Got a mean look at the gym? Gym ettiquette?

DucklingPrincess
DucklingPrincess Posts: 36 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
So, I went to the gym at my local YMCA for the first time earlier (I had just been doing my exercise from home before, but I felt like shaking it up). I get on the little stair stepping thing... I don't know what it's called... I turn on my audiobook, and then I start. About 20 minutes into my workout, this one older dude finished his and then went to go talk to a friend of his. While he walked past, he just shot me a really mean look. Are there some gym etiquette rules that I was unknowingly breaking? Or is he either just not very nice or I am I making something out of nothing?
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  • KatieLK14
    KatieLK14 Posts: 90 Member
    I know some gyms have a "sign up" sheet for cardio machines...but I don't think that was his issue. I go to my local YMCA to workout and haven't experienced a sign up sheet there! He probably just has resting *kitten* face, don't worry about it!
  • midnight419
    midnight419 Posts: 77 Member
    I am I making something out of nothing? Yes.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Were you wearing headphones or playing the audio book out loud?
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    you are over thinking it ….
  • Charliegottheruns
    Charliegottheruns Posts: 286 Member
    Did you wear deodorant ?
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I think he was just a crankster
  • DucklingPrincess
    DucklingPrincess Posts: 36 Member
    I was wearing headphones, and yes, I wore deodorant. Maybe sound was bleeding out of the headphones or something?
  • adamgoleafs87
    adamgoleafs87 Posts: 129 Member
    Overthinking it. Could of been absolutely nothing at all.
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    I know some gyms have a time limit on the amount of time you can use a machine - it doesn't sound like you were on that long but is it possible that they have one and you just were not aware of it? If that isn't it then my guess is the guy is just a jerk. And my guess he is just a jerk.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Then who knows. He may be at home right now telling his wife about the pink haired girl who stared him down at the gym today. Or maybe he was squinting while trying to remember what he wanted to do next and happened to look your way while doing it. There's no way of knowing. I'd just forget about it.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    Overthinking. I know I've got a pretty mean resting b**** face but it's just the focus - one quick joke and I'm laughing
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    Iron_Miss_Canada wrote: »
    Overthinking. I know I've got a pretty mean resting b**** face but it's just the focus - one quick joke and I'm laughing

    yea, I am sure people have confused my "concentration look" with my "death stare" look….
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Probably constipation...
  • DucklingPrincess
    DucklingPrincess Posts: 36 Member
    sunburntgalaxy wrote: »
    I know some gyms have a time limit on the amount of time you can use a machine - it doesn't sound like you were on that long but is it possible that they have one and you just were not aware of it? If that isn't it then my guess is the guy is just a jerk. And my guess he is just a jerk.

    They are timed, but the time is shown on the machine... I had only been on for about twenty minutes, and they give you half an hour.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    Chieflrg wrote: »
    Probably constipation...

    this....and/or next time you see him you could just ask. It has been known to work on dismissing the unknown. . .

  • redoakcircus
    redoakcircus Posts: 32
    My guess would be that he had an opinion about the color of your hair. Don't worry about it. Just do your thing.
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    Ask him if you can help him with something
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    Maybe he had indigestion.
  • sparky00721
    sparky00721 Posts: 113 Member
    Was the guy who gave you the dirty look Inigo Montoya? And had you killed his father? If so, that would explain it, but otherwise I got nothing.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    is it only at the gym where people spend so much time trying to analyze the thoughts of random strangers or do people do the same thing at like, Subway too?
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    is it only at the gym where people spend so much time trying to analyze the thoughts of random strangers or do people do the same thing at like, Subway too?

    You mean the sandwich store or the public transit? I give people lots of nasty looks on the subway. I hope they know exactly what I'm thinking.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    Were you slinging sweat?
    Were you arguing with the book author (yes, I’ve done that, and cursed during)?
    Were on his elliptical (I named mine Martha)?
    Were you working harder than him?

    Since the answer to all of this is likely no (except for maybe the last one, and he wouldn’t care), your are probably overthinking this.

  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    So, let's say he did give you a dirty look.




    Does it matter?
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    is it only at the gym where people spend so much time trying to analyze the thoughts of random strangers or do people do the same thing at like, Subway too?

    You mean the sandwich store or the public transit? I give people lots of nasty looks on the subway. I hope they know exactly what I'm thinking.

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  • Larissa_NY
    Larissa_NY Posts: 495 Member
    Worrying about what other people think of you at the gym is God's way of telling you to put more weight on the bar.
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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    emily_stew wrote: »
    Are you sure you didn't fart as he walked by?
    I am I making something out of nothing?

    Almost certainly. It most likely wasn't directed towards you at all.

    Unless you actually did crop dust him.

    lol. Love that term.
  • kangaroo33
    kangaroo33 Posts: 76 Member
    Who cares? Probably nothing to do with you at all. Maybe he's miserable. Maybe he was in pain. Maybe...who cares. You're there for YOU...not the creeper! LOL
  • Grunkle_Stan
    Grunkle_Stan Posts: 5 Member
    Look, I had an itchy nose. My nose itched. It's not a crime people.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    A lot of times when I'm looking at someone in the gym, I'm not actually looking at them...there just happens to be a very finite amount of space and only so many places you can look...I'm usually thinking about this, that, or the other and not actually looking at any one particular individual.

    I apparently shot my buddy a dirty look tonight at the gym because he came up and asked if everything was ok and I was like, "yeah....why?" Him, "Giving me the evil eye bro."...Me, "oh...no...I've had a really tight hammie all day and it hurts like a *kitten*."

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