D-Bags at the gym
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Does the guy with the fanny sack around his big belly in a skin tight phil collins concert t-shirt strutting around like he's david beckham count as d-baggy enough?0
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I thought the 'gas masks' were to simulate high altitude. For people that train in low altitudes but have to perform in high altitudes, there is a benefit. I could be wrong, but that's the idea. I don't think if it as douche-ie. I always think they're training for something. The ones in my gym are always too badass to laugh at. They look like they might cut you.
It is for altitude training.0 -
I thought the 'gas masks' were to simulate high altitude. For people that train in low altitudes but have to perform in high altitudes, there is a benefit. I could be wrong, but that's the idea. I don't think if it as douche-ie. I always think they're training for something. The ones in my gym are always too badass to laugh at. They look like they might cut you.0
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In my gym it's the ones that talk on their phone the entire time while at the gym and monopolize a machine. . I have asked them if I could use the machine but I either get a look of disgust for interrupting their conversation or a motion that they are almost done then proceed to talk another 20 minutes while sitting at the machine before completing their one more set.
Most of them don't speak English and I am not sure if they understand it either. One in particular doesn't even use a blutooth and holds the phone next to his ear the entire time....smh. no wonder he looks so scrawny. ...I could probably take him. Lol0 -
I wish I could record the d-bags at my gym. I don't have a problem with people wearing tank tops or tattoos but I do have a problem with the aforementioned nipple revealing string bikini esq tank tops. I had originally judged people that wore tank tops with tattoos not because of how they acted but by whether or not I was intimidated / jealous of how they looked. Now that I am starting to realize that most of those guys are there for the same reason as me, I could care less....except when they hog benches and prevent me from doing my workout.
I actually thought one guy was a huge dbag just because he wore a tank top and looked at himself in the mirror (like checking himself out) I actually wound up talking to him one day and realized he was actually a pretty cool guy. You shouldn't let appearance bother you unless they're actually BEING a d-bag and it affects your workout, otherwise ignore em.
I've got one guy that I've seen walk in front of others in between their sets and use the machine without asking....they were wearing a tank top, but the tank top didn't make them a douche.....the cutting in front thing did.
There's also these other guys that wear their backwards baseball hats with the stickers still on and also wear tank tops.I think wearing their hats that way showcases their overly cocky attitude walking around the gym but the thing that makes them dbags is the fact that they hog the dumbbells / horde them around , talk on their cellphones loudly, and pay no attention to where they are going / what they are doing and have seen them bump into other people without so much as an apology
I enjoy wearing my light sweatshirt when I workout, and sometimes I'll put my hood up because I don't like when sweat pours down the back of my neck (not to mention I don't like drenching the benches with my soaked shirt). Some people would say I look like a douche, but I could care less, because I just do my own thing and enjoy my workout without bothering anyone else.0 -
I thought the 'gas masks' were to simulate high altitude. For people that train in low altitudes but have to perform in high altitudes, there is a benefit. I could be wrong, but that's the idea. I don't think if it as douche-ie. I always think they're training for something. The ones in my gym are always too badass to laugh at. They look like they might cut you.
to be fair also- it's an altitude training mask- not a gas mask.
Although the breathing effects are similar- the psychological ones are different.
yes- I've run miles in an actual pro-mask (gas mask) it sucks balls.
You're ENTIRE face is in the mask.
it's a whole other thing.
I also don't see a point in using it unless you're ACTUALLY training for an event-which most people aren't. But who am I to judge. Stay out of my way - I'll stay out of yours and I don't care what you're doing wearing or playing on your phone.0 -
This closely resembles something a douche bag would say, if one could actually talk. :laugh:
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Planet Fitness gets a lot of internet hate, but their no-lunk rules ban that sort of thing so I don't see much of it. What I do see are people coughing all over the water fountain and dudes getting on the elliptical right next to me even though there are tons of other ones open and then doing it again when I move to a treadmill. Back off man!0
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This closely resembles something a douche bag would say, if one could actually talk. :laugh:
lol confusion level 10
Muscle confusion, undoubtedly.
is that like curling in the squat rack with a medicine ball?0 -
i friggin' LOVE my home gym....the only one who gets rude is my dog, when he knows I'm done and I start my stretching routine He'll sneak over and hog my mat, trying to lay with me. :bigsmile:0
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Tattoos....Check
Tank top....Check, when its hot
Beanie....Check, when its cold
Headphones.....Check
On my phone....Check, use it to log sets and as a rest timer
Beard...Nope
I workout in my garage though, so I guess this prevents me from being classified as a d-bag. Nuts.0 -
Everyone has their own version of a D-Bag. There just happens to be a bunch of them running around at my gym in SoCal. I have tats as well and pull out my iPhone for a song change from time to time so I guess I could be classified as a mini douche. I've been laughing at some of the comments...not sure what the "wearing a hat indoors" remark was supposed to be lol. Bottom line is we are all here for a reason and that's to achieve a goal...d-bags or not...keep up the hard work !!!0
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I don't normally workout at a gym, but a couple of weeks ago I decided to do a trial PT offer at a local high end gym and actually saw the guy the OP describes, only the beard was expertly coiffed. Decided working out from home is best.0
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One time when my friend happened to use a machine after him, and sprayed it down to clean it off, the lunk took the spray bottle & sprayed chemicals in my friend's face!!
THAT got reported to the manager AND I called the police, who pointed out to the jerk that he'd committed a crime & could go to jail. Unfortunately, despite seeing the video evidence they decided not to arrest him. :P
He's toned it down a _little_ bit since then.
If he'd done it to me, at the very least I would have been screaming so everyone in the gym would hear, pour my water bottle in my eyes, hog the drinking fountain to wash my eyes until the ambulance got there, and most definitely pressed charges for the assault.0 -
I definitely made a comment to some dude at the gym yesterday that was not wiping off the machines. Yuck!0
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SRS! We should open a gym where people like that are shamed with alarms. A real nice place where no one is judged except for people who dress a certain way, or who lift/exercise with an intensity or style that we don't understand or like. We could paint everything purple, and serve pizza and candy. We'll teach them to be who they want to be.0
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