there are several older guys at my gym who smell so bad it's unbearable even when they are 20 feet away, and they leave their funk all over any equiptment they use. Luckilly, we don't use the same equiptment. I'm going to tell one of the bastards (who wears a goofy white headband) to get the hell away from me till he learns what deodorant is.
And of course we have the normal full body workout curl guys....
And the old guys that just sit around for 5 minutes between sets, bs'ing and taking up equiptment. I have kicked them off before
and the high school or college guys (I can't tell them apart anymore, I must be getting old) - they may be infatuated with themselves, but at least they are in here lifting.
There was one sorta big, sorta flabby guy that was in throwing weights around the other day. He was on the bench, and was benching like 225 (he probably weighs 275 or more), without a spotter, and you could tell it wasn't light for him. He was bouncing the weight off his chest, and then throwing it up against the bar rest and letting it drop onto the pegs. Well, he put 235 or 245 on, and got a few bounce reps, then threw it up against the rest again, and tried to drop it on the pegs, but it bounced out and down across his neck/shoulder (just one side), and then the weights fell off (no collar)... made a huge racket, & I thought he was going to be hurt. Mostly I think it was his pride, but boy was he asking for it.
BTW, I was across the gym at the squat rack, watching him through the mirror
Oh, I have a good story about shiko before I knew him, too
