Why the F...!!! Things you seen at the gym
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Those who do not know the proper tense in which to use the word seen. They are gym monsters.
Get out of my head!
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4 teenage girls with magazines in hand pull out matts and in the middle of the small stretching floor area deside to visit and read their magazines while everyone has to step over them to use the equipment on either side. They sat there chatting for over 30 minutes.0
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Oh, and there's always at least ONE foreign person with really bad hygiene. I'm not talking light BO from breaking a sweat, i'm talking about the stench of a person who hasn't bathed in over a week and has never heard of deodorant that is wafting from 20 ft away, no exaggerating. It can be so bad, I can TASTE it.
Before anyone gets on my case for being prejudice, I am foreign-born!0 -
Girls who come to the gym with their hair all done up and their makeup caked on. Are you here to get in shape or for a photoshoot?
Unless you actually know them you're judgement is baseless. Not everyone has time to change before going to the gym. They could be coming from work, meetings etc where they needed/wanted to look good.
And even if they are dressing up just for the gym, who cares? If it makes them feel better about themselves what harm. It's not affecting anyone but themselves.
Agreed, there were a couple of girls at my old gym who always came in with perfect hair and makeup. They worked their a$$es off though, so good on them... I was actually quite mesmerised by how the hell they could do it...
lol all of this. I come to the gym with my make up done. (my hair is naturally board straight..even if I did "do it up" it would just un-do itself in a matter of minutes.) BUT, that's cause I'm coming STRAIGHT from work. and though I'm sure people judge me on the front end, once they see me ballin on the treadmill or weights, completely drenched in sweat, hopefully they understand the make up wasn't for the gym. what drives me nuts is the girls who come in wearing perfectly matched right-off-the-shelves underarmor/nike outfits with their perfectly matched headbands and shoes...and then walk on the treadmill. not only that, but ONLY walk on the treadmill - for 45 minutes - while holding onto it - while talking to a friend - and texting...etc etc, need I say more? and then they leave. and those are the girls all the guys come up to and talk to. haha
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In one of the gyms I used to lift at, there was a "curl bro" (jacked upper body atop a pair of legs that looked like he was riding a chicken) who walked around with his arms so far out to the sides it almost looked like he was playing airplane. If you looked at him as he walked by, he would unconsciously hit a sort of "most muscular" pose (Google it if you need the visual). We would purposely look at him every time he walked past, just for laughs. I think he spent more time ogling himself in the mirrors than he actually did lifting....How about the scrawny guys that walk around with their arms pulled away from their body as if their muscles are so big they cant just relax their arms down to their sides... I feel like saying, yo dude, put your arms down... Wtf.
Just makes me think of the little brother, Randy, in The Christmas Story when dressed in his winter clothes to go outside...
Randy:I can't put my arms down.
Mom: You'll put them down when you get to school.0 -
My favorite was a woman who brought her maybe 2-3yr old to the gym (and the facility had a daycare service), and brought the kid into a dance/hip hop class that was jammed packed and lasts for an hour....she made the kid sit off into the side corner...I couldn't see everything that happened, but I was surprised that the kid didn't go running through the mass crowd...
I can't believe people do that type of stuff.. :-/0 -
Or women doused in perfume next to you on cardio equipment....so bad you have to stop because you can taste it as you are running.0
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Anything to do with reading or socializing in an area designed for fitness (reading on a stationary bike fine I get it... but not the stretch area or where everyone uses for walking lunges).0
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Or women doused in perfume next to you on cardio equipment....so bad you have to stop because you can taste it as you are running.
I just threw up a little in my mouth as I can relate to this.0 -
I don't see too much because I take group fitness classes rather than going to the gym, and our classes are really friendly and we like to add a little fun to it. So it's not unusual for someone to be dancing a little while doing arm curls or singing along to the music or letting out a cowgirl-esk "yee-haa" when things get really hard. Don't get me wrong. We work out, and work out hard, but we like to keep the mood light.
That said, I did once see someone at the YMCA (we swim there occasionally and my daughter goes there after school) take his sweat towel and blow his nose with it. He then preceded to wipe his face and neck with it. I could maybe understand if he was mid-run or something, but he was just walking from one thing to another and wasn't too far from the locker room where there are tissues. This also wasn't a little dab, but a full out honking blow that sounded... um... productive. If you get my meaning.0 -
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Or women doused in perfume next to you on cardio equipment....so bad you have to stop because you can taste it as you are running.
Gross. The only time I would go to a gym was because it was free at an apartment I lived at downstairs. Some of the dudes would wear a lot of cologne and it was awful. Oh and no deodorant! So it did not cover up the smell, the two just meshed together for one awful disgusting odor.0 -
The guy munching on chocolate chip cookies while riding the exercise bike. Does that make the cookie zero calories seeing your taking calories in and burning calories at the same time. Made me giggle.
I cant believe I am going to tattle on myself - but I workout at home so no one sees it.
I have been known to make a drink (vodka is preferable) to have while riding my bike. Clearly I am neutralizing any calories I may burn, but on a Friday night, I give myself a pass.0 -
My wife said she saw some guy in the gym with a rediculous shirt. It said in big letters, "Stop being difficult and take it in the *kitten*!"0
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Just before xmas Santa came in to work out. It was an elderly round man who got on the exercise bike for the better part of an hour. He was in full santa gear, hat and everything.
He was trying to work off all those cookies and milk. Go Santa!!
Would have been better if he was the one eating the cookies on the bike! LOL0 -
The only thing that I've really seen that's made me go WTF.. was the guy who chose the treadmill next to mine in a room where there were 5 other treadmills and NO ONE ELSE in there.. and started running... and then took off his shirt.
Not really sure if he was trying to impress me - There were plenty of other prettier, thinner, single women to choose from.. but yeah, it was something special.
i will NEVER understand why people do this. it's like when there's an essentially empty bus and someone has to sit right in front of you, right behind you or next to you. **** OFF!!!
I don't get this either.
I had a similar thing happen to me on the ellipticals. Older guy got on the elliptical right next to me and all the others were empty. He had some issue and continuously cleared his throat. I ended up moving over.
Generally I don't really pay much attention to others in the gym...unless something is oddy standing out or they just bother me directly.0 -
These are awesome!! I work out in the Women Only section of the gym so I haven't really seen anything crazy. lol.0
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Oh! Cannot forget the guy that has strings for a shirt does 2-3 reps with weights and spends the next 5 minutes in the mirror flexing for himself. Or his sister/lover who does 2-3 minutes on an elliptical then 5-10 side bends... checks her hair and makeup in the mirror then leaves.0
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*ACCCHOOOO!!!! - with spittle flying all over the exercise equipment* ---- Nope no one heard that loud echoing sneeze or noticed the goo now covering the equipment I was using.... I'll just walk away like nothing happened.
The sign reads "Wipe down equipment after each use" so that means I can walk away leaving it covered in my filth for the next person because I am so AWESOME they'll pray to bathe in my sweat just hoping to soak up some awesomeness from me.0 -
Girls who come to the gym with their hair all done up and their makeup caked on. Are you here to get in shape or for a photoshoot?
Unless you actually know them you're judgement is baseless. Not everyone has time to change before going to the gym. They could be coming from work, meetings etc where they needed/wanted to look good.
And even if they are dressing up just for the gym, who cares? If it makes them feel better about themselves what harm. It's not affecting anyone but themselves.
This. I even heard that you are more likely to get a good workout and/or workout more often if you exercise in an outfit that is flattering and makes you feel good about yourself.0 -
Feeling judged at the gym is why I feel self conscious and wait until midnight to workout so I have the place to myself. Just putting that out there.
This is why I work out at home/outside. I'd like to think I'm a normal and respectful person in public but it seems like some of these people would rip me apart for ANYTHING I do at the gym. No thanks!
I think the majority of people who workout at the gym don't judge. They are there to focus on their workout and move on. But if you do anything really odd to make yourself stand out, yeah your asking for it.0 -
Girls who come to the gym with their hair all done up and their makeup caked on. Are you here to get in shape or for a photoshoot?
Unless you actually know them you're judgement is baseless. Not everyone has time to change before going to the gym. They could be coming from work, meetings etc where they needed/wanted to look good.
And even if they are dressing up just for the gym, who cares? If it makes them feel better about themselves what harm. It's not affecting anyone but themselves.
This. I even heard that you are more likely to get a good workout and/or workout more often if you exercise in an outfit that is flattering and makes you feel good about yourself.
Does this count for the ones that look like warmed over death walking into the gym, go into the locker room and come out looking like a glamour shot? Then do 2-3 minutes on the elliptical with 5--10 side bends... then leave?0 -
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A gentleman comes in to my gym regularly wearing a kilt. And then he changes into his "workout" kilt. No word on whether he's actually wearing anything under said kilt (hopefully he is as he straddles the weight benches - a lot!)
There's also a dude with Tourette's who wears a T-shirt that says "Why yes, I am crazy" as he shouts obscenities from the treadmill. He's actually the most popular guy in the gym.
The Tourette's guy is my hero.0 -
My wife said she saw some guy in the gym with a rediculous shirt. It said in big letters, "Stop being difficult and take it in the *kitten*!"
That would be funnier if a chick was wearing it.0 -
Hah! Yeah!0
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I used to manage a greenhouse. I had a customer who would come in in her workout clothes and ask for carrie out assistance.0
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I cant believe I am going to tattle on myself - but I workout at home so no one sees it.
I have been known to make a drink (vodka is preferable) to have while riding my bike. Clearly I am neutralizing any calories I may burn, but on a Friday night, I give myself a pass.
You are my hero. Love it!0 -
The stretching areas in my gym are super-limited. I have seen two girls having an all-out picnic in one area. A girl laying on her stomach/elbows, reading a book like she was on her couch. And a couple who brought nearly every piece of equipment from the personal training station and set up some sort of obstacle course.
A guy (in awesome shape) that sweats so much on the bike that there is a one-foot radius of puddle surrounding him. I've never seen him get off the bike, but I always wonder if he gets a mop.
I, too, am guilty of the makeup thing. I wear full makeup to work and go to the gym directly after.0 -
This idiot newb at my gym walks around, constantly looking at her phone and CHEWS GUM. Can someone PLEASE tell me how you can breath properly and CHEW GUM?? Oh yeah, when you're NOT WORKING OUT!!
GO HOME!!! NO ONE WANT YOU HERE!!! YOU'RE TAKING UP A PARKING SPACE!!!!0
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