What is the most disturbing thing you've ever seen in the gym?

[JimmyJam1974]

Prolapsed bowel? Broken bones? Shit-stained spandex? Chicks with armpit hair?

Share your story.

[baker]

I saw a guy have a heart attack.

[JimmyJam1974]

I saw a guy have a heart attack.

really? Did he expire?

[baker]

really? Did he expire?

No he made it. No more Ripped Fuel for him though.

[JimmyJam1974]

Old guy or youg guy?

No other stories Bet Biggers? No torn muscles? Blood?

[The Showstoppa]

A guy using the squat rack to spot himself on barbell curls.

[Noel Fuller]

[Soundness]

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. 

[wes mantooth]

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....

[JimmyJam1974]

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.

[WillGrant]

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 

[UNDERCOVER]

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

[DK II]

A guy using the squat rack to spot himself on barbell curls.

spot on. 

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

Not a getbigger.

[Method101]

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.

[DK II]

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?

[Method101]

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.

[The Showstoppa]

let me guess, no thumbs?

hahaha, monkey presses!

[mazrim]

50 year old group of men that wear biker/spandex pants every time they come.

[SaltShaker]

me tearing my left bicep doing preacher curls

[DK II]

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".

[MuscleMcMannus]

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.   

[CalvinH]

A fat old lady in spandex and wearing one of those sport bra thingies so you could see her belly,plus she was sweaty

[DK II]

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?

[Tapeworm]

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. 

[Grape Ape]

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.