Gym Etiquette Question

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  • Annie_01
    Annie_01 Posts: 3,096 Member
    Sounds like another Planet Fitness horror story. Gotta love that place

    Things like that happen every where.

    I agree...I have had similar happen at my complex gym. A woman came in...gather up the weights that she was going to use during her work out...then did about 20 minutes worth of floor exercises. I ended up having to use a heavier weight than what I intended.

    Main problem that I have is people putting the mat to do their floor exercises down right in front of the weight rack area...makes it hard to get to and forget about using the bench...they block it also. It is a small gym so space is tight but I wish they would find somewhere else to do their leg lifts.
  • LunaZuriel
    LunaZuriel Posts: 77 Member
    I work at a Gym, and people have known me to be a hard *kitten*. "If you leave it, or finished using it, please put it away." (If not I will, and some one else can use it, it's common courtesy to clean up after yourself, even if you are leaving it to do something else) Is what I will say, when I'm checking around to make sure people are alright, or to disinfect equipment that people forget to after they're finished. I'm guessing Planet Fitness doesn't do that.
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    Except for the guy drowning in cologne (later remedied) I must go to the most polite gym ever. I will ask if anyone is using the bench. It's always no. Even the kids, after one reminder, are good about empting the bar and not hogging. I'm sorry this happens.

    Not the cologne part, but my gym is polite also. I may have to wait for a machine, especially the squat rack, but most people notice if you are waiting and offer to let you work in or let you know how much they have left. I don't even have to re-rack weights very often. It's almost always neat and tidy at the gym I go to.
  • navygrrl
    navygrrl Posts: 517 Member
    I'm jealous your PF has a squat rack.

    Also, what's with the dumbbell hoarding? Why not just get the dumbbells you are using, and then put them away when you're finished and THEN get another weight? /sigh
  • Sreneesa
    Sreneesa Posts: 1,170 Member
    Happened to me today as well, im so green had no ideal. Lol... he had his towel there and weights on bar, but wasn't using it.. I just politely asked if he was finished, he told me he was just going to clean up bar. He took weights off and cleaned bar.

    In retrospect, and due to some of the answers on thread, I think he wasn't finished and was just being a gentlemen. Lol...now I know when this happens again to wait 5 or 10 mins or so then approach.

    Lol
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    He is not supposed to hog the rack and leave and expect that it should be available when he comes back!! If anything he should have invited you to work in while he was doing something else. He was being a complete AH!
  • Life0fbrian
    Life0fbrian Posts: 69 Member
    sounds like an a hole to me, i dont think you were in the wrong at all.

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