Strange things I have seen at the gyms treadmills today.

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  • Melissa22G
    Melissa22G Posts: 847 Member
    I did see a man (foreign) work out in his underwear. The folks at the front desk of the gym had to tell him to put pants on.

    At least he had a shirt, socks, and shoes, right?
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    Please just get off the treadmill and let a hottie with awesome spandex or a running skirt get on!! :bigsmile:

    Because a steep incline is a great way to get the heart pumping. So what if I'm holding on while I'm doing it? Seriously. What is it with these people who are so busy watching everyone else work out and are SO worried and concerned about what I'm doing? Concentrate on your own workout and mind your own business.

    *This has nothing to do with the OP because you're talking about the weird things that you see at the gym which are pretty funny.*

    I did the elliptical in socks once because I forgot my shoes. This was at the small corporate gym I worked out at and I actually went out to see if anyone had sneakers and they didn't and I was about to change back into my clothes and go back to work but the girl behind the desk wouldn't let me. She said I could do it in my socks LOL.

    Its all good in the hood playa.................Im just giving you a TIP......................if YOU let go of the treadmill your workout will be even MORE awesome!
    By holding on your only kidding yourself as to how much of an incline you are REALLY doing.................

    And if you paid more attention to your own workout and didn't worry what I or anyone else at the gym was doing your workout would be even MORE awesome!!!

    Got to have something to do while you're resting between sets of weights.

    Oh and remember it's YOUR workout and if you're cheating you're only cheating yourself
    OHHH SNAPPPPP on that last quote!!! so true!
  • momtomm
    momtomm Posts: 6 Member
    I saw a woman on the treadmill in flip flops.
  • melindanew
    melindanew Posts: 150 Member
    It's just if you do something non-standard, I'mma notice, even at the butt-crack of dawn when I'm there.

    I'm looking at you, guy who never does leg day on the treadmill in your flipflops and what appears to be your pajamas, flexing your massive biceps, slapping them and kissing them while gently moving your chicken-legs at 4kph. You're just off like a herd of turtles, you are.

    Don't be that guy, and we're all good. Also, please do at least one set of squats per week, weird looking guy, before you topple over from being top heavy.
  • JaimieAG
    JaimieAG Posts: 48
    We have a rule at our gym that you have to keep moving in order to have dibbs on a treadmill.

    There's a group of 3 guys who start their workout on the treadmill. In order to reserve the treadmills for his buddies one guy basically ran them all at once and moved quick from one to the next.

    It looked strange.

    But what a team player XD
  • chaaalgeo
    chaaalgeo Posts: 70
    :ecause i forgot that other. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do


    lol :laugh:
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    Please just get off the treadmill and let a hottie with awesome spandex or a running skirt get on!! :bigsmile:

    Because a steep incline is a great way to get the heart pumping. So what if I'm holding on while I'm doing it? Seriously. What is it with these people who are so busy watching everyone else work out and are SO worried and concerned about what I'm doing? Concentrate on your own workout and mind your own business.

    *This has nothing to do with the OP because you're talking about the weird things that you see at the gym which are pretty funny.*

    I did the elliptical in socks once because I forgot my shoes. This was at the small corporate gym I worked out at and I actually went out to see if anyone had sneakers and they didn't and I was about to change back into my clothes and go back to work but the girl behind the desk wouldn't let me. She said I could do it in my socks LOL.

    Its all good in the hood playa.................Im just giving you a TIP......................if YOU let go of the treadmill your workout will be even MORE awesome!
    By holding on your only kidding yourself as to how much of an incline you are REALLY doing.................

    And if you paid more attention to your own workout and didn't worry what I or anyone else at the gym was doing your workout would be even MORE awesome!!!

    Got to have something to do while you're resting between sets of weights.

    Oh and remember it's YOUR workout and if you're cheating you're only cheating yourself

    Well when I rest between sets of weights I'm usually concentrating on what my husband is doing and standing near him so that I can spot him.

    And I don't cheat myself on my workouts and I rarely do huge inclines on the TM and if I do I'm probably doing walking lunges or "holding on" with the tips of my fingers.

    My whole point was why do people care so much about what someone else is doing? Sure I might look at someone and think "WTF?!" but I'm not going to dwell on it forever and have it annoy me so much that I have to ***** about it all the time. Unless I see someone doing something that is so wrong that it could cause injury I mind my own business.
  • leigh8679
    leigh8679 Posts: 19 Member
    A couple weeks ago the lady next to me was wearing only a t shirt and panties! I don't know what happened to her pants or shoes!!!!
  • jessykab74
    jessykab74 Posts: 167 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    There is a girl at my gym that runs at my gym on the treadmill (pretty dang fast) but she seriously puts most of her weight on the bars. She is literally hanging on the bars while her feet are banging down on the treadmill. It is really loud and annoying. I can hear her from across the gym with my music on. I don't understand why she does it!
  • dowesney
    dowesney Posts: 26 Member
    Some people hold on to the handle bar on the treadmill so that the machine will calculate and display their heart rate.
  • estrellas8
    estrellas8 Posts: 14 Member
    HA HA! how funny...nothign was about to stop you huh?
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    There is a girl at my gym that runs at my gym on the treadmill (pretty dang fast) but she seriously puts most of her weight on the bars. She is literally hanging on the bars while her feet are banging down on the treadmill. It is really loud and annoying. I can hear her from across the gym with my music on. I don't understand why she does it!

    Yeap I got people like this at my gym too.......its liek they are doing an upper body workout on the treadmill....ha!
  • Dad_of_3
    Dad_of_3 Posts: 517 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    Please just get off the treadmill and let a hottie with awesome spandex or a running skirt get on!! :bigsmile:

    I wear hearing aids due to nerve deafness. The nerves that connect to my balance centers are also affected. I cannot walk on a treadmill without holding on, or I will fall.

    We're not all so blessed as to be able to do that simple little thing.
  • wareagle8706
    wareagle8706 Posts: 1,090 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    Please just get off the treadmill and let a hottie with awesome spandex or a running skirt get on!! :bigsmile:

    I wear hearing aids due to nerve deafness. The nerves that connect to my balance centers are also affected. I cannot walk on a treadmill without holding on, or I will fall.

    We're not all so blessed as to be able to do that simple little thing.

    Insert "BURN!" gif of Kelso from That 70's Show.

    :)
  • ElizIvory
    ElizIvory Posts: 141 Member
    I had a rod placed in my leg when I was 18 and my balance has never been the same.
    I do steep incline on the treadmill because I havent been able to run well with out loosing my balance, so I hold on while doing it.
    :( It takes a lot for me to attempt the treadmil instead of staying on the bike, now I feel like its not even worth it.
  • BunkyBumBum
    BunkyBumBum Posts: 157 Member
    I go to an all women's gym. The first few times I was there I noticed a sign on the door saying that men would be in the building doing work in the office, that struck me as really odd. Who do I care if a man is in the office fixing the copy machine? But then I started to notice a lot of muslim women. They workout in full garb, the heavy black robes, the head scarfs. I guess they can't workout with men present, so it made sense, but before I made that connection it was really perplexing to me why I would need to know if there was a copy machine repair guy in the office.

    One woman at the gym I go to works out in sunglasses an a plastic shirt. The shirt looks like the same material as a black trash bag, but it has elastic on the arms so it can't be a trash bag, sure looks like one though. Maybe it helps her sweat or something. It's pretty weird.

    I have also noticed, and this is a public service announcement for all you ladies out there, do you know why most workout pants are black? Because when you wear light pink workout pants and sweat up a storm your butt crack turns dark pink. The same goes for light blue, or light yellow, or whatever. Also, you know those black stretch pants that are SO comfortable but when you pull them out of your drawer they look like they'd fit a 4 year old? When fabric stretches you can see through it. I had to work out Monday with a woman on the elliptical in front of me, her pants were stretched so much that I could see her whole behind. She can't have known, the legs looked fine and from the front she looked fine, but I couldn't bring myself to mention it - maybe she did know and just didn't care that I could see the pattern on her underpants and half her butt cheeks. Either way, it was a bit uncomfortable because she was directly in front of me and I felt like any time I stared at my machine's readout or looking at my phone's screen for my music it looked like I was staring at her rear.

    Also, sometimes when I work out on the weight machines a woman follows me, I don't know if it's the same one or not, I don't really look at people's faces and I can't remember the ones I do look at half the time. The gym doesn't provide those antibacterial wipes for the equipment, which is nasty. At first I went with it, no one else seemed to mind and I just sanitized my hands afterward, but then I touched my lower eyelid while working out on the arc (which you hold onto) and I got a really serious eye infection. Now I bring a travel pack of lysol wipes and I wipe everything down before I touch it. I think maybe this woman (or these women) follow me because the machine I was just on has only my germs, not the germs of the 50 people that used it all morning long. Of course, people probably think I'm weird for using lysol wipes on the machines, but that eye infection lasted a month with antibiotics and steroids and I was on the verge of having to have it CUT out. It went away, but it left a scar under my eyelid. No way I'm risking that again!

    I'm not judging, I don't care one way or the other and if I ran into the same person 10 minutes later with a different outfit on I would have no idea that it was the same person I noticed earlier, all their faces are a blur. I don't know anyone there, I don't care to know anyone there, I don't care what they do, but I do notice things because I'm not blind.
  • christine24t
    christine24t Posts: 6,063 Member
    This is true. Although I think pushups would be more effective if you did them while not on a treadmill, hahaha.

    I've actually done them like that on a treadmill...they're quite effective, especially for people like myself who can't do a normal pushup.
  • sallyaj
    sallyaj Posts: 207 Member
    :happy:

    This post really made my day, just picturing these people. Isn't humankind wonderful and amazing!
  • Anthonydaman
    Anthonydaman Posts: 854 Member
    No joke I saw a couple doing the "wheel barrow" on a treadmill today!
  • willing2try
    willing2try Posts: 23 Member
    I think "Rocky" might be starved for more than calories! Maybe ATTENTION ?
  • jackiecamarena
    jackiecamarena Posts: 290 Member
    No joke I saw a couple doing the "wheel barrow" on a treadmill today!

    Awkward. Hahaha.
  • RomanaW
    RomanaW Posts: 108 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    Please just get off the treadmill and let a hottie with awesome spandex or a running skirt get on!! :bigsmile:

    I wish I could run. But I developed a spur and plantar fasciitis. Sometimes I have a good day and can run, but most of the times I just get an unbearable pain in my left bottom heel and that's it. Can't run any more. But I can walk uphill with dumbbells in my hands. Great burn by the way depending on the steepness and the weight of your dumbbells. But I am sure I look mad :)
  • OnionMomma
    OnionMomma Posts: 938 Member
    No joke I saw a couple doing the "wheel barrow" on a treadmill today!

    Awkward. Hahaha.

    I've seen this before. I bet it's a heck of an upper body workout though.
  • jackiecamarena
    jackiecamarena Posts: 290 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    Please just get off the treadmill and let a hottie with awesome spandex or a running skirt get on!! :bigsmile:

    I wear hearing aids due to nerve deafness. The nerves that connect to my balance centers are also affected. I cannot walk on a treadmill without holding on, or I will fall.

    We're not all so blessed as to be able to do that simple little thing.

    I agree that people need to not be so quick to judge. My boyfriend has cerebral palsy and as a result, his balance is HORRIBLE. Even while holding onto the bars, he is likely to stumble if he is not actively trying not to fall off. You gotta do what you gotta do to get a workout in.
  • Ascolti_la_musica
    Ascolti_la_musica Posts: 676 Member
    Leaving the gym was the best decision I have ever made for my health. Thank you for the reminders.

    I'm doing so much better working out at home, away from all the judges and jerks!
  • LadyBirdGo
    LadyBirdGo Posts: 39 Member
    I think the people who do the weird things on the machines are probably the people who are in the best shape. they aren't afraid to let their freak flag fly. they have less fear about going to the gym than the average people (i'm included in this group) who are afraid to go to the gym without putting on some concealer first and making sure their shoes match the color of their tank top.
  • Anthonydaman
    Anthonydaman Posts: 854 Member
    No joke I saw a couple doing the "wheel barrow" on a treadmill today!

    Awkward. Hahaha.

    I've seen this before. I bet it's a heck of an upper body workout though.
    I agree, but I can also see alot of pressure being put on the lower back
  • ChrissiiiB
    ChrissiiiB Posts: 1
    At my old halls gym at uni last year one I saw one of the chinese students kitted out in a baby pink velour tracksuit and about 3 pairs of fake eyelashes walking on the treadmill at about 2 mph texting the ENTIRE time
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
    DUDE!!! :devil:

    Please just get off the treadmill and let a hottie with awesome spandex or a running skirt get on!! :bigsmile:

    I wear hearing aids due to nerve deafness. The nerves that connect to my balance centers are also affected. I cannot walk on a treadmill without holding on, or I will fall.

    We're not all so blessed as to be able to do that simple little thing.

    I agree that people need to not be so quick to judge. My boyfriend has cerebral palsy and as a result, his balance is HORRIBLE. Even while holding onto the bars, he is likely to stumble if he is not actively trying not to fall off. You gotta do what you gotta do to get a workout in.

    Which is why people need to mind their own business about who's doing what at the gym. No one knows why someone is doing a workout the way they are and to make fun of them or say that the way they do it "annoys" them is ridiculous.
  • LJCannon
    LJCannon Posts: 3,636 Member


    Oh and I think gas is funny because I am a silly person but not where I have to breath heavy ! Geeez! I know some can't help it but seriously I think some just don't care LOL Please for the love of Italy don't eat beans before your workout! HAHA


    :blushing: I Do Apologize Deeply!! Problem is I never know WHAT is going to trigger the Stupid Gas Attack! Beans don't even seem to be that bad for me. Other Vegetables and even some Fruits will do it sometimes, LOL!! At least I can just avoid Eye Contact and act Innocent.

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