Strangest Thing You Ever Seen At The Gym
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This brings up a good topic. We have a transgender coworker. She uses the men's room. Which is appropriate?
Ever consider she could be a transgender pre-hormones/surgery?
Please think before laughing at people, if this is the case SHE had every right to be in that room with you.
On the other hand, it could have been a crazy guy in a dress.
You don't know either way, so maybe don't make assumptions, posts like this can make transgenders very afraid to use public bathrooms and changing rooms, just a heads up0 -
This brings up a good topic. We have a transgender coworker. She uses the men's room. Which is appropriate?
Ever consider she could be a transgender pre-hormones/surgery?
Please think before laughing at people, if this is the case SHE had every right to be in that room with you.
On the other hand, it could have been a crazy guy in a dress.
You don't know either way, so maybe don't make assumptions, posts like this can make transgenders very afraid to use public bathrooms and changing rooms, just a heads up
I would say, the room of the gender they identify with. I consider a transgender woman a woman like any other, therefore she uses the womens room, and the same for men - a transgender man is a man, and should use the mens room. It is of course their choice, but I imagine if you identify as being female, you would want to use the female room like all other females.
Sadly, this is often the reality...^0 -
This might be one of the funniest threads ever.
I've seen so much funny $#!+ at my gym its hard to say, but this one made me laugh the hardest
The first Monday of every month they give away free pizza, which in itself is funny for a gym to do, and this 400+ lbs dude who was STRUGGLING on the elliptical beside me at 3.0 speed smelling like a mix of must, *kitten* and funky nuts, saw them bring the pizzas in and jumped off the elliptical and started inhaling pizza slices right at the counter where the pizzas were. Then a couple of bloods(as in gangbangers) were watching him and one them said real loudly "Dang homie how many slices ya gonna eat big boy!!". I almost twisted my ankle falling off the elliptical.
Yes I'm mean and in my Wakka Flocka voice " I don't really care!"0 -
I had no idea this thread would be so funny!!!0
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In Pilates class a man wearing khakis and a polo shirt (and yet some how still looked homeless) ran in looking panicked, grabbed a mat, tried a few poses but mostly laid on his mat next to me, staring down my shirt and as soon as class was over he ran back out at full speed. I always wondered if he was in a hurry or some one was trying to chase him out of the gym for being weird. He talked a little through class and seemed really off.0
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I finished using a recumbent bike at my gym, and the screen flashed 'SLUT! 20:00 min'. I laughed so hard, it made my whole day.
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The strangest for me at least, which was more peculiar than anything, was one smaller guy maybe late 20's early 30's doing nothing but rear delt exercises for over a hour. Never seen anyone hit their rear delts so much at one time and he would do this multiple times a week. It was just odd to me.0
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I went to the locker room to use the washroom. As i walk by I catch someone out of the corner of my eye on the weigh scale. Back was turned to me so i couldn't really tell but Man! This "lady" had some manly looking legs and "she" was huge! I was a little concerned so just stood there to see what the reactions of the people around me were. There was probably 4 other women in the change room. They all looked a little disturbed too. I left the change room and found a lady that worked at the gym. I actually interrupted her conversation. She knew something was really wrong just by the perplexed look I had on my face. I said "I think there's a guy in the ladies change room". Sure enough, we walked back in there and there he was...still on the weigh scale. She approached him, told him he was in the ladies change room and he says "How do i get this scale to work?" LOL the lady proceeds to tell him how to work the scale and they start talking about Body mass index! Hello??! Meanwhile, people are waiting to change! we still laugh over this.
Ever consider she could be a transgender pre-hormones/surgery?
Please think before laughing at people, if this is the case SHE had every right to be in that room with you.
On the other hand, it could have been a crazy guy in a dress.
You don't know either way, so maybe don't make assumptions, posts like this can make transgenders very afraid to use public bathrooms and changing rooms, just a heads up
That did cross my mind so I made sure i was certain before I went to get someone. He was definitely a guy, hard to tell though because his back was to me. And he wasn't wearing a dress, just workout clothes and trying to figure out the weigh scale.0 -
I have to fess up - I'm sure my friends and I were a strange sight when we were training for the Disney Princess Half Marathon and went to the gym in our tutus and tiaras to give them a test run on the treadmills to make sure everything would stay in place. There were 4 or 5 of us running next to each other on the tradmills all wearing VERY sparkly stuff. A lot of folks knew what we were doing but we still got some might funny looks! (It was too cold to run outside and try it although we did run through the neighborhood once also to give everyone a good laugh!) :laugh:
BTW - the gym manager couldn't get all the glitter off the treadmills for WEEKS! LOL.0 -
I have to fess up - I'm sure my friends and I were a strange sight when we were training for the Disney Princess Half Marathon and went to the gym in our tutus and tiaras to give them a test run on the treadmills to make sure everything would stay in place. There were 4 or 5 of us running next to each other on the tradmills all wearing VERY sparkly stuff. A lot of folks knew what we were doing but we still got some might funny looks! (It was too cold to run outside and try it although we did run through the neighborhood once also to give everyone a good laugh!) :laugh:
BTW - the gym manager couldn't get all the glitter off the treadmills for WEEKS! LOL.
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Where I'm from it's illegal to ride your bike in a cross walk. If you want to cross there, you have to dismount and walk it across. Otherwise, you follow the same rules of the road on a bike as you would in a car.Its not in the gym but I have seen soooo many people cross the street walking along side pushing their bicycles. Just ride it!0 -
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A very obese woman eating a protein bar while walking on the treadmill
A woman working out in a tube top that you would wear if you were going clubbing
I've been very tempted to do this, and I have eaten half of a fiber one bar in the locker room before. Sometimes I come right from work and don't have a chance to grab any sort of dinner first, and end up feeling kind of low blood sugar/crashy and don't want to abort the workout plan and go home just to eat. So perhaps this is what she was doing. Or otoh maybe she as one of those folks who think a little walking means you need to eat tons of protein0 -
A guy doing bicep curls with large hand weights. Everytime he raised his arm he kissed his bicep.
lift
mwah
lift
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The funniest/saddest thing at the gym was something I *heard*, but didn't see. I was shooting hoops with my friend in the adjoining gym, and we could hear someone really galloping away on the treadmill in the fitness room next to us. Suddenly the lights went out, and all of a sudden we heard what sounded like the squeak of rubber soles on a hard surface, and the distinctive sound of someone faceplanting in the fitness room. We made our way over to the fitness room to help them, but when we got there, no one was around. I don't know if I could have kept a straight face while treating them!
The other thing that was amusing was when a football player was making this big production about benching some weight...and then this older guy with a walker asked if he was doing screwing around. The football player shot up off the bench like he'd been tazed. The old guy looked at the bar, scoffed, added two more plates to each side, and then threw that damn bar around like nobody's business. That player looked mortified.
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I went to the locker room to use the washroom. As i walk by I catch someone out of the corner of my eye on the weigh scale. Back was turned to me so i couldn't really tell but Man! This "lady" had some manly looking legs and "she" was huge! I was a little concerned so just stood there to see what the reactions of the people around me were. There was probably 4 other women in the change room. They all looked a little disturbed too. I left the change room and found a lady that worked at the gym. I actually interrupted her conversation. She knew something was really wrong just by the perplexed look I had on my face. I said "I think there's a guy in the ladies change room". Sure enough, we walked back in there and there he was...still on the weigh scale. She approached him, told him he was in the ladies change room and he says "How do i get this scale to work?" LOL the lady proceeds to tell him how to work the scale and they start talking about Body mass index! Hello??! Meanwhile, people are waiting to change! we still laugh over this.
Ever consider she could be a transgender pre-hormones/surgery?
Please think before laughing at people, if this is the case SHE had every right to be in that room with you.
On the other hand, it could have been a crazy guy in a dress.
You don't know either way, so maybe don't make assumptions, posts like this can make transgenders very afraid to use public bathrooms and changing rooms, just a heads up
um......NO. men use the mens room, and women the womens room, trans-crossed-gender-post-op-vesdite...whatever.
If your DNA says your a man- mens room<---,
female-womans---->
How about you consider the feelings of a real woman. This is not only rude to tell her that its down right uncomfortable. a man is a man no matter how you cut it up and vice versa. I am not comfortable with any kind of man in my restroom. plain and simple. Beside the story is funny no matter how you put it. And this aint the place....good God! REALLY!:noway:
Um. What makes you a real woman? Because I am pretty sure that that was some borderline hatespeech right there.0 -
I went to the locker room to use the washroom. As i walk by I catch someone out of the corner of my eye on the weigh scale. Back was turned to me so i couldn't really tell but Man! This "lady" had some manly looking legs and "she" was huge! I was a little concerned so just stood there to see what the reactions of the people around me were. There was probably 4 other women in the change room. They all looked a little disturbed too. I left the change room and found a lady that worked at the gym. I actually interrupted her conversation. She knew something was really wrong just by the perplexed look I had on my face. I said "I think there's a guy in the ladies change room". Sure enough, we walked back in there and there he was...still on the weigh scale. She approached him, told him he was in the ladies change room and he says "How do i get this scale to work?" LOL the lady proceeds to tell him how to work the scale and they start talking about Body mass index! Hello??! Meanwhile, people are waiting to change! we still laugh over this.
Ever consider she could be a transgender pre-hormones/surgery?
Please think before laughing at people, if this is the case SHE had every right to be in that room with you.
On the other hand, it could have been a crazy guy in a dress.
You don't know either way, so maybe don't make assumptions, posts like this can make transgenders very afraid to use public bathrooms and changing rooms, just a heads up
um......NO. men use the mens room, and women the womens room, trans-crossed-gender-post-op-vesdite...whatever.
If your DNA says your a man- mens room<---,
female-womans---->
How about you consider the feelings of a real woman. This is not only rude to tell her that its down right uncomfortable. a man is a man no matter how you cut it up and vice versa. I am not comfortable with any kind of man in my restroom. plain and simple. Beside the story is funny no matter how you put it. And this aint the place....good God! REALLY!:noway:
Um. What makes you a real woman? Because I am pretty sure that that was some borderline hatespeech right there.
^ No kidding. This ain't the place for (genderphobias of any kind) indeed!
Just got a text pic from a friend who is still on campus. It's a pic of one of the baseball players asleep on the lift bench, two dumbbells laying on each side of him on the floor. She said he'd been balancing them outstretched and just slowly dozed off. They rolled out of his hands and landed lightly on the floor.
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I hadn't thought of that. That just made my story go from bizarre to unsettling...The parrot outdoes the strangest I've seen. That's just bizarre!
There used to be a creepy guy who kinda looked like an overweight version of Jack Nicholson, complete with the crazy eyes and extra wide smile. He always seemed to be in the gym whenever I came in and he would still be there when I left... He would wander around and there never seemed to be a pattern to his exercises. At that point, I was bodysculpting so I hit the weights with purpose, did what needed to be done and left.
The only time he ever spoke to me, he asked if I could spot him for a bench press. I had just finished my set so I agreed. He flopped down on the bench. I moved into position to spot. He grabbed the bar but didn't even attempt to lift it. Instead, he dropped his hands and said "Never mind" and got up and went to the locker room. From that day forward, when I saw him at the gym, he pointedly avoided me.
Like I said, I lifted with purpose so it wasn't an issue... just bizarre...
I think he got exactly what he wanted, not to be gross but he got a great view and headed to the locker room to "take care of it"...there is a reason he seemed creepy to you HE IS.0 -
After a swim one day I went into the steam room but 2 minutes later this woman walks in buck naked (no towel or anything!) and proceeds to sit down and eat an orange - naked - in the steam room - I couldn't understand this at all. VERY weird!0
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I find it funny when I see people working out and drinking a coffee.........but I've seen it alot so IT happens ??? :huh:
alot of people use coffee as a pre workout
Puts my hand up - Me!! My trainer actually has a Nespresso machine at the gym and makes me my morning cuppa when I arrive - he knows there is no way he will get anything out of me at 6:30am if I have not had my caffeine fix - I can train on an empty stomach - but do need my caffeine!!0 -
Given by the stares I get... Probably me, walking backwards on the treadmill!0
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There was a woman in REALLY short shorts on an elliptical in front of me. Her tampon string wasn't quite tucked in her panties...obviously.0
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Just got a text pic from a friend who is still on campus. It's a pic of one of the baseball players asleep on the lift bench, two dumbbells laying on each side of him on the floor. She said he'd been balancing them outstretched and just slowly dozed off. They rolled out of his hands and landed lightly on the floor.
that could be narcolepsy (a condition where people randomly fall asleep in the middle of whatever they're doing) I hope if he does have that that whoever's spotting for him knows about it as it could be dangerous
alternatively maybe he was just exhausted and sleep deprived.0 -
We have a few military folks who run in body armor and gas masks -- I totally get the "train as you fight" mentality, but it still catches me off guard every time I see it.0
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Once in the locker room I was putting on my makeup in front of the mirrors when I catch sight of this BABY toddle in behind me to climb up on one of the toilets in the stalls and take a piss. Looked to be about a year old and she had no diaper on, just a top. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I literally froze! I was thinking, WTH? and do I help this kid before she falls in? And where is her mother?? What do I do? By the time these thoughts finish racing through my head, this BABY was done and plopped down off the toilet! Then her mom comes around the corner and was like, did she go? I told her to go! Um, what??? So of course I had to ask questions, and it turned out the girl wasn't even a full year old yet!!! She was turning one at the end of June (this happened early last month). I asked her how on earth did she potty train her so early (I didn't think a 12 month old was even psychologically ready to be potty trained let alone physically ready) and the mom said that she NEVER used diapers and had been holding this kid over the toilet since she was a newborn. She also said she toilet trained her cat!!
I asked her wasn't she afraid her baby would fall in the toilet but she said no, she knows how to climb on and everything. She was mad though that the gym made her put a swimming diaper on her daughter in the pool.0 -
There was a woman at the gym yesterday, wearing street clothes, who got on the leg press, set it to the lowest weight, did 3 reps and got off. That's all she did the entire time she was there. She was walking around with her husband, who was wearing a weight belt, but not doing any weightlifting.0
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Not unusual at all but everytime I see a dude with his pork sword flopping around in his gym shorts I can't help but stare. Its like a train wreck.
The other day though one of those guys, who is an older gentleman, was sitting on the weight bench across from the treadmill I was on and had his legs spread. Well he had on boxers and there was a turtle head poking out the leg. Some things cannot be unseen. Yet I still look.0 -
not really strange but pretty damm funny if you ask me.
I was just doing my cardio thing, running along on the treadmill, doing a bit of people watching while i was at it.
There was a big dude standing in front of the mirror doing squats. (YOU all know they type of dude i talking about, mr "i love myself", I'm only here to get hot chicks , grunting at every single rep... THAT guy....)
s he was off grunting away and this girl come up with some lovely little pink handweights (yup, one of those girls.. amazingly tight pants, g-string hanging out over the top, short cropped sports bra that leaves nothing to the imagination, boobs hanging out, reeking of perfume and face full of make up, hair all quiffed and teased)
anyway they were perfect for each other.
So she started dong bicep curls next to him, glancing over every now and then, and his grunting just got worse and worse, he got some weights, you know the deal... basic 2 gym d0uches
so he ups his weights by about 20kg and starts getting more grunty, more sweaty, red faced, and goes down for a squat.....
and lets a HUGE one rip.... all throughout the gym... it took everything i had not to laugh and fall off the treadmill. The look on her face (and yes, she left very quickly after that).. was priceless.0 -
While walking on the treadmill at the gym tonight, I saw a man working out with his parrot on his shoulders. A staff person called the gym owner and the guy was asked to leave.
What is the strangest thing you ever seen at the gym?
was his name Co Co Beware! (someone will get it.)
Wasn't he a WWE (WWF back in the day) wrestler?0
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