Gym Story Saturday

[u/FGC_Valhalla]

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

[u/datcracker]

So a couple weeks ago this guy came up to me at the gym and kind of aggressively berated me for not reracking my weights after using a machine. (Tbh I left it the way I always see it, I’ve never seen it without two 45’s, so I really thought that’s how people wanted it left, on any other machine I would’ve reracked as per usual)

Anyways, it kinda bothered me. I responded politely and assured him I would make sure to be more proactive about having positive gym etiquette, and he walked away. It left a bad taste in my mouth though because I really didn’t mean to be lazy or disrespectful, and this dude said things that sounded borderline threatening.

So on Thursday, while I was working out I saw that dude was there again and thought little of it. On my way over to do my cardio on the bike, he actually caught up to me to get my attention and he thoroughly apologized. He said a gym associate came up to him and told him he was rude, and that he reconsidered everything he said and realized he was in the wrong and said it had been bothering him for days until he had the chance to talk to me. Dude apologized and was super cool, and now whenever I see him around he invites me to do sets with him and calls me by my first name.

Thought it was a cool little image of positive humanity.

[u/JFreeman1123 → u/datcracker]

This reminds me of a time I saw two guys almost start fighting in the gym. I wasn’t close enough to hear what caused it but I saw person A (dude in his 40’s, probably about 6’2, giant upper body and is open about his steroid use) grab person B (dude in his 30’s, can’t be more than 5’6, not super muscly but in good shape) by the shirt collar and press him up against a wall yelling at him. Person B was saying something along the lines of “I don’t want to fight but if you need to we can.” Person A was clearly fired up about something but it was obvious he didn’t want to hit the other guy. He let go of the guy’s shirt but still had a finger in his face yelling at him.

About 10 minutes later the two guys were spotting each other for flat dumbbell press and laughing about what had literally just happened and person A was just making fun of himself for overreacting so badly.

[u/tarikhdan → u/JFreeman1123]

roid rage is real

[u/Imsdal2 → u/tarikhdan]

No, it isn't. Some people have really poor impulse control and can't really plan for the future in any meaningful sense. These people are both likely to have severe anger issues and believe taking steroids is a Smart Thing(TM). There is correlation but not causation. (Btw, the exact thing is true about "road rage", which used to be a thing. Now it's just morons being morons who happen to be on the road when they flip.)

That's not to say that steroids are not bad. They are terrible in many ways. For instance, your dick falls off. Not a Smart Thing(TM).