
Originally Posted by
Regular guy
Well the next trip to gym, I've got several gyms available to me plus equipment at home. I'll be damned if a Weird Al Yankovic or an overweight Kenny G. Comes and takes bench next to me, I'm noticing a familar theme on the bench next to me. So I had started from really low weight climbing up to max. Up to 270lbs which I don't need a spot for, this guy dysturbs me concentration, like the head phones don't state "I really don't feel like/need any new friend right now." So I let him say all he has too, before I state "my headphones are on and I can't hear you." He wanted to reassure me that if I needed a spot he was there for me. A couple of things I've learned in my years in the gym about spotters:
1: This one is rather recent but a no brainer nonetheless . Those new foot contouring running shoes that are made of rubber and neoprene. Don't ask the guy who lifts in them to spot you cause "those dogs are barking" like have you ever heard of foot powder or odor eaters?
2: you do not want to be spotted by the guy who volunteers to spot you and subsequently stick his grotch in your face. I still perfer to be spotted by a female than a male. Some how not all sweaty crotches are created equally, I lift more when showing off, and it reminds me of the "happy endings" I used to get when lifting with my wife before number three.
Not that it matters but dude was older like, 50's, wearing over the calf socks, sweat pants (tight) at to the top of the socks, a tye dyed t shirt, and a lifting belt. Perhaps attempting to hide the "dunlopped." With a perm to boot, like serious "Jerry curl."
Perhaps he just wanted to be "manly" and a "bonding expereince" but no you can not stick your package in my face. Got a guy who's spotted me before, don't know his name don't care.
More of a rant than an antidote, oh well.