Gym cringe

[mickythefish]

Looked for a thread but couldn't find one. I go to budget gyms, I've been member of decent ones but just can't justify the cost.

Now I've seen it all, but yesterday took the biscuit.

This proper muscle head, you know the ones, 5 foot 6, small man syndrome, pumped up like he was going to blow.

He was doing running, then starts doing push ups on the running machine safety bars. I nearly pissed myself laughing, I have never seen that before.

Then unfortunately he was in the changing rooms as I was leaving, grunting and gurning away in the mirror. Anyone seen similar?

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I've seen people do what "I" consider somewhat odd exercises or a strange use of machinery but generally no, most people are fairly normal.

[nuyorican]

It’s the young un’s hogging all the equipment staring into their phones at my gym. Or taking photos of each other.

Just do your sets and fk off

[mickythefish]

nuyorican said:

It’s the young un’s hogging all the equipment staring into their phones at my gym. Or taking photos of each other.

Just do your sets and fk off

having a convo for 30 minutes in a small changing room. Soon f off when i get my hairy arse out.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

nuyorican said:

It’s the young un’s hogging all the equipment staring into their phones at my gym. Or taking photos of each other.

Just do your sets and fk off

When I went to the gym ten years ago it seemed to be girls cycling slowly on the exercise machines messaging their friends/Tinder Matches/Sugar daddy and guys lifting weights for 20 seconds then taking a selfie in the mirror.

I haven't been since, but now it seems to be girls wearing the tightest leggings possible bending over in front of men and then getting pissed off as they looked at them?

[Muzzer79]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

now it seems to be girls wearing the tightest leggings possible bending over in front of men and then getting pissed off as they looked at them? somewhere in the general vicinity of them, instead of laser-focusing on the floor or the ceiling?

EFA

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Muzzer79 said:

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

now it seems to be girls wearing the tightest leggings possible bending over in front of men and then getting pissed off as they looked at them? somewhere in the general vicinity of them, instead of laser-focusing on the floor or the ceiling?

EFA

Unless they are some sort of Chad, bad boy, love island wannabe.

[Honourable Dead Snark]

One of the best decisions I have made in the past few years is to leave the budget gyms for a more expensive one. Far quieter, far cleaner, far fewer packs of teenagers, and far fewer numpties in general.

[PurpleTurtle]

The OP's post is precisely why I ditched Pure Gym.

One of my mates is a copper in CID, he goes to a spendy one at a local spa hotel because far too many of his current and former 'customers' inhabit our local Pure Gym, makes it a tad awkward.

[mickythefish]

Honourable Dead Snark said:

One of the best decisions I have made in the past few years is to leave the budget gyms for a more expensive one. Far quieter, far cleaner, far fewer packs of teenagers, and far fewer numpties in general.

Cost of living. I do every time someone walks past me and stinks of bo.

I go in do 2 hours cross trainer , shower and leave. That's it. Suits my purpose. I also try to go when the idiots don't.

Edited by mickythefish on Tuesday 11th June 07:23

[pidsy]

Olima Omega does some great piss takes of gym bods:

https://youtu.be/mGUGa0Yp_L8?si=FxbUtap1V3DvwpWn

[Digger]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[g3org3y]

mickythefish said:

He was doing running, then starts doing push ups on the running machine safety bars. I nearly pissed myself laughing, I have never seen that before.

Then unfortunately he was in the changing rooms as I was leaving, grunting and gurning away in the mirror. Anyone seen similar?

Trying to visualise this...pushups on what is labelled below as the handle bars!? So a form of incline pushup I suppose?

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On some machines the handlebars are full length

[nuyorican]

PurpleTurtle said:

The OP's post is precisely why I ditched Pure Gym.

One of my mates is a copper in CID, he goes to a spendy one at a local spa hotel because far too many of his current and former 'customers' inhabit our local Pure Gym, makes it a tad awkward.

I tried this. Joined a gym connected to a hotel to get away from the council types. After a few visits I was wondering why it felt like I had left England upon swiping into the gym and immediately teleported to a Middle East/North African social club. No women, just men and their multiple children just seemingly ‘hanging out’ in the pool making lane swimming impossible.

The place was run down, dirty, and the noise from the languages you can’t understand combined with the awful wailing music blasting from the everyone’s phones competing with the gym’s own god awful cheesy dance music…

Confused, I handed in my notice to quit.

Later, speaking to a friend who was a member before me. The place used to be a nice, rather exclusive health club. But the hotel had been filled with boat fellas/economic refugees/asylum seekers whatever who had full access to the gym. Not really a problem in of themselves, but according to my mate, all the young girls left soon after. Then the guys, then the staff stopped giving a st because the hotel was full so no need to bother maintaining anything etc etc…

So the hunt for a gym continues. I’m ok at the moment because I can get out on the bike but need to find somewhere by winter.

[drewklonky]

I was in a Sauna once and a bloke walked in naked apart from trainers and socks.

[pingu393]

Where were the socks?


What gets me is how many people drive to the gym. My mate drives there to use the gym. I walk to use the spa.

[Muzzer79]

pingu393 said:

What gets me is how many people drive to the gym. My mate drives there to use the gym.

What’s wrong with driving to the gym?

[Ken_Code]

pingu393 said:

Where were the socks?


What gets me is how many people drive to the gym. My mate drives there to use the gym. I walk to use the spa.

When I found motivation hard, especially in the winter, I’d drive to the gym. Going downstairs and getting into the car was easy enough that I’d do it without fail on a training day.

Walking out the front door into a freezing, wet night was hard, and too often I’d delay for so long that I didn’t have time to do what I needed at the gym.

There is nothing at all wrong with driving there.

[Portofino]

I left my local Better Gym because it was full of bros, kids, instagram wannabees, roid heads, & kipper lipped girls with the odd person with BO that makes your hair curl.

Now go to a on the face of it a smaller less fancy gym, but everyone there respects the time they take on machines & actually want to work out rather than sit on their phones doing or looking at some vacuous bullst.