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sinister1
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07-26-2009, 07:16 AM
Post subject: Adventures in the gym
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Straight
Join Date: May 2008
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Jyms posted a vid in the Youtube thread that got me thinking of all the stuff I have seen in the gym and inspired me to start this thread. Please post all weird/funny/crazy stories from your experiences at the gym. I will start it off with a few.
I am at my college gym early on a Saturday, clearly not prime town for most students. The place is a ghost town, in fact I am the only person in the weight room until this guy walks in with his girlfriend. I notice him packing on a great deal of weight onto a bar for a bench press. Naturally he asks me for a spot since I am the only other guy in there and he is about to try and bench close to 300lbs. Did I mention he is a 5'4 and 140lbs?? Obv trying to impress the girlfriend. I come over for the spot and pray that this guy is at least 1/2 as strong as he thinks he is. The 1 rep max out is essentially a 2 man effort with him pushing with all his might and me pulling we barely manage to get the bar back up. He gets up from the bench without saying a word, fist pumps, grabs his girl and leaves.
A guy is benching 55lb dumbbells and gets worn out at the peak of his final rep and drops one of them on his chest. Clearly in pain and wind knocked out of him as everyone stares in horror he gasps "I'm okay, I'm okay."
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wufwugy
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Never lifted in a gym, only in backyard. One time a nub joined us, about half way through he was doing curls and asked me which muscle group curls worked more: the biceps or the pecs? I couldn't stop laughing. He decided to never lift with us again which was okay since he was a pussy
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jyms
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Watched a guy knock himself out cold on the set right after I told him not to do pull downs behind the neck. He saw me doing pull downs and told me they are better if you do them that way and I explained why they weren't but he did it anyway, the pin slipped out of the stack because he was throwing the weight around and doing some funky convulsion trying to yank the bar and hit himself right in the back of the head. He was unconscious for long enough people thought he was dead.
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givememyleg
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this one time i was working out, was some hot girl, she flirted with me, then nothing happened
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A few weeks ago 5 of the 14 televisions in the cardio section of the gym were on the FOOD NETWORK, wtf.
There's an older guy that is pretty buff for his age. Anyway, he always wears bike shorts, tank-top, and bandanna. He has this gigantic headset from the early 90's (the ones with the antenna on the ear), and he walks around strumming his air guitar between sets to get himself jacked up.
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Straight
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Iso'ing Iso's
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I just go to the gym to stand around naked in the locker room in positions that make other people extremely uncomfortable.
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a500lbgorilla
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JESUS TAKE THE KEYBOARD
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: This room is a good place to be
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I just go to the gym hoping someone's doing just that.
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Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
Precisely.
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Hawk
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Flush
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 367
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Since we are sharing workout stories, I'll share the only one I remember.
When I was in high school I was in PE class and had to run.
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Ragnar4
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Full House
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Billings, Montana
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I decided to work out with a guy who had been a Marine Force Recon for 3 years. That was retarded. The first part was that he pushed waaaay too hard for me being someone who had no clue what he was doing, I got past that (even though I probably should have broken something, or several things)
The other problem was that he wanted to lift for like 3 hours every night, the guy was stacked and I would have loved even being half as fit as him but good lord I didn't have time in college for 3 hours every night on top of studies and on top of speech/debate... When I finally told him I had other shit that had to take presedence and that I could work out every other night for like 1-2 hours max, it was like I was breaking up with a goddamn girlfriend.
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here? 
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wufwugy
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Originally Posted by Ragnar4
I decided to work out with a guy who had been a Marine Force Recon for 3 years. That was retarded. The first part was that he pushed waaaay too hard for me being someone who had no clue what he was doing, I got past that (even though I probably should have broken something, or several things)
The other problem was that he wanted to lift for like 3 hours every night, the guy was stacked and I would have loved even being half as fit as him but good lord I didn't have time in college for 3 hours every night on top of studies and on top of speech/debate... When I finally told him I had other shit that had to take presedence and that I could work out every other night for like 1-2 hours max, it was like I was breaking up with a goddamn girlfriend.
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LOL
FWIW, he didn't know exactly what he's doing, you can get jacked on 5 hours a week. Just sayin...
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Lukie
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: back with a vengeance
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basically, somebody doing lifts properly or a quality routine stands out more to me than the stupid shit I see people doing at the gym on a regular basis.
I've pretty much become immune to groups of friends seeing how much weight they can bounce of their chests, the Mon-Fri Chest/biceps routines, people not racking their fucking weights, and just generally being miserable and/or stupid people.
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jjbish
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Funny, Bad, but true.
I was doing dumbell shrugs with 110# db's. After a few reps I get them a lil too close together and CRUNCH.
Yikes.
Got the tip of the ole wang crunched between them. Calmly put them down, got my stuff and left.
Screammed like a banshee when I got into car and had a blood blister for a week. Of course my wife was frisky that nite too. obv!
Best of someone else mishap:
Was at the squat racks and one of the local, too full of himself, juice monkeys (no issue w/juice, but he's an ass) started squats with one of his fugly girl friend there. About 5 sets in he bottemed out and crapped himself. And it was not all contained by his shorts. Was really gross, but still funny even as I write this.
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Crusher10
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Join Date: May 2009
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I did like 15 minutes of cycling. Then i went out for a smoke. Oh i so love the gym!
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wufwugy
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: May 2006
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I would like to say that I have never in my entire life done shrugs. The closest would be snatch or clean pulls
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yourfather
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Full House
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Location: In your fridge
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I worked at the gym in college. This girl was doing the hip abductor machine or w/e the pussy machine is. She left period blood on the seat.
I now work out at a pretty ghetto gym and thsi chick works out there and often wears a fanny pack:
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Irisheyes
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Originally Posted by givememyleg
this one time i was working out, was some hot girl, she flirted with me, then nothing happened
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.....Lukie?
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bigred
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Originally Posted by Irisheyes
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Originally Posted by givememyleg
this one time i was working out, was some hot girl, she flirted with me, then nothing happened
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.....Lukie? |
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