Gym "guys"

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  • pamelak5
    pamelak5 Posts: 327 Member
    My work gym has some awesome ones -

    1. Guys who don't change into workout clothes (not even shoes) and walk slowly on treadmill, or ride slowly on the recumbent bike for an hour.

    2. Sweaty guy who wears clothes 2-3 days in a row.

    3. Guy trying to get work done and turns off the radio for the whole gym so he can "work" while he hits that elliptical for an hour.

    4. Guy who fell asleep doing crunches.
  • brewface811
    brewface811 Posts: 106
    The boyfriend/girlfriend. So annoying. The guy was attempting to train his girlfriend with some free weights, he's showing off for her.. bumping into anyone within a few feet of him because he's obviously the only one there that matters. She's giggling, complaining about heavy weights and their talking about doing it later and OMG I wanted to scream. And they weren't whispering. I am ALL BUSINESS when i am at the gym, I'm not there to chit chat or flirt.

    I agree completely. My boyfriend and I work out together but I'm all business when I'm there. If he tries to talk to me or touch me I get super annoyed and tell him to go away or leave if he isn't there to work out. It might be harsh, but I want to get in, do my thing and leave... we have plenty of time to "hang out" later.
  • vfnmoody
    vfnmoody Posts: 271 Member
    Creepy guy here .... ... Sorry had to look .....

    1)the chatters in walking in the running lanes, we have a walking lane
    2)stiff arm upper body supporters on the stair climbers feet going like h**l but no weight on them
    3)the guy who uses the handicap auto door opener to get in to the building where the gym is. .. Really?
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member


    So does the fact that I wear lululemon make me less of Ms All Business? I can still be all business regardless of what I am wearing.

    ^^^^^THIS^^^^^^

    These topics can be funny sometimes, but usually I feel like they are waaaay too judgmental. Earlier today I replied to a post where a woman was worried about what other people thought about her at the gym. I guess I lied to her because I told her that people come to the gym to improve themselves, not judge others. And then this topic shows up. Where we judge people by if their clothes are too nice(?!?!), if they talk to their friends, if the woman didn't take off her makeup after leaving work, if they use too much or too little weight, if they are trying hard enough on the cardio machines, and if they deign to do anything in the squat rack besides squat (what, they have a dedicated deadlift station at your gym? I thought not.)

    I apologize for being all Davey Downer, it's just that I don't even notice most of these other GymGuys because I'm too busy getting my money's worth when I'm at the gym. I'm in, I'm out (and I'm doing curls at your blessed squat rack too) But perhaps "Tsk, Tsk," is a cool new workout that I haven't heard of yet.

    Actually, I do notice most of the other people in the gym because I'm looking to them for inspiration to push myself harder (if I want to look as fit as they do, I have to push). So I have noticed that, based on their behavior, there are one or two who are only there to get attention, IMO, not to better themselves.
  • Nurse_krissy
    Nurse_krissy Posts: 102 Member
    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'd like to think I'm HER! :) The only difference is that since I spend so much time at the gym, I bother to buy cute gym clothes (love me some lululemon!) :)
  • VanillaBeanSeed
    VanillaBeanSeed Posts: 562 Member
    I always love reading these!!

    We don't seem to get a lot of these people though at our gym. Which is a YMCA. I see few treadmill hangers holding on for dear life, once in a great while a weight dropper, and some weird dressers lol.

    But as someone who WORKS at the gym, there's some things that annoy me

    1. Guys who have no sense of time or just don't care and I have to shuffle them out of the basket ball court just so I can go home at night!

    2. People who ask to borrow stuff. "Can I borrow a swim cap?" Would you like to borrow someone else's underwear too?

    3. People who think closing time means that's when they should get changed and showered. Thats when you should be out the door.

    4. People who don't return items back to the desk (basketballs, soccer balls, etc..)

    5. People who eat in the gym.

    6. People who bring their kids to fitness classes????!!!!!

    Im sure ill think of more lol

    Anyone else work at a gym and got some rants! hahaha
  • ROBJ3411
    ROBJ3411 Posts: 72 Member
    How about mr 2 in legs:

    I watched a guy put 350lbs on a squat rack then proceed to do 3 sets of 6, each rep moved the bar a total of 2 inches. Follow that up with loading the leg press machine with "all the weight in the gym" only to move the sled 2 inches. On top of that he left all the weight on the squat rack. just to make sure everyone could see how much weight he moved... Dude got more of a workout loading the machines... I laughed....
  • spikefoot
    spikefoot Posts: 419


    So does the fact that I wear lululemon make me less of Ms All Business? I can still be all business regardless of what I am wearing.

    ^^^^^THIS^^^^^^

    These topics can be funny sometimes, but usually I feel like they are waaaay too judgmental. Earlier today I replied to a post where a woman was worried about what other people thought about her at the gym. I guess I lied to her because I told her that people come to the gym to improve themselves, not judge others. And then this topic shows up. Where we judge people by if their clothes are too nice(?!?!), if they talk to their friends, if the woman didn't take off her makeup after leaving work, if they use too much or too little weight, if they are trying hard enough on the cardio machines, and if they deign to do anything in the squat rack besides squat (what, they have a dedicated deadlift station at your gym? I thought not.)

    I apologize for being all Davey Downer, it's just that I don't even notice most of these other GymGuys because I'm too busy getting my money's worth when I'm at the gym. I'm in, I'm out (and I'm doing curls at your blessed squat rack too) But perhaps "Tsk, Tsk," is a cool new workout that I haven't heard of yet.

    Fully agree with the above

    Sure some of these are funny and Interesting stories... But where do all of you fit in then?
  • ROBJ3411
    ROBJ3411 Posts: 72 Member
    - The De-Racker - We all know this guy... he likes to load up the bar, or grab sets of dumbbells, or load all of the 45s on the Leg Press, but NEVER Re-Racks his weights. "Yah buddy, your mom is right behind you, picking up your mess. Don't worry about the rest of us who expect the weights to be put back where they belong so we can use them as well. You just do your own thang."


    Yep this all the time, like I want to unload 15 45 plates to do my workout on the leg press

    If you follow someone like that, embarass the cr@p out of him by telling him to rack this weights. I maybe mr @sshole in the gym, but I will tell a dude to re rack his weights or wipe off a bench.
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    I almost forgot about the guy with one leg on the elliptical going like 3 times as fast as I was. There are people at the gym who can actually be inspiring.
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    To the O.P. I like how Race is only mentioned when they are Black. :laugh: :noway:

    Can I get some clarification on this? Are you saying that the people who AREN'T mentioning race are ONLY talking about white people? Not trying to pick a fight here. I'm genuinely confused as to what point you're trying to make.
  • robharlan
    robharlan Posts: 14 Member
    To the O.P. I like how Race is only mentioned when they are Black. :laugh: :noway:

    Can I get some clarification on this? Are you saying that the people who AREN'T mentioning race are ONLY talking about white people? Not trying to pick a fight here. I'm genuinely confused as to what point you're trying to make.

    Some people just look for an argument.
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    To the O.P. I like how Race is only mentioned when they are Black. :laugh: :noway:
    Why are you automatically assuming the other people weren't black?
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    To the O.P. I like how Race is only mentioned when they are Black. :laugh: :noway:
    Why are you automatically assuming the other people weren't black?

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who is thinking that's what he meant.
  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
    The "what are you doing?" guy. There's a guy who comes to the gym at my college who gets on an elliptical wearing sweats and a hoodie (hood pulled way up and tightened around his face) and for about 15 seconds every 1-2 minutes goes so hard that it sounds like the elliptical is going to break and then goes a moderate pace. And given that our gym is kept at a balmy 70+ degrees on any given day... I do not understand. He could run outside and still sweat his *** off since it's 80+ degrees outside.

    Also since I work out a college gym, sometimes it's over run with sorority girls who come in as a pack and work out on all the ellipticals/treadmills around my bike (I usually go hard on a bike or run outside) and chat and talk and watch Food Network. And don't break a sweat. And stay for 15 minutes. And are still skinny and I don't understand how that is possible.
  • ki4yxo
    ki4yxo Posts: 709 Member
    My version of the treamill master: Super-skinny older guy who cranks the incline up to max, then hangs on to the front of the machine for dear life while leaning waaay back. I see him every time I'm at the gym. He stays on thing thing for hours!


    A-hahaha!

    I've noticed that as well!

    We also have the ones that crank it up to 1.5 MPH,
    and watch TV while in jeans and heels! If that's too
    much, they sit on the bike, and pedal like a turtle.
    All this to watch Wheel of Fortune???

    Speed and incline are dictated by my BPM.

    I guess I'm the sweaty guy, but at least I bring my
    own towel to wipe the sweat off of me. Plus I have
    the common courtesy to wipe down the machine
    with those antibacterial wipes once I'm done.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    The "what are you doing?" guy. There's a guy who comes to the gym at my college who gets on an elliptical wearing sweats and a hoodie (hood pulled way up and tightened around his face) and for about 15 seconds every 1-2 minutes goes so hard that it sounds like the elliptical is going to break and then goes a moderate pace. And given that our gym is kept at a balmy 70+ degrees on any given day... I do not understand. He could run outside and still sweat his *** off since it's 80+ degrees outside.

    He's doing High Intensity Interval Training. There are many ways to do it, but I'd be willing to bet money that if you ask him, he'll tell you he'd doing the Sprint 8. He'll do 90 seconds of light/moderate work followed 30 secs of all out sprinting, and repeat that for 8 sprints.

    As for his clothing, sweating off weight was a big thing in like the 80s. Wrestlers or fighters still do it now to make weight for a match. But I remember as a kid I would see people wearing what looked like aluminum foil sweatsuits. I didn't think this was still a thing but I googled it just now and I see GoFit is still selling a "thermal suit" that looks like the woman is wearing two trashbags. Not sure if she's about to workout or rake my leaves. I'm not saying your guy is wearing one of these getups, but he's probably from the "I'm gonna sweat this weight off" school.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    To the O.P. I like how Race is only mentioned when they are Black. :laugh: :noway:

    Can I get some clarification on this? Are you saying that the people who AREN'T mentioning race are ONLY talking about white people? Not trying to pick a fight here. I'm genuinely confused as to what point you're trying to make.

    Some people just look for an argument.



    I tried so hard to stay away from this one but I just can't help myself, I guess.

    It stuck out to me the first time I read the OP as well. He most definitely did what I call "othered" the Somali guys. Whatever. I just let that stuff slide off me. Better that that get labeled as the Angry Black Guy.

    The young man just pointed out that about the original post. He wasn't referring to any of the other posts. So to answer your questions, Yes, it's fairly clear that people (in the OP) who's ethnicity wasn't pointed out were probably white. No, he wasn't saying that every other post in this thread was about white people, No, he's not trying to start an argument, just pointing out a conversational gaffe that a million people make a million times a day without being aware that they are "othering" and it might be offensive.

    Why are you automatically assuming the other people weren't black?

    The last question is really a question for another thread, on some other site. But whatever, I'm neck deep now. The answer is because the weren't. I read about one book (fiction) per week, and as a rule of thumb if no race is mentioned, all of the characters are white. When the occasional character of race shows up, the author will make you keenly aware (violent Somalis!) by some combination of name, description of skin or hair, or maybe even go Full Mark Twain and have them speak in a ridiculous accent. There are some books where none of that happens and I'm free to imagine the characters in my head as various races, but the second they do that labeling thing, I realize that every character up until that point was supposed to be white. Sometimes I don't care, sometimes it makes me sad. Depends on how stupid the accent is. As always, YMMV.

    Hopefully that didn't come off as angry or like I'm trying to start and argument, because that's definitely not the spirit I typed this in. Just wanted it noted that he didn't just pull that thought out of his *kitten*. Or even if he did, he wasn't the only one
  • Bronx_Montgomery
    Bronx_Montgomery Posts: 2,284 Member
    To the O.P. I like how Race is only mentioned when they are Black. :laugh: :noway:
    Why are you automatically assuming the other people weren't black?

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who is thinking that's what he meant.

    Because they weren't mentioned as such. Im not trying to pick a fight. I just think its funny when we describe other people we always mention Black or hispanic to describe someone of such culture but we do not do that when it comes to Caucasians. We just say oh that person and we just assume they are white. Its just a funny thing about our culture lately
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    i ignore other people at the gym... im just there to do what i do, only way i get annoyed is if it impedes with what im trying to accomplish.. curls in the squat rack? sure i get annoyed but il just do something else until hes done, probably hit a different exercise i havent done in a while like step ups or squat jumps... just dont get mad if you ask to work in and i simply say "no" because u are doing different weight than I am, or im trying to have reduced rest periods.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    anyone that does bicep curls on the squat rack should be tared and feathered and dragged through the streets to be pointed and laughed at and little children can throw rotten fruits and vegtables at them.

    other then that, i don't care what you do at the gym.

    i do laugh at the guys with those solidly built arms and stick figure legs though.
  • g3322
    g3322 Posts: 16
    There were two guys at the gym I used to go who were huge meatheads and obsessed with themselves. I heard them talking one time about a girl the one of them liked, but she kind of wasn't giving him the time of day. The other guy goes "I don't know why she doesn't like you dude. You're huge."

    I was laughing so hard, I had to move to another spot in the gym. Cause that's the only thing girls are looking for: huge muscles. hahahahahahhahahahha I love telling that story!
  • SylentZee
    SylentZee Posts: 262
    lol @ the screamer, thats normally the one that is throwing the weights on the floor.
  • Loko_Ino
    Loko_Ino Posts: 544 Member
    At least they are in the gym.....
  • KCoolBeanz
    KCoolBeanz Posts: 813 Member
    We have a Dumbell Dropper at my gym, except it's a group of 4 guys - one lifts, 3 spot, and then the guy lifting drops the weights from at least a foot up. Really? Can you not ask your friends to help you?

    Also, on Sunday mornings, I get to watch "Air Drum Guy" rock out to whatever is on his iPod in between sets. Who knows, maybe next week I'll join in with some Leg Guitar. :P
  • cici418
    cici418 Posts: 12 Member
    The Clubbers: :laugh: The girls that show up....as if they are going to the club, in work out clothes....My work out partner and I always laugh at these girls. SERIOUSLY...who wears a full face of makeup AND huge HOOP EARRINGS to work out in? And to top that off, while I may be a bit of a HATER because I am still a work in progress, those booty shorts and only a sports bra is not appropriate. Believe me, I have considered if I will dress like that when I hit my goal weight....survey says...NOPE. Not only do guys get annoyed by these girls (I am thankful to find out)...but I sneer at them the entire time I work out and then giggle with a sense of superiority when they do 10 minutes on a cardio machine and act exhausted. :)
    Good luck everyone!! Keep up the hard work.
  • LeeciesLosingIt
    LeeciesLosingIt Posts: 4
    Yeah living in Vegas I often see the "club girls" the "gym rats" and so many more terms for these people. What annoys me most is that people care so much about other people at the gym. Quite honestly, I go to the gym to work out. 95% of the time I don't notice other people around me, the other 5% of the time that I do notice is when I am either (A) with my trainer, so I have to pay attention, (B) someone is on a machine I need to use next so I am waiting for it but dont want to seem pushy (C) your dropping weights, grunting or doing the "look at me" noises. I go to the gym in workout clothes, some cute some not so cute. All depends on what I got a good deal on when I was shopping for workout clothes. Sometimes I go in afterwork and I walk in in a pair of heels with a full face of makeup, but that isn't what I work out in (other than the makeup); I am there to workout none-the-less. I understand peoples pet peeves with the people who "have good bodies" and come to the gym as a fashion show or to show off their bodies more then to work out to improve or keep their bodies.

    I can honestly say that some of the people I have ran into at my gym were more motivation for me; There is a woman who has a prosthetic leg who runs 5+ miles a day at the gym (again I live in Vegas and running outside at 110* can suck) she runs with determination and strength. AMAZES me!
    Then there is this woman who comes in and has been for quite sometime now, she is an older (40+) mother of four. She is very overweight when she started; She was over 400 LBS when I first saw her coming in. She now is down to 250'ish, and still working hard. One day in the locker room she made a comment about how often we run into one another at the gym she felt like she knew me we had seen one another so much. She asked why if I was there all the time my body wasn't changing. She had after all lost 150'ish LBS and I still looked about the same. I explained that I have a thyroid condition so its basically like fighting an uphill battle just to maintain my body let alone lose weight, but I still keep going toward a healthier me. One day about a week or so after our conversation as I was changing and leaving she hands me a card and rushes out of the locker room. I threw the card in my bag and left as I was in a hurry. Later when I opened it and read it, it simply said Thank you for your honesty. You inspire me. Which brought me to tears. How could I inspire anyone? I wasn't losing weight hardly at all; So next time I saw her, I thanked her for her kind words and asked her how on earth I was an inspiration. She told me, cause even though your not seeing instant results you don't give up. Apparently she had platued at a weight block and was thinking that was the best she would ever be, which made her unhappy and want to give up her goals and go back to pre-gym life. She said I made her realize it wasn't completely about the weight loss as much as it was about getting healthy for her family to be around longer. We now work out 5 days a week together, and while our workouts aren't strenuous as some peoples, they make us sweat and burn calories and more importantly they make us healthier.

    So while all gyms have those annoying "Look At Me" types, all gyms also have those inspirational types as well. Although I must admit the club girls and the gym rats are kind of hilarious at times and annoying at other times.
  • dane11235813
    dane11235813 Posts: 682 Member
    anyone that does bicep curls on the squat rack should be tared and feathered and dragged through the streets to be pointed and laughed at and little children can throw rotten fruits and vegtables at them.

    other then that, i don't care what you do at the gym.

    i do laugh at the guys with those solidly built arms and stick figure legs though.

    there was a monster dude curling 185 lbs in the squat rack about a month or so ago. i didn't say a thing. i just stared in awe. i'd consider him the exception.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    anyone that does bicep curls on the squat rack should be tared and feathered and dragged through the streets to be pointed and laughed at and little children can throw rotten fruits and vegtables at them.

    other then that, i don't care what you do at the gym.

    i do laugh at the guys with those solidly built arms and stick figure legs though.

    there was a monster dude curling 185 lbs in the squat rack about a month or so ago. i didn't say a thing. i just stared in awe. i'd consider him the exception.

    totally the exception. was he taking a break from the village he normally terrorizes???
  • ishax24
    ishax24 Posts: 51 Member
    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 think I'm borderline this since I really couldn't care less what I look like at the gym and who is there but I use both weight machines and free weights.

    The most annoying guys at my gym are the skinny pretty boys who walk in wearing the exact same overly tight tank tops and 3/4 length joggers, walk straight up to the mirrors by the free weights and just stand there taking photos of themselves, then walk over to the treadmill and try and 'race' each other!!

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