so there was this guy in the gym . . .
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Maybe it's his pre-/during-workout booster. The caffeine in MDew is insane!1
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Speaking of odd sights. On my cardio day, back a few days ago, there was a guy using one of the treadmills. He also had a short resistance band that he had looked behind his back. As he walked fast, at one point he punched up his hand in the air several times, while of course making noises. He was really into it. Whatever he was doing. The rest of us weren't sure what the thought process was, however.0
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People do different things on the cardio machines which is cool but it gets weird when someone decides to walk sideways facing you.
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DawnEmbers wrote: »Speaking of odd sights. On my cardio day, back a few days ago, there was a guy using one of the treadmills. He also had a short resistance band that he had looked behind his back. As he walked fast, at one point he punched up his hand in the air several times, while of course making noises. He was really into it. Whatever he was doing. The rest of us weren't sure what the thought process was, however.
My aunt always said "power-walking makes your boobs grow big!". Maybe he wanted bigger boobs.1 -
MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »People do different things on the cardio machines which is cool but it gets weird when someone decides to walk sideways facing you.
OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS!
You should have turned towards him and walked sideways with a creepy smile on your face.
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@VeryKatie yes! And eating bread crusts makes your hair curly.
@crabada next time! I'll call it the mirror.0 -
MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »@crabada next time! I'll call it the mirror.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Besides, snapping a photo would make it that much better.
Please, please, please do this. It would make my year.
And make this face:
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »@VeryKatie yes! And eating bread crusts makes your hair curly.
nono, that's eating the fat off the roast beef.
i love this thread, and i love you people for all your input on it.
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »@crabada next time! I'll call it the mirror.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Besides, snapping a photo would make it that much better.
Please, please, please do this. It would make my year.
And make this face:
The picture isn't working for me but I'll assume it's something like this:
And if it is, then we're on the same page.
ETA: I don't know who Trina is.0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »@VeryKatie yes! And eating bread crusts makes your hair curly.
nono, that's eating the fat off the roast beef.
i love this thread, and i love you people for all your input on it.
Lol. I also wouldn't eat chunks of fat on meat. I called it "shiny meat" and I didn't like how it "made my teeth bounce back when I tried to bite it". (I know there's a That's What She Said in there). My parents never tried the curly hair trick which was probably in their better interest.
Story time! I used to cry and refuse to eat my crusts whenever my grandma or someone said that to me because I had curly hair and I hated it. I wanted long, shiny, straight hair like my friend, Sam. Serves them right for lying. Part B of this story is that I saw an advertisement for wishing troll dolls once where the girl wished for her straight, shiny hair to be curly and *poof* it happened. So I wished my little heart out on my troll droll for the opposite and it never happened. I blamed the fact that I had a regular troll and not a wishing troll with a jewel navel.
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When I was a kid I wished my curly hair would be straight. When I hit puberty I got my wish... sort of. Now it's just wavy enough to be unmanageable but not enough to look actually wavy. I guess that fits in the "be careful what you wish for" category.0
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I'm on the other end of the hair topic, I guess. My hair is straight and does not do anything else. If I want curly that stays, I have to get a very tight perm, which isn't a good look either on me. I tried a loose perm once from a salon and it disappeared the next day. So long ago, I might have done something wrong but I don't think so. Anyways, even though I wish I could do more things with the plain straight hair, I don't even own a curling iron cause the effort isn't worth the short last time for me.
The instructor for the Les Mills Grit Strength class had curly hair. I notice such, it seems.0 -
I have hair that is right in the middle of Owl and Dawn. It's also got some wave too it, but not the parts that frame my face, so it never looks good when I try to wear it naturally. But generally, it won't hold a curl for more than 2.3 seconds, so trying to fix it with a curling iron is a waste of time. So I basically wear it in a pony tail or bun every damn day. Unless it's my sister's wedding and the love in the air gave me decent hair for exactly 12 hours (see pic) -- maybe less because I was drunk for six of those hours and just assumed my hair still looked amazing.1
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maybe less because I was drunk for six of those hours and just assumed my hair still looked amazing.
i don't know when the last time was that someone told you what an ornament to the planet you are, but i think it's time for a booster of that.
me, i have the straight hair. and i wanted curly as well.
however. one of the things rheumatoid arthritis CAN do is make your hair fall out. i shed about half of mine during the year when i felt like absolute crap all the time but didn't know something medical was wrong with me because nothing had swollen up yet . . . and just like chemo, when i got myself stabilized the half-my-hair that had fallen out came back with a really marked wave/curl to it. i always did want curly hair, but it doesn't suit me at all. i was glad when whatever all that was about went away finally and i got my normal straight hair that suits my face back.
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@ Canadian --
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It's funny you all started talking about hair, because I was just thinking this morning as I was getting cleaned up after my workout how I hate blow drying my hair. I have to though, because if I don't, it gets super poofy and little bit wavy and looks crazy! Sounds like my hair is similar to yours, Crabada. What really sucks is that it always looks cute when it's still wet, but it never stays that way if I let it air dry lol.0
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Hair talk? That's what happens when I go away? ROFL!
A lil late, but Mountain Dew is delicious (to me anyway, only soda I'll drink anymore. Maybe it's my gamer side) and full, and i mean FULL of sugar. I guess if you're bulking it's a pretty good intra-workout carb mix. LOL
On the hair topic, since I keep mine short for the most part I can't really say anything about curly or straight, but I really wish this mane didn't grow quite as quickly as it does. It's like weeds on steroids! A month and a half and it gets all puffy and shaggy and needs another trim. If my grandma didn't have her skillset I would be so poor xD0 -
I was looking for this hair convo for some reason and couldn't find it anywhere -- and then realized it's because it's in the "There was this guy in the gym" thread.
I have a story, but it's so hard to explain that I'm still kicking myself for not just taking a picture of the guy to post. He was doing reverse somethings in a big, full body machine of some kind, so his face was planted against the back rest and his *kitten* was sticking out and I was just like, WTF is that guy *doing*? Next time, I'll snap the pic, I promise!
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Oh back to gym talk? I was going to talk about nails next
@crabada I'm picturing him doing v-ups in a leg machine. Always good to rub your face all over a gym machine. Pink eye is fun!
I saw a man having three of his friends help squeeze him into a compression shirt in the middle of the weight room. I pictured Scarlett O'Hara yelling at her maids, "Make me 18 inches!" He then got on the bench and pressed 505 lbs. Holy hell it was crazy! It helped me stop being such a baby about doing 80.1 -
I saw a lady that looked like she must be in her 80s lifting free weights today. Hard to make any excuses when you see that.1
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That's rad!0
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »Oh back to gym talk? I was going to talk about nails next
@crabada I'm picturing him doing v-ups in a leg machine. Always good to rub your face all over a gym machine. Pink eye is fun!
I saw a man having three of his friends help squeeze him into a compression shirt in the middle of the weight room. I pictured Scarlett O'Hara yelling at her maids, "Make me 18 inches!" He then got on the bench and pressed 505 lbs. Holy hell it was crazy! It helped me stop being such a baby about doing 80.
Oh, bench shirt! I have yet to see anyone try to lift with any equipment but knee sleeves and belts at my gym, somehow.
Also props to the older lady! I plan on being that badass when I'm that age (if i ever get there... xD)0 -
I saw a woman walking on the treadmill today kind of randomly waving her arms in the air. I only realized it was part of her workout when she kept doing it for her whole workout -- about 20 minutes.0
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there's a huge chinese population in my city. i see people doing stuff like that all the time - mostly older people, sort of mao-era age. and if i get up early enough i get to ride past flocks of them doing t'ai chi en masse in places like school playing fields and municipal tennis courts. it's real neat.
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the one that throws me was more of a caucasian-middle-class-intellectuals fad while it lasted, and based on that i suspect it had something to do with staying brilliant forever or something like that. it seems to have gone out of fashion already. but for a while there, i was constantly coming across people who were basically just walking, but they were all kitted up with those cross-country-skiing type poles like a finnish swat team from wwii. i'm sure there's some *cough* science to it but i'm not surprised it died out. for sheer silliness of appearance it was so hard to beat.0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »And a little glimpse into the perhaps less kind and supportive side of my personality. (You've been warned! )
well, i like that. funny thing, back when i was an active mom i could tell anyone to do or not to do anything, but the habit kind of wore off.
i swear i'm going to find a screenprinting shop some day and get a shirt made up that says 'YOUR MOTHER DOESN'T LIFT HERE' on the front and 'PUT YOUR WEIGHTS BACK' on the back. it's starting to drive me right out of my mind.
I'm totally rude about it and proud of it. If I'm at the gym, which is rare because I finally got my own home gym, I'll watch people while I'm lifting. I can't help it, my eyes move to whatever catches them. I don't watch the clock but I do time people, sort of. If I can get through 5 sets of squats doing SL 5X5 and someone hasn't come back to their weights by then, I'll put their weight back along with mine. Gives me a little extra workout in between my sets and keeps the gym cleaner. Give's other's a chance to use the stuff that those jerkwads never bothered to put back or are hogging while taking half hour breaks fighting with their SO over the phone.
One day I went into the gym, noticed a guy just putting the bar down from squatting and then walked away. I figured he was using the rack so I'd start with my bench press. Went through all 5 sets, took about 20 minutes, and he hadn't come back so I firgured screw it, I was going to do my squats. La la la did 4 sets and he finally shows up just as I finish set 4, screams at me that I took over his squat rack. I did my final set as he was screaming at me, which just caused him to get even more angry, and put my weights back when I completed my 5th set. At that point, he was out of breath and I was done. I looked right at him and simply said "thanks for giving me the time to complete my workout during your %^&*( fest. It's all yours now."0 -
Guy at gym was using squat rack and offered to let me work in (first offer ever made thus far to work in cause it wasn't the cage so height didn't matter as much) cause he was just lunging with the bar. But, he asked if I wanted to work in if I just needed the bar. I don't even do warm ups with the bar right now. lol. He only had one set left so I told him I could wait. He probably wasn't expecting my working set to be 125. hehe
While I did my sets, however, he proceeded to do leg press and other ones like that and turns out he's one of the grunting types. Understandable to a degree but still awkward when I'm squatting and he's on the one right behind me making noises every rep he manages.0 -
Bwahaha! So funny! Thank you all for sharing!
Ah, yes, the grunters....there is grunting that is allowable...but then there are those that take it to the next level -eek!!0 -
Don't know how I ever missed this thread. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time! Thanks :-)0
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Bwahaha! So funny! Thank you all for sharing!
Ah, yes, the grunters....there is grunting that is allowable...but then there are those that take it to the next level -eek!!
oh man . . . there was the rugby team in the gym again last night (and no, really; you wouldn't drool. they're all about 14 years old, and their heads bounce all the time from the noise going on in their ears). one of them was on the leg-press thing, while the rest were scouring the gym and collecting every-single-freaking-one of the 45 plates to load him down with. as usual. i didn't see who the presser was, but i heard him, and so did everyone else. not just him but his entourage too. business throughout the whole gym sort of faltered and faded away and people were just kind of standing around looking sideways at one another occasionally.
they sounded like what you would get at a local tourettes-syndrome convention, if a capella had been one of the activities planned.0 -
they're strange kids actually. it's like they have selective manners. it's not like they're rude in any way, they're just completely oblivious, like 5-year-olds. i LONG for a chance to say to at least one of them 'bro, do you even math?' because the way they stick plates back on the pegs (when they do it) is like spiders spinning webs while they're on lsd. it is just absolutely effing random, and nobody even knows where the little plates are because they're all buried under the great big 45's that are higher up on the peg.
yet their etiquette is among the best in most other respects. they don't trash-talk each other, they don't seem to have a pecking order at all - which is something i really like especially because there's a huge range of strength and experience among the whole bunch of them. every one of them spots and coaches every other one with solemn respect no matter where they are on any lift. and they all seem to know the limits of their own expertise when they're 'coaching', which is even more admirable. and if you happen to intersect with any of them in a verbal way, like needing to negotiate for time on a piece of equipment, they're beautifully brought up in both directions. to me they're like a bunch of toddlers, almost. their selfishness is completely without malice or meanness.
heh though. the squat king was probably the one making noise, and as far as the group has an alpha i'd guess he's it. he slouched in all gangsta, wearing that sweatshirt with the hood pulled up over his head and the toque underneath it jammed down to BELOW his eyebrows, bobbing and bopping silently to whatever was on his ipod. and i swear i think that he had his eyes closed.
and he just went straight to the lifts without changing a thing. he must have been going for a pr, because the face he was making was devastating. he just had this little triangle of eyelids-to-chin showing inside all the headgear, and the whole expanse of it was puffed up with this ginormous breath he was holding in. cheeks puffed out like balloons, mouth all pinched shut from inside by his own teeth, eyes completely invisible. i happened to catch sight of him deadlifting behind me in the mirror, and i almost dropped my ohp bar on my own head.
when i deadlift, i can get an extra 5 pounds on the bar if i just plant my top teeth in my bottom lip. this guy was blown out like a huge puffer fish.0
