Funny Gym Story

[Phreezer]

I just had to share this with you guys. I'm currently out of town for work and I'm in a fairly large city in the Midwest. Normally I work out at the YMCA's in whatever city I'm in because they usually honor my home town membership. Well, Last night I decided to try out the local Golds gym because I was given a free guest pass by this woman I met who is a "Personal Trainer". Anyway, I'm working out in this Chrome and Mirror gym and it's Leg day. I have to kick two guys doing bi-cep curls out of the Power Rack so I can do squats (Yeah, I know.. I'm a prick about that, but damn it, they can do curls anywhere and there is only one or two places I can do squats) .. Anyway, back to my story.

I finish up my squats, do some stiff legged Deads, work calves and then I head over to the cable machine to do pull throughs. I have to wait of course for some 145lb guy to finish his Crossovers... Well, I grab the rope and attatch it to the bottom pulley... Okay before I go any farther, I should explain my surroundings. Golds here is a VERY family oriented gym. There are lots of women with pre-teen kids running around, and lots of teen girls... Well, for those of you that do not know what a pull through is..You attatch the rope to the bottom pulley, stand with your back to the pulley and you reach between legs and grab the rope, you walk the rope out till it's tight, then you bend over, and using your hip flexors and glutes you stand up pulling the weight with you.


Okay, this woman has her two pre-teen daughters standing by her and she's having a conversation with another chick. (THese women and kids are like 4 feet from me) I start doing pull throughs. When I workout I try to focus and not look at whats going on around me so I do like 8 reps. When I'm done I back up and let go of the cable.. when I turn to my left, These two women are just stareing at me with a look of disgust. The woman with the pre-teen kids grabs her daughters and hot tails it away from the cable machine. I kind of laugh to myself and don't really think much more about it. I stand around for a minute, get a drink and then I get in place to do another set. While doing this set, I see in the mirror that this woman is pointing at me talking to a couple of more women, and they are all just staring at me.. Anyway to make a long story short. When I finish my workout I notice that half of the gym is staring at me giving me dirty looks, and parents all have their children close to them.

I couldn't help it, and I started smiling.. I so wanted to go up to that woman who started it all, and ask her for her phone number just to be awnry. I decided to just leave.. I know that all of them went home to tell their friends that there was this perverted big guy at the gym making sex motions in front of their children...

And this is just one reason that powerlifters need to stay away from Golds and 24hr fitness type gyms..

[Grizzly]

LMAO! You sick pervert! Bwahahahahaha, the more I think about it, the funnier it gets.

I was going to kick people out of the one and only squat rack last night. They were lucky they were actually doing squats, ok, 1/4 squats. But didn't I look like the fool standing in the middle of the floor, cleaning the weight, pressing it overhead, settling the bar on my back and then squatting. (it was my warm-up sets. Don't think I'm some kind of OH pressing monster. )

[Bob Smith]

LMAO! Great story, Phreezer! You just upset all those small-town ladies where youre at. Either that, or they'll be lined up outside your hotel room once they see your thrusting power.

I always thought pull-thrus looked kind of gay, but never really thought it would offend a whole bunch of uptight women. lol!

So when are you going back for another squat workout? I cant wait to hear Part II of the story.

[Phreezer]

I keep thinking that I should have started grunting while doing the pullthroughs, or I should have started talking to the rope.. "You like that?"... "You like that don't ya" .."Yeah, take it, TAKE IT!!" bwhahahahaha... That would have probably gotten me thrown out..

Grizz, I am an asshole when it comes to using the Squat rack for any kind of exercise that you can do elsewhere.. I would have liked to have the seen the looks on everyone's faces when you were doing OVerhead presses and squating in the middle of the gym.

Lol Bob, I don't think I'll be going back to Gold's anytime soon. I will however be doing pull throughs at the YMCA next week. If I get any funny looks, I'm going to start grunting, and smiling, and I'll do that while I'm staring back

Grizz

[Madcow2]

Originally Posted by Phreezer

I keep thinking that I should have started grunting while doing the pullthroughs, or I should have started talking to the rope.. "You like that?"... "You like that don't ya" .."Yeah, take it, TAKE IT!!" bwhahahahaha...

- hilarious. I was thinking the same thing.

I have no patience for the rack either. If you can curl a weight you can pick it up off the floor with no issue. Racks are a limited resource. If I see someone waiting I'll try to figure a way we can both use it and alternate sets but I'll be damned if I'm going to wait for curls because someone is too lazy to pick up a barbell. I've curled from a rack before but the second I see someone eyeing it up, I'm out of there even if it's some scrawny kid doing 1/4 squats. That's just common decency.

[GeaR_and_SauCe]

When you finished you should have told them they were on MTV's boiling points and that they didn't win the $100 because they weren't patient enough. And definitly, on the last couple of sets, you should have added in some sort of groans.

Thats really funny.

[Freddy]

Thats a pretty funny story.

Most of my funny stories involve JS rows and protein farts. Either one is bad enough on its own, but when you combine the two you can really clear out a gym pretty quickly with your own unique brand of mustard gas.

Curling in the squat rack is ridiculous. I can't believe that its a world wide phenomenon. There must be signs.

[monsoon]

some people actually think thats what those racks are for. I overheard one kid say to another "arm rack"

[getswoll]

bro, that is hysterical. You should have called those women out on it. Said, I'm sorry I didn't realize you all had dirty minds like that.... or some such, just to make them look silly in front of their kids.

As far as the squat rack thing goes, I hate that crap too. We have a rule that Squat racks are for lower body only in the gym I work at; so wednesday I had the pleasure of kicking a guy out who was doing wrist curls with two and a halfs on each side.... hahaha

GS

[bigmark]

I used to work out at the local YMCA and completely blew the ass out of my workout pants while squatting. I had the bar loaded pretty heavy and busted out laughing and got pinned at the bottom. It was some funny shit the gym was packed and everyone saw it. The rack is up against a mirror and the whole place was behind me pun intended.

[Phreezer]

That's it.. I'm going back to Gold's this week, and I'm going to load up on Protein so I can have a little of Freddy's Mustard Gas while doing my pull throughs.. And I'll be wearing the tightest clothes I have while I'm there...