This one is truly bizarre on so many levels !!

I`m talking Twilight Zone level !!
I had just finished up training for the day at World Fitness,formerly Central City Gym............once again the old gym booming with life.
Anyway,I figured that I`d knock off a few sets of crunches after my workout.
I was in the basement part of the gym which was on two floors.
In between sets I noticed a guy doing some kind of inversion boot stuff on the chin up bar.
As he got down he spotted me and said how ya doing?
I responded and we started talking about working out.'
The guy was asking me tons of training and diet questions which I tried to answer as completely and as plainly I could so he would get my meaning.
As we were both getting ready to leave,he says to me,"Hey,want to go to a bodybuilding contest in Connecticut this weekend"?
Now I don`t know this fucking guy from Adam, but I figured he seemed cool so I figured WTF if he`s a weirdo I`ll just end up breaking his nose!
We exchanged phone numbers and the guy calls me up the day before the contest....... so I met him outside my apartment on contest day and we rolled into Connecticut.
Small talk ,nothing exciting mostly about the contest which was an All Natural show being held on some college campus.
OK,we get there and the contest really sucked.........not many really good guys but I did see Matt Dufresne again for the first time in years,seems he had some kid from his gym in the show.
After the contest we`re heading back to Springfield and the guy, whose name turned out to be Mark, asked me my last name so I tell him Wescott and he freaks out and says that`s his family name.
He had told me that his last name was Schmidt which let me know instantly that he was my cousins son on my fathers side....................
.my second cousin.
The last time I saw him,he was about three years old.
WEIRD SHIT,BUT IT GETS WEIRDER.......THIS GUY BECAME A FUCKING THORN IN MY SIDE FOR ALMOST A SIX MONTHS.
We stop off at my apartment because he insisted that I call his mother and freak her out with our new found info.
Actually any call from me would probably had freaked her out because I hadn`t seen or talked to her in decades...........litera
lly decades.
I talked to her briefly which was weird in itself but she seemed perfectly normal and said her family had been great except her husband was still ill as he had been for as long as I could remember.
I normally don`t talk to too many people in the gym other than to greet people or say goodbye as I`m there to train,but at times, like after a workout, I`d shoot the shit with guys I`ve known forever from the gyms.
This turned out to be one of those times I wish I had kept my mouth shut.
Now Mark starts hounding me about wanting to train with me.
I tell him that soon I`m going to prep for a contest and that I train really hard..............he insists that he can keep up and won`t fuck up the workouts.
Where have I heard this before..................
...let me think!!
I tried to discourage him because I didn`t want a partner,especially a guy who knew nothing about bodybuilding.
He had been working out for about 5 years he tells me.......... and he had some size but was smooth and bulky with biggish arms and legs.
I figured fuck it,if he can`t hang I`ll just tell him what I had told quite a few other
victims partners in the past...........Another one bites the dust !
He meets me at the gym on Monday...........leg day in my world.
I told him to do less sets than me and less reps and to start out light so he wouldn`t get too sore.
Anyway,this fucker trained balls out not listening to my advice so I figured OK,it`s your funeral.
We kicked ass on legs that day and it wasn`t as bad as I anticipated.......the kid actually pushed pretty hard.
Next day chest,then back,then delts,then arms then we took the weekend off.
Now after every workout I would say to Mark,,,,,,,,,,,"Are you sore from yesterday"? Oh no not at all he`d say.
I knew he was full of shit because I was sore, and I had been training like this forever in one form or another.
By this I mean that I mixed up a lot of intensity techniques into my training always making it as difficult as possible and as varied as possible.
I was doing drop-sets on legs, and tri sets on delts,super-sets on arms, etc. all with the heaviest weight I could stand, and with the shortest possible rest time between sets.
We were basically doing the old "I go,you go" type of workout which is what I always liked doing.
I was telling my girlfriend about how Mark was telling me daily that he wasn`t sore and how I personally was as sore as hell.
I usually always got some soreness from training,except for delts for some weird reason.
Anyway I figured this kid Mark is a fucking animal and soon he`ll be looking much better after I put him on a good eating plan.
That night I`m sitting around watching TV and the phone rings,it`s Mark and he sounds a bit panicky,so I asked him what`s wrong and he yells out like a wounded animal............"
YOU`RE KILLING ME !!!!!!!!!!!I died laughing and thought to myself that his poor bastard probably couldn`t walk or wipe his own ass because as I said I was getting sore and I was used to this type of torturous shit and loved doing it.
THAT WAS IT,I DISMISSED HIM FROM TRAINING WITH ME........BUT THEN I WAS STUCK WITH HIM.
As I got to know him better I found out that this kid had no self confidence,especially with women, and all he did was use me as a sounding board for all of his mental hangups.
A psychic fucking vampire !!
I was extremely patient with him though and just figured he`d go way after some time passed because his negative energy was really bringing me down.
Always a frown and a problem with no other friends to listen to them but me!

WTF had I gotten myself into this time?
I swear I attract fucking weirdos at times.
A couple of months had gone by and I was sleeping one hot summer night with my window open,it`s around 2 AM I hear a bunch of noise at the window so I grab a baseball bat and get up and go over to it and it`s fucking Mark!!
He says he thought I might be awake and he wanted to talk.
I got pissed off now because he knew I trained my first client at 5 AM so I told him if he ever did that shit to me again,I wasn`t gonna stop next time and it would be baseball bat city for his dumb ass! LOL

Another time he finally meets a really hot sounding chick and instead of taking her out to eat or to a movie,he comes over my house with her.
SHE WAS SMOKING HOT.......I COULDN`T BELIEVE HE SCORED THIS WELL WHAT WITH THE ETERNAL LOOK OF GLOOM AND DOOM HE ALWAYS PORTRAYED.
Turns out all the time she`s there she talks to me and my girl and hardly says boo to him all night.
Needless to say,he never saw her again which prompted the dude to drive me nuts crying about her.
I told him to pull up his skirt and that he hardly even knew the chick at all for Christs sake.
I could go on and on about this guy........he got weirder and weirder until I just kept telling him that I was busy a lot or had stuff to do until he finally took the hint and got lost.
I thought to myself if I just told the kid to fuck off,that he might end up hanging himself,,,,,,,,,,that`s how depressed he always seemed to be.
He ended up getting a new job which prevented him from bugging me as much then he just never showed up again much to my delight!
It was great meeting this long lost member of my family !
