People/Things at the gym that piss you off?..

happywithme12

People who concentrate more on how they look doing something instead of actually doing it with proper form.

This, and guys who stare at you when you are trying to be serous and get a great workout in, I mean its ok to look but seriously staring at someone makes it hard to concentrate on what your doing. Also one time there was a girl at the gym that rolled her eyes when she saw how much weight was on the machine me and my friend were using, i don't care if you can do more i am not at the gym to impress anyone.

MNA76

People constantly clanging the weight machines. I mean really loudly. There are two major culprits at my gym who do this continuously. I'd like to clang them into the weight machines.

Samenamenewlook

People who don't wipe their sweat off of machines. Especially the butt sweat prints on benches. Also people who come to the gym just to people watch and talk. They can hold down the treadmill for an hour if you let them!

happywithme12

Wool hats in the summer. Half reps. Perma-flexers, grunters ( I don't mean regular grunts, I mean over the top grunts) ten dollar tough guys and the *kitten* that leave their weights all over the floor. I'm sure there is more.

Hey I cant help but make those noises when I am trying to push it out and my body is saying PLEASE STOP, LOL this actually happens a lot at the gym i go to. There are some guys that curse at themselves in the mirror to "motivate" themselves

Just_Scott

Agree with MNA had a clanger yesterday--four people in the gym and this JA is clanging like a dip wipe...

ren_ascent

im actually going to do opposite cat here.

My gym, when I go in the locker room to take off my pants..Shorts underneath, there are always super in shape people getting changed. I have found most of them to be polite, supportive, and very helpful. Even though when I see them working out, and looking in the mirror, being tough guys, I realize they are just trying to improve too. Just because I have more work that needs to be done, they too are trying to make themselves better. So I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Except the gallon water guys. Heh

Sometimes people who are positive give me my happy fix for the day :happy:

holly1283

Not the gym per se because I swim. Mine is people who take a lane and then stand there and talk.

ren_ascent

I hate the dipsticks who complain about other people staring at what people do in the gym. If I want to meticulously observe someone's every movement at the gym and then post about it on forums, then I'm gonna do it and you better learn to deal with that. I pay $39.99 at the end of month for this membership, you little nitwit. Like I'm supposed to look up at the ceiling. Like there's not any mirrors on every damn wall in this joint. Like that chick ain't wearing the brightest booty-accentuating pants in the Lululemon line. Like that fat guy is not doing every cable machine exercise wrong. I'm gonna stare, stare, stare, and continue to post my observations on the internet. You stare and you judge too, you little sanctimonius dweeby apologist.

:drinker:

ROFLMAO!

ACepero79

It pisses me off when Joe Gorga is at the gym, minding his own business .... and in walks Teresa being a *****, having to start **** ... any of RHONJ fans here? Huh? Huh?

You don't mess with a man's routine...let alone talk garbage about this wife.....

kevinpruitt

People who do their dumb bells work reps right on top of the dumb bell rack blocking all who wish to replace or grab weights.

keenercam

I haven't posted on these threads before, but lately two things have been happening that bother me, and both are while I am working out with my personal trainer in the early a.m. (6-6:45), when you'd think that people who are serious about their own workouts would be focused on themselves and not others. Kyle and I work out primarily in the weight lifting section (pulley machines, benches or free weights) or at the edge of it, where he can set up TRX or suspended rings for my workout.

1. There is this guy who always stops to watch what I am doing. I've told my personal trainer that the guy makes me very self-conscious and my PT thinks the guy is impressed and interested in the workouts I'm doing, but that doesn't make me feel better. Now my personal trainer blocks the guy's line of sight to where I am and when the guy moves to be able to see, Kyle moves again to block him. You'd think he'd get the message!

2. People who walk up to my PT and try to talk to him while he is working with me. That is so rude! Fortunately, his standard response is "Hey, man, I'll catch you later, okay?"

elizabethzdrodowski

I agree! People on the treadmill either chatting with their friend or on the phone. If I can hear you OVER my iPhone/earbuds, you are too freaking loud. I always give them "the teacher stare" until they go away or shut up.

moonshine_betty

People who fart REPEATEDLY in the weight/cardio room. I can understand having an errant toot (we're all human) but when the entire room smells like old cheesy eggs/gym socks/a sewer because you keep bombing the place, it's time for you to leave. This one dude would always fart on the treadmill and keep it up for the duration of his 30 minute treadmill workout....rude! And I knew it was him too because we were frequently the only two people in the room and I know I wasn't responsible for the stench. :sick:

Tenster

- People who throw the weights down after a set.
- Slow music which makes me want to lie down or go to sleep
- People who lift heavy with bad form
- When people bicep curl on the squat rack
- When i see overweight people toddle along on a cross skier

Loads more....

JeremiahStone

the "wolfpack" of buff guys who come to the gym to do a couple reps then hunt down some girls..

fannyfrost

Taking a class, girl comes in late or later than you and has to move into your spot. So they slowly move closer and closer till you either smack them or have to move somewhere else. Or those who just refuse to give you the space to workout, arms length as best as possible people. if there is room next to you, move over.

Leaving your stuff on the machine in between sets even though you are stretching, let others do a set in between.

Lifting in front of the rack so you can't get your weights.

Missing weights because someone took them to a different room and didn't bring them back.

This didn't happen to me, but my daughter's girlfriend. Kid is 19yo and starting a lifting routine, she tiny and thin and not strong yet. So she was struggling to lift the lightest weight on the machine and these two big guys stared and her and then one said something to the other and they laughed. I mean she is a kid, she is going to feel self conscious, be aware and don't be mean.

People come to do a workout, but don't put any effort into it. You see it in classes a lot, they just kind of move and don't even look they are trying. Its in the attitude and movement.

eric_sg61

Circuit trainers and equipment hogs.

RGv2

Probably pretty general, but I see it the most at the gym.

People who can't park their cars between the little lines they paint on the ground for you to park them in....

I'm not sure if it's the "me now" generation who just don't care about anything but themselves, or if they literally can't get the car into the cubicle with imaginary sides.

I think it's a mix....

Viva_Karina

doing 5 reps and counting that as a set and taking 3 times as long to recover and go '*smile* oh sorry there did you want this??

The gym is probably the only time where I turn into a biiiiiiotch

DYEL?

DYEL x2
so wait a second. ive got 405 on the bar doing deadlifts..I hit it 5 times with perfect form and 2-1-4 range and you turn into a biotch cuz im giving my atp and glyco levels some time to catch up to the 3 scoops of jacked and hemavol I took?

DYEL x3

DYEL x 4

DYEL x 5