugh every time I see him.

 

[rnch]

myself in the mirror.

 

[maxmuscle66]

The "lawn-mower" row!!!

I recall this fellow in the YMCA back in Halifax Nova Scotia when I was training one day and looking after some clients. I was just finishing up a set of DB rows with my knee on the bench and stabilized by my other hand.
I look across and this guy who was not a once over 160 lbs latches onto this 80 lb DB and proceeds to copy me in the exercise that I had just completed. I watch his arm shake violently as he struggles to raise the weight to his chest the first couple of times then sharply lets the thing snap back down toward the floor. I swear that his arm was going to come right out of the socket. He then proceeded to use every ounce of momentum to maneuver the weight back up to his chest and then again let it literally fall back to the start position. I really wanted to go over and help him but I was so stunned by this freak that all I could do is laugh at him and hope that he didn't really hurt himself.