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Title: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on December 08, 2008, 06:35:03 PM
Prolapsed bowel? Broken bones? Shit-stained spandex? Chicks with armpit hair?

Share your story.
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Post by: baker on December 08, 2008, 06:36:45 PM
I saw a guy have a heart attack.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on December 08, 2008, 06:38:58 PM
I saw a guy have a heart attack.
really? Did he expire?
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Post by: baker on December 08, 2008, 06:41:28 PM
really? Did he expire?

No he made it. No more Ripped Fuel for him though.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on December 08, 2008, 06:49:30 PM
Old guy or youg guy?

No other stories Bet Biggers? No torn muscles? Blood?
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 08, 2008, 06:51:11 PM
A guy using the squat rack to spot himself on barbell curls.
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Post by: Noel Fuller on December 08, 2008, 07:05:42 PM
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Post by: Soundness on December 08, 2008, 07:09:49 PM
When a person is exhausted, and they go to the restroom to take a leak, then they piss in the toilet and flush the piss.  ::)
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: wes mantooth on December 08, 2008, 09:13:48 PM
worked at a gym when I was younger......saw:

1) an old man (65-70) sitting on the bench in the locker room indian style nude reading the paper FACING the entrance door.....


2) another old man with his leg up on the sink counter top drying his old balls with a hair dryer!!! LOL.....

3) old woman yelling help as she hung onto the treadmill console dragging her legs with the tread going about 4MPH....
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on December 09, 2008, 04:18:40 AM
I've seen an old mad using the hair dryer to dry his ball sack.

I've also seen several nude men in the suana or whirlpool together. Conversing like everything is absolutley normal.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: WillGrant on December 09, 2008, 04:23:58 AM
Idiots trying to stand and balance on swiss balls.
When they ass up , which they most always do you can here the air pushed out of them...great stuff  ;D
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: UNDERCOVER on December 09, 2008, 04:48:07 AM
seen a guy die just after doing a set of rows with 160's. NOT NICE.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: DK II on December 09, 2008, 04:55:26 AM
A guy using the squat rack to spot himself on barbell curls.

spot on.  ;D

seen a guy die just after doing a set of rows with 160's. NOT NICE.


Not a getbigger.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Method101 on December 09, 2008, 05:00:30 AM
I saw a guy nearly decapitate himself after a bad liftoff with 315lbs on the bench press. He was sucking air in like a vacuum cleaner for the next 10 minutes before the ambulance arrived lol.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: DK II on December 09, 2008, 05:03:44 AM
I saw a guy nearly decapitate himself after a bad liftoff with 315lbs on the bench press. He was sucking air in like a vacuum cleaner for the next 10 minutes before the ambulance arrived lol.

let me guess, no thumbs?

Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Method101 on December 09, 2008, 05:06:20 AM
let me guess, no thumbs?


his arms gave out and the bar went straight down full speed, his thumbs were wrapped around the bar. I think the spotter let the bar go before he was expecting the full weight, ide seen him do 8 reps with it before.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 09, 2008, 05:06:22 AM
let me guess, no thumbs?



hahaha, monkey presses!
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Post by: mazrim on December 09, 2008, 05:21:41 AM
50 year old group of men that wear biker/spandex pants every time they come.
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Post by: SaltShaker on December 09, 2008, 05:37:25 AM
me tearing my left bicep doing preacher curls
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Post by: DK II on December 09, 2008, 05:59:13 AM
hahaha, monkey presses!

LOL!!!

That's exactly what i tell these idiots when i see them doing bench press without hteir thumbs:

"You know what was the evolutionary key that divides us from monkeys?"

Usually i get an empty stare then, because these "people" do not understand the world evolutionary in such a short time.
Answer "No?".

"It's using our thumb to grab things".
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: MuscleMcMannus on December 09, 2008, 06:07:23 AM
haha no gym is complete without the old man in the locker room drying his balls with the air dryer.

I workout at a pretty upscale 24hr unfortunately.  You don't see many idiots, either that or everybody walks around so self conscious they are extremely aware of people looking at them so don't try to do anything too stupid or embarrassing. 

I find that older Asian men say like 40-50 tend to follow more unorthodox training styles.   I remember I trained at a 24hr gym in Boulder, CO and it had a great mix of weirdos, wannabes, and idiots.  There was an asian guy probably mid 40's came in and was doing what appeared to be some sort of bonzai superfast repping out on a shoulder press machine.  He was sweating like a fat girl late for class.  I mean the reps were so damn fast he must have done 200 in a minute.  I don't think the machine like him very much cause each rep he'd slam the plates together.  he do every exercise in the circuit like this.   
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: CalvinH on December 09, 2008, 06:10:03 AM
A fat old lady in spandex and wearing one of those sport bra thingies so you could see her belly,plus she was sweaty :-X :-X :-X
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: DK II on December 09, 2008, 06:19:32 AM
In the last three weeks, i see these two guys in my gym that are total closet homos.

They act all super-hardcore, one was wearing a "Arnold is numero uno"-shirt despite weighing about 70kg. On their super-heavy dumbbell presses with 35lbs they shouted at each other "Move it, you fag!!" and stuff like that, and they do assisted reps from the second rep onwards.

This is really one of the most disturbing things i have seen in this gym.

A gym i went to a few years ago once had me thrown out because i was training at a time that was reserved for blind people and one of them had alledgedly "seen" me and complained to the management, lol.
These people where nowhere near the free weights, which  were in a total different area, and they were blind. WTF should they care of someone wanted to lift at that time?
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Tapeworm on December 09, 2008, 07:23:41 AM
In the last three weeks, i see these two guys in my gym that are total closet homos.

They act all super-hardcore, one was wearing a "Arnold is numero uno"-shirt despite weighing about 70kg. On their super-heavy dumbbell presses with 35lbs they shouted at each other "Move it, you fag!!" and stuff like that, and they do assisted reps from the second rep onwards.

This is really one of the most disturbing things i have seen in this gym.

A gym i went to a few years ago once had me thrown out because i was training at a time that was reserved for blind people and one of them had alledgedly "seen" me and complained to the management, lol.
These people where nowhere near the free weights, which  were in a total different area, and they were blind. WTF should they care of someone wanted to lift at that time?

Blind people are assholes. 

Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Grape Ape on December 09, 2008, 07:28:28 AM


A gym i went to a few years ago once had me thrown out because i was training at a time that was reserved for blind people and one of them had alledgedly "seen" me and complained to the management, lol.
These people where nowhere near the free weights, which  were in a total different area, and they were blind. WTF should they care of someone wanted to lift at that time?

Wear deodorant next time.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: CalvinH on December 09, 2008, 08:02:47 AM
Wear deodorant next time.



 ;D
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: funk51 on December 09, 2008, 11:43:26 AM
a guy wanting to jump in on squats at 315, he went down with it and never came up double hernia. ouch.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Man of Steel on December 09, 2008, 11:46:53 AM
Actually saw a guy training legs the other day.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: chainsaw on December 09, 2008, 11:59:51 AM
I saw a guy reach down his pants scratch his ass(hole) and grab a bar and continue to train.
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Post by: bigkid on December 09, 2008, 01:06:24 PM
There's a little guy at my gym who's in his 60's not in good shape and wears a bandanna, knee pads, a big jock strap thing outside his short shorts and carries around a bag of paper towels that he puts between his hands and whatever machine he's on.  I thought he was a germ phobe till i saw him take a piss and not wash his hands.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 09, 2008, 01:08:07 PM
a guy wanting to jump in on squats at 315, he went down with it and never came up double hernia. ouch.

Tough break,  so how did your hernia repair surgery go?
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: The Ugly on December 09, 2008, 01:38:01 PM
Have we covered old man balls? And how does he not know his hairy-white, saggy nakedness is making our conversation awkward?
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Post by: Monster_Everything on December 09, 2008, 01:40:46 PM
Actually saw a guy training legs the other day.
lol that never happens at a gym ..
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Post by: Butterbean on December 09, 2008, 01:58:15 PM
I saw a guy reach down his pants scratch his ass(hole) and grab a bar and continue to train.
Saw a guy reach down the front of his pants and scratch and then continue to train.

A guy popping his pimples on his face in the mirror and then continue to train

A 70+ year old man walking on the treadmill w/no shirt on

A girl who walked across the back of a running treadmill flailing and grabbing at the person on it, eventually flipping up in the air and landing between 2 treadmills. 




Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Matterhorn on December 09, 2008, 02:12:35 PM
I watched one of the hottest and most cocky girls in our gym walking out of the women's locker room...dragging along a string of white toilet paper attached to her sneaker.

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GHHHHHHHH

Never felt the urge to hump her again   :-X



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Post by: Brutal_1 on December 09, 2008, 02:15:58 PM
Actually saw a guy training legs the other day.
;D
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Post by: elite_lifter on December 09, 2008, 02:32:12 PM

Had a woman (FAT) who used to do the same type of dance in my gym. Haven't seen her lately, not surprised either!
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on December 09, 2008, 04:08:39 PM
Saw a dude unloading pltes from a leg press while wearing flip flops. You know where this is headed. Was talking to his buddy that was uloacing the other side. Pulled a plt with a 35 lb plate in front of it. The 35 lb plate dropped from 2-3 feet directly on his flip-flopped foot. He went to the hospital.
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Post by: JimmyJam1974 on December 09, 2008, 05:56:05 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/avesher/fatesher048.jpg)

What about this? Pretty disturbing huh?
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Post by: #1 Klaus fan on December 09, 2008, 05:59:49 PM
One hilarious, I guess a little nutty guy who always travels by bike summer and winter used to train a few times in my gym and he always wore tight bicycle suit and a helmet (yes, always wore a helmet in a gym). His favorite exercise was some kind of a behind the back shrug/upright row hybrid.
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Post by: Mr. Magoo on December 09, 2008, 06:38:36 PM
at one of my old gyms, saw a girl run out of the tanning bed room naked to the counter to get her purse, then run back to the tanning bed room.

oh wait, the title says "Disturbing"

in that case, old guys that wear really short shorts. Please don't do lunges in front of me.
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Post by: Top Dog on December 09, 2008, 10:38:06 PM
Women who wear big panties under stretch pants.
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Post by: needmoresize on December 09, 2008, 11:12:49 PM
One time my friend and i were doing military presses and he let the most disgusting turd ladened fart of all time. people around us were clearly disturbed. I guess that falls under the most smelly category, sorry brosef
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: gracie bjj on December 10, 2008, 01:15:07 AM
when i was a trainer in ballys jack lalanne club in springfield new jersey back in 92 till 95,ive seen 2 dudes blowin each other in the parkin lot while sittin in their car,i use to take out the trash when we closed at 10pm and i guess i caught them by suprise,it was summer and very quiet in the lot,i heard some moaning noises and just figured some dude was reemin some broad,it was fairly common back then,all of a sudden when i threw the garbage in the container it made a bang and 2 dudes head popped up from the back seat of a lincoln continental,i played it off like i didnt see them and went inside and told my boy who was helping me clean up,he grabbed a camera from one of the desks and we snuck up on them and man it was a horrible site,my boy got 2 snapshots of the dudes slurpin away then we started calling them homo cock sucking bastards and they split.my boy got the film developed only to realize it was one of the guy aerobic instructors.i told my boy if he shows it to everyone its gonna ruin the dudes career here and prolly all over jersey.he threw the pics out and let it go,the aerobic instructor was a pretty cool dude even though he was a fruitcake, sometimes you have to give people a break even though you might not like what they do.seen a guy beatin his meat hiding behing a locker watchin the girls doin aerobic classes,i felt ackward approachin the dude so i just yelled over to him to get hell out of there or im gonna report him,i told him if i catch ya doin it again your gettin thrown out of the gym.the fruit cakes of bally,s used to hang out in the mens locker rooms for hours trying to get a peek at someones johnson or keester,it used to get on my nerves but my manager said just ignore cause they arent violating no rules.i think jersey breeds alot of crazy people,i was born and raised there so i know first hand
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Post by: webcake on December 10, 2008, 01:23:34 AM
Nothing exciting really happens at my gym... :-\

Once i was at the desk talking to the manager about a certain indian gym member who had a body odour issue, and as i was saying it, said smelly indian walks in. Manager said to me just before he walked in that others had complained, so i just stood there as she tried to explain to him that they had received complaints about his body odour. Not disturbing, quite funny but man it was so fucking akward hearing the manager trying to explain to the guy that he stank. His english wasn't that good, so he struggled to understand.

He's never been back since too...
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Tapeworm on December 10, 2008, 01:25:34 AM
Nothing exciting really happens at my gym... :-\

Once i was at the desk talking to the manager about a certain indian gym member who had a body odour issue, and as i was saying it, said smelly indian walks in. Manager said to me just before he walked in that others had complained, so i just stood there as she tried to explain to him that they had received complaints about his body odour. Not disturbing, quite funny but man it was so fucking akward hearing the manager trying to explain to the guy that he stank. His english wasn't that good, so he struggled to understand.

He's never been back since too...

You have to wobble your head and speak an octave higher than normal or they won't understand you.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: webcake on December 10, 2008, 01:27:59 AM
You have to wobble your head and speak an octave higher than normal or they won't understand you.

lol, i use to work for some Greek people, so i just use to talk like them. They seem to understand better if you mimmick how they talk.
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Post by: Tapeworm on December 10, 2008, 01:49:28 AM
lol, i use to work for some Greek people, so i just use to talk like them. They seem to understand better if you mimmick how they talk.

I went to some out of the way island in Greece years ago and stopped into the only cafe/bar/restaurant in town.  The old Greek men were in there playing cards, looked to be in their 60s or so and had clearly been working hard all their lives.  Skin like leather, plenty of fat on them but thick, strong dudes, big boned.  I have never seen hands on a guy like these men had.  Biggest, strongest looking hands I ever saw, and every time they played a card they'd bring their hand down on the table like a fucking hammer.  I mean it was LOUD.  None of them ever spoke a single word either, just banged their hands and cards down on the table and scowled at eachother for the entire 45 minutes I was in there. 

I work in construction, I lift weights, but I felt like a little boy in there.  They were the manliest men I have ever seen.  It wasn't some bullshit machismo act either, it's just how they really were.  Whenever I meet some Greek dude in Aus doing the Greek macho thing, I always think, "Lol.  Not even close pal."

'lil story for ya there.  ;)
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: RZA on December 10, 2008, 05:13:58 AM
A few things that always disturb me:

Guys drying their balls in the locker room with the hair-dryers.

The usual corporate guy who turns instantly into the hardcore Shadow Boxer once in the gym. I swear, there's a guy (a banker) at my gym  who's  probably been traumatised so bad by the first UFC tournament he saw that in a year he got himself 5 or 6 tattoos, a goatie, a "BJJ For Ever"or "whatever the fuck" it is shirt and shdawo boxes with 7 pounds weights for hours every time I see him.
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Post by: Cleanest Natural on December 10, 2008, 05:26:17 AM
older gent had a massive heart attack. I tried to revive him along with another guy called 911 but he was gone
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Post by: The Showstoppa on December 10, 2008, 05:30:48 AM
older gent had a massive heart attack. I tried to revive him along with another guy called 911 but he was gone

Sevastopol, was he one of your muscle bears you were "entertaining" when this happened?  8)
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Monster_Everything on December 10, 2008, 05:32:57 AM
when i was a trainer in ballys jack lalanne club in springfield new jersey back in 92 till 95,ive seen 2 dudes blowin each other in the parkin lot while sittin in their car,i use to take out the trash when we closed at 10pm and i guess i caught them by suprise,it was summer and very quiet in the lot,i heard some moaning noises and just figured some dude was reemin some broad,it was fairly common back then,all of a sudden when i threw the garbage in the container it made a bang and 2 dudes head popped up from the back seat of a lincoln continental,i played it off like i didnt see them and went inside and told my boy who was helping me clean up,he grabbed a camera from one of the desks and we snuck up on them and man it was a horrible site,my boy got 2 snapshots of the dudes slurpin away then we started calling them homo cock sucking bastards and they split.my boy got the film developed only to realize it was one of the guy aerobic instructors.i told my boy if he shows it to everyone its gonna ruin the dudes career here and prolly all over jersey.he threw the pics out and let it go,the aerobic instructor was a pretty cool dude even though he was a fruitcake, sometimes you have to give people a break even though you might not like what they do.seen a guy beatin his meat hiding behing a locker watchin the girls doin aerobic classes,i felt ackward approachin the dude so i just yelled over to him to get hell out of there or im gonna report him,i told him if i catch ya doin it again your gettin thrown out of the gym.the fruit cakes of bally,s used to hang out in the mens locker rooms for hours trying to get a peek at someones johnson or keester,it used to get on my nerves but my manager said just ignore cause they arent violating no rules.i think jersey breeds alot of crazy people,i was born and raised there so i know first hand
You must of liked working there
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: Monster_Everything on December 10, 2008, 05:35:01 AM
A few things that always disturb me:

Guys drying their balls in the locker room with the hair-dryers.

that happens like everyday in the locker room, the worst is when they stand in the middle of everything, you cant avoid it.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: CalvinH on December 10, 2008, 06:45:01 AM
I went to some out of the way island in Greece years ago and stopped into the only cafe/bar/restaurant in town.  The old Greek men were in there playing cards, looked to be in their 60s or so and had clearly been working hard all their lives.  Skin like leather, plenty of fat on them but thick, strong dudes, big boned.  I have never seen hands on a guy like these men had.  Biggest, strongest looking hands I ever saw, and every time they played a card they'd bring their hand down on the table like a fucking hammer.  I mean it was LOUD.  None of them ever spoke a single word either, just banged their hands and cards down on the table and scowled at eachother for the entire 45 minutes I was in there. 

I work in construction, I lift weights, but I felt like a little boy in there.  They were the manliest men I have ever seen.  It wasn't some bullshit machismo act either, it's just how they really were.  Whenever I meet some Greek dude in Aus doing the Greek macho thing, I always think, "Lol.  Not even close pal."

'lil story for ya there.  ;)






Thanks for the "Gym" story :D
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: BFP on December 10, 2008, 07:04:20 AM
older gent had a massive heart attack. I tried to revive him along with another guy called 911 but he was gone

They have 911 in romania do they ?

Jason
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: DK II on December 10, 2008, 07:05:11 AM
They have 911 in romania do they ?

Jason

yes, but the guys only come to steal your purse when you are down, lol.
Title: Re: What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?
Post by: funk51 on December 10, 2008, 11:57:45 AM
Tough break,  so how did your hernia repair surgery go?
         it wasn't me troll, and why are you following me around on here talk about gayyyyyyyyyy.....