Truly Outrageous Tales from the Gym

Craving some real-life talk sprinkled with a healthy dose of gym anecdotes, hilarity, and jaw-dropping revelations? Buckle up, because Coach Austin and I, Kevin, are about to take you on a wild ride through our Thanksgiving celebrations, parenting milestones, and our pet peeves about gym etiquette. We're sharing tales from our non-traditional Thanksgiving feasts (lobster, anyone?), our struggles with introducing solid foods to our babies, and our perspective on a fiery Reddit thread about a gym that dared to close on Thanksgiving Day.

We're not stopping there; we're also voicing our frustrations about individuals who bogart gym equipment without using it, and the rising trend of workout filming with tripods! We're sharing our thoughts and experiences on this growing trend, and trust us, they're not all rosy. But don't worry, we're not all about the serious talks; we throw in some laugh-out-loud anecdotes about gym regulars who need a reminder about basic gym etiquette.

Finally, brace yourselves as we take a deep dive into some truly outrageous gym stories that will make your jaws drop. Ever heard of a gym member stripping down in protest, or a housekeeper offering, well, 'extra services' in the steam room? We're talking about these and more, leaving you to ponder, how would you react if you were in our shoes? So join us, as we navigate the amusing, sometimes shocking, world of gym culture and etiquette. It's going to be a blast, we promise!

Chapters

• 0:01 Gym Closed on Thanksgiving Day
• 9:52 Gym Etiquette and Frustrations
• 18:50 Filming at the Gym and Etiquette
• 23:19 Gym Etiquette and Funny Gym Stories
• 31:25 Unusual Experiences at the Gym

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

What is up, everyone? It's Coach Austin here, coming to you from Hyper Strength and Conditioning with your Nerd Outta Workout podcast with my co-host, kevin Arap Arabagon.

Speaker 2 0:12

What up y'all?

Speaker 1 0:13

And today we're going to take a little different spin on things. We're going to go over Jim's story Saturdays. It's a nice little thread we found on Reddit. We knew this existed, but we wanted to kind of share these stories and our reactions to it. And new content, and these are stories that have not read prior to this podcast.

Speaker 2 0:31

We have no idea what's coming.

Speaker 1 0:33

Kevin warned me about this because they could be talking about a lot of things that we will not be able to filter, but this is an explicit type of podcast, so I don't give two shits.

Speaker 2 0:41

Let's go.

Speaker 1 0:44

So, kevin, how you been man.

Speaker 2 0:46

I've been good man.

Speaker 1 0:47

How's Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 0:49

Thanksgiving was chill, very chill. We're just with the parents. We don't do turkey for Thanksgiving. What do you? Do we did a prime rib.

Speaker 1 0:59

Yo.

Speaker 2 1:00

We did a prime rib. We had some lobster, some garlic noodles. Very non-traditional Thanksgiving. But I'm over it. I'm over like turkey and I'm more of a ham for Christmas type guy.

Speaker 1 1:15

Ham's good. Ham's good For Christmas. For Christmas, that's just me, though. You'd like fry it and then you put in rice.

Speaker 2 1:21

We go honey bake, then you fry it after. Sure, with the breakfast, with the breakfast With the breakfast. With the eggs. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 1:30

Prime rib with the garlic noodles.

Speaker 2 1:32

It's different. That sounds so fucking good. How was your Thanksgiving man?

Speaker 1 1:35

It was good. It was Junior's first Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 1:38

Right.

Speaker 1 1:40

It was just the day of. It was just me, giselle, and my brother and Junior.

Speaker 2 1:46

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:47

Parents were out of town. Her parents were doing their thing.

Speaker 2 1:50

Right.

Speaker 1 1:53

And it was just. We tried to feed Junior Because the doctor said, oh, he's ready for some solids, Pureeys and all that. So we're like, oh, we can do mashed potatoes. We can do mashed potatoes. We can do like I'm saying we should start with banana. Sure, you can't go wrong with banana.

Speaker 2 2:10

Sure.

Speaker 1 2:10

A little sweet.

Speaker 2 2:11

Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:14

All that Giselle wanted to be like. Oh no, let's start them on sweet potato, because it's Thanksgiving. I'm going to show you a picture right now. I'm going to show you.

Speaker 2 2:23

Dude.

Speaker 1 2:24

I didn't tell you this.

Speaker 2 2:24

Sweet potato.

Speaker 1 2:26

So we mashed up sweet potato bro.

Speaker 2 2:27

Okay.

Speaker 1 2:29

We mashed up sweet potato.

Speaker 2 2:30

Tell me, junior didn't like it.

Speaker 1 2:32

I'm going to show you, I'm going to show you this thing that we did. I'm going to show you the picture of us. Yeah, if I could fucking find it Now. I can't fucking, of course, I can't fucking find it Of course, god damn it. I don't know what it is. It's gone. I know it's somewhere here.

Speaker 2 2:52

Oh my God, that's so funny.

Speaker 1 2:54

Hold on Pause, guys.

Speaker 2 2:57

Live podcast Fuck, okay, you find it.

Speaker 1 2:59

Oh, tell me, tell me he's ready for it. Why is he staring at?

Speaker 2 3:04

you like that?

Speaker 1 3:05

Bro has he had a bite, yet no, he just kind of sees me getting ready to do something he's like he's freaking out.

Speaker 2 3:24

He's like what are you doing?

Speaker 1 3:26

And then this is after he tasted it. Oh, he does not like it.

Speaker 2 3:30

He does not like it, he is not down with it, so what would you give him after?

Speaker 1 3:37

No, he just stopped.

Speaker 2 3:39

So you haven't tried since then? No, do you give him anything solid?

Speaker 1 3:42

No, because I think it was like a little too new, too fast.

Speaker 2 3:45

Oh.

Speaker 1 3:46

So we're going to wait a little bit longer.

Speaker 2 3:47

Okay, and have you told your parents that you tried giving him solid? No, okay, yeah, you shouldn't.

Speaker 1 3:53

No.

Speaker 2 3:55

Because I guarantee if you drop them off.

Speaker 1 3:55

they're going to try to give him. No, they're going to give him eggs. Now I'll make him a double rice.

Speaker 2 4:00

Oh my God, that's your dad for sure. Oh man, what does my buddy want?

Speaker 1 4:04

No, what does my buddy want? I know what he wants. You want gumbing, gumbing.

Speaker 2 4:10

Dude, that'd be wild.

Speaker 1 4:11

No, boomer parents, don't listen to what you want them to do.

Speaker 2 4:15

They're like no, no, we know what to do because look at you.

Speaker 1 4:17

Okay, yeah, and we're like duh yeah, that's why.

Speaker 2 4:21

Why Just listen to us?

Speaker 1 4:23

That's like dude, so yeah, so that was that.

Speaker 2 4:27

That was a good one. Junior zero got it. Yeah, so we're gonna wait about a month sweet potato Not the move, giselle not the move not the move banana 100, she like nash.

Speaker 1 4:37

Do with breast milk to make it like that's what, like the advice really like puree with breast milk.

Speaker 2 4:43

Oh. Familiar, but oh, okay, got you. That's pretty interesting actually.

Speaker 1 4:47

I think when junior, when I put in junior's mouth, he was just like. And then like, I think within that hour he threw up and then that night, that night, he's like blue, he's like he blew his pants. I think he's like make it a statement like like no solids.

Speaker 2 5:04

He's like yo that breast milk. Oh, that was fucked up. Y'all need to get some new one, like I don't know what y'all did.

Speaker 1 5:11

Yeah, he did not enjoy it. That's wild, so all right Well it's back to a bottle feeding for a while. Back to the old milk. Yeah, but he's. I mean he's moving around, he's rolling.

Speaker 2 5:21

That's good.

Speaker 1 5:22

Do it. It's thing I gotta. I gotta be aware he's a, he's very social.

Speaker 2 5:25

He's a golf set, yet we're working on that like toy golf set not yet Okay.

Speaker 1 5:31

Yes, he has a kettlebell in a dumbbell.

Speaker 2 5:33

I call dibs on his birthday.

Speaker 1 5:35

Oh.

Speaker 2 5:36

I called dibs on a toy set very good. I call every.

Speaker 1 5:38

Yeah, michael, you listen to this, I call that dude dibs dude, our one year, we're gonna, we're gonna do like a putting thing.

Speaker 2 5:45

Sure.

Speaker 1 5:46

Is when your birthday party is gonna be at a sounds immutable.

Speaker 2 5:55

Great, eat all that's why celebrate? Love it he's gonna love it 100% like an outdoor thing.

Speaker 1 6:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah they have a grill, they have hot dogs.

Speaker 2 6:10

They have a bar.

Speaker 1 6:11

They have a bar Perfect yeah yeah, yeah, okay cool, we're gonna go into our first story first story. This is, I'm not even gonna say their username, but this is a fairly recent story and it starts off like this let's go.

Speaker 2 6:30

No, yeah, that's I.

Speaker 1 6:39

Planet Fitness is advertised to be open on Thanksgiving Day for a couple hours, 7 am To 1 pm. I Don't own a car or a license, but I live 20 minutes walking distance from my gym Seven minutes if I had a car. I went there 7 am Thanksgiving Day, as did about 12 other car people, and the entire gym was closed. A couple of us walked by the door and try to see what's up and it's closed. Nobody is there. I wait for 45 minutes in the cold. Nobody shows up. People get fed up and start to drive away. I cut my losses, walk back home.

Speaker 1 7:15

I tried to check the gym meter in the app to see if people ever go in during the during the day and nope, no staff showed up. Has this happened to anyone before? I was not that upset About it since it was a holiday and I get it. People don't want to work on Thanksgiving, but apparently it's not unheard of for a gym to be open a couple hours on Thanksgiving Day. So I wonder why Planet Fitness couldn't find anyone to run the gym. I tried to complain about it on Planet Fitness but everyone called me a Grinch for wanting people to leave their families to run a gym just so I can work out next year. I'll just do what I did when I walked back home and just work out at home.

Speaker 2 7:53

So they're not angry, right? So that's why they posted on reddit. I'm not mad or anything, but I, I just told Planet Fitness what the fuck? First of all this this person sounds like an ad-vid gym person, right going to Planet Fitness and all that. I'm sure they're there every day, right? Probably should have been like hey, buddy, you guys open on Thanksgiving. I Know it says online that you guys are gonna be open, but I just want to make sure you guys something to be at 7 am, because you know I'd like to work out.

Speaker 1 8:30

I think it's expectation, I Think it, I mean we've I've definitely dealt with people Not currently at members of our gym. But, people in the past who actually still were not members of our gym, who expected people to be open, who expected gyms to be open on Holidays, like people are off. They should be open for us to work out. Well, tough shit and I'm like fuck, is that mean?

Speaker 2 8:53

It's so funny too, because this user was literally like I walked 20 minutes to the and this person waited outside for 45. It's fucking bro sign up for a turkey shot bro, this is like college Professors out here after 15 minutes, we're out, we're out. That's crazy man. That's actually crazy that this full Walked 20 minutes, walked another 20 minutes back, waited 45 minutes. There's an hour and a half of his life.

Speaker 1 9:21

Let me read some of the that's what do they say.

Speaker 2 9:24

Tell me, see, that's why. Okay, that's that's what you get with planet fitness. You know, I'm saying now you need, now you get like, question the quality of your gym. You know, I mean there's different tiers. Obviously there's like planet fitness, you know, for every day there's 24. There's what's the other one, the one over on?

Speaker 1 9:44

city sport.

Gym Etiquette and Frustrations

Speaker 2 9:44

City sport, you know, and of course you have hyper strengthening condition out of San Jose, California. Yeah but they weren't open. Oh no, no, we were open we were and had a class in the morning. Oh yeah, it's, different but then, but, we were there, we were there because you guys want to be there. Yeah, but because you know we, we, we wanted to earn that turkey. I wasn't there, I was working, so so you know, you know, user, you know, if you want to work out on Thanksgiving, come check us out.

Speaker 1 10:16

I mean if the train, if the coach wants to work on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 10:19

Yeah.

Speaker 1 10:19

I leave it up to them.

Speaker 2 10:20

Yeah, man, that some people want to get that pump in for that turn your shots fine.

Speaker 1 10:25

I mean we should probably start doing a turkey shot for the gym.

Speaker 2 10:28

What do you mean? Like just entering as a group.

Speaker 1 10:31

Yeah, or if anything I want to. I want to go back to having a turkey bowl. Oh, like flag football.

Speaker 2 10:36

Okay, I miss that shit. That was yeah, yeah, that's that's what. That sounds fun you should do that.

Speaker 1 10:41

Go under center. We do the tush push against my cousins.

Speaker 2 10:48

Okay what he says. He wants to do the tush push with his cousins. His cousins are all like 12 years. We would destroy them. You know, I mean like we wouldn't even need to push.

Speaker 1 11:01

You know me like yeah, but there's just a reason for us to just, oh yeah, make contact.

Speaker 2 11:06

Yeah, just dominate the field To have break for that. You some of the responses.

Speaker 1 11:14

I mean closing the gym when there's a user. Their response, the responded I mean closing the gym on Thanksgiving is not a bad. Not bad, as people need to spend time with their family, but advertise it as open while it's not is the shady part. Well, I give him that.

Speaker 2 11:27

I give him that yeah that's like right.

Speaker 1 11:28

I just hate how I wasted time and I rushed before the crack of down For anything you know did you reason?

Speaker 2 11:35

did that person respond to the responder? Yeah, oh my God. See, there's just some Reddit users out there that just need to chill Like. I understand you want to get your feelings out there, you want to be heard, you want to vent you don't have to respond to every single person, you can psycho. So that was that story, Okay that's a good story to start off with Nice and easy.

Speaker 1 11:57

Nice and easy, here's another one. This is actually going into New Year's now.

Speaker 2 12:02

Oh.

Speaker 1 12:03

This is a story actually from a user. This is a year ago.

Speaker 2 12:05

Okay, nice.

Speaker 1 12:07

A year ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 12:10

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:13

Let's start with this. Went to the gym on the dreaded January 1st. I knew it was going to be crowded which it was but I couldn't skip leg day. Eventually, I wanted to use the hip abduction and abduction machine. A deduction, ab deduction. I saw someone stuff bag, water bottle, tripod Isn't that crazy? It's like tripod Was sitting on it reserving it. I decided to just play cash and do some other exercises before going over to it. I did four sets of three other exercises, all while keeping an eye on the machine, and no one once used it, just people passing by it trying to figure out who was on it. After the three other exercises I ran out of exercises to do and even did my final exercise, abs to try and buy extra time for this person After hitting abs. How many times did you hit abs?

Speaker 1 13:14

I was actually pretty upset about someone reserving the single hip abduction machine in the entire gym for well over 15 minutes without even using it once. So I say screw it. I go over to the machine. Ask the people to the left if they knew who stuff it was. Ask the people on the right. Neither of them knew who it belonged to.

Speaker 1 13:36

Now I'm just straight up mad Someone reserving a machine on the busiest day of the year is on a new level of selfish I've ever seen in the gym. So I just grabbed the stuff that was sitting on the seat, put it behind the machine and I started my exercise. Once you know it, halfway through my first set, the girl who the stuff belongs to came up and silently started grabbing her stuff and storms out of the gym. I don't like the idea of being that jerk in the gym that takes other people's equipment, even though I hate when people reserve equipment they're not using. I generally try to be respectful of everyone staying out of mirror space courteous of others, but this was just ridiculous. Once I was finished, another person immediately came to use the machine, showing that multiple people were waiting for this girl to move her stuff.

Speaker 2 14:30

Okay, first of all, this machine we're talking about, is this the sus machine?

Speaker 1 14:34

The close open. Yeah, that's the one, yeah.

Speaker 2 14:37

Okay, I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the right machine here. Wow, okay, you have every right to be mad, 100%, because that's bullshit. Now I'm going to call you out right now. Here's my question. You just said this person reserved it for 15 minutes and you did all your other exercises. So your workouts 15 minutes.

Speaker 1 15:02

Well, maybe it was just 15 minutes of their given workout.

Speaker 2 15:06

Okay, well, so we're talking about like this is like 45, 30, 40.

Speaker 1 15:12

Maybe he had like a whole plan and he just wanted I'm imagining this fool's like oh yeah, yeah, pump pump pump.

Speaker 2 15:18

pump the machine open. No, oh, it's been 15 minutes.

Speaker 1 15:23

I'm almost done. Well, I mean, maybe they're in a crush, but it sounds to me that maybe that 15 minutes of working out yeah, it's probably just like actual. It's part of their whole routine.

Speaker 2 15:35

The whole thing yeah.

Speaker 1 15:37

And they were really waiting on that one machine.

Speaker 2 15:41

But you know what? That is a shit move, that bullshit move of her like just leaving her stuff and her tripod. You know what? You don't need to bring a tripod to work out unless you're an influencer, unless you actually have a lot of followers.

Speaker 1 15:54

Okay, People all, even for me. I'm kind of like if you about that.

Speaker 2 15:58

Do you even bring-? Well, you mean, you own a gym.

Speaker 1 16:01

I own a gym.

Speaker 2 16:02

So you're not going to the public?

Speaker 1 16:04

Well, here's the thing I record my content during time when no one's in the gym.

Speaker 2 16:09

Down time.

Speaker 1 16:10

Yeah, like it's literally closure Every afternoon. We don't even have open gyms. That's when I go in there and make my content, I can do whatever the fuck I want. When it is training time, people are paying us to train them. People are paying to use our services. I put our tripods away unless we're filming content for the clients or we want to film for our marketing.

Speaker 2 16:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:33

You don't really touch it.

Speaker 2 16:35

That's pretty you know what, but just putting your stuff down is pretty messed up.

Speaker 1 16:40

It's a thing in open gyms. There's people who put a towel there to towel there, towel there.

Speaker 2 16:46

I'm doing a circuit. See, that's my thing. You can't be doing circuits in a public gym. You know what?

Speaker 1 16:55

I mean You'd be surprised.

Speaker 2 16:56

That's crazy to me, you know, like-.

Speaker 1 16:58

So I pay $20 a month. So do I, are you?

Speaker 2 17:01

too motherfucker. No, okay, here's an example. There's a time when I think Ant, he was giving me extra work outside of the gym. I go to fitness 19 workout and there's like these, it's like little clusters, right, and the way it's set up is like I'd have to do something here, then I have to go over here, then I have to go back and that's one set, right. I'm just like I'm not walking around this gym doing one set to one set to one set. I'm just going to pump out three, pump out three, pump out three and it's done.

Speaker 1 17:29

Fair.

Speaker 2 17:29

You know what I mean, but like for someone to be like no, I have to do these in order Like come on, come on.

Speaker 1 17:37

Well, I mean, yeah, I don't. I mean, from all the years of working at a gym like that, I mean people do try to reserve shit. It's just a sense of entitlement that needs to be checked, especially nowadays to me, that this will make me sound like an old, grumpy old man.

Speaker 2 17:52

Yeah, you boomer.

Speaker 1 17:53

Yeah, but it's just dude. It's just like go in there and work out, and I'm going to be the last. I'll be the first to admit like, yeah, I record my workouts, I shoot content, but again, I don't do it in a public space and I'm in a unique position where I do own a gym, but I do it respectfully and I do it when I purposely like close the gym on these certain hours so I can just pump these out.

Speaker 1 18:18

Yeah, Because I don't. The last thing I want and our clients pay us good money to train them on the last thing I think they want is someone fucking being a personality with a fucking tripod in the way.

Filming at the Gym and Etiquette

Speaker 2 18:30

Even like I'm going for my PR and then like in, like I'm in your background and you're doing like your face and you're like big boy stretch. Yeah, big boy stretch and I'm in the back struggling to put this weight up and it's like shoot it, you'll be helping him. Yeah, you know what I mean, like yeah, you know, it's just different. You know what I mean, but that's like you know. And there's so many like videos out there now of people who are filming content right and people getting mad.

Speaker 1 18:57

They're like well, it's a. Thing.

Speaker 2 18:59

I saw this. One dude was like is that your phone? We're put away. I'm going to smash that shit.

Speaker 1 19:03

Oh, is it with the girl.

Speaker 2 19:04

Yeah, with the girl.

Speaker 1 19:05

Oh, I saw that.

Speaker 2 19:06

Yo, like, obviously we don't know the context of everything, right? I don't think she was trying to film him.

Speaker 1 19:11

I think the I think the dude needs to get off the roids.

Speaker 2 19:14

He was raging hard bro, and I was just like dude. Why is this guy so mad?

Speaker 1 19:19

Dude, he was raging, he was going through some shit.

Speaker 2 19:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 19:21

He needed a hug he needed a hug.

Speaker 2 19:23

You better put that phone number.

Speaker 1 19:26

I'm 70% sure if some dude or the girl was just like are you okay? I just looked at him like, are you okay, Is everything okay? Yeah yeah, he looked. He was so sniffling. I missed my PR. I missed my PR and I just spent my last five hundred bucks on Tret and I don't think it's Tret.

Speaker 2 19:47

I used my last vial. I'm out, I'm out. These liver king products aren't working Shit.

Speaker 1 19:55

I'm fucking liver king, no, but it's Look, okay, yeah, that one. I mean, people get mad. I mean, I mean shit.

Speaker 2 20:04

There's always a way to go about it, though.

Speaker 1 20:07

I think so, and I'll be the first to admit like I'm the dude who almost got into a fight in the submarine of finding Nemo in Disneyland, like I was very wrong.

Speaker 2 20:20

I was very wrong.

Speaker 1 20:22

The other guy was wrong too, but I was very wrong. I shouldn't have put myself in that position.

Speaker 2 20:25

Yeah, I was going to Disneyland from life, so Damn yeah it was bad.

Speaker 1 20:29

I'll just stop that real quick, but long story short. Sorry I got off on that tangent. It's just, people are going through some shit.

Speaker 2 20:37

People are going through some shit.

Speaker 1 20:38

But at the same time it's like. You know it doesn't need to happen like that. But again, going into this topic, people are filming a lot more and it's feeding into. You know it just compounds the growing problem of people trying to reserve a machine Because you reserve a machine. You see the tripod. You're like what the?

Speaker 2 20:57

fuck, are you doing what?

Speaker 1 20:58

the fuck are you doing? I'm trying to get my workout in. Yeah, A response from another user goes no, you're right, 15 minutes is way too long. Only acceptable stepping away is to go get water or wipes for the machine. Ah, I mean, let's be honest she probably there's another part of this coming. Stop bringing up pooping. Unless you can poop in one to two minutes, including time it takes to walk back, you'll have to look for the machine after pooping.

Speaker 2 21:28

That's all I was about to say. We're talking about the sus machine here and the lips are moving. I'm sure some bowel movements start happening, and it's probably what happened.

Speaker 1 21:37

I think the rule of thumb is you're using a machine, use it. You'd probably waited so long to use a machine. You're midway using it and you got to take a shit. You just got to go take a shit. Do not power through that movement while having the bubble guts. I have seen too many situations where the gym staff has to get involved because now we got to yellow tape that machine because it's a health hazard.

Speaker 2 22:02

There's particles everywhere, bro. It's bad, that's bad. That's why I'm just like well, whatever we're working out with, I'm just like I'll be back. You want me to make sure my cues are good? This is one cue I got to get rid of first, but yeah, I mean for her 15 minutes. I don't mind that she took the stuff off after a while. You know what I mean. It's fair.

Speaker 1 22:34

What's your view on people recording now, like with the tripods?

Speaker 2 22:40

If I still had a commercial gym membership which I probably might get again just to supplement on my off days a little bit here and there, I wouldn't mind. I really don't mind. My biggest concern would be if they were filming and I'm just like hi, I probably go up like hey, am I in your shot? I don't want it to make it look bad. You know what I mean. I just say, hey, are you recording? Am I in your shot? I don't want to be in your shot, I just don't want to mess you up your shot. You know what I mean, with me struggling on the fucking Stairmaster melting. You know what I mean. I don't mind.

Speaker 2 23:19

The problem is just people who don't even have awareness for their surroundings. Imagine you want to film on a machine and they put the camera in the machine in front of them that somebody wants to use. I was like no, the camera needs to be 12 feet away from me to make the perfect shot. It's like, okay, now you're doing too much. I need to use this machine over here. Try, pod. You know what I mean. Like get a little different angle. What's the difference? You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 23:49

I think, the audacity of a tripod is insane.

Speaker 2 23:51

You think it's too much?

Speaker 1 23:53

I think it's too much.

Speaker 2 23:54

Well, how do you record that?

Speaker 1 23:55

You don't record, you just work out.

Speaker 2 23:57

Okay.

Speaker 1 23:58

I mean, it was such a concept, you know, and maybe I mean, and for me it's like it's, and that's why, and that's why I struggle with having an open gym concept, because it's great for marketing, it's great for community building and getting your name out there Like, oh, my friends are working out here. It's so aesthetic there, I want to go out and work out. But then you start getting kind of the wrong. From my experience, you get the wrong attitudes.

Speaker 2 24:21

Right.

Speaker 1 24:22

Because there's people, generally the people who really need help. They're self-conscious. They don't want to be recorded until until they're.

Speaker 2 24:29

Oh yeah, training arcs over, you know.

Speaker 1 24:31

So it feels great. And then there's other people who are like look at me, look at me. So for me it's like. For me it's like if I had an open gym thing it would be you would have to dance around the topic of is there a tripod, is there people? Do you let people?

Speaker 2 24:49

record. You know be tight If you had said HSC open gym Saturdays no recording.

Speaker 1 24:56

We could.

Speaker 2 24:58

Like it was just like, if you're here to work out, you're not here to shoot out, or I?

Speaker 1 25:04

don't know film out. I don't know.

Speaker 2 25:07

But I mean also to like do you also feel bad for people who like film themselves at the gym and they're not doing it right?

Speaker 1 25:15

Oh well, that one I don't mind, because I know there's form checking. I mean now that online coaching is being more prevalent.

Speaker 2 25:21

Right.

Speaker 1 25:23

So they want to get, they need to record. I can see that argument. Like record yourself.

Speaker 2 25:27

There's times where, like, those clusters are telling you about and it's like I'm going to need you to take a video of you doing this, and I told them I am not taking a video, I am not, I'm not doing that. You know what I mean. So, yeah, I get that, but it's just like you know. Just you know, some people are like they just film themselves and like they think they're like really good.

Speaker 1 25:49

I think there has to be a section of a gym that allows it.

Speaker 2 25:53

I wouldn't mind that either.

Speaker 1 25:54

That's like the studio gym the studio gym, like make a section of your gym that's so aesthetically pleasing. It's like oh, cameras are here, what? No, oh, I didn't even know. Well, I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 26:10

No, I'm just. I get that, but I wouldn't. Yeah, it was just public gym workout, get out.

Speaker 1 26:17

Just workout.

Speaker 2 26:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:19

Yeah, I mean other challenges like don't use your phone, that's another. That's hard thing.

Speaker 2 26:23

Well, how am I supposed to listen to my nickel back?

Speaker 1 26:26

while I'm on my run, get your zoom, zoom you just wow. Get your, uh, get your little eye touch, I don't know.

Speaker 2 26:37

I touch.

Speaker 1 26:38

I don't know it's, it's hard.

Speaker 2 26:39

I understand that Asparagus.

Speaker 1 26:40

What about my phone? Put your phone on airplane mode. Put your phone in airplane mode. Don't get distracted. Here's another thing Now. Now we're getting a little crazy now. What are some of the worst, funniest gym experiences? This is, this is on a, on a subreddit. It's all about the gym and it's actually over 18 content, so we're diving into After hours, after hours stuff. So I'm going to. I'm going to kind of generally kind of kind of go in there and try to Find something good.

Speaker 2 27:11

Find something good, something juicy.

Speaker 1 27:13

We're going to rapid fire this.

Speaker 2 27:15

Okay.

Speaker 1 27:16

Okay, so these stores are actually almost over a decade old, whoa.

Speaker 2 27:20

Okay, so you possibly could be in one of these. Okay, here it is Okay.

Speaker 1 27:28

Here's a good one. Here's a good one. Ready you, ready for this?

Speaker 2 27:33

Yeah.

Speaker 1 27:38

I worked at a YMCA gym for about a year, and this happened during my last week there.

Speaker 2 27:44

Okay.

Speaker 1 27:45

A young guy about 16 came in as a guest of a member. Part of my job was to basically do laps around the gym to check on everything, and on one of my laps I see this guy has his shirt off. It's policy to keep shirts on, so I ask him to put it back on. He says okay, I lap again and the shirt is still off. Ask him again to put it on. He says okay, I'm rounding lap three. And now I see his pants are off. Okay, mind you, I'm a 19-year-old girl at the time and I ask him to please get dressed. And he proceeds to tell me that I can't limit his freedom of expression or something.

Speaker 2 28:27

Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 28:28

The boxers come off.

Speaker 2 28:29

No.

Speaker 1 28:30

The man is naked, I throw an exercise mat toward him. Tell his friend to dear God, please contain this guy To run and run to get my boss also a petite woman. We run back and basically surround him holding exercise mats. That takes sort of like sensor bars. We're begging him to get dressed and he starts I'm not kidding doing karate moves, kicking and flailing around with his junk all everywhere. We eventually have his friend, call his parents. He starts crying and comes and comes at my boss. At this point his friend takes him down and we call the police. Too long to read. Guy comes into the gym and has a weird mental break, gets naked and does karate.

Speaker 2 29:26

Wow, that's insane. She did one. Yeah, put your shirt on, please. This policy, yeah, sure, comes back around. Hey, don't know if you put that shirt on, but we need it on. Yeah, no problem, third time around. What happened to your pants?

Speaker 1 29:43

man.

Speaker 2 29:45

That is wild.

Speaker 1 29:48

Dude, I believe this would happen, oh 100%. I believe this I've worked in. You get some interesting characters, man, especially in these types of gyms with low cost membership, you know.

Speaker 2 30:00

Anyone can go.

Speaker 1 30:01

Anyone can go and you just don't. You wouldn't think in your right mind what, in this situation, like I started cracking up because, like her boss, are in there trying to contain this dinosaur of a man, the naked men with exercise. It's like, bro, they are not paying you enough to go through this.

Speaker 2 30:22

I probably would have just been like, just went back to the front desk and called the cops.

Speaker 1 30:29

Bruh, I think you just do it. You just call the cops.

Speaker 2 30:32

You just call the cops. You can't. That's too much. You're doing too much.

Speaker 1 30:35

Don't contain. You don't if these, if this guy's already like naked.

Speaker 2 30:38

Here's the thing. I think there must have been some sort of attraction. He must have been like oh she's playing hard to get.

Speaker 1 30:46

I mean maybe.

Speaker 2 30:47

Well, how old was the kid Did it, or?

Speaker 1 30:48

16, I think.

Speaker 2 30:49

Oh, the kid was 16.

Speaker 1 30:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:52

Oh, yeah, okay, and then she was 19. Yeah, damn, it's still a kid, bro. That's wild yeah.

Speaker 1 31:01

I'm sure he was probably going through some shit, but like to put yourself in danger.

Speaker 2 31:06

I was thinking of like a 35 year old man.

Speaker 1 31:08

Oh, this was a 16 year old.

Speaker 2 31:10

Dude, you mentioned that. I might have missed that.

Unusual Experiences at the Gym

Speaker 1 31:12

Comes in a young guy about 16. Yeah, oh, yeah, I missed it. I was, I, I wow. But he had a friend, so his friend was watching him do this Like he was all wait, wait.

Speaker 2 31:25

Are we wait? We're not supposed. I don't think we're supposed to do that.

Speaker 1 31:29

Like our pants are all down.

Speaker 2 31:31

What is going on, Jim, Jim? What are you doing, Dude? I'm not going to be able to come back here anymore. What are the uh, that's insane, that's wild.

Speaker 1 31:45

So one of the comments is oh so that's how Mack got started. Jesus the what. Mack, I don't know.

Speaker 2 31:52

I don't know.

Speaker 1 31:54

I think this one wins. I don't know what drug he was on, but I want some of it.

Speaker 2 31:57

Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 31:58

Acid is one hell of a drug. Acid will not make you do this, so that's wild. This is just just call the cops, but that shit happens, you're not getting paid enough to get miscontrol. It's like that Well, maybe you don't. That's safety man, because you don't know if the guy's going to attack you.

Speaker 2 32:18

Yeah, but you know, at the same time, maybe because there's other people in the area, maybe that's why they were like trying to censor them, you know.

Speaker 1 32:27

I mean, yeah, but you're putting yourself in, you're putting yourself within an arms reach of this person.

Speaker 2 32:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 32:34

You're both women, petite. Nothing against women, but I'm just saying like you got a naked man who's raging.

Speaker 2 32:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 32:42

I'm pretty sure any woman I talk to would be like I do know what to handle. No, any man, any trans binary, like no one's going to want to deal with that.

Speaker 2 32:52

That's insane, that's crazy, like just having like a break right there, all because someone said they can put your shirt on.

Speaker 1 33:00

And the boxers come off. And he was like when the button, when you say tell someone to put the shirt on and the boxers come off.

Speaker 2 33:07

What is going?

Speaker 1 33:07

on, just go away, just call the cops. It's not worth it.

Speaker 2 33:12

He's like, sir, can you, we have a policy that you have to keep your shirt on? He's like, oh, okay. And in his head he's like no one tells me. I don't want to wear my shirt. He just fucking. But man, that's crazy, that's a wild story, man.

Speaker 1 33:31

Okay, I'm sorry, we had to go through that. Here's another one.

Speaker 2 33:34

Okay, I'm ready.

Speaker 1 33:38

Oh, here's another one. It was a good one. We're going to leave on this one. Okay, we're going to leave on this one. I worked at a gym for six years. One day, an old man, 65 ish, came from the locker room and approached me. He said I don't know what I did in there, but it won't go down, and walked away. I went in and the smell hit me instantly.

Speaker 2 34:09

Oh no, I'm assuming to talk about that.

Speaker 1 34:11

Yeah right, the stall had a turd. No exaggeration. The size of my arm, oh my. From elbow to fingertips, one turd, no break in the line. Wow, I was equal parts amazed and disgusted when you flushed the toilet. The water would try to swirl around it and go down, revealing the monster in all of its girth. We let it sit there for a couple of days to soften up so we could push it down. It sank the whole time. I have a video on one of my old cell phones.

Speaker 1 34:46

I will try to find it. Also, I had to fire one of the housekeepers for giving DJs in the steam room. What, what.

Speaker 2 34:57

Is that enough? Is that enough of the?

Speaker 1 35:02

story. Look, read it. I even left out a word.

Speaker 2 35:06

Well, too long didn't read no read above that, read above it. Also, I had to Wow.

Speaker 1 35:14

Dude, I was not making that up.

Speaker 2 35:16

Wow Yo, but okay, the person writes TLDR and he didn't even include the alarmist part.

Speaker 1 35:26

TLDR. Some old man took a monumental shit that wouldn't flush down the toilet. That escalated Time out.

Speaker 2 35:32

Very quickly Hold on Before the whole steam room stuff. My question is did they say they left it there for days to soften up?

Speaker 1 35:42

We let it sit there for a couple days to soften up A couple days.

Speaker 2 35:46

That's crazy. Why would you leave it there for days? And they just said they have a cleaning staff. Right, that's what they're there for. Oh man, that's so bad.

Speaker 1 36:10

Yeah, so this is.

Speaker 2 36:13

That's insane. I kind of want to find out how he found out about the steam room. Look, I don't know Because obviously there's no cameras in the steam room.

Speaker 1 36:26

Yeah, but I don't know, I don't even know if these stories are real real man, it's reddit. I mean, we went from the very vanilla story to this. Is this sounds batshit crazy.

Speaker 2 36:35

This sounds kind of crazy, yeah.

Speaker 1 36:36

But I mean.

Speaker 2 36:38

That's so wild. That's so wild, dude. They left it there for days.

Speaker 1 36:48

Again, you don't know.

Speaker 2 36:52

For days and they just said the cleaning staff right, he had to fire someone from the cleaning staff.

Speaker 1 36:58

Yeah, they had to fire some housekeepers for giving BJs in the steam room.

Speaker 2 37:01

Yeah, so there's people who cleaned this place.

Speaker 1 37:04

Well, she was cleaning other things.

Speaker 2 37:05

I know, but I'm just saying why would they just leave it? That's the thing that's mind-boggling to this whole thing.

Speaker 1 37:13

Maybe it was that big bro. It said forearm to fingertips, or was it elbow to fingertips?

Speaker 2 37:19

No break, I mean, how tall is this man? We got to know what if this guy is like Wemben Yama, victor Wemben Yama's arms are.

Speaker 1 37:29

Like a seven-foot wingspan.

Speaker 2 37:32

That's a long turd.

Speaker 1 37:34

Well, I mean.

Speaker 2 37:35

That's gross.

Speaker 1 37:36

That is that.

Speaker 2 37:37

Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 37:39

Any final thoughts on this?

Speaker 2 37:40

No, no, everything else like okay, but you have this one. No. Here's a question. What if that happened at your gym? Bro, you're going to leave that turd for a few days to soften?

Speaker 1 37:55

Dude, we bleaching the shit out of. First off, I'm changing the toilet.

Speaker 2 37:59

Rip it out. We're buying the toilet. We're buying a new toilet.

Speaker 1 38:02

We're buying a new toilet and we're going to have an education course.

Speaker 2 38:08

Eat some fiber.

Speaker 1 38:09

On fiber. Yes, what to eat? How do you know?

Speaker 2 38:13

Drink some metamucil.

Speaker 1 38:14

I'm just saying, Guys please, what are we doing?

Speaker 2 38:18

Everybody wants to eat protein, but they don't want to eat fiber.

Speaker 1 38:21

Okay, no, it's surprising. People get oh, I don't want to eat too many carbs, I don't eat too much fat, but it's like oh, eat more protein, that's a lot of protein. My kidneys are going to die.

Speaker 2 38:33

Okay, what? All right guys. Next episode protein versus poop. Okay.

Speaker 1 38:38

Protein versus fiber.

Speaker 2 38:40

How much poop doesn't have to hurt until you guys be like, yeah, I got to eat some fiber.

Speaker 1 38:45

You got to. I mean we're eating too much fiber, You're not eating the enough types of nutrients.

Speaker 2 38:50

Oh, interesting.

Speaker 1 38:51

We can go over that later in the next episode. Thank you, guys, for listening to this new type of episode that we're testing out.

Speaker 2 38:57

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Speaker 1 38:59

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Speaker 2 39:03

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Speaker 1 39:05

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Speaker 2 39:28

I thought you were going to say something. Oh, that's right, kevin, I wrap a Ramadan.

Speaker 1 39:34

Oh, watch your Eat more fiber Eat more fiber and we'll see you guys in the next episode.

Speaker 2 39:41

Bye, bye.