Those People at the Gym

Haha...greatly narrated! Haha...i can just picture this scenario, and yes I have run into "those" who insist on leaving the treadmill running while they catch their breathe. Ha!
 
The "your momma must work here or something" type...

Gym's crowded as usual when I got there last night, and the past couple of weeks it's really sounded like a sick ward... and I'm no better - coughing and blowing my nose constantly... Having someone walk over to the equipment with a pile of tissues isnt unusual - and having them blow their nose isn't unusual...

However...

It's a little disgusting to get on a treadmill - after a person's used it - that hasn't been sprayed down and wiped down - only to find in the water holder thingie... a collection of used kleenex..

Back your ass up skippy and wipe downthe machine and toss out your boogered up tissues - your momma doesn't work here and well -

crap - I must be the momma because I did clean up after him... because i was so grossed out by it...
 
New couple of people thanks to sunday's Pull, and Today's Legs. I have had to change up my split, meaning that I am now forced to go at the one time that I HATE going... sunday afternoons...

Mr. "I love that I was gifted genetically, and have zero interest on how to lift properly" - This guy was big-ripped (not just ripped), in a tank top, and in love with himself. Like the other people I have described earlier in the thread, he definately kissed his bicep while flexing in the middle of the large mirror (the one in front of where all the dumbbells are). He was doing some sort of modified upright row with one arm, but he was swinging his entire body to move the weight.

Mr. "Squat Rack Hog" - Was actually two people working out together. They were doing squats with weights and bands on the bar (same thing as chaining it). After my warmup, I see that two guys are using the squat rack, so I just turn around and go do 10 more minutes on the bike. I come back, and they are STILL on it... They can't be much longer, right? There are no other squat racks at this gym, so I wait... they keep on churning out sets. I finally go up and ask them how many sets they got left... "we got 9 or 10 more to go each"............................. They'd squat 7-8 times, then go do a different leg exercise as a superset. The other one would stand by the squat rack guarding it till his buddy came back, then he'd go.
 
My least favorite gym people:

-The women who have obviously had breast implants and probably liposuction and wear white sports bras and bike shorts which become transparent with even the tiniest amount of sweat.

-People who try to bring their children.

-People who take forever on one machine hardly doing anything.

-People who come just to use the tanning beds.
 
I have a loonng list on this one, as I have my personal training at one gym (It's a small gym and everything is really chill) and do my cardio at the other (my mom pays for my membership to this gym and it has better machines)

at my gym I HATE the lady who lost a bunch of weight and feels the need to watch me work out and comment on how she wishes she could do that and or chat up my trainer while i'm trying to work!!!...

at the other gym

-The super ripped lady that does about 4 reps per machine and watches me while I do work

-The lady on the treadmill that HAS to match what I'm doing ><

-The old lady on the treadmill that loudly complains that my music is too loud..even tho she can just go to any of the other 7 open treadmills in this section or go to the co-ed section!!

-The girl that talks on the phone while on the treadmill..just bugs me!

-The lady who has to comment on my form when I'm working on the machine...ok..I hear you..stop watching me..

-THE NAKED LADIES IN THE STEAM ROOM!!! Seriously.....I don't want to sit beside your naked butt or know i'm sitting where your sweaty naked ass was laying on....this is NOT your steam room have some modesty!!!

-THE NAKED LADIES walking around the locker room or blow-drying their hair...it's GREAT that you are confident...I don't want to look at you neither does my 14 year old sister!! PLEASE PUT A TOWEL ON!!!!
 
h34vyK1tt13 said:
-THE NAKED LADIES IN THE STEAM ROOM!!! Seriously.....I don't want to sit beside your naked butt or know i'm sitting where your sweaty naked ass was laying on....this is NOT your steam room have some modesty!!!

-THE NAKED LADIES walking around the locker room or blow-drying their hair...it's GREAT that you are confident...I don't want to look at you neither does my 14 year old sister!! PLEASE PUT A TOWEL ON!!!!
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This happens in the mens room as well. Once you hit 60, it is apparently a badge of honor to show off your swinging knee-length coin purse.
 
James said:
This happens in the mens room as well. Once you hit 60, it is apparently a badge of honor to show off your swinging knee-length coin purse.
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OMG that is the NASTIEST image I think I have ever had!

haha - thanks, James, that is now burned into my poor old brain...

:)
 
maleficent said:
they allow children in your gym? Gack I'd hate that...
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In my gym (which is part gym part community center) they allow children 14 years and older on the fitness floor. I hate sharing the equipment with a bunch of pubescent teenagers who have no etiquette....no offense to anyone here who brings their perfectly behaved children to the gym with them :)
 
The I wear a tube top to the gym, just in case people didn't notice my implants chick.

The I wear make up and do two reps of each machine as not to mess up my make-up, while I walk back and forth shaking my ass chick.

The guy who does this sumo wrestler yell.." high.. hiya..high "... ridiculous.

This one gal who wears a jacket, yet has the fan on her full blast. Or basically anyone who has the fans on full blast facing all the machines. I hate fans when I am sweating. I use the one machine downstairs.

People who come in to workout together but there is one person just waiting for their friend to finish, never working out. Kind of like a tag along. It just bugs me for some reason, I think they could alternate machines, or visit after.

These reminded me of these.. Real men of genius.. Hilarious...



Mr. Tiny Bikini Thong Wearer.. lmao
 
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James said:
This happens in the mens room as well. Once you hit 60, it is apparently a badge of honor to show off your swinging knee-length coin purse.
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So true! So many of the women that walk around naked in the locker room are quite old. My favorite is this woman who takes a shower and then insists that she stand under the hand dryer in front of the vanity mirror to dry off. She is a rather larger, older woman so it is quite shocking when you are fixing your hair and she is standing a few feet away! Plus it takes her a long to dry off with no towel!

Another one that I have come across is people who work out in the locker room! At the gym that I used to go to, women would actually bring in mats and do crunches and stretches on the locker room floor in front of the lockers! Made it very hard to get ready!
 
When I'm working out, I'm usually either reading a book or listening to my mp3 player. I hate it when people try to talk to me while I'm doing that. Either my music is so loud that I can't hear them, or they distract me at a really good spot in my book.
 
Funny stuff..been reading for about 45 minutes ;-)


Mr. I work out in the sauna and sweet f-ing everywhere because I'm in wrestling and need to drop 7lbs in the next 3 hours kid. What the French? Toast!
 
the "multi-taskers"
there's one woman I see every weekend morning -she'll get on the treadmill and walk at maybe 2.5mph - with her she has a huuuuge stack of newspapers, junk mail, magazines and she'll walk - not even come close to breaking a sweat - while sorting thru this junk mail... tossing it either behind her or on the treadmill next to her.

Now mulitasking is good - sometimes - but for heaven's sake -- if you're that bored on the treadmill that youhave to bring a pile of reading - make your workout more interesting and maybe break a sweat so that you can spend less time on the treadmill..

Multi tasking is one thing - being efficient is another...

besides -it hurts my brain cells watchig other people read People magazine...
 
I had one guy this weekend who had to make noises constantly. He was doing some sort of random workout and felt the need to slam the bar back into the supports. He was throwing weights next to the bench he was using- literally throwing 10 & 25 lbs weights 10 ft to the bench, dropping dumbbells from chest height- all this just to get people to look at him.
I also have 4 guys who do not realize that we all pay the same amount. I go to a small Y in a small town and these guys feel the need to monopolize every bench everytime they are in there for the entire time they are in there.
There is this one woman who does a total body work out in so little time with so little weight I wonder why she bothers. She uses every machine in the place, has 1 plate on it and never does the exercise fully. Then she gets on the treadmill and walks 4.0 mph for 45 minutes everytime she is in there.
The guy dropping weights and making loud noises for the hell of making noise irritated the hello out of me for some reason.
 
You know what bugs me the most? That EVERY single gym in the U.S.A has wall-to-wall mirrors. Isn't the point of working out so you *no longer* have to look at your reflection out of disgust?

WHY ON EARTH would you want to stare at yourself while running on the treadmill? You *don't* want to look the way you do, it's why you go there and it's why any sane person wouldn't find the reflection of themselves attractive while they're sweating buckets and their shirts are conforming to the adipose tissues they are intending to burn away.

I don't know. This has always been a peeve of mine. It's why my treadmill faces nothing but a wall. LOL.
 
That EVERY single gym in the U.S.A has wall-to-wall mirrors.
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Not all do - the only place my gym has wall to wall mirrors i sin the yoga studio - which I won't set foot in... even the weight area has very sporadically placed mirrors...

the weight room should have more because people should be checking to make sure their form is correct...

but the cardio area - has no mirrors - I wish they would because if some people saw how ridculous they looked (ie chicken man - or the females who think big butts, thong undies and flimsy pants -not to mention non supportive bras- they'd rethink wardrobe choices :D
 
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