Funny people at the gym.....

sallen67

I use one of the neoprene belts, but I use it to hold everything in place. I lost so much weight that I have a lot of extra skin and can't afford the plastic surgery. So when I'm running or doing aerobic activities I wear one of those belts or a compression shirt to hold it all in place.

Scott

velix

I'm the weird one in the gym...in my joggers and huge t-shirt...I play jepardy while on the elypticall and I say the answers out loud...yes I do forget that they can hear me, I'm wearing headphones, and I think I'm talking low enough. Also if a lyric to a song catches my fancy, I'll mouth the words a little...rock out a bit...it gets me through my work out lol

As I was reading through this thread, and thinking of the stories I could share about others, I realized that I - too - am one of the weird ones!

I spend about an hour and a half at the gym and decided that I was going to learn Danish (long story) - I had bought the cd's a few years ago - but never got around to it - thought the time at the gym could be good to multi-task. So, I get to the gym, get on the arc trainer (amt specifically) and hit play. I realized halfway through my cardio that I was having a really hard time keeping pace (concentrating too hard on the sounds) and spent half the time mouthing the pronunciations silently - I caught myself a few times looking quite the fool I am sure!

Swimgoddess

There's these two I fondly refer to as "The SKANKERCISE crew".

Given previous posts, it really doesn't need an explanation.

millerll

Any/all body building ladies.

Just can't get comfortable getting my bench press on when the woman next to me is pressing far more than I could ever dream of

Sorry about that.....................

bustertriscuit

I don't have any funny ones but have noticed that there are the same types of people at the three gyms I've gone to in my lifetime.
There's always the older Asian swimming woman, the 1980's 50 year old that is there every single day, and the middle aged man who probably drives a mid life crisis car who gets on the elliptical with the resistance set to a million trying to move his legs as fast as he can.
I can't work out without the ipod, and I know that I could probably do a lot better if *I* belted out the tunes when working out. It just feels like the right thing to do, kind of like how people feel like they need to grunt.
I've been guilty of farting as well but it's sometimes unavoidable. I've even heard Oprah say this At least try to keep it as an SBD (silent but deadly).

angelicdisgrace

Ok I have a few.

You have the hard cores- these are the people who are always there minding their own business and get pissed if a slacker is taking up space at the gym.

You have the buddies- who just are yapping so loud you can hear them even when you have your beats super loud.

You have the skinnys- these are the girls who just come wearing g strings hanging out of their super tight workout clothes. Of course the guys love them but they're not there to workout. They are there mainly to flirt with trainers or the buff guys.

You have the dirty old men and ladies- the men are there gawking at the skinnys getting their trills. The older ladies usually hire the young trainers just to have them help them stretch ( these ladies are something else one of them always looks like she's about to have an orgasm!).

You have the competitors- you all know these types of people. They are the ones who get on the treadmill next to you and try to out do you or youre lifting weights and they need to lift more than you.

Oh then there's the guy who wears his shorts a little to small that you can almost see all of this business. Now that's gross.

Then there's me- the lost soul who closes her eyes while on the elliptical, drowns herself in her music by turning up her beats and ignores everyone whenever they're not obvious.


Btw I see all these people as I am walking in and finding a Cardio machine. Lol.

JoceyyySmall

Oh man these were fantastic to read. I def have some of these at the gym I go to.

I was definitely that person today who picked the machine next to the one person running out of the 15 open ones, but in my defense there are two specific treadmills that don't have a huge gym advertisement in front of it so I can look at the world while I run

But my favorite weird gym person is the guy I dubbed TESCO BAG GUY! Its this older man who started using the gym after the new year I haven't ever seen him previous to this time so I assume he is a new years resolution-er. THe main point is he would put plastic grocery bags over his sneakers to do the splits in. They really didn't help aid him in getting his legs further apart. He would also do this next to a very popular machine and in an area where EVERYONE has to pass by to get into the main part of the gym or choose to go upstairs. He has now since removed the bags in the past few weeks for the option of a karate belt to tie around himself a pole to help pull and get a deeper stretch.

The other one are the people who slam down on the treadmill because they are running so fast and can't run properly. This girl literally sounded like an elephant next to me. going slow she was ok but then every few minutes she would speed up and stomp it was so loud even with music. I got off the machine and went around the corner which made no difference as I was still able to hear her stomping.

juliesummers

the_journeyman

There's this one girl, teenager it looks like. She gets on the elliptical and starts out pretty normal. About 5-8 minutes in, she's leaning forward laying on/hugging the monitor for dear life. I realize she's trying to get a vigorous workout in, but it just looks funny.

JM

aj_gettingfit

The other day I was running on the treadmill and this couple came in. They were walking/running side by side on the treadmills infront of me. About 10 minutes later, this super skinny, super cute, I hate people like her but wish I had her body 20 something started running on the treadmill on the other side of the husband. I noticed the husband was VERY intently checking out this girl's back side when he stumbles on the treadmill and goes flying off the back end. I never laughed so hard, his wife had no idea what caused him to trip, but I did....

I would have died laughing. That is so funny!