Things you hate at the gym!!!
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I have 1 public gripe - LAY OFF THE PERFUME/COLOGNE. When I'm running, I don't want a big inhale of Eau de Street Hooker.
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The women who no matter how long theyve been going to zumba,do zumba so intensely, crowd my gym,,,,and still look the same or worse as they did ayear ago doing fkng zumba. Grab some weights!!!!
Oh and Gooshebags who do half reps cuz they are egolifting.
Cuban. LMAO! Exacty. I know a bunch of women personally who swear by Zumba but they haven't shred an ounce of fat in the 3 years they've been doing it.0 -
When a guy sits on the end of the bench listening to music and playing fake drums while staring in the mirror at himself............while other people are waiting to use the same equipment.0
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I love these topics
Let's see...
1. Curling in the squat rack
2. Unracking my weights while I am there
3. Talking on the cellphone while sitting on the bench
4. Circuit trainers who take 5 sets of dumbbells and leaves them on the ground while they go run around the gym
5. People who don't wipe their equipment after use
6. Not re racking the weights0 -
when guys purposely run RIGHT behind me with thier guy friends and talk about my *kitten* for 5 laps -_-
FWIW, I love it when girls pick the one treadmill out of 50 empty ones that just happens to be in front of the one I'm using...
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B.O.-I don't just mean a slight odor because you are working out and sweating, I mean the kind that makes you smell like you haven't bathed in about a week. No way is that smell just because you are working out. You are clearly not bathing on a regular basis.
Cologne/Perfume-Why are you bothering with this nonsense? Again you are not bathing on a regular basis so you decided to make me even more nauseous with the como of old spice and your b.o.? If you are going to cover up the fact that you reek at least invenst in some decent cologne/perfume and stop pouring on the designer imposters.
Sitting/Talking/Napping On A Machine- There are some that don't want to live here. No one is expecting you to do fifty reps and then get off the machine right away but you are sitting there staring off to space and some would like to get home sometime today. Do your reps and get off the god damned machine.
Employees Using Equpiment- I attend a gym where one of the employees got on the treadmill, literally sweat on it and then didn't wipe it down with any antibaterial wipes for the next person to use. Uhhh, YOU WORK HERE.0 -
The only issue I have is with one guy in particular. He seems to hop on the elliptical every time I am roughly half way through my run on the treadmill. What's the big problem you ask? He farts. Not little quiet toots either. Loud, smelly, WTF did he have for lunch farts. :sick: :sick: As you can already imagine, I'm running and breathing a littlen heavy. I inhale deeply and end up gagging, choking and having to stop my run until I can breathe again. :mad: :explode: :grumble:
Funniest. Post. Ever.
I have 1 public gripe - LAY OFF THE PERFUME/COLOGNE. When I'm running, I don't want a big inhale of Eau de Street Hooker.
My other gripe was with the perky, maybe college aged, woman who hopped on the treadmill next to me the other day, wearing her running gear and looking all fit and trim. I'm plugging along on, doing my Galloway training, so I was doing intervals. She checked out my machine to see what I was doing and just HAD to show me up and bumped up her speed faster than mine. And guess who barely made it 10 minutes?! HA! She thought she was gonna show me up because I was older and overweight. I SHOWED HER!
But I seriously love my gym. Wouldn't go there 6 days a week if I didn't!
The tortoise knows how to pace himself and he'll always outrun the hare.0 -
When a guy sits on the end of the bench listening to music and playing fake drums while staring in the mirror at himself............while other people are waiting to use the same equipment.
Me to the TEEE!!! But then again Im doing reps of 315 with no spot, so graba fkn chair and watch,,0 -
The women who no matter how long theyve been going to zumba,do zumba so intensely, crowd my gym,,,,and still look the same or worse as they did ayear ago doing fkng zumba. Grab some weights!!!!
Oh and Gooshebags who do half reps cuz they are egolifting.
Cuban. LMAO! Exacty. I know a bunch of women personally who swear by Zumba but they haven't shred an ounce of fat in the 3 years they've been doing it.
Probably because they don't understand what eating at a deficit is; they're probably eating back their calories. But whatevs, they're building up some sort of stamina, and as long as they are actually using the services provided by the facility and are happy with their own appearance and fitness, then leave them be.0 -
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I love these topics
Let's see...
1. Curling in the squat rack
6. Not re racking the weights
I always train with and he does curls of 135 4x8 never re-racks because all the other *kitten* who squat warm up with that paperweight.0 -
The gym itself. I prefer to workout at home because I'm very insecure. That and it seems like people can be very impolite at the gym. I realize that there's always good with bad and that there are some GREAT gyms out there, but the one that I have available to me (yes, there's only one, it's a small island with crazy traffic) has some real jerks in it and it's only open for a short time. But at least they keep it EXTREMELY clean. I was definitely impressed with that. Maybe when I get a bit braver I'll give it another try. Or when we move again.0
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Probably hypocritical, but its the sweaty, panting person on the equipment in front of you...0
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I love these topics
Let's see...
1. Curling in the squat rack
2. Unracking my weights while I am there
3. Talking on the cellphone while sitting on the bench
4. Circuit trainers who take 5 sets of dumbbells and leaves them on the ground while they go run around the gym
5. People who don't wipe their equipment after use
6. Not re racking the weights
PLEASE tell me you've seen the BroScience "rookie mistakes" video. If not, watch it. I think you'd really enjoy it.0 -
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the guy who stalks the machine like a predator.
he slowwly walks around the machine, and then adjusts the weights, sits down and stands up.
jumps around a little and sits down only to do like 5 reps
then he gets up and looks at the machine.
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I love these topics
Let's see...
1. Curling in the squat rack
2. Unracking my weights while I am there
3. Talking on the cellphone while sitting on the bench
4. Circuit trainers who take 5 sets of dumbbells and leaves them on the ground while they go run around the gym
5. People who don't wipe their equipment after use
6. Not re racking the weights
PLEASE tell me you've seen the BroScience "rookie mistakes" video. If not, watch it. I think you'd really enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0WxyKGD7sU 0 -
Also, I've got to make a comment about the clothing--particularly the yoga pants remark. If you're serious, then I'm afraid my response to you is no. No woman is obligated to dress a certain way for the sole purpose of indicating to you whether she is up for fulfilling anyone's sexual needs.
My rule is: If you're comfortable in it, and you're not showing anything obscene (see my earlier comment about older guys in loose, short running shorts), and you can work out in it, wear it. It's no one else's business. Only when it gets to the point where someone's junk, whatever junk that may be, is popping out and within sight, would I have a problem with it.0 -
There's this guy at my gym who is the epitome of obnoxious. He hisses and grunts on EVERY lift, throws weights to the ground (not just drops them - he THROWS them), listens to his music via the speakers on his phone. The worst part is the pep talks. Between sets, he'll go over to the mirror, stare at himself deeply in the eyes, and yell things like "WE GO HARD!" "WE GOT THIS." "WE ARE STRONG."
This is an apartment complex gym. Quiet down man, it's a tiny space.0 -
The gym itself. I prefer to workout at home because I'm very insecure. That and it seems like people can be very impolite at the gym. I realize that there's always good with bad and that there are some GREAT gyms out there, but the one that I have available to me (yes, there's only one, it's a small island with crazy traffic) has some real jerks in it and it's only open for a short time. But at least they keep it EXTREMELY clean. I was definitely impressed with that. Maybe when I get a bit braver I'll give it another try. Or when we move again.
Aquarabbit, I'm with you. Once I got comfortable working out at home, I'm never going back to the gym. Rude customers, employees, over capacity problems, people there to socialize and park on the equipment. Don't miss it at all.0 -
Squatting in the curl rack.0
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I just moved to Los Angeles and i've tried out about 8 different gyms to decide which one to go to, and the common theme here is no one ever re-racks their weights. That rustles my jimmies more than anything.
Also when people aren't even near the weight/bench/machine/squat rack that they're using then you assume it's open and then they come out of nowhere and say they weren't done using it
You must have been to my gym! Lol We're neighbors. That drives me batty.
Hahah nice, I joined 24 hour fitness and have been going to the one in Torrance and I'm really starting to regret it. I get more and more pissed every time I go. It's constantly crowded 24/7 and weights are all over the place, and I can never get a squat rack because people camp in it and are using it for just about everything other than squats. Seems like no one is there to actually lift. The one in Long Beach is garbage and the one in North Torrance is even worse so idk what to do.0 -
Squatting in the curl rack.
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I'm there at O'dark:thirty AM and so I miss all this wonderful stuff!
I need to start doing that....I workout in my apartment building and get tons of stares from people getting on and off the elevator while I'm lifting. Don't look at me like that! Get your happy *kitten* in the gym with me!!0 -
Here's something else that I don't think was brought up. it's not what goes on at the gym what goes on in the parking lots. Thieves know that you are not going to be carrying wallets, purses, valuables, etc on your person when you work out. In the town where I live, there are high rates of theft in Fitness Center parking lots. My cousin had his wallet, credit cards, identity, etc stolen right out of his truck and check this out, he parked right in front of the facility where the front desk clerk could see the whole thing. (the little dip#hit claimed he didn't but after a police investigation, he was in on it.). The surveillance cameras were conveniently not working at the time because he turned them off.
Another good friend of mine was shot on her way to back to her car by some thugs but luckily she survived.0 -
knobs that load up 5 machines with tons of weights so that others can't use them; then leave all the weights on when they've finished with them0
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Good job, ho$$0 -
I hate the people who stare at me like a leper when I want to work out at the free weights. It's unnerving.0
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Jackoffs that stare at women who work out.0
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When I knock my water all over the floor, people that take forever on the bench press. guys the hang their towel on their shoulder when CLEARLY it should be around their waist and people that come to the gym for attention.0
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