We haven't had one of these yet? I didn't see one in a search.

Funny this should come up as my hockey buddies were discussing this last week. In particular were the guys who walk into the gym with their jeans and workboots on, and walk straight in and start working out. When they're done walk out to their cars and leave exactly as they came in.

- I swear I am the only person left on the planet without a tattoo

The "Gym Denizen Instagram Selfie." Usually a dude sitting on a bench close to a mirror. Two hands on the phone, held at about waist level and pointed at the reflection in the mirror. Flexes entire upper body, looks super jacked, face down (face is usually obscured in the photo by bill of baseball cap pulled low), snaps the photo. Relaxes and is no longer super jacked. Posts it, probably with a bunch of hastags including #fitness and #neverskiplegday or some shit like that.

We haven't had one of these yet? I didnt see one in a search.

Anyway, there's a new couple at the gym. Young and pretty fit and they're there a lot. They both wear the SAME outfit every single visit. I've seen them 3-4 times per week the past month and they have the same clothes every time. Sweaty cardio and everything. What's the deal with that?

- Sitting on the bench/machine looking at their phone. What a workout.

We haven't had one of these yet? I didnt see one in a search.

Anyway, there's a new couple at the gym. Young and pretty fit and they're there a lot. They both wear the SAME outfit every single visit. I've seen them 3-4 times per week the past month and they have the same clothes every time. Sweaty cardio and everything. What's the deal with that?

The "Gym Denizen Instagram Selfie." Usually a dude sitting on a bench close to a mirror. Two hands on the phone, held at about waist level and pointed at the reflection in the mirror. Flexes entire upper body, looks super jacked, face down (face is usually obscured in the photo by bill of baseball cap pulled low), snaps the photo. Relaxes and is no longer super jacked. Posts it, probably with a bunch of hastags including #fitness and #neverskiplegday or some shit like that.

He always wears lycra tights, which I don't think is a good look for any guy, ...

I'm lucky my gym has a lot of rules on a lot of the meathead stuff. Pictures, dress etc.

One that gets me is the sprinters around the track. This track is 3 lanes, 1/10 of a mile and is mainly used for walking/running and is fairly busy over the lunch hour. Some people feel this is the perfect track for doing all out sprints weaving through everyone including the 70 year old guy with a prosthetic leg.

I work out at the gym on a college campus. There's a guy, I assume a student, who uses the track to run pass routes. Usually he starts outside the track in an adjacent area, lines up, takes off, does a head fake/shimmy, makes a cut at some point sprints half a straight and corner and exits the track into another part of the gym. Sometimes he even uses a column as a mock defender to separate from at the start of his route.

Man bun with technical, moisture-wicking leggings under shorts even though he's doing no cardio and not breaking a sweat

I've seen this before:

A group of three teenagers came up the steps. They had on pretty much the same outfit - with slight variations in color - contractor-style (carpenter / plumber) overalls, v-neck t-shirt, trucker hat, Timberland work boots. They each carried a 10- or maybe 20-pound dumbell in each hand.

They walked a couple laps around the track, being very careful not to bump anyone with the iron. Then they started jogging, still with the weights.

I figured that they were just warming up, before lifting, but the kept going. One lap, two laps, three. Then they started doing what runners would describe as intervals, fast laps, then slow.

I couldn't figure out what I was watching.

Then it occurred to me.

These kids were actually TRAINING for the spring and summer burglary season!!! Running fast while carrying heavy weight!!!

I wish I'd thought of that 40 years ago.

my gym has these skinny runts that can run really fast and seem to have a weird calf tattoo of an M
some of the guys have shaved legs too

I first read this as Man with tactical bun and I was impressed.

That’s awesome.

Most I see with those tattoos aren’t fast.

Does your gym have any hump/hip thrust lifters? This is new at my gym. One girl is ripped and will spend at least 45 minutes working out her thrust each session.

I usually work out at a rec center on a fairly large University campus, so mostly college students. Yes the hip thrusters, and ass developers in general, are there in droves. That and apparently everyone is required to deadlift now.

College girls doing hip thrusts could give this old man an aneurysm

College girls doing hip thrusts could give this old man an aneurysm

You are clearly not a Triathlete:

Maybe they have several sets of the same gear (same as owning 20 pairs of the same underwear)?

Maybe they wash their clothes every day (I wash my tech-gear as soon as possible to prevent the funk from settling in)?

Nothing to see.

As regarding the kids with work boots and weights on the Track: ROTC?

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At any given moment 78% of all women in my gym are doing some type of ass exercise. God bless them all.

Does your gym have any hump/hip thrust lifters? This is new at my gym. One girl is ripped and will spend at least 45 minutes working out her thrust each session.

This is one of the most bizarre posts I’ve ever read on ST. It is like Surrealism in written form...

Does your gym have any hump/hip thrust lifters? This is new at my gym. One girl is ripped and will spend at least 45 minutes working out her thrust each session.

- I swear I am the only person left on the planet without a tattoo

Nope

I'm a different kind of straight-edge punk rocker: I still like to drink, but I got no ink

There are a few kids I've seen at the local YMCA who video each other doing bench press and squats. They say it's for showing their football strength training coach, but I've seen them posting the vids on social media.

That could be how they are showing their strength coach.

#LegDayBruh #PumpingIron #Fitness

You forgot my personal favorite fitness hashtag: #gainz.

Can someone please explain to me how getting tattoos jives with being straight-edge?

So you dedicate your life to keeping things like alcohol and drugs out of your system (for some it means being vegan and others no caffeine or prescription drugs) yet they all seem perfectly willing to pump a ton of ink into their skin.

I’m in my gym five days a week so get to see loads of shit. It is a reasonably small gym, and doesn’t have a steroid culture, but the majority of casual lifter stereotypes are all present and correct.

There’s the midlife skinny-fat dude who wears a compression vest that rides up over his belly, and overloads every set so that he has to cheat the movement on every exercise.

There are the young newcomers who stick together in packs of 3-4 watching each other lift pointlessly light weights and randomly flit from exercise to exercise, with no plan.

There are the young buff dudes wearing vests but tracksuit pants, who I’ve never seen doing anything other than a chest and arm routine.

There’s the post-new-year bullshit month where the smith machine is clogged with an assortment of asshats doing reverse leg presses, lying on the floor with their feet pushing the bar up. Meanwhile the actual leg press is unused. Other ‘unique’ exercises are on display by people who really just need to get on with the foundation exercises.

There’s the chunky nut job who has obviously been reasonably active all his life but should have sized up his shorts a decade ago. He likes to sprint on the treadmill and elliptical until soaked in sweat and then proceed to do circuits on the various free weights, leaving benches soaked in his wake.

Speaking of circuits, there’s the older trainer who only “trains” people who’ve never been in the gym before. At peak time he’ll be guiding his client through a circuit using half the work stations and weights equal to a can of beans.

Boxing/MMA has been in for a while. Thanks to that we now have guys skipping in between sets, blocking any equipment within a 2m radius. I like skipping. Skipping is fun. In an unused cardio room with lots of room.

There’s the runner/triathlete who does floor exercises in his calf compression sleeves (and running kit - in case you were visualising this) in the middle of the free weights despite their being a room, usually empty, for this purpose.

I’ve a lot of love for anyone who squats or deadlifts with form. In fact, anyone who lifts with good form and doesn’t overload the bar. Very few people in a gym have sensible routines.

Wow. I needed to get that off my chest!

It's hard, frustrating and totally goofy-looking - just what I want in an exercise.

* Jeopardy! now sends 2nd & 3rd place finishers home with $2000 & $1000, respectively, so even if you zero out, you got something ... plus: you were ON fucking JEOPARDY!

My wife works with someone who's son won on Jeopardy like a decade or so ago. He still lives at home and works some menial job. "You won Jeopardy, yeah right!" has to have been said to him at some point.

FWIW, I recently found out a friend's neighbor works at Disney as a janitor at night. His prior job? He was a nuclear physicist at Los Alamos and was, at one point, one of Dr. Teller's research assistants. Sometimes really smart people say "screw it" and work a simple job and live a simple life for the sake of their own sanity.

Wait, Wheel of Fortune comes on AFTER Jeopardy where you live? That's messed up

Where I live:
7:00 wheel of torture
7:30 jeopardy

Where I live:
7:00 wheel of torture
7:30 jeopardy

that's so messed up

Does the sun also rise in the West and fish fly in the air?

Tell me, where is this Unholy Place that I shall avoid it forevermore

To be honest, I can never tell if they are fast [or were fast, once] as I have never seen one moving at "race pace"

Usually, they're just wandering around the supermarket or liquor store, or strolling on the beach/boardwalk

That's a good point. What's with teens that their so weirded out being naked in the locker room? At the pool, I routinely see youngsters go into a bathroom stall in order to get in/out of their bathing suit.

If you were caught hooking up with the ugly chick at a highschool party, it became a joke amongst your friends. Now it's online with 2 million views before your blowjob is even finished.

Rock songs from the ’90s and 2000s that became big pop hits.

Artists You'll Hear
The Killers, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, Third Eye Blind, Goo Goo Dolls, Train, No Doubt, Dave Matthews Band, Weezer, Green Day

Lately, the music feed over the PA at the gym has been SiriusXM's "Pop Rocks"

https://www.siriusxm.com/PopRocks

It's just hard getting into the mood when Dave Mathews is playing.

Drew Carey?

Way off.

I'll give you a hint: I made a post about Croakies, and featured his pic [maybe even the same shirt]

link please

Why do YOU need the link? You already know who that is

< these Delaware girls; I dunno, sometimes >

The glasses make me think of Brett Gurewitz?

Ooooooh!!! Someone knows their shit!!!

http://www.blabbermouth.net/...says-brett-gurewitz/

Wrong, but real close

Milo?

YES!!!!
He lives in my town and works out at my Y. My husband met him at our grocery store a couple months back. He's the lovliest person you could ever meet.

YES!!!!

He lives in my town and works out at my Y. My husband met him at our grocery store a couple months back. He's the lovliest person you could ever meet.

And I told you that a friend of mine from Kickrunners/30s worked with him at DuPont before there department was dissolved

I mean, spun off or broken out, not actually "dissolved," like with solvent or something

Spun off like this?

And I told you that a friend of mine from Kickrunners/30s worked with him at DuPont before there department was dissolved

I mean, spun off or broken out, not actually "dissolved," like with solvent or something

I wanna know if it's the same shirt.

I dont Recall u telling me that ever

Well, I almost punched a woman in the locker room today. She was there for the water aerobics class, and was talking to another woman about how the Southern states really have her sympathy for their loss of slaves after the war. "Many of them had a very good relationship with those slaves. And we had colored people in my family and we always treated them very well...." Almost bit through my tongue at this point trying not to object.

"And many of those slaves nursed the babies in the family--it was a very close relationship..." "And it was an agrarian society so we* needed the help..."

Fucking unbelievable.

*She actually did say "we". She could identify with the beneficent white slave owners. Just not the slaves.

Sharing from another Forum

Where was this gym? That sounds like theater of the absurdity

Massachusetts, I believe

So this is hearsay?

Sharing from another Forum

We haven't had one of these yet? I didnt see one in a search.

Anyway, there's a new couple at the gym. Young and pretty fit and they're there a lot. They both wear the SAME outfit every single visit. I've seen them 3-4 times per week the past month and they have the same clothes every time. Sweaty cardio and everything. What's the deal with that?

So this is hearsay?

Weeeell, it's hearsay in the sense that we didn't experience this interaction directly. But it was relayed to us by a reliable source.

Weeeell, it's hearsay in the sense that we didn't experience this interaction directly. But it was relayed to us by a reliable source.

Weeeell, it's hearsay in the sense that we didn't experience this interaction directly. But it was relayed to us by a reliable source.

Then turn up their pathetic 40 year old man metal music over the gym speakers.

thought about this thread last week when I was at local Y. What is it with dudes that love walking ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE LOCKER ROOM with no towel, no clothes, just a limp member hanging out?? It's young guys and old guys that are offenders. I don't get it. I like being naked and don't have a problem changing in public but I also don't walk 80'-100' with it all hanging out just because!

Ironic this thread has come up again.

Would you be more or less offended if it wasn't limp?

Though not a gym, I figure the office end of trip facilities have a connection. As such we have the shower cubicle separation anxiety guy.

There are about 20 separate shower cubicles adjoining the locker area. On three separate occasions now I've been in early enough that there's only been two other guys in there. Each time this particular person comes and picks the cubicle right next to mine. A colleague mentioned the same thing happened to them

If he’s not in the shower with you then why does it matter?
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It's a clear violation of the Bro Code.

If he’s not in the shower with you then why does it matter?

I know a lot of people have been going to zero-rise shoes in the free weights area [Converse Chucks seem to be very popular, either lo- or hi-tops], but I think fuzzy slippers are a bit extreme, especially when matched with velour track pants

Hey, at least she was comfortable, and if she just rolled out of bed & busted it over to the gym, without delay, then ... good for her!!!

It’s akin to someone using the urinal right next to you when there are others available.

My gym has a large locker room with multiple sections of lockers. Almost empty locker room and not only does a dude choose the section I’m using but a locker close enough to mine that I have to do the excuse me dance while getting dressed. And I was standing there, getting dressed, when he walked in so it wasn’t some sort of mistake where he didn’t realize that one of the other three people at the gym would be using that locker. Very perplexing. I know I look good in a towel and all, but this was ridiculous.

then offered me a fist bump.

His free hand, I hope; or did he left go if the wheel and drive no-handed?

I don't think I fit in at this new place...

I was to his right. He awkwardly reached over with his left. I left him hanging. Read in to that what you will.

Everyone has beards.

I don't think I fit in at this new place...

The only true downside, he's from a generation which doesn't seem to recognize full nude male and personal space boundaries.

Clearly. Your posterior is no where near perfect, yet. Get to work on it.

Nonsense.

Despite what he may say about his buttocks looking sublime in man jeggings, JSA's rear looks like a bag of wet clothes compared to mine. Trust me, for some reason he keeps sending me pictures of it.

I'm one of the few guys at this gym who's leg day includes a) more then one leg exercise and b) hip thrusts, sled pushes, etc.

Some of the posts on here made me think about those yoga pants which are all contoured and shaped in all of the butt cleavage, camel toe parts. Some of them are truly fitted along the lines of 'look at me right here'.

So, have you figured out which sports bra looks best with your favorite pair of yoga pants?

It's tough to find a set that go with my beard. Also, fitting in to them is a little like trying to stuff a sausage back in it's casing.

Fair enough. Gyms usually prefer you to keep your sausage encased while on the premises anyway.

It's tough to find a set that go with my beard.

Has anyone gone back? What have you seen, or NOT seen?

Ours was pretty empty the times I've been in

Temp taken at the door
Masks are mandatory at all times
Locker rooms are off-limits [bathrooms are open], so you have to come 'ready-to-play' and carry your stuff around with you, which isn't so bad, but I don't have enough pockets for my phone [NEED my music] wallet, car keys, and a Zip-Loc of Lysol wipes

Considering a fanny-pack, or maybe even wearing my bike jersey for the extra pockets - there's no one here, so who gives a fuck how dorky I look

Pool has registration for a lane. Depending on the time of day - either 1 or 2 people per lane. (2 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon/weekends - I guess we are less contagious in the morning???)

I do like the pre-registration - it forces me to "not skip" as I'd feel bad taking a spot some-one else might want.

Been back since June.

A few questions at the door. Wear a mask from the door to locker room.

Locker rooms are open but very empty. Only 2 of 6 showers are open.

Pool has registration for a lane. Depending on the time of day - either 1 or 2 people per lane. (2 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon/weekends - I guess we are less contagious in the morning???)

I do like the pre-registration - it forces me to "not skip" as I'd feel bad taking a spot some-one else might want.