Korean Job Discussion Forums

[NYC_Gal]

[ED209]

The pumping kpop remixes have driven me out of many a gym, even with in-ear headphones you can't keep it out. Having to walk home sweaty because the shower room is slippery with mildew and phlegm.

There are good gyms, but not the ones you pay 100,000won for 3months.

[Hyeon Een]

[the_curious]

people who hog the treadmills walking at 4.0 km/h while watching tv (mostly girls)

[RMNC]

[kburg385]

This is the most hysterical thread I've ever read. I agree whole heartedly with everything said here. The gyms here are crazy. I'm a girl, and I work out 5-6 times a week, and I would say I'm pretty toned/muscular. Now I know that Korean girls aren't usually known for being muscular or athletic, but the amount of shit I get for lifting weights from the trainers and other Korean guys who lift weights is unbelievable. They insist I don't know what I'm doing, I'm lifting too much, try to push me to "walk" on the treadmill, or use those dinky pink weights. I hate it! If they're not trying to tell me to do something less "manly", they're trying to adjust my form or tell me I'm lifting wrong.

I'm all for help, and I can admit when I may not have the best form. But when they're "correcting" me they often make me feel uncomfortable, and are way to close to my boobs and crotch area. It's annoying. And creepy. As for other things;

-no sanitation what so ever, never wiping down machines or cleaning them
-never putting back weights
-never washing the stretch/yoga mats, that literally smell like ass when you roll them out to use them
- watching t.v full blast and standing around it
- freaking out when i wear my tennis shoes from outside to work out inside, I'm sorry but my outside shoes are way cleaner than the floors in the gym, and I'm not BUYING a new pair just for the gym. absurd
- and finally that insanely awkward "machine" that's like a bull that you supposedly ride. It's so weird and creepy looking. especially when weird old korean men do it.

[RMNC]

Hottest post I've ever read.

[tukmax]

A 200 page thread about 'Funny stuff at the gym' over at the Starting Strength forums. Hilarious.

http://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/showthread.php?t=14425

[Diqquad]

I'd sometimes like to explain to some of the younger guys that 3 - 4 sets of 6 - 8 reps with hevier wieghts would be more beneficial to hypertropy than 25 sets of 40 reps of military presses with the same wight they've been using for a year, but I doubt they'd believe me.

[seoulsucker]

A few weeks ago a guy walked into the shower room in his workout clothes and pissed on the floor, knowing damn well there was a bathroom 10 feet away. Unbelievable.