Sounds almost as distracting as the guy singing off key next to me on Saturday. I run without tunes but really wish I had them. Decided it was time to work on my focus.

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Ahhhh, strange denizens of the treadmill.

1. Feels-the-urge-to-grunt-or-yell-a-syllable-like-"go!"-to-himself-every-three-minutes guy. He sucks. Huge.

2. Eat-a-gel-every-five-minutes-even-though-he's-only-running-25-minutes guy. Gotta have ENERGY! I bet he had a full plate of pasta last night, too.

I am sure he then went and did curls with weights so heavy that when he dropped them they made that "boooommm" that resonates around the whole gym.

Now I remember why I bought a home gym unit.

Anybody have experience dealing with Running backwards on the treadmill guy? He says he does it to work "other muscles" but unless he plans on running his races backwards i dont see the benefit. If you know this guy i could use some help.

Oh by the way, he is also a card carrying member of the lets have an hour long conversation in the locker room about our training with our wangs out club. Yep, there are about 4 or 5 of them and they just seem to love each others company. If you have experience with them, i would love some help.

Why aren't you running outside?

My local Y has that guy too.
But what I want to know from the slowtwitch women is what is the deal with ladies setting the treadmill to the maximum incline and then doing a 'fast walk' while holding onto the console for dear life for 30 minutes straight?
Maybe it isn't everywhere, but at my YMCA that is what 90% of the women do. They come in, get on the treadmill, crank it up to max incline and walk away. What purpose does that serve?

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NOT a fan of the spends-45-minutes-with-my-wang-hanging-out-in-the-locker-room guy.
But, he sure beats the two guys I saw ducking into the shower together the other morning (giggling like schoolgirls).

Anyone else ever get freaked out by runs-really-far-back-on-the-treadmill-(as-in-ALMOST-falling-off-the-back) guy?

We don't have that club at our YMCA but we do have a guy that loves to walk around towel-free and talk to anyone and everyone that comes into the locker room. He'll be in there when I go in for a swim and he's still there (talking to someone else) when I get back to the locker room 30-45 minutes later...

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Are you in Ann Arbor? I swear to god I saw the exact same thing last week...and see my post above about the spends-45-minutes-with-my-wang-hanging-out-in-the-locker-room guy.

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Now I remember why I bought a home gym unit.

So you can run backwards faster than you should at max incline for five minute intervals while holding onto the handles and eating gels every few minutes before walking around naked for way longer than you should without having to leave the comfort of your basement?

As I'm off to the gym on my lunch hour, this thread has brought back not-so-fond memories:

* The Wang Guys: We have them too. Usually the older guys who love to walk around the locker room with nothing on and groom in front of the mirror for hours...slap a ton of baby powder on the twins, stick Q-tips in their ears, examine what came out in great detail, etc.

* We had one guy swim in his transparent tighty whities. I kid you not. As I was walking into the pool, he hops out of the jacuzzi and the old ladies who were sitting there where quite shocked. He then DIVES into the pool and swims a couple of laps in the lane next to me. At this point, I'm trying to rationalize that yes, there is chlorine in this pool and it is probably taking care of any schmegma this guy is trailing behind him and that really, tighty whities aren't that much different than a swimsuit...but dang: I don't want to see your package.

* Ditto on the lug nuts who drop the heavy dumbbells. These are usually the really big dudes so I don't have room to make fun of them. That's reserved for the guys who bench press for six hours and have big chests, rounded shoulders and tiny little bird legs.

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Interesting Saturday at my gym.

First, as I'm puffing along on the rowing machine (nicely located in back so not bothered by any of the treadmill antic guys), I am bothered by unbelieveably loud grunts from the free weight area, I mean like a tennis player x 100. When I'm done I go around to see who's making all the noise, I figure its gotta be some huge super fit dude, nope so fat sod.

Secondly, the cops were walking what was probably Mr. Wang Exposer out of the building.

You forgot the guy who spends 30 minutes on the leg press machine- nost of it sitting. 5-7 45 lb. plates per side. legs move about 2 inches during rep.
Extra points for heavy droppers using dumbells- doing flys with about 80 lb. dumbells.- just let 'em go when done!

We have psych-up for five minutes guy. He does a whole routine, shadow boxing, jumping, yelling before hitting each machine. Guy has bingo arms, bird legs and a gut, but gets bonus points for his mohawk.

Two annoyances for me. The first is the "coach" and secondly, sweaty-hairy guy without the towel....

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I had an interesting variation on that guy last winter. He was shaving in front of the mirror wear nothing.... but a heart rate monitor. I cannot figure this one out.

How about:

"I carry a gallon jug of water with me all over the weightroom" guy?

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How about Ultimate Fighter Guy- lots of sparring/karate kicks between reps?
How about stretch everything possible between lifts guy? Ours even stretches his fingers and re-folds his towel. Gets about 5 min of actual work per hour.
We also have an interesting woman- she is small and fit and fond of the standing multi hip flexor/adductor/abductor machine. She puts on max weight and the thing lifts her a foot in the air when she lets the bar down. Looks like she is going for a ride with every rep!

Speaking about the walk-around-with-the-wang-hanging-out-and-clean-my-ears-and-examine-and-tonic-my-hair-guys, could someone please explain to me why this person must dry off (all body parts, mind you) with a hair dryer??? I mean, wouldn't it be much easier and faster to dry the twigs & berries off with a towel???

And if anyone has an answer for this - could you please explain why one has to do it while staring at self in the mirror???????


Please - I'd love to know, because it ruins my appetite every time I see it......

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Ahhh....we cant let the newbies miss my "Open Letter to the YMCA" from Feb 05...

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These guys also always have their gym bag with them at all times.

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But what I want to know from the slowtwitch women is what is the deal with ladies setting the treadmill to the maximum incline and then doing a 'fast walk' while holding onto the console for dear life for 30 minutes straight?

What makes you think that the slowtwitch womens (TRIATHLETES) would know the answer to this? We can't magically read the minds of others just because they have the same type of reproductive parts.

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Becuase that burns more calories according to the machine....duh :D

I dont buy that? Where do you think the aliens got their communication ability on Independence Day? This no doubt was contrived by some genetic female communication system that we men know exists...but cant yet figure out. Your minds are all connected somehow....I know it...

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