What's YOUR biggest pet peeve while working out at the gym?
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Dudes who see a barbell loaded with plates, see me (a girl) near that barbell, but goes over and begins to remove the plates without giving any thought to the fact that they are in use...by me. Then act all surprised when I tell them that "hey, I'm lifting here". That *kitten* pisses me off.4
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when people see that your in the zone with headphones on an they come start talking to you. like yes, I will stop what I'm doing to take off the head phones to say I'm sorry what.
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Loads of kids in the gym who are there just to piss about.. especially when in groups. Also hate it when people don't put dumbbells back on the rack in the correct order I always end up reorganizing it because I go to pick one up and they all fall off2
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I love this thread - makes me glad I have a gym at home & don't have to deal with those fools - Eastcoast Jim0
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#1. The fact that my gym serves pizza on the first Monday of every month. The gym should be the one place where you aren’t faced with food temptations. Pizza and sweaty strangers don’t mix. Planet Crazy for sure.
2. Guys that give unsolicited advice on how I can improve my lifting form.
3. People who use the machines out of order in the circuit training room...they are numbered for a reason.
4. Of course people who don't clean the equipment after use but I have also seen people who use their sweaty towel that they used during their workout to wipe their machine down. So gross!!!
5. The fact that the food network is on every other monitor. It literally makes me sick watching food being cooked while I’m working out.
6. On a lighter note I have noticed several guys who come in to workout wearing jeans and a button down shirt which always makes me smile.1 -
Probably the fact that when I drink a milkshake on the treadmill, boys just start flocking around me. Totes annoying.4
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chuckleberry72 wrote: »The young kids who think they are all that and a bag of chips.
Sadly, at my gym it doesn't stop with the kids. So annoying!0 -
I donate magazines I'm done with to the communal rack. I *hate* when people walk up to the rack right after I put a new magazine on it, and walk out of the gym with it.0
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Having to actually get there and back, I literally live round the corner but the effort of going and getting ready is a struggle. If I could click my fingers and be in a machine dressed in gym gear then click them again and be at home then I would go a lot more!! Haha2
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Loads of kids in the gym who are there just to piss about.. especially when in groups. Also hate it when people don't put dumbbells back on the rack in the correct order I always end up reorganizing it because I go to pick one up and they all fall off
This ! Yes they’re not even the same shape! Now I have to take this 100 that was where the 80s go but there’s a 30 there and when I get to the thirties there a 150 there. It’s a god damn nightmare.0 -
My biggest pet peeve when at the gym is when i exerciser1
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When someone wearing strong perfume or worse - a recent smoker (that crap reeks - whether you know it or not you carry it with you everywhere you go) gets next to me on a treadmill. It causes my asthma to flare up, I have a coughing fit, and then I have to move. I can run and run forever on fresh air, but stick an asthma trigger next to me and it's all over.
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CatchMom13 wrote: »Roadie2000 wrote: »People who do supersets when the gym is busy and don't know what supersets are, they just hog 2 pieces of equipment. And people who don't de-rack their weights.
I swear most of the time there will be weights on a bar with nobody around, I don't know how to tell if someone just forgot to take the weights off or if they are doing some superset on the other side of the gym or went and got a drink of water or something. At least put a towel there or something.
I usually give it a couple minutes before I move in but I'm not exactly sure what the etiquette is. But if the gym is busy I have a low amount of patience for people.
I'll bite... what's a superset?
Reminds me of that dude the other night at my gym. I guess he thought the leg press was a cardio machine. I casually timed him while I was running on the treadmill. He spent 53 minutes playing with his phone and doing dozens of sets of bazillions of reps on that one machine.0 -
Cell phone users. Leave them in the car. The gym is for working out1
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People who don't wipe down the equipment with sanitizer, people who try to talk to me? People who hover around leaning up against a machine while their buddy works out on a different one.. and guys who very very very loudly grunt like they're seriously constipated or in labor while they do "heavy" things.0
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shenanigans_ wrote: »Probably the fact that when I drink a milkshake on the treadmill, boys just start flocking around me. Totes annoying.
Why is the treadmill in the yard?2 -
A superset is what you do when you rapidly move between two machines without rest.
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kerrylkatriviera wrote: »I donate magazines I'm done with to the communal rack. I *hate* when people walk up to the rack right after I put a new magazine on it, and walk out of the gym with it.
That your GM has a magazine rack seems just weird to me0 -
Recently I've seen this quite a bit more maybe cause its the new year and everyone wants to act like they "go to the gym". It annoys me when people are just wasting time on a machine or area to just look at their phone and text...I can already tell you are just half assing your workout so why waste your time and mine. Its really just being inconsiderate of everyone around you who is being serious about their health.1
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People who put down a mat right in front of/slightly inside the squat rack or smith machine, in front of the mirror, to do body weight work or stretching...2
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When I’m waiting to work out on a machine, and they’re just sitting there texting. 12 out of the 15 minutes they use the equipment, they’re texting.1
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JaydedMiss wrote: »NatalieHarr1993 wrote: »The "Mr know it all" that try to give you "Tips" who are 1: Using bad form themselves & 2: Training 1 same body part EVERY DAY!!!!!
LOL on that noteish its not really a gym peev i guess but sort of...guys who hear im into fitness and without even knowing what/how i eat tell me i need more protein...like excuse me you *kitten* does it seem like i dunno how to feed my body? am i dumb because im a girl or something in their mind? who gives advice with no info lol
Yeah maybe it's just people in general
. I think the men in my gym feel its their place to say something as 90% of the time I'm the only girl in the lifting area surrounded by *Buff* men 0 -
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