So far, in the 3 weeks since I've been at Bally's, a few people have started to stand out.

The first guy of note is the 81 year old guy who regularly leg presses 1080lbs while chastising people 1/4 of his age for their bad technique. He isn't very big, but damnit is he powerful. That's right, 81.

The second guy is the Bruce Lee fanatic. He likes to make sharp, quick motions while he works out and swears that Bruce Lee is the god of martial arts. He's really short like Bruce, and he always tries to make himself seem like he IS Bruce Lee. I always swear he's one step away from claiming Bruce was hispanic. >_<

The one that takes the cake is the smelly dude. Plenty of people have poor hygeine at the gym, but this guy is in a class of his own. There's a small dividing wall between two areas of the gym, with a rack of plates against it on one side. My cousin bent over to get a plate, and when he came back up he said 'damnit, that guy is here. I was like, 'what guy'? And he told me to lean over by the weights. When I did I said 'oh, that guy'. The smell is like a signature. When he walks out of one of the aerobics rooms, the minute the door opens the odor spreads until you can smell it a good 50ft away. God damn.

Yeah, it can be a funny place.

theres a guy at the gym everyone calls screamin robb, and rightfully so. he is RIPPED, but whenever he lifts weights he screams his lungs out so you can tell he's there from the other side of the gym

Yeah, there's the screaming guy, the guy that spots and rarely lifts, the guy that's there for cardio, the guy that smells, the guy that's clearly on roids, and the guy who sweats a lot.

No matter how much I try to avoid the creepy old man in pink shorts, he always finds me when I'm doing squats.

The asian guy who wears one-piece tights and screams every time he lifts.

lol there's a little/ripped short black guy who has the most dementedly ecstatic look on his face every time he lifts. Imagine Nickolay's avatar with a little less evil and a little more pedophilia and you've got it.

We had a funny article at our school about people at the gym...let me see if I can recall any...we have a huge rec facility at Ohio State, so it was a funny article to me because it actually applies to us...

There was meathead obviously...

60 year old guy with old man strength who can bench press more than 90% of guys there.

And my favorite is skinny asian that lifts alone but can lift surprisingly a lot for his height...(maybe me?)

I hate the really sweaty ones. They scare me.

The 15 year old highschool girl who goes there to scope out older guys. Half-asses it on the treadmill, but hey, she can afford to. Because damn, what a tight little body.


The new guy who is too afraid/embarrassed to try anything difficult as long as anyone is watching. Doesn't realize the only way he'll get stronger and better is by actually DOING it, and damn the people who would think badly of him.


Black dude who is completely cut and ripped, who goes in for about 20 minutes and then leaves. How the hell does he do it?


Obvious 'roid guido mother fucker who needs to just die because he always tries to one-up people. Hey, news pal, of course you'll do more. You fuckin' cheat.

There's that one old guy who doesn't look much but has one of the strongest lower body in the gym

Two or three guys that have been there for hours

one or two girls that focus on their legs and buns

the basketball/lacross/baseball team

The guy who does everything with those big blow up balls.

"Obvious 'roid guido mother fucker who needs to just die because he always tries to one-up people. Hey, news pal, of course you'll do more. You fuckin' cheat."

Nah, he just going to every gym in town for 20 minutes each. To show off. It comes to like a 4 hour workout. He probably owns half of them, though.

I don't frequent the gym much, but at my school, theres a few "loud" guys. The type of guy who no one lifts while he is lifting, because they laugh and break concentration.

There's also the bike rider. The guy who comes in and rides the bike for 13 hours in a row. Hand that's all he does. Maybe a few reps with dumbells every week or so, but that's rare.