my pet peeve - guys using MY squat rack to do BICEP CURLS because it happens to be in front of a mirror. i’ve actually approached a guy with “you have got to be kidding me” before asking him to do his curls elsewhere so that i could do my squats and deadlifts. perhaps i was a bit bitchy but i only have my lunch hour to lift and his ass needed to NOT be at the squat rack. what else bugs me? guys doing squats or bench pressing on the smith machine. that just makes you look like you have grown a VAGINA.
as for women - you have to love those girls who spend all of their time doing 3 sets of 15-20 bicep curls, tricep extensions and shoulder presses with 10 lb dumb bells. you know - the same ones who don’t use weights to do squats but only do halfsies and do a thousand calf raises. yeah…they amuse me.
thats me asshole 
I can’t believe no one here mentioned the LUGGAGE CARRIERS!!! You know, the retards that wear tight shirts on purpose and puff out their chests and bring their arms away from their bodies about a foot or more. Having the posture of a gorilla does NOT make you look muscular. But it DOES get you laughed at!
I have a story of a gym douche bag for you fine fellows (and ladies):
A few years ago (I was in the eleventh grade, so maybe about 2004) it was gym class and I decided to go to the weight room (we sometimes had choices on what we wanted to do). Most people went to the weight room to just hang out and talk to their friends (I sometimes had that habit. Hey, it was gym class!) but me and a buddy of mine (he was a luggage carrier too. Yes I made fun of him for it. Not muscular, he was skinny and a track and field/cross country runner) decided to actually work out. So I went to the rowing machine (not truly rowing, but the idea is that that you push out your arms in and out like you were rowing) and I set the machine at about 200 lbs. (maybe it was 210, but it was in that area). This one kid named Anthony (mind you, he was beefy as hell and was a football player. The catch? He was short as hell. I mean, REALLY short. He is about 5’1"-5’2". I towered over him and I am only about 5’5") decided to come over to me and say “Yeah right! You can’t do that much!”. I said “Oh no?!” in a snarkish tone. So I quickly sat down and did ten easy reps on the rowing machine, on 210 or so lbs. My friend (and possibly a few other people) went “OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!” and laughed and whatnot. Tony the beefy midget had an embarrassed look on his face, nodded his head a few times knowing he was a retard. So he sat down and went at it…he struggled with about 6 reps, stopped, and quickly ran out of the room. I wouldn’t be surprised if he still cries himself to sleep at night.
Oh, there is still a little more to the story. While my buddy was high fiving me for putting a retard in his place, this girl who was hanging out with him (they weren’t an item) went to me and said stupid shit like “you know, he could beat you up!”. Yeah, okay. All he is is a beefy footballing midget, and I was a wrestler with a little bit of a martial arts background (not a big enough background, but I can throw a good high kick. Actually, my punching/boxing is better, but that’s besides the point) and he could kick my ass? Yeah right! I beat him in the ONE area he should be better than me at, and that was weight lifting. And I am not toally sure, but he might have been a bench warmer on the high school football team.
I love morons, I really do…
I think a Gym is where overweight people go to lose a few pounds by doing the Tae Bo workout and looking at Billy Blanks in leggings and a vest.
Fully agreed! I’ve had my own fun little run-in with this crap. My girlfriend’s sister has a 24 hour gym membership she won from some local drawing and loves the place. She recently signed up for their nightly “Kickboxing” class and told me all about it. The conversation went something like this:
her: “They’ve got this kickboxing class I go to, too.”
me: “Yeah? How is it?”
her: “Pretty cool. Its really good cardio.”
me: “Well its kickboxing, so I’m sure it is. What kind of exercises do they have you doing?”
her: “We, like, punch in the air, punch high, punch low over and over, and then we do kicks. The kicks are tough, they really wear you out.”
me: “Yeah? What about mitts? Do you do drills on them?”
her: “On what?”
me: “You mean you don’t practice your punches on mitts with a partner? What about working the bag? Do you have bag to hit?”
her: “Not really, we just practice our punches and kicks in the air.”
me: “Do you do any sparring or practice self-defense techniques or anything?”
her: “No, not really. Its just, like, cardio.”
me: “Sounds like Tae Bo.”
her: “I guess its kind of like it, but its kickboxing.”
me: “Right…”
Be careful guys, the gym people are trying to steal our deadly!
My personal favorite Gym People that suck are some of the 65+ crowd you always seem to run into in the locker room. They obviously at one time were all used to being naked in an NFL locker room, because they sure like to walk around 100% butt naked swinging their junk around their ankles. It’s kind of like browsing through the National Geographic aborigine articles.
Usually Murphy has it such that my locker is directly below one of these clowns who is in the midst of towel drying his balls with a 6 foot horizontal motion while I’m needing to get in my locker and trying to hold down my lunch.
I’ve seen a guy wear straps and a belt to do bench press half reps.
I used to go to a gym with 3 chin up bars and a weight assisted dip/chin machine. But guess what everyone did chins in the fucking squat rack. I’m sorry the bicep curl and bent over row rack
But the absolute best has to be this wrestler guy who would do good exercises like power cleans and back extensions and chins and front squats etc etc. But with about an inch of ROM. TO do chins he’d jump up onto the bar so he’d land with his arms already nearly mostly bent. Then jerk himself up another inch or two while kicking his legs like a frog. His power cleans were even more comical but words can’t really describe them you’d have to see them to believe them.
Hm…I think I am one of the ‘Gym People’ up at my college gym…
I’m the guy who doesn’t have any idea what he’s doing, wandering aimlessly from machine to machine and doing a few sets of a small number (5, 10, 15 or so) or one ‘big’ number of probably the same amount (30-50) before wandering off to my next attempt at losing weight.
God, this thread makes me glad I train in an MMA gym equipped with a power rack and barbells, and that I’ve only spent about one month of my life training in a commercial gym. I can’t stand people who scream when they lift weights. I grunt when lifting heavy (well, heavy for me anyway), but it’s an “oof” grunt. When I hear some jackass going "GRRRYAAAAAARRRGHHHH!!!eleven from clear across the gym I wanna tee off on his face with one of those stupid bicep curl bars.
whats wrong with wearing MMA shorts to the gym, i wear mine doing almost every physical activity i do because their so damn comfortable
but last week i was kicked out of my gym for doing turkish getups
I hate stupid bitches and their fucking short-shorts.
WHORES!, giving it up for everyone to see while the rest of us dumb bitches keep our f-ing clothes on, trying to have some goddamn modesty over here, while she’s over there looking all hot and skinny…stupid, dumb bitch.
Is there anyone who owns a Gold’s Gym T-shirt who doesn’t have a huge gut?
The manager of one of the gyms in Glasgow who when asked about kettlebells decided to get one. A 32 kg one, yes we all wanted to start with over 70 lbs thanks mate. One of the other gyms in the chain got a full set though, another got rid of the one bench they had as it put women off, what goes through these peoples heads???
You know what I hate? The guys who go on and on about how they do functional strength training, not bodybuilding, so they are really stronger and better than those muscle bound bodybuilders, yet really its just an excuse for looking like crap. Basically the visually out of shape yet still strong Matt Furey types who think they’re better than guys with “show muscles”. I’m actually in this boat- I do bodyweight and Indian club exercises and don’t regularly lift, but I don’t think I’m better than anyone for it.
That’s a medical condition called Imaginary Lat Syndrome and you shouldn’t mock them, the poor, deluded fools.
I was at a gym on my own (I have no friends, true story) and a guy came in and sat on a bench. He was a pretty muscular guy.
After stacking weights up on two huuuuuge dumbbells, he looks over to me and asks if I’ll spot him.
I’m a nice guy, so I say okay.
He asks another guy who’s in there alone, so we two are attending this meathead.
So, I’m holding this ridiculous dumbbell that he’s managed to fit 60kgs on (leaving no room to hold it safely, I’ll add) in my fingertips and palms. The spinlock collars are digging onto my hands quite nicely already.
The other guy spotting looks across at me and mouths “f*ck me” as he’s close to dropping the thing by now.
So, meathead’s on the bench, psyching himself up. He says “okay” and we pass him the 'bells.
He says something like “keep the weight, keep the weight” and doesn’t take the weight just yet.
It felt like 30 seconds before he takes the weight and throws it up as fast as he can.
At the top of the ‘press’ he says “take the weight” and me and fellow spotter hold the weights.
Meathead just drops the weights and sits up. Fellow spotter nearly falls forward, and I nearly topple backwards, such is the sudden weight shift.
I scowl, shake my head at the guy’s back and start to put the weight down.
“Where are you going” asks the meathead… “I have another 9 reps to do”.
I wanted to drop the 60kgs on his stupid head, but I passed him the weight (carefully) and told him to find someone else to spot him.
Pretty sure he had no idea he was being an asshole and thought I was an impatient homo.
tl:dr version:
Sochin goes to a gym and is cranky that there’s no pie, someone wastes a little of his time and sochin gets pissy.
I hate the women who dont’ know when to stop. It’s like they look like a man, probably have a clit the size of a pinky and have Matt Hughes’s jaw! Stop the juice, woman!!!
I hate the little skinny n00bs that take my weights off the bar as soon as I go to take a piss and try to apologyse! If I was finished I’d get them off my self, plus there’s always like 2 benches free that they can use, but they decide to use the one I’ve allredy set up WTF?
I hate gyms that have the “No grunting and weight droping” sign. Every one of them is full of fat moms with nothing else to do and they get extremely crossed with you for putting effort in to the last 2 reps of the day. FUCK 'EM!
A buddy of mine - /huge power lifter with blader and prostate problems/ once went to one of those and got yelled at by one of the instructors who had a speach problem - he stutterd. And he’s like “Buddy, buddy slow down! You talk the way I piss”. He got banned for dropping 50 kilo dumbels after 8 reps…
I guess i became on the the “gym people” the gym at my college that i am forced to go to now only has one bar so i have to use a bench press bar to do dead lifts, clean and presses, and full contact twists. mind you i go at 9:00 in the morning when the gym is deserted so…
college gym ment to say