An Unexpected Encounter At The Gym

On Friday mornings Todd tried to get to the office extra early and exercise at the gym before work. By Friday afternoon most sales calls were a waste of time so he liked to start the day with some extra energy, and he figured burning some calories would help offset the extra eating a drinking he was prone to do on the weekend. The latter strategy wasn’t really working based on how snug his work pants had been feeling around the waist lately, but even more reason to keep working out, he reasoned as he settled into his routine.

About 20 minutes later, Todd was suffering through his third set on the bench press with 135 lbs. He got the first few reps okay, but he was trying to get to six and the fourth and fifth reps were a real struggle. When the bar hit his chest for the last rep, he couldn’t get it budge. He kicked up with his hips and arched his back straining with everything he had, but the bar felt like it was glued to his body.

This had happened before, so Todd wasn’t panicked. He knew how to roll the bar down his body and use his hips to tip it over and slide out. It looked ridiculous, but no one else was in the gym to see him crawling out from under the weights anyway.

Before he could do that, however, Todd was surprised when a large hand grabbed the bar off his chest and effortlessly hoisted the weight up and onto the rack. Todd had no idea anyone was there, so he hadn’t even been pushing to help the bar back up.

“You okay bro?”

Towering over the bench and above Todd’s head stood Hunter Puissant.

Just from seeing him around the office, Todd could tell Hunter was big guy. He’d guessed that Hunter must be around 6’4”, but he had never seen him out of work clothes before and had no idea how jacked he was. Seeing him in a tank top, it looked like he could be a body-double for a Thor movie. His shoulders, chest and arms were huge, and veins popped out of every muscle. He had black hair that he wore with a tight fade on the sides and slicked back and longer on top.

“I’m okay... thanks.” Todd said, sitting up after a moment to reorient himself.

“You need to be careful benching alone, dude.” Hunter exhorted with only a hint of condescension. “I’ve seen guys get really hurt like that.”

“Yeah.” Todd tried to brush it off. “It was my last set and the weight kind of snuck up on me, I guess. Thanks again, I didn’t even notice you come in.”

“No worries, man. I’m glad I was here.” He clapped Todd on the back hard enough that Todd felt it sting and had to suppress a wince. “I work out at Planet Fitness, but they’re closed for renovations today. I’m meeting a hot chick tonight, so I had to come in here to get a quick pump.”

This was already the longest conversation between Todd and Hunter in the three months since the latter had started at RevTec. Todd usually kept to himself outside of a small group of office friends, mostly from other departments. Despite being there for so long, Todd had never clicked with the other Account Managers. Collectively they were an extremely outgoing and hard-partying group, typical for a sales team, and Todd never felt like he fit in. Hunter, on the other hand, had won them over immediately and already had an outsized presence around the office.

So, despite not interacting with him directly, Todd had observed dozens of sessions with Hunter’s office coterie, hanging out around his desk or in the break room. Based on those observations, he knew that every exchange seemed to eventually get to a discussion of some girl he was banging.

He’d never heard anyone speak so boastfully, and often graphically, about their sexual exploits. It’s how he imagined the frat boys in college must have talked when it was just them around. More than once, he'd seen Hunter with a few other account managers huddled around him, and Todd was sure by how they acted that they were watching videos of Hunter’s sexual exploits.

It struck Todd as overtly misogynist, and it was clear to him that Hunter had little to no respect for women. Todd had no idea how he got away with it, aside from the fact that Mr. Thornton seemed to love it, and the girls in the office often gravitated around his desk despite his colorful storytelling. That included the head of HR, so Todd assumed that, somehow, no one had complained. Still, he was pretty sure he’d be walked out of the office immediately if he ever said anything remotely like Hunter.

The fact that it made Todd deeply uncomfortable was partially why he tended to stay away from Hunter in the first place. Todd considered himself a strong ally, and Kait had always been very active in feminist causes. They had marched together for abortion rights, equal pay, and other progressive issues, which had brought them closer together over the years.

Still, Hunter had just helped him out and was being decent now, so Todd pushed all that aside and tried to be friendly while they worked out.

“I think I’m done on the bench,” Todd said with a slight ironic laugh “so if you want to jump in, I can return the favor and spot you.”

Hunter chuckled back, “Ha, thanks bro, but this place doesn’t really have enough weight to make me work that hard. That’s why I never train here.” He then proceeded to load 35-, 25-, and 10-pound plates to each side of the barbell Todd had been working with, which were all the weights the office gym had available.

Todd did the math quickly in his head and realized Hunter had 275 lbs. on the bar, more than double what he’d been working with, and apparently that wasn’t enough to make him work hard. Todd grabbed a set of dumbbells and started on his next exercise while Hunter banged out 15 reps without the bar even slowing down.

For the next 30 minutes the two worked out around each other and made casual conversation between sets. Todd mentioned that Hunter looked like a professional athlete and learned that he’d had a scholarship to play linebacker out of high school but tore up his knee and ended up switching to rugby. Todd had seen his resume before he’d been hired and knew that he graduated from Wisconsin. Hunter, semi-jokingly, added that his real major was getting wasted and fucking coeds anyway, which made Todd quickly jump into his next set to head off that line of talk.

Shortly after that, Todd started to head into the locker room. He was hoping Hunter would keep working out so he could shower quickly and get up to the office alone, but Hunter was also wrapping up and headed back in with him.

Todd gauged his level of sweatiness and decided he could probably get away with just slapping on second layer of deodorant, as he didn’t feel comfortable stripping down and showing around another guy. It reminded him of the same situation back in high school, where he’d managed to dodge showers after gym successfully for 4 years.

Hunter had no such reservations, so he started to strip down as soon as they made it to the lockers.

“I’m going to grab a shower,” he said as he peeled off his tank top to reveal his ridiculously toned abs and hulking chest. “I’m meeting this schoolteacher chick right after work and she’s a really hot piece of ass.”

Todd was instantly annoyed when he mentioned meeting a teacher, as it associated with Kait. It made him want to say something about how Hunter needed to be more respectful of women, but when he looked back around, he immediately lost his train of thought. Hunter had pulled down his shorts and was now standing totally naked, with a massive uncut cock hanging between his muscular legs.

He only glanced quickly and tried to quickly shift his eyes as if he hadn’t noticed anything, but Todd got an impression that even completely flaccid, it was longer and thicker than his own dick got when completely hard.

“Yeah, um, I’m just going to head up. I think.” Todd sputtered, trying hard to act like he hadn’t just looked at Hunter’s cock, and trying even harder not to look at it again.

“Okay, bro.” Hunter laughed. “Watch out for those heavy weights next time.” He said, a little more mockingly than he had earlier, and then flipped a towel over his shoulder and turned bare-assed into the showers.