Weird/Funniest things you have seen at the Gym

This girl was groaning very loudly when she was using the rowing machine. So awkward to listen to.

Sadly, I don't have any stories to tell, but one of my MFP friends once posted about a woman on the treadmill wearing a puffy vest and drinking a 20oz Pepsi!

Seriously, what is up with that?

This doesn't happen at my current workplace gym, but at my old gym, the fancy, rich lady gym, I'd see the rich ladies on the treadmill with their starbucks.

Both of these make me smile.

I love seeing the "chatters" at the gym: pair of women walking on the treadmill at about 1.7mph, gossipping loudly, never breaking a sweat...

Also love the "gawkers": guys who position themselves a few feet behind a woman using a cardio machine (usually the arc trainer or treadmill) just to watch their butts move...
this has happened to me quite a few times and I usually slow down, turn around, give em the finger, then start again...I almost expect to see boners when I see them gawking at somebody smh

Saw this one the other day in the strength training/weight machine room: Older couple comes in to do a strength workout...if you can call it that. The lady had on a button down shirt and dress pants/shoes, and the guy had on a t-shirt and jeans. I swear the woman only lifted the weight on the machine about three times before getting up and going to the next machine. They were only in the area about 5-10 minutes total, and the woman for some reason was singing along to the radio. Not really what I wanted to hear when I can't keep my iPod on me because I don't have an armband and can't use it to strength train.

There's also a girl in my Zumba class who is perfectly nice, but half the time, she comes to class in jeans and sometimes a long-sleeved shirt. She hardly ever wears workout clothes to the class and I don't know how she stands moving around. I've seen her wearing the same thing to run the treadmill, and I just don't get how you can do that.

I mostly get to see gym clowns.

Most commonly, it's a large group of BIG guys (like NFL lineman sized guys but nowhere near as athletic). They'll be wearing weighted vests, they'll put one of those squat pads around the barbell, throw 3-4 plates on each side, then bounce it off of their chest usually 1-4 times. Then get up and socialize for half an hour.

The only other exercises I've seen them do are lat pulldowns (with FAR less weight and terrible form - their chest/back strength is so out of balance it isn't even funny) or cable rows (usually with a lot less weight than I would expect from people bouncing 400 pounds off their chest, but the one time I saw one of them cable rowing 200+ pounds, he was also putting a lot of legs and back into it).

There's a lady who is in pretty much daily in the morning, she'll do "squats" on the Smith machine and she will maybe drop to slightly past 45 degrees if that. I'd feel a little more sorry about her form but she walks around and talks like she's a badass. And by that I mean, she crosses way beyond the line that separates confidence and arrogance!

Then there are the random meatheads that will pick WAY too heavy a weight to curl, and proceed to recruit every single muscle in their body to do a "bicep" curl.

One of them is a regular. He talked of doing 70/80/90 pound wrist curls.. then he did them. I've never seen wrist curls that recruit so many core muscles! He recently talked a storm up about doing leg press also. I'm not so sure, however, that you're supposed to bounce the leg press off of the bottom stopper. I've always controlled the rep using.. my leg muscles and nothing else.

What else.. what else.. one of my friends did snap a picture of a girl walking on one of the treadmills, she had a Mt. Dew and a bag of Doritos at hand. I thought that was kind of cute.

I also recently took video of a guy doing a lot of weight on lat pulldowns (probably 190 or 205 pounds) but he was swinging back nearly 90 degrees with it and just letting the weight fly back up instead of controlling the rep. I need to get that online sometime, I think it would be a hit!

The weirdest thing I ever saw at the gym was a bunch of people minding their own business and working out.

Yeah, I really hope people aren't talking about me while i'm working out.

All though i was doing a trx class on Monday and one guy turned up in jeans...if you have ever done one its kind of impossible.

There is one older lady that come into the gym...she has curly, out of control short hair. She gets up on the treadmill and makes it go 90 to nothing...Her hair bobs up and down. She puts 90% of her weight on her arms, and her legs look like the road runner as she tries to move her feet to the treadmill. It is WAY too cute!

I very large man came into the gym with no top on. Started grunting while bench pressing using barbie weights....He was escorted off the premises

So entertaining, makes me really wish i had a gym to go to! I guess this way though no one can see or hear me and all my weird things I am guessing I do!

lol!!

The weirdest thing I ever saw at the gym was a bunch of people minding their own business and working out.

lol!!

There was a guy who was grunting and making the funniest faces as if he was squatting 800 lbs.... Doing rotator cuff exercises. I lol'd.

This one is a bit inappropriate but oh well. It was really hot in the gym and all of the sudden the whole place started smelling like fish. Zumba class just ended.

At my old gym, I remember this one lady who would sign up for a treadmill for double the allowed time (40 min instead of the 20 max), she would hike up the incline as high as it would go, set the pace to about 4 mph and then walk upright, hanging on to the monitor/frame like a monkey hiking (using a fraction of the energy the treadmill calculated for calories).

All the while yacking with her friend who was trying to legit work out by running intervals, sweating. When she'd get off she'd loudly proclaim how many calories she'd burned, what an awesome workout it was and how many more calories she burned than her treadmill pal. Yeah right. That's why your friend is sweaty and lean and you are puffy and didn't even break a sweat.

She caught me rolling my eyes and when she confronted me asking, "what's your GD problem?" I vaguely recall saying something like, "the frame isn't supposed to support your body on an incline. That's what leg and core muscles are for- you should try using them sometime."

:laugh: buuuurn

Maybe not weird but very cute. My gym has in indoor track and lots of older (60 +) people like to walk laps especially in the mornings. There is this 1 couple that comes at the same time every day, they are probably older than 75 and the woman has trouble keeping her balance. Her husband regliously holds her hand throughout the entire walk. He never lets go not even once. Talk about true love! It is just so precious

Also, I love the 'weight tough guys" on the machines they put the weight really high like 150 pounds and then try to do 1 rep. When they finally do 1 rep they then get up and stretch it out and socialize for like 30 minutes before moving onto the next machine.

There is also another guy who slams the weight machines almost to the point they sound like he is going to break them.

I also really like the guys that move the weights to a higher weight than what they lifted just so the next person that sits down sees this really high weight.

I had a guy at the gym that would do the machines and yes he too would change them up higher after he was done with them. I didn't mind cause I usually was right behind him and didn't have to change them for me to work out...lol And I admit I let him know it.

The only thing I think is seriously weird in my gym is the UPS guy. This guy wears a full brown outfit socks, runners, shorts and tee. I would go in daily and he would be there...all in brown.

Funniest thing I ever did,,,I would do a warm up on the elliptical for 20 min. I never watched tv, just listened to music. Well one time there was a marathon of some show that looked interesting. I did an hour full out on the elliptical so I could watch this show. I was sweating so bad my ear buds wouldn't stay in my ears and I heard this gawd aweful animal being tortured sound. Realized it was me...staggered to the change room..and I do mean staggered.(first time I never wiped down the machine-just didn't have the strength)