craziest-weirdest things seen at the gym

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  • mobrien689
    mobrien689 Posts: 5 Member
    A man on the elliptical runner groping his own breast implants.
  • AlwaysInMotion
    AlwaysInMotion Posts: 409 Member
    Years ago, I repeatedly encountered a strange, seemingly harmless man walking on the treadmill while very passionately conducting his invisible orchestra. There wasn’t any music playing (no radio, no earbuds). Occasionally he would mutter or point his invisible baton at other people (real or imaginary) to cue them.

    I don't know what I was thinking (I wasn't), so one day I raised my imaginary violin on cue and started “playing” along… He looked as if he were about to explode with joy. I “played” for a few bars and then bowed out... and then left.

    So, I’m probably going to hell for encouraging the delusions of a mentally ill person…Aaaand then I couldn't use the treadmills anymore when he was there because, well... he kept trying to cue me for solos. :ohwell:
  • subsonicbassist
    subsonicbassist Posts: 117 Member
    Years ago, I repeatedly encountered a strange, seemingly harmless man walking on the treadmill while very passionately conducting his invisible orchestra. There wasn’t any music playing (no radio, no earbuds). Occasionally he would mutter or point his invisible baton at other people (real or imaginary) to cue them.

    I don't know what I was thinking (I wasn't), so one day I raised my imaginary violin on cue and started “playing” along… He looked as if he were about to explode with joy. I “played” for a few bars and then bowed out... and then left.

    So, I’m probably going to hell for encouraging the delusions of a mentally ill person…Aaaand then I couldn't use the treadmills anymore when he was there because, well... he kept trying to cue me for solos. :ohwell:
    This is the most beautiful thing I have ever read. I like you :):flowerforyou:
  • ksuh999
    ksuh999 Posts: 543 Member
    Totally nude guy, including bare feet, walking into a stall with only a newspaper under his arm. *shudder*
    Hey I've had to do this, because I was going to take a shower after my workout but then the #2 urge suddenly arrived, so I went to the stall first. No newspaper though.
  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    There is a lady (late 50's) that goes to my gym and gets on the treadmill. She is decked out in perfect matching running gear, head and wrist sweat bands, stop watch, huge gym bag. ear buds, arm band with her i-phone, etc. She will walk for 60 minutes at the slowest pace the treadmill will go. She litterally walks faster off the treadmill. I've never seen anyone walk that slow (without a walker). When she gets off the treadmill, she walks as fast as I do.
  • SalemBoSox88
    SalemBoSox88 Posts: 237
    Me jamming on my headphones. I know people laugh at me but I don't care!
  • ScorpionQwean
    ScorpionQwean Posts: 1,013 Member
    A guy walking at 2 mph on the treadmill while working on a laptop
  • April_KT
    April_KT Posts: 332 Member
    Craziest thing iv'e seen at the gym was a guy who instead of doing regular pull ups somehow was doing a headstand/ push up on top of the pull up bar.. If that makes sense at all haha . Hard to explain
  • krhn
    krhn Posts: 781 Member
    Someone going balls to the walls on the elliptical that you can actually hear the machine when the gym is massive and has music playing :laugh:
  • ScorpionQwean
    ScorpionQwean Posts: 1,013 Member
    Well, I was in my gym w/ my personal trainer and 8 other guys (ya, I didn't care) and I was working out the hardest of them all.... pumping 30lbs in each hand while these guys would use a machine, do a rep, then jump onto something else... My PT was like, "you frek'n are killing these guys"... YUP! Now thats messed up..LOL
  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,260 Member
    1. A guy running on the treadmil next to me **** his pants...
    2. A guy taking selfies making kissie faces at himself.
    3. An elder lady with severe huntch back standing rite behind me staring in the mirror while I awkwardly try to undress to shower...
    4. ....

    oh man I am going to stop here....too many
  • AlwaysInMotion
    AlwaysInMotion Posts: 409 Member
    Years ago, I repeatedly encountered a strange, seemingly harmless man walking on the treadmill while very passionately conducting his invisible orchestra. There wasn’t any music playing (no radio, no earbuds). Occasionally he would mutter or point his invisible baton at other people (real or imaginary) to cue them.

    I don't know what I was thinking (I wasn't), so one day I raised my imaginary violin on cue and started “playing” along… He looked as if he were about to explode with joy. I “played” for a few bars and then bowed out... and then left.

    So, I’m probably going to hell for encouraging the delusions of a mentally ill person…Aaaand then I couldn't use the treadmills anymore when he was there because, well... he kept trying to cue me for solos. :ohwell:
    This is the most beautiful thing I have ever read. I like you :):flowerforyou:

    I'd like to think he was always hearing the most amazing symphonies... and we were the ones actually missing out! :flowerforyou:
  • WJS_jeepster
    WJS_jeepster Posts: 224 Member
    I was swimming laps and an older man came out of the men's locker room, walked all the way across the pool deck to the hot tub, sat on the edge for a very long time and then finally got in. No bathing suit. The person I was swimming sets with tried to argue that his swimsuit was flesh colored, but it was pretty obvious he was naked.

    To leave the pool and go to the women's locker room, we would have to walk right past him. We waited awhile, but he was clearly there for the long haul so we had to walk past. Horrifying.
  • rebeccaLburchfield
    rebeccaLburchfield Posts: 3
    a guy wearing a fish net style shirt :/
  • jasoncbackus
    jasoncbackus Posts: 131 Member
    People giving me dirty looks for wearing my fishnet shirt. What can I say, it breathes well!
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    People giving me dirty looks for wearing my fishnet shirt. What can I say, it breathes well!

    lol. moisture wicking.
  • Grumpellina
    Grumpellina Posts: 49
    People that bring books and go so so so slowly, reading the book, adding little notations here and there, for an hour.
  • Platform_Heels
    Platform_Heels Posts: 388 Member
    Years ago, I repeatedly encountered a strange, seemingly harmless man walking on the treadmill while very passionately conducting his invisible orchestra. There wasn’t any music playing (no radio, no earbuds). Occasionally he would mutter or point his invisible baton at other people (real or imaginary) to cue them.

    I don't know what I was thinking (I wasn't), so one day I raised my imaginary violin on cue and started “playing” along… He looked as if he were about to explode with joy. I “played” for a few bars and then bowed out... and then left.

    So, I’m probably going to hell for encouraging the delusions of a mentally ill person…Aaaand then I couldn't use the treadmills anymore when he was there because, well... he kept trying to cue me for solos. :ohwell:
    This is the most beautiful thing I have ever read. I like you :):flowerforyou:

    I'd like to think he was always hearing the most amazing symphonies... and we were the ones actually missing out! :flowerforyou:

    OMG. I totally would have done the same. Except I probably would have kept going back and encouraging him.
  • jasoncbackus
    jasoncbackus Posts: 131 Member
    See, you get it! :)
  • MB2MN
    MB2MN Posts: 334 Member
    Years ago, I repeatedly encountered a strange, seemingly harmless man walking on the treadmill while very passionately conducting his invisible orchestra. There wasn’t any music playing (no radio, no earbuds). Occasionally he would mutter or point his invisible baton at other people (real or imaginary) to cue them.

    I don't know what I was thinking (I wasn't), so one day I raised my imaginary violin on cue and started “playing” along… He looked as if he were about to explode with joy. I “played” for a few bars and then bowed out... and then left.

    So, I’m probably going to hell for encouraging the delusions of a mentally ill person…Aaaand then I couldn't use the treadmills anymore when he was there because, well... he kept trying to cue me for solos. :ohwell:

    This is the ONLY post that has ever made me literally laugh out loud because I can SO picture it. Classic! You probably made his day and that is so sweet.
  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,260 Member
    At the gym where we used to live there was this nice elderly man came up to the bench while I was bench pressing, put his foot on the bench beside me, facing me, started to stretch, and one of his balls fell out of his shorts about 2 feet from my face.

    I didn't even read the rest of what you posted! but this... THIS... OMG LMFAO!!!!
  • PghPensFan69
    PghPensFan69 Posts: 2,393 Member
    Old men blow drying their balls in the locker room with hair dryers provided by the gym. NASTY
  • FromFlabToFurious
    FromFlabToFurious Posts: 355 Member
    There's this dude at my gym who turns up on the evenings and everytime he does something, he groans like he's either having sex or he's in intolerable pain.

    He lifts seriously light weights (I'm talking 6-8kg) and he's groaning like "EUUUUUUUUUGH! ARRRRRGHH!" and everyone just looks at him like "Why are you making such a fuss?". I think what's even funnier is that, for some reason, he gets his mate to join in and he lifts heavier weights than him and is completely silent. Dude looks over, hates it and goes a bit heavier and makes MORE noise!

    Funniest thing? The groaning guy is seriously muscly and his friend is very skinny with barely any meat on his bones! Good for his mate, I say!
  • hmaddpear
    hmaddpear Posts: 610 Member
    No joke, last week lady was on the stationary bike and was knitting a blanket. :huh:

    One morning at the gym I was waiting to use one of the recumbent bikes and gave up because it was clearly ladies social hour. I'm surprised they were also knitting.

    If you're going hell for leather, there's nothing wrong with knitting on the recumbent - if you're there for half an hour, it's primo knitting time! Yes, have been known to do that (though, do time that for quiet times in the gym - while *I* may want to cycle for 45 minutes, if there's a queue, then it's only polite to cut it short.)
  • AlwaysInMotion
    AlwaysInMotion Posts: 409 Member
    If you're going hell for leather, there's nothing wrong with knitting on the recumbent - if you're there for half an hour, it's primo knitting time!

    I soooo love that. It's not like you're gonna fall off or get hit by a truck. Why not?!?
  • FreshKrisKreash
    FreshKrisKreash Posts: 444 Member
    Not that weird but yesterday when I got on the only open treadmill left the dude next to me goes, NO, OH NO, NO, SAH, NO, SAH.
    So I look at him and he tells me he wants his buddy to run beside him so I left and guess what, his friend never came anywho...
  • kaotik26
    kaotik26 Posts: 590 Member
    I saw a girl dressed like a diva at the gym once. Seriously, cute short shorts, off the shoulder top, hoop earrings, tons of makeup and a sparkly bag.
  • AlwaysInMotion
    AlwaysInMotion Posts: 409 Member
    Years ago, I repeatedly encountered a strange, seemingly harmless man walking on the treadmill while very passionately conducting his invisible orchestra. There wasn’t any music playing (no radio, no earbuds). Occasionally he would mutter or point his invisible baton at other people (real or imaginary) to cue them.

    I don't know what I was thinking (I wasn't), so one day I raised my imaginary violin on cue and started “playing” along… He looked as if he were about to explode with joy. I “played” for a few bars and then bowed out... and then left.

    So, I’m probably going to hell for encouraging the delusions of a mentally ill person…Aaaand then I couldn't use the treadmills anymore when he was there because, well... he kept trying to cue me for solos. :ohwell:

    This is the ONLY post that has ever made me literally laugh out loud because I can SO picture it. Classic! You probably made his day and that is so sweet.

    Ya know what would have been funnier??? If he really *did* have earbuds in and was practicing for an actual performance and *I* was the crazy gym lady playing my invisible violin at him! (And yes, I checked for earphones and sheet music more than once. I'm not crazy, at least not in that instance.)

    The "conductor" made my day on multiple occasions. He was a nice quiet guy, just very, VERY peculiar! I'm kinda sad I moved away... Hope he's still rocking the treadmill podium.
  • SilverRose89
    SilverRose89 Posts: 447 Member
    Years ago, I repeatedly encountered a strange, seemingly harmless man walking on the treadmill while very passionately conducting his invisible orchestra. There wasn’t any music playing (no radio, no earbuds). Occasionally he would mutter or point his invisible baton at other people (real or imaginary) to cue them.

    I don't know what I was thinking (I wasn't), so one day I raised my imaginary violin on cue and started “playing” along… He looked as if he were about to explode with joy. I “played” for a few bars and then bowed out... and then left.

    So, I’m probably going to hell for encouraging the delusions of a mentally ill person…Aaaand then I couldn't use the treadmills anymore when he was there because, well... he kept trying to cue me for solos. :ohwell:

    This. Is amazing.
  • lisalsd1
    lisalsd1 Posts: 1,519 Member
    I have a couple of more to add.

    The cops have been called twice to my gym while I was there. Once, one employee threatened to kill another employee...said employee no longer works there...the police had to escort him out.

    Another time, there was some weird, hostile guy pacing back and forth outside of the gym shouting at the staff inside of the gym. I got there while this was going on, so I don't know what caused it. The police escorted this guy away too...I watched while I was on the treadmill.

    Last week, my husband was in the locker room when an employee came in to fix something in the men's shower. He brought a trash can in with him and proceeded to puke into the trash can while standing on the ladder. My husband asked if he was ok; he said he was; BUT my husband was so concerned he told the front desk people. To which they replied, "Oh, he's probably hungover again!"

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