Who makes funny faces when you lift?

[Maximus]

I just got back from the gym & I was LOL at myself when I caught a glimpse of my expression on the pec deck. It's my last chest exercise of 4 & I was definitely feeling it. I looked like some kind of clown! I had no idea my face could contort into such silly faces!

 

[Tamster]

Well, now that I have mirrors in my workout room I can't believe some of the expressions staring back at me! Now I know why I workout at home. Maybe I'll have to have botox before the roadtrip so my face is frozen!

Tammy

 

[Lunacat]

I make some pretty odd ones when I'm really straining! Kind like this: http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/cwm/face85.gif

Lunacat

 

[endorphin_junkie]

I don't know what kind of faces I make but when I teach at the gym and come up for a stretch after chest presses my face is sometimes shockingly red. I feel good but look like I'm about to blow a gasket! I joke about it with the members so they don't worry and go call 911.:+

Take Care
Laurie

 

[amyg]

I think maybe a better subject is, who DOESN'T make faces when you lift?

I sure do! And noises, but we won't talk about those...

 

[kathryn]

I try not to look! But I know that when I'm learning step moves, I sometimes will stick my tongue out (in that "gee, this is tough" look actors use in movies when trying to figure out something complicated). Could be dangerous, though!

 

[endorphin_junkie]

Kathryn, what is it about sticking the tongue out just a little?! It helps me thread needles better, keep my balance better in yoga and if I'm screwing in a tough screw and stick my tongue out a bit I can get that extra bit of hmmph behind it.

Sorry Maximus, I digress

Take Care
Laurie

 

[haydee]

I don't think I make too many faces but the sounds that can come from my mouth. You would swear I was a man or a monster.....AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGG. Then it's followed by sugar honey ice tea or fudge, finished with "Get the hell away from me", but that's usually for my dh b/c he provokes me at times when I w/o.


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Haydee

 

[allwildgirl]

I tend to grunt and groan and I'm not really sure if I make funny faces as I don't have a mirror. But I often yell at my SO if he's around. Last night during leg presses, I told him he'd better appreciate all the hard work I was doing to make my butt look good.

 

[fit_fairy]

Hee hee!! I am glad I don't have mirrors cause I know I make faces and sound effects. My DH laughs at me sometimes

catherine

 

[hippahips]

I do. I swear they're the same funny faces I made when I gave birth. Same sounds, too.

Pinky

 

[truton]

The faces I make as well as my grunting and groaning really bothers my dog. She must think I'm in pain (well in a way, yes!) and she comes over to 'console' me with a lick to the face or sits directly in my way. She's been very close to getting smacked in the head by a dumbbell a number of times. She has learned to keep away from me when I do step, though.

 

[clareMc]

I tend to look fierce because I am fiercely concentrating, a bit like Cathe's fighting face in KPC.

And my hubby makes faces and cracks jokes (especially any time Cathe mentions "it's all about the buttocks" or "squeeze those cheeks" etc,) and it's so difficult to continue those bicep curls with the 30 barbell when he does. Laughter weakens the muscles!

Clare

 

[smoogy]

>I tend to look fierce because I am fiercely concentrating, a
>bit like Cathe's fighting face in KPC.
>
>And my hubby makes faces and cracks jokes (especially any time
>Cathe mentions "it's all about the buttocks" or "squeeze those
>cheeks" etc,) and it's so difficult to continue those bicep
>curls with the 30 barbell when he does. Laughter weakens the
>muscles!
>
>Clare


Clare, that's hilarious, but you really need to teach him a lesson. Please do your best impression of the excorcist & then let us know afterwards. While I might find some amusement in the interim, I would be terribly annoyed with my DH for screwing up my workout for days. In fact, my displeasure would poison other areas of our private lives.}(

Marla

 

[kathryn]

>Kathryn, what is it about sticking the tongue out just a
>little?! It helps me thread needles better, keep my balance
>better in yoga and if I'm screwing in a tough screw and stick
>my tongue out a bit I can get that extra bit of hmmph behind
>it.
>
I know what you mean about threading needles! It also helps with putting on mascara and eyeliner at times.
I don't know. It sure looks strange, but I do it.
Must be some kind of neural connection thingy? (Yeah, that sounds scientific, that must be it!)

 

[Maximus]

You know, it's funny but I don't make a sound when I'm lifting. Maybe the occasional quiet grunt on the 10th rep. But it probably has something to do with working out in a gym w/lots of people around as opposed to at home when you can scream as loud as you want & the only folks you disturb are your family & pets. I know when I have some meat head benching next to me at the gym hooting & hollering I get seriously annoyed & distracted. At this gym where I worked out in VA there was this guy who sounded exactly like an elephant ON EVERY SINGLE REP. It made me crazy.

 

[scm]

>Kathryn, what is it about sticking the tongue out just a
>little?! It helps me thread needles better, keep my balance
>better in yoga and if I'm screwing in a tough screw and stick
>my tongue out a bit I can get that extra bit of hmmph behind
>it.

HA HA HA! I stick my tounge out a little bit too. I really do believe it helps.


Susan C.M.

 

[allwildgirl]

As a codicil to my previous post, I don't actually grunt and groan. It's more like high pitched 'OW OW OW' and a loud sigh of relief when I can finally put the blasted weights down after that last torturous rep.

 

[AKirkland]

>I think maybe a better subject is, who DOESN'T make faces
>when you lift?

Agreed. If you're lifting heavy, you're gonna make some kind of face... mine's usually a grimace. Noise-wise, I make some puffing, whooshing noises with breathing, but I usually don't make the grunts and groans the guys at my gym do.