Gym "guys"

when I first started going to the gym I wasn't worried about looking like crap in front of all the guys or anything because I figured they would be looking at or watching the small skinny attractive gurls, but nope they can't seem to keep their eyes off of my *kitten* everytime I go lol

I must be in a snitchy mood today. Usually I'm all up in stuff like this, and today I find this post depressing, in a "damn...what are people saying about my fat *kitten* at the gym" kind of way.

Someone help me get this stick out of my nether regions, merci beaucoup.

There I think it's starting to move some yep it came out.

Overheard a guy telling his workout partner this yesterday:

"You know, I don't really care if I can bench ###. I just want to LOOK like I could bench ###!" :laugh:

is that bad? Thats my school of thought...........

I wouldn't say it's good or bad. You have those who train for size and those who train for strength. Each camp is mostly gonna thin they're superior to the other, from my experience.

Ms. "All Business" -

This one I like. She comes to the gym in a beat up t-shirt or tank top and some generic workout pants. She doesn't have her makeup done. She doesn't bother with machines. She goes straight to the free weights after her warmup and spends the next hour or so going through a series of resistance workouts you typically don't see women doing, moving poundages that could give a lot of the guys a run for their money. Half the guys in the gym have massive crushes on her but nobody will approach her because the intensity with which she goes at her workouts gives off an air that says "OFF LIMITS! I'M HERE TO GET STUFF DONE!"

Pahhahahaha This is me so hard. I'm glad we are a 'type'. I am not alone! Ms. All Businesses Unite!

I'm with you!! I didn't realize that I was a "type" either! There aren't many of us at the community center I workout at.

We need rings or something.

Ms. "All Business" -

This one I like. She comes to the gym in a beat up t-shirt or tank top and some generic workout pants. She doesn't have her makeup done. She doesn't bother with machines. She goes straight to the free weights after her warmup and spends the next hour or so going through a series of resistance workouts you typically don't see women doing, moving poundages that could give a lot of the guys a run for their money. Half the guys in the gym have massive crushes on her but nobody will approach her because the intensity with which she goes at her workouts gives off an air that says "OFF LIMITS! I'M HERE TO GET STUFF DONE!"

That used to be me There'd be 20+ guys in the weights area and me. The gym regular bodybuilder chatty guy told me I had great form once. awwww I blushed.
I wear Lululemon gym clothes - they fit magically, make you look hot as ****, don't ride up and the tops are long enough to hide your butt and crotch when bending over. Well worth the money you pay. Sadly I put on 10kgs in the past year and the gyms in my hometown SUCK so that ain't me anymore.

Teenage guys who must be in pre-season football (aussie rules) training or something. They come in packs for a few weeks. They are skinny and pale and half hearted. I lift heavier weights and try harder and I'm a little girl.

Two or three teenage girls with 'a leader' who prance about checking themselves out taking up the entire gym floor with their walking lunges. The leader will instruct them which exercises to do but as soon as they notice the teenage boys, the intensity stops because I guess they don't want to sweat in front of them.

The old man in short legged high waisted trousers (or high waisted shorts), a white wifebasher tucked in and pulled up socks and old woman in a blouse and slacks doing machine weights with no actual weight on them.

Hyenas. Groups of 2-3 of guys who scream and grunt and drop their weights down ruining the floor (and who like someone else noticed, leap up shouting and walk in a circle after a set). Usually accompanied by a protein shake. My exbf used to be able to lift DOUBLE what they could (he couldn't find a gym that had heavy enough free weights because he had outlifted them all yeesh) yet never made a sound and except for noticing that there was a hottie in the midst, you wouldn't even know he was there. Unlike the hyenas.

The Class Regular. Generally spotted in Pump class. The girl who is usually about a size 12-14 (so not rail thin or muscular), who uses a bar and weights heavier than the instructor and who goes so often she could lead the class blindfolded if not for her very, very, very poor form. Of COURSE you can do the entire leg track with heavier weights than the instructor love, you aren't doing squats, you are simply leaning forward from the hips. Seriously, it's better to have correct form and a lighter weight and stop for a few reps mid-song to rest than to have heavy weights, be able to finish the track but you aren't actually doing the exercise.

The NY Resolutioners who pack into the gym through Jan and Feb taking up every cardio machine and machine weight, who are bright red with hair a-flying, with poor technique who mysteriously disappear once the realisation that losing weight is hard kicks in. On gym memberships, there should be a box 'Are you losing weight as a New Years Resolution?' If yes, they should be put in a different area of the gym or actually guided by a trainer. The money gyms must make off NYR's would be insane.

The girl on the treadmill who walks slower than she does in her local shopping centre on 0incline for 45minutes wondering why she doesn't lose weight.

The person who sits on their machine/bench in between sets. But the rest is 4 minutes long. Particularly annoying when EVERY bench is taken and CLEARLY you are waiting. Working in doesn't appear to be a universal concept.

I'm tired of hot girl doing nothing in the free weights section. I go to a military gym, and I -hate- having to look at some girl doing body weight abs on a bench by the dumbells.

There's a fricking abs area downstairs with mats and benches. Why are you doing abs over here? Why are your shorts so short? I have to see your cooter too, and I am DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR SHAVE.

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I'm so busy trying not to stare at her stupid open leg V crunches that I get a crick in my neck. She's trying to kill me.

YES! I HATE the Supersetter!!

Just hop on the equipment they aren't using that very second if you need to. Haven't ran into anyone that wasn't cool about it.


I'm frequently amused by the dudes that carry around tubs of supplements to the gym, along with 1-2 blender bottles and a gallon jug of water.

But also annoying is the Passive Aggressive Waiter.

In the example of a busy gym, you're using a station and sticking near it during your rest period. The entire time you get the stinkeye from someone milling around.

Buddy, if you want to work in, all you have to do is say something!

Very funny thread, made my day. So many great caricatures. I dare not say which caricature I am.
I'll just add two:

The Grunter

We aren't talking grunts to get the last one or two reps done. We are talking full on grunt for every single rep of every single exercise. I don't use an iPod while training so I occasionally have this lovely aural assault going on just as I'm trying to concentrate before putting somegthing very heavy on my back.

The Smith Machine Moron

You've seen him (invariably it is a him). Comes into the gym, first thing he does is load up 225 lbs on the Smith and then squats all of about 10 inches. "Look at me, I can squat 225 lbs WITH EASE, people". And then he leaves the plate on the bar and walks away...

Guys using their cell phones, for stuff not related to music, in the room or during their "rest period" between sets bothers me. Morons.

I run the StrongLifts 5x5 app on my phone to track the workout and time my rests between sets. Thanks for assuming I'm a moron for using my phone for something other than music.

My favorite:

The "strong" guy. Loads up as much weight as possible, does 1/4 reps of everything and screaming on each and every rep..................and looks like ****.

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These are so funny! I'm even less inclined to go to a gym now! I can't imagine what people would say about me.

That's great. I love this thread. :laugh:

I'm almost an "all business woman." I'm there only for a max of one hour, maybe an hour and a half if my trainer is talking to me.

To the O.P. I like how Race is only mentioned when they are Black. :laugh: :noway:

Maybe they are Japanese-Somalian and he recognizes the accent.

hahaha....errr so the O.P is now a blind guy at the gym? :laugh:

Ms. "All Business" -

This one I like. She comes to the gym in a beat up t-shirt or tank top and some generic workout pants. She doesn't have her makeup done. She doesn't bother with machines. She goes straight to the free weights after her warmup and spends the next hour or so going through a series of resistance workouts you typically don't see women doing, moving poundages that could give a lot of the guys a run for their money. Half the guys in the gym have massive crushes on her but nobody will approach her because the intensity with which she goes at her workouts gives off an air that says "OFF LIMITS! I'M HERE TO GET STUFF DONE!"

I'm glad to know that is a good thing. Although most days I do have my makeup done as I am coming straight from work but on days where I go early in the morning there is no makeup. I just sweat it off in the first 5 minutes.

I may not spend an hour lifting but I get the most I can out of the 30 minutes I do have. It seems to be working for me as I have lost 22 pounds, just as many inches and dropped by body fat from 27% to 20% over the course of the past few months. I wish there were more Ms. "All Business" at the gym. It gets aggrivating seeing women in the gym who are afraid of the free weights. They don't bite and they do wonderful things for your body. :flowerforyou:

Overheard a guy telling his workout partner this yesterday:

"You know, I don't really care if I can bench ###. I just want to LOOK like I could bench ###!" :laugh:

I watch guys at the gym lift and some look like they can lift alot and can't lift much....but others look like they can't lift as much and they blow me away with their lifts.......

You've discovered the difference between people doing strength training and bodybuilders.