Amen, bruh!

You guys are all really mean.

Actually, I offer advice sometimes. It really depends, if it's something like a squat or deadlift and I see they're form is jacked or if they're off due to a few minor deals (feet not wide enough, hunching shoulders, grip width, etc) then they'll usually take it pretty good. I find most people learning to squat or deadlift, Oly lift, etc will appreciate a tip. I, for example, find a lot of taller guys who squat try to start squatting with feet straight and a narrow stance.

I usually suggest starting with some box squats so they'll feel what it's like to sit back and gettin' them to spread their legs out more, etc. I don't come across as a know it all but more as a "by the way, I noticed that you were _______(fill in the blank) and man, you might try ________ I bet you'll lift more weight."

Anyway, I've just turned this into a rambling.

i love it when people try to help me out, like when i was doing bench for like the first time, this guy told me to use a wider grip to hit my chest more, he's a really cool guy actually, got to know him some just by talking at the gym after that. If i see someone using a really poor form, i usually tell them, though i dont go talking about stuff i only think is wrong, i gotta KNOW its wrong before i correct someone:P

hanging leg raises.. this group of 3 were doing them.. 1 of them everytime he'd lift his legs he would moan and groan and hiss; i couldnt bare to watch them! he was working his hip flexors wasnt doign them correctly. i was benching at the time [175] watching this made me want to drop the weight directly on my face :-O

Back to the funny stories. Thanks for ruining this thread with your first post ever. That superman story kills me.

Now everyone is scared to post a funny story because they don't want to look like an assh0le.

Well, when I lift, a 70 year old lady comes in in huge black Elizabeth Taylor-like sunglasses. She wears clothing that I would consider too formal for church (I'm talking dresses here). I've talked to her and she seemed like a really nice old lady. But, alas, she had the token "old lady doused in a gallon of the cheepest perfume **** on the planet" aroma. When will they learn? Grandma, are you listnening?

Well, she lifts more than me, so I don't wan't to offend her and get my skull pushed in (jk).

Here's another story that happened to me today, I was at the Spur's game (I live in SA) and during halftime they had wheelchair basketball. Well I wasn't thinking, so I turned to the guy in my left..... I'm just gonna stop this one here.

Finish it! LOL

The funniest/saddest thing I see in the gym are the people that are only good at working out, and proceed to masturbate their egos as they attempt to show just how superior they are towards everyone else. Because while I do pity them, I also find the situation humorous...


Oh yeah, and when the guys look at me while they do the exercise I just finished doing (see leg lifts)...to see if I approve, laugh, watch them, or...actually, I don't know why they do it. It kind of creeps me out.

I would be more worried if no one was looking at you, then having people look at you. Don't take offense to it. Try to look at it more as a compliment. Unless the person is stalking you or something, then say something to a staff member.


I find it best to stay out of other people's business. If someone wants help they would go read up on working out, ask a trainer, or ask me if they think I'm doing something correct. Even when said in the most polite way most people do not take critisim well, especially from a stranger who they have no connection with.

ok, so, the story about the Spurs game - Wheelchair basketball. So this one player in a wheel chair actually jukes - goes right then left real fast and then wheels past another guy for a lay up. So, (being the James Bond fan I am) I decided to say something clever. "Man, he broke that guy's ankles" - which is a slang way of saying he juked and owned that guy with his skills, while also implying that the guy actually had ankles; to which he was missing one. And the guy to my left is looking right behind us.

The handycap section is directly behind me, with a man in a wheelchair staring me down something feirce.

LOL... Awesome.

how quickly a great funny light hearted thread turned into a flame cuz someones thin skin or some crazy reason wow cant we all just get along?

h haha ha ha thats great!

The funny things I see in the gym are almost always the people who are in great shape and can't help but keep looking at there self in the mirror. I saw this one guy doing crunches like crazy then as soon as he was done he went over to the mirror and pulled his shirt up to look at his abs. I thought now surely he doesn't think he is going to see results that quick from those crunches. It seems that the ones in great shape are the ones who do the really comical things in the gym.

You guys are killing me, making me really miss going the Gym. You could get a good workout and always count on some entertainment.

My place of work has a nice fitness center, which is what I use now. But since people all work together nothing really crazy happens.

This is more nasty than funny but yesterday there was this guy on the treadmill in front of me and he was wearing those nylon, side button, gym pants. They were white and he bent over to stretch his hamstrings out and there lied a 4 inch brown stripe right down his but crack.

Almost hurled. It was nasty!