Gym Stories?

[Primal]

Hello all! I was wondering if any of you guys have any funny/interesting gym stories to tell? With years and decades in the gym, you guys have been bound to see some crazy stuff! I'll go first I suppose.

About a year ago, I was in the gym on a Thursday night with my buddy. All the regulars were there too, including a big football player who was a few years older than us. He would always hit a muscle group first and then finish off by running on the treadmill for 30 minutes. Anyways, one time he was going a fast paced jogging speed on the treadmill and he thought it was a good idea to start doing some football shuffles. So as he is running, he quickly switches directions until he is shuffling facing the right, completely backwards and then shuffling the the left. One of the times he switches directions though, he catches his foot on his leg and he crashes onto the treadmill. The treadmill is still going full speed and it shoots him backwards head first into the front of another treadmill! Poor guy was moaning and I think he cut himself in the head pretty bad too. They brought him into one of the rooms and wrapped his head up like a mummy. Needless to say, never saw him doing that on the treadmill again. It was kinda funny in a bad way though... :rotflmao

-Primal

[scumbag]

At my gym, there was this member who was over 70 years old and loved to wear short shorts with no underway. His balls would slip out, especially when using seated leg workout machines. (Like the Jackass character) LMAO. Many members, especially the females, complained about it and he got many written warnings. He kept dressing the same way and acted like other people were the problem. The gym had no choice but to revoke his membership and kick him out.
My gym is in downtown Winnipeg and we get alot of riff raff. Some homie kid pulled a can of bear spray on me because I refused to arm wrestle him.

[Primal]

At my gym, there was this member who was over 70 years old and loved to wear short shorts with no underway. His balls would slip out, especially when using seated leg workout machines. (Like the Jackass character) LMAO. Many members, especially the females, complained about it and he got many written warnings. He kept dressing the same way and acted like other people were the problem. The gym had no choice but to revoke his membership and kick him out.
My gym is in downtown Winnipeg and we get alot of riff raff. Some homie kid pulled a can of bear spray on me because I refused to arm wrestle him.

Hey man, your're in Winnipeg? That's awesome! Just moved away from there, what gym do you go to? Also, I can attest to the riff raff people in the city. The core always has a bunch of strange folk and it is super sketchy walking alone down there.

-Primal

[scumbag]

Downtown Y. But I think I will be switching gym in a summer to a more serious gym. Maybe McDoles or Acceleration Fitness.

[Primal]

Downtown Y. But I think I will be switching gym in a summer to a more serious gym. Maybe McDoles or Acceleration Fitness.

Yeah I was actually going to ask if you knew any hardcore gyms in the city. Maybe when I come back I'll check out those ones you mentioned.

-Primal

[#8]

Walk into liberty village goodlife and stick around for about an hour. You will find a lifetimes worth of douche stories to keep you going.

Worst gym in Toronto.

[Primal]

Walk into liberty village goodlife and stick around for about an hour. You will find a lifetimes worth of douche stories to keep you going.

Worst gym in Toronto.

Oh god, Goodlife... I think Goodlife is the Canadian equivalent to Planet Fitness down in the U.S. Have you ever tried Fortis Fitness #8? It's in the Toronto area and they have some pretty famous people who train there. Plus it looks like they have squat racks for miles, chains for days and plates like Olive Garden. I'm going to go and train there next time I go to Toronto!

-Primal

[scottlove]

I have a pretty embarrassing story about myself that I'll share before someone else does. In the middle of my heavy 'back day", I was on my 3rd set of seated cable rows. I had the pin to the bottom of the stack with another 40lbs added on. While I was cranking out my final few reps the cable snapped and my momentum threw me right off the bench and into a backwards somersault. I stopped tumbling about 8 feet behind the seat and ended up on my feet. The guys around were trying to act like they didn't notice but I know everyone did. (I could see them trying not too laugh). Anyway, 2 weeks later, the exact same thing happened. Needless to say I steer away from that machine now.

[cog]

I have a pretty embarrassing story about myself that I'll share before someone else does. In the middle of my heavy 'back day", I was on my 3rd set of seated cable rows. I had the pin to the bottom of the stack with another 40lbs added on. While I was cranking out my final few reps the cable snapped and my momentum threw me right off the bench and into a backwards somersault. I stopped tumbling about 8 feet behind the seat and ended up on my feet. The guys around were trying to act like they didn't notice but I know everyone did. (I could see them trying not too laugh). Anyway, 2 weeks later, the exact same thing happened. Needless to say I steer away from that machine now.

Frayed cable?Frickin dangerous.Read about a cable snapping while rowing and the guy broke his jaw with the attachment.Some big guy loaded up a leg press and just squeezed that last plate on so it was hanging by a thread.Roberta Segar at the old Calgary Gold's had this competitive female bb'er visiting that she was training.She was on the next leg press over and man was she pretty.A little long on the glance as I went to unrack a wheel...fell straight down between my toes but came down hard against my shins.Divots for quite some time.

[TT Eric]

Nice one Scott since you mastered the fall and got back on your feet.

I have one a bit more embarrassing! Back in the time I was doing donkey calf raise with my training partner and since we didn't had a machine for that we were doing it old school, one sitting on the lower back of the other, but other guys there were like WTF everytime!! What we didn't know is that we were in a corner end of the gym and with the angle of the mirrors and the movement up and down, it was apparently looking like we were doing it in the backdoor!! Guys were freaking outs, we had a good laugh and we never did donkey calf raise again, f@ck that hahaha.

One other funny/stupid story at the same gym, we had a really collegial time, almost everyone was talking to everyone, we were like a huge bunch of friends and one of them, was pretty weird: he was grabbing others guy's ass or slapping them for fun, pretty weird though he was not gay or anything, it was pretty annoying... (I almost punched a guy in the face because of him) anyway this guy was pretty noisy and once he came in the gym and saw one of the regular on the squat rack, so evidently he saw the opportunity and was moving toward him to grab his ass with both hands while his victim could not do anything since he was under the bar, but this guy saw him coming and presented his ass as he began his descent and SHAT a freaking huge one in his hands, the whole gym started laughing, almost rolling on the floor and applauding. He was the hero of the day and the guy never tried this again, we were so happy.

Eric

[Primal]

Wow these are some really good stories actually! Really scared now about a machine in my gym with a broken cable that was tied together. I usually use it for facepulls but after what I happened to Scott... Yeah not going to smash my face in with a rope anytime soon.

[Primal]

Frayed cable?Frickin dangerous.Read about a cable snapping while rowing and the guy broke his jaw with the attachment.Some big guy loaded up a leg press and just squeezed that last plate on so it was hanging by a thread.Roberta Segar at the old Calgary Gold's had this competitive female bb'er visiting that she was training.She was on the next leg press over and man was she pretty.A little long on the glance as I went to unrack a wheel...fell straight down between my toes but came down hard against my shins.Divots for quite some time.

Jaysus Cog be careful! I knew a kid who dropped a 40 lbs dumbbell on his toe. It broke his nail clean off his toe and 2 days later it turned necrotic! Almost had to get it amputated! Stay safe man!

@Eric TT LOL at the first story! :laugh The second story is... disturbing.

[Hosehead]

I used to train at a Kingston gym called New Age Fitness back in the early to late 90's. Small gym with only about 100 regulars and perhaps 20 hardcore lifters. We had a female member turn pro for female bodybuilding and one guy who placed top 3 at the nationals for light heavy. Anyhow, this one turd who would never shut his ****ing mouth about every topic used to always ask the big boys about how to pack on size. He'd get the usual good advice - bench, squat, deadlift and eat like a mother****er. But time and time again you'd see him doing cable crossovers set after set and complain that he was still weighing 180lbs. So one day he's at the front counter bugging the heavyweight's brain for more advice that he doesn't intend to follow and the big fella gives him his secret to bench pressing 500 and squatting 600 blah blah.... So no one sees the guy for two weeks and one day he walks in looking all gaunt and appearing to be twenty pounds less than he already was. So one of the regulars says " Frankie boy , what the hell happened to you ?" and he replies " Dan told me that if I ate at least 8 bananas a day I'd get huge but all that's happening is I'm getting the worst diahrea of my life - I think he might have been ****ing with me ". I almost shit myself laughing. The dumb **** didn't clue in until day ten or so.

[TT Eric]

Just to be sure by shat, I mean fart. :s

Since we talk about bad accident also, we had a guy at the bench press that his spotter helped to lift the bar but he was not looking at the guy lying, he was looking at the girls going out of the aerobic class.. so he lift the bar and let it go in the face of the other guy not ready, he had 'only' a plate or a plate and a 10lbs I think, he tried to catch/slow down the bar, but it smashed right at the eyes line, he went to hospital, never saw his again, or heard how he was doing...

And lately, we heard the story of this 16 y/o teen in the news who killed four people while drunk at the wheel and will get no additional jail time and be sent to an rehab facilit...

It made me remember in 1990 ish I had someone came to me at the gym asking me to make a training/rehabilitation program for him cause he had a car accident a few days ago, so I did... only to learned that this guy caused a car accident (reckless/speed) and had killed 4 members of a family of 5, the only one survivor was not in the car and was a fellow student I knew from school. He was there subscribing at the gym asking for a training a few days after the accident like if it was a walk in the park... it was so pissed off that he seems to had no remorse, while this person I knew was crying over the loss of her entire direct family. He never came back at the gym though, I dunno how I would have reacted if he did came back.

Eric

[Primal]

I used to train at a Kingston gym called New Age Fitness back in the early to late 90's. Small gym with only about 100 regulars and perhaps 20 hardcore lifters. We had a female member turn pro for female bodybuilding and one guy who placed top 3 at the nationals for light heavy. Anyhow, this one turd who would never shut his ****ing mouth about every topic used to always ask the big boys about how to pack on size. He'd get the usual good advice - bench, squat, deadlift and eat like a mother****er. But time and time again you'd see him doing cable crossovers set after set and complain that he was still weighing 180lbs. So one day he's at the front counter bugging the heavyweight's brain for more advice that he doesn't intend to follow and the big fella gives him his secret to bench pressing 500 and squatting 600 blah blah.... So no one sees the guy for two weeks and one day he walks in looking all gaunt and appearing to be twenty pounds less than he already was. So one of the regulars says " Frankie boy , what the hell happened to you ?" and he replies " Dan told me that if I ate at least 8 bananas a day I'd get huge but all that's happening is I'm getting the worst diahrea of my life - I think he might have been ****ing with me ". I almost shit myself laughing. The dumb **** didn't clue in until day ten or so.

Yeah, Whoo! Kingston! My hometown! Best city in Canada! Hahaha! There's a guy on Youtube called 30 bananas a day who this story reminds me of. He complains that people using creatine look better because creatine just adds water weight. Your story made me think of him lol.

@TT Eric Uhm, in my generation, shat is a nice way of saying defecating, I thought you knew that, but apparently not... The story is still funny though :) I won't lie, I have done and also been a victim of the first story. Actually I got a funny one on girls in my old gym too. The second story is tragic, I know if I ever saw that guy again... Probably best not to say it on here. That's terrible what he did, and then he brushes it off like nothing... Terrible people.

[Primal]

Another story of mine! Glad to see this thread is getting some attention! So, last year I used to go to a really commercial gym with tons of treadmills (already mentioned). Well as you guys probably all know, gyms like these attract a LOT of girls, most of them young ones too. In fact, the girl to guy ratio was probably 2:1. So you can image how awesome it would be for 17 year old me and my two other buddies to hit the gym everyday after school. Anyways, one of the regular girls was pretty attractive. We always used to call her Skittles because she used to dress in tight spandex clothes in all bright colours. So we dared one of my friends to go up to her and say "Hey babe, can I taste your rainbow?" One day, he finally gave in after our nagging and went up to Skittles and said it. The gym was pretty loud so we couldn't hear what they said after but my friends face went all red and he quickly walked back to us. We asked him what had happened and he told us to drop it. After this, whenever we went to the gym we always teased him because we thought that she had wanted to go out with him because every time Skittles would see him, she would blush and wave and my buddy would just get red in the face and look down. He still never told us what happened until the night of our convocation. Turns out Skittles was a dude who just got a sex change and had a thing for "cute guys". Well being the great friend that I am, I made sure on the last days before I left that gym that I got to talk with Skittles. I lied to him/her and said that my friend was single and open for "all kinds of experiences". A few days after I left the city I got a few texts from him that were just as colourful as Skittles clothing. Ahh, good times with the boys...

-Primal