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It is time to switch gyms when...

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1. When the gym's PT strikes up a conversation about your arm specialization routine… you
mention Spider Curls and he calls an exterminator.

2. When the grimaces you make during squats cause a rumor that you may be going through a
divorce.

3. When after a set of particularly grueling deadlifts, the gym owner walks by on his rounds and tries
to instruct you saying that if you really want to get that bar on the rack, it would make sense to load
it AFTER you put it up there.

4. When you overhear a conversation that uses any of the following: "icky," "muscle-bound," "ack!
A callous," "Aww I broke a nail," "Arnold says.." "I'll be back tonight for chest.." or "I like using the
pink ones."

5. When the heater accidentally kicks on in summer for a week, and all the guys STILL wear nylon
pants to workout.

6. If any man in the place wears leg warmers.

7. After mentioning Power-Cleans to the athletic director, he says he buys his by the gallon and gets
a great rate.

8. When you have to wait 45 minutes for a single set of bench presses because the guy who just
belly-tossed his 15th set, just lays there with his eyes closed.

9. You come in one day and are greeted with a flyer that says, "Take the Cardio Challenge!"

10. You walk by some guy whose sweat reeks of too many vitamins and he is talking about his new
"herbal formula."

11. When Bambi and Crystal use the power rack to stretch their hamstrings.

12. If when you finish a set of overhead presses, the local "expert" advises you that the Side Lateral
Machine has been medically proven to be more effective.

13. If California-Boy struts in, freshly tanned in January, smiling from ear to ear because his "Tae
Bo" video just arrived in the mail.

14. If you overhear the owner ordering any piece of equipment that ends in "IZER."

15. If there is ever an accident that requires an ambulance and involves an ab-roller, cardio-glider,
or any machine advertised by Chuck Norris and Christy Brinkley.

16. If the PT mentions that you should stop as soon as you break a sweat so you don't "over-exert"
yourself.

17. You gain hope one day! Someone else is waiting to use the squat rack! When the occupant
finishes up, the guy waiting says, "hey… can I borrow your lifting belt? I have to do some
concentration curls."

18. If you ever see anyone imitate Lou Ferrigno in Pumping Iron: Doing push presses with less than
100 pounds on the bar and screaming, "ARNOLD!" at the top of each rep.

19. If anyone ever uses the words GREAT, DIET, and SLIM-FAST in the same sentence.

20. If you ever see the local PT WIN an argument by backing up his findings with an article from
Muscle & Fitness.
 
I cancelled my gym membership after hearing a pt give someone a diet inculding slim fast. He looked at me and said that this was a great diet and I should try it to. I just turned laughed and went home and built my own gym. That is some fuuny shit. I nearlly spit out my shake out of my nose.

PEACE

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21. When you can't use chalk because the gym owner doesn't want to make the new rubber mats that are under the free weights dirty.
 
I literally fell out of my chair after this one..

8. When you have to wait 45 minutes for a single set of bench presses because the guy who just belly-tossed his 15th set, just lays there with his eyes closed.
 
b fold the truth said:
11. When Bambi and Crystal use the power rack to stretch their hamstrings.

That is certainly better than them using the statioary cycles. At least I'd have a nice view if they were close to the power rack ;)
 
It would definitely be number 6. If any man in the place wears leg warmers.

The sight of this has always disturbed me greatly.
 
bump for a good laugh...lol
 
bump...

B True
 
Yo thanks for bumping that. I've been trying to find that. I guess you found my post.

these are great.

thanks b-fold
 
I laugh every time I read them...hahahahaah

Funny I don't see any of that crap in my gym...

B True
 
this one happened in my old gym ... sad, but true ...

"removed all of the DBs over 50lbs because they made too much noise when dropped"

time to move to new gym
 
I walked into a gym in Denver once, and the damn place had plants, televisions, couches, and chrome plated dumbbells. WTF?? Needless to say, I walked right out and found a powerhouse gym.
 
Whew...It's posts like this that truely make me appreciate the little "hole in the wall" gym I lift at... Hell, I don't even have to pay membership fees there anymore because I have been the cause of several new members joining... And to make it even better, the owner even gave me my own key so me and my crew can workout anytime we want...And even better yet, the owner is expanding the size of the gym some and is going to purchase whatever new equipment I want for it.. So Rev Hyper, GHR, Okie Dead bar, Couple Texas Power Bars, heavier Dumbells up to 150 or so, some 100 pound plates.....hehehe...I feel like a little kid at christmas time....I was at a larger commercial gym which I still have a membership at, a lifetime one i got as a HS graduation Present several years ago...And i believe they qualified under every item on that list...
 
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your a lucky man darty...I wish I could throw together a little wish list at my gym. Its pretty well equiped but theres always something you want(and unless they have 200 lbs Db's then they need something heavier).
 
JDarty6173 said:
Whew...It's posts like this that truely make me appreciate the little "hole in the wall" gym I lift at... Hell, I don't even have to pay membership fees there anymore because I have been the cause of several new members joining... And to make it even better, the owner even gave me my own key so me and my crew can workout anytime we want...And even better yet, the owner is expanding the size of the gym some and is going to purchase whatever new equipment I want for it.. So Rev Hyper, GHR, Okie Dead bar, Couple Texas Power Bars, heavier Dumbells up to 150 or so, some 100 pound plates.....hehehe...I feel like a little kid at christmas time....I was at a larger commercial gym which I still have a membership at, a lifetime one i got as a HS graduation Present several years ago...And i believe they qualified under every item on that list...

That's frigging awesome!!
 
I was working out in my university's gym, and was doing deadlifts with shrug at the end. Couple of firefighters who work out there came up to me ans asked me why won't I just place the bar on safety racks, that way I wouldn't need to pick it up from the ground for shrugs
 
Yeah what can I say...I just happened to run into this little jem of a gym around the first of the year....Its been open about a year now...The owner is a retired millitary, and well basically just got bored spending all that quality time with his wife...He paid cash for all the equipment there, around 50k... Well the old feller is just the nicest guy in the world and he doesnt even care if the gym makes money or not...He just wanted something to do (besides, he definitly doesnt need the money).. And when I came in there and started training WSB he was absoutely fascinated at some of the "odd" stuff I was doing and all the boards, chains and bands I hauled and left down there... So now that room to expand became available he pretty much is just leaving it to me as to what equipment should be brought in...
 
I read these again tonight...and can't stop laughing...

B True
 
JDarty6173 said:
Yeah what can I say...I just happened to run into this little jem of a gym around the first of the year....Its been open about a year now...The owner is a retired millitary, and well basically just got bored spending all that quality time with his wife...He paid cash for all the equipment there, around 50k... Well the old feller is just the nicest guy in the world and he doesnt even care if the gym makes money or not...He just wanted something to do (besides, he definitly doesnt need the money).. And when I came in there and started training WSB he was absoutely fascinated at some of the "odd" stuff I was doing and all the boards, chains and bands I hauled and left down there... So now that room to expand became available he pretty much is just leaving it to me as to what equipment should be brought in...


Thats awesome. My gym bitches about chalk haha And all the dumbells over 100lbs are "Rubberized" and the 100's are like the size of the 125's The 150's are rediculously huge it sucks. Cant even understand why theyd make these things, especially that heavy. Id like to go for some heavy incline presses but it hurts the shoulders having the weight that far spread out. The 150's are practically up to my thigh haha and wide as fuck too.
 
20. If you ever see the local PT WIN an argument by backing up his findings with an article from
Muscle & Fitness.

I over hear conversations like that all the time.Ugh.The Lou Ferrigno one was pretty funny...we have some guys that do stuff like that :rolleyes: They look like they are trying really hard to immitate the guys in the magazines.
 
bigstve12 said:
i wear my walkman even when the batteries are dead so people leave me alone


haha So do I. Look down at the floor too. Unfortuantely it doesnt work too well lately, so I can be kinda nasty. hehe Dont corner an animal :mad:
 
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