Whats the stupidest thing you have seen at your gym

[Makavelli]

One of the gyms that I managed had the sales counter right in front of the gym where you could see everything. The cardio was right in front of the sales desk. One Friday night this lanky 16 year old comes in and just looks uncoordinated. He also looks dorky as hell. I mean, I felt sorry for him, just wanted to help him out. Especially since you could tell he was severely lacking any sense of self confidence. Anyway he gets on the treadmill and starts running, which was quite a site in itself, then all of sudden his feet fly out from under him, he goes spread eagle and BAM! Falls flat on his face and then the treadmill shoots him off into the bikes behind it! I could just hear the treadmill smile and say "yeah bitch, respect my authority...". I almost pissed myself laughing.

 

[Zell959]

Not as humourous as a lot of the stories on her, but I've been dying to add one to the thread.

I'm squating last night. I'm working for a new PR for the week. I start with sets of 3 and build my way up.

A female trainer is training one of her perpetually flabby clients. She's got the client standing on one of those half swiss balls(Half the swill ball, none of the benefit, yay!) and doing curls.

She observes me squating deep with more weight that any of her clients(but a small amount of weight compared to more advanced lifters) and comes over to advised me that it is dangerous. I responded that danger is relative and I'm more than confident in my ability to squat saftely.

She replied that I wasn't even doing the right amount of reps to "lean out" anyway. I thanked God I wasn't on some heavy cycle and politely respond that she is wrong to assume that everyone in the gyms fitness goals center around leaning out with high rep schemes. I continued on to explain that I'm looking to develop strength through better muscle fiber recruitment and contitioning my CNS.

Her response? blank stare, then a silent walk back to her client. I consider the matter victoriously resolved and with out incident. Then as I walk out I'm stopped by one of the senior trainers looking to discuss "the problem in the weight room". The little bitch told on me for simply wanting to be left alone. I told the head trainer that she had chosen to give me advice when I didn't want it. The head trainer shoots back that they're "trying to keep things safe out there".

My patience officially gone I get some tone in my voice and tell him his trainers are too brain dead to keep a bowl of jello safe, much less an exercise facility. I tell him I'm more than able to maintain my own safety while lifting and if that is a problem with his trainers I will have no choice but to demand a refund for the month and will find somewhere else to train.

More a rant than a funny story, but that is the stupidest thing I've encountered in the gym for a long time.

 

[Makavelli]

Another one guys. I think that the stupidest thing in the gym is the couples that participate in "synchronized training". Anybody whose has seen this will atest to it's stupidity. "Synchronized training" sounds like an Olympic sport, but oh no my fellow iron bros, this is much more extreme. It involves two or more duschebags, normally a man and woman, but sometimes it's the same gender, performing an exercise in the same manner at the same time and on the same tempo. For example, the loving couple will be doing biceps curls to the same unheard beat. Going up and down at the same time, stopping at the same number of reps, and many times doing the same weight.... But hey, they're looking to "tone"...

 

[androjunkie]

Not as humourous as a lot of the stories on her, but I've been dying to add one to the thread.

I'm squating last night. I'm working for a new PR for the week. I start with sets of 3 and build my way up.

A female trainer is training one of her perpetually flabby clients. She's got the client standing on one of those half swiss balls(Half the swill ball, none of the benefit, yay!) and doing curls.

She observes me squating deep with more weight that any of her clients(but a small amount of weight compared to more advanced lifters) and comes over to advised me that it is dangerous. I responded that danger is relative and I'm more than confident in my ability to squat saftely.

She replied that I wasn't even doing the right amount of reps to "lean out" anyway. I thanked God I wasn't on some heavy cycle and politely respond that she is wrong to assume that everyone in the gyms fitness goals center around leaning out with high rep schemes. I continued on to explain that I'm looking to develop strength through better muscle fiber recruitment and contitioning my CNS.

Her response? blank stare, then a silent walk back to her client. I consider the matter victoriously resolved and with out incident. Then as I walk out I'm stopped by one of the senior trainers looking to discuss "the problem in the weight room". The little bitch told on me for simply wanting to be left alone. I told the head trainer that she had chosen to give me advice when I didn't want it. The head trainer shoots back that they're "trying to keep things safe out there".

My patience officially gone I get some tone in my voice and tell him his trainers are too brain dead to keep a bowl of jello safe, much less an exercise facility. I tell him I'm more than able to maintain my own safety while lifting and if that is a problem with his trainers I will have no choice but to demand a refund for the month and will find somewhere else to train.

More a rant than a funny story, but that is the stupidest thing I've encountered in the gym for a long time.

That sounds like something that would happen at Cal Fit. Bitch ass gym.

 

[2lunatics_ina_rubber_room]

There was this old fella that had joined the gym after having a heart attack. He said his Dr wanted him to clean up his lifestyle amd start excercising.

Well, I looked over and saw the old fart smoking a cigarette and riding a excercise bike !! No Lie

The 2 Lunatices -- Bob & Jessica

 

[camshaft]

- clowns who think they are all hard, yet dont lift jack shit
- people who dont use proper form
- pretty boys who come dressed like they are going to the club

funniest thing ever was this cat that used to come in wearing a party hat, you know the cone shaped hat with an elastic chinstrap. he would run sideways on the treadmill for an hour at a time, no shit.

 

[dugie65]

funniest thing ever was this cat that used to come in wearing a party hat, you know the cone shaped hat with an elastic chinstrap. he would run sideways on the treadmill for an hour at a time, no shit.

hahahah.. actually laughed outloud when i read this. What kind of a clown would do that.

 

[digit0x]

This thread is non-stop laughter.

 

[marqui77]

The stupidest thing I have seen in a long time was a guy dressed in short sleeve spandex bike shirt that zips up at the neck, the kind that you see Lance Armstrong wearing. I was in front of the dumb bell rack when the guy walks over and picks a 2.5 dumb bell and starts doing forehands and backhands with it for 30 and 40 reps.

 

[digit0x]

All of a sudden, I hear a boom and I see the guy slip on the treadmill. It's like I'm watching this in slow motion. His legs go out from underneath him. He manages to grab the handlebar on the front of the tread mill and is hanging on like someone hanging on to the bumper of a car going 30 miles an hour. His legs are flailing around trying to get some footing and WHAM, the treadmill grabs the bottom of his sweat pants and off they come!!

-buff_lover

We've got this kid in my gym we call MAD DOG. He's about 110lbs at 30% BF. He's always posing in the mirrors and saying he's got the best body in the gym and that the women can't keep thier eyes off of him.

Every week this kid finds new and creative ways to fall off of the rack that we use to do hyper extensions on. The first time he was eyeing this chick and tryed to spin up onto the rack, in that cool James Dean fashion and spun right off the other side. Not two minutes later he did the same thing again. Next time ther's no counter weight and when he starts down the whole rack falss right on top of him. he then proceeds to 6 45's onto the rack. This has gone on for months Every week he falls off the rack.

last week he was adjusting the pegs you put your ankles under to hold you up.(God only knows why) We watched him try to put the pin back in and when he couldn't figure it out he just put it in his pocket. The he jumps up on the rack leans forward really fast, the support flys off he hits the floor and the support nails him in the back of the head.

Knocked his ass out cold for about 2 minutes.

-Purdog

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