Funny experiemce at the gym
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Thanfully I can laugh about it, but was gobsmacked at the time!
Not a huge fan of my new gym (Anytime is really dependent on the franchise) It's tiny and mainly men who go. It's very intimidating but I go anyways. One closer is opening up in July so can't wait.
I went Sat night about eight. About ten people there. Jump on the elliptical for five minutes. There's another guy there who was on the elliptical but was going a lot slower than me. Think it's a waste of time personally but to each their own. I finish my warm up do my NRoLFW workout and then since its interval day do that for 15 minutes. (and ive fallen in love with intervals) I'm there for over an hour. Guy doing the elliptical when I start is still on it, same speed. As I'm stretching he finishes. He walks over to me as I'm putting my jacket on and starts yelling that I'm wasting my time and I made him look like a fool and that 'dumb *****es' shouldn't lift weights and that I'll be a fat cow forever' I'm just in shock. One of the other men in there walks over and pulls him away while two of his friends walk me to my car. One of them tells me not to worry but I still cry the whole way home.
WTF?? What a loser! He'll always be a jerk by the sound of it!0 -
I just wanted to say that that is unacceptable aggression, not psychosis! Psychosis is experiencing distressing phenomena due often to some past trauma and is involuntary. People with psychosis are statistically more of a risk to themselves than others and require support and understanding. This person was out of order and needs dealing with by the police. Just clarifying a point.0
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First off, congrats on your success! You've dropped a lot of weight. It's great that you're lifting weights, and I keep hearing wonderful things about The New Rules of Lifting for Women. You must be doing frigging amazing to have ticked off that guy so much! What an a**. Don't let it keep you out of the gym because your hard work will continue to pay off :flowerforyou:0
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That is sad! That is a really bad workout when you have to make yourself feel better by belittling someone else. Serious control issues with that one! I wonder why he didn't pick the biggest guy in the gym to bully....
I belong to Anytime Fitness as well... It has been a totally positive experience for both me and my wife. They have always been supportive of us, had a knowledgeable personal training staff, and never seemed intimidating to us. Perhaps it's just that location.
If the new one that opens up seems better to you, I would also contact the corporate office and let them know of your experience with their franchise (your current location)- not this incident in particular, but the general feeling of being intimidated, atmosphere, etc. Good franchises do care and will fix these problems.0 -
What a jerk! And you didn`t even say anything to him. Totally crazy person!0
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That isn't even a little bit funny, that is awful. You poor thing. Thank god there were others there. Crazy mofo. He should be banned.0
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I bet you're angry at yourself for not having an appropriate answer at the time ( like WTF are you looking at in the first place you useless perv?! )
I would have reacted just like you tho....somehow my self-defense mechanism only starts up 2 hours after the event.0 -
You did well .. I would have sucker punched the guy out .... No one has the right to talk to people that way NO ONE !!!!!!0
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Wow, classy guy!! good for you showing how much of a p#@$y he really is without even realizing you were doing it. lol I'm sorry it made you so upset, understandably so. i'm all for just going in, getting your stuff done then leaving no matter who is there. but i definitely would switch gyms and lodge a complaint against him. not that it would do much but you never know.0
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I belong to Anytime Fitness as well... It has been a totally positive experience for both me and my wife. They have always been supportive of us, had a knowledgeable personal training staff, and never seemed intimidating to us. Perhaps it's just that location.
Oh I agree they're wonderful. I spoke to the franchisee of the new one opening closer and she was the one who brought up how intimidating the current one is. So it's been noticed! I'd actully rung my 'home' gym to cancel and was prepared to pay the $50 cancellation fee to get out of it. But these people are friends of my home gym's owner (who is wonderful) and they're modelling theirs after him. So I'm really looking forward to it.
I'm laughing about it because otherwise I'll cry. Besides I'm not wasting any more emotion on that loser.0 -
I can hardly believe what im reading!!! I can't see the funny side.
In all the times I have gone to a gym here in New Zealand I have never come across such a pathetic individual like the one who abused you. It's idiots like that, that give guys in gyms a bad rap, the vast majority of gym goers are there just to improve themselves. At the Jett's gym I go to these last few months, the ratio is about 50:50 men to woman, and it's a non threatening, non intimidating gym. Everyone is friendly and helps out when anyone needs assistance.
Hoping your new gym is vastly better for you, and you are a lot happier there!! :-)
Ps// And glad you reported the guy to management, he needs to learn it is not acceptable behavior under any circumstance!!!!0 -
Holy COW.
First: I apologize on behalf of men everywhere. We're not all a$$hats like that guy. :explode:
Second: I echo everyone else who said he's got ISSUES. And it's not YOU that made him look bad - it was HIM, heh. :noway:
Third: KEEP IT UP! Obviously you're doing a great job! :drinker:0 -
Wow. That guy deserves a punch in the hyoid. ...And I want to do it.0
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That.. I mean... wtf. I'm glad the other folks stepped up and I'm sorry you had to go through that. I would have been mortified and enraged all at the same time.
What a sick person. Mentally healthy people just don't do that sort of thing so I hope he gets some kind of help. What kind of horrible week was he having to do something so *kitten*?
Has the gym contacted you about reparations or what they're going to do about him? Surely they have a record of who was in the gym at the time.0 -
Some people are such wack-jobs!!! I'm glad someone stood up for you. You deserve lots of credit for just being at the gym. Don't let someone else's in-securities (and words) get you down.
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that is just ... insane, i have no other way I can see it. But you know, HE is the one w/ the problem. Turn his *kitten*-hattery into your motivation, go back to that gym and be a hero. sounds like a lot of the other guys there (the non-crazy ones) will have your back. If you can go back and point him out to the staff maybe you'll be saving some other woman from getting the same kind of treatment.
Stick w/ your program, keep the faith and in a year from now you WILL be laughing. Because you will be fit and even more amazing than you are now ... and he'll still be an *kitten*. Living well is the best revenge.0 -
you really need to follow up on this. He needs to be banned, crap like that only levels up when it is left unchecked and the fact that he has done it before. Make the gym accountable to get is *kitten* kicked out.0
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What a jerk! Id have called the manager over immediately and had his *kitten* kicked out the door. No one should treat anyone that way. Sorry that you had to put up with that!0
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roid rage!0
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I think that dude may have had roid rage :'D straight from the juicer.0
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Good for you being able to laugh at that guy. He must have zero self esteem.
Keep up the good work and remember to point him out to the gym managers next time you see him - I hope he gets barred!0 -
Wow what a prick.........0
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None of that is funny.
It sounds like he has a mental illness and should be medicated if he's screaming at people he doesn't know.0 -
He needs his membership revoked. That facility should not let their customers treat others like that if they want to run a respectable business and depend on customer retention.0
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what an *kitten*! I would have cried too, but keep your head held high. At least the other guys intervened. It gives me hope for humanity.0
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That guy was jealous of you and a jerk. Good to hear some good guys were there to hep you out and that you are ok. You are doing great, keep it up:-)0
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yikes! So you don't have 4 hours a day that you can just spend strolling along, you have other things to do with your life... and this guy comes to yell at you... bizarre!
though, honestly when I saw the title I remembered how a month or two ago a new member of my gym thought I was one of the instructors. OMG, I was so flattered! though pretty funny how none of my friends got why I was flattered...0 -
OMG, that is really horrible!
But, concentrate on the three gentlemen that helped you. There's many more of them then there are jerks.
I agree...for every one prick out there, there's 3 nice people willing to support and help others
He was probably on roids or something...0 -
Sounds like he had involuntary narcissistic rage. When he's on his medication he's a rather cheery fellow.0
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I find it funny in the "holy crap, what a giant jerk! What is he over compensating for??" kind of way, not the funny haha way.
That said, keep us posted on what happens. I hope management hands his hind end to him and some nice perks your way!!0
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