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So every gym you go to there are those guys that you give nicknames, like there's always a roider, or there's always those girls that come to get checked out and don't really work out, they just strut around trying to get guys to look at them. Well my gym is no exception we've got both of those and more so I thought I would tell everyone about the guys we see every morning and the nicknames me and my dad gave them. So we'll start of with the quarter bench boys, every gym has some form of these guys. They put on a good amount of weight on the bench and only bring the weight down a quarter of the way and go back up hence the name quarter bench. We've got three guys like that at our gym, the funny part about it is they think they are so strong. Next we've got smelly, once again his name gives it up, this dude stinks of BO! It could be Monday morning and this guy still smells like he hasn't bathed in 5 days and hasn't changed or washed his clothes. This guys stench takes over the weight room when he is there. It makes it difficult to lift near him cuz he just smells so bad. We've got saddle bag lady who is one of the most annoying people to ever step inside the weight room. We call her saddle bags because she wears spandex pants and shouldn't! She takes over the weight room and doesn't actually lift any weight she just needs a place to do her ball exercises. What's worse is she has a group of followers so there's always at least 3 or 4 people around her all the time.
So moving on we now go to sponge Bob. Thus guy is probably 65 to 70 years old and carries 2 sponges with him all the time. He puts them in between the handles of the different machines and his hands. He also likes to walk around hitting on all the older ladies at the gym! There's also crocodile dundy he where's the exact same hat that crocodile dundy wore while working out, ridiculous, I know! Last but not least we've got jeans who is also one of the quarter bench guys, except he will wear jeans to the gym and squat in them! I can't even squat in jeans with out any added weight let alone with weight. He only goes down a quarter of the way though so I guess the jeans thing doesn't really matter too much.

Well that is just about all the weirdos we've got at our gym, so if you ever come to where we work out at 5 AM you'll understand why we call these people by there nicknames!

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