Gym Idiot Sightings 2007

[I Are Baboon]

The resolutioners seem to be hanging on longer than I expected. I thought after not working out for 10 days, the crowd would thin. No such luck.

(my 10 day break was due to my being on a Lake Tahoe ski vacation, not slacking)

 

[Uthinkso]

The resolutioners seem to be hanging on longer than I expected. I thought after not working out for 10 days, the crowd would thin. No such luck.

(my 10 day break was due to my being on a Lake Tahoe ski vacation, not slacking)

Agreed they are still rnning strong at my place as well. I don't get it, but hye more power to them. Though it does crowd the place a bit, especially the cardio. I'd say 99% of the resolution people are there for fat loss.

 

[Big G]

It's the same in Columbus, Ohio. What's the deal?

Running 5 miles on a treadmill with 3 or 4 "wide loads" taking turns on the treadmill in front is against humanitarian law, isn't it?

They do have to pay more for taking up more room in the gym, right?

Maybe we could get together and sue for the pain of watching their suffering. Something!

 

[DOMS]

Maybe the these are the people that will stick with it?

 

[katt]

Ok - so I don't - really don't - like working out in the evenings at our gym,, it's too damn crowded with high-schoolers (no offense to the high school peoples here)... but I had just picked up a 50 lb DB to do overhead tri presses and this kid, put's his feet on the one and only seat with a back support to do his bench dips..... and he says,,, "there's another bench over there" well.... it doesn't have a back that I need for support...

So I got a little miffed and left to do the Hammer Strength tricep press instead.... well,,, after my very first set was done and my partner was getting ready to load his plates on it,,, the asshole's girlfriend (90 lbs maybe soaking wet) came up and asked if she could do a "quick set"......

Shit....

 

[DOMS]

After having consulted the Oxford English dictionary, the Merriam Webster website, and my own writings on the subject, I believe that the correct response should have been, "Fuck you!"

 

[Uthinkso]

After having consulted the Oxford English dictionary, the Merriam Webster website, and my own writings on the subject, I believe that the correct response should have been, "Fuck you!"

I concur with findings Professor DOMS!

 

[katt]

Would have fit perfectly....

 

[Big G]

OK. This is too F&^%ing funny. I have tears in my eye reading these posts. Everyone on this board rocks! Thanks for the smiles, folks. You can all pat yourself on the back from me!

 

[Uthinkso]

OK. This is too F&^%ing funny. I have tears in my eye reading these posts. Everyone on this board rocks! Thanks for the smiles, folks. You can all pat yourself on the back from me!

I would but its shoulder day, and I don't want to risk pulling anything

 

[I Are Baboon]

People who think the exercise ball is a basketball and insist on bouncing it in the weight room should have the fully inflated ball shoved up their cornholes.

 

[SamEaston]

Ok, so this morning im on the treadmill, and this young guy starts up on the one next to me. He starts going at it quite fast, really concentrating like.
Im just like, fine, paying attention to myself just incase i trip or something, cos i get really paranoid im going to fall off the things. Five minutes goes by and then the fire alarm goes off. Now, im in that gym every morning at the same time and i know that sometimes its just a drill, so i just carry on as normal.

Next thing, the gym supervisor comes in the door (behind the treadmills) and shouts 'its alright, its just a drill'. No need to worry right? Well, at the sound of the supervisors voice, Forrest next to me turns around to see who is shouting and, not paying attention for a milisecond, loses his footing, the belt sweeps his feet away from him and he goes down, smacking his head on the console on the way.

Obviously totally mortified now, and on the floor, he picks himself up and dusts himself off. Now, this is the point at which he should have gone home, but no, in order to redeem himself and repair some of the pride he just hurt by falling off the treadmill, he decides to get back on, WITHOUT STOPPING THE MACHINE!!
I swear to god, he jumped back onto the moving belt, got in about two steps before falling off it again and landing back up on the floor. He got up again and tried it AGAIN, but this time grabbed a hold of the handrail and managed to stay on.

I was watching all of this in the full length mirror in front of me, having myself grabbed hold of my own handrails just incase the bad karma from pissing myself laughing at him made me fall off too!! His face was beetroot.

I had to leave before i hurt myself laughing.

 

[DOMS]

 

[Phred]

People who think the exercise ball is a basketball and insist on bouncing it in the weight room should have the fully inflated ball shoved up their cornholes.

What the hell is that thing doing in the weight room???!!! I thought is was for the Pool.

 

[StanUk]

Ok, so this morning im on the treadmill, and this young guy starts up on the one next to me. He starts going at it quite fast, really concentrating like.
Im just like, fine, paying attention to myself just incase i trip or something, cos i get really paranoid im going to fall off the things. Five minutes goes by and then the fire alarm goes off. Now, im in that gym every morning at the same time and i know that sometimes its just a drill, so i just carry on as normal.

Next thing, the gym supervisor comes in the door (behind the treadmills) and shouts 'its alright, its just a drill'. No need to worry right? Well, at the sound of the supervisors voice, Forrest next to me turns around to see who is shouting and, not paying attention for a milisecond, loses his footing, the belt sweeps his feet away from him and he goes down, smacking his head on the console on the way.

Obviously totally mortified now, and on the floor, he picks himself up and dusts himself off. Now, this is the point at which he should have gone home, but no, in order to redeem himself and repair some of the pride he just hurt by falling off the treadmill, he decides to get back on, WITHOUT STOPPING THE MACHINE!!
I swear to god, he jumped back onto the moving belt, got in about two steps before falling off it again and landing back up on the floor. He got up again and tried it AGAIN, but this time grabbed a hold of the handrail and managed to stay on.

I was watching all of this in the full length mirror in front of me, having myself grabbed hold of my own handrails just incase the bad karma from pissing myself laughing at him made me fall off too!! His face was beetroot.

I had to leave before i hurt myself laughing.

haha! I would have paid to have seen that!

 

[Big G]

Seriously folks, this has been the best thread ever. God bless the Resolutioners. At least they're good for something.

 

[JonnyStead]

I was in the hotel gym last night and these 2 girls came in. One was training in Jeans - thats right in tight jeans. After doing some suspicious looking 'push ups' she decided to use the thingy people use to make crunches safer - you know you kinda lie in it on the floor and it helps with the movement - anywho after a couple of mins trying to work out how to use it these two guys from the hotel come in to change the towels etc.

So the girls ask these two (who barely speak english I should add) how to use this thing and they proceed to start 'teaching' them. Only its abundently clear that they dont know either so I asked if either of them were PTs (they looked at me blankly) so I suggested to the girls that they should do some walking on the treadmill and join a gym when they get home to get tuition. The 2 guys werent happy - but hey ho... role on march...

 

[Pedro TT]

Agreed they are still rnning strong at my place as well. I don't get it, but hye more power to them. Though it does crowd the place a bit, especially the cardio. I'd say 99% of the resolution people are there for fat loss.

As the more days pass, the less I see the resolutioners. By march I think 95% are gone.

 

[Uthinkso]

As the more days pass, the less I see the resolutioners. By march I think 95% are gone.

I joined my new gym just after the new year, and as I was leaving yesterday the owner asked me, "So whens the next workout"? I thought for a second and said, well Sunday its slow in here I like it then. Ok see you then.

As I was driving home, I got to thinking. Did he think I was a resolutioner? I've lost 22lb in the mans gym in seven weeks. I'm there three days a week, and sometimes four. Then I realized that I was over thinking it.

The resolutioners are still holding strong at my gym though.

 

[Valias]

Whilst this guy isn't a New years guy, i thought you guys might like to hear it, i can't believe i didn't think of it earlier.

Ok, side lateral raises with dumbels right? Now think holding onto one corner of a power rack, and using your other arm to lateral raise a dumbell

then going to the otherside of the rack to do your other shoulder. Now immagine two guys doing this for around 20 minutes.

Sadly this guy is on roids (or so the gym talk says) and he's fairly buff.

 

[Spud]

Whilst this guy isn't a New years guy, i thought you guys might like to hear it, i can't believe i didn't think of it earlier.

Ok, side lateral raises with dumbels right? Now think holding onto one corner of a power rack, and using your other arm to lateral raise a dumbell

then going to the otherside of the rack to do your other shoulder. Now immagine two guys doing this for around 20 minutes.

Sadly this guy is on roids (or so the gym talk says) and he's fairly buff.

I've seen that exercise advertised in Muscle and Fitness many times.

 

[silverback]

As the more days pass, the less I see the resolutioners. By march I think 95% are gone.

Yep, but by the end of march we have the 'the summer's coming crew' joining and doing much the same as the reolutioners!

 

[BulkMeUp]

Yesterday there was this chick with one of those short BB's with fixed weights on her back, standing on that half swiss ball turned over (the flat side up), with one foot over the other knee and doing one legged squats!

 

[Gazhole]

Two days ago:

A guy moving from machine to machine training his girlfriend.

He was loading them way higher than he could handle. It was obvious. I was laughing my head off inside, but the last few reps he was putting his entire body into a LATERAL RAISE machine.

There was also somebody who came in lay down on a fixed-plane bench press machine, loading it with 20KG per side, whacked out 8 reps (baaaad form. even on a fixed plane - feet up on the bench, elbows flared to fucking hades).

Then...he loaded it with an extra 30KG each side...and whacked out anoth 8 reps - the first four in terrible form, the second four getting a lower range of motion each rep untill the last one moved about three inches in total. His breathing stopped around rep three and it honestly looked like his main training goal was to burst all the blood vessels in his fucking face.

What a tool!

 

[JonnyStead]

Holy crap these people worry me - I remember my dad telling me that his brother used to hang around bodybuilders back in the '60's and because of overdoing it, more than one of them had a stroke! nice...

Hey ho...

 

[Gazhole]

Holy crap these people worry me - I remember my dad telling me that his brother used to hang around bodybuilders back in the '60's and because of overdoing it, more than one of them had a stroke! nice...

Hey ho...

The guy i saw was by no means a bodybuilder, hahaha.

I barely consider him capable of logical thought.

 

[katt]

Wow - were you at my gym yesterday???

 

[JonnyStead]

The guy i saw was by no means a bodybuilder, hahaha.

I barely consider him capable of logical thought.

A drummer then?

I can say that... I play drums

 

[Mystik]

I saw one guy yesterday doing free weight leg extensions, I guess he had it way overloaded the weights. "theres not much room on that little bar"

He was turning quite red in the face and sweating like crazy, but he not even have water bottle near by. He looked like pretty big guy that didnt seem to smart.

 

[juggernaut]

Wow - were you at my gym yesterday???

be nice katt