Gym Rat smacks down the use of No Homo

I wish I had a video capable smart phone.

I was at the gym, doing some bicep curls after my cardio, because I had been neglecting them lately, and these two douchebags, both below 5'4", not very muscular, but always act like they are Gods gift to weightlifting with their 10 pound bicep curls (I was doing 35's with dumbells, not that it is important to the story), and they were boasting loudly of how awesome they think they are, and one of them turned to the other and said "no homo, but your pecs are huge, I dont think I have ever seen a more perfect pair."

well, one of the guy at the gym, he is about 6'4", and about 260 pounds, set down the 50 pound dumbells he was doing his curls with, turned to them and said, "couldnt help but overhear you, since your practically shouting, but why do you need to say 'no homo'? it's a gum; people come to work out, improve their bodies, and you would think you wouldnt need to say that, cause if your confident in your masculinity, you can give or take a compliment without thinking there is anything sexual about it."

to which the guy who had said it said "would rather people not think I am a weak ass, scrawny little shit, since thats what gay guys are."

I roll my eyes, the tall guy smirks, nods towards me, then strikes a pose, and basically says "my boyfriends the one on the leg press machine using, from the looks of it, twice your body weight. neither of us is hardly scrawny little shits."

 

the guys who were bragging and being rude shut up, and left quickly.

it turned out that the two bigger guys had gotten engaged a few weeks earlier after dating for a few years, and they are waiting for oregon to legalize gay marriage.

 

I always defined a Gym Rat as someone who stays in the gym for multiple hours each day, kind of like how it can be hard to get rid of a rat when it is sheltering in your walls.

I only graduated up from doing 20 pound muscle curls because I dropped my reps, and focused on gaining strength for a while. once I got myself up to around 30 pounds, I raised my reps again, and started packing on muscle.