Grunting at the Gym

Okay, so I have to admit, going to a gym has provided a lot of fodder for blogging.  Today, I experienced something I have never experienced before, an uber-grunter.  The uber-grunter, my friends, is a rare thing to find in the wild.  What is an uber-grunter?  Well, perhaps we should start with a grunter.  A grunter is defined as one, who while lifting weights of high proportions, wails, verbally strains, or otherwise engages in an a deep, guttural sound, or grunt.  There are lots of grunters at the gym, though then tend to be men.  Why?  Men have to prove something at the gym, and they do this by lifting weights that are too heavy for them to lift.  

An uber-grunter is a grunter who grunts when he or she is not actually lifting anything.  Today, this guy at the gym was moaning and groaning the entire time I was there.  At first I thought he was just a bad singer and was trying to sing along to the loud music at the gym (no, the music did not drown his grunting out).  He wasn't though.  Eventually, it got so bad that people could not lift their own weights because they were weakened by their own laughter as the man would periodically let out a prolonged grunt.  In the man's defense, he had earphones on, and he could have been listening to his music so loudly that he could not hear himself grunt.  I doubt it though.  I mean, seriously, if you were grunting, I think you would know it.  After a while, a gym employee came over to make sure he was okay, and he looked up at her with surprise, as if to say with his face, "Why on earth would I not be okay?"  She backed off, and he went back to grunting.

All I can say is it was yet another interesting experience at the gym:  The Uber-Grunter, a very rare thing to find in the wild.