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Stop looking at other people faggot

The indian kid is obviously looking back at you cause you stare at him you faggot.

talk to the Slavic guy more, he sounds like someone who knows what he's doing.

Obviously not focused enough on your workout.

>>1170305
Protip: Gyms are faggot pickup grounds. The Indian kid is checking you and other dudes out.

If you go onto your local craig's list and search "missed connections" and "m4m", I'm pretty sure you'll find several "saw you at the gym checking me out" posts, and one of them very well may be about you.

>>1170324
dude what the fuck does your name mean

There's a couple people that frequent my gym who just look lost.

They're there, and kind of float around inspecting the equipment, as if they're not sure where they are. I assume they just got a free membership trail and wanted to take a look around, but these people come back every week. They eventually settle on a smith machine or cardio equipment after watching someone else use it from afar, just so they don't embarass themselves.

30 minutes of observation and akwardness, 10 min of getting the 'right' amount of weight on, does one rep, more weight, one more rep, less weight, 5 reps, done.

Maybe they're aliens trying to figure out what the hell the purpose of this facility is.

>>1170327

bullshit.

If you don't start to notice the regulars and their behavior, then you're either blind or you just don't fucking go to your gym.

40-45 yr old guy, about 225-250 5'8-9.
Wears an old school walkman, drinks from various squirt bottles and does air guitar between sets where he grunts or strains incredibly loudly.

Huge ex-lineman 200+dollaranhour personal trainer black dude, who's favorite trick is to load up the leg press machine to the max with 45's and have 2 people sit on the weights, then press it for fun.

Gym regulars

Summer Crowd

New Years Resolution Crowd (gone by feb-mar)

>>1170368
I go at all different times because i am not a faggot

>>1170317
>>Stop looking at other people faggot

HURR DURR EYE CONTACT & BASIC SOCIAL APTITUDES R 4 FAGGOTS alright then. l2troll.

>>1170324
>>talk to the Slavic guy more

language barrier, i'm afraid. he's limited to "oh no, yes, please" & the like.

>>1170360
>>There's a couple people that frequent my gym who just look lost.
you're describing me about 4 months ago. perfectly normal, if i'm next to them i'll try to be friendly & make some brief random banter to encourage them to feel less awkward.

>>1170393
>>grunts or strains incredibly loudly

fucking irritating

pic related: what i feel when i hear that shit

>>1170403
You really are gay. DONT talk to other bros at the gym unless they talk to you first or if you want to work in a set

>>1170409
stfu faggot, that means you never push yourself.
>>1170403
hey retard, when i lift, everything else is black except for my surrounding space. I am illuminated in the dark along with the weight with my mp3 music thumping in the background.

>>1170393
Summer and New years crowd's are the worst. So many little kids on cell phones using my weights and not reracking them or standing in the rack or using the benches and adjustables... i want to smash them between two plates.

>* middle-aged, beastly-looking slavic guy who does nothing but squatz & leg presses, something like 340 & 450 respectively. he swears in whatever language he's a native in by the 6th or 7th rep (or @ least it sounds like a cuss.) he's very polite, otherwise. i think of him as a physical manifestation of /fit/, minus the trolling.

lol'd

>>1170425
There is a limit to straining noise level, once you pass normal human speech levels you're just trying to draw attention to yourself and its fucking annoying because they're usually doing pussy weight or doing it with some incredibly poor form.

I've got a ton, but I'll cut to the best ones. I'm amalgamating a bunch of different gyms I've been to in the last year (I've moved a bit). I try to do it late night, but sometimes, during the day-

- Squadron of Frat Fucks. At my Uni gym, these fuckheads come in and do nothing but curls and light bench presses, crowding up 1/4 of the weight room. That's all they do. It's as hilarious as it sounds. They seem to know not to fuck with the actual lifters, though I did have to steal a bench from them once to do some benchpresses of my own- they were sitting on the damn thing talking.
- Skinny "lifers". Sorority girls, in the gym perpetually. I think it is the same girls, but they all look the same to me. 2+ hours on an elliptical. I'm kinda impressed, kinda scared.
- The badass old man. He has to be 70, skinny as a fucking rail, but still works on benching and stuff. Saw him with a big bandage on his head, I think he hurt himself.
- This insane-ass lifting team guy. I saw him squatting over 350lbs, bending the god damn bar. I respect him like god incarnate. He doesn't seem to care about looks one jot, he's pretty chunky, but god can he lift some weight.
- Niggers. I don't mean black people, I mean the stereotypical, sandal-on-the-treadmill wearing dumbasses. Play loud music, get in my way. Are asking to be killed. At my apartment gym incessantly.
- Basketball/football players. For some reason, they look perpetually lost. Not weak or anything, just lost.
- Old women with personal trainers. Everywhere. I kinda admire them, but it is a little sad sometimes.

Good thread, I have a bad habit of watching people at the gym. Though only when they're not looking, I'm not into creepy eye-contact/obvious staring.

- We call him, "Chocklit Thunda". Buff as hell, 6-foot something black dude. Wears a white hat, white sweats, white-rimmed sunglasses, and what look like Dunks every workout. He basically trolls the weight room, alternating a set of curlz with an hour of shit-talking to himself in the mirror.

- Daniel Craig-guy. Has the face of Daniel Craig, spot on. Only he's about 5 feet tall, has this awkward faux-hawk with a frosted top, and wears green microshorts. Can be spotted smiling at young girls, chatting up the gym staff(which mostly consists of young girls), and doing leg curls.

- Over-the-top gay couple. Two tattooed masculine jacked dudes in their mid-30s who cuddle between sets. I once walked in on them getting cozy in the steam room, yeuuuggghhh.

- Token foreign guy. Think Eugene Hutz's head and Arnie's body. Squats a godly amount while shouting incoherent eastern-european jarg.

If you're making loud noises when you work out, it doesn't mean you're working hard, it means you're being an idiot.

You can keep good form, but you can't control your voice? Bullshit.

God damn attention whores expecting people to be impressed that they're doing what everyone in the room came to do.

>>1170305
>middle-aged, beastly-looking slavic
Was it Grampa Hercules?

>>1170440
Frank Yang grunts. He has great form on most of his weights at high weight.

OP just won

OP just won

i go to a school gym

I run into my professor a couple of times
I've run into him coming out of the shower a few times too....

I'm TA'ing for him too, haha

Some that I see, only work out after 10PM:

--Indian buddies. They are both hairy, smelly, have fucking popped collars. One is skinny, the other is chubby.
--A strong, chubby mexican guy. He walks around and talks to as many people as possible. At first I thought he was a perv, only hitting on girls. Then he started talking to guys too. Then old people. Then the staff. Nonstop. I think he's just lonely.
--Groups of skinny, young chicks. Very few are actually attractive. Bike/elliptical/treadmill sessions lasting over an hour.
+ all the regular weirdos you mentioned

Theres one spikey haired asian dude that always looks super serious and does his reps super fast.

I think hes trying to go super sayan.

>>1170453
You've obviously never tried Squatting 2x+ bodyweight

>>1170305
best post on /fit/ in forever

>>1170485
That's a pretty safe bet in /fit/, but if you watch most serious strength athletes training, they don't make any stupid noises when they're doing their heavy sets.

It's the bodybuilders and other clowns who put on a show.

Great thread OP

I go to a tiny private gym so I only see a few people ever.
- A hot brunette girl who stays on the elliptical for an hour. Always wears black tights. Nicest. Ass. Ever.
- Some high school guy who is nice. Knows what he is doing, but is kinda small. He looks like he is working on it though.
- The random older people who do machines.

>>1170503
show videos of these athletes who are deep in their training and are pushing themselves and not making any noise in sets where they can only do about 3 reps with maximum effort.

You wouldn't believe the people who set foot on my gym. I live near the city center, so you see every type of class/ethnicity/race/etc...
One thing you guys must know, it's that my gym is hardcore as fuck. Anyway, here it goes:

Gargantuan TITAN-class Russian dude (tall). I admire the fuck out of this dude. He does a full-body routine. He comes to the gym 3-4 times a week. He does:
Squats - Lunges
Deadlifts - Weighted pull-ups
Bench press - Incline bench
He does an INSANE amount of weight. I've seen him benching 450 for 6 easy reps. He deadlifts like 600+ and squats around 500 I think. Never seen his entire workout since he comes earlier than me.

Green haired punk kid (average height). This dude looks like he would mug you on the street, but is nicer than Ghandi. Ripped as fuck, has the most amazing 8-pack I have seen and his delts are impossible, best delt genetics I've seen. He told me once "I never train shoulders, because they grow too much, haven't trained them in 2 years" FUUUUUUUU

Nerd kid gone profeccional broseph. Kyle came to the gym a year ago, looking like he ate nothing but lettuce and air. He was shy, scared and extremely awkward. Now, he gained like 30-50 lb of muscle and changed COMPLETELY. He is using contact lenses, better clothes, looks very well. A complete make-over. I actually hang out with him now and party, he scores more than Heffner.

gold gyms venice beach,

who's there: everyone that matters

>>1170511
Continued:

"Quadzilla" This guy looks pretty buff talking about his upper body. But his legs are just amazing. He plays soccer. You wouldn't believe how detailed his legs are. You can see muscular striations in them, even though he is not that shredded. I think he squats about 3x his BW, but his bench must be around 150 or something. He doesn't look too disproportionate though. It's funny seeing him wear giant jeans + tight shirts.

"Skeletor" Buff as fuck, white as a ghost and zero fat. He swims every day, for about 10 years already + heavy lifting and perfect nutrition. Never seen a human being so shredded in real life before. I think he is between 5-6 % bodyfat, ALL YEAR. You can see vascularity in his abs/back/calves.

Olympic gymnast. Broseph comes to work his weaknesses to be better, does like 30 min max and leaves. But the intensity with which he works is impossible. Does like 50 lb lateral raises lolz. He rests about 20 sec between sets and lifts about 5x more than what you'd think he could be able to lift.

-45-50 yr old man with strangely flabby pecs considering he is at the gym lifting every day with guys that are my age (20-23). I suspect he is a professor at my university and that he is sleeping with them.
-Fitness trainer who, whilst quite attractive seems to be married and a religious freak.
-90 yr old woman on the stationary bike.
-50 yr old whale woman who uses the Nautilus equipment incorrectly with way too much weight.

>>1170535
Gay faggot - He goes to his gym looking at other lifters enough to be able to write mini descriptions of them with cute little nick names.

>>1170535

Finally, only 10 girls come to our gym. All hot and with perfect bodies. Could beat the shit out of 99% of /fit/.

I respect them all, because they work like human beings, not pussies. They do their compounds and increase the weights with time but they stay feminine.

That's it. I am also quite a character at my gym. I know almost everyone and everybody knows everybody through me. I have partied with all of those (even the Russian dude, I joined him at a bar-dance club once) I listed. really remarkable people. They are the only regulars at my gym, everybody else leaves after some time or never comes back. I <3 my gym.

At my gym I have..

-A really badass metalhead guy. Very ripped, and knows exactly what he's doing.. Perfect form and everything. And he's really helpful actually. No bro-knowledge.
-A deaf and mute guy that benchs 350. Can't talk to him.. but always offers to spot and stuff.
-Two VERY fucking smelly mexicans that kinda know what they're doing, but smell like a fucking horses asshole and count in spanish to eachother all day.
-Moderately hot women doing elipticals and treadmills. I have yet to see a girl lift weight there.
-This really super fucking skinny frail old man that walks around with two caines and somehow still manages to work out for an hour.
-A very very skinny black kid that does curls for like, 30 minutes with 15 pound dumbbells and uses his entire body on them.
-A nerdy kid with super fucking thick rimmed glasses that works on 2 machines ALL DAY at the lowest weight on the machines.. It fucking drives me mad.

the most fascinating person at my gym is a rail thin 5'9 mousy-looking 14 year old who does the elliptical on the lowest settings for hours at a time. its not like hes working on showing his zero percent BF six pack because he has literally zero muscular definition. he is a willowish waif of a lad who uses two hours a day of next-to-no intensity cardio to prevent any possibiliy of muscular development. possible trap in training.

>>1170551

cool story bro

>>1170305
>350 squat
>450 leg press

Wait... what? Shouldn't that leg press be a lot higher if he can squat 350?

only been going to this gym for about a month after coming back from university. i see some regulars but not really anyone interesting enough to write about. some high school kids who look like they are working on it, other people who are super jacked and look like they know what they are doing, etc etc.

except for this one old ass dude. he's bald and looks like a professor of some sort except there is no college in this town. he comes to the gym wearing huge glasses and a scrappy, dirty white beard. he works out in a dress shirt, slightly unbuttoned, slacks and dress shoes on the elliptical for about 20 minutes, and then he goes over to some cable machines and does an unorganized smattering of a routine, using only one plate on each machine.

i'm sure he's an awesome guy.

bump
i wanna hear more of these stories

>>1170561
we shall watch his delicious progress closely

There's a fucking huge nigger that goes to my gym. He likes to yell YEAHHHHHHHH BUDDDAYYYYYYYY BUDDAYYYY YEAHHHH BABY LIGHT WEIGHT BUDDAAAAAAAYYYY before each set. Fucking annoying.

Crazylegs- There is a middle aged dude at my gym who wears a shirt that says "Crazylegs" on the back. Its ironic cause the dude has rooster legs. He has a very fat upper body though. Just looks really awkwardly shaped. He will do almost all exercises with terrible form and grunt loudly. I saw him practically screaming while on the leg press machine and I was like holy fuck how much weight is he pushing there. I checked later and saw the machine set at 170 >.<. He's a nice enough guy though. Polite and stuff and clearly dedicated to working out. He just does it all wrong. I kinda feel sorry for him.

A black guy who brings 2 of the skinniest/lankiest asian highschool girls in with him, I think he is trying to bulk them up into hotties.

An old mexican man with prosthetic legs, who always teases the younger guys asking if they got some girls number etc...

Vietnamese gold diggers trying to make sexybody for future mirrionaire huband

Some tough looking black guys who I completely misjudged by their appearance and seem to be college educated and really kind people.

Some tough looking black guys who are obviously in a street gang and dropped out of highschool and I didn't misjudge them at all.

Creepy 70 year old woman with dyed hair, as fit as she can be, trying to look like an 18 year old, but cant hide her osteoporosis hunchback.

The obese girls, who are always with a friend, and need constant reassurance from said friend.

Jay Cutler works out at my gym. I saw his penis in the shower and sucked on it

i'm a total bottom btw hit me up

>>1170360

>Maybe they're aliens trying to figure out what the hell the purpose of this facility is.
i lol'd

now gb2/x/

>Some tough looking black guys who I completely misjudged by their appearance and seem to be college educated and really kind people.

>Some tough looking black guys who are obviously in a street gang and dropped out of highschool and I didn't misjudge them at all.

aha. ahahaha.

There's nothing really noteworthy.

A group of black guys that I see once in awhile with what seems like their trainer, he's a pretty talkative guy but they're pretty funny.

I see the same 2 guys every sunday, couple of the only other people I've seen do squats and deadlifts. One of them has a build that kinda makes me think of Abel from Street Fighter 4, I think he's a sprinter.

i fukkin' love this thread, let's keep it alive:

- asian weirdo, maybe mid 40s, always coming in wearing a suit. while changing, talks to himself into his locker and laughs hysterically. then, doing some weird ballet shit.
- 3 guys talking in french to each other always taking up space, blocking equipment. sitting on the bench press bench, leaning on the power rack, etc. one guy's this older, buff, grey-haired dude who actually seems to know what he's doing... when he's finally doing it between chat session. the other is this guido, always with a bandana on his head. and the third is this total geek who seems he was never in a gym before. can't do one pull-up without the help of the two other brosefs
- obviously gay asian dude, well built, always wearing pink. tight, tiny shorts. wife-beater so low cut you can almost see his nipples... yuk
- old, skinny man probably in his 80s. looking like a ghost, but doing real lifts like bent rows, bench presses, etc. not big weights but still impressive

*20 something natural body builder who's help me quite a lot with my form on various exercises.

*40 something power lifter who lifts hueg amounts of weight who has also helped me a little bit with a thew things.

*30 somthing olympic lifter who practices olympic lifts for like 2 hours per day, every morning, really early, with like 15kg only each side, purely concentrating on technique.

*some late teens to early 20's REALLLY skinny arab looking guy who always goes in around the same time as me, all he does is curls/machines, he never looks any different. EVER. he probably eats like 1000 calories per day and wonders why he aint getting HUEG from his curls.

*20 something black guy who comes in and bench presses like 100 pounds every day, and is quite clearly taking roids. he looks like a fucking sausage.

*some skinny late 40's-early 50's guy guy who I think is a long distance runner. he does this strange exercise where he holds dumbells and goes on his tip toes for a thew reps.

>>1170803
Your gym sounds pretty cool.

I wish I could say something cool about my gym, but nothing every happens there. Only a bunch of average people who mostly do cardio.

>>1170833
it's ok, but to tell you the truth i get a little pissed due to it's lack of free weights. they have 2 benches, 1 squat rack (no powercage), and 1 smith. it's really fucking busy due to the fact it's based on a university campus and has students using it at random times, so there's never really an 'off-peak' time to go in. it just get too packed. but then again, the other gyms in my area are even smaller.

fuck the UK :/

i stopped going to the gym because i couldnt handle it anymore. sooo i built my own home gym over the years. i buy what i need and i have ended up with a really nice set up. but the gyms around me that arent too far are like a chain. called cardinal fitness.

anyways, its mostly young guys in highschool and women. certain ones closer to my highschool is like a highschool reunion. i graduated in '02. most of them are now fat as shit, but kudos to trying to get back in shape.

but the normal run of the mill highschool guys just come to talk and will do an exercise here and there. they also ask me questions every time i put down a weight because i am one of the few that actually lifts anything remotely heavy. just make sure you dont make it a habit responding, otherwise they wont go away.

the women, oh god. i love how my gym set up the benches FACING the back of the treadmills/ellipticals/bikes. its like a nice ass show in between sets. cant complain except that during a busy time, there is a waiting line to use anything cardio related.

at the one closest to me, are these 4 shit talkers. seems like they go to the gym to exercise in "ass kicking". they pick fights and just act tough. they arent in shape by any means, just bigger guys. the only machines they want to use is one that is currently being used by someone else. doesnt matter what theyre doing, if they want it, they will talk shit until you get off of it. good thing there is a chain so i can avoid these idiots.

a few times i would go to the same one really early and it was just hot ass milfs everywhere. everything free weight-wise was shared between me and 3 other very serious lifters.

>>1170803
Cool story brah, however, wtf?

>*20 something black guy who comes in and bench presses >like 100 pounds every day, and is quite clearly taking roids. >he looks like a fucking sausage.

100 pounds in the bench is not much... typo?

>>1170921

I'm newfag, please forgive.

standard superlarge black guy who is, obviously, a bouncer on roids and looks like he can't move his arms. I wonder how he bathes. We nod at each other, he grunts.

20's looking white guy who looks like a college football player. We don't nod, just silently give each other a wary eye when we pass. Can't figure out if he's hostile or not.

Skinny, slightly-strange looking guy. When I walk by him to get water he's clearly resting between sets of something but in 2 years I've. Never. Actually. Seen Him. Work Out. But, I saw him take his shirt off in the changeroom and he was muscular ripped. Fricking weightroom ninja. How??? HOW???

Standard fat guy, trying to lose weight. Go fattie, we're proud of you for making it in! Even though you sweat like a shower.

My previous gym had the 5-Lebanese-guys-who-talk-constantly-and-hog-every-station, and the over-the-hill-fitness-chick-who-drinks-coke-while-desperately-running-stairmaster.

i have skinny thor, viking and his buddy mini-viking, the cop that should retire soon, the cop that is a beast, short but stocky asian, and my least favorite charles fatlas aka jay gutler.

there is this guy who grunts while doing ANY kind of lifting, even the smallest weights

there was this time another guy who can't take it anymore asked him "Why are you making so much noise?" He answered " Its called orgasm"

lulz ensured

my gym is in the hood.

Not the negro part of the hood, the spic part of teh hood.

IT smells really bad.

* Various women folk, varying in looks. Only perform very basic lifts, 90% of the time are using either the elliptical, treadmill, or some leg machine.
* Crazy boxing chick who jumps rope for 30 minutes. Straight. Then shadowboxes and does olympic lifts.
* Various Brosephs who address people as "Brah," are pretty nice otherwise.
* Runners (only seen when it's rainy or dark outside).
* Crazy 6'5" dude with dreads down to his hips and cranks out 10+ wide grip pull-ups with a 45 lb. plate on his hips.
* Annoying high school kids who rent out gym time from the university. Complain when whatever they want isn't available. Pretty fat, usually wearing expensive Under Armor or other brand name stuff.
* Insecure fat people. Generally are treated very nicely and encouraged if seen more than once for a few weeks in a row.
* Dancers doing weird bodyweight wiggling crap.
* A shorter, boxier version of that crazy ripped hobo picture that comes up here once in a while. Super nice, super strong, probably cut down a rainforest with a penknife in a previous life.

>>1170511
I'd pay double to work out there, those guys would be major motivation to get better

This thread kind of makes me regret never working out in a gym and instead just working out in my garage. But then i think about the countless pros associated with working out alone and don't feel so bad anymore.

-70 year old woman in a leotard leaving butt-stains on the benches after she's done.
-Short Asian man (5'1'' maybe) who comes in his khakis and jogs around the basketball court
-Extremely hot 30 year old woman curling in the power cage.
-Old, bald man with a huge white beard squatting 500 lbs.
-Newly weds who use the smith machine for bench press and make out after every set.

At Goodlife gym there was a girl who moaned lifting weights. Like, "mmm..mmmmm... uh..uuUhh..UUUHHHHOOOOHHHHAAAHHHEEEE"

You try doing heavy squats with THAT noise in the background.

>>1171047
That would be easy, I'd just squat with my penis.

An 50 year old special guy who comes to the gym wearing gloves and randomly does does moves across the gym and you can never catch actually working out, just dancing.

best /fit/ thread ever.

-Muscletech broseph: always wears a muscletech shirt and drinks from a muscletech shaker, carrying around an issue of flex or muscle and fitness. very wide guy, very angry looking and very anti-social. he's pretty strong though. one time he was doing flyes with the same weight i was going to use, so i asked if i could work in between his sets. he said he was done, let me have it, and proceeded to wait until another bench opened up and used slightly lighter dumbbells.

-annoying fat guy who will proceed to talk to ME specifically constantly. he is pretty strong, but he always tells me stories about how ridiculously strong he used to be, and how he always had to ghetto rig things to make them heavier so he could keep working out. also, he makes his own supplements, and wont stop talking to me about them. even when i start lifting, its like he doesnt notice and just keeps talking, perhaps slightly upset that i would ignore him in such a way.

-6'4" or so marine that does weighted pullups with 90 pounds. holy fucking shit. though that is all he does.

-girls who do nothing but cardio, of course

-incredibly hot late 20's blonde with a GIANT RACK. constantly has a look of determination, and can do abs for hours. im pretty sure i saw her do one set of abs over the course of my leg workout. she manages to never make eye contact with or speak to anyone.

>>1171112
continued

-classic bro, gives relationship advice to his buddy who is incessantly in trouble with his "lady," who must not have a name. and of course, he gives the advice while jealously guarding the cable crossover station, the bench, and another chest machine.

-the super hot, super nice personal trainer who will help you with anything, and laughs at any joke you make, even if you feel kind of stupid saying it.

-old guy with white hair who is more jacked than i will ever be, and shows it with a full spandex singlet, like a wrestler would wear.

-girl with wandering eyes who always checks me out while im lifting, and her boyfriend is obviously insanely jealous, he always runs over and pulls her over to a different machine, even though she was doing something useful like squats. i feel like she would get a much better workout if he werent there.

-personal favorite, the super weak old guy who can barely lift ANYTHING, but will still constantly engage me in conversations about lifting, and jokingly claim that he could kick my ass if we wrestled. for some reason i see him constantly outside of the gym too. and he always asks me about other gyms, as if i survey them all.

best thread evar

makes me sad I work out in my garage

-i'm the semi weak guy whose gained pounds of muscle but is too shy to talk to anyone.

-the guy who was 2 grades below me and is obviously on roids. dude is jacked and ripped but also sounds so retarded and heaps dumb.

-old indian guy. Still jacked and benches 100kg.

-athletic guy who seems to be always doing weird exercises.

-guy with classes whose always talking.. never seems to get big.

-chick who works there who squats nothing.. always seems to be squatting when i wanna grab the bar for deadlifts.

-group of fat indians who grunt and scream. Semi poor form but still strong.

op here, glad thread is alive.

i keep reading things about incredibly attractive 30+ ladies cardio-ing all day long, & i just don't see any of it (i fitness 24, in before faggot.) i suppose going late @ night is a two-edged sword...

>>1171116
>>classic bro, gives relationship advice to his buddy who is incessantly in trouble with his "lady"

every single gym i've gone to so far has one of these advice bros, it's probably a requirement to get a license from the state of california health board.

i've seen a bizarre duo coming in very, very late (like, after 1am) that has a similar dynamic going on: mildly portly black dude & small, equally portly filipino, both just sit around cable machines & talk shit about their respective "ladies"... they both drive beat-up civics & ooze this air of defeat.

My weirdos. Different times.

-- Shoulder guy. That dude is all shoulders. He's like half as wide as he is tall. Tiny legs too, but I wouldn't call him on that. He was doing nothing but elliptical last times I saw him. He used to go to the gym with these skank babes that had huge fake tits. Some would actually train, one would just sit next to him and count his curlz.
-- 70 y/o gentleman. I see him walk out of the changing room, taking baby steps. I never really figured out if he got to reach any machine by the time I was done.
-- Girl from the tanning salon next door. Dat ass. Dem tits! It felt like the gym would stop when she walked to the counter where she kept snacks (ton of eggs. girl knows her food groups)

>>1171162
Ooh, almost forgot:
-- The talker-stalker. Guy is there since forever, no shape really, just sorta fat. Talks to fucking everybody. Interrupts sets. Annoying as fuck. Plus he's got the face of someone who would recruit people in weird money schemes, like Ponzi schemes but more obvious.

>>1171154
>>too shy to talk to anyone

gyms really are the "safest" place to start being social; older folks in particular seem to fall in love with you if you make some small talk.

a lot of them are incredibly self-conscious & they seem to be enormously thankful to anybody who makes things more comfortable through meaningless banter.

>>1171162
>>70 y/o gentleman. I see him walk out of the changing room, taking baby steps

i have one of these too, he just swims for hours. one time while he was puttering out, he stops & asks me, "how do you stop a bull from charging?"

i go, feeling very witty, "well, i wouldn't try to do such thing!"

he goes "you take away the mastercard" and cackles maniacally. gave him a pat on the shoulder & a chuckle & sprinted to the nearest bar for some chin-ups.

>>1170933
What I mean, is he's not particularly strong at all, he benches every single day, and he looks big. Like he doesn't look strong, just big and puffy like his arms look like they're made of sausage meat.

>>1171176
Thank you for explaining, i now understand.

-some 19 year old football player who benches around 4 plates and has already told me he takes roids

-this old doctor who only does a few select machines and is a molecular scientist who devolpes cures for tumors and has already successfully cured them on mice

-5'6 asian police officer who is the buffest man i have ever seen. he weighs 190ish and i have seen him do a 2 plate military press like a 100 times for a warmup. also tells me the pyramid is the best way to work out

-cool asian guy who is really ripped but pretty weak. fun guy have gone drinking with him lots of times

-some super ripped black personal trainer. super friendly and has shoulders that look at you when you pass by. it's insane how ripped his body is

>>1171167
safe until you run into
>>1171166

Guy in wheelchair (not paralyzed, but he can barely stand) who has a ridiculously strong looking back and does tons of upper body stuff (mosty machines, but also pullups/chinups)

* Young, well built kid who does his starting strength everytime im there. Only seem to see him in certain parts of the gym, mainly the mirrors.

Lol home gym

>>1171047
Which Goodlife do you go to?

Bardon?

-This one fly that always has to get in my eye when I'm in the middle of a set. Some people, you just can't manage.
-Two female peacocks who just kinda stand ten feet away and watch me like I'm from another planet; they have chicken legs, so squats are probably foreign to them.
-A couple cats that come around sometimes, I pet them between sets.
-The occasional small bird. They talk big, but that's about it.

Pic related, it's my gym.

>>1171288
i c wut u did there

>>1170305
become pedophile
eye emo kid
talk to emo kid
offer to drive emo kid home
rape emokid in car (Hey, maybe its even consensual)
???
win

The only person I see in there on a regular basis is this huge, bald, barrel-chested 30-ish guy.
When I started getting fit about 10 months ago, I hadn't really done my research and was trying to squat with reterospectively shitty form.

So this guy stops overhead pressing 200 pounds or so and comes over to correct my form. Turned out to be a really nice, friendly fella and he helped me out a lot.
I see him in there pretty regularly, always pressing or squatting huge weight. Cheers, Paul.

inb4l2english.
The place where i work out is kinda strange, it's basically some former weightlifting champion's basement. The equipment was bought really cheap from another gym when the owner died of excessive steroid abuse. I pay 900 kr, or roughly 140$ a year (not a typo, it's fucking cheap). There are not many members, maybe 30-40 people, and at any given time i would believe there 4-5 people there. If you show up late, 7-8 in the evening, chances are that you are the only one there. Since we're so few, i pretty much know everyone there and we always talk, i do not always know their name, but people know mine ( i tend to talk alot, not when people are doing their shit, and not when i'm doing mine. I hate wasting time.)

* The most average guy, is the 40 something father, who "escapes" to the gym to talk about tits and ass, he lifts hard and makes good jokes. Has the tendency to sometimes deliver pretty bad brotips.

* The former weightlifting champion is prolly my favorite, he's between 50-60 years old, and knows his shit, he does not give a rats about what you do, what he smells/looks/sounds like and will always give rock solid protips. I've seen them do 300 pounds at the bench at a regular day, and some do more. They are usually huge, but also fat.

* The "roid master" makes me rage, we have got some of them. They tend to look like they have been running a fucking marathon (breathes heavily, face about to explode) after doing curls. They like to criticize everyone for being "pussies". They have also been sighted wearing sunglasses and tanktops.

* The rest of them and myself, enjoy our lifting, look out for each other and talk bs, we are committed to our hobby and lifestyle and don't care what other people say. We also grunt if we feel like it, and we usually do. Feels good, and keeps our motivation up.

Fat guy in the same american flag tshirt, hasnt changed in 2 years.

Insanely tall, ripped black guy (and by black I mean like the innermost jungle of kongo-black). looking at his arms through a sweater is like looking at rolling hills, its insane, I could even see a vein, A FUCKING VEIN THROUGH HIS SWEATER. I see him to pull ups all the time.

The guy with the ridiculously tiny head, it looks like a grape on top of a watermelon because he is so huge, he is also orange.

The ninja grunter: I always hear him, but Ive never seen him. Its insane, im always in a different part of the gym for in the middle of a set when he strikes. When I look around he is always gone, it could be any of them. I am determined to find him some day.

The ripped black guy who purposely dresses up like a gangster and then helps old ladys with their technique, its hilarious, Im pretty sure he does it just to troll people. He helped me piece together a ripped up parking ticket so I could find my space. Fucking great guy.

Some 16 year old kid who works out with 10 x more intensity than all his friends, when he is done with a set he just sits there staring intensely at the mirror. Kid just looks so intense, he also incline more than most of the grownups in my gym

>>1171340
sup
>>1171386
here

I live in norway too, but fuck, I pay like 600 kr a month, its insane, shit sucks.

>>1171340
I wouldn't have known English wasn't your first language by that post. Good job bro.

- The fat chick that does 3 x12 curls with 2lb aerobic weights for about 5 mins, then spends the other 5 mins attempting sit ups.

>>1171392
That's a shitload of money, Elixia, Progym, Spenst, SATS?

>>1171439
Thanks allot brah!

>>1171463
Elixia.. but its a great fucking gym

I never talk to anyone at my gym, I always wear my iPod and I'm hogging our lonely squat rack. I view everyone else like my own personal puppetshow, but this is how I view almost everyone in my life.

- A pair of arabs which seem to be there, no matter what day or time I show up. Mainly doing 6 gazillion variations of bench press. They seem very friendly though.
- Some guy wearing a very thick weightlifter belt for no reason, never seen him squat or deadlift anything.
- A pair of white guys in their late 30's, one is always wearing a tight white tanktop, sporting his unsightly potbelly. They are among the only other ones there doing squats. But they do nanosquats, they just slightly bend their knees with a very low weight FUUUUUUU-
- Once saw a guy wearing black tights, skingtight shirt and a pair of screaming pink shorts doing balletmoves at the wall. Gay much?
- A very short but extremely ribbed and friendly guy, who suggested me on my form on bent-over rows, but when I asked him about my deadlift, he said it was a stupid and dangerous lift WTF?

This thread is awesome, if 4chanrachive was working, i would have suggested we archive it. Oh well.

A 65 year old man who happens to teach physics (It's a university gym), British and benches upwards of 100kg and squats close to 200kg.

>>1170445
chuckled many times at this post

I live in this small town with a really small gym that almost nobody goes to, seriously I've never seen more than 6 people in there.

There have never been any specially fit people there just the normal fat fucks who are there for about a month and never come back after that. Then there are the handball players (handball is a super popular sport here) that do nothing except bench presses and curlz.
Fucking annoys the shit out of me.

But recently (like 2 week ago) this really fuck ripped guy starts to frequent the gym. I've talked to him like two times and from what I gather he's a professional martial artist that lives in a town like 250km away from here, but is here for the summer because he grew up here or some shit.
But anyways, he doesn't really do much weights. He squatz, and he squatz fucking heavy like 180kg, and that's pretty fucking much. And then he just jumps to the sport hall that's below us and does some jumps shadowing (or at least fighting the air) and a fuck load of push ups.

I think that guy is my new hero

>>1171533
I agree, that would have been nice.

*30-40 year old middle eastern guy, does nothing but curlz and uses arms/chest machines. Clearly on roids, has massive biceps, just like the guy whose bicep popped and decided to do home surgery on it. You know who I mean. Always stares at me, smirking, blatantly thinking im a weak fucker. Pisses me off.
* Really fit and beautiful girl, 25 y.o. or so, does proper lifts and has really tight spandex trousers. Sexy as fuck and loves the attention. She always stands in front of me when she does her dead lifts because she likes when ppl stare at her ass. Since I hate feeding attention whores I always look away or pretend to be 100% focused on my lifts. This annoys her so she follows me around until I give her the attention she wants.

Doug - 6'1", 240 pounds. Has a lot of weight on him. Kind of an asshole, but he means well. Squats 385 x 1 with belt and knee wraps. Corrects other people in the gym when they do the big lifts incorrectly. Used to play football. Kind of arrogant. He's probably 15-20% bodyfat, but lots of muscle underneath.

Matt - 5'10" and 215. Looks like fucking Christopher Reeve or Curtis Joseph, depending on who you ask. Nicest guy there. Talks to you, always lets you do sets first, always very nice. Even asks about me when I'm not there if I don't see him for a while. I met his wife. She's nice, too. Does Bill Starr 5x5. Very strong.

>>1170440
>There is a limit to straining noise level, once you pass normal human speech levels you're just trying to draw attention to yourself and its fucking annoying because they're usually doing pussy weight or doing it with some incredibly poor form.

I sort of agree, when I'm at a gym I stay pretty much planet fitness quiet. If I'm at home I'll scream and shout.. It helps somehow, I do realize my vocal cords are not attached to my muscles, I felt the same way about it that you do until I tried it.

>>1171624
Continued.

RCMP guy - 5'4" and 180 pounds (?). He has one of those twirly moustaches that like strongmen from old times have. He wears short shorts, and a sort of muscle shirt and a weight belt all the time. Used to powerlift when he was younger. Talks to me about form all the time and how to lift in competition. Squats 335 for reps and deadlifts 440 off the floor once.

Max - 6'0 and 150 pounds. Looks very young, does SL. Talked to him because we did similar programs. Turns out he's 27 (I'm 19) and the girl that he talks to at the gym is his wife. He's becoming a doctor (can't remember what kind, though) and he's in university for it.

Sam & Fred - Sam is a 23 year old fitness model. Fred is a 50 year old bald guy with piercings. Both go to the gym and talk a lot. I always hear Fred and him talk. One time, I heard them talking about how Sam craved donuts but couldn't have them because a competition was coming up. Fred came into the weight room and said "No, man. *sniff* You don't need fucken donuts, man. You need donut HOLES. Fuckin' 20 of 'em."
I laughed. Hard.

Renee - 24, 5'6" and ??? pounds. A female fitness model. Nice, works at the gym now, is pretty buff. Always wears tight black clothes. Looks older than she really is. Will smile and wave but not much else. Pic is her which I stole from her website. Her site says she's 25 now, but... I could swear I remember her being 23 and 24 less than a year ago. Oh well.

Everyone else is basically either a bro or some other common archetype.

>I go at all different times because i am not a faggot

>I go at all different times because i am not a faggot

This is illogical. How does having a strics schedule make one a faggot?

Mine is a pathetic little fitness center that doubles as a workout room for the hotel that's in my building, so we get a revolving cast and a few regulars.

-Me, obviously, the random crossfit faggot, doing whatever our Supreme Leader tells us to through the internets. I'm waiting for the day when it's "WoD- Feed the ATM a Kitten."

-The Guy in the Coast Guard- quite bro, has a doofy cross tattoo on his left forearm. Nice enough, in decent shape.

-Two Saudi guys who show up together from time to time, armed with articles on how to work out. They speak in Arabic and they really try to figure stuff out, not always successfully. They seem like decent people, and I wish the language barrier wasn't so huge.

-Ultra-skinny, 5% BF black dude in his 40s. His kids are little fatties, and he comes in for curls and bench while they go to the pool.

-The Chump isn't as bad as previous ones I've had to deal with. He comes in, does his curls, stares in the mirror, and occasionally watches people doing compound lifts; the look I got from him while doing front squats yesterday was uncomfortable as hell. He's in his mid-20s, kinda fat.

-Dreadbeast stays in the cardio area. She's in her mid-30s and just goes on the treadmill for an eternity at a time. Also, she has dreadlocks and is a land monster. She looks at everyone, no matter what they're doing. It's one thing to just glance, but she fucking examines everything.

The hotel people vary from roving bands of sixteen year old fucktards to marathon runners (!) to ridiculously hot women and creepy old dudes staring at whatever is female in the gym.

Marlyn Manson looking goth, you would never think lifts, skinny and not sure if he is weak, he is in the locker room naked for hours upon hours, with his old headphones attached to a CD player, his eyes shut, always leaning back on a locker on a bench and naked, well, sometimes he is wearing like a speedo scuba diving tight suit, hella weird, around 1AM, and my gym is in a gay rich area, at 4PM 4/10 of the people are gay and at Midnight it's a tossup, they fuck in the jacoozi and swimming pool and locker rooms..

I don't scream and curse and kiai in the gym or anything but I do grunt with forcible coordination in some tough reps. I think it's pretty important to do this because it does fucking help push the weight and I'm not going to keep my lips sealed and handicap MY training just because some scrawny quarter-squatter might get inconvenienced by the noise. Fuck non-grunters.

>>1170440
I find this statement most incorrect. You most be holding back at the gym, and that's not cool. Say you're benching, and you have 2 reps left at what, say 150 pounds, just exactly how much attention you get at that given point should mean nothing to you unless you are there for that attention. How much attention i am drawing while pumping has got to be the last thing i am thinking about, and so should you.

I usually go to the gym at morning... around 6~7AM so not a lot of people there.. just the usual ZOMGWTFHUGEMUSCLES dudes...

>>1171655
>I'm waiting for the day when it's "WoD- Feed the ATM a Kitten."
the way you crossfit people are, i seriously would not be surprised to see that happen..

>>1171167
>gyms really are the "safest" place to start being social; older folks in particular seem to fall in love with you if you make some small talk.

Yeah I used to go to a gym like 2 years ago and I always made an effort to be super nice to everyone, especially the fatties and the older folks.

I still run into them all over town. Some of them have gotten buff as fuck or are clearly meeting some other fitness goals, feels good man.

I go to a relatively large gym in Tokyo (by relatively I mean the free weight room is slightly bigger than a CLOSET) and 90% of the other people there are skinny japanese guys who do quarter squats or smith machine squats with belts. There are a couple awesome dudes though who look so fucking lean and thin but then they strap 20kg of weight to their belt and crank out multiple sets of 20+ overhand pullups. That shit's hardcore. Also there's a guy and a chick with prosthetic legs who come in and workout too, they don't do squats obviously but they do everything else they can and that's pretty inspiring to see.

>>1171244
>also tells me the pyramid is the best way to work out

Sounds like it's not? Explain.

Norfag here, I pay 250 kr/month (40-ish $) due to a special offer. Normal price is twice that.

* 50 year old fat guy who comments on everybody's form, even though he obviously doesn't know correct form himself. Really annoying guy.
* 2 meter tall German beast who is commonly spotted on the leg press machine with a tomato colored face pressing quite a lot of weight. He looks really scary, but is actually a very nice and helpful person.
* 50 year old skinny guy who benches way more than he looks like he's able to. Between his sets he talks a lot to whoever is around. Really long pauses between his sets.
* 30 year old buff guy, the only one in my gym I've seen doing deadlifts. Crappy form, somewhat impressive weight nonetheless. He also does weighted pull-ups with 2 x 15 kg between his legs as if they weren't there.

The Amazon woman tribe
Santa Clause
Plastic woman
The Nigerian nightmare
Stick
Abobo
Border jumper
Gladiator
Mommy

- Occasional duo of semi-fit dude and his fat friend that he's helping train

- Regular groups of fat black woman on cadrio machines, leg presses and ab machines

- Skinny highschool kids on weight machines

- This one black dude with dreads that I see on and off, mostly around noon-1pm. He's about 200lbs of pure fat and flab, and only does the treadmill at a brisk walk. He always wears a wife beater, so you can clearly see the flab bouncing.

I have this neighbourhood gym thingy going. It's basically a gym hall for teamsports and a room for martial arts. Even got it's own sauna.

I use to box in the martial arts room. In my area, there are a lot of chinese. They are pretty damn annoying, they think because they are some upperclass chicken shits in the greatest dictatorship of all time (a 5000 year running record), they think they can look down upon me when I come in there with ragged fucking clothes (Seriously, I don't give a fuck about the eventual hot chink girl in there). But when I open the door to the martial arts room.

First they hear this swoosh in the air from my jumprope. And I can clearly hear over the music that their inane chattering that is fucking worse than canadians has stopped a bit... Then it's time for hitting the sack hard. So I step out of the room, ogle them a bit for being shit for brains and put first my wraps on, then my gloves so they can see it.

Then I start to fucking hit the sack like a marine with a dead buddy and the sack is the one who killed the buddy. Sometimes I can hear the fucking chinks be all like "WAT IS DAT????!!! WATTTTTT????" and being seriously afraid.

Ergo, first they think I am some poor fucker, but they should know that their wealth is nothing in a industrialised country like mine. My families wealth > theirs.

Fuck I hate them, playing badminton and other faggot sports, while I am trying to do my best against the sack and the ropes. FUCKING CHINKS.

>>1171728
This anon needs some therapy

>>1171736

anon from that post, elaborate plox.

-Upper 20s, black dude, surely on roids, has his girlfriend go around and take pictures of him lifting hueg (he almost benched 405lbs if I remember correctly the other day).

-Upper 20s, white guy who rocks a ponytail, wears underarmor and spends an ungodly amount of time doing the bench press. Walks around like he's huge in and outside of the gym.

-Upper 30s, Asian guy, bulky as hell, but looks like a strong Chinese Buddha, seems nice as hell, always has a smile on his face while lifting hueg.

-Lower/Mid 20s Asian guy who seems to mirror my exercises (and I am not a particularly good role model either)

-Mid/Upper 40s black guy who is strong as hell, but wears baggy clothes so does not attract attention like the younger black guy (who always wears a tight black white beater), does weird lifts (weird to my n00b eyes at least) that seem to work for him.

-Mid 20s white guy, always has a look of quiet dedication (much like me), rarely see him doing leg stuff but when he does he goes fairly strong for how strong he looks (leg pressing 360x10 + whatever the press machine adds with some ease)

-Girl, lower 20s, occasionally wears a Wolf t-shirt while doing leg + ab toning stuff, the shirt always cracks me up, sort of cute.

It's a university gym so there's the standard assortment of doctors in scrubs doing machine work,aging professors doing light weights, frat boys doing curlz for the girlz, extremely hot girls doing leg work, etc.

>>1171736

chinkloover!

>>1171744
You just seem angry also it's important for you to outdo the chinks

5'0 egyptian powerlifter who squats 550 benches 450 and only pulls 500 due to bad back. He cannot properly articulate a sentence in english yet I've had hour long convos with him. Invited me to the meet he's competing at.

6'0 black powerlifter who benches 450 pulls 600 and squats 500. Very lean. Pecs probably wouldnt fit in a DD cup.

Faggot I hate the most (because i rage with jealousy): Model looking underarmor wearing dude who is so ripped his abs poke through his shirt. He deadlifts 450 and squats 405 and looks better than brad pitt or some shit its ridiculous.

Ugly lady with OMFG DAT ASS who squats 185 atg for sets of 8. Her ass is really a beautiful gift to mankind, shame about her butterface.

Curlmonkey who is decently strong at the bench but has chicken legs. Does 135lb preacher curls with the most atrocious form youve ever seen. He literally stands up at the end of the eccentric to swing his body backwards in order to assist himself with the concentric.

Old 50yr old clique of gearheads that pyramid their sets up like retards but have the most mass in the gym due to god only knows how many cycles.

Fat natty powerlifter black guys who are super cool and friendly, both failing miserably at cutting weight but benching 350 each.

Unreasonably hot girl who squats 95lbs to parallel with better form than her boyfriend quarter squatting 135. Their weights never ever move up. Neither of them have made any gains whatsoever in 1+ year, needless to say.

Loud-grunting gold wearing mediocre lifting faggot (me).

TONS of high rep bros and cable-tower using steroid dudes who are like 250 ripped doing 60lb triceps extensions.

>>1171728
You need help bro

I hate when this guy uses the machines

>>1171781
I know that guy.. his robot legs can squat minivans out in the parking lot.

2 Thais who are ALWAYS there. They do 20-reps sets with free weights, add bodyweight exercises to that and when there's no course in the aerobics room they go there, put some mats on the floors and do Muay Thai. It's just awesome to hear the sound of those 2 fighting while working out.

>>1171728

haha, dude, they're not admiring you. They're LAUGHING at you because you must look like a jackass. Does your entire workout consist of your Rocky/MMA fantasy of jump rope and heavy bag or do you toss in some CURLZZ and CAYBUL PUNCHUZ for good measure?

This one faggot who tries to do everything by the book and fails miserably. He does 4/5 compound exercises and probably does some beginner 2 day split. He has underdeveloped biceps due to him hating curls and seems like the kind of guy who needs a support group to bitch and finds it in the form of an internet forum. God I hate him

>>1170503
Shows how little you know lol. Bolton and benni actually SCREAM at the top of their fucking lungs when doing their 1k pulls. It actually HELPS to do this once youre actually strong because it modulates your exhalation. If you dont exhale at all you get a nosebleed or faint. If you exhale only air you run the risk of losing way too much air and thus losing tightness to your core, which renders you weaker and more injury-prone. Finally, if you actually grunt you can modulate the amount of air you let out with the loudness of your grunt. Nasal grunts are fine, which is what I do. Nasal grunts are MUCH less loud and obnoxious but grunts are pretty much a necessity for some who cant modulate their breathing well enough.

>>1171795
bahahahaha

>>1171795

I have a faggot like that in my gym too. Keeps trying to get people to squat/deadlift. Why the fuck would I do those exercises? To screw up my back and knees? And he keeps fucking eating oats as his snack. Who the fuck eats oats. Go take some protein supplments fag

gay eyes roaming the gym
fags asking to work in with you

>>1171797
i always thought screaming was for bros, posing, stupid, and laughed. but the first time i deadlifted 225 for five, i noticed i was grunting on every single rep, once when t the top, once when resetting.

haha epic thread!!

cracked up laughing at all the descriptions...


i got a few characters at my gym:

-The security guys- These two guys are man mountains. But for their size, they don't lift much.

- Old man. This guy is incredible. NO SHIT. he is about 80, and loads up the bench about 200pds, and happily benches away, then hobbles over to the drink fountain. Oh, and he also does chinups. Fucking insane for an old bloke.

-The group. These guys deserve a special mention. They are early 20's, and they never work out alone, always come in a group of about 6 - 7. And they ALL do the same god damn exercise. Line up, and all do biceps curls, synchronised. SO ANNOYING. They take all the fucking weights, and spend about 4 hours on each machine until they all do three sets.

And they think they are fucking tough. Fuck heads.


-The 24/7 guy. He's always there. ALWAYS

-Grunter. Grunts when he curls. Grunt when he benches. Grunts when he stands up. Grunts when he drinks. Grunts, then grunts some more.

-Pretty boy. Yea, you work those abs. Better check your hairdo, you might have messed it up. Always wears fancy clothes, puts on cologne to work out. faggot.

-Mr Knowledge. Bloke knows everything about everything. Knows ever exercise inside and out. and won't hesitate to tell me everything about it, for the next hour.

- Mr sweat. Enough said.


etc etc etc.. i can keep going forever, gotta let my fingers rest.

>>1170305
Some tough looking black guys who I completely misjudged by their appearance and seem to be college educated and really kind people.

>Some tough looking black guys who are obviously in a street gang and dropped out of highschool and I didn't misjudge them at all.

>>1171812
yeah, this htread is hilarious
i cant really contribute though. i got nothing special.

>>1171816
>i cant really contribute though. i got nothing special.

Obviously... you're never in the gym ever.

I usually go to the gym at about 9pm.

1st - guy in his 40's atleast and looks built as fuck. Tall son of a gun too. Spends most of his time in the weight room blasting away. Always carrying a pack of cigarettes around with him though.

- Skinny old guy, gotta be in his 60's. Always doing cardio.

- Woman who looks to be in her 40's who spends a lot of time on the rowing machines/bikes then dissapears into the womens weight room for forever.

- Emo looking guy who looks really skinny but is pretty ripped. Seems to put no effort into anything. Looks like he's at the gym for the sake of being able to say he goes regularly.

- Couple of chav kids who are about 16 who come in every now and just sit around talking all the damn time. They do like 5/6 reps then just sit on the benches talking.

>>1171816
>i cant really contribute though. i got nothing special.

Yet another completely necessary opportunity for harsh to pollute a thread.

>>1171823
>- Woman who looks to be in her 40's who spends a lot of time on the rowing machines/bikes then dissapears into the womens weight room for forever.

Sounds milfy.. tell her to switch her routine around the other way. Also have sex with her.

>>1171812

im back...


ok, theres also the:

-Progress guy. Keeps a chart with him, always makes sure everyone can see him write shit down. If you catches you looking, he will let you know how much progress he's made, and how much he ate, and how much he shat out.

-Quite achiever. Always wears baggy clothes, never makes a fuss... Never really noticed him.
Then it happened, it was a hot day, and he was wearing a singlet and BANG. Most ripped guy i've ever seen. Epic body. But you wouldn't know it, coz he always hides it.

-Basketballers. You can always pick them.. about 100ft tall, and skinny as a rake. (unless their black). Look awkward no matter what they do. size of their chest always cracks me a smile.

-Footballers. Yea your awesome, you can kick a ball, you can also bring all your mates with you.. But whats that?? What? YOUR STRUGGLING WITH THE TRICEP MACHINE? Probably because that muscle isn't one your dumb bimbo gf creams over.


-The man-lady. Yea its a women. You can only tell because its got a pink gym bag.


- The 40's. Blokes don't look good. Don't wanna look good. Just wanna push weights. And man, they can push them.

-The TWEENS. YOUR TOO YOUNG, GO HOME.

-the Squaters. Pretty self explanatory. All they do is squat. sure you can fucking lift a shit load with your legs, but you look damn funny with those tiny shoulders you got there. Try some upperbody sometimes.

-The mobile phone guy.

RING

RING

*talks loudly*.

FUCKING RING RING

all the damn time... if your going to go the gym, put the fucking phone down and push some weights. annoying fuckhead has a gay ringtone to.

and thats all i got atm

I meet a lot of random people at the gym, but most notably:

*Two extremely buff identical twins. Seen them work out together a few times, but mostly I only see one at a time. Great form on everything.

*Met a guy who just started living with an extremely heavy Russian accent. He was working out in a button up shirt and slacks. He uses a weight belt for squats and deadlifts even though he only does about 105 and 135 on those lifts. Horrible form. I let him work in with me and tried to give him some pointers... havnt seen him since. D:

*Wannabe bro. He comes to the gym with his gloves and wraps, doesnt go low enough on squats, talks about all the supplements he's taking. Says brah all the time. Weak as fuck.

*Asian guy who told me just Monday that he only does bench and cable flys and only works out 1 day a week. Jesus.

*Hot chick that wears one of those tank-tops with the side cut open that does random range of motion exercises right next to the squat rack I use every day. Great body, kind of a butterface. I'm pretty sure everyone in the gym wants to pound her out though.

*Random fatties on the treadmills and ellipticals

a mid-to-late 40's, not buff but not chubby, UAW worker that is dressed from head to toe in Underarmour. Will show you the intricacies of the standing calf-raise machine, even if you don't want him to, and talk loudly on the cell phone.

ok, for a content bump

college gym.
- oldish guy, tanned and out of shape, definitely no student, weird moustache, randomly starts talking to you about history and politics. most weird routine i know: he does reps with a really small ROM, like 1/8 squats (single plate + padded), pec dec "flutters" where he holds the handles with his fingers, at a really high speed. no fucking idea. he does nothing but this.
- really big built guy with huge tits who has his chest day 4x week. he does 4 sets bench to failure + 3 forced reps, flys, db press with good weights every time im there. havent seen him do anything else ever. huge biceps though, and pretty ripped.
- tons of girls quarter squatting the bar day in day out, followed by these weird leg machines
- this skinny guy whos hanging out with all the big guys, never touching anything, just coming with them, talking to them, watching them bench and curl
- the "unstable surfaces and oly for high reps" guy
- and a few bros basically. bench, inlcine bench, smith bench,lateral raises and curls. abs and out

better not forget that guy who never does an exercise properly. when he benches, he lowers the bare about 10cm, then pushes it back up. loads it up well over 250pds, then does it again.

Just wanna force him to lower it, them leave him to push it back up himself.

>>1170599
fukken lold
>>1171692
pyramids suck because you waste a ton of effort and you actually use up creatine/atp in worthless low effort 8 rep sets. If you bench 300# for instance, doing a 225x8 set (this is the way most people pyramid) is fucking terrible and you will not progress nearly as fast as you would under 5x5 or 8x3 unless you got privileged genetics. A good way to build up if you have a 300# bench is the following:
135x8
135x8
185x5
205x3
225x1
225x1

And then do your work sets.

>>1171753
leg press subtract a lot of weight, doesnt add.

>>1170599
Seems like you are working out at the same place as Coleman.

Guy that "benches" something like 300lbs. What he actually does is lift the bar and move it about 2 inches down then brings it back up and does reps like this.

>>1171882

haha guy at my gym just like that

>-Progress guy. Keeps a chart with him, always makes sure everyone can see him write shit down. If you catches you looking, he will let you know how much progress he's made, and how much he ate, and how much he shat out.

haha, i'm kind of anal about information (maybe a little bit too anal, like taking heart rate while doing lifts haha..) but this all happens in my garage and on my big dry/erase board

>>1170305
Talk to the Slavic guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-pBl6yjNJ8

WE ARE THE BEST IN EUROPE!

>>1171822
that was a sick ass burn

My college gym also had some characters.
-The big bufffat nigger who could bench 405x10
-The insanely ripped arms and bench nigger on winstrol and test. Really loud and obnoxious, only benched 275 but had enormous pectits.
-Insane viking who benched 350 at 6'6. His traps are bigger than my shoulders.
-Football team niggers who do jumping curls in lieu of power cleans.
-The progress guy - squat rack hog. Squatted 430 suited (about 315x5 raw) and it never went up for the whole year i worked out there. He took up the squat rack for 3 hours every sunday, taking 10-15min rest between sets after warming up for 90mins; he read a book or magazine between sets. Had EVERY SINGLE piece of powerlifting equipment attainable including several different brands of knee wraps, belts, briefs and suits. He even had the squat shoes and the warmup snuggie pants. He did 2-plate weighted dips with about 3inch rom and swing curls but was pretty well built. Exellent body but all his lifts were terrible other than squat.
-Progressive overload chink who is too shy to grunt and would thus pop blood vessels in his eyes/face way too often. Squatted 350 atg, pretty monster. Wore a tshirt that said "personal trainer" and i never saw him train anyone. Insane facial acne.

Oh my gym also has the morbidly obese fat guy that benches 315x5 with 6 inch rom and tells people that benching down to your chest is wrong because "youre not controlling the weight".

Standard fat guy losing weight here.

The mainstays at my uni gym are:

-Tons of black guys who all use wrong form and babble on in ebonics about dat ass on downtime

- Girls who spend fucking 2 hours on ellipticals. Not saying that's bad or anything...it's just impressive to me.

- Bunch of frat boy fags who hog up free weight benches and the racks.

- And a few old guys who I see in there almost every day, on the same bike, at the same time.

oh oh! theres also this kid in my current gym who started gear WAY too soon and closed his growth plates. Hes about 4'8 and barely built. Not a midget just used steroids way too soon. He works out with his brother and they both have sonic the hedgehog haircuts. They only do cable isolation upper body work and their voices are much higher pithced than any girl. Theyre both under 120lbs, though the brother is about 5'5.

>>1171895
Fuck you, scum!
You stole south-eastern europe from us.
The armies of ancient Dacia, Thrace and Illyria will rise again one day and expel you back to the Ural mountains. The rest of the population will revert to what they were before 602 A.D. namely Latin speaking people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bL6agEVXcI

The guy who runs my college gym is a giantic motherfucker called Mike.

He looks like a comic book character.

My gym is relatively new, so its mostly regulars in there.

-The old couple. they look to be in their early 50's, dude is fuck-huge ripped, wife seems to only be there to keep an eye on him. She sits (doesn't work out, sits) on cardio equipment watching him like a hawk. He's awesome though, and we spot for each other pretty frequently. By the way, his wife is fat and mean looking, but wears too-tight workout clothes to the gym even though she never does anything.

-Old Fat Cop. This guy looks to be in his late 40's, and you'd expect him to be weak as fuck, but the dude moves some serious weight on the bench. Does lots of leg machines, but looks at me like I've got antennae or something when Im squatting.

-The Milf. This lady is in her late 30's, squats probobly a hair over bodyweight, and has this awesome fitness model figure. The dude from the old couple is always checking her out.

-The Bro's. These two are in every night about the same time as me, dominating the cable machines and one of the many benches. I'll give them credit though, they are in shape, even though they do the strangest routines I've ever seen.

>>1171937
>they do the strangest routines I've ever seen.
describe, i love laughing at bad routines

>>1171939
picture, i love laughing at bad trolls

>>1171918
That's harsh dude

Generic mid-sized white dudes in their 20's who only workout their upper bodies, have shitty form, try to lift too much weight and have their spotters do most of the work, always try to maxout on curls for some fucking reason and never get big or strong.

Yeah. My gym is full of casual fags.

Extremely thin women - lift the 5 pound weight, cardio, etc. etc. A lot of them are extremely hot though.

Stripper - Beautiful girl ruined by a chest the size of basketballs (some would call this 'win'). Does circuit training I think. Tan, thin, wears makeup but it otherwise quiet. Source of inspiration.

Couple - They usually do their own thing but I see them talk every once in a while. Girl is blond, just a tiny bit meaty but very pretty and fit. Guy is also extremely hot.

Mexican - Shorter than myself at 5'4". I'm not too educated on weightlifting but he goes at them pretty hard core. Wears a belt and gloves and a gold chain.

Also:

Various middle aged men trying to loose weight or gain it.

All black cleaning crew that doesn't wait till closing to start.

Middle aged women with trainers who I never see again.

Men on the machines that let the plates drop.

Only one I've ever really noticed is this group of 3 hispanic women, really tiny really attractive... They're the ONLY ones I've ever not a station incorrectly. What I mean by that is they use the power rack or smith machine for squats and not curls or bench press. I never see them trying to do 5 hours of cardio on the crazy arm-cardio machine or anything retarded. They are the only ones I ever see and think DAMN thats some perfect form.. It's pretty hot ;)

Or the 80 year old guy that loads up 300lbs on the smith machine then does a 15% squat which almost looks more like a handicrapped attempt at jumping.

The girl at the gym with the huge kadunkadunk that does goblet squats.

The curl monkey that always pitches dirty looks my way.

The group of cheese-ball looking vato types that do 50 lbs presses on the smith machine.

The people that go to the gym and hang out and chit chat instead of fucking workout. Which I hate to say it, is 75% of my gym.

Fucking Bally's.

Pic related, I think im gonna blaze today before going to see transformers 2 ;)

>>1171728

cool story bro,

i'm chinese and the PURE chinese people raage the FUUUUUUUUUUUCK OUT OF ME and I consider them Chinks as well.

However, in general, ABC's (american born chinese) are a little better but we're going through the same thing with black people hating niggers

If this thread hasn't been capped yet, someone do it. We need to bring this up next time the subject arises. Also, will contribute a little:

The Trainer: 5'6 chink fitness trainer, kind of looks like he's doing SS but doesn't go below parallel on squats then goes and hits the leg press for no reason.

Badass old man: Glad to see there are others out there. This guy is about 5'6, 160 lbs and ripped as fuck. Benches 1x BW, squats about 1.5x and deads almost 2x. Really kept me going in my newb phase.

Other than that, it's the usual semi-fit guy, the old guy who you respect just for being there and 1-2 cardio babes.

Not many regulars, but I'm getting kind of pissed cause even though I go in the morning my gym is having newfag summer. Some 40-something mom doing god-knows-what in my squat rack = rage.

>>1171841
Same as my gym with the twins. Is wierd to look at. Exactly the same looking buff dudes

There's this bloke who continuously walks around with his arms flexed after each exercise, even if he just did leg presses. His hands on his thighs, with the palms facing inwards. Do that right now and flex your arms. That's how he fucking walks around. Goddamnit.

I remember this one time some incredibly hot girl walked through the weights section after doing cardio. She was wearing spandex tights and literally everyone stared at her as she passed by. Once she was out of sight we all traded looks with each other and made DAT ASS-faces, lol.

Anyway, there's also these two somewhat old ladies who are by all means fit, but are very tacky; bleached hair and tigerprint pants, you know the deal. They often pinch my ass or ask me to help them out with machines while not standing up to give me the space to adjust stuff. They're really friendly though.

Other than that, I think I've outlived all the regulars so far. In terms of membership, of course...

I go to a uni gym.
- There's one guy whose chest and shoulders are incredibly broad and well formed. But I never see him train back or legs.
- There's a tall guy who looks like a baller but in fact he's one of the strongest dudes in the gym for the big three lifts. You'd never know it from looking at him. I'd try to befriend him, except that he's always intensely working out.
- Most everyone else are young ignorant guys trying to get fit but not knowing how. Often I'm tempted to offer advice, but I just keep my mouth shut.
- Very nice assortment of college-age hot chicks. Distracting, even.
- Myself, I'm the older guy who's stronger than everyone else.

I've got some really dedicated mofo's at my gym. Alot of them are safa dudes with natural dutch genes that would please any woman.
Got a 40yr+ end of his career bodybuilder guy, tank and wide as fuck, epic V, Dumbell benches 60kg each arm, impressive for his age.

One thing I've noticed at my Gym (It located really close to like 2-3 large residential neighborhoods) are some more teenagers coming in with it being summer.

There's one pair who are linemen for their football team who are doing SS, and have got to be about the most polite kids I've ever met. One of them's mom drops them off to work out, and she heads over to the starbucks across the way. Her kid mentioned this, and said he's been trying to get her to come in and work out to no avail. Seems like a really good kid.

My new favorite is the landwhale who will come in, do 30 minutes of various cardio, then spend half an hour complaining about how hard it is to loose weight to the staff. Funny thing is, I was leaving at the same time as her one day, and she literally drove straight out of the gym parking lot and straight into a McDonalds drive through. I LOL'd so hard I damn near crashed.

Giant Keanu: This guy who I think is Japanese but from a distance looks like Keanu Reeves. He has the hugest gunz in the gym though.

The Posers: Three orange bodybuilders who spend more time posing in the gym than lifting as far as I can see. I saw one finish a set of curls, stand up, lift his t-shirt and flex his abs as if to check the effect the curls had on them.

Crazy-eyed Advice Guy: My Japanese is shit, but as far as I can understand him he likes to berate all Westerners for using too much steroids, except when he's telling me I go too low on squats. Rescued me from a failed bench attempt once though, so he's still okay in my book. Huge arms, pot belly, stick legs.

Bar Squatters: There must be at least ten of these guys who have been squatting just the bar with NOTHING on it for the whole six months I've been a member of this gym. At least they should have good form by now.

>>1171976
wat ballys u go to/what city u live

-the guy who owns the gym: huge back guy build like a brick shithouse. i dont even know what the fuck to say but hes huge

-group of three retarded curlfags, they are the loudest people at my gym and only curl in the squat rack and use the tricep cable machine next to it. every single time i see them thats what they do

-various semi-strong people doing whatever

-some faggot i saw yesterday, hes the only person who looks nearly as young as me and he wears gloves for bench pressing, looks like a faggot, etc.

-these two really really god damn young gangster faggots, probably ages 8 and 12, wearing backwards rockstar cap and carious faux-gangsta faggotry cam in with some guy (i guess their dad) yesterday. the only thing i heard them say was "i was using 45's" or something like that. the dad was instructing them how to DB bench press, afterwards the 12yearoldfag grabs two 50lb dumbbells and fails miserably, cant even get them in the correct position to start one rep.

-this one faggot who wouldnt shut up about his faggy online business that he told me he just started that day. he looks and talks like a childmolestor and farted while doing bosu ball crunches next to me while i was squatting

everyone else is just a random fag who is much much older than me and not particularly interesting

>>1172006
You don't go to Kansas by chance do you?

I go in the early morning to my university gym. It is summer now, so some odd people show up.

-Asian kid who does nothing but ab exercises. I think he got the idea to do squats from me, because we are always in there at the same time. Only, he does them on the Smith Machine in this really awkward looking painful way. He put like 220 pounds on today, half squat it, but with like the bar a few feet behind his feet. Like he was sitting in a chair, with a weight on his back. I want to help, but I don't think its my place.

-This husband and wife team. They come in, and grab a bench. One of them does dumbell flies on it, while the other does lateral dumbell raises. They do a set, then switch, then repeat the process. They never do anything else, and they try to sync up their reps, so they look like this weird 4 armed beast.

-Gay black guy and personal trainer. This trainer is such a fucking shyster. She teaches this guy all these lame exercises, curls etc, but doesn't bother with proper form or anything. She sits there and lets him swing his hips into every curl. And she wastes his time talking on her phone and chatting his ear off. Our school sells trainers by the hour, so it must cost a fortune.

-Lots of bizarre cases.

Rugby coach guy, 50ish guy who taught me to squat back in the day, cool guy

Bandana nigra, 25ish guy who taught me to deadlift back in the day, cool guy

The trendy fags who wear 3/4 length pants and fashion tshirts to workout, i saw 2 guys in the gym at the same time wearing a retro mr strong t-shirt (neither of them were mr strong)

The horribly obese woman who wears a pink sports bra and tiny black shorts, i barf'd over9000 times

Barbending squatman, the bar in our squat rack now has a nice curve to it, shit is SO not cash

>>1172448
blame the bad quality bar, not the man.

>>1172448
>Barbending squatman, the bar in our squat rack now has a nice curve to it, shit is SO not cash
Dude is awesome

>>1172458
Oh course, they man is also a pretty cool guy, but the bent bar is not a pretty cool guy

Bar Twisting Dude - guy in his early 50's, huge barrel chest, doing his barbell twists. He takes an empty barbell, holds it behind his neck and twists side to side for 10 minutes straight. I've only ever seen him do that and wide-grip pull-ups. How he developed his chest using those remains a mystery.

Fitness Model Cloned MILF - Tight spandex suit a given, this woman is in her early 50's only because her make-up can't conceal the wrinkles. Platinum blonde hair, very cute face, best female body in the whole gym. Perky boobs (even if fake), a round, tight ass, muscular thighs, you know the type. She is a clone because SHE HAS NO NAVEL. There is only smooth skin where her bellybutton is supposed to be. What the fuck.

Skinny Pale Calf-Crazed Faggot - He has the least developed body, yet he loads like 250 lbs. on the sitting calf raise machine and does 20+ reps. Then he goes over to the standing calf-raise machine and does it again, standing. His calves look barely developed at all, could be even fat. He looks bored as fuck and puts in no effort.

Not Really Hot Receptionist Chick - She works the counter and works out her... wait, what does she do when she walks in anyway? I don't remember her working out much. She just comes in to do random shit between customers.

Wannabe Roid Pusher Dude - He whispers and motions you over like he's some serious roid pusher, then he offers to sell you creatine mono for $60 for a 1 lbs jug. He looks around all nervous while talking to you and makes it sound like the DEA could bust you both any second with your creatine. Never seen him work out.

Perpetually Naked Faggot in the Locker Room - Never seen him work out, only stand naked and get ready to shower or get out of the shower.

>> Wannabe Roid Pusher Dude - He whispers and motions you over like he's some serious roid pusher, then he offers to sell you creatine mono for $60 for a 1 lbs jug. He looks around all nervous while talking to you and makes it sound like the DEA could bust you both any second with your creatine. Never seen him work out.

wat

>>1172507
Somehow I imagine your gym being completely pixel art with an avatar that you use to walk around and a little
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at the bottom where you type commands or talk to the various characters who are there doing the same thing all day 24 hours a day until you solve a puzzle.. then some of them will be doing something else.

I think you need to give the creatine to the calf guy.

>>1172440
Oh, and I should also add that she knows how to work out properly. I saw her do OHP, and other shit properly. She's just a lazy-bones flim flammer.

>>1172530
I already beat this gym.. if you give shower faggot a blowjob he'll go take a shower, there is a dildo in his gym bag and if you take the battiers out you can change the batteries in the robotic MILF and she'll join your party.
You need her because she's really fucking strong and has like 30 hp.

>>1172530
lol'd

>>1172530
>>1172540

Haha, wtf. Anyway, yeah, there are some weird characters in my gym. These are the regular dudes I run into. There are the run-of-the-mill White Tanktop Bros hogging the bench press for hours at a time, the Crazy Strong Mexican who lifts a half ton on everything without ever saying a word to anyone, the Old Curlmonkey, who is just a curlmonkey with grey hair and sagging skin, the Leg Press Champion who loads up a million plates and a friend sitting on the leg press and grunts his large intestine out of his mouth (and never does any other exercises, of course).

Basically a gym where 75% of the regulars are failures. Yes, that includes me, the Mid-20's Wannabe Strong Faggot Whiteboy. Must be the lamest gym crowd ever.

At my gym, I have:

* Lanky new kid, starting out with good but not perfect form and low weight. He's asked me for a few pointers and I've seen him get a little stronger in the past few weeks.
* 600 year old strong as fuck guy, who looks like he might collapse and die at any moment, but then goes and runs on the tread mill and does some really heavy-ass leg presses and military presses.
* Kinda hot girl that I was going to hit on until I realized she had a wedding ring. I just have a thing for chicks that work out I guess.
* Goofy ass late 40s guy who works out the entire time in socks, wears a belt for every single lift, and seems to only use the smith machine. Also, he warms up like a retard.
* Woman who sits calmly as she leg curls 20 lbs while texting/talking on phone or talking to her friend that comes with her and doesn't do anything.
* Super best broseph friends that yell to each other about their latest xbox gaming match, despite the fact that they're right next to each other.

I saw a girl today on the treadmill running in a goddamn winter coat. I shit you not. Where do people get their information?

- Owner is a fucking Christian so the gym is closed on Sunday and even fucking closes at 6 on Wednesdays.

- Full of fucking roiders going stupid fucking exercises and body builders looking at me weird when I'm doing Power Cleans from the safety of the dumbbell racks.

- Few hot chicks on the tradmill.

Other than that, no one stands out.

Did I mention how fucking Christian the owner is? And how I can't do a Monday Wednesday Friday split like I want because the GYM FUCKING CLOSES AT 6PM?

Today... I saw:
Father and son... son was about fourteen and skinny, and father was making him do cleans, deadlifts, jerks, snatches etc, and nothing else, with 40 - 60lbs, (in the one squat rack... grr) for the entire time I was there including my swim afterward. Meant i had to do my squatz in the smith machine... shit SUCKS

The huge fat dude (biggest guy i've ever seen IRL) who comes in and walks / thuds along lightly on treadmill but has an awesome attidude and is already about 2/3 the size he was after his induction a few months ago.

The cute girl that was using rowing machines but had too much fake tan.

The guys that are skinny and have slight delts / bi's, but wear tight vests and look at you as if to say 'bet you wish you were jacked like me brah'

The old man that tried all the lifts i was doing after me, but each one with about 1/8 ROM and really quick reps.

The men that stand around chatting bollock naked in the changing room, doing the towel arse-flossing thing for far longer than is necessary.

The guys that do nothing but cable crossovers

My gym is a public gym/swimming pool/running track. The surrounding neighborhood is comprised mainly of elders but there is also a nearby high school. Depending on what time I go i'll see different crowds.

If I go noon'ish to the gym I'll always see nothing but seniors on cardio machines. Except for one of two 55 year olds doing lighter weight exercises. Every now and then there's an asian guy that keeps to himself, I barely notice he's there.

But if I go around 5 or 6'ish the crowd is totally different. A large high school group of friends comes in and ruins everything. They grunt, talk extremely loudly and stand in front of racks and mirrors like nobodies business. They never work out together but instead divide themselves up onto different machines/weights and they basically take over the god damn place. After each set they gather back up into a group, talk for a couple of minutes and go back. Rinse and repeat.

>>1172605

Offer to run the gym for him those days

>>1172070
>I was leaving at the same time as her one day, and she literally drove straight out of the gym parking lot and straight into a McDonalds drive through. I LOL'd so hard I damn near crashed.

rof

i love this thread

In my gym, almost half the members are steroid user. You're like normal there when you're on roids. It's still the gym to be. It's pretty big and it's a bodybuilder gym.
There's the people that at any given you're at the gym they're there too.
There's this lady bodybuilder that's ripped and is stuck in the 80's with her hairstyle. Her body is fucking discusting to look at. You see her triceps, abs and shoulder line. Fucking lady bodybuilder.
There's atleast 6 other lady bodybuilder. One with fucking huge fake tits that are always hard. Anyway they're all ugly.
There's that guy with a good shape but small chest and when you see him talking to someone he is bouncing his chest for no reason. Like it's a tic to flex his chest.
There's the actor. When he's walking he's moving his arm really forward and backward, one at a time and his head way up. Being him I'd feel the coolest guy in the world.
Can't think of any more right now.

>>1172661
>There's atleast 6 other lady bodybuilder. One with fucking huge fake tits that are always hard. Anyway they're all ugly.
>One with fucking huge fake tits that are always hard.
>always hard.

>>1172670
lol, never heard of hard nipples?

>>1172674

he said tits not nipples

Fake tits can be hard as a rock.

>>1170305
I wish I could post like that

>>1172674
Uhm well fake tits with saline and low bodyfat tend to look really hard and round. I guess they have new safer silicone ones that look real good.

>>1171983

"Chinkhater" here.

Well, I don't give a fuck really about how people look, if they're some kind of batshit insane religion or stuff like that. But seriously, the shanghai chinks are fucking worse than new yorkers. They think that they can barge in and do whatever the fuck they want in restaurants, bars, college auditoriums, the washing room, gym etc.

I want to fuck their shit up, but as the upstanding citizen I am, I don't. However, in the words of chris rock, "You got black people, and you got niggers, niggers can be of any creed and colour".

ABC's FUCK YEAH! :D

>>1172734
>But seriously, the shanghai chinks are fucking worse than new yorkers. They think that they can barge in and do whatever the fuck they want in restaurants, bars, college auditoriums, the washing room, gym etc.


As someone who is denied this special sort of nigger.. I would like to know moar please.

>>1170393
>and does air guitar between sets

Envisioning this just made me lol. I just imagined an old buff guy racking the barbell after a tough set of squats and then just busting out the air guitar out of nowhere.

>>1172756
I'd put money on him listening to Rush

>>1172507
I lol'd
>>1172530
Then I lol'd more

My gym doesn't seem to have any regulars except for this one asian guy who I have massive respect for.

I just switched gyms and apparently this one is basically for 60 year old women and fat guys making a half assed attempt at losing weight, cause that's all I see. Perhaps some of them are the same people as before but I'm pretty sure most of them just come like once a month.

This asian guy is crazy though. He just goes all out the whole time he's there with compound and core exercises like a motherfucker. It's obvious that the dumbass house trainer (you get one "lesson" with her when you sign up, I promptly ignored fucking everything she said cause she kept trying to tell me that doing 12 slow reps on the leg extension was gonna be the best for raising my vertical and other bullshit...) gave him a bunch of random ass exercises, but he goes all out on each one.

I'm always shocked when he ends his workout cause it's so abrupt. He uses like every piece of equipment available in the gym for a small amount of the time, and I think he spreads out the same exercises throughout his workout, so he's constantly moving back and forth throughout the gym during his rest time in between sets to get something else, and then one of the times he just heads out the door and leaves.

oh also one time I was there, there was this guy wearing one of those radio headsets and he was on a bike watching the baseball game on TV, and I'm assuming listening to it on the radio, and like once an inning he would fucking scream and then start laughing hysterically for a few seconds.

It's a small gym and aside from me and him no one was there at the time, but I'm not sure he was aware I was there.

I was just sitting in the corner rowing and watching in awe as he practically orgasmed over the game going into extra innings.

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op here: what the fuck? somebody needs to slap me w/ some gold stars for this. i knew this was true for the place i go to, but gyms appear to be the starbucks hang-out spot for fucking bizarre individuals.

pic related, it's my face when i saw thread still going.

There's this guy who comes in about once a week and benchpresses 180 kgs for 5x5 sets

Everytime he does that the whole weight room just stops and looks at him in quiet awe

>>1172530
>>1172540
GYMQUEST

I recently switched gyms, but i remember a few personalities.

-The Dancer. OH my god she was gorgeous. Watching her do her extensive stretching + ab workout always make my biking easier.

-Bro. This kid is such a queer. Bleached his hair blonde, wears big aviators inside and takes his shirt off so he can rep 135lbs on bench. Fucking. A.... oh and he regularly takes his shirt off infront of the mirror or does a couple bicep curls and stairs some more.

-The Athlete. Kiyle. This kid is 18 now, but last time i saw him max was 325lbs bench press and 405+lbs squat. he's half black.

Squat master. James was squating 405lbs when he was a sophomore in highschool. he's actually a very kind and soft spoken person.

Roid master. Huge biceps, always beat red in the face. Looks like he could snap any moment and put a fist through your head.

>>1172962
Pro thread.

There's this guy who started coming about maybe 4 or 5 months ago, he went from average-looking to skinny to like, sprinter-status in that span. I don't see him very often, and every single time I do, i FUCKING RAGE at how people win at genetics. Half of me wants to shake his hand, the other wants to punch him in the face until he bleeds.

It's true that he does everything with great form (like full ass extension on chin-ups, he dangles from the bar and goes way back up and then HOLDS for 4, 5 seconds) but from average to lanky to GODDAMN STRIATIONS EVERYWHERE is a big FUCK YOU to most people. He's now got fucking veins popping out of his forearms while he's just walking around. He just got a buzz cut and kind of looks like Jason Statham, with sort of a receeding hairline, so at least he loses at that...

TLDR, fucking genetics.

>STRIATIONS

although 99.9999% of the time i figure shit out by myself, i have to ask what the fuck is this and why do people want it

>>1170305
theres this monster who comes in at 5pm everynight mother fucker skips for an hour n im like wtf then this fucker jumps on the bench
add 160kg of plates and pops out 100 explosive reps

thats when half the men in the gym start crying the other half wet them selves

>>1172742

Fucking shanghai-niggers. I went to a local park to just chillout and read a fucking book on physics. Shit was cash, two chicks oogled my chest.

BUT MOTHER-TO-THE-HOLY-FUCKER. 200 yards from where I were, these fucking shanghai-chink-motherfuckers were drinking like some niggers. They fucking disrupted my reading adv. phys. I just had pure hate and pure "I'm going to fucking kill you" in my eyes when they didn't stop.

>>1173123

http://www.muscleenhancers.com/definition-article1.htm

Basically, extreme definition. You see it in professional sprinters a lot, or bodybuilders with very, very dense muscle mass and low body fat % to go with it. It's what people mean when they use a bullshit term like "toned."

I go to my community college gym and I like to workout in the mornings. There's usually a ton of old people using the machines, plenty of middle-aged men doing curls in the squat rack (really), working out their arms,

Plenty of skinny young girls working out their abs on mats in one corner of the gym

Young bros working out of their biceps

Young black guy who runs the locker room downstairs that likes to do shoulder raises and romanian deadlifts on top of a box

A former history teacher of mine who does cardio and ab exercises

There's these two Mexican assholes who do silly bro shit like clap their goddamn hands in the chalk to make big clouds of it. They also like to load too much weight on their bench and do these weird half-assed reps where the spotter seems to handle half the load

They also do these weird deadlifts inside the squat rack. They stand on top of a box and try to a partial rep with a ton of weight (405ish) but the bar hits the squat rack bar and their backs usually round.

Posting in an epic thread

Theres only a few regulars in my gym. Most are 30/40something housewives and husbands that want to lose weight etc etc etc.

-guy that always bench presses, curlz, and writes down shit. oh, and he looks at himself in the mirror half the time.

-the hueg guy that seems like he should be a heavy lifter, but spends the whole time on the machines doing light weight. biker guy, tatoos and ponytail etc.

-fatty trying to get in shape. spends ages on the elliptical machines in a sweatsuit. slimming down though. got to respect that.

-the husband and wife duo that have not a clue what their doing. both in their 50s, and look 20 years older. guy comes in with jeans and shirt, does nothing while his wife fucks around with shit. wife comes in in a bathing suit with a bottom cover every time, and smells like a horrid combo of cig smoke and body odor. no one can come within 10 feet of her. shes a fatass that can hardly walk. one time i was on the elliptical and her husband got on the treadmill next to me. she was fucking around the whole time with the speed and incline while doing nothing else. I swear to god, the smell was so fucking bad I almost passed out.

And then me.

>>1173405

>does nothing while his wife fucks around with shit
>wife fucks around with shit
>fuck around with shit
>shit

should give you a clue

>>1170425
everybody is a nigger

One of my professors works out at my gym. They guy is ripped as fuck, especially considering that he's around 55 years old. He does calisthenics almost exclusively, lots of pull ups, dips, lunges, etc.

There's a bodybuilder who's huge, and I respect his work ethic, but I can't help but lol at some of the things he says. One time, he was showing these two bros an ab workout. He looks at them and goes, "Are you guys ready to see a real ab workout? 1, 2, 3, INTENSITY!!!" and then goes right into his set.

This chick with the best ass ever. I was doing bent rows in a power rack, and when I was unloading the bar, she asked if she could work in some squats, and I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS!

I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS!

I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS! I JIZZED...IN MY PANTS!

>>1172333
Nah in New Zealand.

>>1171976
this curl monkey you speak of. does he happen to be pacific islander

>>1173452
>>One time, he was showing these two bros an ab workout. He looks at them and goes, "Are you guys ready to see a real ab workout? 1, 2, 3, INTENSITY!!!" and then goes right into his set.

ahahowow.jpg

im going to make that my new catchphrase, "1, 2, 3 INTENSITY!!!!!!!!!"

hmmm

Dog-penis face: the guy who's face turns into the color of an erect dog's penis when he tries to bench anything over 100 lbs. When he lifts, any stress causes him to cut off circulation to the rest of his system

Indian guy: sounds like one of the chicks i fucked last week when he fucking curls 30 lbs and then gives people around him this stare like he's an alpha. (lol your dick is tinier than asians; manswers//many studies show indians are 5.0 inches LOL)

Crazy black guy: oly lifts, snatches, PRO.

Nigglett/Niggtrio: Loud, takes a long time between sets, 3 black guys constantly fucking TAKE UP ALL THE BENCH /SQUAT RACKS. They never fucking re-rack and they say they are still using whatever they haven't touched for an hour.

Form-man: eh I think form man is a pretty cool guy, eh, lifts weak but doesn't not have bad form.

I've been going to my uni gym every day @ like 7:30am for the last few weeks. It's been great, most people are either alone or with 1-2 other well-mannered friends and there's really hardly anyone there so you don't have to worry about waiting for a machine/bench/etc.

Today though, there was a group of about 5 skinny frat guys who thought they were hot shit and were going to the gym solely for the purpose of impressing one another.

I hope this isn't a sign of things to come once fall semester starts.

Holy shit, this thread has been going for 20 fucking hours!

>>1173556

your double negative regards him as having bad form

>>1171795
>>1171802
This

Again, archiving seems to be down so hit the "fukken saved" key guys.

i lol'd

requested for archive

pardon my newfaggotry, but how do i request for archive? this is relevant to my interests

>>1174827
http://4chanarchive.org/

>>1174827
1. http://4chanarchive.org/
2. >request interface
3. fill out stuff, for "thread id" type in the number in the web address for the thread (in this case it's 1170305)
4. make sure to change the board to /fit/
5. ????
6. Overused meme!

>>1174827
4chanarchieve.org

it's down right now

>>1171295
that was the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto. I go to a few of them in that area.

everyone in my gym is batshit huge, its full of firefighters and bodybuilders.

fuck im glad i couldn't sleep and decided to go on /fit/

When at college I lift at the school gym, where there are some WTF SWOLE guys. Notables:
-Gigantor Persian Dude: Deadlifts 5 plates for reps, saw him military 275 for 4... Never even seen him bench or squat, god only knows what he can do. For some reason I am the only person he asks for a spot, and that is about the biggest ego boost evar.
-The Kirk family: One dad and four sons... and sweet baby jesus this dad...47 or 48 and he benches 2 plates like it's a warm-up. Unfortunately he tries to get all his teenage sons to do the same. FAIL. They're all suuuuper christian too. Faith Baptist church members... it's a fuckin' cult.
-"Big Mike": Typical genetic freak that does only upper body. The other day I spotted him on 3 plate incline bench press.. for 5 reps... Nice guy, humble, good man.
-Kari: Stereotypical gym manager... fit, toned, gigantic fake tits. Distracts every red-blooded male in a 3-block radius when she works out. Dumbest woman I have ever met. I love her.
-My some-times lifting buddy, Andrew. Personal trainer, and martial arts mammoth. I DGAF what you think about yelling in the gym, this guy has a fucken' right to do it. Frequently trains Heavy Duty (mike mentzer, ftw) and i've seen him max out the leg press for 4 reps.. i think it was around 1300lbs. Trains with sledgehammers, tires, sleds, all kinds of crap.
-The crossfitters. FFFFUUUU- these guys make me want to puke just watchinf them. They train the SHIT out of themselves for like, 30mins, then they just go off and die. My fucking heroes...

>>1173115
Maybe you should do full extensions on chin-ups, dangle from the bar and go way back up and then HOLD for 4, 5 seconds

>>1170305
I AM BEASTLY SLAVIC GUY

Cat - lurks around old mattresses and stuff in my garage.

That's about all the people I get in my gym.

>>1174855

4chanarchive.org says:
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It is probably still waiting to be reviewed by the mods, which means it can take a few days until it is available in the archive.

>>1174836
This thread has now been placed in the moderation queue for archival.
With any luck it'll be archived in a few days.

>>1175033
lol'd

>>1175033
>>1175051
Where's that character from?

man i work out at home but seriously i wanna get a gym memebership now

everybody seems to rage at other people in the gym and wish they worked out at home, but im thinking it would be way more fun to work out at a gym and just observe in between sets

Are we autosagen?

I go to a 24 hour fitness in California, which means it has very few characters. Basically, everybody is like a combination curl monkey/broscience/cell phone guy at all times. Luckily, they're way too cool to give a shit, so they never bother me, just scoff when I squat below parallel.

The only characters I have noticed:
-The mexican tag team. Two guys who work in sets of every bench press / curl variation known to man, hogging stations for hours on end. One is a 4'10" dude with hilariously unbalanced upper body from aforementioned behavior. Always cuts in front of me at the water fountain just to be a dick, and I dream of killing him. If I did, maybe I could talk to his seemingly friendly buddy who always unloads the weights when they're done.

pump for lulz

>>1175360
Sunnyvale?

>>1175667
>> sunnyvale

holy shit, op here. my regular 24 fitness is in mountain view, & i've just tried the one in sunnyvale, on sunnyvale-saratoga. it's a small world after all?

>>1175667
>>1175710

op here again--this seems like a good way of wrapping up the entire thread.

if you're in california, and if you go to the fitness 24s in either mountain view (showers drive) or sunnyvale (sunnyvale-saratoga) & happen to see a relatively /fit/ 6-foot guy in black nike shorts, adidas shoes & a plain white tee, walk up to that guy & ask if hell is other people.

that guy will be me--we'll go curl in the squat rack together then bounce out, steal some oatz from a nearby safeway & eat straight that shit straight from the box.

arnold, as always, related.