Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[michael dowling]

I guess you didn't know that soccer is a winter sport?

In the states it's a fall sport like football. Basketball and wrestling are in the winter.

[StrongLiftMyBalls]

Of course I didn't talk to anybody but it's good to have some faces to file away for later reference if necessary.

You've summed up exactly how I 'interact' with fellow gym-goers

[b17vic]

I feel like a geek for knowing this, but MBT's aren't the bosu-ball ass toning shoes. These pre date the whole reebok thing by many years.



They have a uniformly curved sole (in one plane) and are designed to change the mechanics of walking, supposedly making it BETTER.

I am not saying they work, or that they are not stupid. But they are much much more sensible than toning shoes which have a ball shaped soles giving instability in both planes.

Just be brave and say they are stupid. . . . THEY ARE FUCKING STUPID! That's a fact. Our feet have evolved into the form they take now for a reason. Why do I see unfit, weak fat people wearing these pieces of shit? As if changing they way you walk is going to do anything when an individual only walks for 15 mins per day and does fuck all else. Crazy!

[JC]

Just be brave and say they are stupid. . . . THEY ARE FUCKING STUPID! That's a fact. Our feet have evolved into the form they take now for a reason. Why do I see unfit, weak fat people wearing these pieces of shit? As if changing they way you walk is going to do anything when an individual only walks for 15 mins per day and does fuck all else. Crazy!

Don't you know how the Massais' feet have evolved... they have little arc-feet, which science has undeniably proved to be amazing for something. That's why all the best athletes wear these, and it's not some randomly successful marketing gimick playing upon middle class stupidity.

[blandrick]

I saw a ridiculous machine today in the gym. I'm sure it's been there for a while and I just never noticed it. It looks like a machine designed to rehab giant fucking birds so they can regain flight. Mother fucker sat down, put his arms on the pads to his side, and proceeded to essentially flap his fucking wings for a while. I really hope he can fly now, because otherwise the only thing he accomplished is trying to act like a pterodactyl or some shit.

[Dastardly]

There is a machine like that but in reverse, supposed to work your delts or something. Resistance is applied as you flap your wings upwards.

[IlPrincipeBrutto]

There is a machine like that but in reverse, supposed to work your delts or something. Resistance is applied as you flap your wings upwards.

Must be for pterodactyls flying upside down.


IPB

[jkw]

There is a machine like that but in reverse, supposed to work your delts or something. Resistance is applied as you flap your wings upwards.

I call that machine the armchair, and I sit on it to rest my arms between chins sets.

[Bart Hakvoort]

I call that machine the armchair, and I sit on it to rest my arms between chins sets.

That's what I do with the leg extension machine; it has a nice chair, tilted backwards a little. Good for relaxing between chins.

[hanch]

I was doing some rack pulls the other day with 405 on the bar. In between sets I was just resting against the side of the rack when I see a guy come up and start to take plates off of my bar. He was too busy thinking about the sweet curl PR he was about to set to realize someone was actually working there.