Weird/Funniest things you have seen at the Gym

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 .

Better than a fat woman at an all you can eat buffet.

Last Saturday's crazies...

Lady on the recumbent bike doing about 1 mph gabbing on the cell phone.

Guy sitting on one of the machines watching the news on TV for over 30 minutes. Not working out, just parked there like it was a Barco-Lounger.

Lady huffing and puffing with one and two pound weights at five reps per.

Monday morning funnies... Me. Almost went flying off the treadmill when I craned my head around to talk to my PT and lost my balance. Oops. Fortunately he and I were the only ones there at the time.

I know passing gas is necessary, yet I am quite disturbed at how many rear end songs I hear on Monday and Wednesday's during our CX/WORKS class (a 30 minute ab class).

Eat the beans after the gym. GEEZ

latest ones from yesterday, had my vest top on inside-out for my whole workout- luckilly managed to get away with that one i think, quite embarrassing though. didn't realise until halfway through either.

caught some guy 'observing' my behind whilst i was doing my squats. I caught him looking, in the mirror, and when he realised he moved away pretty quick. I thought it was rather amusing.

- There's a guy at my gym who pedals BACKWARDS on the elliptical...meaning there is absolutely ZERO resistance. Meanwhile he stares at the rest of us huffing and puffing while he speeds along. I don't have the guts to tell him!

Why is there no resistance? My elliptical machine retains resistance even while pedaling backwards, and it works different muscles to do so. It's almost more difficult because I don't use the handlebars, so I have to work harder at keeping my balance, which is great for working my core.

Don't know if it's weird, but years ago when I was doing a fair amount of weight stuff I was on one of the leg machines. Now I've always been big and my legs carry me around everywhere, so obviously they are very strong. So I could lift about 220 lbs without a strain. Smaller than my butt, I'm sure, LOL.

Anyway, this guy comes in and looks at me for a second, then goes over to another machine. After I finish with the leg press and go to the next machine he goes over to it. Looks at the machine, looks at me, looks back at the machine. I could TELL he needed a lower weight, but didn't want to do less than some girl. After a few seconds he gets on the machine without changing the weight, puts his feet up on the platform thing........strains......strains harder..........the weights don't move, even a little bit. He sneaks a look at me, tries again, looks at me again.... (The whole time I am trying very hard to appear that I never noticed him.) Finally he very quietly reaches over, lowers the weight by about 100 lbs and starts over.

I don't go to a gym regularly but when I have gone with friends, I've been amazed by the women who come to the gym in cute workout gear, drop their kids at the daycare area, and just stand/sit around chatting w/ others for an hour then leave. No working out involved. MAYBE 3 min on the treadmill, maximum. Nothing else.

It's kind of like attending a sporting event. I'm not a sports fan, but I went to a few professional soccer matches with my ex husband and I was agog at the number of "fans" who did not even glance at the field. They wore the attire, drank beer and ate nachos and laughed with friends and then left.

There is another guy that wears the oversized tank tops with the sides cut out. He will lift weights, them look in the mirror. If his nipples are not out, he will twist them and say oh ya, daddy's lookin good. He is about 22. Weirdo!!

OMG that is funny as h*ll! The only thing that comes to mind for crazy things at the gym is, today when I was doing my cool down laps on the track at my Y, I glanced out the window, and there was a guy in a very brief bathing suit at the outdoor pool-- he was just sunbathing in a lounge chair on his stomach.

I don't know if he had worked out already, but it just struck me as funny that he was using the pool at the Y to sunbathe around noon on a weekday. Who needs a tan that bad?. of course, I don't go outside without sunscreen year round, so maybe it's more normal than I think. I'm in DC area so it was kinda cool outside too.

Lady on treadmill in high heels.

Hilarious!

I must've missed out on the whole "Exercise in heels" movement. LOL Between this and the Zumba lady in heels and stripper socks, I have enough to amuse myself at the gym for weeks! Thanks everyone!

ive only been going to the gym for 6 days and already i seen one lil man that walks around dancing by each machine. before each machine he goes on he dances and does a little shimmy. :O entertaining to say the least.

I didn't personally witness it but this seems rather entertaining:

Saw this on Tosh.0 and it's one of my favorites! I never saw someone use weights like this today!

I was recently introduced to the "Fittest Guy at This Gym," at my gym the other day.

My sister and I were setting up to do some knees-to-bar followed by some jumping rope (singles for me, doubles for her), when this... guy wearing cut-off jean shorts, sunglasses, and a "nipple shirt" comes over to us and asks if we're using the bar. Uh, obviously not at this moment but it's clearly on our agenda. My sister offers to let him work in a set, to which he replies, "Nah, I just want to do this once." He jumps up to hang from the bar and does some kind of bizarre acrobatic trick on it before dropping back down to the floor. We were then treated to a lengthy diatribe about how he is the fittest guy at the gym and probably the only one here who can do what he just did. Great, I guess? Then he wandered off, possibly in search of more hair gel, I presume. During our workout, I actually witnessed him hopping over benches to get from one end of the gym to the other, as well as hitting himself in the chest with a twenty-five pound plate. He would also frequently give himself shout-outs and go all "Shooter McGavin" on the dumbbells he was putting back.

I haven't seen him since.

one guy who has been at the gym for about a month.

john stockton looks at his shorts and says holy *kitten* those are short