the ...sigh...gym

northernneil

I got so fed up of the weather that on Monday I went for a run and yesterday I went to the Gym....

.... I vowed never to bother with gyms years ago and my god I had forgotten what mind numblingly dreary places they are, knuckle draggers in the freeweights area and dolly birds chatting to each other whilst doing thier 'work outs'.

Still was good fun when my tiny thin frame started leg pressing nearly 3 times my own weight,

today I definately "Av' Calves"

olddgreg

northernneil wrote:

knuckle draggers in the freeweights area and dolly birds chatting to each other whilst doing thier 'work outs'.

Very true! Sounds just like my local gym.

Headhuunter

I go to the gym to do upper body weights 3x per week, mostly out of fear that I will end up with tree trunk like legs and a disproportionately skinny upper body. I also do core strength and abdominal exercises which helps in cycling.

Not sure about knuckle draggers, my gym is mostly full of air kissing muscle marys the size of small houses. It has some excellent equipment though...

shockedsoshocked

Funny places gyms, they never cease to amuse me. I enjoy it, but only if I'm the only one in there

The only ones who seem to actually do any real training (by that i mean free weights, squats, deadlifts etc) are all actual athletes (a few GB standard runners, rowers and the odd cyclist 8) )

The rest of the people in there seem to be lads who can't actually lift what they pick up, and as a result the bloke spotting them gets a better workout, and women who turn up to the spin class dressed and done up like they're going for a night out, pretending to turn the resistance up when they're told too.

There's a few meatheads who look like they train, but the only time I've seen them sweat is when they've got their charge wrong in the changing rooms Plenty of lads with "half a man syndrome" too, aka upper body like a gorilla, legs of a 7 year old school boy.

hammerite

I only walk through a gym once a week to go to the spin session organised by our cycling club (instructor is a member so it's as much about technique as fitness). It seems a truly god awful place though.

Until I walked in there I wondered who actually shopped in JD Sports, but a visit to the gym and there was the answer.

ride_whenever

Local gym is ridiculous, only free weights, with men the size of houses and slutty birds trying to score. Fortunately I walk merrily past on my way to the boat club upstairs...

0scar

The gym at my uni shares its air conditioning system with the bar/restaurant next door so the running machines are wafted with the sweet smell of bacon/piss/line cleaner depending on the time of day.

Dgh

northernneil wrote:

knuckle draggers in the freeweights area and dolly birds chatting to each other whilst doing thier 'work outs'.

Hubner wasn't a bad rider, who looked like the spent some time in the gym; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkkTSVVrPYk. Before anyone mentions that he was East German, Sir Chris and Queen Vic etc. also lift weights.

I personally like the gym, but alot of people don't really work out hard. Worst of all are the people who do multiple, pointless sets, on a machine but don't let anyone else alternate.

ride_whenever

Actually the worst things in gyms are the people on the rowing machines... as a rowing coach it actually makes me die a little each time i see one, then i come to my senses and laugh my arse off!

teagar

ride_whenever wrote:

Actually the worst things in gyms are the people on the rowing machines... as a rowing coach it actually makes me die a little each time i see one, then i come to my senses and laugh my ars* off!

Their osteopaths probably wouldn't be laughing!


Keeps them in business I guess.

Runoutofgears

+1 most people on rowing machines, one guy at my local Gym looks like Mr Bean on the rower, I could watch what he does for ages and I still find it funny.

The instructors dare not interfere

Pokerface

ride_whenever wrote:

Local gym is ridiculous, only free weights, with men the size of houses and slutty birds trying to score. .

I'd like to join your gym.

Anonymous

The gym I used to go to was a real spit and sawdust affair, really good. Now I go to a local council one which is a bit shabby, but ok. The young lads in there crack me up as they spend more time texting and carrying invisible carpets that training. Plus no-one comes near me as I am doing a good impression of a sweaty pervert on the gymbike for 2 hours at a time.

Chip \'oyler

dmclite wrote:

The gym I used to go to was a real spit and sawdust affair, really good. Now I go to a local council one which is a bit shabby, but ok. The young lads in there crack me up as they spend more time texting and carrying invisible carpets that training. Plus no-one comes near me as I am doing a good impression of a sweaty pervert on the gymbike for 2 hours at a time.

Great description

tlw1

The current wife has suggested getting her mother to babysit & us both go to a local gym thats just openned. As there are currently only 16 members - can't imagine it being that busy!

john-e-big-guns

I've done a bit of gym-work in my time...and a bit of testing

pneumatic

Best Gym I ever had access to was on the very top deck of a cruise ship.

The lifts didn't get up that high, so the Cocoon generation were excluded from it by a steep ship's ladder. Leaving my octogenarian mother chatting up the Vietnamese cocktail waiters in the bar below, I ascended every day to this almost unpopulated* paradise to use the fitness bike and stare across the ocean. Bliss with purpose!

*I say almost unpopulated, because the only other people ever in there were the female cabaret dancers doing their stretches :shock: :shock:

Ding dong! :oops:

Anonymous

john-e-big-guns wrote:

I've done a bit of gym-work in my time...and a bit of testing

Nice pants and gimp suit.

JohnHughes

I quite like my gym, the staff are helpful and friendly and always asking how my racing is going, there are some meatheads who carry invisible carpets around but most of the people there seem to be pretty genuine.I go to the spin class regularly in the winter and find that it does help despite someone telling me it was for hairdressers :? It helps because one of the spin instructors used to race and so picks on me, possible as an example of what happens if you do it wrong.

sheffsimon

john-e-big-guns wrote:

I've done a bit of gym-work in my time...and a bit of testing

No offence intended, not sure which picture disturbs me the most.

crumbschief

pneumatic wrote:

Best Gym I ever had access to was on the very top deck of a cruise ship.

The lifts didn't get up that high, so the Cocoon generation were excluded from it by a steep ship's ladder. Leaving my octogenarian mother chatting up the Vietnamese cocktail waiters in the bar below, I ascended every day to this almost unpopulated* paradise to use the fitness bike and stare across the ocean. Bliss with purpose!

*I say almost unpopulated, because the only other people ever in there were the female cabaret dancers doing their stretches :shock: :shock:

Ding dong! :oops:

haha you painted a good picture there with those words,i liked that.Been in some gyms but never wanted to work out there,always felt too enclosed,hard to settle in that enviroment.

Angus444

Pokerface wrote:

ride_whenever wrote:

Local gym is ridiculous, only free weights, with men the size of houses and slutty birds trying to score. .

I'd like to join your gym.

+100

pneumatic

crumbschief wrote:

pneumatic wrote:

Best Gym I ever had access to was on the very top deck of a cruise ship.

The lifts didn't get up that high, so the Cocoon generation were excluded from it by a steep ship's ladder. Leaving my octogenarian mother chatting up the Vietnamese cocktail waiters in the bar below, I ascended every day to this almost unpopulated* paradise to use the fitness bike and stare across the ocean. Bliss with purpose!

*I say almost unpopulated, because the only other people ever in there were the female cabaret dancers doing their stretches :shock: :shock:

Ding dong! :oops:

haha you painted a good picture there with those words,i liked that.Been in some gyms but never wanted to work out there,always felt too enclosed,hard to settle in that enviroment.

a gym with a view is the answer!