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What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen in the gym

109 replies

TinselTit · 21/12/2021 12:49

My husband was in the gym this morning and felt like he was being pranked.

There was a guy next to him literally dancing the Charleston in the gym between sets. When he had finished his session, he then stood in front of the mirror with his top off doing like wind up punches really fast and then tensing his muscles.

Is this normal behaviour or have you seen worse?! 🤣

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Guttedbuyer · 23/12/2021 20:57

This thread is absolutely golden

Siennabear · 23/12/2021 21:03

A man shaving in the sauna and clearing his nose in his hand. Put me off ever going in there again. Absolutely gross. It was busy as well.

Siennabear · 23/12/2021 21:04

Sorry not sauna, the steam room

Heathway · 23/12/2021 21:32

A woman who will go into the gym, headphones in and do a complete ‘mindfulness’ dance in front of the mirror.

She seems to focus on her chakra in between her legs and will look herself dead in the mirror and contort herself to channel her energy to said chakra 🤣🤣

What I don’t understand is she doesn’t use any gym kit. Just the mirror. And it just so happens the mirror is slap bang in the middle of the gym so everyone ends up watching her.

I only know what she’s doing as I had to google it.

Niconacotaco · 23/12/2021 21:37

In the changing room, a naked lady who couldn't open her locker and asked me to help. I got it open and she removed a notebook from it and read me poems that she had written to/ about Princess Diana. Still naked. And the poems weren't even good.

MrsHGWells · 23/12/2021 21:38

Woman wearing puffer jacket and hug boots on spin bike ?? Broke out in a sweat just looking at her worked a treat!

Motherdare · 23/12/2021 21:58

An lady with one leg up on a chair drying her bush with a hairdryer. She called over to ask me if I had a hairbrush at one stage. I’m not sure what she was going to brush. Was glad I didn’t have one just in case!

EishetChayil · 23/12/2021 21:59

When I lived abroad I saw a woman dying her pubes in a gym changing room.

dollyknocker · 23/12/2021 22:04

Woman drying her vagina in the communal changing room. With a hair dryer.

LadyCampanulaTottington · 23/12/2021 22:21

Man on a treadmill wearing a weight vest with weights on his wrists and ankles. He put the treadmill on the fastest setting, jumped on and sprinted for 60 seconds. He jumped off again, waited a bit and then jumped back on again. If he fell he would have done some damage to himself.

emmathedilemma · 23/12/2021 22:22

I really hope @dollyknocker means vulva!!

DDMAC · 23/12/2021 22:33

A woman taking a used tampon out

IAmMeThisIsI · 23/12/2021 22:40

The woman who would stare at me while I showered (after the pool, in my bathing suit, in those rinse off showers at the baths) and would make intense eye contact with me. I still don't know what here problem was.

BSintolerant · 23/12/2021 22:59

A man in the studio dancing a Viennese waltz with his invisible partner.

Doodar · 23/12/2021 23:03

Another pubic hair drying woman, why tho?
Men pissing on sauna coals. Rank.

Animood · 23/12/2021 23:20

A fight...

I can only assume roid rage.

Startrooper · 23/12/2021 23:50
  • twice seen women changing used SanPro in the communal changing area
  • the young woman who had clearly had very large breast implants who would walk around the changing rooms talking loudly and jiggling her boobs constantly. I’d go to a spinning class and come back an hour later and she would still be there, topless and jiggling. Every day.
  • nude-coloured Lycra outfits, and they show sweaty patches in places you’d rather not have to see
  • woman who was skeletal-thin and wore thick sweaters with polo neck layers underneath, and a wide belt over the top. She would go ridiculously fast on a piece of cardio equipment and then stand in front of the mirrors checking her reflection from every angle, while trying to pull the belt onto a tighter notch. She would do this after each piece of equipment, and was there daily. It was very sad to see and I wish gyms had a duty of care to vulnerable members.
bantuknots73 · 24/12/2021 00:27

This is the only thread where I've read every single comment and it's honestly killed me😂

CaptainCabinets · 24/12/2021 00:35

I tend to just mind my own business at the gym 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’d hate to recognise myself on one of these threads, I’m self conscious enough at the gym as it is Blush

AngryApple · 24/12/2021 00:43

A man having a wank sat on a gym ball! He obviously thought he was alone 🤢

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 24/12/2021 01:00

A huge pile of steaming shit in the shower cubicle when I took my DC for swimming lessons

It was quite puzzling. If a child is young enough to take a dump in a shower then surely they are too young to be in there unsupervised?
I assume it must have been a child...

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 24/12/2021 01:08

Also the guy who poured bloody olbas oil on the coals in the sauna. After about 2 seconds my eyes were watering and I staggered out spluttering
There are surely easier ways to get the sauna to yourself

TreeSmuggler · 24/12/2021 02:01

Not as bad as some but a women in my HIIT class wears a puffa jacket, even on warm days where I wouldn't wear one to sit outside. I feel faint looking at her.

TomPinch · 24/12/2021 02:36

@CovoidOfAllHumanity

Also the guy who poured bloody olbas oil on the coals in the sauna. After about 2 seconds my eyes were watering and I staggered out spluttering There are surely easier ways to get the sauna to yourself
Pissing on them, for one.

I'd have like to have seen that (before escaping.)

Kanaloa · 24/12/2021 02:39

Never seen the Charleston in the gym 😂

Saw a woman in the changing area shaving her pits once. Not in the shower, there’s a sort of little area between the shower and the changing rooms with mirrors, people generally do their hair/makeup there. No shave gel, no rinsing the razor. Just really chilled out, humming to herself as she shaved her pits.

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