Do you have a gym nickname?

[Dastardly]

People who dont know me at my gym have started calling me professor.

Both because I seem to be so extremely focused and planned in exactly how I train, I write stuff down etc.

And because I wear wayfarer glasses that make me look like brains from thunderbirds I guess.

People have started asking me advice for all sorts of things. But they are totally baffled by usual answer of "eat more food" and "squat and deadlift"

[nisora33]

People who dont know me at my gym have started calling me professor.

Both because I seem to be so extremely focused and planned in exactly how I train, I write stuff down etc.

And because I wear wayfarer glasses that make me look like brains from thunderbirds I guess.

People have started asking me advice for all sorts of things. But they are totally baffled by usual answer of "eat more food" and "squat and deadlift"

Everybody calls me "2P." It's short for "2 percent," as in 2 percent milk. Even though I was known for drinking whole milk, calling me "whole milk" didn't have the same ring to it with most of the guys around the gym, so it just became 2P.

-S.

[bugbomb]

There is a guy at my gym who just calls me "Rippetoe." It kind of pisses me off, so hopefully it won't stick. He knows Rip's program, but just does dumbell bench or chest press machine for 3-4 sets most days I see him there.

[nisora33]

There is a guy at my gym who just calls me "Rippetoe." It kind of pisses me off, so hopefully it won't stick. He knows Rip's program, but just does dumbell bench or chest press machine for 3-4 sets most days I see him there.

Slo-motion Matrix kick him in the nuts next time he does that. This should shut him the fuck up.

[Bleve]

The guys I coach sometimes call me Shrek. I like to think it's because I'm strong(ger than them anyway ...), but it's probably for the big guts ....

[Rorschach]

Not the green skin and swamp-like stench?

[Bleve]

Not the green skin and swamp-like stench?
Could be that too, and the funnels for ears.

[Mr.City]

I think Rip has a nickname for you and your shades.

[Albert987]

I once got called squats. "hey squats! how's it going?"

[pu239]

My friend called me Beavis. Of course, that made him Butthead.

[Sami]

Samboghini.

[IlPrincipeBrutto]

I don't talk much in the gym. My interaction with others rarely goes beyond a polite nod towards the other regulars as I come into the weight room, or maybe asking if they need to share the rack/bench when I'm using it. I doubt anyone even knows my name. I doubt anyone talks about me either. To be honest, if they did I would advise them to get a life.

IPB

[Sami]

I made up Samboghini, nobody calls me that.

[Paul Sousa]

A trainer at my gym who I've actually known for a long time, called my wife and I the Functional Couple during our Crossfit days. Since I spit the kool-aid out the name has stopped.

[Bergie]

It's Daddy at the home gym.

[Dastardly]

Since I spit the kool-aid out the name has stopped.


Whats this crossfit=kool aid thing?

[misspelledgeoff]

They call me "Tripod"...wait...that was in my dreams. Sorry.

[Paul Sousa]

Whats this crossfit=kool aid thing?

Many people consider CF to be a cult of sorts. Check the IGX Couch Thread for a solid historical look at it.

[78704]

Many people consider CF to be a cult of sorts. Check the IGX Couch Thread for a solid historical look at it.

Milk is better than Kool-Aid, yo. ;-)

[JCavin]

I'm with Brutto.

I don't talk to anyone at my gym...

But, I also don't go there to socialize like half the middle-aged women who won't get their stupid asses off the machines because they are too busy talking. GAH!

[spangler]

I once got called squats. "hey squats! how's it going?"

I get that one, a couple trainers call me "squatmaster" Not because I'm a master of the squat, just because I'm probably the only one that does them at the gym I'm currently at.

[Marotta]

Wouldn't know, my headphones are in to avoid hearing Party In The USA. If anything it's probably Psycho.

[Sami]

Wouldn't know, my headphones are in to avoid hearing Party In The USA. If anything it's probably Psycho.

Just be lucky you don't have to hear Lady Gaga. I've tried lifting with headphones; I can never get the hang of it. I need to hear myself. But to be honest, I can't hear anything when I lift anyway; it's just getting ready to lift is always harder with Lady Gaga.

[Dastardly]

Just be lucky you don't have to hear Lady Gaga. I've tried lifting with headphones; I can never get the hang of it. I need to hear myself. But to be honest, I can't hear anything when I lift anyway; it's just getting ready to lift is always harder with Lady Gaga.

Every single one of my form check videos has lady gaga playing in the background.

I totally share your feelings, I dont really want to put music in my ears as during the slight waves between each rep, the hearing slightly comes back. Music in earphones is extremely distracting in this respect.

But it would be nice to have some good music playing out of loudspeakers in the gym.

Would make it feel more appropriate to grunt & shout too.

[George Noble]

I'm pretty sure my full nickname is something like "Natural Noble the Vest Wearing Half Plate King"

And Lady Gaga is brilliant.

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[IlPrincipeBrutto]

But it would be nice to have some good music playing out of loudspeakers in the gym.

Just as an experiment, I would like to have symphonic music piped in the gym. What disturbs me during the lifts is not the pop music onthe radio, but the DJs talking. For some reasons, I can blank out music or songs, but as soon as someone starts talking, my brain just has to listen, and that makes it harder to focus on the lifts.
There are no sung or spoken words in symphonies, just wave upon wave of melody. Thinking about it, it applies also to trance, which I think would also be a good choice.

IPB

[hbriem]

For some reasons, I can blank out music or songs, but as soon as someone starts talking, my brain just has to listen, and that makes it harder to focus on the lifts.
I mostly listen to surf music at work for that very reason (real surf music is instrumental).

The music at my current gym is set low enough to be non-intrusive, thankfully. The metal blasting at one of my old gyms was really annoying.

[WildPegasus]

Just be lucky you don't have to hear Lady Gaga. I've tried lifting with headphones; I can never get the hang of it. I need to hear myself. But to be honest, I can't hear anything when I lift anyway; it's just getting ready to lift is always harder with Lady Gaga.

Just be glad it's not country. Nothing's worse than a slow country song in the gym!

[Paul Sousa]

Just be glad it's not country. Nothing's worse than a slow country song in the gym!

I beg to differ. Worst music related experience I had in the gym was getting set for a deadlift PR when Piano Man started playing just as I was about to pull. There was a decent 90's rock song playing beforehand and I wasn't really paying attention to it, but then Piano Man started and I lost all focus. That's the beauty of satellite radio, you never know what kind of song could come on next.

[matclone]

The music at my current gym is set low enough to be non-intrusive, thankfully. The metal blasting at one of my old gyms was really annoying.

That's what I had to deal with last night--and it was all eminating from the other room. The singer growls doing his best monter impression and the guitar players sound like they're on speed (and they probably are). I'm thinking to myself: this has to be the worst music
ever.

[Tim Lofton]

I mostly listen to surf music at work for that very reason (real surf music is instrumental).



Yep, really hard to find downbeat surf guitar, and no lyrics. Just good groove. That said, I'm not averse to some good Judas Priest or Iron Maiden either.

tim

[bugbomb]

I would squat to Lady GaGa all day before I'd listen to frat-rock bands like Disturbed, Drowning Pool, Seether, etc.

[homerj742]

Yep, really hard to find downbeat surf guitar, and no lyrics. Just good groove. That said, I'm not averse to some good Judas Priest or Iron Maiden either.

tim

Right on. :cool:

[gman]

I made up Samboghini, nobody calls me that.

Sami,
That's one of the funniest things I've read in a while

[quadancer]

They call me Gary. They better.

[gman]

I train at home and call myself whatever I want.

[TomV]

Tommy
or
Ranga (due to the fiery nature of my hair...)

[skinny99]

Almost everybody that knows me calls me Skinny. It is a ironic nickname like calling the 6'8" guy tiny. But I am on my way from millenium fat to 70's big through SS. Don't think I will get a new nickname though.