roid rage or just a crazy dude?

[Bossidel]

I was at the gym today working out with a friend of mine who isn’t much of a weightlifter.
He is 6’6’’ and 240 and ripped. He’s well-known in our gym and he walks around punching walls and screaming at people and just have as an anger issue about him. The gym manager is a pussy and lets him get away with everything.
I’ve interacted with him before and joked around but haven’t really talked to him much
anyway my buddy grows some balls and decides to ask him what kind of steroids he uses and he just laughs at him and my buddy walks away awkwardly
we continue to work out then five minutes later he comes up to both of us and says what’s so funny? And we were like nothing and he says something like “don’t ever come up to me while I am in a set and joke with me” we grab our stuff and go to the other side of the gym
10 minutes later he shows up again and is visibly agitated and says that our joke wasn’t funny and that he would kill my buddy and dropping all these threats. We finally just leave and get in our car and leave.
Kinda worried about that, you think its roid rage or is he just a crazy dude?

 

[stevesmi]

probably a little of both

he sounds super insecure and unstable mentally

you guys did the right thing avoiding him.. confronting crazy people is never a smart idea.

 

[Npcclassicphysique champ]

I was at the gym today working out with a friend of mine who isn’t much of a weightlifter.
He is 6’6’’ and 240 and ripped. He’s well-known in our gym and he walks around punching walls and screaming at people and just have as an anger issue about him. The gym manager is a pussy and lets him get away with everything.
I’ve interacted with him before and joked around but haven’t really talked to him much
anyway my buddy grows some balls and decides to ask him what kind of steroids he uses and he just laughs at him and my buddy walks away awkwardly
we continue to work out then five minutes later he comes up to both of us and says what’s so funny? And we were like nothing and he says something like “don’t ever come up to me while I am in a set and joke with me” we grab our stuff and go to the other side of the gym
10 minutes later he shows up again and is visibly agitated and says that our joke wasn’t funny and that he would kill my buddy and dropping all these threats. We finally just leave and get in our car and leave.
Kinda worried about that, you think its roid rage or is he just a crazy dude?

there are some mental issues here and long term crazy in the head, lay off the dude

 

[Mobster]

I had this once. The fella in question is now somewhat of a pal. Nearly did a bit of business with him etc etc. He's as big as I am now and is like that all the time., HUGE frame. His late dad seriously looked like he had the skeleton of a Silverback Gorilla so deffo family genes. Anyway it's quiet in the gym and the owner isn't there. There's ALWAYS banter and I'm not taking him seriously and, half joking tells him to shut up. Now it kicks off. I'm an English p***K and he's gonna tear my head off. One of the regulars legs it outside and is telephoning the owner (fkin grass lol) about how there's gonna be a fight. I let it go for a minute or two (cooling down time) then approach him saying 'we ALWAYS banter, neither take it for real' and so on, He says to give him a few more minutes then he's fine. We chat. He mentions tren etc etc lol. Now I KNOW he can often be intimating (you wouldn't want a road rage issue if you saw him coming) but equally I've nothing to be afraid off apart from how long an old mofo like me takes to recover after punching you (hand hurts for ages ha ha). We NEVER have an issue since. I stayed calm. I let him cool off. We talked. Zero fight. Literally a week later we were discussing me buying a collectible knife from him and more. I was say hi and we're both respectful.

That said the whole punching walls thing WOULD get you banned in the local gym and we 100% would have thrown you out of my strongman gym in Gloucester. We had both 'bad boys' (wanna be villains) and door staff, security, prison officers and police all training together. I even had the previous occupier who had a ';lovely' reputation come in and I made him a cup of tea, listened to the stories and we was as cool as can be. Even he had had problems with naughtier people than him. Some get off on it. They LIKE how they are perceived and, as Stevesmi says, it's usually massive insecurites.

It takes a LOT for me to proper get a rage on. Even the burgler who copped it from me when I caught him here never got the full rage version. But when I do go full on I'd happily see you in a coffin. Five minutes later chilled to fuck as per

 

[ceo]

bros I once got in a fight with a guy who told me to keep it down because I was doing squats
offer to shake his hand off after but he walked away what a pussy

 

[ROIDDERS]

I don't like most people in the gym they have massive problems mentally

 

[chesty]

everybody is a tough guy that's the problem with the gym environment that gets projected

 

[Ulter]

threatening someone is definitely against the law you should have called the police

 

[StevenDarwinMD]

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[e2]

if he is threatening you over a joke then he is a moron

 

[2Thick]

I would find a new gym it sounds like your gym manager doesn't have the best interest of their members

 

[Vadim Fedorov]

wow a 6'6 240 pound asshole
what a waste of a physique

 

[MONSTRO]

where I live if you step to someone like that then prepare to go down
portugese people don't put up with that crap at all. we respect only when respected first

 

[JasonPriest]

you did the right thing walking away fighting is never the answer
look into the great Martin Luther King and his famous quotes on how violence never works

 

[BodyMonster34]

bro i would have grabbed him by his dick and ripped it off in front of everyone at gym
then stuck my finger into his eyeball
then picked him up and thrown him into the squat rack

 

[Quadsweep]

a lot of tough guys in this thread for sure. real men walk away

 

[Mobster]

I don't like most people in the gym they have massive problems mentally

What all of them? Where do you train? The local mental home?? lol

When I was younger I used to think about what others do inc in the gym. Now I either ignore their journey or help

 

[Mobster]

where I live if you step to someone like that then prepare to go down
portugese people don't put up with that crap at all. we respect only when respected first

Except you train at home for the most part (not always as per your instagram travels)

 

[Mobster]

a lot of tough guys in this thread for sure. real men walk away

So far just one and I'd take his suggestion with a pinch of salt. Plus he's been to jail, apparently, so it's not really worked out well.

 

[BodyMonster34]

What all of them? Where do you train? The local mental home?? lol

When I was younger I used to think about what others do inc in the gym. Now I either ignore their journey or help

bro i used to train in prison with some of the worst of the worst
rapists, murderers, and serial killers
if you looked at someone the wrong way then watch out

i watched a dude one time in the yard get a weight to his face and his eye ball ended up on the ground lol. all cause he didn't spot the dude right
we wiped that shit up and kept lifting after they took him away in the meat wagon