Funny Gym Sights...

[ChrisROCK]

OK, this may not belong in this forum, but I had to post it here. I'm not one to laugh at people in the gym usually at all. In fact, more often than not i'll even give a new guy/girl a pointer or two if i see them doing something wrong, etc.

Well, tonight...there was no way to stop this. The few of us that saw it couldn't stop laughing, nobody could possiby have made their way over to correct the guy.

Anyways...this older guy (in his 50s probably)...clearly a new year's resolution joiner... He approaches the dip/pullup machine. This particular machine is the weight-assist apparatus. On the bottom it has a t-bar like bar that you put your feet on to assist with your dips or pullups, if you need. So this guy proceeds to sit on the step that you're supposed to use to get UP on the machine. And uses the T-bar thing to push down on it. He proceeds to do this for 2 sets of about 12 reps each. All the while using awful form . It was, without a doubt, one of the funniest things I've ever seen in the gym.

Just wanted to share some humor....

 

[soxmuscle]

Anyone who steps on those assisted dip/pullup machines I laugh at.

 

[PreMier]

I think that Dale does tricep pushdowns like that. I think its part of the routine he is doing.

I dont see anything wrong with it.. just because its not conventional.

 

[soxmuscle]

well if there is some huge dude using it then fine, but 99% of the time its some old guy just watching the tv or some lady reading a magazine..

 

[Mudge]

Anyone who steps on those assisted dip/pullup machines I laugh at.

My best rows and benches were over 400 and I'd still be very close to using one of those things. I can do about 10 clean pullups without assistance, but for those that need a little help I think those are better than pulldowns. My bench went up when I switched from pulldowns to an assisted pullup machine about 2.5 years ago.

 

[Pizzer]

to throw in another humorous gym story...

about a week ago, this guy comes into the gym that i have never seen in the year that ive been going there. anyway, he is wearing one of those soft sueded silk sweat suits (matchin pants and jacket) that is purple and yellow and white...
anyway... i was doing legs that day... i had just gotten off the squat rack and i started to notice that he was one of those copy-cat guys at the gym. you know, the guys that linger around and kinda stop here and stop there and do this and that... following the lead of the people around them (the big guy did squats, let me do squats next) long story getting shorter, he gets on to the leg press right after i got off... i had 490 on there... he gets on this thing and gets prep'd to do a set... next thing i knew, myself and two other guys had to go save him and press the sled up... he had gotten the weight down, but couldnt get it up... it came down so low, that it had started to squish his chest... needless to say, he couldve died. But we saved him, consulted him on the proper way to exercise using the machine, then walked away and chuckled and laughed the rest of our workout. not really funny, but it was entertaining to see at the least.

 

[sgtneo]

we have a couple of people like that at our gym either use the machines wrong like one person who rather than using his arms to work the machine he leans his entire body weight back so in affect he gets nothing from the work out, or you get the people that dont know how to work out just try to do 1-2 reps on as much weight as they can set a machine to and then leave lol

Neo

 

[I Are Baboon]

*story*

LMAO! Good stuff.



As far as the assist machine goes, I use it sometimes at the end of my back workout when I want to do chinups and my muscles are too tired to do any without a little help. Nothin' wrong with that.

 

[Golden_Boy]

I think it's funny when you see someone working out and ask yourself "what the hell is that guy trying to work, exactly?"...and he walks off the machine looking like he beat himself like an animal.
But on the same token, I think it's sad to see someone in the gym who is clueless, with no one helping them out until they are in trouble, or those who come in hung on their egos. I've seen lots of that in my gyms, and it's just someone asking for injury.