Saw this at my gym

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Omg so yesterday at the gym, I was on the elliptical machine. They face the weight area. So this one girl i swear was purposely fucking with me by doing hamstring stretches and air squats right in front of me.

She kept looking back towards me with a smug look on her face.

I would've said hi, but I saw her do that same shit to someone else and then got offended when the guy actually approached her.

 

She did it to the other guy before or after you?

 

This happened last summer but just found the thread.

I was at my local LA Fitness - Saturday about 4 PM. I go put my stuff in my locker, gym bag with wallet in it. I lock it (I always do). Some guy is in my area, smiles and asks some random question about the sauna while I'm changing. He looks like he just worked out.

I go work out for about 50 min and when I return my lock is gone, everything is empty. So I freak out, call the wife, cancel the cards, etc. My car is still in the lot, which is good (but odd if all my stuff is gone). So I look closer in the locker room and discover that my locker is still there, just has a different lock on it. I'm able to pry the door just enough to look inside and sure enough my bag is in there.

I have the attention of the LA Fitness staff now, and I point this out. They tell me that they can't cut the lock until after 8 PM per policy - because it's not my lock. It's actually his property and if they cut it without consent during business hours they are liable. So someone cut my lock, just took my wallet, and replaced with a lock of their own. The cards are all cancelled at this point so I can either scream at these guys for 3 hrs or wait. So I wait. 8 PM, lock comes off, I get my stuff and drive home minus my wallet.

Meanwhile, in 45 minutes this guy charges $3000 at T-Mobile, Wal Mart and Fred Meyer. We get the cops involved and someone actually investigates it. The detective sends me this photo of the guy at T-Mobile buying phones with my card (it's funny actually - he's actually holding my wallet in one hand, in plain view of the camera). I stare at the photo and sure enough - it's the guy who chatted me up in the locker room. So I pass this on to the detective, who goes to LA Fitness and checks the sign in records around the time I was there. Sure enough, this guy is a member of LA Fitness with his photo on file. She matches the face to the now three security camera photos from the stores and gets his home address.

They go to arrest the guy, and they have to wait because he's on his honeymoon, using the ring he bought at Fred Meyer with my card, and about $500 worth of gift cards. Son of a bitch.

In the end they bust the guy and charge him with identity theft. Never found out if he was convicted, but he's been to jail twice already so I'm hoping he's enjoying his third strike.

Cancelled membership 2 days later for being douche bags about the lock.

So now I'm at a nice, local gym and I have an industrial-grade lock for my locker.

So that's who I hate at the gym.

 

Before me butt on another day.

 

ugh, that story freaks me out because I go walking around Downtown Vancouver all the time with thousands of $$ worth of camera gear (because I'm kind of a photography nut), and sometimes I hit the gym while I'm out and I DO use those lockers where you set your own pin number (like the safes in hotel rooms), but I NEVER use the ones in the locker room, I use the ones that are right in front of the juice bar. THAT said, I guess anyone can just go to the front desk and say that they can't remember the numbers they programmed or somehow screwed up during the process and just describe my camera bag (because the saw me put it in). I may need to reconsider taking my gear to the gym

 

Yea I usually unload all my stuff into my gym bag when I'm still in my car.

Just pull out my lock, towel and water bottle and throw the bag into the locker and lock it.


That or if I'm doing weights, I put the bag next to me because I use my own barbell collars.

 

Done! Sorry for the vertical vid, I was being sneaky lol

 

 

wow, that doesn't look safe at all.

 

Speaking of treadmills, is this some new kind of workout or something? This guy spent 45 minutes doing this 1-5 second walk, 3 - 10 second rest thing the entire time. I've been out of the gym for a while due to surgery, so maybe this is new thing?

 

cant watch it, says the video is private.

 

sorry about that. try now.

 

wtf is that

 

Re the valuables, it sounds like you're better off leaving valuables in the car or carrying them with you. Personally I get to the gym in my office clothes and change in the locker room. I fold my clothes and put them in my gym bag. Inside the gym bag are collars for the bar, headphones, shakes, keys, wallet, and phone. I take it everywhere in the gym with me and nobody fucks with it. I don't trust those lockers man.

 

I thought about using my car, but the LA Fitness I used at the time had next to no parking in front and most was on the side and the back. Cars got broken into all the time. Because my new gym is a mile from my house, what I do now is just go home, change and leave all my valuables there (including my wallet). I'll risk the 1 mile drive without it. That way it's just my car keys I have to deal with. Although if I could not do that, I'd be tempted to do what you do.

I use this lock now too. My lesson learned was that my old lock was too small and could be cut by cutters that could fit in a gym bag (like 18" long). That's what the guy did - he just had them with him. A lock like this would require a large cutter that could not be easily disguised.

 

Yeah there are certain gyms I visit I don't trust the lot either.

 

I probably should start leaving my shit somewhere. Phone wallet etc.

I use those pin locks like you guys are describing, and sometimes the lock fails and I have to go get a front desk staff who just opens it.

OH. Mexican girl, Yoga pants with makeup and a plump ass gets in front of me today on a bike while I was on the elliptical and gave me the I want the D eyes. (Why must you wear makeup to the gym)

 

Did he look like he was coming back from an injury? Other than that all I can think of is this is his way of easing into HIIT?? Thats suuuuuper easing into it tho haha.

 

 

Saw this guy running on the treadmill then jumps off and starts doing pushups while the machine is still going.

 

Like this guy?

 

Yeah I sometimes do HIIT as my cardio but with the row machine rather than the treadmill since I do legs twice a week and they are already taxed. IMO a more efficent cardio than a steady 20 minute jog (though I know people tend to jog longer but I don't have time).

 

That's what I originally thought, but other than being very overweight he seemed to get around just fine. He had it set to 4 mph, but I would think he would get more benefit if he slowed it down some and walked continuously rather than stopping and starting the whole time. If he were doing HIIT, then I would think the High intensity part should be more than a couple of seconds..

I actually saw him again in the gym yesterday, but luckily I was on the treadmill first. When I finished he got on and did the same start/stop thing again.

 

 

Did we mention "friends" who are gym hatters. So I posted a pic my gf shot of me of a 405 deadlift but my face looked really funny since I looked constipated. Anyways I got a buddy that I used to lift at his gym and I left because location and hours and he had me do these workouts I was meh over. Long story short dude's a big time narcissist, his way or the highway, has one good client (on gear) and the rest suck. He criticizes me and calls me gay on my Instagram because I wear straps to lift. Dude rag on me but using terms like that in public is pretty pathetic. Guy is like 53, he should know better. Anyways I told him that I tend to tear my hands and I'll lend him my straps for his girly weight.

 

Unwarranted gym advice is the main symptom of a doucher.

At least IMO.

 

Funny thing is the dude I mentioned in my above post started giving advice on how to get stronger. His process I had already done and plateaued but thanks anyways

 

^ Does that dude drive a 2016 RDX Elite by chance?

 

 

You know what I hate at gyms. Mirrors. I keep checking out girls and forget that they can see me with the mirror checking them out

 

Nonono. Mirrors are verrrrrry useful

 

Window reflections......

 

So since it's Thanksgiving week the gym is all of a sudden mobbed with people who don't want to get fat on Thursday.

Saw a guy walk in, turn on the TV on the treadmill, then put earbuds in, turn around and walk backwards..... away from the TV.

 

for me I noticed the gym is more empty than usual.

 

so... last night.. someone in the the free weight area stunk sooooooo bad... and it wasn't body odor either... it was either someone keeps wearing the same workout clothes without washing OR someone did their laundry and left their clothes in the washer for days and all the clothes got the mildew from fungus smell. This smell amplifies as the person perspires

either way, it was that mildew smell (which mildew/fungus will grow in the fabric too)

 

I had a roommate do that with his towel. Didn't wash it once the whole school year

 

That's just gross

 

Monday and Tuesday was the usual crowd. Wednesday a little slow but I went earlier than usual.