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People you see at the gym

  • 16-02-2014 01:28PM
    #1
    Jack Skellington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭Jack Skellington


    There's a few videos on youtube of gym stereotypes which I think are hilarious!

    My favourite is the guy who can't stop grunting lifting weights and then throws them down when he's done, making sure everyone knows he's a boss :pac:

    What kind of people do always see at the gym that humour/ annoy you?


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  • #2
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭TheBody


    "Here comes the pain train".

    *Will ya fuck off.*


  • #3
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭jank


    People who spend more time on their phones than actually doing some work. Thats the point.


  • #4
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    People that watch Jersey/Geordie Shore/Tallaghtfornia type programmmes


  • #5
    Saggyjocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭Saggyjocks


    Girls plastered in make up and stinking of perfume


  • #6
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Those lads when the gym is packed, who 'take a rest' on the bench after doing a set and just sit there panting and looking around while trying to look hard and I'm there waiting for their sweaty @ss to get off the bloody bench and let me do my thing...

    Lads whose hair is in immaculate condition for the gym...Girls who wear make up to the gym are cute though :pac:


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  • #7
    .Henry Sellers.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭.Henry Sellers.


    The people who are obsessed with what everybody else is doing instead of just going there to train.


  • #8
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    Boom!


    Spot me Bren!

    Now thats an attractive package!


  • #9
    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    People who spend their time at the gym watching what other people are doing instead of just getting on with their own workout.


  • #10
    Nino Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    Those lads when the gym is packed, who 'take a rest' on the bench after doing a set and just sit there panting and looking around while trying to look hard and I'm there waiting for their sweaty @ss to get off the bloody bench and let me do my thing...

    Surely you don't expect them to leave the bench after every set? I always sit on the bench for a couple of minutes between sets.


  • #11
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Guys giving people advice.....bad advice, then flexing after curling 5's and taking selfies.

    My gym has some fcuktards in it.


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  • #12
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Lads dressed in full rapper mode taking selfies of themselves holding a barbell. *bangs head off wall*


  • #13
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Nino Brown wrote: »
    Surely you don't expect them to leave the bench after every set? I always sit on the bench for a couple of minutes between sets.

    It's fine when they gym isn't full and you can alter your workout to suit the available equipment but when they gym is jammers it's gym etiquette to not hog equipment especially when not using it...


  • #14
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    Sauve wrote: »
    People who spend their time at the gym watching what other people are doing instead of just getting on with their own workout.

    women need to be leered at so they know their workouts are being successful and as a form of encouragement.


  • #15
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,010 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    It's fine when they gym isn't full and you can alter your workout to suit the available equipment but when they gym is jammers it's gym etiquette to not hog equipment especially when not using it...

    How can you do three sets if when you stand up after the first one its 15 minutes before you get to sit down for the second?

    People hog the bench because if they don't somebody else will, generally its the only way they get to do a full workout. If you are not using the bench then fair enough, move, but if you are resting in the middle of a routine then its fair enough to keep the bench.


  • #16
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    It's fine when they gym isn't full and you can alter your workout to suit the available equipment but when they gym is jammers it's gym etiquette to not hog equipment especially when not using it...

    eh no...

    if your bench requires a something like 2 min rest between sets , then you sit it out on the bench.
    giving up the bench after each set will not give an optimum workout for most goals as you'll be ages getting it back


  • #17
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    These dudes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-91_iXATY8


  • #18
    Nino Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    It's fine when they gym isn't full and you can alter your workout to suit the available equipment but when they gym is jammers it's gym etiquette to not hog equipment especially when not using it...

    I don't know about that, if you were to get up every time and allow somebody to change the weights it would be a huge pain trying to get a few sets in. I think about 15 mins is a reasonable amount of time for somebody to be on a bench, I wouldn't expect anybody to move between sets, in fact I would say the same about any machine, if I'm on it, I'll be there for 10-15mins, I'm not going to join a queue after every set.


  • #19
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    How can you do three sets if when you stand up after the first one its 15 minutes before you get to sit down for the second?

    People hog the bench because if they don't somebody else will, generally its the only way they get to do a full workout. If you are not using the bench then fair enough, move, but if you are resting in the middle of a routine then its fair enough to keep the bench.

    What I have learned from being in packed gyms is that when a situation like this arises you offer to do partnered sets where I do the first set then I rest while he does his first set and so on...it's beneficial in every way...when they refuse to partner up with you it just shows how inconsiderate they are to the rest of the people trying to get a workout done. I've no problem with people wanting to do their own thing but it's not acceptable when the gym is packed and they take extra long rests of a few minutes when frankly 10-20 seconds would do...


  • #20
    builttospill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭builttospill


    In the gym a few weeks ago I witnessed a muscle man spill his tub of creatine all over the floor of the changing room. The last time I saw such abject horror and loss on a person's face was some years ago on Grattan Bridge in Dublin when a methadone addict spilled their sickly green solvent all over the pavement.


  • #21
    Nino Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    What I have learned from being in packed gyms is that when a situation like this arises you offer to do partnered sets where I do the first set then I rest while he does his first set and so on.

    Does everybody in your gym lift the same amount or what?


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  • #22
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Nino Brown wrote: »
    Does everybody in your gym lift the same amount or what?

    In the gym in college most guys would b around the same...at home no they wouldn't but that doesn't matter...it takes seconds to change weights and even at that I'll gladly lift lighter or even marginally higher depending on circumstances...I'm obviously not going to ask a guy who can lift me with one hand to partner up but that's another issue altogether.


  • #23
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    People who lift you up when there are no weights free... like ask me first at least!


  • #24
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    In a small college gym or one of those hard knock local gyms then I guess it would be acceptable to have someone say mind if I jump in as they're small and packed.

    Any gym over 500 euro a year I don't think it would happen and has never happened to me.

    Most annoying thing is guys that walk around with no top on, why?


  • #25
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    People cheating on their form drives me nuts. Ok, fine, it's your workout, waste time if you like, but when I see a guy swinging his entire body into a movement when they think they're working their biceps I have such an urge to point it out. Or bouncing on their legs. Or seesawing the weight back and forwards using momentum to avoid straining. You're doing it wrong! This is why you've been doing the same motion for twenty minutes to no effect.


  • #26
    Jake Rugby Walrus666
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Jake Rugby Walrus666


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    when frankly 10-20 seconds would do...

    Are you for real?

    Maybe you could get some beginners tips off the guy sitting on the bench.


  • #27
    McDermotX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,246 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    Jack Skellington wrote: »
    There's a few videos on youtube of gym stereotypes which I think are hilarious!

    My favourite is the guy who can't stop grunting lifting weights and then throws them down when he's done, making sure everyone knows he's a boss :pac:

    What kind of people do always see at the gym that humour/ annoy you?

    Do you even lift ?


  • #28
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Jake Rugby Walrus666 wrote: »
    Are you for real?

    Maybe you could get some beginners tips off the guy sitting on the bench.

    Yeah...a warm up set and first proper set doesn't require much more than that tbh. Maybe extra time for strectching. Before hitting final set it's fine to take 2 minutes or so which is even further proof that letting someone else get a set in in that time should be advocated...it's more beneficial to rest standing up anyway.


  • #29
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Zillah wrote: »
    People cheating on their form drives me nuts. Ok, fine, it's your workout, waste time if you like, but when I see a guy swinging his entire body into a movement when they think they're working their biceps I have such an urge to point it out. Or bouncing on their legs. Or seesawing the weight back and forwards using momentum to avoid straining. You're doing it wrong! This is why you've been doing the same motion for twenty minutes to no effect.

    So, you're THE COACH guy.


  • #30
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    In a small college gym or one of those hard knock local gyms then I guess it would be acceptable to have someone say mind if I jump in as they're small and packed.

    Any gym over 500 euro a year I don't think it would happen and has never happened to me.

    Most annoying thing is guys that walk around with no top on, why?

    I know a few who are guilty of this, it's a lifestyle choice apparently and it's not just confined to the gym and they travel in packs too.Beware.


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  • #31
    hairyslug
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    Only problem I have to put up with is the 2 mid 30s people that flirt with each other for the entire time I am there, nothing gets lifted just flirtin.

    Do people actually take selfies of themselves in the gym


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