1. In The Zone - Tired and incoherent during a workout. Commonly described out of the gym as "spaced out."
2. Extended Warm-Up - 20 minutes at low tension on the stationary bike then 20 minutes of casual stretching then a shower.
3. "Just One More Rep" - Said to a spotter during a set. Really means: "Lift the weight for me."
4. Forced Reps - For the reluctant exerciser, every single rep of a workout is a forced rep. This is especially true when they have a mean trainer.
5. Hack Squat - The position a cat gets into when he's coughing up a hairball, commonly mistaken as a leg exercise.
6. "Can I work in with you?" - Translation: "Can I remove all your weights and sweat all over your bench?"
7. Drop Sets - What sometimes happens after doing a hard set of dumbell bench presses. A triple drop set occurs when you drop two dumbells and yourself to the floor.
8. Bulking Up - Name for the phase during which an otherwise healthy trainer will try to get bigger and fatter on purpose.
9. "I'm maxing out" - Translation: "I was going for 6 reps but I put too much weight on the bar and only got 1."
10. Cool-down - Sit on a bench and drink from a water bottle while talking about how much more you'll lift next time.
11. Olympic Bar - Athlete's nightclub.
12. E-Z Bar - "How dare you! I'm not that type of bar."
13. Squat rack - The lonliest piece of equipment in the gym.
14. "It's all you!" - Said by spotter during the last few reps of a set. Translatation: "It's mostly me."
15. Pro-hormones - Hormones that have lost their amateur status.
16. Meal Replacement Supplement - Cold pizza and warm beer.
17. Clean and Press - Surprisingly enough, it's a shoulder exercise, not laundry instructions. A variation of it is even known as the Hang Clean and Press.
18. High Intensity Interval Training - Occurs when there are two or more flights of stairs leading up to the gym.
19. Skullcrushers - An exercise where you make like you're going to bash your own head in with a barbell, a.k.a. lying tricep extensions.
20. "Hold the contraction at the top and squeeze for 10 seconds" - Said by a personal trainer when he or she wants to punish the client for missing a session.
21. 'roids...illegal drugs taken by people who don't mind the inconvenience of having to walk through a door sideways
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Originally Posted by abstrack
omg its like we workout at the same gym 
