Tales From The Road ....

[hotttsauce]

I am sure a lot of you on here are road warriors like me, traveling for business, vacations, etc., and have good, bad or funny experiences at gyms.

Usually I know where I am gonna workout, but sometimes it is up in the air.

I was in Cleveland today then shot up to Lansing, Michigan for appointments tomorrow and in the evening before heading back home Friday morning. Usually I stay on the east side where I am more familiar, but ended up staying on the west side cause of my itinerary.

So I ask at the front desk dude where is the closest gym and he tells me the Marriott has an agreement with Fitness USA but he needed to check something real quick. Turns out I am in luck, every other day is mens night ..... yea mens night. Meaning one nite is for guys, the next night is for gals. I laugh to myself and think ... ok, I seriously have to check this place out now. Sucks though, cause it is always nice getting to see some lady talent at another gym

I get into the place and it is pretty spacious, with Paramount and Nautilus and some free weights. I'm like, ok, I can make do with this and heck it's free so why not.

I go over the the rack (which is a smith machine) and start warming up for squats. A trainer at the place comes over with a client and asks if they can work in and I am like heck yea, sure. I then realize they only have 6 45lb. plates by the rack. So I ask the trainer where the rest are and he says that's all we have. 6 - 45lb plates for the whole gym .... YES 6 ..... That Is It .... and it's leg night. So I make do with loading the thing with all the 45's and 35's I can find.

I get done and you would have thought I was Godzilla working out there. I didn't even grunt cause I could feel the eyeballs buring into the back of my head already.

All the 'big guys' (you can always tell who they are at the gym) are staring and talking ...... making fun of me shortness I am sure. The trainer comes over to me and says, 'how did you do that so easy, I could never do that much weight, it would break my back'. I am thinking to myself, sweet jesus, it really wasn't that much, they would crap in there if some of you guys waltzed in to workout. Wasn't really bothered at all after that, finished up my workout, hit cardio and jetted.

I guess you had to be there, but it was just super funny to me and I am bored and wanted to vent and see if anyone else has the kinds of things happen when they are traveling. Seems where ever I go there is something odd/weird that occurs at the gym, or the gym is weird itself and guess I hoped others have these kinda experience to so I don't feel so alone .... lol!

 

[mark123can]

I am sure a lot of you on here are road warriors like me, traveling for business, vacations, etc., and have good, bad or funny experiences at gyms.

Usually I know where I am gonna workout, but sometimes it is up in the air.

I was in Cleveland today then shot up to Lansing, Michigan for appointments tomorrow and in the evening before heading back home Friday morning. Usually I stay on the east side where I am more familiar, but ended up staying on the west side cause of my itinerary.

So I ask at the front desk dude where is the closest gym and he tells me the Marriott has an agreement with Fitness USA but he needed to check something real quick. Turns out I am in luck, every other day is mens night ..... yea mens night. Meaning one nite is for guys, the next night is for gals. I laugh to myself and think ... ok, I seriously have to check this place out now. Sucks though, cause it is always nice getting to see some lady talent at another gym

I get into the place and it is pretty spacious, with Paramount and Nautilus and some free weights. I'm like, ok, I can make do with this and heck it's free so why not.

I go over the the rack (which is a smith machine) and start warming up for squats. A trainer at the place comes over with a client and asks if they can work in and I am like heck yea, sure. I then realize they only have 6 45lb. plates by the rack. So I ask the trainer where the rest are and he says that's all we have. 6 - 45lb plates for the whole gym .... YES 6 ..... That Is It .... and it's leg night. So I make do with loading the thing with all the 45's and 35's I can find.

I get done and you would have thought I was Godzilla working out there. I didn't even grunt cause I could feel the eyeballs buring into the back of my head already.

All the 'big guys' (you can always tell who they are at the gym) are staring and talking ...... making fun of me shortness I am sure. The trainer comes over to me and says, 'how did you do that so easy, I could never do that much weight, it would break my back'. I am thinking to myself, sweet jesus, it really wasn't that much, they would crap in there if some of you guys waltzed in to workout. Wasn't really bothered at all after that, finished up my workout, hit cardio and jetted.

I guess you had to be there, but it was just super funny to me and I am bored and wanted to vent and see if anyone else has the kinds of things happen when they are traveling. Seems where ever I go there is something odd/weird that occurs at the gym, or the gym is weird itself and guess I hoped others have these kinda experienced to so I don't feel so alone .... lol!

thats quite normal-90% of gym goers are not hardcore,even the trainers in my gym are pussies and stare at anyone whos putting in some effort and not chatting for 10 minutes between sets about some gay thing that happened them recently

 

[oldfella]

I hear ya Steve. Even the gym I train at is full of posers and wannabe's. I do not consider myself to be king of te jungle but when I train i do just that, train. My GF and I get more stares and weird looks from people at the gym because here I am nearly 50 and lifting more than two to three times the weight that the youger guys do. But I make it look pretty easy as I do it. We just go about our biz and bang 40-50 minutes later we are done while half of the rest of the gym is still on their first exercise.

The other day we were loading the leg press (my gf and I) for my heavy set. One of the female trainers was with her client and was staring over at us. I did not see her but my GF did. I see my GF make some form of hand gesture and shrug her shoulders at the trainer. After I did my set I asked Lauri what was going on and she said that the female trainer was giving us some very angry looks. I said wtf for? My gf just shook her head ad said I guess it was because we were loading the leg press with 600kgs! But why the dirty stares and why the agro? I just told my GF to forget it and take a good hard look at the trainer, that will explain everything. I am lucky because I have a super good relationship with the gym manager and she is on my side with these wannabe trainers. She admits that they are all not real good but they pay rent to train there so it is an easy slice of pie for her (the manager).

 

[thebrick]

I enjoyed that story!

Men's night? maybe they could do co-ed and just hand out chastity belts?

I don't travel with my job but I workout at a gym with a lot of younger guys that look almost high school age. When I load up the bar heavy for deadlifts, I sorta feel like a monkey in a cage sometimes because of all the stares and occasional finger pointing. The funniest instance was when I just finished a set of deads and this older guy who was watching comes up and asks me "Can I ask you something?" Sure, I said. He asks, "Do you murder people for a living?", kinda laughing. That one caught me by surprise and I just laughed and said "no".

 

[deadandgone]

Good stories guys...

and The Brick, i think im the one that asked you if you murder people..haha

Really though im one of the ones staring thinking "that guy is nucking futz".. then call a couple people and tell them what i saw that day..

well done men

 

[MAINEVENT]

Oh, Hott...your soooo strong. Your my hero!:ort-smi:jumpi;g-s:ange:-smi

BTW, almost thought you made it to the gym tonight when i saw your truck in the parking lot.

 

[abolish the weak]

Funniest thing I ever saw in a gym was at a Planet Fitness in Tenn. There was this big, huge tunnel in the middle of the place that was some sort of wind tunnel, for all the sweaty pussies to walk through for relief after their sets,hahaha

 

[0o0o0o]

I am thinking to myself, sweet jesus, it really wasn't that much, they would crap in there if some of you guys waltzed in to workout.

lol they sure would at the gym I used to go too, lol its like a freak show when any huge body builder comes in. there was a power lifter one time had 4 45's on each side, everyone gathered around him and from even from 200 ft were watching him, i mean from the other side of the gym... lol but he did like 2 reps w/ a shirt and a HUGE spot lol, then added 1 25 for a half rep

Men's night? maybe they could do co-ed and just hand out chastity belts?

I don't travel with my job but I workout at a gym with a lot of younger guys that look almost high school age. When I load up the bar heavy for deadlifts, I sorta feel like a monkey in a cage sometimes because of all the stares and occasional finger pointing. The funniest instance was when I just finished a set of deads and this older guy who was watching comes up and asks me "Can I ask you something?" Sure, I said. He asks, "Do you murder people for a living?", kinda laughing. That one caught me by surprise and I just laughed and said "no".

lol that's weird man... but at my old gym there was a group of teenage Colombians that came every day at three and raided the free weights lol like at least 20.. switched gyms...i feel your pain

 

[0o0o0o]

Funniest thing I ever saw in a gym was at a Planet Fitness in Tenn. There was this big, huge tunnel in the middle of the place that was some sort of wind tunnel, for all the sweaty pussies to walk through for relief after their sets,hahaha

lol i would be in there sounds like fun, there are gyms in Europe that are nude gyms lol

 

[abolish the weak]

lol i would be in there sounds like fun, there are gyms in Europe that are nude gyms lol

its just so hilarious to me when gyms throw in all of these amenities to candy coat fitness. Then you have guys like Ronnie Coleman who work out at Metroflex gym where its 120 deg and no A/C, and all of the morons want advice from the big guys. Its like you just wish the big guy would turn to them and say , you know my secret? I aint a puss

 

[oldfella]

Yea kinda like when some one askede TOM PRINCE what system he used for training. He looked at him puzzled and said what do you mean? The kid then spouts off, You know, X reps, rest pause, pyramid, supersets, drop sets, which one do you use?

TOM replied Oh I use the JFL system!! The kid says JFL? What is that?
PRINCE replies "JUST FUCKIN LIFT"!!!

 

[JETHRO TULL]

Hot, they have a terrible little "community center" here.

In this dippy little town where I live in the winter. They have a huge block of time for women and very little for everyone else. The have an OLD multi-station universal, a bench, and a sit up board....if there are 2-3 people it's crowed.

I cannot squat or bench in there or even barbell row without taking up all the weights or room in the place.

You see why I post all the retarded pics training in my living room? I have very little choice.

Glad you got to lift though....It would have been easy to sit in the hotel and not lift. Nice job.

 

[mikeyt869]

its just so hilarious to me when gyms throw in all of these amenities to candy coat fitness. Then you have guys like Ronnie Coleman who work out at Metroflex gym where its 120 deg and no A/C, and all of the morons want advice from the big guys. Its like you just wish the big guy would turn to them and say , you know my secret? I aint a puss

i think your right on the money, ive seen a lot of guys that want to be big but never break a sweat. Then they go and eat 2 or 3 time daily below maintenance and expect to gain.

 

[hotttsauce]

Thanks for sharing your stories guys. It just cracked my ass up about needing every weight in the gym to workout (the smith machine musta been counter balanced or something ) and guys and gals having seperate nights to workout. Makes ya realize where ya workout sometimes isn't so bad after all. There is another gym a lil further down the road called 'Go Workout' .... Think I will cut my losses and just do cardio today!

Oh, Hott...your soooo strong. Your my hero!:ort-smi:jumpi;g-s:ange:-smi

BTW, almost thought you made it to the gym tonight when i saw your truck in the parking lot.

Shut Up Dick! Its game on Friday and I will get to you in your 'OH MAIN IS SO WONDERFUL (GAG) THREAD!

Yea, she is using my whip while hers is in the shop, wondered if you'd even MAKE IT to the gym last night I am just waiting for your next remark and I totally set you up for it!

In this dippy little town where I live in the winter. They have a huge block of time for women and very little for everyone else. The have an OLD multi-station universal, a bench, and a sit up board....if there are 2-3 people it's crowed.

I cannot squat or bench in there or even barbell row without taking up all the weights or room in the place.

You see why I post all the retarded pics training in my living room? I have very little choice.

Glad you got to lift though....It would have been easy to sit in the hotel and not lift. Nice job.

Wow, now I understand why you poured so much into your home gym. Like always, your results speak for themselves (and I am not just talking about those sexy underwear pics)