Transformer in training

This is actually quite funny. So, today was obviously new student orientation, again.When you go to a large school they have like 8,000 different sessions.So anyhow, I hit the gym late today so there where only like three people in the gym. Anyhow, this young guy comes into the gym with nothing but shorts  and a hat on.He then picks up some 20’s and goes to work in front of the mirror.  About 10 minutes later his friend comes in and does the same thing. Then some young girl comes in with a bikini and some daisy dukes on and sits and watches them then rubs on them when they sit down for a break.All the time while they are doing this, there is another freshmen walking around the gym….looking as if he was trying to find out what each machine did. So after guy #3 looks at these guys with no shirt on for about 15 minutes he begins to take off his shirt and then begins to flex in the mirror. He then grabbed like a 20 or 30 lb and did some dumbell back rows for about 10….he then takes his towel and I guess he was wiping the sweat off from his entire body because he was drying off for a while.

Yes, people at this point I have stop working out to watch this comedy…because you couldn’t pay people to do stuff like this so naturally!! It was hilarious. So after we have three people walking around the gym with no shirt on..I commence to working out. Then the gym attendant comes in and was like ‘Hey yall need a t-shirt to put on!’. OMG I was cracking up. Not that they were stupid, because they really didn’t know any better…but it was just a nice comical feature to an evening of working out.

Today, I barely made it to the gym because I am in a real ‘down’ mood…more of a thinking mood about my friend who is on her death bed. For those who have read my blogs, I constantly question things in the world and today I was contemplating about the death and its effects on those who are left behind. Anyhow, I did make it to the gym…totally zoned out and came across the following…a lighter point of the day.

Sir, I know you are incoming student to the university because I can see your name badge that has ‘orientation 2009′ on it. But, as you can see I am in the sauna…and if you also notice I really sweating and almost about to pass out. Sir, please do not come into this huge sauna as I am doing ab workouts, get right next to me (So much so that I can almost feel your shirt) and start doing pushups.Ohh and sir, please do not start shadow boxing with me while I am trying to get some oxygen.As you can see sir I am not smiling because I really don’t know what your doing…since you see I am not responding to you…thank you for stopping and leaving the sauna.

Is it just me…why do I attract people like this…do I have some sign on my forehead that I don’t notice. Just weird.

So, I know that the gym culture is different every where you go. I have seen videos of body spacers in their gym with their shirts off working out.But, as you and I both know….the culture of gyms are different every where you go. For instance, we have a gym in the city that doesn’t allow homemade cut off shirts. Well, the gym I work out at is on the campus of a university. Hence my rationale for the following:

Sir, as you can see and you have saw for all of the times you have been in the gym that no one takes their clothes off in the gym unless they are probably in the sauna,steamroom,pool, o rin the locker room changing. Sir, please do not take your shirt off and continue your workout  on all of the machines in the gym. 1 I think it is disguisting because that means that instead of your shirt capture the sweat the machine is getting all of it!!! Oh wait….you’re not working out hard enough to sweat…so I guess it doesn’t matter. 2 just because a girl that you seem to like has come into the gym please do not try to hope on all of the machines that will show your muscles flexing….first, you probably need to have a much much much much lower body fat content to even ’show off’ whatever you are suppose to be showing off. Nothing against people who have a high body fat content because everybody is in the gym working towards their personal goal. However sir, It is not Kosher….no you are not starting a trend…by walking around the gym with your shirt off and doing 1 set on every machine. In case you didn’t notice the girl you were looking at has started to look at other people in the gym…and ohhhh they have their shirts on!!!!

For some reason, people decide to do some of the craziest thing. I mean we all learned about context clues in school. If I go to a gym and see people working out with their shirts off…I would be like ‘Okay, that’s whats up..that’s how this gym gets down’. But if I see that NNNOOOOO OONNNEEEE EEEVVVERRRRRRR TAKES THEIR SHIRT OFF after I have been at the gym for some months…I would think…maybe that’s against the rules?!??!?! Am I the only one who thinks like this? Dang!

Excuse me people in the gym…I know that everyone is different…especially me ( I know I am very special in my own way). But, 1 please stop using the scale that said I was 220 when three other scales said that I was exactly 209 and 2 please stop running to the scale every 15 minutes as if your weight has changed within that time. Sirs, just because you a have a ‘pump’ does not mean that true weight has jumped up at all. Are people really this narcissist? Sirs, please focus more attention to the weights than the mirror and the scale…I promise you will get better results.

You would think that since people are in college that they would know stuff like this. Then too, let me stop acting brand new…I was an undergrad no to long ago and might have done the same…..NOT!!!!!

This should be gym etiquette but more of a comment. Dude #1  and Musty dude #2. I see you all are in the gym working other body parts as I see Dude #1 in the gym everyday and he does a set, talks on his phone for about 5 minutes, goes around the gym to look at his self, then talks to his friends some more and then comes back to do another set. Musty dude#2 please stop walking by me to see how much weight I have on my bar when you clearly are not just coming over to workout since you were on the other side of the gym….also your funk is burning up the hairs in my nose and throwing off my concentration..I don’t know if I should be more fearful of your lack of concern for putting on deodorant or H1N1. Both of you dudes, don’t see me pressing and then come over to the bench next to me and start pressing, on your first set, what I am pressing on my last set…I am not impressed.

Dude #1 I am not impressed that your upper body is moderately huge and your lower body is due to genetics….I know this because everyday you only do chest and arm workouts…over the last 2 months I haven’t seen you on any leg machine whatsoever…oh wait I forgot about when you sat down to talk on your phone that was plugged up by the leg machine.

Dude #2 grant it you played football in high school because you were the same shorts everytime you come to the gym with the same football t-shirt. But, I unlike your teamates am not in competition with you and I am not impressed but what you can or cannot lift, your diet or anything else concerning you….hence the reason I turned my Ipod up even louder when you stood next to me talking to dude #1.

You know what? Maybe it’s me…that’s what I get for being so freaking vigilant of my surrondings! I gotta learn how to block these people out some more!

EXCUSE ME BOY IN THE LOCKER ROOM!!!! Please don’t walk around the locker room talk loud as crap on your cell phone, while spitting on the floor that you and the rest of the children from swim school have a blast at wetting up EACH AND EVERYDAY. As you may or may not notice you all missed the toilet everyone time so I can only assume that I am standing in urine, because of the strong smell, when I do use the urina AAANnnnnnnddddd I really don’t know what I am dealing with in the other parts of the locker room because there is water every wear that you all put down there and now I know that spit is mixed within this nasty. WHERE IN THE HELL ARE YOUR PARENTS? Should you have a leash or something because you are just….arrrggggghhhhhhhhh.

Man, why do people do such ignorant things?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Excuse me sir…as you can see I am sweating profusely from a tough workout. Although I am really trying to be nice…I am also about to faint if I don’t have any water soon. So, can you please not stand by the fountain and shake up whatever it is you have in your lime green water bottle and look at me as if I am stupid somewhere else! Ohhh and I notice you dummy….you are the reason for another rule in Gym Etiquette of not completely changing your outfit in the actual gym. Sir…..please move yo a#$ TO THE RIGHT OF THIS WATER FOUNTAIN!!

Man some people are just idiots!!

Excuse me sirs, please do not come into the locker room,fresh out of the sauna and talk about how hot is was (dduugggghhhhh) and you are not even sweating at all. Then sir, please don’t stand in the mirror and check each other out and comment on the lack of muscle of tone that both of you have. Sir, also please don’t stand in the mirror, continue to flex and talk about how you don’t feel like going back into the gym and that you want a huge chest only.

I think it’s just me….but the things some people do in the gym is just a little weird. But to think about it…it might be me.To be honest, it probably takes this kind of vainess and self-motivation to stay hype for the gym. I guess when I hear someone doing it….it just makes me laugh! LOL!!!