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Bluto

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Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« on: February 06, 2008, 03:24:36 PM »
Well every gym has quite the mix of characters, tell me about some in yours!  :)
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2008, 03:28:15 PM »
Hung-over fratboys who do flat bench 4 times a week.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2008, 03:35:45 PM »
-Old guy with shit body that knows-it-all
-the fat bitch that reads romance novels while on the stationary bike
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2008, 03:37:32 PM »
No.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2008, 03:41:40 PM »
A guy that intently reads a novel as he walks laps around the gym isles.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2008, 03:44:31 PM »
Quote from: Luv2Hurt on February 06, 2008, 03:41:40 PM
A guy that intently reads a novel as he walks laps around the gym isles.

why does he walk around the isles  :D
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2008, 03:47:00 PM »
Alex23isback  ;D Just messing with yah ;) Ther are the two or three guys doing some kind of pushup/ half twissting row with 5 pound dumbells in the corner
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2008, 03:51:25 PM »

nothing special besides our local retards

  fat guy with ethiopian calves taking pictures of himself in the windows while screaming epic, brutal, bullshit

  fat guy with trisomy keeps occupying the bathroom ( claims he's flexing his calves )
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2008, 03:52:31 PM »
Quote from: Bluto on February 06, 2008, 03:44:31 PM
why does he walk around the isles  :D

I don't know but the dude has his face stuck in a 300 page book and just does laps around.  He is a tall skinny dude I have seen him there playing basketball, probally pretty good at it.  But he don't seem to ever do the weights just walks around doing laps, there is no track there so maybe thats what he doing, cardio?  But he has to look up from book every other second to prevent walking into people, must love to read.

Hes a Renaissance man, exercising his body and his mind at the same time  :D
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2008, 03:57:27 PM »
the 29 year old 185 pound "fireman" at the gym who wears headphones and walks with ILS and asks "what's going on?" and i say, "not too much, what's up with you" then he says, "just trying to get huge and lean" while he's in between sets on the Flex plate loaded preacher curl with a 10 pound plate on each side.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2008, 04:01:29 PM »
- some older dudes with cool upper-arm tattoos
- many young dudes, always in pairs. Any place in front of the mirror is their second home. Can only train in groups - rat-people.   Nothing, even in the showers is done without a phat belt.

- few pretty friendly, humble ones. Maybe abused as a child.
- 1 really big, lean dude... talks more than he works out... preferably some low intensity presses and pec-deck.
- 1 lady - hot and funny
- 1 cleaning maid - is into heavy rest-pause vacuums... believes in high reps
- 1 dude, wearing an enormously tight weight belt, so that his belly doesn't pop open while training bicep

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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2008, 04:02:18 PM »
the middle age soccer mom that wears next to nothing and gets upset when you don't look "away" when she does squats or hamstring exercises
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2008, 04:13:17 PM »
Quote from: The Squadfather on February 06, 2008, 03:57:27 PM
the 29 year old 185 pound "fireman" at the gym who wears headphones and walks with ILS and asks "what's going on?" and i say, "not too much, what's up with you" then he says, "just trying to get huge and lean" while he's in between sets on the Flex plate loaded preacher curl with a 10 pound plate on each side.

LOL ;D,
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2008, 04:38:10 PM »
-the people that want to get big and half rep on the flat bench
-the people that want to get big and half rep on squats

I hate those people. They think they're strong because they load it up and half a 3" ROM. The one time you see them touch their chests it's because their spotter will pick it up. Epic insecurity.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2008, 04:49:18 PM »

At my old gym, there was a kid that I nicknamed "Baby Boy," for reasons I'll get to in a second.
He would walk in, head to toe covered in Adidas jogging gear. Pants, jacket, and shirt. Always the same outfit, unless he was like Einstein and had 7 pairs of the same thing? Anyway, shaved head and headphones that you could hear from 10ft away over the gyms stereo! I used to ask my partner who or what song he was listening to, when the guy was at least 10 feet or more away.
For his exercises, he would be doing odd things....said he was training to be a MMA guy, but I never saw any of the regular MMA fighters in that gym acknowledge him let alone fight or talk to him. I saw him do cable crossovers, rev. standing cable laterals, push-ups standing up off a wall (this was his "finisher" I guess), or he would do sprints on a treadmill.
His car was completely covered in Sirius radio stickers. The oddest thing about him, of the many-and the reason he got his nickname- was he used to carry a jar of baby food with him and eat it while training. :-\
He also had a book of Metzner's H.I.T. training....but I never saw him do anything Mike would have suggested. And his volume was far too high for H.I.T.!!!! ;D
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2008, 04:58:26 PM »
Guy in my last gym that we used to call 'roid zoid' as he was a walking tribute to just about every textbook symptom of steroid abuse. He had really long hair with a totally bald crown. Used to always wear this same cut-off shirt that looked like something out of 'Fame' displaying his putrid stomach. It had some faded writing that said 'Muscle Fibrez'. It had slits for his traps  that weren't needed. He had acne all down his back. he would shout and scream and keep looking in the mirror and then back at random people in the gym and would say stuff like 'no pain, no gain'. He had double whopper gyno, you could honestly expect to suck on them titties and get milk. He didn't use very heavy weights (which is fine) but the screaming and groaning when using such pitiful weights was hilarious.

 He did a lot of donkey calf raises with a weird looking pedo type untrained looking guy on his back who only seemed to appear for the donkey calf raises.

 He had injection sites and abscesses all over his upper arms.

He would scream random things like 'light weight baby' 'yea buddy' ' this ones for you Dorian ' (as he benched about 200 lbs)

He once wore shades in mid-winter.

He is a real person and I have exaggerated nothing.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2008, 05:06:50 PM »
I got all you guys beat.. my gym has these two clowns pro bodybuilders (work in progress) that are about 180lbs. fat/skinny... completely natural, but looking at them you'd swear they're in the game... they both dress like those fitness clowns in the 80's with the parashoot pants and 5xxxl sweat top on 6 layers of various other tops, both always wearing straps, wraps and weight belts cinched tight. They both lug around huge gym bags with their gallon water jugs, creatine mix, protein, glutamine, chalk, and who knows what other sorts of crazy shit.

These two guys are the highlight of my gym for many 'advanced' members.. I'm gonna try to take some pics next time I see them, picture these two 180lb. giants right out of the pages of a Flex magazine workout... ROFL

Oh and to top it off one day the head clown was asking my advice on some new prohormone that just came out (halodrol or some crap)  LOL....
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2008, 05:11:42 PM »
naturals that have been working out for 10 yrs and look the same except more tired.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2008, 05:17:24 PM »
an angry, mad -at -the -world mexican guy who throws around equipment, slams weights and occupies several benches/machines at the same time, night after night after night but has not grown an ounce.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2008, 05:20:28 PM »
Quote from: Luv2Hurt on February 06, 2008, 03:52:31 PM
I don't know but the dude has his face stuck in a 300 page book and just does laps around.  He is a tall skinny dude I have seen him there playing basketball, probally pretty good at it.  But he don't seem to ever do the weights just walks around doing laps, there is no track there so maybe thats what he doing, cardio?  But he has to look up from book every other second to prevent walking into people, must love to read.

Hes a Renaissance man, exercising his body and his mind at the same time  :D

Haha reminds me of this bookworm that was reading a book while doing leg extensions, after one of his sets he didn't look up so he put the legs on the OUTSIDE, took a while before he realized he did  ::)
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2008, 05:22:25 PM »
I like the packs of High School football players that wander around the gym acting like they own the place. They love to glare at everyone thinking they're intimidating while they do their 2" ROM benchpresses & squats.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2008, 05:28:29 PM »
Quote from: Red Hook on February 06, 2008, 04:02:18 PM
the middle age soccer mom that wears next to nothing and gets upset when you don't look "away" when she does squats or hamstring exercises
i got a few of these at my gym fuck it dont come to the gym with your tits popping out of your sports bra if you dont want me looking when you do shit that makes em bounce
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2008, 05:33:02 PM »
Today at my gym I see this mexican cholo shadowboxing by himself in front of the mirror with 20 pound weights. He then proceded to try to stare me down, all 160 pounds of him wearing a wife beater and jeans, after I asked him "who was winning" and to move because he was taking up 2 areas of bench.
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2008, 05:35:12 PM »
Quote from: JediKnight on February 06, 2008, 05:33:02 PM
Today at my gym I see this mexican cholo shadowboxing by himself in front of the mirror with 20 pound weights. He then proceded to try to stare me down, all 160 pounds of him wearing a wife beater and jeans, after I asked him "who was winning" and to move because he was taking up 2 areas of bench.

OMFG.....  funniest post of the year!!!!
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Re: Tell us about some of the characters at your gym!
« Reply #24 on: February 06, 2008, 05:37:34 PM »
My gym is great for finding odd characters. The best is this guy who is about 6'3" and probably 240 lbs. He looks like he has great genetics for bodybuilding, but he's completely insane. He literally powerwalks into the gym with this pissed off expression everyday and glares everyone down. He does like 10 sets of tricep pushdowns and then continues to just walk around the gym like he's going somewhere. He sets up the flat benches and uses them as hurdles.... it's ridiculous. If you make eye contact with him, he will keep his eyes focused on yours until you look away. I tested him once to see how long he would stare and we went for almost 2 minutes. He scares the sh*t out of me.

Then we have multiple morbidly obese "trainers" who try to correct people's form while eating chicken mcnuggets off of the shelf-gut that protrudes out in front of them.

We also have a man with only stubs for arms who doesn't stop laughing and talking to himself throughout the workout and does dips and pushups on his stubs.

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