Weirdest thing you have seen at the gym

[Peachy]

I always see weird things at the gym and think man gota member to tell someone about that! But then forget. But this morning!! :shock: I think all the normal people in my town were watching the drifting comp *sigh* and all the weirdos were at the gym (except me :wink: ).

Anyway some guy brought his little boy along he was probably about 9 or something I duno and anyway while the dad was in the weights area the little boy was on the treadmill with it on full speed holding on to the top of the treadmill he legs flying out the back. He looked like he was in one of those wind tunnels and the only thing that was stopping him from flying through the air was his grip on the treadmill.

And no one else in the cardio area even blinked........

So I just pretended I didn't notice either......

[jonafat]

ME :pfft: :pfft: :pfft: :pfft: :pfft: :pfft: :pfft: :pfft: :pfft:

[Palmer]

I saw a guy train the entire right side of hes body, bi, tri, chest, leg, everything! Then the next day i saw him again training the left side!

And i saw this women on a treadmill, with her dog on the one next her! it was raining though i guess!?

[shruglife]

Lol I've got a few stories but a recent one I remember...

MZ, my normal training partner and I were in the gym training shoulders. Anyway we were doing BB Shrugs and this fat dude with headphones was doing Squats behind us. I glanced at him and smiled politely when he looked back at me and I got on with my workout. He loaded up the bar with 2 plates each side which surprised me, he didn't look like he could even Squat down and up normally. Anyway he psyched himself up making little grunts before lifting the bar, dropping 2cm and pushing back up again. This is a pretty common phenomenon and it didn't really phase me but I knudged my training partner and we just watched him for a bit smiling. It was after his set that I had to walk away and struggle my hardest to stifle my laughter. Over in the Squat Rack was this big, gelatinous, white, nerd with glasses, kicking his legs out in front of him and saying stuff like, "yeah what!?", under his breath as he threw punches in the air in front of him. It was priceless watching him ranting away a meter behind Fry as he tried to keep Shrugging without falling over laughing.

This was completely unexpected and I had never seen anyone so unaware of how they came across. He was probably playing some rap in his headphones and was getting totally carried away with himself unaware he was in a gym with people laughing their assess off all around him. Some of the funniness of the situation is lost in translation but man I couldn't believe there were people out there who were so unaware of themselves! It's like they live in their own little world at home in their bedrooms and have no idea how people behave outside in the real world. He thought he was being completely normal and even offered us some advice about straps and how they helped his Deadlift :roll:

[becbec]

there's this maori dude at my gym who does the silent haka infront of the big mirrors every now and again :shock:

[boostinggtir]

crack up.

[runveerun]

The other week on the treadmill there was a Japanese guy in a suit and leather shoes with a chanel bag spraying himself with lemon scented spray. I had to leave after awhile the lemon smell was getting to me, it was very strange.

The other one is prolly not so strange but guys walking around in jandals I don't get it I think what if a weight lands on your foot?

[shruglife]

The other week on the treadmill there was a Japanese guy in a suit and leather shoes with a chanel bag spraying himself with lemon scented spray. I had to leave after awhile the lemon smell was getting to me, it was very strange.

The other one is prolly not so strange but guys walking around in jandals I don't get it I think what if a weight lands on your foot?

Steel cap boots are the only thing stopping a plate from nailing your foot :pfft:

I've seen guys walk about with socks or bare feet. I don't mind if they are Deadlifting but otherwise they're just douchebags.

[Gym rat]

I have also seen people wearing jandals at the gym and I think not my problem if a weight lands on there foot.

[roadie]

seen a girl going so slow on a machine it kept coming up 'workout paused'

also another talking on a phone for full 30 min cardio workout.....although this may have been part of her workout strategy as she did have very well developed jaw muscles....lol

in the weight room a quite strong girl benching got caught under the bar by her pony tail after not quite getting the bar onto the rack....more funny than weird, and definitely worthy of a spot

[steak]

some of the chest and bicep brigade at our gym will stop a set to answer a txt :roll:

bad form is rife too..momentum curls, 1/8th squats, swinging body lat pulldowns, hi speed super weighted crunches on the seated machine, 1/8th bench press, quite funny really seeing all that weight moving for so little

not my bizznizz.....

[poos_n_wees]

And no one else in the cardio area even blinked........

So I just pretended I didn't notice either......

Sad!

There's been a few times where I wanted to whip out my phone to take a pic/video of funny stuff at the gym.. but then decided I prolly look too dodgy lol. Regrets! They would've been great for this thread :pfft:

1. Guy benching with his legs straight in the air like this \ /

2. Guy on the rowing machine - but he didn't secure his feet in the stirrups, so he was sitting down on the seat, waddling back and forth holding onto the cable/pulley.. Flintstones styles :clap:

3. The guy who does sprints up and down the weights area.. The whole 10-15m length of it :-s

[VampireChick]

Yeah seen a few weird things lately:

1 Guy doing his entire weights workout in bare feet. Gross.

2 Guy working out in his jeans and sunnies. WTF?

3 Brendon Pongia watching a repeat of his Breakfast show while doing cardio - then looking around smiling to see if anyone else was watching. Douche.

[jonafat]

there's this maori dude at my gym who does the silent haka infront of the big mirrors every now and again :shock:

That's better than the loud one lol.

[PTinCHCH]

overweight personal trainers....nothing pisses me off more than overweight personal trainers.

how hypocritical can you get!!!!

i dont understand how they get clients either?!?!?

its like, do as i say, not as i do...... :roll:

[poos_n_wees]

3 Brendon Pongia watching a repeat of his Breakfast show while doing cardio - then looking around smiling to see if anyone else was watching. Douche.

:roll:

[Peachy]

Peachy wrote:And no one else in the cardio area even blinked........

So I just pretended I didn't notice either......

Image Sad!

But he didn't look like he wanted to stop!!!

[holdenman]

Someone resting their tshirt on the handle of the treadmill which got knocked off and proceeded to get stuck to the grip then go inside the treadmill and jam it up! The noise it made stopped the whole gym!

Then the PTs had to try pull it out :pfft:

[vinzilla]

lol some funnies in there!

Ive seen a few things i can share. I remember a guy doing bench at les mills in welly but his technique was a lil lop-sided and he wasnt using clamps the plate was slowly sliding off one side but as he realized it had gone too far and his attempt to push harder on that side it slid off and the bar flew off the other way taking him with it as the bar hit the wall he hit the deck :pfft: hr was ok though.

i walked in one day as i seen a trail of blood, i was meeting a mate there and as i walked up to him he was kinda laughing but cringing as he told me a dude had just limped out cos he was loading up the leg press with his open toed sandels :twisted: :pfft: and didnt hook the 20 on the pin properly and let it go :shock: crushed his toes...they werent the rubber coated plates either.

Mate of mine came round to my place and i used to have one of those bars with the spring that you bend to work your chest ( :oops: i was pretty young) he started playin with it while i was gettin ready and i walked in he had it fully bent and his hand slipped off one end and it sprung out and cracked him in the side of his jaw :doh: :pfft:

i guy that had just started at my work that i hadnt talked to walked into the gym i was at, i thought id warm down on the tredy next to him and intoduce myself, he was running on his, i said giday and so on but as he turned to answer me his feet followed his head and he moved over on the track a lil enuff to put half his foot onto the non moving part cos i heard it "chirp" from it gripping to his sneaker and toppling him over onto his side and spitting him off the back :pfft: :pfft: :pfft: \:D/ :clap:

My missus brought this tready once and my older brother was over and i told him to come into the spare room to check it out, i told him to jump on so he did and i turned it on for him, as we were discussing the quality i said to him it goes abnormaly fast (as i found out about an hour before that) and before he could answer in the blink of an eye i hand slide the speed control to max :pfft: LOL he was in absolute full flight (as he is a real short-ass) he was striding out so much he had to pump his arms hard out, so hard he couldnt turn it back down! LOL im laughing right now :pfft: i can still picture it. After that i had to do it to all my mates that came over i got so much joy out of it! it payed for itself just in the laughter alone but that first time was the best.

[Chillicat]

I haven't seen her for a while, but there used to be a girl who went to classes at my gym, fully decked out in 80s style gear. I thought she was being ironic at first, or that maybe she was one of the Real Hot Bitches - but after a while my friend and I realised that she was utterly genuine, and that she was fully stuck in a time warp in her 80s vibe, right down to those slidy comb things people then (ok, people like me) used to wear in their hair

[severe]

one day I was an embarrassment to myself. walking in the gym, past the rowing machines full of cardio fans, with my mp3 player pumping loud... I had whey gas and let a good one rip. I was letting it out and was thinking that it wasnt making a noise, so I forced the remainder out.

what a dick, I couldnt hear it cause my music was loud. It must have been loud as hell. everyone pretended not to notice, but they had no mp3s to save them.

shame.

then there is this weirdo with split side jogging shorts, who grunts when the weight isnt even heavy.

Or these 'kebabs on queen' guys who offer advice to buff dudes. crack up.

[Pumpupthejam]

I spent 2 hours at the gym one night doing boxing, cardio stuff, for the entire time, there was this dude in the changing rooms. Obviously I knew hed been there the entire time as I went for pee breaks and never saw him come into the gym area once.

He was walking around naked, doing this and that, brushing his teeth, sauna etc.

I have never seen him in the gym either. Weird.

[emmzies]

I spent 2 hours at the gym one night doing boxing, cardio stuff, for the entire time, there was this dude in the changing rooms. Obviously I knew hed been there the entire time as I went for pee breaks and never saw him come into the gym area once.

He was walking around naked, doing this and that, brushing his teeth, sauna etc.

I have never seen him in the gym either. Weird.

:? Sounds a little suspect if you ask me.... I'd avoid the changing rooms.

There are a few wacko's at my gym....

1. The guy who sweats like a tap. I mean SERIOUSLY. If you are even within 2 machines of him, either side, you WILL get rained on. Its rather disgusting. He even lays down towels every single side of him which are soaked by the end of his half hour workout.

2. The lady who comes in, runs like a serious mad woman on the treadmill for 30 minutes then leaves. Without fail. Everyday. No warm up. No cool down. And always at the exact same time.

3. Coffee guy: walks on the treadmill for an hour at about 4kmph whilst drinking coffee from a travel cup. He normally brings in two cups to last him the hour. And i know its coffee because one time he obviously forgot the travel cups so he brought it in paper coffee cups instead. Obviously water is so last year...

4. Put-it-away-girl: wears lyrcra short-short-short-shorts and (what may as well be a bikini) top. The germs she must pickup...

[Peachy]

4. Put-it-away-girl: wears lyrcra short-short-short-shorts and (what may as well be a bikini) top. The germs she must pickup...

:pfft: There was a girl like that at my gym today. All her jewellery and makeup on too. Was hilarious watching her trying to use the leg adducter machine (I think that is what its called??) adjusting her shorts every second trying not too flash the whole gym

[holdenman]

4. Put-it-away-girl: wears lyrcra short-short-short-shorts and (what may as well be a bikini) top. The germs she must pickup...

:pfft: There was a girl like that at my gym today. All her jewellery and makeup on too. Was hilarious watching her trying to use the leg adducter machine (I think that is what its called??) adjusting her shorts every second trying not too flash the whole gym

Damn! I wish I had this problem at my gym