For months now, I’ve been seeing these two guys working out together in the mornings at my gym. One of them is fairly attractive and has a really strong muscled body. The other is obviously his protege. The protege is taller but a lanky build that is definitely showing signs of good muscle growth. They do seem to work fairly hard, but the protege has a really annoying gym presence.
He’s a grunter. When he’s straining with a weight he groans and grunts as if he’s giving birth. There are a lot of us in the gym in as much pain, lifting heavier weights and carrying on a lot less. He also never puts weights away, leaving that to his training partner while he wanders to the next piece of equipment trying to look determined and pumped.
There are two options. He’s intimidated by the gym which is very normal for a lot of people, especially starting out, so it’s a bravado thing. Or, my guess because he annoys me, was that he had short comings in the pants department and it was macho posturing to make up for it. Today I saw him in the locker room after he’d showered. He dropped his towel before pulling on his underwear. Let’s just say that while he’s not the biggest in the world, he doesn’t have anything to be making up for. Dammit. Annoying and hung? That’s just not allowed.
hate grunters and hate guys who don’t put their weights away. These are basics of gym etiquette.
Sometimes people are douches for no good reason, true story!
I usually expect the douches I meet to have larger dicks. I equate a “cocky” attitude with a cock overconfidence. Larger may look better in photos and porn, but give me smaller anytime in real life.
Ugh! I hate grunters! They are obviously attention whores..why else would someone grunt so loud that you have to look? If they can’t lift the weight without grunting, then maybe they’re lifting too much weight!
Imagine the noise they make at other times in their life: taking a shit, sex, etc. lol
The gym I belong to, although I have not been there in over a month due to work and school schedule, just recently banned a guy for grunting LOUDLY with his workout. The gym has offices above the workout area and even the office workers could hear him! He was notorious also for dropping the weights on the floor. He had a great upper body, but lacked overall etiquette.
I must admit I do grunt on the odd occasion. Usually when pumping out the last rep or two…but I am sure it is a sexy grunt!?! :) . No where near as annoying as those that grunt from the very first rep to the last, even on light weights. There is a guy at my gym that counts out his reps loudly, which is just as annoying. Most of the time I am in and out without making one bit of noise and, like you brenton, I am usually pushing more weight.
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You think annoying people must have small dicks? Really?! I find it sad you’re always so focused on penis size.
Annoying and hung is not fair, but imagine if they are arrogant and basically A-holes AND are hung…now that’s not fair! TGD
I would attribute general obliviousness to grunters. They tend to be self-focused and generally inconsiderate of those around them. Which makes not putting weights away go hand in hand with the noise.