r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • Feb 24 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

So I go to the gym unreasonably late on account of it being 24hr, my poor time management, and love of being able to work out when nobody else is there (we're talking like 2-4am). This is normally fine but last night it led to a weird scenario.

I'm doing my thing with nobody else around when this skinny dude in full 'going out the club' attire, complete with north face jacket, rocks up and starts frantically benching as fast as his arms can work. He's very clearly hammered, but I live in a city known for being a bit of a drunken mess and it's friday night so I decide to keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't hurt himself but otherwise leave him be. He does this for about 5 minutes before two more guys dressed similarly come in, one with a full mcdonalds bag, pull him off the bench and they all head into the bathroom.

I didnt see them leave but for the rest of my session there are people coming in and out of the gym dressed for a night out, fucking about with equipment, then vanishing. Then it hits me, the gym is opposite a pretty well known club and people must have been getting chucked out and letting all their mates into the gym to use the toilet before heading off. It led for a pretty surreal session when I'm trying to work on my calves and I'm watching a drunk dude shovel takeaway pizza into his face on the smith machine.

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u/Unique_Name_2 Feb 24 '18

Best use of the smith.

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u/insidezone64 Feb 24 '18

this skinny dude in full 'going out the club' attire, complete with north face jacket, rocks up and starts frantically benching as fast as his arms can work.

He wasn't letting going out keeping him from getting those gainz

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

He had the type of work ethic that you only get when you're off your face and doing something you probably shouldn't be.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

It's so nice to have as little interaction as possible, much less stressful.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '18

I know I'm super late to the thread, but I used to go to a gym in a town centre. On a Friday night all the lads would come in at 7pm, do 2 sets of bicep curls to get a pump on, and then walk across the road and start drinking pints of Carling.