You can hear him from every corner at the gym. I tried to type out what a grunt sounds like, but nothing really does it justice and it just looks funny.
AAARRRRG! No, that's not it.
UUUUUUUHHHHHHHGGGGG! Closer, but still not quite there.
You know what I'm talking about. The loud, guttural, almost animal like sound usually followed by the clatter of many weights falling to the ground. This particular grunter however, was not lifting heavy weights. He was doing lunges. Just regular, old, lunge back and forth across the gym exercises holding some average sized weights. Again, this is more than I can manage as I am barely able to lunge deep enough for my back knee to touch the ground before I lose my balance and fall over. Sometimes one of my gluteus maximus muscles (that is the butt for you non science types) cramps and I stand awkwardly in the middle of the gym trying to massage it inconspicuously. I applauded the grunter for his balancing act but was the grunting really necessary? Turns out it was necessary for EVERY exercise he did that day, as the grunting did not cease when he finished his lunges. He better watch out, when I did a failed search for a "grunting" sound effect I came across this article about a weightlifter who was thrown out of a gym for grunting back in 2006.
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