i think you are trying to compare apples and oranges hererip said:
Funny things you see in the gym
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lmao thats freaking hilarious...im totally picturing that in my head and i cant stop laughing lol.
well at our gym yesterday we seen a dude working out in sunglasses..or better i should say he would take them off during an exercise and then put them on to walk to the next machine...lol i was like wtf?!
well at our gym yesterday we seen a dude working out in sunglasses..or better i should say he would take them off during an exercise and then put them on to walk to the next machine...lol i was like wtf?!
Back to the college gym and back to the funny stuff.
As the gym is packed Im finding it hard to do my vertical loading routine, but anyways, I was working in with a guy on cable rows. Its a dual pulley machine and I do them with palms facing in, explosive pull and slow eccentric motion. Anyways guy says "Rotate your hands as you come in. You wanna build muscle right?" No big deal. Then I hear him talking to some other guy about how he knows a bodybuilder who taught him everything. Nutrition is very important, and you need to eat to maintain calories. "For instance when I go mountain biking I burn 3-4 THOUSAND calories and then come home and need to eat 3-4 THOUSAND calories to get them back."
Thats a big meal IMO.
As the gym is packed Im finding it hard to do my vertical loading routine, but anyways, I was working in with a guy on cable rows. Its a dual pulley machine and I do them with palms facing in, explosive pull and slow eccentric motion. Anyways guy says "Rotate your hands as you come in. You wanna build muscle right?" No big deal. Then I hear him talking to some other guy about how he knows a bodybuilder who taught him everything. Nutrition is very important, and you need to eat to maintain calories. "For instance when I go mountain biking I burn 3-4 THOUSAND calories and then come home and need to eat 3-4 THOUSAND calories to get them back."
Thats a big meal IMO.
I'll tell you what is more sad than funny at my gym. 12-15 benches......1 SQUAT RACK 
Sad thing is, squat rack still has a shorter line then every single bench...hahaha
Sad thing is, squat rack still has a shorter line then every single bench...hahaha
Today, I went in the school gym to workout during my break. While setting up for a bo rows set (putting down the blocks and the bar), someone came up to me and said, rather forcefully,
"What are you doin, deadlifts?"
To which I replied, "No, bent-over rows."
As this little exchange went on, this man was taking all the diamond bars from the corner where I was working. I then asked,
"You some kinda coach?"
It turned out he was the football team's coach, who had a fair amount of his roster in the gym. That was all fine and dandy, and I started to load the weights when the coach began saying,
"Ain't this place great? ANYBODY can come in and workout whenever they want. It's the only college in the country like this..."
"Yeah."
And that was all that was said. The contempt and sarcasm in his voice was obvious when he said this...
When I walked out of the gym, I noticed that none of the dl diamond bars he set out were touched since he placed them there. Instead, his team was doing leg lifts (poorly) and curls.
"What are you doin, deadlifts?"
To which I replied, "No, bent-over rows."
As this little exchange went on, this man was taking all the diamond bars from the corner where I was working. I then asked,
"You some kinda coach?"
It turned out he was the football team's coach, who had a fair amount of his roster in the gym. That was all fine and dandy, and I started to load the weights when the coach began saying,
"Ain't this place great? ANYBODY can come in and workout whenever they want. It's the only college in the country like this..."
"Yeah."
And that was all that was said. The contempt and sarcasm in his voice was obvious when he said this...
When I walked out of the gym, I noticed that none of the dl diamond bars he set out were touched since he placed them there. Instead, his team was doing leg lifts (poorly) and curls.
I love it when I see people on the track in jeans walking slowly and talking on the phone. how is it comfortable to walk in jeans? and really why cant people just workout without the phone, do you really need it that bad? her mouth was probably working more than her legs.
and ive seen a lady reading and walking on the track, which for one i would not be able to do, id probably run into a wall or something.
and ive seen a lady reading and walking on the track, which for one i would not be able to do, id probably run into a wall or something.
At first I thought you saw me... but when I did it (both times)... I stayed on the ground a while and joined in on the laughing... I have never taken a spill on my home machine... but at the gym I seem to... I think it is because my home one stops faster when I hit the stop button...
on that note... I have also walked into a post when I turned my head to check out a woman... and walked into the same post when going from the eliptical machines towards the dip assist machine and trying to check the wall clock... I'm sure quite a few good laughs were at my expense...
Not gym related.. but the funniest excercise moment... (again me)... was when playing a game of tennis (try outs for high school team many years ago)... I was playing a guy who tries to get to the net... (serve and volley)... and he hit a slow shot and followed it to the net... I set up to hit an offensive lob shot... to loop it over his head... the stroke is swinging the racket more vertically than horizontally... anyways... the ball hit a crack in the court and came accross my body... I continued my stroke... hit a perfect shot for a winner but cracked myself in the eye so hard I sent my glasses flying and my eye immediately blew up... I had this giant purple bump... I saw major stars... (I thought that was just a saying... )... everybody who saw it gasped... until I started chuckeling... then everybody was laughing...
the bars 45lbs, how did he manage only 30lbs? was he doing a DB sumo DL with 2 15lb DB's?
either way, thats just funny.
Yeah, he was using single DB for the sumos.
At the gym yesterday there was an older man making pretty sexually sounding moans every time he knocked out each rep on the nautilus machines. It was extra noticeable when he was using the machine next to me and quite a number of people are staring. He did this the whole time he was there. He was wearing an IPOD so I don't think he realized how loud he was. It was disturbing!
me when I find myself singing to the iPod
Otherwise Im just so focused on myself that I never notice anything fun :/
Otherwise Im just so focused on myself that I never notice anything fun :/
I got a pretty funny one sad as well. Last year, when I was doing bicep curls, I saw this guy pretty toned chuny tho. He was doing situps. I knew him from before. He would hang a chocolate bar on top of him. When he raised to the bar, he would bite and eat it with the warper on, then spit it out. Then, he would stop doing the situps and slap himself and say "bad bad bad..." That was kinda freaky to me not trying to insult him. Once, I tried talking to him about it and he just started mumbling at me.
12 years ago, back when I was in the shape I want to be in now, I had a lifting partner who was..interesting. When he would be doing a set (let's say bicep curls) he would scream at the muscle he was working. For instance, when doing curls he would scream "Let's go bicep! come on bicep!" I didn't complain at all because this dude was in incredible shape and always stuck to oour workouts, so I quickly go used to it. It was amusing to see everyone looking at us when he screamed something like that. What was even more amusing was when we took a pretty small, wiry buddy to the gym with us and he started doing the same thing (screaming at his muscles) because he thought it was the "right thing to do" after seeing the buff guy do it. THAT was what was hilarious.