And now another episode of....."WHY THE HELL DO THEY DO THAT??"

[GuyJD]

I decided to begin my "Melinnium Resolution" Tuesday morning by getting up early in the morning and heading for the gym to get back into my powerlifting training. Once there, I was going through the trunk of my car to retrieve all of my training gear. As I was gathering up my gear, I noticed a guy walking towards and into the gym. Nothing particular, always observing my atmosphere has been a habit since I was a cop. So I get into the gym and began my cardiovascular training on the Life Fitness Crosstrainer to warm up first. It didn't take me but a couple of minutes to get my stuff from the trunk. As I began my training on the Crosstrainer, I noticed that guy working out on another machine. I must have gone through about a minute on the machine when the guy turned his off, got off, and proceeded to another part of the gym. My thought was, "WHAT AN ASSHOLE".
I know it sounds petty but, for those of you who are familiar with training in a gym like Gold's or World Gym, knows how crowded it could be and how there may be a large amount of people waiting to use the many exercise machines in the facility. So for someone to hop on a machine to perform their "one minute a day" routine is pathetic and time wasting.
I was once standing on a barbell platform performing some heavy barbell curls when these 2 whiny lil whimps approached me and asked how long will I be there. Ordinarily, I have no problem giving up the spot or "working in" with someone, but the other one made a remark of "Besides, that's not what you're suppose to be doing here anyway." His friend looked scared when he said that because he could see that I did not like the remark and I was at least twice the size of both of them. I told them to work in with me because I had 2 more sets to complete. I didn't take any physical actions, of course. I just left the 45 pound plates on the barbell for them to remove on their whimpy own. Needless to say, they did their "One A Day" set and went on about their business. As they walked away, I told the smart talking friend, "Damn, just one set? You could have gone in the women section to do that with the lighter dumbells." He must have mumbled something because I heard his friend tell him, "Yeah, well what are you gonna do. He's bigger and stronger than your ass. So just shut the fuck up."

[Edited by GuyJD on 01-03-2001 at 11:59 AM]

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

I believe its the Village Idiot sysndrome.....They just can't help themselves at being stupid or thoughtless....



THE WIFE

 

[GuyJD]

That may be. But why the hell does these Village Idiots buy a membership in World Gym?

 

[KillerMuffin]

Cause it makes 'em feel like studs to do it. Gawd, gymrats *shudder* hate the sonsabitches. At least you don't have tits Guy my sweet. Then they'd never leave you alone. One reason I joined the military, to get into a good non-meat market gym where the equipment is used for the purpose it was designed for by persons who theoretically know what they're doing. And if they don't, I'm calling First Sarn't gawddammit.

We belonged to a small Gold's in Monterey. We had two steroid freaks who would show up, make a big deal about themselves and hog the equipment, bellowing and grunting to lift weights I can lift. Now, I just hit military gyms. Maybe a smaller out of the way gym where free weights dominate and a few cardio machines? Dorks don't stick around long in those places. Of course, watch out for the *ahem* "gym pharmacists."

 

[GuyJD]

I CAN'T AGREE & DISAGREE WITH YOU MORE KM

Cause it makes 'em feel like studs to do it. Gawd, gymrats *shudder* hate the sonsabitches. At least you don't have tits Guy my sweet. Then they'd never leave you alone. One reason I joined the military, to get into a good non-meat market gym where the equipment is used for the purpose it was designed for by persons who theoretically know what they're doing. And if they don't, I'm calling First Sarn't gawddammit.

We belonged to a small Gold's in Monterey. We had two steroid freaks who would show up, make a big deal about themselves and hog the equipment, bellowing and grunting to lift weights I can lift. Now, I just hit military gyms. Maybe a smaller out of the way gym where free weights dominate and a few cardio machines? Dorks don't stick around long in those places. Of course, watch out for the *ahem* "gym pharmacists."

You mentioned the non-meat market status of a military gym. While I can only agree with you a little, I have reason to disagree. And that is my nephew who met his current wife in a military gym. She's in the Air Force and he the Navy. During our Christmas (1999) celebration, she told us of how they met and how "annoyed" she was that he would flirt with her while she was trying to work out. I guess he, eventually, grew on her.

And you mentioned the "Roid Boys" in the gym who hogged the equipments and grunted and groaned on small weights. In my 15 years in the gym, I have totally seen all of that. I'll admit, I was once a "Roid Boy" and even grunted through my trainings (particularly when I did arms) but out of gym courtesy, I never hugged the weights and equipment. Hell, there's enough of it to go around. Nor did I ever stand in the mirror and posed. I would do my personal admirations in the privacy of my own home. Still do, if I may say so myself. (Damn, look at those 20' guns on me....Armed & Dangerous GuyJD)

 

[KillerMuffin]

20" OooOOOooOOooooo. Can I see? (Sorry, I'm something of a meat market myself *sigh*) It's not often that I meet a guy whose guns are bigger than my calves. Yes, I have killer calves, and no, I got them by walking. Anyway, after a good chest and shoulders, bi's run a close second.

I am aware that a disproportionate number of military gyms have lots of women in them, but there are one or two bastions where mostly guys go and they go to lift. I am rarely, if ever bothered. This is a gym where dumbell weights don't stop until 150 pounds and seeing guys benching 400+ isn't unusual. They have one set of girlie weights and I think I'm about the only person who uses them.

 

[GuyJD]

I'M HERE TO PROTECT & SERVE KM

20" OooOOOooOOooooo. Can I see? (Sorry, I'm something of a meat market myself *sigh*) It's not often that I meet a guy whose guns are bigger than my calves. Yes, I have killer calves, and no, I got them by walking. Anyway, after a good chest and shoulders, bi's run a close second.
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After observing myself in the mirror yesterday, I am glad to say that my chest & shoulders are still in good shape. As for seeing my arms, they may be able to be seen in my Literotica profile/author index. However, when last I've been there it appears that Laurel had deleted our pics from this site.

LAUREL, if you are reading this, you have my utmost permission to download my pic on the profile/author index.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I've decided to be pissed off at you Guy.

I'm horny as all frickin hell and twice as frustrated. I also have an incurable lust for boys in blue as well as a nice nasty sojerboy or marine. Add muscles to that, particularly someone with a nice big articulate imagination and nasty streak, well, let's just say it's going to be very frustrating for me.

I've decided to be childish about the whole thing. Since I'm frustrated and horny and you're fucking gawdamned sexy, well, it's your fault. I'm going to go pout now.

Dammit.

 

[GuyJD]

WELL, IN THAT CASE.........

I am so sorry about that Killer Muffin, afterall I have been sworn to SERVE AND (holding a Trojan in the air) PROTECT!!
Would you like me to handcuff and "interrogate" you, Ma'am?

 

[KillerMuffin]

Re: WELL, IN THAT CASE.........

I am so sorry about that Killer Muffin, afterall I have been sworn to SERVE AND (holding a Trojan in the air) PROTECT!!
Would you like me to handcuff and "interrogate" you, Ma'am?

Well... I have been a bad bad girl and I'm feelin like a criminal.

 

[GuyJD]

KILLER MUFFIN....YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT....

Now that I have you handcuffed for my pleasure...I mean for my safety....I will need you to blow into this breathalyzer, Killer Muffin. Please, don't BITE on it, just keep it in your mouth until you hear a sound from either me or the machine.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Just hold it in my mouth? Aren't I supposed blow a little and suck a little?

 

[GuyJD]

Just a little of the first and ALOT of the second.....LOL

 

[KillerMuffin]

Just want to make sure I'm doing it right. Um, maybe we can talk about this, ah, little bit of trouble I'm in. Maybe there is some sort of, ah, agreement we can reach? You really don't have to take me downtown and book me, there has to be some way I can prove that I'm now a reformed bad bad girl...?

 

[GuyJD]

IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT, GIRLIE.....

Just want to make sure I'm doing it right. Um, maybe we can talk about this, ah, little bit of trouble I'm in. Maybe there is some sort of, ah, agreement we can reach? You really don't have to take me downtown and book me, there has to be some way I can prove that I'm now a reformed bad bad girl...?

Nevermind that, we'll have to discuss this when we get to the interrogation room. It's not my fault though. I have no idea why the precinct put the damn interrogation room in Room 469 at the Cummone Inn Motel.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Well shit

In that case, you won't get a thing out of me cop! I will not confess, you can't make me do it. I'm innocent, you can interrogate me until we're both slimy, but you'll never get a squeal out of me!

 

[GuyJD]

Enough of this young lady, we will have to take this to private e-mail. And leave Stud Muffin home.

 

[BlondGirl]

That may be. But why the hell does these Village Idiots buy a membership in World Gym?

Hhhmmm... I joined my nearest gym last year in an effort to get at least part of my body inshape (probably the parts under the fat areas). I was doing well, going in regularly, swimming, my kid was loving the daycare...but i really couldn't stand the bimbos that hung out all the time--they'd drop their kids off in the daycare or at the taxpayer-funded "school" and come in the the gym and get on any machine. Then they would proceed to brag about how many hours they had worked on each machine each day. "Oh yeah--i just HAAAAAAADDDD to stairmaster for an hour yesterday--I just couldn't seem to get enough of it --of course, that was before getting on the eliptical jogger--tooo fun to ever get off!!!!" I really really wanted to grab one of them and tell them to:
1.) get a life
2.) get a job
and
3.) get out of my way so that I could use the machines I had paid my membership dues to enjoy too.

I got so disgusted that I gave up. Little miss prissy bitches can brag all they want--they'll end up in my care sooner or later in my ER and wish they had let me work out when I am too outta shape to lift them while they are tied down to the backboards!!!!!!!!

Why do people bother? Because they gotta start somewhere and it is better to be encouraging than to be an asshole about it. They might also be pressed for time-I think most gym members are also employeed and have families to attend to--even if it is only one set--that is better than none. (I have found that the only way to GET to work out, is to actually join a class--where the primadonnas are booted out first.)

With my two jobs I am currently working, I gave up the workouts from sheer lack of time--still doing my best to get any workout I can (currently, I run stairs during my job--when I get a lunch break! I hit the stairs-10 floors over and over can really take out that work-stress-aggression and the fear of the potential loonies in the stairwells keeps the heart rate at maximum overdrive!)

 

[GuyJD]

I'M WITH YOU, BLONDEGIRL

Back in 1997, I was training at a Powerhouse Gym and there was this fine and sexy Korean woman who came there every morning, usually about an hour after I've gotten there. She would either wear black leotards or very short shorts. But the funny matter is that she would come to the gym, hop her sexy ass on one of the exercise apparatus and sit there talking to this guy who acted as if he only came to the gym to see her. They would talk for hours while occupying the apparatus and to hell with anyone else who needs it. Anyone but yours truly, of course. I once approached them and told them to allow someone who is serious about their training use it. Needless to say, they were not so happy. One of the ladies who worked the front desk later told me that they had complained but they were more pissed when she told them that I was right to tell them that.
Incidently, I was not jealous of her talking to this guy or anything. I was fully aware that she was currently married and had just had a baby for her husband. That was, actually, something that pissed the front desk clerks off because they all knew her husband who also trained there.

[Edited by GuyJD on 01-06-2001 at 10:17 PM]

 

[LittleRedDevil]

I was getting ready in the locker room of my gym once, and some bimbo was spraying her hair and putting on make up. Okay I think to myself, she's going home or out or something, but OH NO, she's going to work out with all that crap on her face and in her hair. Seriously, if you want to go to the gym to pick people up, do it without makeup and hair spray, it just makes girls look stupid.


and that's my two cents.



___________________
"Sometimes, fate just needs a swift kick in the ass."
-Megan Irwin, a girl I used to know

 

[BlondGirl]

make up usage in stupid places

Seriously, if you want to go to the gym to pick people up, do it without makeup and hair spray, it just makes girls look stupid.

This is certainly the truth. I feel this way about camping too. We love to camp and go often. It never fails to amaze me when I see some woman get all gussied up to be eaten by mosquitoes or to go stomping in the bushes and fighting the spiders and snakes. No thanks. Any man who camps with me had better be ready for a real woman. One who is not a fake and who is not some bimbo/sissy. (I don't wear makeup to bed either!)

( I do wear make-up to church or work though. Sometimes.)

 

[Guest]

GuyJD - I'm posting this under a fake name because I'm a still a little intimidated.

I had a heart attack at age 40 (female, in OK physical shape - go figure) a couple of years ago. No biggie, back on my feet in no time in better shape than before, actually, because God had given me a warning. So...

Instructed by doc to join a specific gym so as to get well-rounded workout in a controlled (read "more-likely-to-do-it") environment). Told to work with trainer to learn correct way to use equipment. Told to keep within strict physical limits. (No problem there, doc!)

Anyway, the moral: you don't always know what peoples stories are. Cut 'em some slack - or at least talk to them. People like you are very intimidating to people like me in a gym; I'm certainly not going to initiate a conversation!

 

[GuyJD]

JUST ASK

GuyJD - I'm posting this under a fake name because I'm a still a little intimidated.

Anyway, the moral: you don't always know what peoples stories are. Cut 'em some slack - or at least talk to them. People like you are very intimidating to people like me in a gym; I'm certainly not going to initiate a conversation!

Do get me wrong, Troll. There are ways of doing things. I mentioned 2 geeks who claimed that I was in the wrong place doing my training. When I looked, these geeks-turned-assholes only performed one set of something and went on their way. The proper etiquette is to simply ask to "work in" with the person who is presently using the equipment.
If I am in the middle of a 350 pound bench press routine, hypothetically, I am sure as hell not cutting my training for someone to do a one set 95 pound routine. But if that person, though they only need a 95 pound barbell, wishes to work in, I am willing to allow it and assist them if needed.
What if that person was a professional bodybuilder who is training for his/her upcoming contest? They sure as hell will not give up their training, even for a minute, for a couple of geeks who are there to experiment on the equipment.