WTF creep

I think some people take the title of this thread a little too literally. You don't have to post all oberservations about every time you see someone do a routine that isn't starting strength.

Not really directed at anyone specifically but it does apply to some more than others.

jfc i catch a guy watching me do my set then when i get up he swoops in and adjusts the bench so he can do iso curls. with like 3 other spots he could have done them within 15 ft. cant believe i didnt lose it.

however, a random kid somehow managed to use the pull up bar like it was monkey bars. looked like that scene from little giants. unbelievable.

i feel your sentiments here. but fwiw, when i am in a crappy gym people leave their crap lying all over the place so even though i want to be polite and not touch other people's stuff, i can't wait at every place cause a lot of the time no one will ever come back.

actually last time i was in the gym three people starting working deadlifts together and i asked them how many sets they had left just to let them know i was waiting. then when they finished they walked around and stood around the DL without telling me they were actually done. so i politely waited for them and suffered for it. then when i figured out they were done, i had to ask them to unload their weight.

in my experience the strong people who lift good have had perfect gym ettiqute.

Except for Captain Kirk. What a ****.

Yes, I understand that perfectly. If I were gone for five or ten minutes, I'd have expected to find my bar unloaded and my belt in a corner somewhere and would have blamed no one but myself. I'd have been embarrassed, in fact.

However, in my case I was gone literally only 30 seconds, and I positioned my belt intentionally to show the bar was in use. I can't imagine walking up to a loaded bar with a weight belt right there and immediately chucking the belt to the side and taking the space.

Heh, okay, I would never mess around with a belt placed on top of a loaded bar : )

I generally look around for 10 - 15 seconds and ask someone nearby if anyone was using a loaded bar. I would never wait 1 full minute. It is totally standard for ******s to leave loaded bars out and for me to unrack them before I can begin working. Also the fact that he's doing useless exercises is irrelevant.

Seems pretty unreasonable to me.

this has been happening at my gym recently as well...in the rack i will have a clipboard with a pencil and notes, towel over the bar, belt over the rack, protein shake on the ground, be getting water for a few minutes or maybe taking a piss and people will unload my weights...how much **** do i have to leave at the station to let people know its being used?

It would be irrelevant except he wasn't doing useless exercises. He wasn't doing any exercises. He sat down on a bench next to the Smith machine and spent five minutes chatting with his girlfriend and choosing songs on his iPod. Also, he didn't even give the obligatory, "sorry, I didn't know anyone was using this," when I got back literally ten seconds after he got there. Instead, he said, "don't worry....you're not in our way." LOL

I have moved stuff before, but I've never moved stuff if I wasn't planning on even setting up for a lift for another five minutes and I've surely not done so without asking people in the immediate area if anyone was lifting there.

I hear there are miraculous devices for carrying water around with you available, like a mobile water fountain

meh...i already carry around a protein shake, but i would get super bored and lose my energy if i stood in the rack during 3-5 minute rest periods, so i get walk to the water fountains during my rests...also, less to carry to the gym with me...

what else would two 16 year-olds in the gym talk about?



well, you definitely looked creepy!

[ ]I get the humor

Engineer,

Fair enough!

**** that. you sit and wallow and visualize your next set for the entire rest period.

H&F on the iPhone

heh, i would probably end up head banging and dancing around after getting bored after 20 seconds of just sitting there...

new band of the week "feed her to the sharks"

Weirdnesssssss

At gym, I get there and my stuff is occupied so I sit in the corner and play chess on my iPhone 4(thinnn veil) until it frees up. There's these two Asian women in their 30s on the recumbents talking in Chinese, pretty common. I finally get a spot and start squatting. No big deal, just me and them two, they don't pay attention to me, I don't pay attention to them.

Finish my 3 sets, do press and bench, again, nothing whatsoever.

I start putting weights on the bar to DL and I notice one of them is looking in my direction. Like, head fully turned. I glance over and just give a genuine smile and a "hey" and go back.

She hasn't moved and her voice immediately changes to that semi-quiet whisper and she says something to her friend and now they're both looking at me. I look back and they make no effort to not look. At this point in time a guy walks in the gym and goes straight to the bathroom/steam room.

I start to deadlift and notice in the mirror the first girl is looking directly at me and smiling hardcore. I do my best to focus through and not get distracted and actually get in some awesome DLs for the first time ever.

I finish and look back and she just smiles at me and looks at me. I get really uncomfortable and figure I have a **** stain on my shorts or something and go in to the bathroom. Nothing weird with my outfit.

Definitely not GGO worthy, until I look up in the bathroom and notice the guy in the steam room is pressed directly up against the glass and just STARING at me through the glass door. I was so startled I almost lost my balance and fell.

I undress and go toward the steam room and as I grab the door the guy doesn't move an inch. I open it and just kinda give him a nod and he says in some vague Euro accent "come in" I consider sprinting out of there in my boxers but decide not to.

I sit down and then he sits down on the other side and doesn't look at me and acts like a normal dude again. 45 seconds later I'm finished with the shortest and longest steam session I've ever had. I put on my shorts and catch out of the corner of my eye the guy is just staring at me again. I ran out of the bathroom soaked, holding my shirt, socks, and shoes.

The two women saw me and didn't give me a second glance or make a sound.

WTF

Also:

one of these is not like the other

^^ I lol'd

Awkward moments is one of the reasons I try to stay off from the steam room

KP,

Something similar happened to me years ago. I was squatting and some guy behind me (I saw him through the mirror) was staring toward my back and smiling, his eyes following my squat motion. When done, I stepped aside and his eyes followed -- with an even bigger smile.

I slowly turned my head back toward him with concern. He noted my concern and said, "hi....I was just reading your shirt." It turned out that I was wearing a shirt with some sort of semi-humorous top 10 list on the back and had forgotten all about it! LOL

Needless to say, I had to offer my apologies for that one.

My shirt is blue.

I guess I just got a purdy mouth

KP,

clearly they wanted a threesome and you blew it.

think people staring at you is weird? how about this: i was in the train at the end of a carriage, close enough to see through into the next one through glass, sitting directly opposite me through the window is a young asian chick. 10 mins after i get on the train she randomly pulls out a sketchpad and starts drawing while obviously glancing at me every few seconds. after about 30 seconds i'm staring right at her with a puzzled expression on my face, to her credit it didn't phase her at all and she kept drawing

had no idea what to think about that, atm just assuming she wanted penis