Short Length
YB! What's the deal?! I hope the week has gone well. It's Thursday and I've got a BIG weekend coming up as I'm heading back to West Point for the USA training squad practice this weekend! We've got practice and a scrimmage on Saturday, and another practice on Sunday, so I can't wait to get on the field. It's been awhile since I've played and actually been %100 healthy, so I'm looking forward to it.
Anyway, once again, at the gym yesterday, I saw something that was a bit troubling to me and felt the need to hop on here and make sure we're all on the same page about a few things.
European soccer players have made it cool/fashionable to wear smaller/shorter bathing suits. Dudes like Beckam and Cristiano Ronaldo rockin' lil trunks showing off their legs...and chances are if my legs were making me 250 million dollars, I may show these joints off too! So, while I'll don't condone a speedo, if you want to shorten up the length of your bathing suit, more power to you, I get it. I guess keeping it gangster on the beach/pool in ridiculously baggy shorts isn't all that cool anymore, or so I'm told.
Either way, what is NOT acceptable, is to bring those little tiny shorts into a gym setting! NO ONE is trying to watch you do squats or lunches or sit ups in those tiny joints! I don't care if you're at the pool, and then just come right to the gym, we all know gyms have changing room and you can delay your work out for 2 minutes to throw on some longer shorts, and make everyone else's work out experience a bit better. If you've got on those little thigh huggers, and you're asking people for a spot on the squat rack and no one is responding, now you know why.
I feel like everyday I go to the gym I can find a new thing to write about! Someone needs to write a book about proper gym behavior ASAP, or I'm going to!
So if you're planning on posting up at the pool/beach, and want to rock a shorter bathing suit (NOT a speedo), do you, no one is hating on you being proud of your legs. But if you're going into the gym to get your lift on, be a good sport and toss on some longer shorts, because if you don't, not only will you NOT be able to get a spot, but I gurantee 70% of people in the gym are joking you.
Have a GREAT Thursday and I'll catch up with you guys soon!
KMH
StridingMan said September 24, 2009
AlanaG said September 24, 2009
Now question for you Kyle -- does your shorts length rule apply to ladies too?
jaymz77 replied September 24, 2009
jaymz77 said September 24, 2009
jeans or khaki guy -- dude, who wears jeans to a gym? and Dockers are for the office buddy.
smoker person -- it never fails when I go to do cardio someone smells like an ashtray. Can't they wait to smoke AFTER they work out? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
StridingMan replied September 24, 2009
speedwell replied September 24, 2009
AlanaG replied September 24, 2009
jaymz77 replied September 24, 2009
AlanaG replied September 24, 2009
Ok no one has even brought up the issue of fools GRUNTING at the gym. I understand if you're doing some serious lifting that you will grunt. But there is one guy at my gym who will just be dilly-dallying along on the stationary bike and all of a sudden AAAAAHHHH OHHHHHHHHH UHHHHHHHHH
speedwell replied September 24, 2009
jaymz77 said September 24, 2009
speedwell replied September 24, 2009
sambot replied September 24, 2009
my gym has a lot of competitive lifters though. casualty of the demographic.
Shanelle626 said September 25, 2009
The Naked guy/girl: you know that person who would rather do everything else (brush their teeth, style their hair, iron their clothes) than get dressed. No one needs to spend this much time with your naked @ss...put some drawers on already!
The wannabe bodybuilder: the overzealous grunting, the loud, attention-seeking plate loading, the bench/rack abandoning (thanks buddy, I just LOVE re-racking your weights!) and the tank top with straps so thin I can see his nipples peeking out...eewww
The OLD school workout guy: It's the calisthenics routine from World War Two! As a trainer he's your worst nightmare b/c you can't tell him nothin and he might inspire someone else to do all his contraindicated exercises.
AlanaG replied September 25, 2009
speedwell replied September 25, 2009
Shanelle626 replied September 25, 2009
speedwell replied September 25, 2009
Shanelle626 said September 25, 2009
The professor who worked out in those teeny, tiny wrestling/MMA 'boyshorts', complete with padded protective jockstrap. In bright yellow, no less. Gave the term 'banana hammock' a whole new meaning. I almost fell off the elliptical the first time I saw that!
The creepy grad student who chased me down on his bike (no, not a motorcycle, a ten-speed) on my way back to the dorms. And proceeded to tell me how he thinks we should get together sometime because he's been watching me at the University gym and likes the way I squat. Seriously. He actually said he liked to watch me squat. Uhhh....thanks?
hockeychick23 said September 25, 2009
EastAttackman said September 26, 2009
and it makes me laugh when im in the weight room and i look over and there is a guy comparing his biceps to a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger's biceps. thank god i dont have to go back there any more
Shanelle626 replied September 26, 2009