Oh the things I see at the gym...
cdh5068
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Ok this was too strange not to share. This morning at the gym I'm on the treadmill, doing C25K when this average size high school age girl hops on the treadmill next to me. Normally I don't care/notice what other people are doing at the gym, but I couldn't help noticing that she was eating something. It turned out to be a snickers bar. I was thinking "that's certainly odd...maybe she's gonna eat it and then run like crazy to burn it off or something?" She walked at a 2.5 for less than 5 minutes then disappeared. So after my run/walk I head over to the weights and she's just sitting on one machine texting. Every 5-10 minutes she switched machines but never actually lifted on any of them...just texted. As I was leaving I saw she had moved onto the leg press, but this time instead of texting, she pulled a full size bag of chips out of her gym bag and continued snacking. Why even go to the gym!?!?
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oh my gosh! now I've stopped for ice cream on the way home from the gym in the past but have never done anything like that!!0
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Maybe she does it to torture people.0
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Hahaha! That's ridiculous! It will, no doubt, catch up to her sooner or later. =P0
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This made me grin. If she was the age to be a mother I'd guess it was quiet time?! Otherwise it does sound a little bizarre0
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That does seem odd.0
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It's probably a performance art project. I bet someone was filming you two with a hidden camera the whole time.0
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i see stuff like this a lot the very few times i went into a gym
guys just stand or sit there half the time , waving their arms around .. then lift for 10 seconds.. stop ... wave their arms around for 10 minutes. then they just walk around for 5 minutes. it's usually the chunkier guys that you can tell drink too many shakes and don't put in much work in lifting. so they're just big and bulky but not in the muscular way
the other day a couple walk in... jump on a treadmill and give it all they have for less than 10min then leave.
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I have to ask but when she joined up did she know it was a gym and not a new form of sweetshop were the only thing you move is your are with the choc bar and your mouth to eat it.0
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Well Intra-workout nutrition is the new thing in the fitness industry0
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I hate when young girls "workout"... Im a young girl but i take my gym time seriously! They think theyl lose 5 pounds by going on the eliiptical for 20 mins... and then they never go back to the gym... I haaate when people bring their phone into the gym with them! Ahhhhhh!0
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Perhaps she is hoping she will pick up some fitness by osmosis. What I can't fathom is the eating on the equipment - chocolate sticky and chip crumbs are not what I want to encounter during a workout.0
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Youth is wasted on the young0
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Well Intra-workout nutrition is the new thing in the fitness industry
Yep: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/879001-starvation-mode-is-not-a-myth-warning0 -
watched a girl walk on the treadmill for an hour then drink a massive protein shake.0
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OMG - I have NEVER seen anyone eat anything while they're working out. Not even a power bar.0
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That seems a little too odd!0
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Oh to be young....0
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I am guilty of taking my phone in the gym. The one day I forgot it of course was the day my 7 year old got sick at school and needed to be picked up immediately. I don't use mine while at the gym but I have it with me. Too bad if this offends you:mad:I hate when young girls "workout"... Im a young girl but i take my gym time seriously! They think theyl lose 5 pounds by going on the eliiptical for 20 mins... and then they never go back to the gym... I haaate when people bring their phone into the gym with them! Ahhhhhh!0 -
The treadmills where I work out face the parking lot and you can see people pull up. There are people who pull up to the front sit in their cars and finish smoking a cigarette before coming inside, or puff away on it as they are walking up to the door and throw it on the ground. What's the use of coming in to workout when you are just gonna smoke away any benefits you just gained.0
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I have mine with me all the time at the gym. Netflix on the bike and workout tunes while doing weights0
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I have mine with me all the time at the gym. Netflix on the bike and workout tunes while doing weights
This. Oh the fun of technology!
ETA: my lifting spreadsheet needs immediate updates :laugh:0 -
Maybe she has a really controlling mother/father/boyfriend/other significant person who is forcing her to go to the gym and drops her off and waits outside for an hour while she "works out", and it is the only time she can snack!
You should consider an intervention!0 -
We get older women at my gym that come in and sit on the bike on level one reading a magazine or the newspaper hardly putting in any effort at all.
Meanwhile the gym is packed and people are waiting for equipment.
Or there is a girl on the treadmill walking at snail pace talking on her phone telling the person how she is so hardcore because she is at the gym...
Why bother even going if you aren't going to do anything? The thing that really annoys me is people that go along to the classes and don't put effort in and whinge that it's to hard. But people that really want to work hard and put effort in missed out on doing the class because it is full.
If you don't want to work out don't bother showing up to the gym cos you're not only wasting your time and money but everyone else's as well.0 -
WONDER IF SHE'S EXPECTING?0
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Perhaps she was doing some sort of Psych/Social experiment? She whether anyone would say anything to her, or what people's general response was?
If not.... I have NFI!!0 -
Maybe she was just waiting for someone (employee or gym-goer) to finish so they could leave together? Either that or she just wants to be able to say she went to the gym.0
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When I open my own gym I will release the hounds on people like that.Ok this was too strange not to share. This morning at the gym I'm on the treadmill, doing C25K when this average size high school age girl hops on the treadmill next to me. Normally I don't care/notice what other people are doing at the gym, but I couldn't help noticing that she was eating something. It turned out to be a snickers bar. I was thinking "that's certainly odd...maybe she's gonna eat it and then run like crazy to burn it off or something?" She walked at a 2.5 for less than 5 minutes then disappeared. So after my run/walk I head over to the weights and she's just sitting on one machine texting. Every 5-10 minutes she switched machines but never actually lifted on any of them...just texted. As I was leaving I saw she had moved onto the leg press, but this time instead of texting, she pulled a full size bag of chips out of her gym bag and continued snacking. Why even go to the gym!?!?0 -
That really is bizarre. I got on the treadmill at the Y last week and there were crumbs all over the book ledge. Lol!0
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The treadmills where I work out face the parking lot and you can see people pull up. There are people who pull up to the front sit in their cars and finish smoking a cigarette before coming inside, or puff away on it as they are walking up to the door and throw it on the ground. What's the use of coming in to workout when you are just gonna smoke away any benefits you just gained.
WUT? I don't think anyone will argue that smoking isn't detrimental to a person's health, but I hardly think that smoking negates the benefits of working out...
On the topic, one time there was this girl sitting around on the exercise equipment texting (or facebooking or whatever) not working out and about every third machine I tried to use, there she was just sitting. I stared at her just waiting and she would give me a dirty look and then move. Like I was interrupting her... Really?0 -
She was probably texting her friends all the hard workouts she was doing. ;-)0
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