Musculation OCD

Yesterday I went to the gym to work out and I encountered the strangest man I have ever met. The gym we lift at is not a LA Fitness, but it's got all the necessities. Anyways needless to say the gym is a little disorganized there are your typical weights out of place and a couple of bars with weights still on them. I was doing some front squats, which I had to do a make shift workout spot because some guy thought it was a great idea to use the squat rack as a coat hanger. That's another story...

So I've pulled a bar from one of the bench racks and loaded it up and set it out in the middle of the gym. I am in the middle of hang cleaning the bar in order to be able to hold the bar on my shoulders and front squat. Then all of a sudden here comes mister OCD. I mean this isn't a minute case of obsesive compulsive disorder, this is like some worse then MTV "I Have OCD" type of stuff. Here's just a little video about OCD... but anyways...

A diagram to help understand what we are working with here...

So I am in the middle of cleaning the weight and this behemoth of a man comes up behind me. He's dressed in a cut off sweatshirt that's 2 sizes too big and his sleeves are gone, on top of that he has a denim looking vest type thing, perfect for working out. I know I'd rather have a denim vest then under armour ANY day... He basically looks like a big French Russian who just got through watching Rocky beat up some frozen meat. So this guy pushes his way behind me with a bar from the side to the rack where I just took the bar I am currently using. OK. No biggie beside he almost hit me in the middle of lifting some heavy weight and having me fall back on my butt. I figured he just really wanted to use that specific bench... I was wrong

He then preceds to move back and forth from the rack behind me to the rack in the front left of me in order to put 2 25 lb or 10 kilo plates on the bar he just set up. So he's gonna bench what he just set up right? Wrong. After he does this then he goes around the room picking up other random curl bars that still had weights on them and slams them upright right in front of me and cleans the bar. Then walks the bar behind me and puts it up. At this point I'm thinking maybe he's just the janitor or what not, eventhough I've never seen him before.

So the whole time I'm trying to do set's of squats this guy keeps unracking the weight literally 2 feet in front of me and then walking right behind me to line up the bars. Ok so after he's racked the curl bars he then picks up all the free weights and alligns them in the correct spot. He then decides to ask some of the other French guys what bars/machines they are using so he can fix them too. He ask's them because most of those guys take 30 mins to stare at their bodies and the other half a minute to lift, so it's hard to tell what someones actually using in the gym. Sidenote... So he cleans the incline bars the other bench and picks up any plates that have been laying out. He also aligns the clips that hold the weight in place in perfect order. All while being able to distract me from lifting and actually being right in the way.

Hahaha....actually one time he almost fell when I moved from front squats to straight leg deadlift. I was bending down to pick up the weight and as I moved it upwards, I guess he didn't realize how close he was to me and I almost knicked him. This of corse startled him because he was in the zone, the clean up the weight room zone. He almost busted it and had to catch him self on the bench. I felt bad for a second and then was like, well why is he doing this. It was bad because even all the French lifters were getting annoyed

When this guys finished, it's pristine. It is a beautiful looking weight room. He's only spent 30 mins and not a weight is out of place. Only then does he actually begin lifting with his partner. I wanted to laugh. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen in the weight room...we'll besides Ryan Lara almost getting crushed from a missed powerclean but being flexible enough to limbo all the way to the ground with the bar crushing down on him...