Funniest/Stupidest thing you've ever seen in a gym?

[Phil800101]

This is kinda like the "Worst fuckin' thing about my gym" thread, but different.

Anyway, what is the funniest (unintentionally) and/or stupidest thing you've ever seen someone do in a gym?

For me, it would have to be when this moron was juggling while running on the indoor track at our one campus gyms last year. This guy was juggling three rubber balls while running around the track, and it took the staff telling him to stop two times before he finally did. I mean, how stupid can this guy be? First of all, it's somewhat of an insult to the people who are using the track for legitimate purposes. Second of all, it's not safe, considering that if he drops any of the balls he could trip someone up and cause them to fall or something. I wanted to punch this guy in the head every time I ran past him, I mean, it drives me absolutely batshit when people are doing stupid unsafe shit in a gym, especially when it's something that might lead to me getting injured.

[Freakshow]

My workout partner spilled his entire shaker full of Nitro G all over the floor at at 24 Hour Fitness. I thought it was pretty damn funny until I realized he just wasted a pack of Nitro G. Then I got sad..haha

[LuvsThePain]

We have this crazy lady that comes to Gold's. All she does is dance around the gym and sings her heart out. I think she's a few bricks shy of a wall. She also takes the basketball to the court and dances around with it. LOL! My friend was getting a drink at the fountain once and she came up and hip bounced him out of the way. I about rolled over and died laughing.

[jatta palu]

One guy bet his friend that he could lift the same amount of weight he lifted when he played football in highschool. The friend challenged him and the guy walked over the flat bench and loaded up 245. the friend set to spot but the guy insisted he could do it and the friend took a few steps back. the guy took two (exaggerated) deep breaths and lifted the bar.....and it immediately came crashing down on his chest. So hard, in fact, that the guys legs flew up. The friend about peed himself and the guy had to slide the weight off each side of the bar 'cause his friendwas still walking away laughing. I have to say it was the first time something actually distracted me and it was worth it!

[Lift4Life]

Years ago when I was a newbie and still learning a thing or two about training, I joined my first gym. There was an older gentleman there, who when he benched, did too much weight, barely any reps by himself, and after he left the gym would light up a cigarette! Even as a newbie I knew he was an idiot!

[The Wanderer]

I got one for you guys. So I'm doing my shift volunteering at the YMCA (yes it is a bad gym, but it's close and cost me next to nothing) and theres this older guy on the leg extension machine. Well I come back a little while later and he's still there, the guy was asleep, I didn't know what to do, whether to let him sleep or get him off the machine. It was pretty jokes, in the end I ended up poking him awake and boy was he startled. I'm not sure what he did after, but he was gone.

[Wolf Man CHG]

one of the funniest things i saw was the other day......about mid-way through my workout this kid comes in with a "Jesus Is My Homeboy" trucker hat sitting sideways on his head, weighing about 130lbs, fake tanner streaks on his skin, after every set he would start bouncing around like he was dancing to the music on his ipod.....it was all i could do not to laugh

[mightyheine]

This one time I was doing HEAVY dumbell flat presses with 120lb and this chick was sitting at the next bench, and she had set her water bottle next to her on the floor. Well after my 6th rep I was a little fatigued and with no spot, I kinda dropped the dumbells and one landed right on top of the waterbottle. It exploded and sounded like a fuckin shotgun, and soaked the both of us. I was laughing hysterically,and she was not, oh well, not everone has a sense of humor!!

[DreamZero]

more stupidest than funniest. I guess all of you guys saw some prick like this one. I swear to god this guy never EVER did 1 single rep. All he is doing is walk around, rack some bars, walk away, rack more bars, come back to unrack 1st bar.. 2 things.. 1- Worst disrespect ever. 2- show-off bitch.

[PlacentiaBay]

I have people workinout where I do that don't know what a rep or set is... its sad really. When you try to tell them there doing something wrong they pay no attention. So I say fuck em.

[Achilles]

This gym I used to train at .. a guy would train in a striped nylon suit & wrestleing boots .. it was very interesting to see

[ironshaolin]

Oh shit I got 1. First off, I work out at a shitty club gym called fitness plus. Its kinda lame, but its 3 mins from my house, the rates aren't bad, and they have plenty of plates. This kind of place just breeds idiots. The first guy, must be about 40, looks like his mom had a habit of dropping him on his head. This guy is real thin in the arms and legs, but he has the wierd gut that makes him look pregnant. And he's got it all. Nike pants, tank top, headphones, gloves, elbow wraps, lifting belt, anything you could accesorize with he has. So this guy always comes in, walks around leaning back so far he's about to fall over, elbows out to the sides like he needs to walk in the door sideways just SCREAMING look at me I'm tough, and cool. So I decided to pass my time on the treadmill I would keep tabs on this guys workout. All machines, no free weights. Goes to the first, a curl machine. Puts about 40 pounds on, and starts doing about 10 1/4 reps. I mean it kinda looked like he was just holding the bar and twitching. Of course, then he has to let it go with a bang so everyone looks to see how cool he is. Gets up, and flexes in the mirror then gives himself the best nod ever. I almost fell off the treadmill from this look he gives himself. After about a 5 minute rest which was used walking all over the place with his tough guy walk, he repeats with another machine. The guy's in the gym for about 90 minutes, and I'd be surprised if he gets in 8 sets. Takes off all his stuff, which takes about 5 minutes, stuffs it in his gym bag and walks out with a strut. Now, when I first saw this guy, I thought for sure he would quit in a month. Nonetheless, he's been there about a year and a half, has made NO gains,(except his strut has got cleaner), and still manages to make my focus drift everytime he walks in. Now my gym has quite a few people like this, but that guy is the greatest. I'm just waiting for the day he tries free weights and gets killed under a bench.

[benihonasghost]

The dumbest thing ive ever seen someone do in the gym is... while unracking weights on a sqaut rack( there were 6 45's on eath side) the guy started to unrack the left side first? what an idiot... by the time there was 2 left side...the bar was unbalance and flung a 45 at a mirror... was one of the loudest sounds ive ever heard

[slainte151]

Yea flat bench dumbbell press. let one go...hit a spray bottle top. the top flew off about 8 ft into the air straight up and started to come down at my face so i dove to the left to not get hit lauging my ass off. the guys next to me had to put down their weights because they were laughing so hard.

[iron_alchemist]

The dumbest thing ive ever seen someone do in the gym is... while unracking weights on a sqaut rack( there were 6 45's on eath side) the guy started to unrack the left side first? what an idiot... by the time there was 2 left side...the bar was unbalance and flung a 45 at a mirror... was one of the loudest sounds ive ever heard

Similar to what i seen at my gym. Couple "joes" were cleaning the curlbar off. The rack is narrow,when one of them stripped all of the plates off one side, the bar immediatly shot end over end, nearly striking another joe on the hack squat.
Some people Just dont think.

[PROSPECT]

There is a guy at my gym who works out in boxer-briefs and socks. Yes socks. Oh, and a tank top. The clothes never change. If you saw him, you would laugh. Teal boxer briefs don't make you look like a badass. Trust me.

[Barron]

for some reason my friend likes to load up an EZ curl bar and use one hand to curl it. only he puts entirely too much weight and swings the weight up. some people dont belong in a gym.

and one day when i was lifting, i dunno if was was some sort of dare or not, but this bigger guy, not completely muscular, just a pretty big, tough looking guy came into the gym wearing leg warmers and spent the whole time power walking on the treadmill... that was a sight

[ldskenpo]

usually the only women that come into the gym are wives, this one lady-overweight, comes in the cardio room turns on this huge floor fan they have at the door ( when i came in i was the only 1 in there so i turned it off)but she turns on the fan aims it directly at where she will be on the elliptical, opens her soda can ( diet pepsi) sets it in the drink holder, gets on the machine, uses at a very slow pace for 4 min,pauses gets a drink of soda, starts again for another 3-4 min, then gets off, kills the soda ( yes, a can of soda in 3 drinks) and then asks me why I think she is not losing weight, and i am over in the corner dripping sweat all over the place,clothes drenched and sticking to me say- lack of effort, she huffs and stomps out.a minute later some guy walks in and asks what i said to her, tells me its his wife, I stop the machine thinking I am going to have to fight-he looks at me and says-yeah,she is lazy.last time i seen them 2 in here.

[GoldieLocks]

Me...Flying off the back of a treadmill.

[IntensityJT]

some guy was maxing out...didnt even think to use a spotter..365 pounds straight to his chest..

[waugie14]

this is my own doing, on low carbs, the straight bar wasnt around cuz i wanted to do straight arm cables, got the lat bar, attached it, took the pin out and got hit right on the dome. No one saw though.

[RedIron 392]

Dumbest thing was the guy benching that didn't want to bother me and ask for a spot. You know that went bad.

Funniest was me getting folded up at the bottom of the hacksqat and this huge dude came over and asked me if I was resting or needed a hand.

Later

[mrbeefy]

Older guy decided to put his leg up on a cabinet to stretch, then got distracted by all the passing spandex.

After about 10 minutes I was walking passed and he said, "Psst...hey man can ya help me...I think Im stuck!"

Poor guy coulnd't get his leg down!!!!

[ironthrasher]

My lifting partner and I were flat benching one day. He lowered about 265 down to his chest slowly, and went to push it up. At this time I heard a pretty loud fart in a pretty crowded gym. I helped him pull the weight up and racked it. He jumped up off the bench and took off. He came back a few minutes later and said he had to leave because he had shit his pants.

[Angst]

There one guy who always try to pick up a conversation with me and my training partner, my training partner was afraid to hurt that guy's feelings so he never said anything. So one day i was doing leg press and my training partner was spotting me, that guy walks over, started talking and tried to give me a spot. The second he put his hand on the machine, I screamed as loud as i could:"MOVE YOUR FUCKING HANDS!!!" I was so loud all the soccer moms on the treadmills 100 feet away heard every single word, that guy never bothered me again.

[HAWK]

Funniest/stupidest thing? Dumbell curl and press on a giant inflatable ball.

[HAWK]

let me rephrase that...ANYTHING ON A GIANT INFLATABLE BALL, and dumbell curl and press in general

[TARGET]

It was a a leg day.....It was squat to you puke day....The last set and last rep......"Rack it" I said to my partner. Going down to one knee as I thought I was going to die....but I did'nt die. I felt the meals I had that day and my stomach not getting along.....I stood up to go to the garbage can to puke when it was too late....as I turned around a friend who just so happen to be a girl approached to talk when it happen...Protien , water, chow shot from my inside, like your thumb over a garden hose...on to her face...Then of course she puked.....on me. Not just funny but cool. Thats never happened before....One for the books I say...Later on brothers

[boar]

Probably the funniest thing that happended to me was when I was doing squats. My buddy was spotting me while I was at the bottom of my squat I farted and he ran away. Somehow I got up the bar then fell on the floor laughing hysterically.

[bigmack712004]

The first guy, must be about 40, looks like his mom had a habit of dropping him on his head. This guy is real thin in the arms and legs, but he has the wierd gut that makes him look pregnant. And he's got it all. Nike pants, tank top, headphones, gloves, elbow wraps, lifting belt, anything you could accesorize with he has. So this guy always comes in, walks around leaning back so far he's about to fall over, elbows out to the sides like he needs to walk in the door sideways just SCREAMING look at me I'm tough, and cool.

Me and my buddies have a Acronym for a syndrome for people like that with their elbows out. FLS (fake lat syndrome).

[Scans]

i was doing deads with straps and i put down the bar on my last rep and lost balance and basically did a front flip over the bar landing on my back...only problem was my hands were still strapped to the bar...pretty funny...didn't get hurt thank god...our platform is in the middle of the gym too so eveyrone saw my fat ass flip over

[Bam Bam]

I once saw an older woman in my gym she must have been in her 70's or even 80's. She was on an eliptical goin at a snails pace in dress pants, a nice shirt, dress shoes, and to top it all off she had pearls around her neck. She was also in heavy conversation with the person beside her and me and mai dad bout fell out laughin.

[Clydesdale]

Worst one I did so far - doing incline dumbell press, sit on the incline bench, my shorts snag the fron of the seat and as I lean back, all I hear is the damn thing rip wide open. I had to put the bells down and grab a towel to cover myself before someone got the wrong idea about why I was in the gym.

Worst a pal did - doing squats with wrong type of shorts, doing heavy deep squats. tears the back end of his shorts wide open. Best part he walked around after not knowing he had no back on his shorts till I saw his hairy ass walk past me, hey pal wanna borrow my towel...I think you need it.

[gsb239]

Some newbie came next to me and tried doing crunches on the leg curl machine. He walked off kinda stupidly when he realized it wasn't working.

Last summer I puked all over the bathroom floor after squatting. I went back to my workout and the trainer who had to clean it somehow knew it was me... he gave me the nastiest stare down when he came back out.

This juice monkey at my old gym used to fart all the time in the gym... the nastiest farts ever man. I dunno if it was all the juice he was on or what he ate preworkout but that shit was nastier than it was funny. After farting, he'd just run out of the gym so people wouldn't suspect him... but everyone knew it was him. I guess he quit the juice and workin out at once cause I saw him a year after he started showin up at the gym and the guy was fat as fuck. Kinda my constant reminder to stay away from roids.

My cousin's a really funny guy and he used to go to my old gym. He'd make us laugh in the gym so much. Every now and then he'd watch himself doin tricep exercises in the mirror and after each rep he'd say "wicked!" instead of counting reps. Just to make us laugh. Each rep man... too funny.

[Big Flanch]

my buddy and i took this lifting class in high school (which was a joke, we were the only ones who took it serious, but whatever) and they always had the radio blastin durin the class. so my friend had this like bowl cut lookin thing with his hair and as he got he ready to bench i was tellin him his head looked like a dick...all of a sudden, as he's in the middle of the set, the radio comes on with a loud "Trojan Maaan" commercial...funniest thing that ever happened to me

[Pokoritel]

The funniest or dumbest thing i ever saw in a gym was this guy who asked me spot him when he was doing squats ass to the grass 225lbs no problem fine, he did 2 reps with all his might. He put it up on 315, i asked if he needed a spot and he realized all the big guys were in the gym so he wanted to show off and said no back off. I was getting ready to jump and save his ass. Thats the first time i didnt do a set when i was supposed to just to save this guys ass. He gets the 315 up surprsingly he goes all the way down, he got lucky there were safety bars on the side, he got stuck the damn weight was on him and he didnt move for 5 seconds. I told him to simply push the bar back and lie down. He insisted on doing the rep, GUYS STAND UP RIGHT NOW AND SIT ALL THE WAY DOWN IMAGINE 315 ON YOUR BACK AND YOU START PUSHIN FROM THERE. What an idiot, he couldnt do it and every big guy he wanted to impress called him a dumbass. lol i was laughing my ass off he made a fool of himself.

[speedster00]

I've seen all the newb mistakes......but I had one myself about a month ago. I dropped a weight on my own shaker cup and split it down the side spilling my dex/protein all over the carpet.

[Maharg]

There is this really weird guy at my gym who does a bunch of weird exercises of his own design and everyday as im cleaning the place ( I work at them gym as well) and this guy is doing push ups on the preacher curl, goes to the cable crossover puts on a dip belt attaches it to the handle and takes 3 steps out and is just standing their with 50lbs around his waist. Well me and some of the guys who work out there were asking each other "Do you have any idea what this guys is doing?" none of us would ask though cuz if you say a word to this guy he follows you around the gym until you go home. I would tell him to piss off but he looks like a puppy that has been kicked a bunch and i think he has a bit of a mental challenge.

[SAMSON]

let me rephrase that...ANYTHING ON A GIANT INFLATABLE BALL, and dumbell curl and press in general

i see alot of stupid/funny shit as im in college and lift at the main campus gym, due to the conveniece. but about a week and a half ago me and my buddy go in on sunday night to hit some chest and we see this kid in the ab area balancing on his knees on an inflatable ball doing side laterals with 10 lb dumbbells, and the whole time hes shaking from side to side and making all kinds of noise. funniest thing i ever saw in a gym.

[Toni69]

I have had many moments of my own, but the most recent was when I was spotting this really hot guy on skullcrushers right. I was wearing my favorite, oldest sweats that just hung off my hips. they were washed so many times, you can practically see through them, but I love 'em. They barely stay on if it wasn't for this drawstring in the front that is all torn up..but it holds my pants up.

Anyway...I hand him the weight and he grabbed my string...well...the string pulls out and he begins his set..I tell him to wait, (I am laughing now as I type this, so excuse any typos), he can't wait cause he started his set and its dam heavy too.

He pulls my string all the way out of my pants and my pants fall down to the floor and there I am standing there with my goddam pants at my ankles and thank God I was wearing one of my sexiest thongs because I would have been doubly embarrassed if I wasn't.

This guy has no freaking clue what has happened so I bend down to pick up my pants...I get up and see the reflection of the whole gym staring at my ass behind me. Meanwhile I am holding up my pants and this dude is still doing his set.

Can you believe that!

[COLE]

This one time I was doing HEAVY dumbell flat presses with 120lb and this chick was sitting at the next bench, and she had set her water bottle next to her on the floor. Well after my 6th rep I was a little fatigued and with no spot, I kinda dropped the dumbells and one landed right on top of the waterbottle. It exploded and sounded like a fuckin shotgun, and soaked the both of us. I was laughing hysterically,and she was not, oh well, not everone has a sense of humor!!

Similar thing happened to me. My wife and I was working out and she was spotting me doing Dumbbell bench press. Yes thats right my wife was spotting me, you do what you gotta do. She does a good job I might add to by the way. Anyway as you did I fatigued out and just dropped the weights. I hear something crunch like plastic or glass. My wife had set a pair of those damn tanning goggles down right where I drop the weights by the side of the bench. Crushed the living shit out of them! I stand up and say... hated those fucking things anyway. It was pretty funny at the time. We both got a good laugh out of it. One of those times where you just had to be there.

[peterpyper]

i dont know but one time i saw this guy working out with no sneakers or socks on barefooted,thats kinda dirty lol

[vIShuS]

Me and my buddies have a Acronym for a syndrome for people like that with their elbows out. FLS (fake lat syndrome).



Ive heard one similar called ELS. (exagurated lat symdrome)

-SiSu

[PlacentiaBay]

I see one of the waste of space people in my school cream there head off the dip station haha

[ldskenpo]

just cuz its called a skullcrusher, doesnt mean you bounce the bar off your forehead, stupid. yes, he was bouncing the bar off his forehead, enought that you could hear it, tap....tap....tap
I waited until his set was done then went over and explained the concept of metal + forehead = hurt
he put up his weights and left.

[Stiff]

The funniest thing that I have done (I think) is after a set of heavy deadlifts (I don't use straps so my hands are pretty shaky at the moment) I go to pick up my water bottle, but it slips out of my hands. It was on the railing to the lower floor and it is a full 2 litre bottle too. Anyways, it falls and explodes on the floor at the lower level and all I hear is a number of simultanius screams. I laughed so hard I stopped breathing and almost passed out.

The funniest I have ever seen someone else do was this. While my buddy was doing single-handed tricep press downs with a d-bar, the cable snapped and he whacked himself in the balls. After he got up (I was still laughing) he just walked out of the gym, leaving his stuff behind and all. Damn it must have hurt as he was using 100 pounds.

[Maharg]

I have had many moments of my own, but the most recent was when I was spotting this really hot guy on skullcrushers right. I was wearing my favorite, oldest sweats that just hung off my hips. they were washed so many times, you can practically see through them, but I love 'em. They barely stay on if it wasn't for this drawstring in the front that is all torn up..but it holds my pants up.

Anyway...I hand him the weight and he grabbed my string...well...the string pulls out and he begins his set..I tell him to wait, (I am laughing now as I type this, so excuse any typos), he can't wait cause he started his set and its dam heavy too.

He pulls my string all the way out of my pants and my pants fall down to the floor and there I am standing there with my goddam pants at my ankles and thank God I was wearing one of my sexiest thongs because I would have been doubly embarrassed if I wasn't.

This guy has no freaking clue what has happened so I bend down to pick up my pants...I get up and see the reflection of the whole gym staring at my ass behind me. Meanwhile I am holding up my pants and this dude is still doing his set.

Can you believe that!

you know in a way i feel bad for that guy all the excitement going on right there and he doesn't even know. I give him props for focusing on his set and not looking at why people are laughing.

[Toni69]

you know in a way i feel bad for that guy all the excitement going on right there and he doesn't even know. I give him props for focusing on his set and not looking at why people are laughing.

I didnt say anyone was laughing! But he had a darn string hanging from the weight...didnt distract him though...your right about that!

[spoolin]

well i seen a guy using the leg press and he had like 6 plates on it and sarted unloading it one side at a time and what do you know the whole leg press fall over on its side it was pretty loud.

[Maharg]

I didnt say anyone was laughing! But he had a darn string hanging from the weight...didnt distract him though...your right about that!

I am truly sorry i take back the laughing part. I assume their jaws were dropped to the floor stunned by your beauty, and shocked by you're incredible body.

Have I dug myself out of that hole yet?

[Toni69]

I am truly sorry i take back the laughing part. I assume their jaws were dropped to the floor stunned by your beauty, and shocked by you're incredible body.

Have I dug myself out of that hole yet?

Yes sir..you most certainly have...lol....really funny!

[Mule83]

Funniest thing so far was something I did.........It was only a couple of weeks ago. I'm on leg day and doing some stretching before I start. I usually end by laying on an exercise ball to stretch out my back. That day I couldn't find the exercise ball I usually use so I went looking for one. It's 6:00 in the morning and the aerobic room next door is pitch black. I can see the outline of a exercise ball in there from the light in the gym. I walk in there and here some kind of weird hindu music playing real softly. Me being a dumb ass say really loudly, "What in the FLYING FUCK is going on in here!" I hear a few giggles and see that there is a yoga class going on not 10 feet from me. I turned and walked straight out. OOPPS!

[Mickey]

well we all know how important it is to concentrate on yourself/routine while at the gym, but unless you work out at 4:oo like some guys do when noone else is in the gym, you can't really say that you've never at least glanced at a girl while workin out...anyways, about 3 or 4 months ago, just after i had got back into lifting, i was at my gym and had just finished a hard pounding chest workout, having just put up my personal best bench of 225 four times (its not much but hey i'm 20 and weight 185 at 5'10") so i'm headin to the water fountain and this chick is doin some ass excercise...the butt blaster or some stupid shit like that, well her shorts aren't exactly as high up as they should be and shes wearin some really sexy shit, lacey and all. stupid ass me rubber necks so bad i walk into the leg curl machine...wouldn't have been too bad had there not been an elderly woman on it...i have never got out of the gym quicker than i did that day

[xman]

this guy was gonna max out wen he lifted it off he realized that one of the sides had no plates on it. so the bar went flying like a slingshot and hit a guy in the head next to him,, it was hillarious. the guy was so embarassed.

[jvm123]

The funniest thing ive seen at my gym is if your lucky enough to go when schools out there are these two kids who must be 13 who go in there and do 3 rep sets of every excercise with the heaviest weights that they cant even do with proper form. They scream on each rep with high pitched kid voices. One of them is like 4 feet tall and every day tries to deadlift 225 and squats going down two inches every day with way tooo much weight. They will probably stunt their growth and might hurt themselves but its funny to watch them get all intense.

[darkside64]

ahaha your my hero


It was a a leg day.....It was squat to you puke day....The last set and last rep......"Rack it" I said to my partner. Going down to one knee as I thought I was going to die....but I did'nt die. I felt the meals I had that day and my stomach not getting along.....I stood up to go to the garbage can to puke when it was too late....as I turned around a friend who just so happen to be a girl approached to talk when it happen...Protien , water, chow shot from my inside, like your thumb over a garden hose...on to her face...Then of course she puked.....on me. Not just funny but cool. Thats never happened before....One for the books I say...Later on brothers

[Phil800101]

Here's a couple of em':

Over the summer I was doing barbell shoulder presses without a spotter (which was stupid of me), reached failure on my heavy set, couldn't re-rack the bar, and ultimately ended up losing it and dropping it about 18"-24" down onto my legs (good thing I have strong quads). Amazingly, it didn't hurt, but it did scare the shit out of me, due to the fact that I missed my beanbag by less than a foot.

Another time I was benching, and while I was adding weights on for my next set, this know-it-all comes up to me and says: "Whoa there, buddy. You have a different amount of weight on each side." To which I replied: "Yeah, I know, I'm adding weight for my next set." Which got an: "Oh" from him, followed by his walking away. What a dumbass.

[Darkman X]

I'm working out last night @ World and this poser is trying to shrug 3 plates and it basically looks like a monkey fuckin a football, total abortion. This new chick who just joined walks in to get her freak on and this ****** load 2 more plates on and starts humoing the bar again and then the big scream. Dude tore his trap and just about every serious lifter in the place started laughing at dude. Lesson learned: A. Don't be a poser B. Don't show off C. Know thy weight.

[Toni69]

I'm working out last night @ World and this poser is trying to shrug 3 plates and it basically looks like a monkey fuckin a football, total abortion. This new chick who just joined walks in to get her freak on and this ****** load 2 more plates on and starts humoing the bar again and then the big scream. Dude tore his trap and just about every serious lifter in the place started laughing at dude. Lesson learned: A. Don't be a poser B. Don't show off C. Know thy weight.

That is just horrible! Poor guy...and you laughed huh! shame on you! ;)

[nawaaz]

There was this guy doing concentration curls. Was like 17/18, and he was at it with his right hand. Now his mobile phone rang, and guess what he did? Switched hands IN THE MIDDLE OF THE REP to answer the damn phone...

[Mr.Totality]

I was at the gym yesterday, and a kid (18ish) started fake shadow boxing with 10 lbs weights. That was all well and good, but then he starts trying to talk to me because of my tapout shirt (used to train MMA), and he starts bragging about his boxing skill as I am lifting. Like I give a rats ass. Put my earphones in, and ignored him

[Aengus]

Me: I didn't have the brain to realize that toe-ups on the leg press are nothing but dangerous when you have the saftey off. I damned near lost a kneecap.

Me: I like to get a little crazy when I am working out. No screaming or anything, but I do draw a big smiley face on my shirt with my chalk ball. It scares the shit out of people, and clears off some of the better machines.

My friend: My friend is an absolute goon, and is more than careless: he is getting ready to drink his PWO shake, but negelects to check that the cap is closed before he violently shakes the damned thing; I can still see the stains on the cieling tiles.

[jtg40cal]

I used to work out at this gym in downtown DC. Nice gym (Washington Sports Club), but sometimes the crazies would wander in off the street. Like this one time this lady and her "boyfriend" came in to use the bathroom. No way the front desk was letting them by and girl threw a shit fit. Yellin and screamin (A lot of it incoherent crackhead babble) about how she'll pull her pants down and piss on the floor. But this one time takes the cake - and I couldnt make this shit up if I tried...so im over by the dumbell rack working on some bi's when this dude strolls up with a 45lb plate in his hands and grabs a bench next to me. This guy definitely did NOT belong in the gym and had this crazy ass look about him. Not "I eat iron for breakfast" crazy, but "I forgot to take my meds today" crazy. Anyways, he sits down, lays the plate on the floor in front of him, reaches in his pocket, and pulls out a bungee cord! Now I KNOW he is a bum who musta snuck past the guards. Anyways, he threads the bungee cord through the eye of the plate and makes a loop out of it. At this point im getting a little worried about what this nut was capable of so I slowly backed away. Next he takes off one of his shoes and one of his socks. I say one of his socks because he was wearing two on each foot. He then takes the sock, stretches it out real good, threads it through the bungee cord to making a loop (double knotting it at the top), and puts it in his mouth! At this point im looking for some staff to come get this dude out before he hurts himself or worse yet, someone else. Anyways, he proceeds to do what I can only describe as neck extenstions, but looked more like a crazy guy with sock in his mouth attached to a bungee cord threaded through a 45lb plate while having a seizure. Needless to say I work out at Gold's now.

[JUGGERNAUT]

had to have been last night! saw a dude take one of those "Cardio Balls" place it in-between the cable station and proceeded to do, on-his-back cable flys. Needless to say I started to look for something sharp to pop it with....

[Grim Tavis]

Damn! These are some great stories!

We need to make a sitcom out of this stuff!

Has there ever been a TV show about a gym?

[Aengus]

Damn! These are some great stories!

We need to make a sitcom out of this stuff!

Has there ever been a TV show about a gym?

We would make for bad tv.

[Aengus]

had to have been last night! saw a dude take one of those "Cardio Balls" place it in-between the cable station and proceeded to do, on-his-back cable flys. Needless to say I started to look for something sharp to pop it with....

I have had to do this simply because they wouldn't let me drag a bench into the room where the cable racks were. Seriously. But I probably would have laughed my ass off if the ball had popped.

[Lawman]

In the gym last night and saw a guy doing military press. Every time he lowered the bar, he would turn his face up, bring the bar down to his lips and give it a big kiss, before pressing it back up. It was probably the dumbest thing I'd ever seen.

[ldskenpo]

I was having a bad day, and figured I would take it out in the weight room, about halfway through my workout I walked over to the dumbbell racks.there were dbs on the floor, leaned against the wall, everywhere. I lost it, I yelled out loud in my best parade field voice, " who is too stupid to put the dumbbells back?!?!" nobody answered back, but 2 guys from the other side of the weight room stopped what they were doing and came over and started racking the dumbbells. I dont know if it was them that left the mess, but they made sure ALL the dumbbells were racked and in order. some times there are benefits to my job.

[Aengus]

this thread should live again.

[Toni69]

I recently saw a girl running on the treadmill (pretty dam fast too), and putting on her bright red lipstick. She actually did a pretty good job of it too...actually stayed in the lines! Yea..I was staring! I was actually hoping she was gonna wind up eating it..the lipstick I mean! :)

[MO_500057]

Here's a couple of em':

Over the summer I was doing barbell shoulder presses without a spotter (which was stupid of me), reached failure on my heavy set, couldn't re-rack the bar, and ultimately ended up losing it and dropping it about 18"-24" down onto my legs (good thing I have strong quads). Amazingly, it didn't hurt, but it did scare the shit out of me, due to the fact that I missed my beanbag by less than a foot.


Just the fact that you call your balls a BEANBAG makes me laugh!

[MO_500057]

So a good while back Gator and I are hitting arms. We were doing standing db curls. Now it is normally pretty packed in our gym over here. Well he rips ASS like always but damn this shit was nuclear fallout horrible. Cleared out half of the gym. I was't gonna tale the blame for that one either, I made sure they knew it was him.

[GatorMP_69]

ok MO!!!

I had a pre work out protein shake. Protein shakes give me BAD gas. We were repin out with 55 or 60 # DBs. I was in the middle of my set, no stoppin (VERY RARELY DO). Right in the middle of the set for about 5 reps or so, I gased on every rep. It was silent, but obviously deadly. There were some 82nd Airborne guys workin out next to us. The FUNNIEST part of it was them bitchin at eachother and accusing eachother of the foul odor. I just stood in teh corner laughin my ass off. MO then proceded to pointing and making sure I took full blame for the incident. Yeah, it was bad. My eyes were tearin from a mixture of teh smell and laughing, AND that whole side of the gym cleared out.

LAST NIGHT!!!!
We were doing military presses with 100# DBs. MO takes a seat and pulls the weights up off the floor and sets them on his legs. As he did that, his nuts rolled and he get his right one caught under his leg, which was under 100#s of iron. His eyes bulged and he just laid his head on the weight and drooled all over it. Slowly, he started explaining what had happened. I couldn't help but laugh. It took him a minute but he sucked it up and Soldiered on and finished his set. Afterward, he stood around shakin his leg out recovering from the strain...HA HA HA HA!!!!!!

[bobbymart]

Saw a lady stand on either side of a treadmill and turn that fucker up to 8mph then you will never guess what she did SHE STEPED ON IT.... needless to say she flew off the back and slamed her head so hard on it I heard it in my office. I laughed so hard that I was crying. saw the entire thing go down it was one of those timed where you are thinking to you'r self she's not going to...... damn she did.

[Sambocephus]

i was in the middle of a set of inclines when this old lady on a treadmill falls and hits her hip HARD. i re-racked the weight and asked if she was ok, she was like "oh yes, im fine" and started limping around trying to pretend like she didnt just fall off of a treadmill.lol.

[Fury317]

ok MO!!!

I had a pre work out protein shake. Protein shakes give me BAD gas. We were repin out with 55 or 60 # DBs. I was in the middle of my set, no stoppin (VERY RARELY DO). Right in the middle of the set for about 5 reps or so, I gased on every rep. It was silent, but obviously deadly. There were some 82nd Airborne guys workin out next to us. The FUNNIEST part of it was them bitchin at eachother and accusing eachother of the foul odor. I just stood in teh corner laughin my ass off. MO then proceded to pointing and making sure I took full blame for the incident. Yeah, it was bad. My eyes were tearin from a mixture of teh smell and laughing, AND that whole side of the gym cleared out.

LAST NIGHT!!!!
We were doing military presses with 100# DBs. MO takes a seat and pulls the weights up off the floor and sets them on his legs. As he did that, his nuts rolled and he get his right one caught under his leg, which was under 100#s of iron. His eyes bulged and he just laid his head on the weight and drooled all over it. Slowly, he started explaining what had happened. I couldn't help but laugh. It took him a minute but he sucked it up and Soldiered on and finished his set. Afterward, he stood around shakin his leg out recovering from the strain...HA HA HA HA!!!!!!

HAHA damn I hate it when that happens just with bodyweight but with a hundred on there too! That shit would kill....

i was in the middle of a set of inclines when this old lady on a treadmill falls and hits her hip HARD. i re-racked the weight and asked if she was ok, she was like "oh yes, im fine" and started limping around trying to pretend like she didnt just fall off of a treadmill.lol.

Soooo many people do the "catch yourself before the fall" because they are too busy watching tv. I laugh so hard when I see it, unfortunately I have yet to see on bite it.

[bobbymart]

I was doing calv extensions on the smith machine and my liftin partner was in the cage next to me well the aerobic setep I do extensions on is just at the height where I have to lift up like an inch before I can lock the mahcine in place, My calves wee so burnt that I could not lift that inch but I did not realise it I thought I locked it so I steped foreward and next thing I know 360lbs is pulling me to the floor faster than I can yell for help I managed to save myself from getting bent in half and the way it poped my back actually felt really good but it scared the shit out of me and I hit the ground so hard it bruised both of my knee's pretty bad next time i'll use a spot. oah yeah shatterd both bearing in the smith machine and was so loud you could hear it outside im 6"5 and I was a good 6 inches of the ground too. 360 faling from about 7 ft in the air.

[Little Houghton]

this is some funny shit on here.
one of my favorites was doing box squats at the school weightroom, had 315 on there, come down, sit right on my unit. never gone up that fast with 315 in my life. so i rack it, lay down, think im alright, then the pain really hits and i yack all over the floor next to me. so the coach comes over laughing his ass off and gives me a bit of advice that i need to "go home tonight, get myself a girly book and a stick of butter, and make sure everythings still workin for me" to this day i laugh my ass off every time i tell that story

[Cstlfx]

Saw some guy on the hack squat the other day. Saw take a whole bunch of weight off of the rack connected to the hack squat. I figured he'd be putting them on the sled, but he didnt. He just went at it. 12 reps, then put more weight back on the rack. Did 12 more reps, then put more weight on the rack. He kept doing this. After a while, i figured out that he thought the rack was where you put the weight, not the actual sled. Had to go up and tell him he was putting the weight in the wrong spot.

[DreamZero]

This one may not be stupid or funny.. it's just weird and not at the right place. There's that skinny dude at my gym, he goes pretty often but does sloppy swiss-ball/rubber band work.. The point is he's doin Tai Chi between every set. Focusing between heavy sets is something, but doing the "sunrise of the tiger" between 2 sets of rubber band torso twist tied to the dip/chin station(what the hell.. obliques?) is a bit freaky. Every time I see that, I can't help but shake my head.

[Malloy1344]

I go to Globo Gym(LA Fitness compliments of Big Wides) lol......anyways...you can imagine I have quite a few..

1.) This guy is my favorite. Some German dude. He does the same workout nightly.....Flat Bench, Standing DB Curls, Preachers, Drips, Lat Pulls. Now......i use those terms loosely. Because the movement's he are using them aren't even 1/4 reps.....maybe 1/8 reps. Skinny dude grabs two 65'b dumbels, and gets them to the top curl position(arms bent touching delts) and starts, what looks like a seizure. Bouncing back and forth, not even bending his arms.....same for everything else. For Bench, he'll load 225 on, and drop like 2 inches. I look in awe.......I really want to go over and say " what the hell are you doing?"

2.) Ricky Martin. Ok Ricky Martin is this Brazilian dude.....clearly homosexual( not being disrespectful in anyway, but clearly is) He's cut, however, inbetween his sets, he bust out into an insane dance routine. I'm not talkin about head bobbing or anything, but all our hip thrusts and ass shakes. I almost died the first time I saw it happen.

3) Me ----I've fucked up a few times too.....I was loading up the squat rack, and I bent down to pick up a pie to put on, stood up, and cracked my dome right on the bar. Almost knocked myself out. lol.......Also I was doin Leg Extensions with a friend, and didn't realize I was too close, she kicks up and wacks me right in the knee with the metal....haha..

4.) Mr. Big Shot.....this guy comes in....loads up 135 on the olympic bar. This guy is like 5'8, maybe 175.....so I'm thinkin" oh he's gonna do shrugs" Boy was I wrong. It was Curls!!! well.......It looked more like a reverse grip hang clean. It was like a cheating, cheat curl. I can't even describe how atrocious it was.......

5.) Me being a dick.....lol.. I was training one of my favorite clients Laura. She's awesome and takes alot of punishment. One day, we were supersetting Cable rows with pushups. So she does her rows, then immediately drops to do pushups. She is clearly suffering, but shes hittin them out good. She made a smartass remark to me....So i sat on the row machine and put my feet on her back, lol and she came crashing down. hahaha.....she loves me though.

6.) These 3 hardcore girls. All really in great shape, and very intense. I'm not criticizing their working out at all, however....when they are doing their sets, the one girl lets out grunst that resemble a noise you'd find in a porn movie.......lol

[ionacht]

Thus far it has been me racking myself in the family jewels the first time I tried T-bar rows. Short legs suck.

[ned]

I got a guy that comes in about twice a week and brings his little buddy with him. The guy is 6'2'' 300 lbs. and probly 30%bf. The little guy is always boosting him up, "Dam he is huge aint he", in reality he is a fat ass. He does about two sets of bench each workout and thats it.

There is another young guy that comes in who drinks mountain dew while working out and does alternating dumbell shoulder presses. After working out, and sometime during working out, he will step outside and have a smoke.

I really would like to explain to them the right way to do things, but if they wanted to know they would find out.

[shortstack]

There are a vast group of stupid people but here are my 2 favorites.

The Truck Driver
He comes in, slams half a bottle of water, picks up a 70 lbs dumbell and begins swinging it in a curling motion. Not curling but a whole body curling motion. Every lift he does is a whole body work out. Then he struts around the gym. I bet he has an "Over the top" pulley systemm in his truck. Awesome.

Cigar Man
THis guy is about 60 with dyed red hair. He comes in and does 1 set of bench, not much weight, but yells, slams it down and goes of to something else for about 20 minutes. Then he comes back with a cigar in his mouth and finishes the second set and keeps the cigar in for about another hour.
Classic

[DreamZero]

Cigar Man
THis guy is about 60 with dyed red hair. He comes in and does 1 set of bench, not much weight, but yells, slams it down and goes of to something else for about 20 minutes. Then he comes back with a cigar in his mouth and finishes the second set and keeps the cigar in for about another hour.
Classic

Smoking INSIDE a gym? How the hell is this allowed?

[Jimmy]

i got this guy i call "batman" i give him props cuz hes got some big ass arms and lats, and he can do chins all day, but they way he goes about building them is straight ridiculous.

he comes into the gym, he's wearing black jeans, black boots, black tank top, long jet black hair, everything is black, just like batman, and he walks over to the chinup bar attached to the middle of a cable crossover and starts doing chins, pretty basic, pretty normal, then shit starts gettin wild. he flips his legs over the top of the crossbar and hangs upside down, "like a bat" see where im going with this....

then he does like upside down situps, upside down shrugs, and all sorts of shit, proceding to sit up on top of the cable crossover, he looks around for a bit, then goes back to chinning and flipping upside down and shit, then he flips up and STANDS on top of the cable crossover, he is literally standing on top of this machine looking around, you cant help but see this guy standing 15 feet in the air, no matter where you are in the gym, the suddenly he jumps off, just jumps off, grabs the lat bar mid-fall and proceeds to do chins again. and thus he repeats over and over again.

[spanish.iron]

Smoking INSIDE a gym? How the hell is this allowed?

I doubt it's lit.

[Pizzalamp]

i got this guy i call "batman" i give him props cuz hes got some big ass arms and lats, and he can do chins all day, but they way he goes about building them is straight ridiculous.

he comes into the gym, he's wearing black jeans, black boots, black tank top, long jet black hair, everything is black, just like batman, and he walks over to the chinup bar attached to the middle of a cable crossover and starts doing chins, pretty basic, pretty normal, then shit starts gettin wild. he flips his legs over the top of the crossbar and hangs upside down, "like a bat" see where im going with this....

then he does like upside down situps, upside down shrugs, and all sorts of shit, proceding to sit up on top of the cable crossover, he looks around for a bit, then goes back to chinning and flipping upside down and shit, then he flips up and STANDS on top of the cable crossover, he is literally standing on top of this machine looking around, you cant help but see this guy standing 15 feet in the air, no matter where you are in the gym, the suddenly he jumps off, just jumps off, grabs the lat bar mid-fall and proceeds to do chins again. and thus he repeats over and over again.
thats mans my hero now

[Pizzalamp]

well lets see here
in my gym theres a man who dresses in bikers shorts and a huge baggy t
for about 10 minutes he does some grotesque form of a rotator cuff warmup while leaning against the flat bench. hes using a 50 pounder every time and is screaming and swinging that bell so violently i swear his arm is gonna rip off

then theres an 80 yeal old women who does a few machines then lays on the floor feet on a bench and reads a book. and shell yell at u if u get too close

then theres a large man who dresses all in sweats carries a gallon jug looks like nasser el sombaty, and glares at u manacingly. ive seen him for 7 years dressed the same way. he does horrible form on everything epic partials. when he used to have a training partner he would load up the leg press his partner would stand on top and he would do half half half reps

then theres a young kid, 18, very skinny, carries a gallon, walks around with his lats flared and yells out light weight before a lift

theres a chatty fellow who babbles non stop and talks to everyone in the area for at least 5 mins. no one wants to chat w/ him but he keeps on chatting. questions after questions

theres an eldery man with a fishing hat and fanny pack who reads his newspaper and stares at everyone and writes down things in his journal. hes creeped me out for years

then theres a large man who dresses in sweats and tells everyone who comes to him for advice on bulking to eat 12 yams a day and a jar of peant butter. he also is a master at horrible form

then theres a guy who comes in, loads up the hammer decline with a full load, does 5 reps and walks away leaving it full of weights

then theres a guy who comes in every tuesday-puts 4 plates on the bench and does the worst painful form ive evr seen where only his head is on the bench

[Zacharicus]

A guy sitting in the leg extensions eating popcorn and drinking coke. Couldn't fuckin' believe it. First I got pissed off, second I just couldn't help laughing..

Let's just say, he wasn't an animal...

[DRAKE LIKES GYM]

Me, cause of all the protein and supps, i have a tendecy to rip ass but i always to hit and runs. one time when i was doin dead lifts and i couldnt hold it and i ripped ass right by the guy who was doin bench in back of me. i had headphones and tried to pretend like nothing happened but i just couldnt help but crack up.

[Toni69]

Me, cause of all the protein and supps, i have a tendecy to rip ass but i always to hit and runs. one time when i was doin dead lifts and i couldnt hold it and i ripped ass right by the guy who was doin bench in back of me. i had headphones and tried to pretend like nothing happened but i just couldnt help but crack up.

now laughing at yourself..that is classic! LOL

[HardcoreB52]

First off I love this thread and how we as Animals know how not to turn it into a crazed bash fest....because we are in fact above the fray. So I workout at a military gym on Barksdale AFB, LA. Let me say I have seen some funny things.

--We all like brand names of course, maybe our Animal shirt or hat, but does anyone else chuckle a little at the people who just wear it all. I had 3 good sized dudes come through the gym one day all carrying the infamous 1 gal. jug of water and all were wearing supplement hats, shirts and duffle bag...the bad supps I am pretty sure by the name of the supps.. The all proceeded to take the only 3 benches and used one for working out on, the others supported their bags and water. They then put on their weight belts to scream and yell at each other to max out DB rows at 80lbs. All the while dropping and throwing the weights.

Now for me I am a real cool and laid back dude, but in the gym it is all business. Needless to say I was glad I had my headphones on so all I did was shake my head and work around them. Hell I could like BOZO the clown and still get a good workout. I am sure there will to more to come from my gym...Later Bros.

[Phil800101]

One time I was banging out leg presses, and I ripped ass really loud, right as this guy was walking by behind the machine. He stopped and looked down at me with this pissed off look of disgust on his face for about 5 seconds or so. As he was walking away, I finished my set, turned towards him, and in a really loud, obnoxious, phony-sounding voice said "Well, excuuuuse meeee!" I thought it was pretty funny.

[escholar05]

I lift at my house, and I am the only one of 70 i would say that takes lifting seriously, most people are all gung-ho for like 3 weeks, and then just quit. One kid in particular has seen that I have put on about 25 lbs and wants to do the same thing, but completely lacks the dedication to do so. He also talks about how none of his clothes fit anymore (a legit problem for me) and he has yet to gain a pound. To make a long story short, I walked down to our weightroom the other day to see him lifting in black spandex sliding shorts, and a mesh underarmor dri-fit thing, complete with headband and black mesh half gloves. I literally had to leave the weightroom until he was done, I couldnt get any work done because I was trying not to collapse with laughter.

[Far Beyond Driven]

Me, also. I was finishing up my shoulder workout, and I was feeling pretty good, so I decide to end it with a drop set of smith machine front presses. I loaded up the plates, and went over to a guy who I don't really know, but he's a reliable spot. Without thinking, I said, "hey, would you mind going over to that smith machine and strip for me?" It took a few seconds for the meaning of my request to kick in, but until then his facial expression was priceless! It was somewhere in between "something smells in here", and "this guy has no eyelids!"

[Big C]

This dude at the gym (probably around my age) benches and does chest every single day. Never does legs, back, etc.

But when he benches he goes down ONE inch...I kid you not, throws 315-335 on and reps out 6-8 going down one inch and then brags about how strong he is...and he screams so loud it is ridiculous and I can't concentrate, all the people on the treadmills are staring at him.

I always hear him saying he is the strongest guy in the gym....shit he probably cant bench 225 for correct reps.

His partner should correct him but he doesn't. I don't feel it's my place but this guy must have the strongest forearms in the world.

[McKnife]

Last week in the gym I was doin deads with 455 and after 7 good reps I told my training partner to drop one pie. He did, the only thing is that he dropped it right on my chalked pot, that I have to sneak inside the gym cause it's not allowed.... The chalk block went flying through the air, in an incredible cloud of white smoke.... lollll we laughed a lot this day, not when it happened but some time after we cleaned up our mess....

[jonnydunz]

I just have to say that the craziest thing that I saw in this gym that i use to work out in had this guy who would just work his shoulders. He would rack his bar with nothing but 5lb plates on each side. He would start off with 2,then 3,then4,then 5,then 6 and me and my homie would just look at this guy like what the hell is he doing over there. We would laugh all the time we would see him walk in the gym because we knew that all he was going to workout was his shoulders and that became his nickname that we gave him Shoulders. One thing though is that his shoulders never got any bigger.

Another time when I was in Iraq working out at our gym and a few of my lifting partners and I were on the cable machine doing our tricep workout. Well this was in 2004 and things were pretty intense to say the least everyday. Well I was on the cables and doing my reps when this mortar goes off and lands not too far from the gym and the next thing we see is this guy come diving through the door that was next to the machine and me and my crew fell out laughing at this guy as he laid there on the floor shaking. We looked at eachother in our laughter and say newbee. He was new to Iraq and that was his introduction and it was our laughter for the rest of the year.

[Shawn J]

Seems like to me if you folks spent as much time lifting as you do watching the "Freaks" on the other side of the gym, you would be huge. You there to "people watch" or train?
Geeez!

[Pizzalamp]

Seems like to me if you folks spent as much time lifting as you do watching the "Freaks" on the other side of the gym, you would be huge. You there to "people watch" or train?
Geeez!

BOTH

[Mylo333]

Hi Guys

I'm pretty new to the Forum and searching for some interesting Threads, stumbled upon this 1:) now i gym at home but my friends go to gym and the funniest thing i have ever heard was....Ok the gym they go to is situated on the 2nd floor, i think the bottom was for Aerobics and top for weight lifting...these guys gym with extremley heavy dumbell weights, when the finish there set the drop the weights, the 1 guy drops the weight on the floor, the floor opens up...yip the barbell fell through the floor to the bottom, i couldnt stop laughing when he told me the story

[Toni69]

Seems like to me if you folks spent as much time lifting as you do watching the "Freaks" on the other side of the gym, you would be huge. You there to "people watch" or train?
Geeez!

I think the point to the thread was to comment on those we take notice doin awkward or strange things in the gym. How can you be totally oblivious to what is goin on around you? Even I tend to spot an oddball now and then, its only human! I certainly dont stand around eyeballing people all day, but if you see someone doin something that is a bit funky to you, your gonna look! Crap...maybe once in a while people get a laugh off of me..cause Im clumsy!

In fact, yesterday...I was doing my standing side laterals, single arm with the 25's (I was certainly training to get big!)...and through the mirror I heard crazy ass loud grunting. All I see is this dude attempting to do pull ups. Now, anyone here who knows me (which most of you do), will know I respect the pullup tremendously. It has contributed to my back development immensely.

How can I explain this, he wasnt even moving his body. He was hanging in the pull up position, his body still, but only lifting his head above the bar??? Can you picture this? And he is grunting as if he was on the leg press pushing over 1000lbs!

I mean cmon! Im usually the last one to make fun of anyone...but this was not right!

[Malloy1344]

Seems like to me if you folks spent as much time lifting as you do watching the "Freaks" on the other side of the gym, you would be huge. You there to "people watch" or train?
Geeez!

When your resting between your sets, your eyes will wander.....and its hard not to notice a person standing on top of a lat tower, and busting out ricky martin dance moves near the cable cross overs.

[Phil800101]

Seems like to me if you folks spent as much time lifting as you do watching the "Freaks" on the other side of the gym, you would be huge. You there to "people watch" or train?
Geeez!

As she often does, Toni hit the nail right on the head. I mean, yeah, you go lift and you focus on yourself and your workout, but you do notice what's going on around you. You might not pay much attention, if at all, but you still see it. And yeah, when it's something way out of the ordinary, or funny as hell, or just plain stupid, it's hard to miss.

I started this thread way back when so we all could share stories of the funny, stupid, crazy, or just plain weird stuff we've seen while working out over the years. As serious as we all take it (as we should), there is a lighter side to this great lifestyle. It seems at times like some people on this forum forget that. Don't get me wrong, I love this forum, and what it provides, but not every single thread has to be serious and strictly business. We can have some fun threads too.

[shortstack]

then theres a large man who dresses in sweats and tells everyone who comes to him for advice on bulking to eat 12 yams a day and a jar of peant butter. he also is a master at horrible form

"Uhhh yeah well I just eat about 12 yams a day and look at me" WTF That is hilarious.

[Shawn J]

Yam's...Gross! I wish I could of heard him say that.

[tank2k7]

Last week as I was working out, some teenage kid came in and proceeded to, in the dead quiet gym, have his phone on speaker as loud as it could go. I had my iPod on and I could still hear his conversation. He then would continue talking/listening to whoever he was talking to while he got on the bench and pushed out a few reps. Then got up and continued talking, still on speaker! Now the gym I lift at is dead quiet, and everyone in there can totally hear this kids conversation and everyone is like wtf. It was certainly the craziest thing I have ever seen in the gym.

[Syringemouth]

Seems like to me if you folks spent as much time lifting as you do watching the "Freaks" on the other side of the gym, you would be huge. You there to "people watch" or train?
Geeez!


Whatever!

[Big Wides]

someone dressed in a bright red jumpsuit (like fire engine red, matching jacket and pants).....looks like the person is auditioning for a part as Speed Racer

- shadow boxing infront of a mirror while standing over a 405 deadlift on the ground that was left there

- preforming a whole routine without using your hands (dont know how the dude does it)

[Toni69]

someone dressed in a bright red jumpsuit (like fire engine red, matching jacket and pants).....looks like the person is auditioning for a part as Speed Racer

- shadow boxing infront of a mirror while standing over a 405 deadlift on the ground that was left there

- preforming a whole routine without using your hands (dont know how the dude does it)

OMG! This guy is at my gym too! ROFL!!!!

I have this other guy who doesnt really lift..he just comes in to stretch...he wears short ass loose shorts and he puts his leg up everywhere and anywhere he can and you can see right up his shorts! Its like a dam car wreck...you have to friggin stare! Its gross but dam hilarious! UGH! I just got the chills thinking about it! Nasty!

[ThirdEye]

When your resting between your sets, your eyes will wander.....and its hard not to notice a person standing on top of a lat tower, and busting out ricky martin dance moves near the cable cross overs.

Lol, i see a lot of guys 'living la vida loca' when ON the cables. What is it with crossovers that can bring out the worst in people, sometimes it goes beyond bad form and into bad breakdancing.

[aussie bulk]

I've got my fair share of 'wtf' style guys doing God knows what excercises, however the king is the guy I call the Pikey-

the pikey comes into the gym smashed on methamphetimines and was barred from another gym for hitting another gym member. This guy is to be steered clear of at all times, but it's hard because he carries 3 towels and drapes them over pieces of equipment at his own leisure even though he may be 20minutes away from getting around to using it.

One time a guy did remove his magic towel while the pikey was doing DB front raises. The pikey threw one db INTO A MIRROR and threatened to kill the other guy.....

Welcome to Dickhead land!

[Brick By Brick]

This was a while ago, but it was funny to me. I'm sitting there on the calf raise machine in between sets, minding my own business, when I hear this gut-wrenching howl. There's a guy who used to go to the little gym in my little town religiously, almost every day. He's doing lat pull downs with maybe 100 lbs. Screaming and yelling. I find this odd because he's pulling the same weight I pull for lats, and I'm only a 32 year old woman, not a beast by any means. Just doing the weights to supplement hockey. But he was really getting after it. Plus, he wore a black and grey spandex outfit every day that said "Pit Bull Gym" on it. I never could figure that out.

[g0dzg1ftt]

We have a few regulars at our gym that are just hilarious, i know it is not good to laugh at people but if people act a fool i have to laugh.

Guy 1 [Hero]: We have one guy me and my mate call him [Hero] this guy is quite huge and has the biggest belly ever. He comes in and pushes like 60 kg on bench and screams in pain. He screams so loud everyone runs to the machine to see whats happened and they realize its Hero. He then after doing like 4 sets in total takes off his super small vest and and walks around wiping his sweat, when your not supposed to be doing that. LOL

Guy 2 [Rambo]: This guy is actually quite cool but funny as hell, hes big and old as well you can see he has been in the weights game for years. Everytime he comes he brings in this CD player with a wireless transmitter and wireless headphones receiver, and like 3 km of wires and sets it up and walks around with the biggest headphones and starts doing hand 3 kg curls.

We have so many jokers like this in the gym, its not easy trying to concentrate

[Gymrat1944]

I saw this guy once who looked arab and he had his hair slicked back. He did a few reps on flat bench then went to where he left his bag which was next to the DB rack. This girl was just finishing a set so he put on sunglasses and started hitting on her. She had an ipod on so she turned away like she didn't hear him. This didn't stop the guy, he kept trying to hit on her when I noticed she reached down and turned her volume up. I almost always keep my head down when I'm not doing reps but I was so glad I saw this. Made my day and I almost pissed myself I was laughing so hard.

[IronWilson]

Theres probably one of these in every gym....

Theres this guy that always puts 70 lbs. on a barbell....ON THE FUCKING SQUATRACK!!! (nonetheless).....And then proceeds to lift it, his upper body goes backwards completely parallel to the floor while he standing on his tiptoes. When this guy walks in, everyone in the weightroom stops..... and just watches him. Hes a legend at the gym. He does every exercise with the worst form but his curl is the worst.

Theres also this guy with really bad curl form that always dresses like Rambo, red headband and all.

[ChandlerXJ]

Stupidest thing I saw was one guy doing leg presses... IN A SMITH MACHINE... it was genius. The gym had no leg press...

oh wait... that was ME.

IMPROVISE.

[harperpj]

I was working out at my old school, and this kid was doing incline presses. as i walked by i looked and saw him psyching up to do a set, i then noticed that he had a plate and a 25 on one side, and just a plate on the other side. since he was getting ready for his set and obviously had no clue i figured i would be nice and let him know. this little fucker looks up at me, doesnt miss a beat, and says "yeah i know, im trying something new." i couldnt help but laugh. smartass lol.

[ned]

Seems like to me if you folks spent as much time lifting as you do watching the "Freaks" on the other side of the gym, you would be huge. You there to "people watch" or train?
Geeez!

Dude, if you aint got time to notice a fuckwad doing something obveous then you should get out of here. I know your looking for info, but what are you doing reading a thread with this title if you are so freaking busy?

[Jimmy]

another classic cell phone story

so i see this guy doin hack squats. he's got 1 plate on each side and of course hes going down about halfway. pretty normal so far. well i walk back to go get some water and here he is on his cell phone squatin away. one hand holdin the phone the other on the handle. he carries on like a 3 minute convo whilst doin half hack squats. some people just dont want results.....

[spanish.iron]

I was working out at my old school, and this kid was doing incline presses. as i walked by i looked and saw him psyching up to do a set, i then noticed that he had a plate and a 25 on one side, and just a plate on the other side. since he was getting ready for his set and obviously had no clue i figured i would be nice and let him know. this little fucker looks up at me, doesnt miss a beat, and says "yeah i know, im trying something new." i couldnt help but laugh. smartass lol.

HAHA that's awesome...maybe he had the ever-popular "bigger right arm" syndrome.

[RogueLion]

I have had many moments of my own, but the most recent was when I was spotting this really hot guy on skullcrushers right. I was wearing my favorite, oldest sweats that just hung off my hips. they were washed so many times, you can practically see through them, but I love 'em. They barely stay on if it wasn't for this drawstring in the front that is all torn up..but it holds my pants up.

Anyway...I hand him the weight and he grabbed my string...well...the string pulls out and he begins his set..I tell him to wait, (I am laughing now as I type this, so excuse any typos), he can't wait cause he started his set and its dam heavy too.

He pulls my string all the way out of my pants and my pants fall down to the floor and there I am standing there with my goddam pants at my ankles and thank God I was wearing one of my sexiest thongs because I would have been doubly embarrassed if I wasn't.

This guy has no freaking clue what has happened so I bend down to pick up my pants...I get up and see the reflection of the whole gym staring at my ass behind me. Meanwhile I am holding up my pants and this dude is still doing his set.

Can you believe that!


Thats the hottest thing i've ever read on the forvm. Thanks!

[spanish.iron]

Thats the hottest thing i've ever read on the forvm. Thanks!

I really hope she takes that as a compliment. She's scary when she's angry lol. (I gotta say though, Toni, that is the funniest/best story in this whole thread by far)

[Toni69]

Yea...well it wasnt funny at first, I was sooooo embarrased cause these guys were behind me on cables and all you heard were the weights slam and that friggin dude was still doing his skulls for like 15 reps! With my string just attached in his grip and Im standing there holding my pants at my waist. I still have those pants too! LOL

He just dropped the weight when he was done, I grabbed my string and ran to the bathroom! LOL

These freak accidents always happen to me!! LOL

[spanish.iron]

Yea...well it wasnt funny at first, I was sooooo embarrased cause these guys were behind me on cables and all you heard were the weights slam and that friggin dude was still doing his skulls for like 15 reps! With my string just attached in his grip and Im standing there holding my pants at my waist. I still have those pants too! LOL

He just dropped the weight when he was done, I grabbed my string and ran to the bathroom! LOL

These freak accidents always happen to me!! LOL

I feel for you lol. those 15 reps must've felt like forever, waiting there for him to let go of it hahaha. I just can't believe he didn't notice anything wrong...how do you not notice a string dangling from your grip while doing skull crushers?

[DEVILMAN40K]

If any one here watches Adult Swim and has seen the Venture Brothers show, and knows of the character Brock Samson. There is a guy at my gym who looks just like him!!! Big jacked muscle freak, super tiny legs, long curly blonde mullet, and has a deep voice like him!!

[Maharg]

If any one here watches Adult Swim and has seen the Venture Brothers show, and knows of the character Brock Samson. There is a guy at my gym who looks just like him!!! Big jacked muscle freak, super tiny legs, long curly blonde mullet, and has a deep voice like him!!

I'm not gonna lie that is awesome. I always wondered if there was someone like that just cause i wondered if their legs could support their upper body.

[RogueLion]

Yea...well it wasnt funny at first, I was sooooo embarrased cause these guys were behind me on cables and all you heard were the weights slam and that friggin dude was still doing his skulls for like 15 reps! With my string just attached in his grip and Im standing there holding my pants at my waist. I still have those pants too! LOL

He just dropped the weight when he was done, I grabbed my string and ran to the bathroom! LOL

These freak accidents always happen to me!! LOL

Haha i'm glad you could laugh it off. I stand by my comment though!!! Jk

Peace.

PS if i ever see you at an animal event i'll bring you some new sweats!

[ANDROTAZ]

Me, also. I was finishing up my shoulder workout, and I was feeling pretty good, so I decide to end it with a drop set of smith machine front presses. I loaded up the plates, and went over to a guy who I don't really know, but he's a reliable spot. Without thinking, I said, "hey, would you mind going over to that smith machine and strip for me?" It took a few seconds for the meaning of my request to kick in, but until then his facial expression was priceless! It was somewhere in between "something smells in here", and "this guy has no eyelids!"

That's fucking hilarious, and your screen name kicks ass.

[slainte151]

Funniest thing so far was something I did.........It was only a couple of weeks ago. I'm on leg day and doing some stretching before I start. I usually end by laying on an exercise ball to stretch out my back. That day I couldn't find the exercise ball I usually use so I went looking for one. It's 6:00 in the morning and the aerobic room next door is pitch black. I can see the outline of a exercise ball in there from the light in the gym. I walk in there and here some kind of weird hindu music playing real softly. Me being a dumb ass say really loudly, "What in the FLYING FUCK is going on in here!" I hear a few giggles and see that there is a yoga class going on not 10 feet from me. I turned and walked straight out. OOPPS!

funniest thing i heard all day

[foxhoundbb]

Well this just happened today. I went to the gym today freaking pumped cause it was back day (my favor day) well anyways it was pretty packed with the new years rush members (already starting :( ) well im about to start my deadlifts when i notice everyone rushing to this new member DOING MAGIC TRICKS IN THE GYM!!!! LMAO I couldnt believe it. He had everyone around him in oohs and ahs. All I did was look back, laugh to myself, and pulled down my Animal skull cap and go to work. It gets even funnier, everytime I would go down of course the plates would cause a loud bang. Well after I was done with my second set I look back and notice that the some people from the group are dogging me! LMAO sorry that me doing dead lifts and grunting a little is distracting u from your little magic show lmao!! But honestly I hope that guy comes back tomorrow for an encore, I like having the gym all to myself lol :)

[hayden_28]

this happened a few months ago when i had work experience, i was working with a physiotherapitist and he took a bunch of old couples over to a gym. he got them started on bikes and treadmills. after spending about 5 minutes on a machine the physio tells them to swap machine. but this one old guy didnt no how to stop the machine, he thought it did it automatically, so he just stood there while he got flung off the back.

[FAO]

Just recently joined a new gym. I was used to all the old idiots at my old gym, and still havent got used to the new idiots at the new gym. Everyday I still am seeing new stuff, pretty flippin amazing. This takes the cake.
So Im doing BB shrugs on the smith in front of the mirror, and look behind me at the flat bench, basically have to stop. There is an old dude, about 50 or so, sitting straddling the bench facing the wrong way. Any way, he has the barbell on his shoulders with 35s on each side, just like doing squats, only sitting down. All he was doing was TWISTING back and forth 180 degrees, so the bar was parralel with the bench each twist. And his huge belly was sticking out, so no way his spine was even close to being straight. All it was was copressing his spine and the twisting it. Anybody ever seen this? It was fuckin incredible! He would twist about 10 times, THEN, do little hops twards the top of the bench and set the weight back on the rack only using his lower back. Seriously, dude did 3 sets. Every time he started I had to stop and just watch. I think the whole gym did too. Havent seen him since, hes probably in the hospital. If i do see this again, I'm gonna get my phone out of my locker and film it and post here...WOW

[McKnife]

one of the stupidest thing I ever have seen in the gym is this guy who was doin some kind of power clean with almost 2 plates on but barely had the capacity to do it. dunno what he was really doin, probably trying to emulate some kind of a movement, looking like a salad sheet under a ton of weight... then this guy walk up to me while I was doin some deads with 405 for a warm up set then manage to tell me : dunno if you know it but that's kind of heavy....

[ldskenpo]

seen a guy once doing skullcrushers by attempting to crush his skull- he would lower the weight at a speed that when the bar HIT his forehead you could hear it from 15 feet away. I am serious- thump-1-thump-2-thump-3-thump-etc
Robert

[legendarywildman]

There was this guy i was training hes never benched more that 70lbs been in the gym like 2 weeks one day he came late and me and one of my training partners had started on the second set warm up set we had on 2 35 lbs a side 140 lbs the guy comes after my partner came out and went staight in and put in a comfortable 20reps as i said never benched more than 70 lbs and even with 70 lbs the guy starts to fade at 12reps so he reps out 140 lbs and i said u know that was 140 right he's in shock genuine shock he thought it was 70lbs then next set he only gets 6 all of a sudden it seems heavy to him.Lol.Anyhow i'm pleased to say after he trained a couple months hes closer to 200lbs now.

[digitalbeast]

That is pretty funny. The game is VERY mental, he should have never looked. Sometimes weight looks a lot heavier than it actually is.

[spanish.iron]

That's ridiculous. My friend had a similar story but not as crazy lol. He used to train with his dad a lot and when doing bench he would sometimes go and get a sip of water. While he was gone his dad would toss on another 5 lbs per side. So after gettin his sip of water he'd just sit on the bench, slide under the bar and maybe get 1 more rep than he expected. Then, to add to his surprise his dad would tell him about the extra 10 lbs he pushed.

[BrotherInArms]

More sad than funny..

Saw a man drop three plates as he took off the plates on only one side and the bar swung the opposite way.

[legendarywildman]

the tricky thing about that guy is hes alot stronger than he realizes i remember we were deadlifting he hadn't trained in a while last time he was in there he did like 80lbs when i taught him the ropes. A year later the guys were at 200 and going up i asked him if he wanted us to pull some of the weight.He said no i'll try it this is the same week he did the benching thing 10 reps comfortable and he went up to 250 got 8 i stopped at 340 that day but he didn't want to go that high i know he has the potential tobe very strong maybe even stronger than i am, just doesn't have the heart hes around 240lbs 5'11.Meanwhile i'm 210lbs 5'10 play other sports so can't be too heavy all the time running and sudden stops not to good for the knees but its pretty funny when i get on the field and guys say who is that guy.

[killyouintheface]

I'm gonna use a little pictorial setup just so that we all are on the same page.

I was talking to a buddy at the gym between workouts when I saw a guy standing at one of those cable shoulder press machines. The machine didn't look exactly like this one (http://www.pro-fitness.com/photos/shoulder_press_machine.jpg), but it's close enough.

Anyway, so the guy climbs up to stand on the seat of the machine, facing back, and while he's balanced on the pinhead of the seat, he grabs the handles and starts shrugging. There is a whole row of benches and barbells behind him. Dumbbells up to 180 lbs behind that, and about 15 yards to the right there's one of those combo deadlift/shrug boxes.

After two sets, he climbs down (short little dude), takes a swig out of his gallon water jug, and leaves.

It was funny, but it was also pretty amazing in that he managed to do all that without breaking his fool neck. No wonder most of the stuff at my gym is falling apart.

[PrometheusCon]

More sad than funny..

Saw a man drop three plates as he took off the plates on only one side and the bar swung the opposite way.

Ha. I have yet to see that, but I know I'm reaaaaly careful when I take off weights.

[DreamZero]

Skinny dude.. he looks about 18-20 y/o.. everything he does is seal pushups, rubber tube curls (like 80 reps) and rubber tube trunk twists.. and just like killyouintheface's gym, about 6 feet away, there's a god damn 30 yards wall with more dumbbells than you can dream of.. oh I almost forgot.. between his rubber sets, he does some kind of tai chi routine.. he creeps the sh*t out of me everytime.

[RenegadeRows]

similar story... This one fat highschool kid and his girlfriend come into the gym because they want to "tour" the place. They got some kind of a complementary pass or some shit... Anyhow...the dude wants to impress his chick (who could care less about being in the gym and is on her cellphone). So he slaps on a 45lb plate on each side of a bench and does around 6-7 good reps...cool... then he comes to me with his chin held high and starts to ask me how much weight he did...I guess the cocky SOB wanted everyone to know he could do 135lb bench...I pretend I cant hear him because of my ipod, so he goes over to his bench and says hmm....135....he slaps on 2 more plates on each side... 315...he unracks it and the shit falls flat on his freakin chest... all this to impress his girl...she didnt even care...kept chatting on her cellphone... I dropped my DBs (was doing DB curls) and helped him rerack the thing...there was only me, him, and a dude that was about 50 but ripped as hell there....the kid looked in a daze...he was like "yeah I did that yesterday so my chest is sore" he and his girl took off and we never saw em again...me and the old fart that were there laughed our asses off when the kid left.

[LegendKillerJosh]

similar story... This one fat highschool kid and his girlfriend come into the gym because they want to "tour" the place. They got some kind of a complementary pass or some shit... Anyhow...the dude wants to impress his chick (who could care less about being in the gym and is on her cellphone). So he slaps on a 45lb plate on each side of a bench and does around 6-7 good reps...cool... then he comes to me with his chin held high and starts to ask me how much weight he did...I guess the cocky SOB wanted everyone to know he could do 135lb bench...I pretend I cant hear him because of my ipod, so he goes over to his bench and says hmm....135....he slaps on 2 more plates on each side... 315...he unracks it and the shit falls flat on his freakin chest... all this to impress his girl...she didnt even care...kept chatting on her cellphone... I dropped my DBs (was doing DB curls) and helped him rerack the thing...there was only me, him, and a dude that was about 50 but ripped as hell there....the kid looked in a daze...he was like "yeah I did that yesterday so my chest is sore" he and his girl took off and we never saw em again...me and the old fart that were there laughed our asses off when the kid left.

hahaha. People need to realize something - you look better using a lighter weights but cranking out perfect reps rather than trying to look cooler by using heavy weights and using shitty form.

[Gambit]

It was in the middle of leg day, and some guys I knew were working chest. I can't even remember the weight, but this one guy, Tony, struggles to get up his last rep on the bench. He stands up just pissed off, ready to kill something, and he grabs the bar and WHOSH, curls it. Me and his lifting buddy looked at each other like, are you freakin' serious?!

[firsthorseman97]

One time I was waiting to use the decline. The guy using it had just did a set of 225 for about 6 reps. he tells me he has one set left. About that time the lil' hottie working there came in so he hurried up and loaded the bar with 315 and sat on the decline. She came over and he talked to her for about five minutes. When she walked away, he un-racked it and said "it was all mine." That jackass didn't even crawl under it.

[minime_moomey]

One time I was waiting to use the decline. The guy using it had just did a set of 225 for about 6 reps. he tells me he has one set left. About that time the lil' hottie working there came in so he hurried up and loaded the bar with 315 and sat on the decline. She came over and he talked to her for about five minutes. When she walked away, he un-racked it and said "it was all mine." That jackass didn't even crawl under it.

These have all been funny, but this one made me laugh out loud. That is hilarious. "It was all mine" OMG priceless

[Toni69]

prob the funnies shit I saw...sctually I did in the gym, was one day, I was bending down getting something from my gym bag which lay in a corner by the squat rack. Of course I had all this shit in my bag and couldnt find what I wanted and was rummaging through my bag like a mad woman. I saw in the corner of my eye this guy in the squat rack and I looked up at him and he was just gorgeous and well muscled...

So, of course, I tried to act cool and when I stood up I forgot the bar was right there sticking out from the end of the rack and when I got up and turned I slammed my head right into the edge of that bar. All you heard was a big clank and I literally bounced off of it into the wall behind me and then lost my balance and landed on my ass right on top of my gym bag!

The guy came running over to me and helped me up and asked if I was ok..I was so embarrassed and I actually had a bump on my forehead! God did I feel like an idiot!

[Carpe Diem P.T]

prob the funnies shit I saw...sctually I did in the gym, was one day, I was bending down getting something from my gym bag which lay in a corner by the squat rack. Of course I had all this shit in my bag and couldnt find what I wanted and was rummaging through my bag like a mad woman. I saw in the corner of my eye this guy in the squat rack and I looked up at him and he was just gorgeous and well muscled...

So, of course, I tried to act cool and when I stood up I forgot the bar was right there sticking out from the end of the rack and when I got up and turned I slammed my head right into the edge of that bar. All you heard was a big clank and I literally bounced off of it into the wall behind me and then lost my balance and landed on my ass right on top of my gym bag!

The guy came running over to me and helped me up and asked if I was ok..I was so embarrassed and I actually had a bump on my forehead! God did I feel like an idiot!

lol i fall off the decline bench machine constantly but yours would have hurt! physically and your pride.

[scals17]

One time I was waiting to use the decline. The guy using it had just did a set of 225 for about 6 reps. he tells me he has one set left. About that time the lil' hottie working there came in so he hurried up and loaded the bar with 315 and sat on the decline. She came over and he talked to her for about five minutes. When she walked away, he un-racked it and said "it was all mine." That jackass didn't even crawl under it.

You gotta love these morons

[BigPoppaPitch]

I've seen somebody use a weight belt (with a plate and a quarter) on the ASSISTED dip machine....I think I win. =P

Oh, I've also seen an older gentleman fall asleep on a cable military press in between sets, but I think the weighted belt on assisted dips takes the cake.

[brandona]

More sad than funny..

Saw a man drop three plates as he took off the plates on only one side and the bar swung the opposite way.

used to happen all the time in highschool, we had the really old school benches with the standard really narrow, you would set your grip on the out side of them, you had to be really carefull cause that bar would fly, and if you were in the wrong place and it wacked you in the jaw....ouch....

saw a kid drop a 100# plate on his foot.....splat!!! he was never right after that..

-B

[Thetasteofink69]

I saw a girl almost get crushed by a leg press once.. Well the emergency stop would've saved her.. But it was still amusing to watch..

These two chicks and there three abercrombie boyfriends came in to have a little social event in the gym.. They were hopping from machine to machine when the blonde got on the leg press..

Without even looking at how much weight was already on, she releases the catch and starts to do a rep.. She does half a rep and then goes to push it back up.. But it just keeps getting closer.. At which point her boy toys run over and start to push it back up... Still kept getting closer to her..

Even though it was obviously just a split second thing, you could tell they started to panic.. Which was when a guy walks over to them, strips the plates off, glares at them for a second and walks away..

They left shortly after that..

[fatboystick]

Not really, but it caught your attention right?...lol. Anyway, this happened to me the other day. I had just finished doing my "Heavy" set of decline bench right, well, i had just gone up 10 lbs AND did two more reps than i expected. So, me in all my glory and damn proud of myself, spring up like catapult and WHAM, yep...nailed my head right on the bar (I've still not learned that the clearance is not of that of regular bench...lol). Sooo, i get to work (and by the way, i shave my head) and my co-worker asks me if i had lost a battle with the razor blade this morning. Well, me being Mr. Honest cant just say yes and go on with life, i tell her exactly what happened. She proceeds to laugh so hard at the story and the road rash on the top of my head, that she spewed up some pepsi or whatever the hell she was drinking. Anyway, thats my story and im sticking to it!

[smith06]

I always get a kick outta guys who turn the grunts on when a girl walks in. It's one thing if you're only benching 20 lb. DB's but to grunt when you're doing it is ridiculous.

[stumblin54]

I have a headache from reading that, and am a little out of breath..

Stumblin

[MassMan]

This kid that weighs ~120lb comes into the weightroom after school and started doing Db bicep curls. 30 minutes passes by and he is still doing bicep curls ( probably got 4 sets done) and in comes these soccer chicks, and he decides to impress them by attempting to curl 50's. He unracks the DB's and starts to row them. The chicks see this and start to laugh. Needless to say, his ego gives way and he drops the dumbbells on his feet!! I was trying so hard not to laugh, but couldn't help it. So, long story short, I carried him to the trainer and he hasn't been in the weightroom since.

[Jala_B]

I saw a girl almost get crushed by a leg press once.. Well the emergency stop would've saved her.. But it was still amusing to watch..

These two chicks and there three abercrombie boyfriends came in to have a little social event in the gym.. They were hopping from machine to machine when the blonde got on the leg press..

Without even looking at how much weight was already on, she releases the catch and starts to do a rep.. She does half a rep and then goes to push it back up.. But it just keeps getting closer.. At which point her boy toys run over and start to push it back up... Still kept getting closer to her..

Even though it was obviously just a split second thing, you could tell they started to panic.. Which was when a guy walks over to them, strips the plates off, glares at them for a second and walks away..

They left shortly after that..


This one I can relate to the most...

This poor kid who was about 14 (and bigger than me) decided to try the leg press, it had 200 lbs on it. Got it down to his chest, and had to roll out. I went over and asked if he needed help. He looked at me kinda sheepishly and said, "yeah". So I got in there (an advantage of being short!), and racked it up. I felt bad though, because his buddies were watching the whole thing from across the room.

[Thetasteofink69]

There was another time when there's girls came in on a scavenger hunt..

They just walked in the gym without saying a word and started walking on a treadmill and taking pictures..

One was wearing this halloween mask with like crazy hair and blood running down the front and stuff..

[prowrestler]

so i was training my girlfriend for the first leg day. noramlly i would leave her on the treadmill while i trained, shower, then pick her up when i am ready to go but that day was different. she trained with me. so, as i squated, she did leg presses. i finished my squats and wanted to do a set of leg presses. i load up the leg press and bust my ass. i went to get a drink at the water fountain. i came back and see my grilfriend with her kness in her shoulders and shes like " i think its heavier" i am dying of laughter and soon unrack the sled.
i say " i wonder how that happened"?

[jonnydunz]

i was working out yesterday and here comes this dude who does not have a clue on working out.nothing he did was going to build any muscle what so ever. all he could have done was get himself real tired. man he was doing these crazy as tri pushdown which were all wrong and outta control. he was making a whole bunch of noise as well. he did some crazy behind tris kickback that looked like he was going to snatch his arm off. i felt bad for the dude and i wanted to say something because that aggrevates the hell out of me when someone comes in the gym and they don't really respect the life. they are playing around and i just want to tell them to stop what they are doing and learn to do it right so that they dont get hurt. peace.

[BrotherInArms]

A kid, in preparation for a bench press contest that we run at our gym, is now benching --get this-- five times a week. Dude.

[jonnydunz]

A kid, in preparation for a bench press contest that we run at our gym, is now benching --get this-- five times a week. Dude.

thats funny as hell.lol DUDE

[Nihility]

this sounds like it isnt true.. but it is.

i get on a treadmill, ready to do a quick 5 minute warmup before i lift, and the guy next to me (on the farthest treadmill to the right) is running with his EYES CLOSED (he had about 7 miles on his meter thing on the treadmill i guess he was trying to concentrate and press out the last mile or something) with headphones on and music pumping.


now, he starts going to the right a bit... more to the right...more to the right... jogging at like 5 mph


jogs OFF the treadmill, and straight into the WALL... BAM big fuckin face sized hole.
his face was PRICELESS.

FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. EVER.

i laughed so hard i was literally crying

(he laughed too)

[50deuce]

so im in iraq and this bigger guy, around 240-250 5'8'' is down in the gym runnin on the eliptical for 20 min, then he gets on the scale and weighs himself, then he runs on the tredmill for 20 min, then he gets on the scale and weighs himself, then he does about 30 pushup and 30 situps and is completley covered in sweat, so he leaves, about 30 min later i finish my workout and i go to leave and i see him walkin out of the mess hall with no shit a bowl with 4 big scoops of ice cream and 2 cans of pepsi, i couldent even say anything i jus laughed for about an hour

[Arnold Is Numero Uno]

people using terrible form is the stupidest thing I've seen in the gym...that will only lead to an injury....it's not about the weight you use, it's about the feel you get

[krazyassmexican]

so im in iraq and this bigger guy, around 240-250 5'8'' is down in the gym runnin on the eliptical for 20 min, then he gets on the scale and weighs himself, then he runs on the tredmill for 20 min, then he gets on the scale and weighs himself, then he does about 30 pushup and 30 situps and is completley covered in sweat, so he leaves, about 30 min later i finish my workout and i go to leave and i see him walkin out of the mess hall with no shit a bowl with 4 big scoops of ice cream and 2 cans of pepsi, i couldent even say anything i jus laughed for about an hour

now that was fucked up

the stupidest thing i saw this week was a way deadlifting while standing on a flat bench, and some new shrug

you gotta jump to impulse your shrug and just do 3 reps (lol)

[Variable]

Ive heard one similar called ELS. (exagurated lat symdrome)

-SiSu

ILS imaginary lat syndrome

[shizz702]

One of the worst things I saw at a local gym was where tow out of shape teens were taking up a squat rack and doing some kind of wierd reverse crunch variation in it. They had the barbell racked on the lower pins where one could do bench presses off of if the had a bench there, but what they were doing was laying on the floor while grabbing ahold of the barbell and doing leg raises from side to side. It was one of the most pathetic things I'd ever seen. What's worst was they progressively added weight to the bar and didn't even unrack it! Fucking people I tell ya!

[Cstlfx]

One of the worst things I saw at a local gym was where tow out of shape teens were taking up a squat rack and doing some kind of wierd reverse crunch variation in it. They had the barbell racked on the lower pins where one could do bench presses off of if the had a bench there, but what they were doing was laying on the floor while grabbing ahold of the barbell and doing leg raises from side to side. It was one of the most pathetic things I'd ever seen. What's worst was they progressively added weight to the bar and didn't even unrack it! Fucking