Gym stories

Idle_Moon
Idle_Moon Posts: 151 Member
edited November 13 in Fitness and Exercise
Do you have a gym story you'd like to share with us? :smile:

I was working out in the morning and there were lots of eldery people working out too. One of the instructors walked by. He started greeting and encouraging them. "Goodmorning, sir! Enjoying your workout breakfast?"
It made me so happy to see how friendly he was. :smile:
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  • pickle_walsh
    pickle_walsh Posts: 14 Member
    Im a member of my city councils network of gyms and my membership lets me use them all. I recently used a different one from my normal gym and was surprised how much better it was. It has just had a £250,000 overhal with state of the art Matrix machines and this fancy bodytrax scales that you have to go on barefoot and stuff. The staff are a lot better too and more then willing to help with advise and sessions. They even have regular contests to win a free month (current is a leader board for the best time rowing 2000 meters).
  • Idle_Moon
    Idle_Moon Posts: 151 Member
    I've been doing strenght training for 6 weeks now. I'm using those resistance machines at the gym. Now I'm getting "lifting hands". :open_mouth: Some guy at my work is doing heavy free weight lifting and he has big worn down hands. I'm starting to get callus too on my hands. I thought it was funny. A little sign that I'm doing something right. :smile:
  • Lizarking
    Lizarking Posts: 507 Member
    Idle_Moon wrote: »
    @Lizarking: lol, that first story. The dude is scared that his chick is going to beat him up someday. :cold_sweat:
    And the lady in your second story sounded like she wanted you to kill her. :astonished:

    To be honest, I wanted to give him a kiss on the cheek with a 45lb wheel.
  • Idle_Moon
    Idle_Moon Posts: 151 Member
    @Lizarking: That's one heavy kiss. :wink:

    @amycurtisqueen: Don't feel like that! You can't magically transform in one day. Nobody is awkward in the gym if you're working out and doing your own thing. :blush:
  • amycurtisqueen
    amycurtisqueen Posts: 22 Member
    Idle_Moon wrote: »
    @Lizarking: That's one heavy kiss. :wink:

    @amycurtisqueen: Don't feel like that! You can't magically transform in one day. Nobody is awkward in the gym if you're working out and doing your own thing. :blush:

    Thank you. I know. But I know how *I* am and I assume others are the same way. I see obese people at the gym and wonder if they are going to stick with it and change their life or if they are going to leave and eat a dozen donuts. Just being transparent.
  • Idle_Moon
    Idle_Moon Posts: 151 Member
    Today the schools started and wow! The gym is so crowded! But a lot of people left after my warming up. :relieved:
    I also saw an old classmate in the gym! Maybe we will see each other more often.
  • LazSommer
    LazSommer Posts: 1,851 Member
    I did squats today
  • LazSommer
    LazSommer Posts: 1,851 Member
    another good story - I did bench too
  • Sweet_Heresy
    Sweet_Heresy Posts: 411 Member
    I watched in horror as a guy leg pressed on the Smith machine. I figured it was only a matter of time before he smashed his face.
  • tillerstouch
    tillerstouch Posts: 608 Member
    Lizarking wrote: »
    I'm in the Jones machine, because there's a woman in the squat rack.
    She's doing deadlifts in front of the rack with about 65lbs.
    > mfw she's taking up a rack for deadlifts.

    Anyway she moves on to squats, and loads up 65 lbs. Which she handles super easy, because, 65 lbs.

    On about rep 5, this meathead on toothpicks comes running up to her "BABE BABE, that's too HEAVY!"
    He starts peeling weights off her bar until she's down to a bare bar. He says "You don't want to look like a man!"

    Then he goes back to his mas.. er, bro curls in the dumbbell area.

    Lol and here i am forcing my fiance to throw on more weight (helped her get to squating 145 with perfect form, deep squats). I better tell her to just starting doing the bar though so she doesnt start looking like a guy... (does that mean women who squat heavy grow male genitals?)
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited August 2016
    tillerstouch wrote: »
    Lizarking wrote: »
    I'm in the Jones machine, because there's a woman in the squat rack.
    She's doing deadlifts in front of the rack with about 65lbs.
    > mfw she's taking up a rack for deadlifts.

    Anyway she moves on to squats, and loads up 65 lbs. Which she handles super easy, because, 65 lbs.

    On about rep 5, this meathead on toothpicks comes running up to her "BABE BABE, that's too HEAVY!"
    He starts peeling weights off her bar until she's down to a bare bar. He says "You don't want to look like a man!"

    Then he goes back to his mas.. er, bro curls in the dumbbell area.

    Lol and here i am forcing my fiance to throw on more weight (helped her get to squating 145 with perfect form, deep squats). I better tell her to just starting doing the bar though so she doesnt start looking like a guy... (does that mean women who squat heavy grow male genitals?)

    If I'm a test subject, no... My 1RM on squat is 275 lbs. :D
  • tillerstouch
    tillerstouch Posts: 608 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    tillerstouch wrote: »
    Lizarking wrote: »
    I'm in the Jones machine, because there's a woman in the squat rack.
    She's doing deadlifts in front of the rack with about 65lbs.
    > mfw she's taking up a rack for deadlifts.

    Anyway she moves on to squats, and loads up 65 lbs. Which she handles super easy, because, 65 lbs.

    On about rep 5, this meathead on toothpicks comes running up to her "BABE BABE, that's too HEAVY!"
    He starts peeling weights off her bar until she's down to a bare bar. He says "You don't want to look like a man!"

    Then he goes back to his mas.. er, bro curls in the dumbbell area.

    Lol and here i am forcing my fiance to throw on more weight (helped her get to squating 145 with perfect form, deep squats). I better tell her to just starting doing the bar though so she doesnt start looking like a guy... (does that mean women who squat heavy grow male genitals?)

    If I'm a test subject, no... My 1RM on squat is 275 lbs. :D

    First of all, very impressive. Secondly good! Because i like seeing her progress and get stronger, also gotta love that glute progress lol.
  • CincyNeid
    CincyNeid Posts: 1,249 Member
    I ran into a guy that I grew up with this past Saturday. I haven't seen him in over 20 years and he still recognized me...
  • Idle_Moon
    Idle_Moon Posts: 151 Member
    Bah, only now I notice people not cleaning the machines they used. :angry:
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    Lizarking wrote: »
    Maybe she was trying to look up my pantleg, I can't even.

    :#:#:#:#:#:# why not just tell her 'you're in a dangerous, inconsiderate space and you need to move' though?

    i mean, i do. partly because damn it, if i get hurt then the fact it was 'their fault' isn't going to be enough to comfort me. and partly because it ain't like driving where you can't communicate with someone who's crowding you.
  • DresdenSinn
    DresdenSinn Posts: 665 Member
    Middle-aged female amateur bodybuilder was found lying near the cable station one Sunday morning a few years ago. She apparently died of a heart attack while working out by herself during the night. She always trained after hours by herself. My gym partner and I tried to make paranormal contact with her near the spot she was found and around the approximate time she died through several EVP sessions but we had no success.
  • JaxxieKat
    JaxxieKat Posts: 427 Member
    There is a guy who is always at the gym the same time I am. He looks just like Glenn Beck. He hits the preacher curls for about 5 minutes and spends the rest of the time staring at women. He's funny.
  • richardpkennedy1
    richardpkennedy1 Posts: 1,890 Member
    The more I go to the gym, the more I notice the different characters. There's:

    The guy who comes in each time, does some upper body workouts, flexes in the mirror, talks on his phone to people about his workout and goes out after about 30 minutes.

    The girl who spends 3 hours on every workout. At least an hour of cardio and a couple of hours doing various things on the floor (stretching, lifting very light weights etc).

    The guys who just talk really loudly to each other about their day and don't do very much.

    The girl who just does squats the entire time and gets her boyfriend to take videos of it.

    But hey, each to their own. I don't judge :-)

  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
    I always use the stairmaster, because I am a regular.

    Became friends with another regular, she was like a 50 year old mom who was very chatty and is sort of a diva. She would tell me at the passing of every woman, "honey, those tits are fake". "Oh that is real". Because up on the stairmaster, you have an aerial view of the whole gym.

    This second time, a woman adjacent on the stairmaster row told me she was having her period. Right out of the blue. She then proceeded to say she apologizes if it smells bad. I kept sniffing after that and there was no odour.

    Then another time, a stairmaster woman turned to fox news. Then came another woman to bike and she changed to msnbc to see keith olbermann. Stairmaster woman goes down grabs the remote and puts o reilly back on. Bike woman changes back to msnbc. Stairmaster woman shouts, "you *kitten* *kitten*" and she walks out. Bike woman then tells me, "hon I am sorry you had to witness that".

    Another time, fresh during the ipad craze in 2010 april. Dude goes on the stairmaster with his ipad. Ipad falls and screen cracks and dude starts crying. He had tears and running nose like someone died. He was middle aged and you don't see this kind of kiddie behaviour with middle aged fellas.

    Another time, a woman is on the stairmaster and she is wearing a very short skirt with a thong. You can see it when you climb next to her and start working out. She leans to me and asks, "excuse me, is my underwear visible, i'm sorry". I say, well I didn't quite notice. She says, "liar". I was like, "excuse me". She says, "there is no way you can miss it, be honest." I was like what the fuuudge.

    Another time on the stairmaster, a guy is working out and sneezes and phlegm flies out on all the people on the spinning bikes placed right before the stairmaster row.

    You really should go into stand-up comedy!
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
    I always use the stairmaster, because I am a regular.

    Became friends with another regular, she was like a 50 year old mom who was very chatty and is sort of a diva. She would tell me at the passing of every woman, "honey, those tits are fake". "Oh that is real". Because up on the stairmaster, you have an aerial view of the whole gym.

    This second time, a woman adjacent on the stairmaster row told me she was having her period. Right out of the blue. She then proceeded to say she apologizes if it smells bad. I kept sniffing after that and there was no odour.

    Then another time, a stairmaster woman turned to fox news. Then came another woman to bike and she changed to msnbc to see keith olbermann. Stairmaster woman goes down grabs the remote and puts o reilly back on. Bike woman changes back to msnbc. Stairmaster woman shouts, "you *kitten* *kitten*" and she walks out. Bike woman then tells me, "hon I am sorry you had to witness that".

    Another time, fresh during the ipad craze in 2010 april. Dude goes on the stairmaster with his ipad. Ipad falls and screen cracks and dude starts crying. He had tears and running nose like someone died. He was middle aged and you don't see this kind of kiddie behaviour with middle aged fellas.

    Another time, a woman is on the stairmaster and she is wearing a very short skirt with a thong. You can see it when you climb next to her and start working out. She leans to me and asks, "excuse me, is my underwear visible, i'm sorry". I say, well I didn't quite notice. She says, "liar". I was like, "excuse me". She says, "there is no way you can miss it, be honest." I was like what the fuuudge.

    Another time on the stairmaster, a guy is working out and sneezes and phlegm flies out on all the people on the spinning bikes placed right before the stairmaster row.

    OMG! Over how long a time period did all this stuff happen?

    About a week ago I'd finished my circuit with the exception of one machine. There was a man on that station doing sets. During one of his rest periods he fell asleep! Poor guy must have been incredibly sleep deprived. I'm too pumped to fall asleep when I get home let alone at the gym. I considered giving him a gentle nudge, but instead just walked past coughing a couple of times till he woke up.

  • Idle_Moon
    Idle_Moon Posts: 151 Member
    Finally, after having several thrombosis I am working out again at the gym!
    My stamina is awful now, so I am starting over with my runs. But I can continue my strength training. So happy that you don't lose strength that fast. :)
  • Idle_Moon
    Idle_Moon Posts: 151 Member
    They have decorated our gym with Christmas stuff. It looks out of place, but still nice. :)
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I had a brainfart in the gym this week and did something that still makes me cringe in embarrassment

    so I have a story but I'm not yet ready to share my moment of intense, unthinking derpitude

    marking my place for when I've got over myself
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