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[crazylemongirl]

I go to the gym first thing to avoid amongst other things the workout warrior. Unfourtantly a dumpy 60 year old has decided to make this his regular time. He saunters in his purple short shorts. Purple short shorts don't look good on 99% of the male population, and for 60 year olds it should be cause to be take to re-educaton camp.

However that does not stop the work out warrior from doing frog squats in the gym, without any underwear on. That's just what I need to see at 6.30 a pair of 60 year old *beep*.

But just so people don't forget that the workout warrior is here, he will come to machines and dangle off them while you are resetting your weights so you get to smell last nights kimchi being sweated out. He will then finish his work out walking around the journey beating his chest and near his nether regions to let you know that he might be old, but he's still got a gochu.

Mr 60 year old workout warrior in your purple short, shorts. I salute you.

[jinju]

I also go first thing in the morning. Partly because at the end of the day Im too exhausted and make excuses not to go. In the morning, once I wake up, I have the energy to go and get in a workout.

[cdninkorea]

Does "workout warrior" mean the same as "gym rat"?

If so I have one. I was at the gym, and just before my workout, in the changeroom, I was taking a puff from my asthma inhaler (only need it in Seoul b/c of the pollution).
Anyway, this huge Korean guy (a pro bodybuilder, as I later found out) came up and talked to me about it:

Korean Ronnie Coleman: "Hey where did you get that inhaler?"
Me: "From a doctor, for asthma"
K-RC: "I need to get one of those too."
Me: "Oh, you have asthma? Go to a doctor and get one."
K-RC: "Nah, I don't have asthma. But I tried going to a pharmacy to get one over the counter, but they said I have to go to a doctor."
Me: "But... if you don't need it, why would you want it?"
K-RC: "You know how you run out of breath sometimes before your muscles are out of energy? I want it for that. You think it would help?"
Me: "I have no idea."
K-RC: "You think if I just went to a doctor and told him I had asthma, I could get a puffer?"
Me: "Well, the doctor will test you I'm sure."
K-RC: "Oh... that's too bad."

I wonder if he takes all the other stuff the pros usually take, like 'roids, HGH, diuretics, arthritis meds, insulin, etcetera.

[periwinkle]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

My favourite workout warrior was at my old gym. He'd stop for smoke breaks about every 30 minutes and then hit a machines again, spending 30 minutes on the bench press, or thirty doing dumbells, always using whatever bench he was on as a chair between sets so no one else could work in. Often he'd watch me like a disapproving schoolmaster and then come over to correct whatever I was apparently doing wrong.

I prefer the skinny younger guys who watch you do a set, then jump on the machine and bring it up a plate, and then manage almost to rip their back doing two or three reps. And then you get back on, bring it up a few more plates, and watch his dispair as he realises that the first one was just your warm-up set and he didn't in fact pull off a huge international victory for Korea.

[Zulu]

There's this younger fellow at my gym who has a habit of standing next to me while I'm on a machine and starting his solo 'kick-boxing' routine. All the while deep breathing and grunting with these strange and very loud bursts. Sometimes he likes to throw a kick pretty near to my head. He has the coordination of Mr. Bean and it's annoying because sometimes I have to stop my workout because it's just too hard to not laugh. Where do these people come from?

[Zulu]

[SOOHWA101]

[ella]

[ddeubel]

[jaganath69]

Its not so much the WW's but the b@stard owners I can't stand. I've been lifting weights on and off for years, rugby and all that. I know how to do a bench press, a bicep curl and a shoulder press. Back home, if I wanted help, I'd ask for it and someone would spend an hour with me showing me what was what. Here, every tw@t who works in a gym sees it as his divine mission to show you what to do. Never mind the fact that there is the old b1tch whose total workout consists of ten minutes walking backwards and 20 on the wobble belt; he could be telling her she may as well sit inside, eat lard and smoke 40 f@gs a day. Or the weedy student as explained above who follows me round trying to up whatever I`ve just lifted, but rather than do my 9 sets of 10 reps a peice, he just pushes 1 x 4 and spends the rest of the time laying about, talking on his handeupone or watching Mnet on the telly. They are the people most in need of being told what to do, but no, he has to make a big song and dance and get up in whitey's grill in order to look like the f@ckin expert he most certainly c*ntin well ain't.

exhale, end of rant.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[rawiri]

The gym use to pisss me off with all the above mentioned annoyances but the biggest bummer was definitly the blaring kpop, problem solved though as i now have a new kickbutt mp3 player. Going to the gym has returned to being an enjoyable experience as opposed to a chore. Theres nothing like smashing weights around with rammstein screaming in your ear at full volume.

[Yu_Bum_suk]