Types of Guys At The Gym

[COdiak]

 

[method2madness]

What about "advice" guy? I've been training for 31 years and I know a lot of stuff but even I know that I can always learn but nothing annoys me more in the gym than guys going and giving unsolicited advice to people. Even if its good advice assuming that you know better than someone else before knowing them and their goals pisses me off.

 

[USMuscle9403]

What about "advice" guy? I've been training for 31 years and I know a lot of stuff but even I know that I can always learn but nothing annoys me more in the gym than guys going and giving unsolicited advice to people. Even if its good advice assuming that you know better than someone else before knowing them and their goals pisses me off.

I've had them come up and tell me that I'm doing so and so exercise wrong. Well thank fuck for that because that's not the exercise I was doing?!

 

[Brock456]

When did tight sweatpants become a thing?

Tight sweat pants? I see guys wearing spandex pants like women and spandex shorts! Somewhat big dudes too.

Unless your Ronnie Coleman from 2003 no man should be wearing leggings. They’re meant for women.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

...oh, and the women with the high waisted shorts/pants. If you’re gonna show your midsection, why does it have to look like it’s pulled all the way up?

This is one new fad I don't understand at all. I can't stand it

 

[pheenix]

I wear UA shorts, even in 18 degrees east coast Jan-Feb with hoodie. Converse prison sneakers, no headphones. In florida, same bs just UA shirt instead of hoodie. I will nod to certain people but just keep it going.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

The gym over the last few years has for surely turned into a place of show off your fashion. I hate the people on their phone sitting on something I want to use. I get it, your phone is your music, I must look like a moron still with my ipod. No phone, no emails and no one from work bugging me at the gym.

 

[totalrecomp]

wtf with pants right now????

cant even find sweat pants with open legs!!!!
mens jeans with stretchy stuff!!!! wtf
seriously there are no more normal pants!
i feel like fucking peter pan....

My mother in law bought me a pair of adidas pants 12 years ago at my first Christmas with my now wife. I wore them so much she has been buying a new pair every year. I finally told her this year to please stop as they have been getting tighter at the ankle year after year and now when I squat or even sit down the back pulls down. Basically if you plan to do anything more than stand in them they are useless.

Ladies, shorts pulled up to your collarbone do NOT look good. If you do not have a flat stomach the solution is to not show it............as opposed to wearing shorts up to your chin. Even knock out bodies look terrible in these styles IMO. YMMV

Might be time to merge this with the getting old thread lol. Damn kids............

 

[salamander]

The gym over the last few years has for surely turned into a place of show off your fashion. I hate the people on their phone sitting on something I want to use. I get it, your phone is your music, I must look like a moron still with my ipod. No phone, no emails and no one from work bugging me at the gym.

When I see someone w/o music, I automatically think they are a) deep b) intelligent or some combination of both.

 

[Fit2Serve]

He did miss the screamers, dudes that sound like they´re getting ass raped during a set and girls that sound like they´re filming a porno, the swingers, dudes that swing the weight up and have no control of it when lowering in the eccentric phase, the plate smashers, dudes that drop the weight when using machines to make a noise during every rep to let you know they´re using half the stack, the "woo-hoo" boys, dudes that shout out the aforementioned sound at the end of a set like they just broke a world record, the skunks, motherfuckers that think personal hygiene does not pertain to them...

there is a seasoned vet here that believes you arent having a heavy workout unless u are making noise.... pretty bizarre lol. he actually gets irritated that people are quiet while working out lmao
takes all kinds i guess
-F

 

[Nyoco]

there is a seasoned vet here that believes you arent having a heavy workout unless u are making noise.... pretty bizarre lol. he actually gets irritated that people are quiet while working out lmao
takes all kinds i guess
-F

I´m sort of "in the zone" when I work out, I wouldn´t call it a moving meditation but I´m not thinking of anything else and focused on the mind / muscle connection, I really like that aspect of training and a screamer would completely ruin it. Talking of noise, I stopped watching tennis games for that reason, I might watch if Federer is playing because he´s the only guy left not making weird noises when he hits the ball, some of the women are plain embarassing to watch / listen, Sharapova was really bad.

 

[USMuscle9403]

When I see someone w/o music, I automatically think they are a) deep b) intelligent or some combination of both.

I don't listen to music while working out, so you'd be wrong on both counts.

 

[chingaling]

I’ll add this ..... stop fucking filming yourself doing a set. Stop asking someone to film you. Stop setting your phone up against something to film yourself . It’s stupid.... and gay. Don’t give me some bs reason how you can critique your form and correct some things. STFU. Chicks stop wearing those stupid yoga pants pulled up to your tits. That’s dumb also . Dudes..... don’t wear yoga pants. That’s just some disturbing shit to see . It’s like a dumper fire and nothing good can come from that. Cut your man buns too..... Jesus .

 

[TheOtherOne55]

My local gym closed down and the only thing left open is a gym that was started by a famous Instagrammer.
He's got a crazy following....BUT, they're all 17-26yr old dudes who are justttt now learning to put on muscle, learning gym etiquette, allll that shit. It's fucking brutal.

Every day I walk in and see at least 5 dudes, 160lbs soaking wet at the MOST, alllll shirtless in the gym posing. I bite my tongue so hard.

Maybe my body dysmorphia is a little TOO real, but i have never been that guy. No matter how big or lean I've been (and I've been BOTH at the same time), Ive always thought to myself, "Nah, you aren't there yet" or "nope, you need bigger rear lats" and all that. My body has never been "good enough" to take my shirt off at a gym and flex in the mirror....even at a lean 250, that's just not my style.

 

[thethinker48]

My local gym closed down and the only thing left open is a gym that was started by a famous Instagrammer.
He's got a crazy following....BUT, they're all 17-26yr old dudes who are justttt now learning to put on muscle, learning gym etiquette, allll that shit. It's fucking brutal.

Every day I walk in and see at least 5 dudes, 160lbs soaking wet at the MOST, alllll shirtless in the gym posing. I bite my tongue so hard.

Maybe my body dysmorphia is a little TOO real, but i have never been that guy. No matter how big or lean I've been (and I've been BOTH at the same time), Ive always thought to myself, "Nah, you aren't there yet" or "nope, you need bigger rear lats" and all that. My body has never been "good enough" to take my shirt off at a gym and flex in the mirror....even at a lean 250, that's just not my style.

My gym has no restrictions for no shirts or anything else

Quite a few gym shark guys doing hammer curls with their shirt off. It's like a zoo; primate behavior.

Meanwhile there's a 40 something guy who comes in, former football/wrestler, works his way up to 700 lbs on deadlifts for reps. Oversized shirt, logbook in hand, very polite. I like that guy

 

[Brock456]

I’ll add this ..... stop fucking filming yourself doing a set. Stop asking someone to film you. Stop setting your phone up against something to film yourself . It’s stupid.... and gay. Don’t give me some bs reason how you can critique your form and correct some things. STFU. Chicks stop wearing those stupid yoga pants pulled up to your tits. That’s dumb also . Dudes..... don’t wear yoga pants. That’s just some disturbing shit to see . It’s like a dumper fire and nothing good can come from that. Cut your man buns too..... Jesus .

The worst is the guy with the tripods who set it up and film themselves.

I seriously can’t get over the men in tights thing. You’re not even a man for wearing them.....
spandex shorts too. Ughhh can’t even look at those dudes

 

[USMuscle9403]

The worst is the guy with the tripods who set it up and film themselves.

I seriously can’t get over the men in tights thing. You’re not even a man for wearing them.....
spandex shorts too. Ughhh can’t even look at those dudes

What the fuck, when did guys start bringing tripods in? Even my pansy ass gym probably would not permit (or at least frown upon lol) that

 

[Brock456]

What the fuck, when did guys start bringing tripods in? Even my pansy ass gym probably would not permit (or at least frown upon lol) that

I see it all the time dude! Unfortunately

 

[NGL34]

Im at this new gym bc its the only one open in my area and I have every single one of these kind of guys you guys speak there. However theres one kid that amuses me the most. Hes the guy that just started cycling, probably on a dbol only cycle, and he is blown up and "boofy" looking like the michellin man. He's like 5'6 or 5'7 and 235-240lbs of fat and water. He waddles around in his stringer top with his chin way high with the imaginary lats syndrome and chest/ tits puffed out and if he is trying to intimidate or get attention from other members because he thinks hes "big" like muscular big, but in reality he just really fat. I wouldnt be so hard on him if he were a little more humble and congruent acting to his true fluffy nature. I just ignore him and every other douche I pass by in there.

 

[NGL34]

I dont want anyone to take my last post wrong. I dont really pay any attention to anyone in the gym or like talking shit about others, but you all know there are those that try so hard to be seen or noticed that you can help stop and take note of there silly behavior.