Gym Pet Peeves?
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people reading while on the bike - your there to work!!!!!
I've never understood reading while on the machine. Maybe my form is off but when my heart rate is over 150 (like it should be if you're doing cardio) I can't focus on anything but the music in my ears. I'm bouncing too much to see little tiny words.
I just pedal to burn calories, i dont want to exert myself to the point where it takes away from lifting. Cant rob peter to pay paul.0 -
woman standing around naked, with no intention of putting their clothes on while they talk
Soooooooo.......what gym is this exactly?
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Anyone who doesn't squat to depth, if you are hitting parallel or below you don't deserve to use my squat rack.0
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People just wondering around aimlessly watching everyone else.
People just sitting on the weight benches taking 5 min breaks between sets.
People reading newspapers on cardio machines.
Sometimes I wonder why these guys even go to the gym, well actually I know its just for something to do and have a bit of a perve..
Overall People in general.
Surprisingly though, fit people i find quite motivating, just lazy people in the gym get on my nerves, better to do a solid hour then spend 3hrs moping around.
I don't understand why people reading bother you. I can go really hard on a cardio machine and read at the same time so I'm not bored out of my mind. It's better than going really hard on a machine and staring at a wall or the person's *kitten* in front of me for an hour...0 -
#1 that I left off earlier.....the skeez that comes up when you are in the middle of a set and goes "Hey, what does that work?" Seriously?0
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#1 that I left off earlier.....the skeez that comes up when you are in the middle of a set and goes "Hey, what does that work?" Seriously?
Haha I've had that question doing clean and jerks... I wasn't about to list ever single muscle required to perform the lift so i just told him "it helps your bench". Maybe he will learn how to do it now, or just throw out his back and never come back, either way I win.0 -
Not wiping down your machine and when people chit chat while using a weight machine. You should NOT be sitting at the seated row having a conversation with people, if you're done, get up so other people can use the machine!
OH and my personal fav, these girls at my gym. There are several of them. They are teeny tiny (skinny fat---not a sign of muscle definition on their little bodies), and walk around in tiny shorts and a sports bra. That part is fine...if you're actually there to work out. These girls wear their hair down and have a fresh face of makeup on, and spend like 10 minutes walking on the treadmill and spend the rest of the time walking around like they're going to do something, but the most they do is like 10 reps of 5lb bicep curls and they don't break a sweat the entire time.
I don't get it. My gym isn't cheap either. You're paying for this expensive membership to walk around half dressed and flirt with dudes? Seems going to a bar would be cheaper.0 -
Let's see. My pet peeves are.....
* People who don't wipe down their equipment once they're done. (I don't know where you've been, so I certainly do not want to catch your germs!)
* Equipment hogs.
* The gaggle of teenage girls who take up an entire row of cardio equipment just to talk loudly (thank God I bought myself a new pair of earphones.... that week was just BRUTAL.)
And this may be a minor one to most, but a HUGE one for me.....
* Having a broken pair of headphones, and 9 times out of 10 the gym music absolutely SUCKS.0 -
people reading while on the bike - your there to work!!!!!
I've never understood reading while on the machine. Maybe my form is off but when my heart rate is over 150 (like it should be if you're doing cardio) I can't focus on anything but the music in my ears. I'm bouncing too much to see little tiny words.
I can read my kindle just fine on the elleptical with my heart rate over 1500 -
No disrespect, but who carries disinfectant around at a gym? lol. surely carrying wipes and sprays is abit over the top? abt of water and paper towels that most gyms dispense is fine by me,
Idk about other gyms, but at ours they have disinfectant spray with paper towels and disinfectant wipes all throughout the gym to use to wipe down your equipment. Pretty good idea if you ask me!0 -
when someone is walking down the isle of treadmills and 'crop dusts' the entire line :laugh:
This is absolutely the WORST!! Especially when it lingers...
My other pet peeve is the person that constantly looks over at your cardio machine like its a competition. I don't give a damn what incline, speed or level of intensity the person next to me is at, I'm only concerned about what I'm doing.
My final pet peeve is the chick in the cardio class that watches herself in the mirror the entire time. C'mon!! Where's your focus?0 -
Not a peeve exactly, but something that amused me. Our gym/studio lets people have their first class free, and one week at the cardio step class some woman showed up and kept loudly complaining, "Oh my God! I'm SWEATING!" over and over. I haven't seen her since. I guess she didn't realize sweating comes with the territory when you work out!0
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There is an older couple at my gym probably in their 70's or so that like to stroll around the walking/running track holding hands. Not only are they holding hands, but they walk in the MIDDLE of the track. Ugh!! Annoying. Go to the park and hold hands. That's what parks are for, not tracks at the gym.0
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I just have one... that really grinds my gears.
This one woman, literally screams when she is running. SCREAMS AND YELLS AND GRUNTS. She was so bad that i almost fell off my treadmill twice, and had to cut my run short. I get it its hard, for sure, but shut the hell up. You are startling everyone else in the gym, and could seriously hurt someone. Go outside and scream your *kitten* off, have at it. But when you are in a gym with 20 other people keep it to yourself. if its a must, make it once in a while and not at the top of your lungs.0 -
this is my biggest pet peeve and I know its trivial and probably none of my business but it REALLY irks me! when I get up early to make it to a 515am spin class working my butt off. Supposed to be at a level 8 out of 10, so working pretty hard and this one douche is going a hundred miles per hour..... ugh. seriously!! put some resistance on that thing and WORK! and when the instructor called him out on it once he said well I went 15 miles!! uhmmm its not about how far, we aren't really racing!0
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Three things:
1) not sanitizing machines
2) the yellers, grunters and anyone else making an unnecessry amount of noise
3) those talking on cell phones while on the floor0 -
Don't all gyms provide disinfectant and paper towels? I always wipe mine down!
The teenage girls at the gym annoy me the most.
I completely agree with you on this!!! We have some that spend 30 minutes in the bathroom primping themselves! Then they come in and hang out inthe weight room checking out guys! Or they congregate on the indoor track watching the boys play basketball downstairs...when they could actually be DOWNSTAIRS watching them from the bleachers!!!!0 -
Ladies coming to the gym in full makeup, hair done, perfume - it's a gym not a pickup place - or am I just naive? Or jealous? But what is the point?
People who sit on the machines while having a conversation with someone standing there when others are waiting. General socializing in the path of others...
People who walk up and try to have a conversation with someone on treadmill or other cardio machine...really? Do you want them to slow to the point they can have a conversation?
Standing right beside me crowding the row in Zumba when the front rows are vacant. I get there early to be in the back!
Once a family was in my gym and the wife started LOUDLY criticizing her husband for doing machine reps too fast. Saying stuff like 'you might as well not do it if you're going to do it wrong, it won't do you any good' In front of all the other people and their teenage son. AWKWARD! Poor guy and poor kid!0 -
I hate when people use their nasty workout towel to wipe machines down (in reality, just smearing their sweat around) instead of the fresh paper towel + disinfectant spray.
Ha ha!! Okay....well, I will keep that in mind the next time I even think about doing that..........*sheepish grin*.......figured that if I didn't use the towel until I was absolutely done with my machine, that the towel would still be considered "clean" and therefore, no smearing of my own sweat around........but when you really think about it, you are right!
I'm just being facetious, I don't really care. I got over being drenched in other people's sweat after about two weeks of Muay Thai.0 -
* Having a broken pair of headphones, and 9 times out of 10 the gym music absolutely SUCKS.
Gah I hate the music my gym plays!! Bruno Mars...really?? Yea, that gets me pumped.... :noway:0 -
Three things:
1) not sanitizing machines
2) the yellers, grunters and anyone else making an unnecessry amount of noise
3) those talking on cell phones while on the floor
Especially the guys that drop the weights on the floor, so that everyone has to hear the big boom!!!0 -
Mine are:
1) The guys dropping heavy weights on the floor! REALLY? Is it necessary to make the WHOLE gym think that something exploded?
2) People congregating on the indoor track! This goes out to the little teeny boppers that watch the basketball players from upstairs, when they should be downstairs congregating on the bleachers!!
3) People who don't clean their machines! So gross!
4) People who don't take the time to LEARN how to use the weight machines/resistance machines! Letting the weight plates "slap" down DOES NOT help you!!! You LOSE your resistance when you do that!
5) Those who have decided not to exercise personal hygiene! If you KNOW you are a sweater, and therefore have body odor.....slap on some EXTRA deodorant for the rest of us...PLEASE!!!0 -
I am annoyed by the person who wants to use the machine I'm on and stands right behind me, waiting for me to finish. I am a very courtesy gym member so if its busy, I keep my machine usage to 30 minutes. My frustration increases as the person attempts to get on the machine as I exit the machine. A few months back, one woman in particular attempted to do this.
She got cussed out.
I haven't seen her since.0 -
Anyone ever listen to Bob and Tom....on their best of show they have a great bit about spitting in the water fountain. Sooo gross0
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Here I was wishing I could afford a gym membership and a babysitter so I could go lift at the gym and maybe find a Zumba class. I'm kind of glad now that I work out at home.0
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I hate the obnoxious grunter and growlers with a passion.
THIS. I may grunt on a heavy dead or squat, but my grunt doesn't travel more than 5 feet. Though one time I kind of squealed/whined on a squat and that sure did go across the room, so embarrassing, it was the un-manliest noise to ever come out of me.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Can't stop laughing at the pictures/sounds this evokes in my imagination. :devil:0 -
Mine: All of the girls who come wearing a full face of makeup with their hair down and then stare judgementally at me for sweating. I thought that was the purpose of the gym, but apparently I was wrong. It's to wear spandex and walk at 1 MPH on the treadmill.0
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I hate the obnoxious grunter and growlers with a passion.
There is a serious grunter at my gym and another that neighs and snorts like a horse while he is jogging. And the people that sing out loud with their headphones on.
The tourist ( newbie)that come in during the new year. They join a gym for their new years resolution, then take group excercises and ask if we can cool down. My instructor usuallyask if we want to bust out another number or cool down when there is about 5 minutes left of class, And the newbie, asks for a cool down.0 -
I was thinking about reinstating my gym membership, but after all this, I think maybe not....0
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woman standing around naked, with no intention of putting their clothes on while they talk
Soooooooo.......what gym is this exactly?
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Haha guys, regardless the last time I checked boys weren't allowed in the female lockers in any gym0
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