Are you a GYM IDIOT?

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  • Pocket_Pixi
    Pocket_Pixi Posts: 1,167 Member
    The version of "Gym Idiot" I encounter is when trying to job on the track. Wanna walk 3-4 wide & block both the WALKING and JOGGING lane? At least listen for the joggers. There is a thick white line dividing, with WALKING stenciled on one side and JOGGING stenciled on the other side every quarter-lap.

    This and going the wrong way on the track, when it is clearly stated which way you should be going. The track at my gym has it so the walkers go one way and joggers go the opposite. If you accidently miss the marking and there is someone on the track before you and are using the lane you are in going the opposite direction.
  • youcandoitjess
    youcandoitjess Posts: 58
    Unless you're literally a complete moron, no matter what your gym etiquette is, you're eventually gonna pissoff/annoy someone with the way you workout. I frankly don't give a fck. As long as I'm doing what I need to be doing, and not messing around. For god's sake, some people get mad if you read on a machine. Really?

    ^^ This + who cares what other people are doing, anyway? Aren't you there to work out?
  • jennajava
    jennajava Posts: 2,176 Member
    The version of "Gym Idiot" I encounter is when trying to job on the track.

    Hating on people who try to job on the track? Everybody's gotta make money somehow.
  • rm830
    rm830 Posts: 531 Member
    Brought your handbag into the weights room.
    Full face of makeup.
    1 set, update your facebook status on your iphone, next machine.

    Ohhh I HATE the girls who come to the gym looking like they are at a damn night club, Hair all curled and makeup on, tiny little tanktop with no sportsbra. I go to the gym to work my *kitten* off and expect to look like crap doing so

    OMG me too, my hair is pulled back, i'm a sweaty mess but there's always someone with their hair down in curls, makeup on, wearing very little and just walking slowly on the treadmill.
  • Improvised
    Improvised Posts: 925 Member
    Brought your handbag into the weights room.
    Full face of makeup.
    1 set, update your facebook status on your iphone, next machine.

    Ohhh I HATE the girls who come to the gym looking like they are at a damn night club, Hair all curled and makeup on, tiny little tanktop with no sportsbra. I go to the gym to work my *kitten* off and expect to look like crap doing so

    The ladies that sit on the recumbent bike with their magazines and phones out. Theres one lady at my gym brings a kindle!!!

    Women who lift stupid pointless weights that make no improvement on doing the exercise with bodyweight only

    Um, I read my kindle while doing a stationary bike. I was pregnant, and didn't want to over do it.
  • youcandoitjess
    youcandoitjess Posts: 58
    The version of "Gym Idiot" I encounter is when trying to job on the track.

    Hating on people who try to job on the track? Everybody's gotta make money somehow.

    :):):)
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    The version of "Gym Idiot" I encounter is when trying to job on the track.

    Hating on people who try to job on the track? Everybody's gotta make money somehow.

    lol, typo on my part. I meant when I jog and find the track blocked with people walking 3-4 wide. At least pay attention for others if you want to walk beside people.

    JM
  • neversettle
    neversettle Posts: 168 Member
    Brought your handbag into the weights room.
    Full face of makeup.
    1 set, update your facebook status on your iphone, next machine.

    I'm guilty of the makeup thing - but I go to the gym right after work, and I wear makeup to work. Weekend gym seshes = clean face.
  • likeaphoenix28
    likeaphoenix28 Posts: 176
    I loathe the gym idiot - I remember back in college I was rowing crew so my upper body was really strong. Well - this dude is using the lateral pull down - probably about 80lbs - grunting and screaming "get it! get it!" and "bring it home!" TO HIMSELF! then drops the damn weights. So, for kicks I asked if he was between sets, sat down, upped the weight a bit and started whistling as I pulled down. He probably couldn't please his woman that night, you're welcome :bigsmile:

    lmao
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I loathe the gym idiot - I remember back in college I was rowing crew so my upper body was really strong. Well - this dude is using the lateral pull down - probably about 80lbs - grunting and screaming "get it! get it!" and "bring it home!" TO HIMSELF! then drops the damn weights. So, for kicks I asked if he was between sets, sat down, upped the weight a bit and started whistling as I pulled down. He probably couldn't please his woman that night, you're welcome :bigsmile:

    :heart: Swoon! :heart:

    I haven't witnessed any real idiots, but I don't know how the guy squatting with six inches of hairy buttcrack exposed didn't feel a draft. Dude... longer shirt or higher pants. Maybe both. Maybe a onesie.
  • jennajava
    jennajava Posts: 2,176 Member
    Brought your handbag into the weights room.
    Full face of makeup.
    1 set, update your facebook status on your iphone, next machine.

    I'm guilty of the makeup thing - but I go to the gym right after work, and I wear makeup to work. Weekend gym seshes = clean face.

    This too.
  • Sp1nGoddess
    Sp1nGoddess Posts: 1,134 Member
    Person who hangs out on a bench while chatting and occasionally lifting a 5 pound weight.

    Guys & girls who wear cologne... I'd rather smell your sweat!

    Singing or dancing on the treadmill.. yes I have seen it! You can't sing and you certainly can't dance!
  • Bella3119
    Bella3119 Posts: 104
    I don't know what I'm doing in a gym... So I qualify as a gym idiot :)

    You are so not alone!!!! I have to basically stalk a few people to learn the machines and the free weights. :)
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Imaginary Lat Syndrome -- wth is this? *LOL*
  • robertthesnail
    robertthesnail Posts: 110
    I used to drink a giant gatorade right after doing cardio, I'm glad I kicked THAT habit.
  • Cakepiebeer
    Cakepiebeer Posts: 392
    A gym idiot is when you're at the gym during peak hours and you "claim" the power rack by putting your water bottle and baseball cap down in front of it while you go off and spot some other dude for 10 minutes.
  • raychybabe
    raychybabe Posts: 121 Member
    Brought your handbag into the weights room.
    Full face of makeup.
    1 set, update your facebook status on your iphone, next machine.

    Ohhh I HATE the girls who come to the gym looking like they are at a damn night club, Hair all curled and makeup on, tiny little tanktop with no sportsbra. I go to the gym to work my *kitten* off and expect to look like crap doing so

    I've spotted a girl who has started coming to the Combat Class I do. She wears low cut velour tracksuit bottoms with diamante words on the back, a tiny crop top, full face of make-up, fake tan, hair extensions......and she can't even do "jab-cross" properly. Looks ridiculous.
  • sinistertitan
    sinistertitan Posts: 603 Member
    The version of "Gym Idiot" I encounter is when trying to job on the track.

    Hating on people who try to job on the track? Everybody's gotta make money somehow.
    You win! Beat me to it! :tongue:
  • auticus
    auticus Posts: 1,051 Member
    There are only two types of people that really make me cringe, and one type that makes me chuckle to myself.

    Cringe #1 - the person casually walking on the eliptical next to me talking loudly into their cell phone. Please remove yourself from the gym, especially if I can hear you over my headphones.

    Cringe #2 - the guy who wants to impress everyone by loading down his bar wtih weights and then lets the weights or machine jerk him around because he's not strong enough to really lift those weights. Dude you're about to hurt yourself in a bad way.

    Chuckle - the guy or gal staring at other members of the opposite sex and not paying attention to what they are doing, causing them to trip over something and fall or make a general comedic event occur due to not paying attention at all to what's in front of them.
  • jennajava
    jennajava Posts: 2,176 Member
    A gym idiot is when you're at the gym during peak hours and you "claim" the power rack by putting your water bottle and baseball cap down in front of it while you go off and spot some other dude for 10 minutes.

    This is when I "unclaim" it by moving it.

    ETA: (Yeah, JJ is that chick. But you probably already knew that.)
  • rocketpants
    rocketpants Posts: 419 Member
    This guy might qualify http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWrZDWcHCHM&feature=related
  • jayb0ne
    jayb0ne Posts: 644 Member
    Imaginary Lat Syndrome -- wth is this? *LOL*

    The guy with little 14" biceps who holds his arms a foot away from his body like his massive lats are forcing him to walk that way. Like a balloon under each arm.
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    Person who hangs out on a bench while chatting and occasionally lifting a 5 pound weight.

    Guys & girls who wear cologne... I'd rather smell your sweat!

    Singing or dancing on the treadmill.. yes I have seen it! You can't sing and you certainly can't dance!

    What is the purpose of wearing perfume on the treadmill? One night I had to walk to the other side of the gym to get away from this one woman. I was able to smell her 5 minutes before seeing her.

    At least at my gym, guys do not seem to be bad working out, but the smell of AXE body spray emitting from the locker room could choke a hooker.
  • Bella3119
    Bella3119 Posts: 104
    Person who hangs out on a bench while chatting and occasionally lifting a 5 pound weight.

    Guys & girls who wear cologne... I'd rather smell your sweat!

    Singing or dancing on the treadmill.. yes I have seen it! You can't sing and you certainly can't dance!

    Sp1nG:

    i hate those chicks who do that just so they can check out the guys in the gym, my exhusband is that guy who takes a shower before and drenches himself with cologne!!! and I have to admit, I have been caught occasionally singing and dancing on the ARC machine. I just can't keep my mouth shut to some songs. ;)
  • imaginec
    imaginec Posts: 18 Member
    Amen to that :laugh:
  • tracysway
    tracysway Posts: 67 Member
    me too. my hair is also curled. At least by the end I'm a sweaty gross mess
  • ayshamc
    ayshamc Posts: 226 Member
    inconsiderate people who do not wipe their sweat off the seats, seriously??!?

    This seriously gets to me!! People that DRIP in puddles all over the floor and all over the machine and then just WALK AWAY without even so much as a quick wipe over....it really upsets me! :grumble:
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
    Sweaty girls are the hotness.
  • auticus
    auticus Posts: 1,051 Member
    I forgot about the Jersey Shore guys who wink at themselves in the mirror while they are lifting and point to themselves in the mirror in between sets. Or the guys who lift their shirts up and take pictures of their abs to show off to facebook / the dating site they are on to show their worth.

    That last one is probably more jealousy ;)
  • whtlatina1214
    whtlatina1214 Posts: 765 Member
    full make up face
    earrings . necklaces. chains.etc.
    no cleaning equipment after usage
    people with memberships that dont go
    people who carry around their bag rather than leaving it in the locker room


    ahh list cn go on lol
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