so there was this guy in the gym . . .
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Or there is person at work story. Lots of people have their "diet secrets" or tricks, whatever. Things they think need shared to help others, which the idea behind I guess is nice if it's with the thought of helping. Coworker I don't know well because she's over in the pharmacy (it's like a different part of the store cause they stay back in the little area), well she was telling me about the thing that has really helped her and she offered to send me an email about it. I said sure cause eh, it's an email so no big deal. I don't mind hearing about different things even if I have no interest. Well, the emails didn't really have information about the thing. It was just a "here are some links and your user name, welcome and you can refer people too" type. *facepalm*
Yeah, I didn't click the links and won't be signing in. Wasn't interested in the patch thing. Food maybe, but a patch to wear... not so much.0 -
the pec prince with the pecs was there when i was at the gym today . . . in one of those surgical neck brace thingies.
i don't usually try to interfere with or judge anyone else's lifting, but that frightened me.0 -
DawnEmbers wrote: »Or there is person at work story. Lots of people have their "diet secrets" or tricks, whatever. Things they think need shared to help others, which the idea behind I guess is nice if it's with the thought of helping. Coworker I don't know well because she's over in the pharmacy (it's like a different part of the store cause they stay back in the little area), well she was telling me about the thing that has really helped her and she offered to send me an email about it. I said sure cause eh, it's an email so no big deal. I don't mind hearing about different things even if I have no interest. Well, the emails didn't really have information about the thing. It was just a "here are some links and your user name, welcome and you can refer people too" type. *facepalm*
Yeah, I didn't click the links and won't be signing in. Wasn't interested in the patch thing. Food maybe, but a patch to wear... not so much.
I had a boss who got into a pyramid marketing thing, and it was terrible trying to deflect all these suggestions that we should look into it, we'd be perfect for it, etc. She was convinced this was her path to 'financial independence', while damaging her prospects at a good, well paid job!
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They can be a little annoying. Some of the home sell stuff is okay but depends on how people approach things and some of these diet ones are just terrible. This is like a diet version of nicoderm, so not sure how it helps anything. *shrugs*
Today's at gym story comes from coworker. I was over in the weight section of the small gym with earbuds in so didn't have to deal with this but she was over using the treadmill. A guy was over using one and he kept burping, quite loud as I did hear one when she came over to get away from it and I had my earbud out of the left side. He just kept walking and belching...0 -
Ha! Yuck...0
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DawnEmbers wrote: »A guy was over using one and he kept burping, quite loud as I did hear one when she came over to get away from it and I had my earbud out of the left side. He just kept walking and belching...
EWW. you know what, that would set off my gag reflex. for real.
i was That Woman In The Gym on sunday. white underpants, nice warm black tights, squats . . . and a growing hole in the crotch seam of the tights. sigh. riding a bike everywhere is SO hard on a person's gym cool.
i had a long-sleeved shirt on over my regular shirt, so i took it off and tied it round my waist for camouflage.0 -
haha, I have to say that one of my jobs for the Christmas period when I have a few days off, is to go through my drawer of gym kit and weed out some of those "thinning" gym pants! At least you had the ability to cover up!0
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Oh man, I'm paranoid about that too. I remember being mesmerised by a woman because you could see every detail of her flowery pants through her leggings as she squatted. I do not want to be that woman...
You get it a lot in cycling too, riding behind someone and realising you can see their bottom through their thinning shorts. Especially men with hairy behinds! How do you tell them? Basically you don't, you just try to ride behind someone else!
Glad you had the resources and presence of mind to cover up, @canadianlbs!0 -
sigh. i'm avoiding that weeding-out chore because i think i'd be down to just my tickle-me-elmo pants if i did. and i love those so much i'd rather flash my panties to the public - or dig out my black ones so no-one will know - than overuse them and wear them out too.0
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Your Elmo pants have made my day ...
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Ahh the pants. I did squat test mine and think they are fine (got them at Maurices). However, my shirt is squat approved and long enough it helped. Though instead I was "that person" because my friend was taking pictures of me while I did squats. I don't even have a membership at that gym. hehe
Better angle than the ones she took on her phone of me doing incline bench press. Did pause squats as moving doesn't make for good photos so it's just 135 and low bar, but I'm being dorky and giving a picture to my dad for Christmas.0 -
Tonight there were two younger guys in the gym I haven't seen before with a camera. Off came their t-shirts and yes it
Was mmmmm. After alot of posing and pumping muscles from them I managed to get thru my DL. Yes it was distracting. Then one started wrapping these heavy belts similar to a black belt around to of bicep then they did more weights. When they unwrapped them the swell was huge then more posing and photos. Turns out they are Australian bodybuilders in NZ. Not the usual thing you expect for a Friday night. Oh and I did manage to complete my workout without dropping anything.
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Tonight there were two younger guys in the gym I haven't seen before with a camera. Off came their t-shirts and yes it
Was mmmmm. After alot of posing and pumping muscles from them I managed to get thru my DL. Yes it was distracting. Then one started wrapping these heavy belts similar to a black belt around to of bicep then they did more weights. When they unwrapped them the swell was huge then more posing and photos. Turns out they are Australian bodybuilders in NZ. Not the usual thing you expect for a Friday night. Oh and I did manage to complete my workout without dropping anything.
lol. did you have to mop the drool off the floor afterwards? wouldn't be my scene, but your description of it amused me. i'm actually kind of creeped out by muscly men.
you know those times where you see someone else, and you take an instant dislike to them? and you tell yourself that you need to stop judging people by your first impression of them and they're probably perfectly nice. but then they keep coming in and you overlap with them enough to overhear a little of their interactions with other people, and you realise that ah yes, they actually are kind of *kitten*-flavoured.
it's usually a woman, is the sad thing. or maybe it's just that i only self-censor my first impression like that when it's a woman.
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The muscle was impressive from the point of view that there has been alot of work go into it. It was distracting because they were more annoying than the guy who keeps throwing the heavy db on the ground after doing incline bench. No they were certainly coming across as 'pretty boys' and if they'd kissed their biceps I wouldn't have been surprised.0
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Is dropping weights a right of passage or something?
Guy beside me doing hyperextensions with a 25 lbs plate, drops the plate from the top of his hyperextension right on to the floor. I mean, it is 25 lbs! There is no way he couldn't have just placed it down.0 -
there are some bodyweighters/parkour types that show up in my venue. you're liable to turn round and find yourself eyeball-to-bellybutton to one of them, because he's horizontally extended himself from one of the cable rig towers by nothing but his own hands. it's disconcerting, but of course also awe-inspiring and much fun to watch.
only thing is, one of them is becoming THE poster-child of 'don't skip legs day'. he's not big to begin with, in the sense of not being tall or having extremely big bones. but over this year with all the handstand-swivels and horizontal holds and all that, he's really got huge . . . but only from his hips up. from his hips down, not so much.
i really try not to stare. because he's not a show-off and he seems like a nice enough man; plus manners. but it's disturbing. every time my peripheral vision catches him, it feels like a science fiction movie where the scientists figure out how to keep a mere torso alive by giving it a spindly little tripod for 'legs'. you know that expression 'two legs and a back'? this guy's that. he could wear the kind of little-boy underpants that still have captain marvel on them, and his voice wouldn't rise.
it's crossed my mind that maybe he doesn't know how unbalanced he's got, because he can't see past his own pecs and deltoids when he looks down.0 -
so I had to go in the ladies only part of my gym to do some skullcrushers because all of the benches were taken in the main part and theres a girl that has an entire bench taken up by 3 pairs of weights and she's not even using the bench...she's using the bosu ball to do all these exercises....why take up a bench and line up all 3 sets of weights and your towel and your water bottle....and all the other benches are taken up here too. how rude?!0
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Man! This guy tonight - older guy, gut and tattoos. Comes over as I'm collecting plates from the other (empty) rack and points to my rack, the bar loaded with plates and my stuff lying there.
"You using that?"
"What the f do YOU think?"
Okay, I only thought that. I just grunted an incredulous "yes!" and stomped back with the plates. Moron.0 -
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Oh I so want to remember to use that one day!!0 -
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Oh the curl bros. Though, I guess it was good that they weren't using the squat racks, just the deadlift area instead. When the one first went over (it was a set of two guys) and picked up the 135 to do a quick bicep curl, it was a tad impressive but also was like "ah, curl just for fun." Soon discovered, nope, that was all they wanted to do over there, curl with different amounts of weights, some of which were too heavy and their form suffered. They didn't take forever at least. Plus, after doing leg press I just asked how long they would be, which ended up being one more set, so I did standing calf stuff until they were done. Other good point, unlike some who lift there, they didn't just drop the weights when done because there was padding on the floor or anything, even when it was a little heavy for them.
Still kinda funny to have them all the way over in the "lower body" section, using that one spot to do bicep curls.0 -
heh. there was a guy with a super-annoying haircut who took over the rack from me yesterday, and spent an hour and a half hogging it for his upper-body stuff. i think he might have been the sad loser with sidekick i wrote at great length about back on valentine's day. every inch of him seemed expressly designed to extract maximum sneer from every inch of me. two-tone grey-and-red stoopid rubber toesie-foot 'shoes'. below-knee khaki cargo shorts all slung about with wallet chains. on top of that, STRING TANK TOP. offensive 600-dollar bono-style glasses, only i think the tint on the lenses was lavender. and the haircut, *kitten* me. the haircut was like a mohawk/mullet, and the mohawky/mulletty part was in curls. what's more, they were not natural curls. they were Product curls. gahh.
it's like there was a scrolling banner along the base of my brain the whole time he was part of my life. wankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwankerwanker0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »
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Today there was ... no guy in the gym. I had it all to myself, for 20 mins or so. Christmas? Too much rain? I don't know the reason, but it was great - I was mildly annoyed when someone else turned up!
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Yeah, it's in a lovely old building - part of a Victorian swimming pool. The floor work area (through the doorway at the back there) used to be a 'turkish' bath room and has a fantastically ornate ceiling. Good to stare at while doing sit ups
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One of my friends posted this on FB today. I lol'd when the scene mirrored the experiences on this thread! Can't wait to show DH. His "elder experience" still makes my laugh
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One of my friends posted this on FB today.
i like buff dudes. watch them for fun sometimes.
the resolutioners are in at my gym. it's amazing what a sudden diversity of moves shows up in january - and also the couples thing. i'd forgotten all about them.
anyway, yesterday was a 'different moves' dude i could never have thought up for myself. he was half scrawny little trucker/biker type, half 'i was a buddhist in nepal of 20 years'. you expected to see rope sandals and widely-separated toes when you looked down. he was doing one-armed stuff with dumbbells in the stretch zone. kind of a one-legged dumbbell clean and press. which is fine, i guess, if he was into that. except that he was doing it on ONE LEG. and with every rep the free hand was kind of doing all this balinese-temple-dance stuff across his body in the vertical plain. undulations and circlings and tai-chi-ish things. he'd, like, initiate, squat down slowly, and the free hand would be out at his shoulder and then as he was coming back up he'd do all this wristy-twisty 'see the fishies swimming/birdies flying past' thing across his body to the opposite shoulder while the dumbbell went up. lock out, reset, and repeat.
when i went to change my shoes back, he was lying face up on a bench, fly-ing with his right hand and waving his left foot in the air. then after he finishedevery rep he'd keep his upper body flat on the bench and from t he waste down do this cycle of yoga-hip-circle type stuff. it was the same move you see some people doing with their hips from the plough position but he was just lying there flinging his legs in all the directions at once.
i was fascinated, but also kind of terrified for his mid-spine. it was like martial arts for couch potatoes or something.
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The other day a guy was lying on the bench doing leg lifts, but his knees were bent at a 90 and his range of motion was very short. A little down, then a little toward his chest. He was working HARD judging by his vocal exertions. Maybe start on the mat?0
