Rant: Know what I love about the gym?

...All the middle-aged 'weight jockeys' who think they own all the weight machines. And these aren't the REAL weight lifters who are actually muscular and in shape. These are the overweight dudes with receding hairlines who go to the gym every day, even though it appears to do nothing for them. See, they don't actually do any real exercise, they just like lifting heavy shit. They pick a machine, put it on the highest weight possible, then do 10 reps as fast as they possibly can - this way, they avoid any real resistance training, thus keeping their flabby pot bellies and man titties from ever disappearing. Then after one whole set, they get up and walk around the gym and talk to the other weight jockeys for a good 20 minutes or so about how they just lifted 8 billion pounds in the space of 9 seconds. Or, if they are feeling especially pumped, they'll just sit there on the machine talking to someone for half an hour.

But GOD FORBID anyone else use the machine they want. They'll just hover in front of you and stare at you until you finish a set, then they'll try to "jump in real quick" for their awesome and impressive 5-second workout. And if you think about it, that makes sense: It's O.K. for YOUR workout to be interupted, but perish the thought that THEY should have to wait their fucking turn just like everyone else in the place.

So the point of this story being that someone tried to "jump in" on the machine I was using today and I politely told him "no"; that I only had one more set to do. The motherfucker spent the next 10 minutes walking around whining and making sarcastic comments about it. I actually thought he might start crying or lift something really heavy in defiance. Who knows, he may have even tried to beat me up - and 'beating someone up' in his book would only actually consist of lifting me up and down 5 times really fast, then walking away like he just herniated a disc, then telling everyone how pumped he is.

So yeah...who says exercise isn't fun??????

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Why I don't go to the gym. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I bet the head would just pop right off if the bar came down while benching... especially with more weight. [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ June 12, 2006 08:45 PM: Message edited by: Dajistano ]</font>

I'd love to see one of them get decapitated...all the other pumped-up monkeys would be like, "Walk it off Jimmy! Walk it off! Good set, man! Good set!"

That would be the point when I'd walk up to the spasming, headless body spewing blood from the neck lying on the bench and say, "Hey man, can I jump in??? Can I jump in????" [img]tongue.gif[/img]

this is why we have a gym at work ...works like a charm [img]smile.gif[/img]

I don't think I could ever work out in public. Not with other people's sweat on the machines. [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img]

Send them to hell....

Some guys go arround me like sharks also to pressure for a machine....I just ignore the suckers......

I keep hearing those story about assholes in gyms, but in 6-7 years at the same gym I never had any problem like that.

Actually it's not true, only once did someone ever told I coldn't share the machine with him, but the guy still has a mullet, so what did I expect? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I hit the gym at 5:00am (yeah, yeah, for all the talk of my expanded girth, I do try and make it smaller by going to the gym every now and again)

Anyway, I go around 5:00am, well before the muscleheads wake up for the day.

But I do share a very similar experience at another gym that motivated me to wake up earlier then most deem decent to go to this new gym.

I was working out with free weights - which is THE muscleheads wheelhouse - and bench pressing. Some HGH filled, skullet headed moron came up and asked to "jump in" between my sets, grabbed the bar that I was benching with and tore off a handful of curls at breakneck speed staring at me doing his best Hulk Hogan impression the entire time and finishing the set with a rediculously loud "WOOOO!!!!" that caught the attention of everyone in the gym.

Feeling like a complete pathetic puke with EVERYONE looking at me I got up, left the gym and never went back.

The place I go now is more my speed. Even when I go later in the day the majority of the folks working out are pleasantly plump everyday folks just looking to be a little healthier.

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Originally posted by Andyman:
I don't think I could ever work out in public. Not with other people's sweat on the machines. [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's where I'm coming from. And even though people are supposed to wipe the machines down when they are done, from what I've seen almost no one actually does. Ick! [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img]

Plus there's the fact that I'm just too f'ing lazy to work out if I have to leave the house and travel to get there. Thankfully we have a treadmill and a semi-decent array of free weights at the house. [img]smile.gif[/img]

...I can tolerate the pathetic tubby guys...its the the steroid-addled, "my already miniscule penis and testicles have atrophied to virtual non-existence, and I must therefore act super-duper macho to make up for it" idiots that bug me. Are any of them even straight? Do they even realize how genuinely pathetic they look with their various trackmarks and horrific back-acne?