This week's bodybuilding post on Gawker

[JohnnyVegas]

Here is this week's "I Of The Tiger" written by the skinny buy you guys made fun of last week in the "bodybuilders are weird" story.

As always, the comments are hilarious. I encourage you to read the comments and see how we are viewed by much of the public, or at least how they view the gym and working out. Sure, it will result in righteous indignation...but they are very funny. Click the "all" button above the comments so you can see more than just the featured thread.

Here is one of my favorites:
Telling someone that they can not "work in" is grounds for finding a new gym because its not your equipment, its the gyms, all gym rules make it clear that you must be courteous to the other members. If you are territorial why not just pee on the equipment like a dog trying to establish dominance? Get off your high horse princess. If you're uncomfortable with people at a gym then get a weight set for your house.

http://gawker.com/5914575/no-you-cant-work-in

[jasc]

That douche needs to be shot... The article started getting to me until I read the comments.. a few were pretty comical..

btw, that assclown bashes bodybuilders, yet his sole job is to type articles and he can't even proofread properly.. fail..

[fukngruvn]

this guy is a moron. it's ppl like him that slow down everyone else at the gym

[07backbreaker]

Guy just wanted to use the equipment. Is it too much to ask to get up and catch your breath a few feet elsewhere?

[Renesis]

I am not gonna let some idiot who will quit the gym in a week anyway work in. Kiss my ass I am not moving.

[Renesis]

Did some woman on that also respond intelligently? OMG I AM QUOTING IT HERE "Just gonna "work in" for Buck here, because I kiiiiind of agree. I'm not a big guy. I'm a squat girl and not even a weekend warrior. I probably go to the gym once a month, and/or for a week straight because I have a wedding to go to or some other bullshit that necessitates putting down the Grandma Utz for a few minutes. At any rate, just as in most social situations, you can sense a hierarchy in a gym. When you see a girl in very cute yoga pants with makeup on, you KNOW she's going to be barely moving on the elliptical for over an hour, and probably talking on the phone the whole time. Likewise, when you see a huge beefsteak of a man in a ripped-sleeves muscle tank, totally soaked with sweat, rage wrinkles swelling on his forehead and back-of-neck, you can tell that he's there to put in work. If you're a standard "I don't live for the gym" worker outer, why not share the machines? Why not take your 25 seconds of R&R standing next to the bench while hulk here gets a set in, then vice versa? You guys are kind of hating on the people who take their workouts very seriously, by taking your own workout too seriously." Whoa can we meet more women like this please.

[JohnnyVegas]

^^^^ agreed, and she isn't even a gym rat. Just courteous.

I did notice a post by a guy that felt like his gym was, well, "his" gym because he was dedicated and had been going there for years. He is a big guy and his workouts shouldn't be ruined by some new skinny guy hogging machines.

That started an avalanche of responses to the effect of, "I pay dues just like you do, so you need to wait your turn. You aren't special and don't pay for exclusive rights to the equipment" without realizing the big guy was promoting sharing while it was the whiners that insisted on exclusive rights to the equipment by camping out on it.

[Nooomoto]

Yeah yeah...he says he wouldn't move but I've seen many a small man move when challenged for space by those of us who consider the gym our domain. We don't mean to be dicks, but sometimes we have to be. Sometimes these wo-men are taking up too much god damn time sitting on a bench or skulking over a pile of dumb bells that they have collected.

If that dude talked to me like that I'd just take the bench, and there isn't **** all he'd be able to do about it. I've only had to do that twice in my 11 years of lifting, and only did it because my repeated, polite requests were met with rude snarkiness. I've also noticed only small people act like this. Big guys, those like us, understand the way things work and I've actually never had an issue with a fellow "meat head" taking an unnecessary amount of time with a piece of equipment, and if he was taking a long time, there is probably a good reason for it.

He probably works out at some metro-sexual "health club" and can get away with being a prissy bitch with out anyone challenging him.

[Honkey_Kong]

I bet Hamilton Nolan gets beaten up a lot. Either that or everything he writes is utter bullshit. Even at a gym full of pvssies, he'd irritate the fvck out of somebody with the crap he pulls. Somebody having a bad day would probably be like "fvck it" and just whoop his ass.

[lovbyts]

Yeah yeah...he says he wouldn't move but I've seen many a small man move when challenged for space by those of us who consider the gym our domain. We don't mean to be dicks, but sometimes we have to be. Sometimes these wo-men are taking up too much god damn time sitting on a bench or skulking over a pile of dumb bells that they have collected.

If that dude talked to me like that I'd just take the bench, and there isn't **** all he'd be able to do about it. I've only had to do that twice in my 11 years of lifting, and only did it because my repeated, polite requests were met with rude snarkiness. I've also noticed only small people act like this. Big guys, those like us, understand the way things work and I've actually never had an issue with a fellow "meat head" taking an unnecessary amount of time with a piece of equipment, and if he was taking a long time, there is probably a good reason for it.

He probably works out at some metro-sexual "health club" and can get away with being a prissy bitch with out anyone challenging him.

Exactly, I cant remember ever having a problem with someone of equal or larger size than me. Typically everyone is polite except the skinny little gym rats who like to swing their weights like there is no tomorrow and cant seem to re rack anything.

I bet Hamilton Nolan gets beaten up a lot. Either that or everything he writes is utter bullshit. Even at a gym full of pvssies, he'd irritate the fvck out of somebody with the crap he pulls. Somebody having a bad day would probably be like "fvck it" and just whoop his ass.

Ill bet on the BS part.