Things you have noticed in the gym

[Bolt]

I know many of us likely spend a good deal of time in some sort of gym. I myself have enjoyed being a bit of a gym rat for the last 15 years or so. I typically go at the same time each day between 5 and 5:30am and spend an hour to an hour and a half 3-5 days a week. I have also gone in the middle of the day "Covid years" and also in the evening which IMO is the worst time to go for myself. Now over the past 15 years I have spent north of 3000 hours in the gym and I have seen some crazy stuff and thought I would put together a thread to see what others have experienced.
Over the years as I said I have seen some stuff most notably I once was in the gym with ~10 or so others and this guy that had been throwing around way too much weight for his condition decided to put over 700 lbs on a squat rack. Now this guy was 300+ pounds but that was mostly just his build and not a lot of muscle.
As soon as he lifted the bar and it cleared the rack all 700 pounds came crashing down on him and landed on top of his chest. Myself and 3 others rushed over to lift the bar off of him and to try to assess his condition. He was in bad shape but refused to have EMS called and the gym owner was against it and likely didn't want legal troubles. When I left about 30 minutes later he was still on the floor but had begun to try and get up. I never saw that guy again so I have no clue what happened to this day.
Another thing I have noticed over the years are men and women forming some sort of relationship in the gym. You will see them begin to workout together after a few weeks of honest chat and play they will arrive in the same car at the gym ect ect. Then in almost 80% of those cases you stop seeing them for a couple of months and then one will return but not the other looking like they had been thrown in the wash.
I am currently watching this play out at the moment, I hope it works out for them but I'm betting not.
Curious what others have seen.

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[lyingflatlander]

Had a guy in our neighborhood who was an attorney. In his second life he was “that naked guy” in the locker room. Would have full conversations with others etc… walking around naked all the time. Was never that friendly in the neighborhood however.

 

[LostArra]

Too many folks doing barbell curls in a squat rack with 5 minutes between sets was a driving factor in my building a home gym ("building" was really just acquiring a squat rack and a bench since I've had the same milled York Olympic barbell set since 1968)

Bro's not unloading bars after their workout is another gem. I would have enjoyed seeing a 700 pound crusher on some of these idiots.

 

[wyosteve]

The one that irks me every time is the folks that sit on a machine/bench and do nothing but text/mess with their damn phones.

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I used to spend 2hrs in the gym every day for 10+ years. I’ve since built up a home gym, but have seen just about everything. Notable things that I remember are a guy sh*tting his pants, many people passing out after heavy squats/deadlifts, girls shooting OF content, a few people eating it on the treadmill, a few fights, dude in the sauna bringing in a full Stouffers lasagna and proceed to eat it.
I’m in Florida, so you aren’t going into the bathroom/locker room without seeing at least 3 naked old men walking around doing stuff. Worse was I saw one shaving at one of the sinks with his junk resting on the counter.

 

[Lee_R]

Saw a dude picking at his toe nails while sitting on the lat pull down machine. Another blow drying his twig/berries with a community blow dryer in front of a mirror in the locker room. And a third with matching ladies undies and bra going on under his jeans and pole shirt.

 

[kda082]

Butt workouts. Very strong women doing hours of thrusts, deadlifts,squats, lunges. Something I never saw in my early days.

 

[HuntHarder]

Fat chick's wearing hot chick's clothing. I bet it takes em' 20 minutes to wiggle into that spandex.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Saw a dude picking at his toe nails while sitting on the lat pull down machine. Another blow drying his twig/berries with a community blow dryer in front of a mirror in the locker room. And a third with matching ladies undies and bra going on under his jeans and pole shirt.

Find a new gym

 

[Ucsdryder]

Butt workouts. Very strong women doing hours of thrusts, deadlifts,squats, lunges. Something I never saw in my early days.

Man I was waiting for this. After the first few posts of dudes twigs a berries I was starting to wonder.

I’ve seen lots of yoga pants, lots of sports bras…I can’t think of anything else a the moment.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Fat chick's wearing hot chick's clothing. I bet it takes em' 20 minutes to wiggle into that spandex.

10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag?

 

[2531usmc]

You can see it coming, gonna be an epic thread…….

 

[LostArra]

I used to spend 2hrs in the gym every day for 10+ years. I’ve since built up a home gym, but have seen just about everything. Notable things that I remember are a guy sh*tting his pants, many people passing out after heavy squats/deadlifts, girls shooting OF content, a few people eating it on the treadmill, a few fights, dude in the sauna bringing in a full Stouffers lasagna and proceed to eat it.
I’m in Florida, so you aren’t going into the bathroom/locker room without seeing at least 3 naked old men walking around doing stuff. Worse was I saw one shaving at one of the sinks with his junk resting on the counter.

I believe there is a national news desk just for insane events that occur in Florida. There has to be a drinking game for headlines that include pythons, iguanas, capsized boats at the ramp or cars wrecked at over 120mph.

 

[5MilesBack]

Back in the mid 90's there was this guy at my gym that wore a vertically striped wrestling outfit, like right out of WWE. He was big enough to be one of those guys. He had his "little buddy" wearing the same thing. The little guy reminded me of the midget rich guy that hired the Bandit to do the Coors run in Smokey and the Bandit. One day the little guy jumps on the bigger guy's back and the bigger guy starts doing squats in front of the mirror while grunting so loud you could probably hear it outside. It was crazy. I'm standing there saying to myself out loud "what on earth am I looking at".

Another guy that was maybe 5'2" with a big barrel chest was doing bench and bouncing the bar off his chest so hard I'm pretty sure he broke some ribs. We got it off him pretty quick, but like the guy in the OP's story.....he wasn't doing well.

There was a time back in those days when most of the girls there wore the spandex pants with a really tight thong over them. I haven't been in a public gym in years, so not sure if that's still a thing or not.

 

[Ucsdryder]

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Back in the mid 90's there was this guy at my gym that wore a vertically striped wrestling outfit, like right out of WWE. He was big enough to be one of those guys. He had his "little buddy" wearing the same thing. The little guy reminded me of the midget rich guy that hired the Bandit to do the Coors run in Smokey and the Bandit. One day the little guy jumps on the bigger guy's back and the bigger guy starts doing squats in front of the mirror while grunting so loud you could probably hear it outside. It was crazy. I'm standing there saying to myself out loud "what on earth am I looking at".

Another guy that was maybe 5'2" with a big barrel chest was doing bench and bouncing the bar off his chest so hard I'm pretty sure he broke some ribs. We got it off him pretty quick, but like the guy in the OP's story.....he wasn't doing well.

There was a time back in those days when most of the girls there wore the spandex pants with a really tight thong over them. I haven't been in a public gym in years, so not sure if that's still a thing or not

lol not a thing. Now they wear them on the inside but the yoga pants are see through.

I keep to myself at the gym and don’t judge others, but the grunters drive me insane. There’s no bigger “look at me” move than making obnoxious noises while lifting weights that are too big.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Lots of guys giving their jaws good workout.

 

[Lee_R]

Find a new gym

First one was in Idaho, last 2 in Colorado (shocker). I've since moved to Montana.