things that make you laugh at the gym...
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There are two women at the gym who do what I can only describe "Interpretive Elliptical"! They'll wave their arms dramatically one-at-a-time in large, fluid circles, toss their head from side to side, point upwards and then swing their arms around again. It is ludicrous!
(I don't laugh at those ridiculous girls who make-up and dress specifically for male attention; they're just too idiotic to give that much attention to.)0 -
I love the men that workout at a ridiculous rate when they know you are watching them :-)
I hate when I'm finishing a long run on the treadmill, sweating my *kitten* off and dying inside. Hot woman gets on the treadmill next to me and I have to turn into an elite, super-fit marathoner! When actually my inner run monologue is this,
10 minutes in - Wow, I feel good, I love to run!!
20 minutes in - damn, only 20 minutes?? WTF is this song playing on my phone?
21 minutes in - I f***ing hate this song!!!
30 minutes in - halfway there, damn only half way? I hate running! I want to go home, order a pizza and get fat again!
40 minutes in - you can do it, just stop *****ing and keep going
41 minutes in - wtf? This song is playing again??
50 minutes in - 10 minutes left, almost done, I am sooooo not a runner, this sucks!
55 minutes in - Hot woman gets on the treadmill next to mine, I move my speed up to a speed I can barely run at without falling off the treadmill
60 minutes - done, she smiles, I smile back like I love to run!!0 -
I try not to laugh at folks going to the gym(I'm pretty sure I'm one of the ones getting laughed at because I trip on the treadmill ALL the time). But the thing that does tickle my funny bone is the location of our gym. Right now, we're next door to a pizza parlor. Next month, we'll be moving behind a doughnut shop... Talk about will power...0
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I love the men that workout at a ridiculous rate when they know you are watching them :-)
I hate when I'm finishing a long run on the treadmill, sweating my *kitten* off and dying inside. Hot woman gets on the treadmill next to me and I have to turn into an elite, super-fit marathoner! When actually my inner run monologue is this,
10 minutes in - Wow, I feel good, I love to run!!
20 minutes in - damn, only 20 minutes?? WTF is this song playing on my phone?
21 minutes in - I f***ing hate this song!!!
30 minutes in - halfway there, damn only half way? I hate running! I want to go home, order a pizza and get fat again!
40 minutes in - you can do it, just stop *****ing and keep going
41 minutes in - wtf? This song is playing again??
50 minutes in - 10 minutes left, almost done, I am sooooo not a runner, this sucks!
55 minutes in - Hot woman gets on the treadmill next to mine, I move my speed up to a speed I can barely run at without falling off the treadmill
60 minutes - done, she smiles, I smile back like I love to run!!
My monologue pretty much goes "If I just act calm and pretend this is a warmup, I can get off and go lift. That'll look a lot better than cranking it to 10 mph, turning beet red, and passing out mid stride."0 -
I LOVE watching people at the gym. Not to judge them though, because I truly have no right to judge anyone. I just like watching people, I have been that way my whole life.
There is this older man that comes to the gym and he has been going there since I started, he has essentially seen me transform from 330 pounds until today at 215. He always gives me thumbs up and he never misses an opportunity to get on the machine next to me and pretend he is competing with me. I love him! He cracks me up.
I got to say though that I don't understand the girls who come in with all their make up on. I want to look good too so I wear my mascara, but I am always afraid if I have on a lot of make up that I will sweat it off. I am NOT judging them because they can do as they please (and honestly they look really pretty) I just wonder how they don't sweat it off.
I also chuckle at the older couples that come in together. I just think it's sweet.
Oh and the older women that I watch get on the treadmill and then they bust out with huge inclines. I always laugh because by the looks of them you just wouldn't think they could do that, but they do! I'm always impressed. They really work it out.0 -
The girl who thinks booty short underwear suffice as shorts... >.<0
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Yesterday, I saw two young woman at the gym holding little 2-3 pound dumbbells and waving them around with no particular form while they chatted. I wanted to ask where they got their routine from and which muscles were they were working. It seriously made no sense.0
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The girls who show up in their velour track suits or their super short/tight shorts with their makeup all done and their hair down/teased. I'm just like really?? You look so ridiculous!! I can't help but laugh. Actually, not too long back, there was a girl wearing a short/tight leopard print skirt on the eliptical!! Can we say desperate?!
I think those girls look hot.
Hearing women complain about other women at the gym amuses me.
Never once have I heard a guy give two poops about what another guy is wearing at the gym.
I think it's you with the insecurities.
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No. It bothers me too, but not becuase I am insecure. They only bother me in the locker room when I have to pee. They stand and talk in front of the door to the bathroom and then stand at the sinks doing their hair and makeup or taking pictures. If they got out of the way, I don't think I would notice them. I don't see they in the GYM area at all though, so I am really not sure what they do with their time, if they ever leave the locker room.
I'm highly doubting that they're going to the gym just to do their hair and make up.
Even if they are . . . . who cares?
Workout. Take a shower, Get dressed and get on with your day.
This whole thing just comes off as really petty to me.
Trust me, do. I really don't care why they are there. I barely notice. I just find anyone annoying who just stares at them in the mirror when I want to get my *kitten* done and get out. It is hard to do that when people are busy posing for facebook pictures all over the locker room. Ill just use the men's next time, it seems you don't have this problem.0 -
One of my friends shared a pic on facebook. The caption read something like "Only in Midland, Texas would you see a guy working out on the elliptical in his insulated bib coveralls." I looked at the picture and immediately knew it was one of my friends. I sent the picture to him letting him know he'd gone "viral". lol He hasn't stopped working out in his coveralls though! Whatever it takes!0
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I see this one all the time: Someone gets on the treadmill, sets the incline to some ridiculous level, and starts walking. But rather than walking upright like a normal human, they hang on to the machine and lean back, thus negating the incline entirely. If you look at them from the side and tilt your head, you see that they're simply walking upright on a slanted machine. If you're going to do that, just walk on a 0 incline and you won't have to worry about pretending to water ski.0
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The girl on booty shorts...and ugg boots.
I wish I could wear UGG boots and booty shorts and look good LoL!
ETA: That might not be the best gym attire though.0 -
This kid, whom must have weighed 160 lbs, goes over to the dumbbell rack and proceeds to "curl" 75 lb dumbbells in each hand. His screams (they were not even grunts) were so loud that even the people in the spinning and aerobics classes stopped what they were doing to see what was going on. I even think the gym's loudspeaker music skipped.
"HUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAARG!"
I don't have anything against grunting or screaming, but that was ridiculous.0 -
This kid, whom must have weighed 160 lbs, goes over to the dumbbell rack and proceeds to "curl" 75 lb dumbbells in each hand. His screams (they were not even grunts) were so loud that even the people in the spinning and aerobics classes stopped what they were doing to see what was going on. I even think the gym's loudspeaker music skipped.
"HUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAARG!"
I don't have anything against grunting or screaming, but that was ridiculous.
LOL!!!0 -
One of my friends shared a pic on facebook. The caption read something like "Only in Midland, Texas would you see a guy working out on the elliptical in his insulated bib coveralls." I looked at the picture and immediately knew it was one of my friends. I sent the picture to him letting him know he'd gone "viral". lol He hasn't stopped working out in his coveralls though! Whatever it takes!
LOL that is awesome0 -
I laugh at my gym's trainers who seem to think that resting during strength training workout is bad...
They tend to fit as many isolation/machine exercises into their client's 30 mins as they can.
I had one of the trainers tell me as I was in the squat rack that I should do pushups between my sets of squats. I said I'm resting in between sets so that I can complete my sets of squats. He told me I wasn't worrking hard enough. This is the same genius trainer that was teach a client to squat using the Smith.0 -
Sometimes the women in full makeup/hair done may be coming straight from work, are on their lunch break, etc.... No need to judge. I really don't think many people would actually spend time getting ready to go to the gym. I see a big difference in how women look at the gym going at 6:00 am and 6:00 pm- a lot more "done up" women in the evening.
If I lose enough weight to be comfortable wearing cute outfits to the gym, you better believe I will be
THANK YOU! If I'm there in the afternoon, I have makeup on. I don't put it on to go there, it's already on and I'm not going to waste time washing it off first. Hell, It's amazing I remember to take out my dangling earrings first. But then I'm also 42, short, fat just trying to get my day's "to do" list done. NOT a cutesy little gym bunny trying to attract attention.0 -
The 4 sorority girls that stand by the medicine ball rack looking at their nails, adjusting their spandex, flipping their hair, and "stretching"...and do essentially no exercise in the 40 minutes I'm there.0
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I hate threads like this. I dont notice other people at the gym and I pray they aren't noticing me either. Leave me alone and let me do my thing.0
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I don't really care but I do find it amusing, when dudes (usually in pairs) walk in to the gym, go straight to the DB rack, and do curls in front of the mirror for 30 minutes.
I want to make it into a Harlem shake vid.0 -
There is a woman at our gym who came in the other day, didn't go to the locker room, just walked to the stepper in a big winter coat, some cord trousers and a jumper and boots with a big bag. She put her bag down next to the stepper, got a kindle out of her bag and put that on the screen, then put her coat on the stepper next to her (like a coat rack), reached into her bag again and got out a HUGE bar of chocolate (one of the big family size ones), then got onto the stepper and proceeded to 'work out' with the steps barely moving, reading her book and eating her bar of chocolate!! She still had her big leather boots, jumper and thick trousers on - it was just surreal! Everyone was just looking at her totally bewildered - she finished her bar of chocolate, got a packet of crisps out of her bag and carried on eating - it was hilarious!0
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I hate threads like this. I dont notice other people at the gym and I pray they aren't noticing me either. Leave me alone and let me do my thing.
Agreed.
Although, I did have a snicker at the guy that was walking to each machine and lazily using it for about 1 minute and chugging his orange Fanta in between each one.0 -
I got a good chuckle in when my yoga instructor decided to try to correct my posture and I tumbled right over yesterday. I hope someone else also got some enjoyment out of it. We were all laughing at some point when the masochist had us holding "canoe" for like 5 minutes.0
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Yup.I hate threads like this. I dont notice other people at the gym and I pray they aren't noticing me either. Leave me alone and let me do my thing.
Makes me wonder what all these posters are doing at the gym. Seems like most of them just look at other people instead of actually working out...0 -
I don't really care but I do find it amusing, when dudes (usually in pairs) walk in to the gym, go straight to the DB rack, and do curls in front of the mirror for 30 minutes.
I want to make it into a Harlem shake vid.
I would rather see them curling in front of a mirror than curling in front of the dumbell rack blocking all the others, which is what they do at my gym :mad:0 -
Normally don't notice people in the gym...Live and let live.
The only one that get's me is this guy that wears sunglasses and a bandana the whole time he lifts and he even wears the glasses running on the treadmill.0 -
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Yup.I hate threads like this. I dont notice other people at the gym and I pray they aren't noticing me either. Leave me alone and let me do my thing.
Makes me wonder what all these posters are doing at the gym. Seems like most of them just look at other people instead of actually working out...
I like to people watch in between sets. You'll live.0 -
I used to work at a gym that had a very high median age, and had one 75 yr old that came in 5 days a week just to get out of the 'home'. Three times I had new members come up and tell me someone had died because he constantly fell asleep on the weight benches. The first time wasn't funny, but the two after that sure were!!0
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I go to my school's gym. The cardio and weights are on the 2nd floor. The tredmills are facing out towards one of the basketball courts. Some guys were playing for fun. One of the guys had his shorts super low to begin with. He jumped to shoot as another guy tried to block him. Instead of blocking the ball, he pushed the guys shorts all the way down. The guy in his boxers ended up falling on the blocker. They got up very fast and all they said to other was, "I'm not gay!" Still makes me chuckle : )0
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I love it when I'm working out next to someone like that. It just makes me push myself that much harder. Optimism at its best 0
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