ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by Cold_Collation

Relish it. The staff at my old gym used to sit there hungover on a Sunday morning playing Coldplay.

...there's nothing like a bit of Coldplay to REALLY rev you up for a session. Not.

Nah, start wearing a vest with a woolly hat, get a just-like-everyone-else-but-different sleeve tattoo (something Celtic/Oriental, natch), start calling everyone 'Bruv', and have conversations about how many carbs you've eaten this week/which snake-oil supplement you've discovered on the Web.

In other words, fit in. You won't look any more ridiculous than the monkeys I've just described.

[For the record, I'm still keepin' it real: white road slappers, green socks, Stanley Matthews shorts and red v-neck... styler!]

Well I'm guilty of the tattoo's although I look more like Vory v Zakone than a premiership footballer.

The only decent bit of kit I wear is my running shoes. The rest I make sure is scruffy shorts and old t-shirts so I dont look like the preening twats that hang around on on the weights with their comb-over haircuts and Johnny Bravo bodies because they only work on their upper bodies and have legs like Foghorn Leghorn.

Why ? you wont live longer, you will just die healthier.

Originally Posted by Old Bastard

Everytime I visit the gym in the evenings or at weekends, loud and expletive gangster music is played and seemingly enjoyed by the young weightlifters. As civilians also use the gym, does this fail the Service Test?

I quite like gangster music.

To be honest any kind of entertainment (even looking at yummy mummies on the cross trainer) is a distraction from the training! I was also of the "less-is-more" approach when it came to kit & used to use old shemaghs as towels.

It there any other sort of Gansta music, other than annoying?
The nearest any of the tossers that like that shite have come to a Gansta,
is misreading Ginsters!!!

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

Always found the sountrack to The Matrix was just what I needed in the gym.

The soundtrack to Blade works well also mate!

Originally Posted by Tinman74

The soundtrack to Blade works well also mate!

Will check it out when I eventually start using a gym again...

If you can hear anything in the gym except the blood pounding in your ears and your muscles screaming at you from the inky depths of a sea of pain you’re blatantly a shirtlifting Mary.

In my opinion.