are you a flamingo? :p (gym nicknames)

I used to see this wanna be bodybuilder in long pants with the pattern of a cow...we used to call him "clown pants". lol

I always love the guys flexing and posing in the mirror...they are called "peacocks"...always showing off, even if they have itty bitty muscles, lol.

i'm a gazelle..on the elliptical!

you have to say it in your best "Arnold" accent, but the really built guys are "guys who pick things up and put them down"

Being a redneck town- we call them the wrangler crew. They were tiny *kitten* little wranglers (no complaints here!) and only do upper body!

lol, this is funny-on the flip side (female)- i am not a flamingo lol

Nope, though I've definitely seen them at other gyms I've been a member of. At my current gym (rec centre weight room), we have: Guido!Fist!Pump! (Does really bad one-arm shoulder presses with too much momentum and sh*tty form), and the Praying Mantis (this tall, stick-insect of a woman who does dumbbell curls with little 1 lb weights... like that's supposed to achieve anything).

There are some more, but I haven't coined names. There's this one guy I've seen who, I swear, is a cross between a gorilla and a slug. He is fairly thin, lightly muscular, and covered with dark curly hair all over (seriously: dude even has shoulder bush). He looks really sweaty and greasy and, because of the hair, I can't tell if he's also kind of dirty... in a "visible dirt splotches" kind of way. He sweats on everything, never cleans up after himself, lifts way too heavy and with incredibly bad form, and occasionally stops to sit on a bench and get on his phone. I spent my introductory evening to this character wiping down every piece of equipment I was about to use thoroughly BEFORE using it, in addition to after, because he left a slime trail behind him wherever he went. Even if I didn't see him on a piece of equipment right beforehand, I wasn't taking chances. I would have called him out on it, if I wasn't so disgusted by the thought of getting near him. Any thoughts on a nickname?

There was this one young couple who were at the weight room, one evening, who occupied BOTH of the flat benches, a chair, the power rack, and the bench press station with all of the plates they had been using. Some of these plates they would eventually get back to, but it would be about 15-20 minutes before they came around to another set with them, again. *kitten* was lying around everywhere. To top it off, instead of using the room adjacent to the weight room that was is designated for when you're doing floor work that might piss off the people in the weight room, these two spent a great deal of time in between bookmarking the benches with plates to do walking lunges and the side-walking sumo squat things, plus planks and other stuff, in the lane space that people use to get around the machines and lifting equipment. The chick even dared to give me the stink eye when I walked within a couple of feet of her to get to a piece of a equipment. They did put away some of the bigger plates before they left, but missed a lot of the smaller stuff. I haven't seen them again, but if I do and they pull this crap again, there just might be a smackdown. Again, any thoughts on a nickname?

Oh, and there are the people who load up plates on an olympic bar for a bench press or in the power rack for a squat or deadlift (mostly guys. I'm not bothered by the prissy little girls who perform a deadlift with a couple of 5-10 lb frisbees), and they don't use collars. The big, black-print-on-yellow-background signs that are taped up over the mirrors near the power rack and bench press clearly state that collars MUST be used, and given that this is local government-funded facility, where equipment is old and space is at a premium, someone benching could lose a 45 lb plate by tipping it off the side and send it crashing into the legs of someone working in the power rack. The whiny excuse I get from some of these guys is that the spring collars are stiff and old and hard to get on and off... and they are, but I still use them, because I care about being responsible, and not being a douche. I've had English-as-a-First-Language conversations straight to a couple of guys faces, where I've asked them nicely to use the collars, pointed out the rules, and explained the safety issue with the bench press and the power rack being so close together... only to have them nod as if in agreement, and then walk right back to what they were doing... still without using collars. I think, next time, I will have to appeal to the musclehead mentality with a bit of psychology and say, "Look: I'm fat, and I'm a girl. By all means, if you don't think you're stronger than me, then don't use the collars. I will accept your non-use of the collars as an admission of physical weakness. It's okay, I'm sure it happens to a LOT of guys." Anyway, yet again, any thoughts on a nickname?

I'm sure these guys are sick of me waving the collars at them while giving them the eye and "tsk!" face, so they probably have a nickname for me, too! For what it's worth, I've put in a request with the rec centre to get a couple pairs of Lock-Jaws, for everyone's benefit. I hate struggling with those old collars, too.

We have a guy who has longish curly black hair and a mustache, who looks like a 70's porn star. He's pretty evenly distributed but he works out in legging things in crazy patterns and sometimes with fringe on the sides and he paints his toenails..purple, sparkly red, whatever. He works out barefoot. I took a poledancing class from his wife, who's *kitten* would fit in a teacup and is solid muscle (no bulk) from head to toe and can move any one of them independent of the others. Interesting couple. She could do things with her butt that made your mouth drop open! I don't know what you would call either of them, but, wow!

From that description, I'd call her Amazing and him, Lucky.

What can I say..