Wat....?

Young kids and their slang jabber.

Standard gym gay - Lifting up your shirt, examining your abs in the mirror, pinching your sides to see if you can grab any fat.

Threadworthy gym gay - Your dude friend comes over and starts doing the pinching too.

read it like this: "I was walking [along], my headphones on, drinking a water bottle, when i see this skinny looking..."

Oh that makes sense now. That guy writes like a new age Jack Kerouac.

Drinking your water bottle could lead to choking IMO.

Recently, the State of Michigan thought it wise to seize all the property of "Powerhouse" gyms for unpaid back taxes. Nothing like depriving small businessmen of their livelihood to teach them to pay taxes. There's the will of the people in action. Anyways, I digress.

So, all these dudes from Powerhouse gym start showing up at ~my~ gym.

Large man comes over to where I'm squatting and loads up a bar with 225 lbs. and proceeds to do bent-over rows with it.... as his warm-up.

Satisfied, he throws 2 more 45's on there.... 315 lbs.... and does a few more sets of rows with that making it look pretty easy.

Pretty impressive. Then I remember our resident mayor, Rob, who was doing T-bar rows with 6 plates... 360+ lbs.

The number of strong dudes in our gym just jumped quite a bit.

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On the ridiculous side of the ledger, saw a guy standing on a half-ball, balancing on one foot and doing dumbbell rows with one hand. O_O

Saw another trainer having some poor guy doing "lunge-n-kicks" with a cable row attached to his foot. O_O

And finally... the goofball and his wife who love to do their array of oddball stunts in a squat rack with half the goofy exercise balls, bands, stray benches, box-tables, yoga mats in the gym actually.... CLEAN UP THEIR WORK-OUT SPACE NOW!! Very impressive, considering the amount of carp they drag halfway across the gym every time.

Woman with her arm in a sling jogging on the track... backwards

Guy wearing weightlifting gloves... on the treadmill.

I used to do that back when I thought wearing gloves helped protect my hands. For a 1-5 minute warmup before lifting. I guess I'll assume he was on it longer.

Went to the gym late, about 2 hours before closing. One hour left and the three broest of the bros walk in. If weightlifting had their three stooges, these three had to be it. They discuss for a bit what they're supposed to do for the day. "Bro, did we do shoulders yesterday?" "I don't think so, we did chest and triceps." "OK, then let's do shoulders."

The alpha bro leading the pack goes straight to the dumb bell rack, checks himself out in the mirror, then proceeds to grab the heaviest dumb bells he can lift (65s) and does seated shoulder raises, and of course grunts ALAP (as loud as possible) on every single assisted rep. His bros are there and they cheer him on as required. The other two bros take turns with the same weight, but they're skinnier, so they do maybe one half rep and then lower the weights.

During their rest the alpha bro goes to the water fountain and stares himself down with a frown in the mirror all the way to the fountain. After his drink of water he starts grabbing random weights nearby and does side raises and a various assortment of other exercises. It was almost like he couldn't sit still. The pack then make their way over to the smith machine. They load up the bar to what I believe was 70 and do seated overhead presses, and again, with the mandatory warrior grunts.

Icing on the cake: They all had the same haircut. I **** you not.

saw this dude lifting weights....

They don't?

No. You end up with a higher chance of blisters wearing gloves.

I saw a guy doing jump-shrugs in the squat rack with 185 or 205 on the bar. I wasn't able to confirm weight because he had already caught me laughing at him.

Legit yes?