Pet peeves in the gym

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What are some of the things that people do in the gym that piss you off?

My gym is on a college campus and if you're taking the class you have to log your exercises, and so I'll see people carrying around a pen and a clipboard with them. That's fine. Well one day a lady had all of these dumbells scattered everywhere on a flat bench, her towel on an incline bench under a smith machine (Which I intended to use). I waited for a moment because I thought she was going to use it, but then she walked off and left her clipboard in the middle of the mess. There's kind of a wall between there and the other side of the gym. But I walked up to the smith machine and I was about ready to just throw her towel off and put my weights on there, but I looked behind the wall and there she was on the treadmill! So, I just decided to work my triceps while I waited, hehe, I'm too polite. Anyway, she came back, took her towel off and started to walk away, and I was like, "do you mind if I use this" and she was like "oh no I'm done". That just annoys me when people monopolize a crapload of different equipment at once. Also, it annoys me when people make a mess and leave it. There was also another time something like this happened. There's a huge machine where you can do pullups, lat pulldown, tricep pushdowns on both sides(or however you want to adjust it), and seated cable rows. Well this guy decided to put ab straps on the top and drag a flatbench all the way across the gym to stand on it. He blocked everything so you could only do lat pulldowns and cable rows for the 20 minutes he was there. Then after that, he left the bench there!

What kind of stuff annoys you guys?
 
Seems there's always a guy that puts about 300lbs. on the bench, puts one of his friends on each end of the bar. Then lifts it while his friends help him the entire way. Afterwards he gets up grunts and flexes like he's all tough...
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I really loved it when the owner went up to him and said, "300 divided by 3, congratulations son you just maxed 100!":D
 
This cRaZy guy on the bench press literally bounced the weight off his belly with a huge arch in his back puttin up around 400 lbs. I was with my black friend and all he kept saying was "fat fvck".
 
When you're doing super sets and you have you're towel on one machine and ur drink bottle on the other, you go away and work on one machine, come back and they've taken ur machine! Ive learned to politley ask "do you wanna work between me?"

Also, what also anoys me, is if they are working between me and they just ake for ages on it! So yeh...
 
14/15 year old lads who think they are the Incredible Hulk standing there flexing while always looking round to see if the girls are watching.

Likewise the women who go in in pullin clothes and just lounge around doing nothing except giggle in groups
 
Seeing people waste so much time by training incorrectly for their body types. Also seeing people workout year after year with little to no improvement, knowing that they obviously are not eating right.
 
People with strong scents (perfumes, deoderants etc) - so strong you almost gag when you smell them. Bad enough I have to breathe hard while on the elliptical but have to breathe that crap? no thanks. :)
 
Having to hunt down weights (dumbbells) because people are to inconsiderate to put them back...

Moaners, grunters, people who make loud noises in general when working out. This one guy literally sounds like he's doing another sort of workout (hint hint)
 
There is this dude that does cardio every morning. Well, we usually end up next to each other on the elliptical and the dude just stares at me.....

Then if thats not enough he usually lets a nice fart go and it smells like hell. This is the last thing i need to smell while doing cardio on an empty stomach.

I picture myself giving this guy a nice back hand the next time he does this.
 
People who dont put their equipment back even though there are BIG signs everywhere that say Pleae Rerack Weights.

Also people who after every exercise check their abs in the mirror. Ya those bicep curls you just did are gonna make your abs pop bro.
 
jpc1058 said:
People that don't wipe off their sweat on the equipment they just used. That's pretty gross.
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That's exactly what I was going to say....it IS gross and now I have to be extra anal and wipe off before AND after.....what is wrong with people???:mad:
 
jpc1058 said:
People that don't wipe off their sweat on the equipment they just used. That's pretty gross.
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this bothers me so much also! but our school gym doesnt even provide towels and spray to clean the equipment...its soo gross! i hate it!
 
tryin2bafitmoma said:
this bothers me so much also! but our school gym doesnt even provide towels and spray to clean the equipment...its soo gross! i hate it!
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That doesn't bother me too much really... Yea it's gross, but I just think of it in a different way "meh I'm going to shower later".

Each gym I've been to has SOOOO many people who don't do it... If the gym supplies the towels I'll do it. But I don't sweat much, thank god.
 
This isn't a gym pet peeve....but,

I hate to love how women and society as a whole hates the word fat, and anything to do with fat, regardless of the fact that they have no idea wtf they're even talking about. Same with calories. You guys see those commercials (you cant miss them, every OTHER commercial) that has like; "ONLY 100 calories!"

Wow! Go die in a fire.
 
Nobody

Hahahaha! I love when people express their anger through words. Even though it would be better to see it in action...
 
Three things-
1. People hoggin' the power rack with curls when I want to squat.
2. Sweat left all over the equipment
3. Personal trainers having their out of shape clients performing plyometrics and all those crazy movements on balance balls. Why in the hell are you having them squat with one leg on a bosu ball?
 
I have multiples too:

1. Dudes who put on WAY too much weight on the bar and then leave it there so I can't use it without asking one of them to please remove it for me.
2. Neighbors on cardio with BAD BO or bad breath.
3. Out of shape trainers. How are these guys hired?

LV I totally peed my pants laughing at yours. :D
 
Yea, I also hate it when people are so proud of their build whether it's good or not. Like this one day I was doing front raises and this guy gave me some helpful advice, he said to do them slowly to work the traps on the way down too. That was fine, I appreciated that. Then we started talking a little bit between sets and he said he did 1,000 pushups a day. 1,000 a day won't do much for you because your muscles don't have time to rest, of course. And then he was like yea I got this build in only 5 months so it doesn't take that long. Like he was definitely gloating and his build was almost the same as mine except a little more toned. Actually, I think my build is bigger now, hehe. But me personally, I try to not be all showy. When I'm pumped about completing a goal, I just think about how there's still room for improvement and keep working out.
 
I hate it when you see girls in the gym with full makeup, earrings, hair done up, and all that jazz. Guys too, who come in with their hair perfectly styled wearing sunglasses strutting around. Then all they do is get on machines next to each other and flirt. Go to a bar.

Likewise, I hate it when someone strikes up a conversation with me while I'm working out. I'm trying to concentrate! I try to be polite about it because I know some people enjoy a conversation, but sometimes they just don't get the hint.

Also, no one wants to hear you sing along to your iPod.
 
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