Seasonal "gym rats"? WTF?

[cecray3]

It never fails...every year the closer and closer we get to summer the more and more "seasonal" lifters stop popping up out of the cracks. I lift early in the am for one specific reason...I don't have to wait for any machine...EVER! So, needless to say, it's usually myself and two other dedicated kooks like me. Who else is realistically gonna wake up religiously every morning and be lifting by 3:30am? Anyhow, as we get closer and closer to summer, more and more people start showing up. Obviously these people have a membership, they just are so damn lazy they only work out prior to summer? And most of them are middle-aged, average or less than average-looking individuals that wouldn't get any attention either way. If they were doing it for the health benefits, that would be one thing, but it's just so coincidental how it occurs just prior to the start of summer. Who are they kidding? The only thing they're accomplishing is frustrating the hell outta me and I may just have to start whackin' these sons of bitches! Well, enough for my post-workout venting session.

 

[Pekkerwood]

I definately see your point, but as I have gotten older and the number of my peers who go to the gym daily has dropped and especially in the weight room, I give credit to everyone who even shows up. Even that little bit of ffort is more than most do.

With that said, I had to unrack 4 plates from each side of the hammer incline machine so a guy with a trainer doing 1 25 lb plate could work in.

 

[eroc613]

I agree, but without them, the gym closes. Gym's don't make money on us, they make money on the members that don't show up. So really, we benifit from the lazy ones that don't show up most of the time, cause if it wasn't for them there would be hardly any gym's in business.

 

[BOOMSHAKER]

I love this time of the year. Because all the babes come out of the wood works and start hitting the gym makes for easy pickings! bahahaha

It's like the run of the salmons up stream and the bears are waiting for them at the fall scooping them up! LOL

 

[gordo14]

I concur.....

I love this time of the year. Because all the babes come out of the wood works and start hitting the gym makes for easy pickings! bahahaha

It's like the run of the salmons up stream and the bears are waiting for them at the fall scooping them up! LOL

Great minds think alike!

 

[mr. boom]

The rats have invaded my gym also.

 

[TLTL]

I agree with boomshaker lots of new milfs n hot lil college girls who think ther fat but really arent,gettin ready to put on that bathing suit for summer.

 

[inoverdrive]

You do have to have em to kee pthe gym running but my problem is (I go to the YMCA) is all the damn 120lb high school kids that come in, lift with terrible form almost killing themself, and taking up space just talking about how there gonna get f***ed up at the weekends party. Like cecray3 said, it would be different if they were there and serious but all the kids do is get in the way!

 

[CB]

All they want to train is abs, chest and biceps.......hilarious. Doesn't anyone know what lower body is anymore. I guess the long board shorts hide chicken legs, so they forget about them

 

[inoverdrive]

All they want to train is abs, chest and biceps.......hilarious. Doesn't anyone know what lower body is anymore. I guess the long board shorts hide chicken legs, so they forget about them

Your exactly right. Hell even the regulars rarely do there lower body.

 

[wrought]

We just got rid of the last of the resolutioners and now the beachers have arrived.

Ok, so name the seasonal gym pylons:

Resolutioners - January to March
Spring Breakers - usually only around universities
Beachers - April to June
.......after that its nice and quiet (or maybe I'm just blocking it out). What do you guys call them?

 

[sbv]

All they want to train is abs, chest and biceps.......hilarious. Doesn't anyone know what lower body is anymore. I guess the long board shorts hide chicken legs, so they forget about them

haha let alone the lower body, what's even worse is that they don't train the back, or maybe they do some pulldowns with their biceps, get no results and leave it at that.

some of those guys have good genetics for mass too... it's such a shame
they end up with decent biceps but no back whatsoever and sometimes no triceps... stupid looking arms, stupid looking frame

 

[thebrick]

All they want to train is abs, chest and biceps.......hilarious. Doesn't anyone know what lower body is anymore. I guess the long board shorts hide chicken legs, so they forget about them

yeah, they get on the cables and do set after set after set of crossovers for 45 minutes while watching themselves in the mirror then they do bicep curls on the cables for set after set after set while watching themselves in the mirror

 

[VanR__]

My gym is the opposite. After the resolutioners are gone, it's a ghost town till after fall.

 

[UglyDucklingSyndrome]

I live by one of the largest college campuses in the country. Between the new years people and the "spring breakers", its so packed and ridiculous in the gym around here... Nearly impossible to get on a cardio machine :-(

 

[sup]

I love this time of the year. Because all the babes come out of the wood works and start hitting the gym makes for easy pickings! bahahaha

Screenshot or it didn't happen.....

It's like the run of the salmons up stream and the bears are waiting for them at the fall scooping them up! LOL

rofl.. true enough

in our gym there are 2 older guys (50's) who camp the only 2 eliptical machines worth a shit for 60 minutes at a time.. so annoying

 

[tomuchgear]

i just call them douchbags. i lift at diffrent times becouse my work schedule. i always plan to be there at the times when normal people are at work. drives me crazy when you get rude little scrawny shits in there messing up the gym, not racking there weights. then they hog machines or stations i just want to pick up a 45lbs plate and say catch. my gym gets real bad just before spring break then stays that way till early september. i had to quit going to the ymca my workouts would take freaking hour and a half. my current gym 30-45 minutes and i am done. i hated lifting at the freaking ymca with all the snot nosed punks.

 

[Air Supply]

With that said, I had to unrack 4 plates from each side of the hammer incline machine so a guy with a trainer doing 1 25 lb plate could work in.

Why did you let him work in ?

 

[Pekkerwood]

My old age, I try to be like Earl and "Ride the Karma Train". I understand that the trainer is trying earn a living so I show them as much respect as possible, and it does not happen often, and quite frankly, I think he just did not think about the amount of weight cause we were kinda laughing about it with his client

 

[Ashop]

I love this time of the year. Because all the babes come out of the wood works and start hitting the gym makes for easy pickings! bahahaha

It's like the run of the salmons up stream and the bears are waiting for them at the fall scooping them up! LOL

Good way to look at it.