One of these things is not like the others.

I never have any good gym observations as my gym is awesome. Some Indian taxi driver was trying to get a good deal on joining up as he could have 5 others sign up too. They were explaining they don't do any offers whatsoever. The Indian was relentless and the conversation went to this weird way of the owners having to repeat that they don't do any offers for anyone.

At the end of the conversation it comes to light that the 5 people he would sign up with him had already signed up, showed up once and never came again. The taxi driver took huge glee in this as they had all been lying to brag about how often they'd all been going. Owner replied, 'it's not that big of a deal. that's why we have the free trial, most people come once, puke and then never show up again.'

Ryan Reynolds is obv the cool trainer that knows his stuff, Dane Cook is the evil dumb ass trainer. Seth Rogen will be one of their clients who has to hilariously lose x number of pounds or his girlfriend is going to dump him, or something. Practically writes itself. Female lead probably the broad that is married to Borat, and a small part for Paul Rudd as a comical, clueless fitness enthusiast. $$$

Wait the guy dropped the bar on your chest? Holy ****ing ****!

Doug really has epic run-bad at bench spotters, lol.

This is very good.

Pitching the movie with Dane Cook is probably the best shot at getting it made.

Making the movie with Dane Cook is probably the best way to lose money.

But I could be very wrong. Dane Cook would probably rule in this role since he wouldn't have to act. Actually, I'm starting to dig the Dane Cook heel turn.

Don't forget your token Asian comic relief - Ken Jeung, John Cho, or Rex Lee will do. Since you can't make fun of black stereotypes in movies anymore (unless they're thinly masked as Transformers), you need to lay into those wacky Asians with their analytical minds and small dorks.

Has the potential to be better than dodgeball imo.

Talk about loading the bar with 2.5s.

God trainers ****ing tilt the **** out of me. I want to initiate a globogym pt genocide sometimes. It's just so god damn stupid how it's THEIR ****ING JOB to teach people how to exercise and they still can't pull it off even with the wealth of information available. It's completely understandable for the uneducated gym-goer masses to constantly be ****ing up, but from somebody who does it for a living it's just mind-bogglingly ******ed.

I had a client start talking **** about another trainer because he saw him make someone do something stupid. That was pretty awesome.

hey do you know what a bully is? how can i be a bully if the entire forum is united against me? f-

they need to make it extremely complicated and mysterious or people would stop paying them.

I could write out a screen play for this simple of a movie in less than a week. Give me a month and it would be awesome.

I don't think there would honestly be a market for it, though. But I could be wrong.

I think it'd be hilarious, tbh.

Make sure I get a cut of the proceeds.

I think it's just the time that I go. 7:30 pm is after all the athletes are done but right when the fat girls show up to do 20 minutes of elliptical before their PWO pint of Ben & Jerry's. I usually have a good handle on who is competent enough to spot because I've been going to this gym for over 5 years, but there's been a lot of new faces the last couple weeks.

Two guys at the gym today were literally bro spotting EVERY rep i looked over at. It was their chest day obv and i kid you not i did not see them do a single rep in half an hour that the others hands weren't all over. I'm not saying they might've squeezed a couple of reps out unaided but i didn't see them.

You had the full spectrum. Bench/Raise combo, Numerous DB benches with hands under the elbows, Incline DB bench with front raise spots again, weird stuff with the cable machine. I'm actually not that hard on a bit of bro spotting but that was taking the piss. The thing is they looked allright tbh fairly muscled. Heard them speaking about some wonder £30 supplement with some unbelievably cheesy name that i actually lol'd inside at the time, like TESTblaster or something. Thank the lord for Bro's.

id watch it....

i go to a "fancy/nice gym". its 170/month + 300ish initiation (honestly not sure since company pays), but they've been emailing me for months about a personal health/fitness assessment with their PT. today i am going to try it out of sheer curiosity....see what they tell me.

they will probably ban you from squatting deep because they trained with matthew pinsent

i like this post a lot. could you please explain your comment about black stereotypes and Transformers?

Lol is this comment from experience?

Just say you trained with Hoy. He squats ATG.

Ha you muthufukas that don't use colars! I told you this was going to f*cking happen!

fknrofloldmyao

What the sh*t? This sounds really hard... Dangerous... but really f*cking hard.

Don't get out of the General Gym Observations thread often?

eh?

Look on the front page for "SO ANGRY PLEASE HELP" quite a lol read that wouldn't be out of place in this thread really.

For future readers: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/85...e-help-648837/

pinsent is actually a rowing icon and a beast so i have tons of respect for the man. scheduled my appointment with one of these guys in a few days. we'll see how it goes....

random: there was a guy just now who is clearly doing ss. first person i saw deadlift since august. both him and me were doing deadlif, bp and squat today, meanwhile there were at least 10 guys curling. i wanted to say something to him but didn't do it ...:/

one of the bicep guys was doing curls WHILE doing decline abs. this stuff never gets old for me. go him.

the thread he started is about getting banned from squatting