Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[Erik Y]

Today I had the bar set up for my top set of deadlifts for the day and, since it was the last thing I had to do and I didn’t want to mess it up, I walked away and sat down for a few minutes. When I got back, there was this girl who had banded her knees together and was doing some weird left-right squat walk facing away from the bar not two paces away from where I was about to lift - picture the scene and you will visualize the problem. There were only a few other people in the gym, so there was plenty of available floor space that wasn’t directly in front of a fully loaded barbell.

Anyway, I was in a rush, so I didn’t wait for her to finish and just did my set. And before you ask, I didn’t get distracted, except that I got off balance around knee height and had to grind for seven seconds to finish the last rep, so my attention was squarely focused there.

[Big-Green-Mud-Machine]

Today at a commercial gym a guy bench pressing in the squat rack, no harm there except he didn't use the safeties which were laying on the floor next to him. The very skinny 20 year old girl working there had to step in and save him after his reps failed.

Ok, live and learn? No. He continued to do 4 more sets of 4 or 5 reps and had to call the same girl back each time to "help" (it's all you bro!!) him on the last couple of reps. At no point did she tell him about the safeties.

What got me was that after his benching he then set up for upright rows. With the barbell sitting at knee height off the safeties. ......

[Fulcrum]

. The very skinny 20 year old girl working there had to step in and save him after his reps failed.

Ok, live and learn? No. He continued to do 4 more sets of 4 or 5 reps and had to call the same girl back each time to "help" (it's all you bro!!) him on the last couple of reps.

sounds like it was a good plan

[danomite!]

sounds like it was a good plan

He may have had ulterior motives...

[Big-Green-Mud-Machine]

sounds like it was a good plan

He may have had ulterior motives...

I'm ashamed to say this didn't occur to me, probably because I'm now old enough to be classed as a sex pest with that kind of behaviour to girls that age

[Alexander Dargatz]

I'm ashamed to say this didn't occur to me, probably because I'm now old enough to be classed as a sex pest with that kind of behaviour to girls that age

Nothing makes a man feel old as a young woman.

[mangen]

Nothing makes a man feel old as a young woman.

And I thought, "Nothing makes an older man feel young as a young woman."

[Charlocity2]

And I thought, "Nothing makes an older man feel young as a young woman."

They're not mutually exclusive.

[Andrew Prine]

Does anyone watch Gym Fails on youtube? If not, I'd recommend. You'll either laugh or get really angry.

Reminds me of the George Carlin quote, "Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of them are stupider than that!"

[k_kws]

Does anyone watch Gym Fails on youtube? If not, I'd recommend. You'll either laugh or get really angry.

I think some of it's funny, but the other stuff makes me so uncomfortable in the same way that performance art does. For example those two people at 5:17
Like, I understand why some 20 yo dude would scream through a 315 quarter squat. But the weird shit.. I just can't comprehend it.