Gym annoyances

I know some of you guys here go to the gym, and those that do will probably recognize at least some of my peeves about those places...

1. If you're working in on a piece of equipment with someone, don't hold them up by bullshitting with your buddy while sitting on the machine. Like this morning, I'm working on the wide-grip row machine and this guy asks to work in. I finish my set, get off so he can sit down, and suddenly his friend walks by they they start talking for a minutes or two while I'm waiting do do my next set. Annoying.

2. If you're a sweaty bastard, please wipe off the machine after you use it. I can't count the number of times I've gone to use a piece of equipment and have found pools of sweat all over it. One time a buddy and I were waiting for this fat guy to finish using the leg curl machine. He gets off, and there's a huge puddle of sweat all over the pad. There's signs all over the gym reminding people to wipe off machines after use and this guy was just going to leave his disgusting excretion there. I stopped him and said, "Hey, guy, you would mind wiping off the machine? That's fucking nasty". "Hey, buddy, we all sweat." He replied. "Yeah, well, we all piss too, do you want me to piss all over the next machine you plan on using?" He wiped the machine down.

3. Do not hang out in the locker room naked. I can understand if you took a shower, and need to get changed, fine. But if you're home, do you shave naked? Brush your teeth naked? Style your hair naked? Stand around and chat casually with your buddies naked? No. Then why are you doing it in a fucking locker room with other guys walking around?!? NOTE: If you like to hang around in a men's locker room naked YOU ARE A HOMO.

4. When you're done with a bar or machine, please strip the plates off. I remember this guy was using the leg press machine, and he was doing pathetic quarter-inch reps with 18 45-pound plates loaded on it. Then he got up and left it there. We had to track the guy down and remind him to unload the machine when you're done. I swear, people are assholes.

5. Put the dumbbells back on the rack. Nothing's more fun than having to waste 10 minutes frying to find the second 45-pound dumbbell because some idiot decided to drag it into the corner behind the lateral machine and leave it there.

6. Use deodorant. Working out near a stinky bastard sucks.

7. Gyms that leave a "out of order" sign on a piece of equipment for weeks at a time instead of getting it fixed right away are lame.

8. Gyms that get rid of broken equipment instead of replacing it are lame. I stopped going to this one gym a while back because they got rid of the 100 year old seated calf raise machine and the Smith machine because they were too cheap to get new ones. Bye-bye.

9. Note to 80 year old men who like to hang around gyms doing nothing but talking to hot young women: You will never fuck them. They talk to you because you're an amusing old man that probably reminds them of their grandpa, not because they want your shriveled up and crusty genitalia. Give it up.

Anyone have anything else to add?

This is why I have workout equipment in the basement...so I don't have to deal with that shit.

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Originally Posted by Klonoa

This is why I have workout equipment in the basement...so I don't have to deal with that shit.

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This is exactly my feelings. Except I just sit in my dorm room and eat pop tarts.

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Originally Posted by Klonoa

This is why I have workout equipment in the basement...so I don't have to deal with that shit.

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I used to work out at home too, but you can only do so much there. Having access to the machines, the heavy set dumbbells, the cardio equipment and people to ask for spots on heavy lifts outweigh the annoynaces you might run into there. Besides, some gyms are better than others. The Gold's Gym in Deer Park, NY is flawless.

None of that stuff is a problem at my gym.... but we do have people who put the barbell weights back on the rack in totally random orders. I love having to move 3 5's and a 10 to reach the 25 sitting behind them. Even better is when you have to move the 25 on the top peg to unblock the 10 on the peg below it.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

6. Use deodorant. Working out near a stinky bastard sucks.

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I cannot stress this enough... Especially if you're gonna do cardio...

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

2. If you're a sweaty bastard, please wipe off the machine after you use it. I can't count the number of times I've gone to use a piece of equipment and have found pools of sweat all over it.

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That is so fuggin nasty, I'll never join a gym pretty much for this reason. Even wiping down doesn't really do much, there's still lots of germs hanging around. Working out in someone elses sweat, way up their on my disgusting list.

Just work out at home.

I hated going to the gym. Mostly because i'm a skinny wuss lifting far less than anyone else, including girls.

I'll add that, the few times I have gone to the bathroom at the gym, I have NEVER, not ONCE, seen somebody wash their hands after they've gone.

I also hate stupid bastards that take like 20 paper towels off the dispenser (this is outside the bathroom), bunch them up, and wipe a spot of sweat off their forehead before they throw the wad out.

PS - everyone that suggested working out at home, any particular recommendations as far as equipment goes? Or are you just using free weights?

I can understand problems with gas-buildup, but if you're gonna start blasting while doing squats, find a place that's not likely to be used by anyone before you begin or your gonna chase people off.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

PS - everyone that suggested working out at home, any particular recommendations as far as equipment goes? Or are you just using free weights?

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Hauling shit, cutting firewood and building/breaking furniture. It's great execise and it never feels like your exercising.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

PS - everyone that suggested working out at home, any particular recommendations as far as equipment goes? Or are you just using free weights?

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As far as freeweights go, just get yourself:

A set of adjustable dumbbells and a barbell

A selection of plates to load onto said bumbells and barbell, ranging between 2 1/2 to 20 pounds.

A bench that you can switch between flat and incline, with maybe a leg curl/extension attachment on the end as well.

You can do most basic freeweight exercises with that setup.

There's some home gym machines on the market as well...some good, some shit. That one that Chuck Norris advertises (I forget the name) isn't bad if you're just looking to tone up.

Many (most?) Gymaholics amuse me with their severe insecurities. Their egos are so damn fragile, that they do anything to boost them.

I used to teach self-defense classes at a gym, and all too often there were gymaholics giving crap to my students and other instructors: "You think you're tough, Karate man? I can fuck you up anyday!"

Its like they feel threatened because there are a bunch of people in the next room learning martial arts- who are probably much smaller than them (that's why they are there).

I had to break up several fights after classes due to them picking fights with students. (And yes, the muscleheads were tougher than 120 lb. teenagers) We finally stopped having classes there and moved them to my friend's garage.

Worst part: the gym owners did NOTHING to stop the troubles. Assholes.

Just buy one of those doorway pullup bars. Between variations on that, pushups and situps, that's more than enough.

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Originally Posted by Zerodash

Many (most?) Gymaholics amuse me with their severe insecurities. Their egos are so damn fragile, that they do anything to boost them.

I used to teach self-defense classes at a gym, and all too often there were gymaholics giving crap to my students and other instructors: "You think you're tough, Karate man? I can fuck you up anyday!"

Its like they feel threatened because there are a bunch of people in the next room learning martial arts- who are probably much smaller than them (that's why they are there).

I had to break up several fights after classes due to them picking fights with students. (And yes, the muscleheads were tougher than 120 lb. teenagers) We finally stopped having classes there and moved them to my friend's garage.

Worst part: the gym owners did NOTHING to stop the troubles. Assholes.

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Cot damn thats pathetic.......didnt these guys see Karate Kid?
See, in my Gymkata class at the local gym, all of the muscle heads step aside when they see my beginning level students flip around and karate chop cinderblocks while sommersaulting offa the uneven bars. That kind of thing humbles anyone. :chunobi:

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Originally Posted by Zerodash

Worst part: the gym owners did NOTHING to stop the troubles. Assholes.

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They set you up so you would leave. You really should practice your nut-busting skills on these guys.

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Originally Posted by MVS

Just buy one of those doorway pullup bars. Between variations on that, pushups and situps, that's more than enough.

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Enough for anything but intense body building.

Which means its enough for just about anyone.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

I'll add that, the few times I have gone to the bathroom at the gym, I have NEVER, not ONCE, seen somebody wash their hands after they've gone.

I also hate stupid bastards that take like 20 paper towels off the dispenser (this is outside the bathroom), bunch them up, and wipe a spot of sweat off their forehead before they throw the wad out.

PS - everyone that suggested working out at home, any particular recommendations as far as equipment goes? Or are you just using free weights?

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ONLY use free weights, if you use something with rubber bands or cables you need a crotch kicking.

Weider is my personal preference for benches, they are built as solid as it gets.

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Originally Posted by Zerodash

I used to teach self-defense classes at a gym, and all too often there were gymaholics giving crap to my students and other instructors: "You think you're tough, Karate man? I can fuck you up anyday!"

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'Roids. All that extra testosterone turns 'em into hyper-aggresive assholes. I personally think it would be cool if my gym had self-defense classes.

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Originally Posted by Gymkata

Cot damn thats pathetic.......didnt these guys see Karate Kid?

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The Karate Kid was a pussy. Everyone kicked his ass, and he only won with tricks. He seemed to turn into even more of a wuss as the series went on.

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Originally Posted by JMET

Weider is my personal preference for benches, they are built as solid as it gets.

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My Weider bench fell apart pretty quickly. Hopefully that was the exception.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

The Karate Kid was a pussy. Everyone kicked his ass, and he only won with tricks. He seemed to turn into even more of a wuss as the series went on.

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I thought he grew out of it by the time he was in Japan, they should've never made the third.

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Originally Posted by voltz

I thought he grew out of it by the time he was in Japan, they should've never made the third.

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You mean Okinawa. But he got his ass kicked repeatedly in all three movies. What a cunty little wuss. Mr. Miyagi must have been playing a joke on him.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

3. Do not hang out in the locker room naked. I can understand if you took a shower, and need to get changed, fine. But if you're home, do you shave naked? Brush your teeth naked? Style your hair naked? Stand around and chat casually with your buddies naked? No. Then why are you doing it in a fucking locker room with other guys walking around?!? NOTE: If you like to hang around in a men's locker room naked YOU ARE A HOMO.

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I agree with all of these except for this one. I DO shave, brush my teeth, style my hair, eat my breakfast naked. I don't go out of my way to STAY naked in the Men's locker room, but it doesn't bother me if a buddy of mine and I have a chat and he's swingin'. Just don't look at their wangs.

Sounds like you are the one with the problem on this one man.

Oh, and you think it is a strange feeling being near a stinky guy, or using a machine after a sweaty guy? Try grappling with a stinky guy who is dripping with sweat. Let's just say you have to get over that crap real quick if you are a wrestler/jiu-jitsu/judo/MMA player.

I hear you though. People are just plain inconsiderate. I like to think that they are just oblivious as to how inconsiderate they are, because it helps me sleep at night.

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Originally Posted by Master

I agree with all of these except for this one. I DO shave, brush my teeth, style my hair, eat my breakfast naked. I don't go out of my way to STAY naked in the Men's locker room, but it doesn't bother me if a buddy of mine and I have a chat and he's swingin'. Just don't look at their wangs.

Sounds like you are the one with the problem on this one man.

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OMG! U R TEH HOMO!!!11

Seriously dude, I can hear where you're coming from, though I still think it's a tad uncomfortable trying to wash my hands and having a big fat pasty naked guy two feet from you getting shaving cream and cut hairs all over the counter. You're right about how inconsiderate people can be.

But I'm more talking about guys that seem to actually go out of their way to be naked for extended amounts of time. My main problem is with this one guy that just seems to work out for only 5 minutes but spends HOURS in the locker room naked. Ugh.

And I doubt many other guys here would enjoy being in that situation, either, especially if the naked guy in question is Korian.

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Try grappling with a stinky guy who is dripping with sweat. Let's just say you have to get over that crap real quick if you are a wrestler/jiu-jitsu/judo/MMA player.

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Eew...
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...achmentid=1148

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

You mean Okinawa. But he got his ass kicked repeatedly in all three movies. What a cunty little wuss. Mr. Miyagi must have been playing a joke on him.

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I met the real-life "Karate Kid" (or rather the guy who the movies were inspired by) at a tournament a few years back. He's some dorky out-of-shape chubby old guy.

He was such a dork, that I had to resist every urge I had to steal his lunch money...

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

'Roids. All that extra testosterone turns 'em into hyper-aggresive assholes. I personally think it would be cool if my gym had self-defense classes.

The Karate Kid was a pussy. Everyone kicked his ass, and he only won with tricks. He seemed to turn into even more of a wuss as the series went on.

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Actualy......Its more of the thing where most people are supposed to cheer on Daniel as an underdog. Most people connect with him and feel that they are him, at least in some part of life.
Thus I felt that anyone who saw the film would remember not that Daniel kicked someones ass, but the fact that everyone should stop being asses to each other because we all got a little Karate Kid in us.


At least thats how it goes in theory.
For more information read my book
"How to use the film Karate Kid to bring about world peace and end hunger"
Wanna buy a copy? I got 50 of em in my trunk. Please buy one! I need to eat! :cry:

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Originally Posted by Master

Oh, and you think it is a strange feeling being near a stinky guy, or using a machine after a sweaty guy? Try grappling with a stinky guy who is dripping with sweat. Let's just say you have to get over that crap real quick if you are a wrestler/jiu-jitsu/judo/MMA player.

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I hear ya there. I've been wresting for close to 18 years now. I'm freakin' immune to any kind of B.O. you can dream up...

:lol: @ the owned picture. He's just lucky that half is sloppy as hell and he can probably get out. Now a propperly run arm bar on the other hand.... nuts in the face with no chance of escape.

That's probably because those years of sniffing BO burned out your sense of smell...

you poor, poor man...

There was this one lady who used to bring a spray from home and wash down every machine before using it. It started to bug me after a while... not sure why. I totally wanted to rub my nuts all over the machine when she wasn't looking. Clean THAT, bitch.

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Originally Posted by Mr-K

This is exactly my feelings. Except I just sit in my dorm room and eat pop tarts.

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You to? I like the to get the cheap ones with cartoon characters from the bent-n-dent.

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Originally Posted by Zerodash

I met the real-life "Karate Kid" (or rather the guy who the movies were inspired by) at a tournament a few years back. He's some dorky out-of-shape chubby old guy.

He was such a dork, that I had to resist every urge I had to steal his lunch money...

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Shit, you mean the movies were actually based on a real guy? :eep:

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Originally Posted by Gymkata

Actualy......Its more of the thing where most people are supposed to cheer on Daniel as an underdog. Most people connect with him and feel that they are him, at least in some part of life.
Thus I felt that anyone who saw the film would remember not that Daniel kicked someones ass, but the fact that everyone should stop being asses to each other because we all got a little Karate Kid in us.


At least thats how it goes in theory.
For more information read my book
"How to use the film Karate Kid to bring about world peace and end hunger"
Wanna buy a copy? I got 50 of em in my trunk. Please buy one! I need to eat! :cry:

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:lol: Actually, Daniel getting beat up in the first movie was forgivable, I mean that was the whole point. But by the second and especially the third movie he was still getting beat up all the time. After training with Mr. Miyagi for well over a year at that point, you'd think he'd actually be able to defend himself. The guy in the third movie said it best, "Your Karate's a JOKE!". :)

Hmm I've a few peve's at different gyms.

live in a small town so we have small mom and pop type gyms. These are usually like 2 to 3 small room gyms and get PACKED during peak hours. You pretty much can't do a regular work out during peak times cause so many people are there. Another peve about the small gyms here are that people use em as social clubs. The town is so small EVERYONE knows everyone that comes in, so they usually end up talking and chatting while wasting time doing NOTHING on a machine.

Now that I goto school in the city, I joined a HUGE gym up the block from the school. I love it more than the ones back home, but I only have some minor annoyances. Stuff like people bringing their cell phones into the gym. They'll sit there and talk on them things like they are in a business meeting while doing cardio or they'll get a call in the middle of a set and that damn thing keeps on ringing and ringing.

Another one that I've encountered at this gym is HAIRY people. I'm talking about the I'm so DAMN hairy that I can be mistaken for a bear HAIRY! It seems like these people like to show it off in the locker room or out on the floor. PLEASE cover that stuff up its not appealing to anyone.

I've not really encountered this one at the big gym, but it was a problem at the small ones. Its really annoying when people like to show out doing free weights and they are banging the holy hell out of the weights for no reason. Then they throw em down hard as hell like "YEAAAAAA DID YOU SEE THAT WEIGHT!" Yea I seen and heard you prick.

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Originally Posted by Rtificial

These are usually like 2 to 3 small room gyms and get PACKED during peak hours. You pretty much can't do a regular work out during peak times cause so many people are there.

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Yeah, my gym gets like that at night. But I go in the morning before work, and it's nice and empty. There's just enough people there to ask for a spot if you need it. Perfect.

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Another peve about the small gyms here are that people use em as social clubs. The town is so small EVERYONE knows everyone that comes in, so they usually end up talking and chatting while wasting time doing NOTHING on a machine.

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I hate that too. I go to the gym for one thing- to work out. Not to bullshit, but to do what I have to do. Period.

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Its really annoying when people like to show out doing free weights and they are banging the holy hell out of the weights for no reason. Then they throw em down hard as hell like "YEAAAAAA DID YOU SEE THAT WEIGHT!" Yea I seen and heard you prick.

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My favorite is this big bald fellow we call the "Fuck Your Sister Guy". Why do you call him that? One day he was curling a barbell, and was grunting and yelling while trying to get one last rep....finally, he screamed "FUCK YOUR SISTER!!" and finally got that last rep. He's awesome. :lol:

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

:lol: Actually, Daniel getting beat up in the first movie was forgivable, I mean that was the whole point. But by the second and especially the third movie he was still getting beat up all the time. After training with Mr. Miyagi for well over a year at that point, you'd think he'd actually be able to defend himself. The guy in the third movie said it best, "Your Karate's a JOKE!". :)

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If he didnt get beat up every time, then there would be no film, and no progress as a martial artist......maybe they should have shown more of a progression in each film....I forget...Its been so long.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

My favorite is this big bald fellow we call the "Fuck Your Sister Guy". Why do you call him that? One day he was curling a barbell, and was grunting and yelling while trying to get one last rep....finally, he screamed "FUCK YOUR SISTER!!" and finally got that last rep. He's awesome.

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Awesome..... :lol:

I hate it when some dudes at the bench press machines leave this heavy bucket of dung, I could understand doing it in the bathroom but just leaving the shit out there. Fucking wow.

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Originally Posted by Will

I hate it when some dudes at the bench press machines leave this heavy bucket of dung, I could understand doing it in the bathroom but just leaving the shit out there. Fucking wow.

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You mean they leave their shit out in the open? You need to get that outlawed.


My highschool had a good gym we could go to daily and it was cool we could bring in whatever we wanted for music. Well this one day, I don't recall the name but I had to put up with over an hour of the worst f**king rap I've ever heard. If people bring in something that's gonna be offensive, they should at least ask if it'll bother anybody.

And they need to stop farting in the same room! :yuck:

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Originally Posted by Mzo

I totally wanted to rub my nuts all over the machine when she wasn't looking. Clean THAT, bitch.

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I get sick of every toilet seat in my gym being completely sprayed with urine.

1) What kind of pussy pisses in a toilet cubicle? Men's toilets have troughs for a reason, use them! Nobody is going to look down and laugh at your little dick, well maybe they will... but get over it!

2)I'm gonna sound like a woman. But lift the fucking seat if you are going to piss!

3)What kind of grown man can not piss into the toilet without completely coating the seat in urine. For fuck's sake, every man should be able to piss accurately with no hands while holding a beer in one hand and chocolate cake in the other.

ok frosty's list
1. dropping.. now i understand going to failure, but slamming the weights down after every fucking set smashes my concentration pretty fast, an idiot did that tonight and i needed a spot because i got thrown entirely off,and this kid does it every single night. work on control first before you start trying to lift a fucking volkswagon.


2. if you can control the volume of the sound system, respect others who have headphones and leave the volume at a resonable level. i dont force my music on you, dont turn the volume up to the level that it could pop a chiuhaua. i have my headphones, so does half the weight room, there is a reason for that.

3. if there is only one heavy bag, at the northwest corner of our track, and the other 3 corners give you room enough to streach, please dont sit 3 feet in front of the heavy bag and expect me to be able to do my routine, i take up some space. occupy the empty corners first.(yes this came up tonight, still a little pissed) in a related story, dont clamp on the only heavy bag for 30 mins when you are leaning your head on it and doing miniscule hits, exercise till you cant effectively anymore,and then let the next ones on.

4. put the damn freeweights away, nothing is fun as looking for 2 50's on a disorganized pool of metal on the floor while the 3 racks stand nearly empty. your mom's tought you better.

5. screaming out when you are lifting, grunts are excuseable, maybe even a few one syllable yells, maybe, but i have dealt with several versions of dole's "fuck your sister" fellow, and its really really annoying when i can hear you screaming like a caveman over my music, too loud, take it down a notch steroid-zilla.

weightroom placement- dont thake the moveable flat benches and put them in a way as to block off the entire gym, other members want to walk around without being nailed in the balls by your bar because you decided to go diagonal and cover over half the walkway. in a related story, watch where you are going when others are exercising, dont walk 6 inches away from the front extensions machine when a person is 6 reps in, wait a few seconds, most arent going past 12 anyway, you can show some consideration.

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Originally Posted by Gymkata

If he didnt get beat up every time, then there would be no film, and no progress as a martial artist......maybe they should have shown more of a progression in each film....I forget...Its been so long.

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No, Daniel was a pussy. The Next Karate Kid beat the shit out of the bully at the end of the movie. Plus she was really hot.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

3. Do not hang out in the locker room naked. I can understand if you took a shower, and need to get changed, fine. But if you're home, do you shave naked? Brush your teeth naked? Style your hair naked? Stand around and chat casually with your buddies naked? No. Then why are you doing it in a fucking locker room with other guys walking around?!? NOTE: If you like to hang around in a men's locker room naked YOU ARE A HOMO.

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I agree with this one, big time. It seems like every old man at my gym feels the need to air it out in the locker room. I don't wanna see that.

My biggest peeve is talking though. I like to get in, get done, and get out. Some of my lifting buddies don't see it that way though.

A month or two ago I was doing some barbell curls. It was my last set, and I was going pretty heavy. Well, this old guy comes over behind me, reaches over my shoulder, and taps my buddy. Next I know, they're deep in some inane conversation, just talking right past me. This was toward the end of my set, and I growled at the guy, "Back the fuck off." Jesus.

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Originally Posted by AstroBlue

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I get sick of every toilet seat in my gym being completely sprayed with urine.

1) What kind of pussy pisses in a toilet cubicle? Men's toilets have troughs for a reason, use them! Nobody is going to look down and laugh at your little dick, well maybe they will... but get over it!

2)I'm gonna sound like a woman. But lift the fucking seat if you are going to piss!

3)What kind of grown man can not piss into the toilet without completely coating the seat in urine. For fuck's sake, every man should be able to piss accurately with no hands while holding a beer in one hand and chocolate cake in the other.

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Its not really that hard. put your legs right up to the toilet and aim at a 15 degree angle with your legs. I really have no idea how a grown man pisses on the lid and if so, has the balls the fucking leave it. A wet paper towl can clean a lot.

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Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

ok frosty's list
1. dropping..

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Um...sorry, me and my friend sometimes do that, mostly with incline dumbell presses, especially when we get pretty heavy. I usually try to lower them down to my knees and put them down quietly but sometimes you can't help but to drop them. Still, I do it in a controlled manner and the floor of most gyms is rubber anyway so it's not that noisy.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

My Weider bench fell apart pretty quickly. Hopefully that was the exception.

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Thats why you buy the Olympic sets and not the cheap Wallmart garbage.

You know you have quality when its all WELDED together instead of screwed together.

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Originally Posted by Saint of Killers

No, Daniel was a pussy. The Next Karate Kid beat the shit out of the bully at the end of the movie. Plus she was really hot.

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Hillary Swank? I thought she was kind of a butterface in that movie...I mean, her body was fucking amazing but her face was kinda horse-like. Plus, she was annoying.

But I'd hit it. Two times.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Um...sorry, me and my friend sometimes do that, mostly with incline dumbell presses, especially when we get pretty heavy. I usually try to lower them down to my knees and put them down quietly but sometimes you can't help but to drop them. Still, I do it in a controlled manner and the floor of most gyms is rubber anyway so it's not that noisy.

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that permissable. like i said, i can understand going to failure, and then not being able to finish, but as you mention, you try to be considerate and minimize the slamming. What i meant was this one guy, who otherwise is really nice, but he does these lifts from the ground with a bar , and he SLAMs them down every single rep..ok first, that is cheating because he is getting the bounce from the impact to help him lift it, and second, 30 loud clangs 10 feet from me start taking their tool on my kind and genteel nature. I have dropped in the past, usually on the squats, but that is maybe 3 times, vurses 30 a night.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Hillary Swank? I thought she was kind of a butterface in that movie...I mean, her body was fucking amazing but her face was kinda horse-like. Plus, she was annoying.

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http://www.jimiceleste.com/images/Hi...ank%20copy.jpg

You're nuts. Her face is damn near perfect.

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But I'd hit it. Two times.

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Good. I was starting to wonder about you for a second there.

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Originally Posted by Saint of Killers

Good. I was starting to wonder about you for a second there.

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This is Dolemite you're talking about, he'll hit just about damn near anything!

I hate people who get into the swimming pool, but don't swim. They just sort of walk around the pool and flap their arms. It annoys me because I'm trying to do laps and I can't do them because there's this old lady just kind of bobbing up and down in front of me.

Also, some people like to lie on the floor next to the pool for some reason. That wouldn't really bother me, but some guys have rolls and rolls of fat and wear nothing but a Speedo. It's disgusting. They look like beached whales.

Most of my peeves have already been stated: sweaty people leaving behind puddles, dropping weights, not putting dumbbells back where they belong, etc.

...and stinking up the damn joint of course.

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I hate people who get into the swimming pool, but don't swim. They just sort of walk around the pool and flap their arms. It annoys me because I'm trying to do laps and I can't do them because there's this old lady just kind of bobbing up and down in front of me.



Most of my peeves have already been stated: sweaty people leaving behind puddles, dropping weights, not putting dumbbells back where they belong, etc.

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ok i can kind of defend the water walkers. its a resistance thing, these people are probably in really poor shape, so swimming is not in their conditioning range, but running in the water is better than running on land. That said, you said they get int he way, and thats a no-no, whatever you do in a gym, consideration is absolutely key to everyone's workouts, if you are in someone's way, you need to rearrange your workout.

This chick was walking the track and talking on her cell for over a half hour straight doing the Al Bundy. Nice.

How'd you snag those pics?

Teh amazing camera phone.

She was too busy going "Jel-o? Jel-o? Joo there? Jel-o?" to notice.

Argg theres this one woman at the gym and i dread seeing her.
She follows me and my mate around everywhere i dont know her at all.
She insists on talking to me whilst im running on a treadmill, hello one false move and ill probably have false teeth from falling off that thing.
When we go to get showered she follows us, i wear either my bikini or a swimming costume into the shower and have a proper shower when i get home but no, she goes in totally but naked, shes like 50 too, come on i dont need to see what you have thanks very much.
I dont even know this womans name!
And theres this other woman who we usually get a good laugh out of when you go to the gym and are like 20 stone please please please dont wear a bikini top and hi leg shorts, good god that is not a nice sight, please put it away.

Everything else that pisses me off has alreadly bene mentioned eg...sweat pools...yuk... and stinky people how much does a can of deoderent cost, not an awful lot, at some times i have been so tempted to get my can out and sprey them but they look bigger and stronger than me!

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Teh amazing camera phone.

She was too busy going "Jel-o? Jel-o? Joo there? Jel-o?" to notice.

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Everyone has to itch sometime.

Non-stop for a half-hour? Dude, her hand never left her pants. Not once.

Sandy vagina?

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Non-stop for a half-hour? Dude, her hand never left her pants. Not once.

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Phone sex?

Another major gym annoyance is why guys feel they have to walk around the locker room naked, at my gym there is this group of guys who just stand by their lockers having a discussion BUTT NAKED, I try to change as quick as possible and get the hell out of there, it just seems like they enjoy showing themselves off to each other and the rest of the locker room a little too much. Scary.

I hate people who sit on the weight machines and do one fucking rep every 5 mins. Hurry the fuck up! I also hate it when big monster guys pile like 300 pounds of weight on a machine and don't take it off when they are done. Then I can't use it without getting a forklift to take off the weights. Also, there is this old bald guy who always works out in the shortest shorts ever, I mean they are Zap Branigen short they probably have like 1 millimeter ball clearance. *blech*

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Phone sex?

Another major gym annoyance is why guys feel they have to walk around the locker room naked, at my gym there is this group of guys who just stand by their lockers having a discussion BUTT NAKED, I try to change as quick as possible and get the hell out of there, it just seems like they enjoy showing themselves off to each other and the rest of the locker room a little too much. Scary.

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Maybe it's because they're comfortable with being naked in front of other men? You don't have to be gay to stand naked with men.

Probably doesn't hurt.

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Maybe it's because they're comfortable with being naked in front of other men? You don't have to be gay to stand naked with men.

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You gotta be pretty close to queer though.

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Maybe it's because they're comfortable with being naked in front of other men? You don't have to be gay to stand naked with men.

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I dont pride myself on being comfortable being naked ,and talking to naked dudes. If a guy was talking to me with his shlong dangling in front, I would just walk away or tell him to pack his heat up ,and get back to me later.

I do pride myself on being naked and talking to naked women. That takes skill and focus to look her in the eyes when you want to be looking elsewhere.

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Maybe it's because they're comfortable with being naked in front of other men? You don't have to be gay to stand naked with men.

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But why would you want to stand naked with men unless their gay?
i work out, come back into the locker room, i take off my clothes and wrap a towel around myself and then i take a shower by myself, dry off and get dressed quickly by myself since i usually have to go to class I cant think that I would want to surround myself with other naked men and shoot the shit with our schlongs hanging out, i find that way too gay. Now naked women standing around talking to each other, I find that interesting, Id hang out there all naked, just knowing that im surrouned by naked women, what guy wouldn't it would be awesome. :D

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Sandy vagina?

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That's gotta be 15 grit.

The number one rule in locker rooms is don't look below your waist. I don't care if something is nibbling on your foot. Keep your head up, soldier.

I don't shower or change at the gym. I go there wearing my workout clothes, work out, go home, shower there. The less contact I have with chatty fat old naked men, the better.

I do one set with 3 mins of downtime, but I let people work in. Whats the proper procedure for asking for spots? I have come to the sad realization that people are not as cool as me, and therefore don't go to the gym reliably. Still, I'm tired of not being able to do good old fashioned bench without undercutting my weight. Do I ask for a new person each set, only on sets I think I'm going to fail? Help me out here dole.

Chicks in tight clothes with nips and cameltoe making appearences aside, I pass on gyms.

Less bullshit working out at home or in the unused apartment gym at odd hours.

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Whats the proper procedure for asking for spots?

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Say, "Can I get a spot?"

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Do I ask for a new person each set, only on sets I think I'm going to fail? Help me out here dole.

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Depends. If the guy doesn't seem to mind spotting you there's no harm in asking him to spot you a few times as long as you're not fucking up his sets. If he's about to go and there's no one else around to ask, wait until he finishes his set and then ask him if he minds another spot. Most people have no problem at all with it, it's just normal gym etiquette to ask for and get spots for saftey and/or forced reps.

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Less bullshit working out at home or in the unused apartment gym at odd hours.

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Used to do that as well, but the gym is much more convenient what with all the different equipment and weights that I don't have at home. As for bullshit, I go in the AM before work, so there's barely anyone there to bother me.

Speaking of spots, try to make sure you're getting the right person for the spot.

Had a dude ask me to spot him...for 350. Brother, I ain't stopping that from dropping on your neck. The whole time I was praying, praying he could handle it.

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Speaking of spots, try to make sure you're getting the right person for the spot.

Had a dude ask me to spot him...for 350. Brother, I ain't stopping that from dropping on your neck. The whole time I was praying, praying he could handle it.

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Wow. I've only been asked to spot someone once, and I don't get why, I'm all bones.

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Speaking of spots, try to make sure you're getting the right person for the spot.

Had a dude ask me to spot him...for 350. Brother, I ain't stopping that from dropping on your neck. The whole time I was praying, praying he could handle it.

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:lol:

and on the opposite of that end, it sucks not having a spot when you really need it.My friends left early one day (of course they were my spotters), and I figured I could handle a couple more reps on my own. Got about 3 out and the fourth was NOT going to come up....at all. So like a little bitch I brought my knee up between the bar and my chest and rolled the fucker onto the ground to which the ensuing racket from all of the weights hitting the ground caught me a lot of embarrasing looks and snickers (bastards). Of course before I rolled it, I looked around for help,and everyone was in their own zone so...

Yeah, that sucks. Am I the only on whose ever done that?

It would have been funnier if you called for help and everyone in the room purposely walked out.

I'm too cheap to go to a real gym, so I go to the one at school. My only complaint is when I show up at the same time the entire baseball team or football team, whatever, all show up at the same time to train. They take up all the machines, and I'm too impatient to wait.

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It would have been funnier if you called for help and everyone in the room purposely walked out.

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That would have sucked, and I guarantee that all of those fuckers who would've walked out would have some slashed tires by the end of the night (you know because most of the guys there could've kicked my ass if I confronted them).

On hindsight, I probably should've called for help, but it would have ruined the whole machismo thing I had going.
Who knows maybe some of the people there thought that I threw the weights down like a total bad-ass who couldnt be bothered with such trifles ( I never thought of that until now :D )

I've failed on a lift or two in my time. Once I was benching without a spot and I totally gave out on the last rep…I couldn't even raise it enough to rack it on the lower rung. So I just supported the weight with my arms and rolled the bar down my body to my waist so I was able to sit up. Then I stood up holding the bar and placed it on the bench, then re-racked it. Lucky it wasn't a heavy set or I might have had more of a problem. I don't bench without a spot anymore.

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I've failed on a lift or two in my time. Once I was benching without a spot and I totally gave out on the last rep…I couldn't even raise it enough to rack it on the lower rung. So I just supported the weight with my arms and rolled the bar down my body to my waist so I was able to sit up. Then I stood up holding the bar and placed it on the bench, then re-racked it. Lucky it wasn't a heavy set or I might have had more of a problem. I don't bench without a spot anymore.

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Okay, cool so I'm not the only one. You handled it better than I did though. I got pissed,paniced and just dropped it.
Yeah, I was definitely a bit gun-shy after that happened and generally dont bench w/o a spot anymore either.

for gym music and workout music, I recommend european dance music.......

it's ALWAYS the best motivational tool for me...

.....and you don't have to tell anyone at the office if u just listen to it on the mp3 player at the gym ;) ....

.... here's a compilation series on itunes that I recommend:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=Euro+Club+Hits+Vol+

While this spam is laughable. Reading this thread again was enjoyable.

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While this spam is laughable. Reading this thread again was enjoyable.

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Reading this thread again is making me lol @ the people on the first page bitching about stinky people and sweat at the gym. It's like bitching about greasy people in the auto shop/garage.

There are these 2 people at my gym that are the fucking worst. One is this roided out dude who has to be 5'9", 250lbs of pure muscle. The other is this body building chick who used to be a dude, or took way too much testosterone.

It's obvious that these 2 are having an affair, they come to the gym separately and leave separately. When they are there they lay all over eachother, twirl around and make out, feel eachother up, and have literally zero regard for anyone else that is at the gym at the same time. Hell, they even sit in the womans car after leaving the gym to make out, which you can blatantly see when you leave since the always parks right next to the door.

lol take pictures and send it to their home addresses.

I should.

On top of that, the woman is a fucking screamer when it comes to lifting. She's fucking jacked, but no matter what weight she is lifting she grunts/screams like she is being stabbed in the gut with a knife during her last few reps. Then, even if she's lifting 20lbs, which she can easily lift, she drops the weights in exhaustion like it was the hardest set ever, and they typically fly all over hitting benches or other weights.

for gym music and workout music, I recommend european dance music.......

it's ALWAYS the best motivational tool for me...

.....and you don't have to tell anyone at the office if u just listen to it on the mp3 player at the gym ;) ....

.... here's a compilation series on itunes that I recommend:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=Euro+Club+Hits+Vol+

sorry i had to ban you, but that is some great music you linked

Hey guys, for gym music and workout music I was thinking about getting some European Dance music. Is it a good motivational tool for anybody?

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PS - everyone that suggested working out at home, any particular recommendations as far as equipment goes? Or are you just using free weights?

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I recommend avoiding free weights like the plague if you're using them to build muscle mass. It's 10X easier to hurt yourself with free weights and the results usually aren't as good either. It really is best to use machines and work every muscle group (if you ignore certain muscle groups you will eventually get injured).

I have two really big annoyances at the gym. First, the douchey wiggers that hang out in the gym all the time with their ipods but never actually do anything. It's not a gay nightclub, it's a gym, if you're not there to work out then fuck off. You're blocking the walkways. Secondly, I hate when people use gym machines as chairs or sit at a machine without using it for 15 minutes. Unless you're taking a 1 minute breather get off the machine so someone else can get a set in.

Oh yeah, I also get annoyed with all the steroid talk. Apparently it's cool to do steroids now because just about every college age kid at my gym spends more time bragging about their steroid regimen than working out.

Yeah. You know that post is 4 years old right?

Mzo has become fat and sluggish

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Hey guys, for gym music and workout music I was thinking about getting some European Dance music. Is it a good motivational tool for anybody?

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You don't have to tell anyone at the office if you just listen to it on the mp3 player at the gym.

I just noticed how old it was after I made the post.

do people still work out?

I went to a gym once because they were offering a 'student discount' and I got 3 months for $65 or so.
I haven't had that much sex since I was a Boyscout leader.

I mean, a time when I was dating a lot.

I can't stand lazy shits in the gym that take up space. The worst offenses of this happen usually after new years and when Summer 1st hits.

Fat shits in there not sweating, lifting 5lbs for 10 reps and then reading the paper between sets or while on a treadmill doing a 25 minute mile at no incline. Get the fuck out of the gym if you're not going to be serious.

Also, middle aged women who go in there to hang out with friends and just waste space and machines that some one else who's serious can use.

The most annoying thing to happen me at the gym was someone stole my towel. Now as I was doing aquarobics, the towel is freaking important. It got returned after the dude who took it used it and then realized it wasn't his. It's also bright orange, I don't know how the dude mistook it for his white towel.

Also swimmers who get all pissy there is an aquarobics class going on when they want to swim. The class is the same time every week, check the freaking board, you are SOL for an hour.

Also of note, I've never seen any women just hang out naked in the locker room, that is some strange man thing or something.

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Also of note, I've never seen any women just hang out naked in the locker room, that is some strange man thing or something.

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Do you oft find yourself in women's locker rooms? If you do and the women aren't naked perhaps you could ... encourage such behavior?

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Do you oft find yourself in women's locker rooms? If you do and the women aren't naked perhaps you could ... encourage such behavior?

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Whenever I'm at the gym I find myself in the women's locker room. And no, there are some people I'd rather never see naked.

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Do you oft find yourself in women's locker rooms? If you do and the women aren't naked perhaps you could ... encourage such behavior?

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:lol: There is some sort of gender-related failure in this exchange.




I guess you find naked men in the locker room because nobody wants to look at a wang and we all know it. Naked guys don't get stared at.

But everybody wants to see boobs.

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Whenever I'm at the gym I find myself in the women's locker room. And no, there are some people I'd rather never see naked.

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Hm, well don't be surprised that there aren't women standing around naked because I've never seen dudes stand around talking naked in the gym so it must be a rare occurrence.

And that is coming from a former Junior High Swords Champion.

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I recommend avoiding free weights like the plague if you're using them to build muscle mass. It's 10X easier to hurt yourself with free weights and the results usually aren't as good either. It really is best to use machines and work every muscle group (if you ignore certain muscle groups you will eventually get injured).

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lol

results usually aren't as good is the best part imo