Weird/Funniest things you have seen at the Gym

My wife singing metallica on the treadmill, not knowing she is singing out loud, and the guy next to her playing air guitar

Here's another thing. I went to a bodypump class last night, and almost everybody throws down their barbell so that it hits the floor with a thud at the end of each section. What's that all about? Isn't it better to set it down gently? Are they all using weights that they can barely control?

In my experience it depends on the exercise. When I'm using heavy weights sometimes it's easier or safer to drop them then it is to set them down gentle. I tweaked my shoulder once trying to set something down quietly, not anymore I drop them if I have to.

Every time I go to the gym after work there is a guy on the treadmill who has it set at 13kph even though he clearly can't run that fast. He runs about 30 secs -1 min and then leaps his feet to the side puffing and panting for several minutes, before doing it again. I really want to tell him the treadmill has an interval program!

I'm no expert, but I bet he is doing an anaerobic workout on the treadmill. Hockey players do a lot of anaerobic training to condition them for the short bursts of speed they need to generate on the ice. Their workout programs switch between aerobic and anaerobic activities.

As for belonging to a gym, I can't afford a gym membership, so I do my workouts at home. HOWEVER, every now and then I'll go do my "crazy track lady" dance around the neighborhood or up at the middle school track. It's a combo of aerobics, Zumba, jogging and dancing. I'm not afraid of dancing in public.

So, yeah, I'd be that crazy woman you all are staring at if I did belong to a gym.

Does it look anything like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-50GjySwew

I commend the woman on the treadmill for continuing to do her own thing in her own way while others openly laugh at her.

I'm sure I am actually the "funniest" one at the gym (henceforth my name of FITPHOBIA). The gym that I do go to once in a while had the weight/cardio room remodelled so decided to check it out.

When I exercise, I sweat SO, SO bad that my glasses slip off, so I entered the room and immediately put my glasses on the shelf (as always) that is just inside the door of the cardio room, but have to be very careful because my eyesight is poor that I don't trip over anyone or anything.

This was going to be MY day at the gym. There was only one or two other people (I hate exercising in front of people because I am so poor at it and they are all doing so much more than I can do). I slunk over to the treadmill and noticed that there was a lady bigger than me getting on a treadmill on the other side of the room. I finally figured that I wasn't the fattest person there so was slightly motivated for once. Started the treadmill, got on.......

I looked over and the other lady was keeping up....so I stepped it up a notch. Looked over in a couple of minutes - she had too....so I put it at a slightly higher speed....she did too. Finally I had the treadmill going as fast as I dared. "If I can't go FASTER, then I will OUTLAST her." Fifty minutes later, my legs are turning to Jell-O and I have to leave - although she's still there.....just like the Energizer Bunny. I crawl off the treadmill and weeble-wobble my way over to my glasses and to get the wipes and spray to mist off the equipment as required by the gym rules.

As I am cleaning off my treadmill, I look up at the other woman.............I didn't realize (without my glasses) that I had been watching MYSELF in the mirror the whole time (I didn't realize there were mirrors there as it was the first time I had been there after the remodel...)

This is a story I didn't tell for about two years, but now when I recount it, people laugh themselves to tears....but that is one of the several reasons why I have GYM/FITPHOBIA. :-)

I was having a PT session in the gym and the guy, probably in his 60s, comes to use the machine next to the one I was on. He started doing some weird exercise/stretch thing that involved rolling his hips around and it looked like he was giving the machine some sort of lap dance. I had to get away from there fast because I couldn't stop laughing.

Apparently the same guy has had some complaints as he was doing stretches on the floor, putting his legs in the air, with shorts on and no underwear!

I worked as a lifeguard at a fitness center once. We had an adults only (18+) hot tub that was utilized by this one greasy kid who always wore a wife beater in the pool, and must have been just barely 18. Since water was involved, we had to have a lifeguard at the hot tub. One time a fellow guard came into the break room and announced that one of the beater boys (his brother came with him in similar attire, and we nicknamed them) had been caught jerking it in the hot tub. His membership was revoked.

I assume that the hot tub has water jetting in that obscures view. How on earth did the life guard find him jerking off?




The jets were timed so that energy wasn't wasted when nobody was using it. He just had bad timing.

3) At my old gym there was a lady on a stationary bike in front of a line of treadmills I was using. She was wearing black spandex cycling shorts. The way the sun was coming in the window as the sun set it was focused on her bum. In the sun you could see right through the shorts like they weren't there, I'm sure she didn't notice but I did notice that she didn't have any underwear.

hope I am not butting in , I am brand new and just had to say I think the funniest thing at our gym at the moment is probably ME , 72 year old fat woman trying desperately to look confident on the bike and treadmill LOL never mind I will get there one day .