Those funny moments at the gym that make it all worthwhile...

[bodytemple75]

Back in my old gym we used to have a lot of smaller chubby guys come just to bullshit. Some of these guys would be MIA for the entire winter, then once summer came suddely appear 20 lbs. heavier, and rest assured it was not muscle I'm talking about. (laughs..)
Anyway,... this one guy I knew. Nice guy.... Came in and asked my friend and I if he could work in with us doing deadlifts. We were using 315-365 for 8-12 slow, controlled, comfortable reps. This guy looked in worse shape than I had previously seen him last spring, and started to tell us about how he is so strong at deadlifts, yada, yada,....ect.. To that extent. Meanwhile my friend looks at me, and whispers to me, this guy is going to kill himslelf with anything over 135lbs. We let him work in, and he throws on the bar and extra 45 plate to each side taking the 25's off. The new total on the bar now was about 405lbs. This guy does no warm up sets, nothing. Came right off the street, then asks us to work in w/ us w/ deads. We let him, but start to worry since we like the guy, and don't want him to hurt himself all that bad. We sit there and watch, afetr we caution him, and he swears up and down this is no problem for him.... This guy "loads"...I man..."loads" up on chalk, get wraps on his knees, and used wristwraps for grip, but had no belt. He started to scream to psych himslef up for at least a good five minutes squating up and down mothing wrapped to the bar already. The guy then went for his first pull, meanwhile we look on. He went,....the bar did not even move. Secong try,.....nothing. Third attempt,.....nope. Then this guy starts to turn bright red screaming and tensing, and went for one more pull. Nothing happens, but the guy stops dead about a second after and falls over. We rush over to him, and then get the gym manager whom we all knew for many years and were good friends with. John, the manager and another guy bring this guy into the bathroom, where he stayed for about an hour. Hre did not want the ambulance there though. Wound up, the poor guy threw out a disk in his back, and shit his pants diarreah while attempting the lift. That would account for the smell. My God, it wa awful, and this guy must have freaked and that was whya no request for the ambulance, right to the bathroom. John kept it quiet, and asked us to do the same. John waited with this guy in the bathroom, the guy's wife came about 40 minutes later with a new change of clothes, and they walked him to his wife's car. We really felt sorry for the guy and asked about how he was doing, hoping he was better a few weeks later. We did not want this guy to hurt himself, but he insisted to do weight like this and try to showoff while he was grosly out of shape. I always said hello to the guy and never mentioned this to anyone else in the gym after that, as I did not want to embarass the poor guy, but I have to admitt it was kind of funny when it all happened.


Painfully funny story I was witness to...

 

[bodytemple75]

Another time,....there was this African guy that came over from Africa. Real bone skinny, over 6ft. tall nice guy. You could hardly make out what he was saying, but a nice dude all the same. John used to train the guy, and spot him for his squats. This guy insisted to squat 315+ for the first few times, and meanwhile John was spotting him all the way basically killing himself doing front squats lifting his weight up for him. He on;y went about a quarter the way doen, if that. Just slight of a knee bend, it was bad. John tried to tell the guy it was too much weight, and he should concentrate of form, but the guy had it in his head, this was the weight he must do. So there.... One day, the guy was doing some heavy half-assed squats with Johnny killing himself spotting the poor bastard, and the bar rolled right over the guy's head and in front of him crashing to the floor. It was soooo loud. Had to be 350lbs. on that bar or such. Right to the floor from a standup. That must have scared the guys since he was shaken clearly, and seemed to have stopped squatting for a while after that.

 

[RADAR]

back in the college gym I got a friend to train with me ,we worked Lats,back & Chest i even pushed him abit to make sure he got a good workout. after that on the way to the parking lot (which was a block away) about half way there he starts staggering and the next thing i knew he was bent over puking his brains out.
That was his first & last time working out.
RADAR

 

[biteme]

back in the college gym I got a friend to train with me ,we worked Lats,back & Chest i even pushed him abit to make sure he got a good workout. after that on the way to the parking lot (which was a block away) about half way there he starts staggering and the next thing i knew he was bent over puking his brains out.
That was his first & last time working out.
RADAR

LOL. I had many friends only last one day. I learned to go very slow with them as I got older. The average person can't even run a mile.

 

[bigmodean]

Yea,the sounds some people make are funny,not the regular ones,the over done ones,know a dude at gym who grunts doing crunches!?!?!?

 

[bodytemple75]

The guys who worked out at my first gym were all monsters, and this was long before the gear. These guys were all oozing juice, sure,...but big mo-fo's to begin with. Not one out of this gang was under 6ft., and one of the biggest guys "Dave" was about 6'5 @ closer to pushing 285-90. They all never gave a shit about dieting and competition, but just trained and juiced to be sickly huge. They were. (Laughs) This guy "Dave" and the other guys used to get a three manned "slingshot" between sets, from his trunk,...and fill up balloons filled w/ "water" at the sink. In betwen their sets, they all used to use the slingshot to launch waterballoons a full block down the road towards the gas station guys working there. It was hysterical. One of the finer moments of working out at that gym. What an education I had got. Great Gym growing up. Boy, do I miss that place.... Westside Muscle. Union avenue, Rutherford,NJ..

 

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In betwen their sets, they all used to use the slingshot to launch waterballoons a full block down the road towards the gas station guys working there.

 

[season7445]

Those are some funny stories. Well @ my current gym there is a post op transexual there that grunts like a man doing sets. not so much funny buy freaky!!!

 

[Roidboyz]

I used to write service for Nissan and My lead thech wanted to go work out with me. I took him to the gym about two block for work on arm day. He insisted on trying to keep up with me and lift although he hadn't worked out in years. we finished up on the preacher curl bench (he now calls them torture curls). For the next three days his production was for shit. I kept walking out in the shop and would find him hanging from the sway bar of a 300z because he couldn't straighten out his arms. Funny shit.

 

[muscleup]

Funny stuff...