I wish my gym had a ban on ___________

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  • Fit_Canuck
    Fit_Canuck Posts: 788 Member
    Fill in the blank!

    (For me it's dudes who slam the weights down in the weight room)

    For me its when people complain when i slam down the weight in a last ditch effort to save me from getting hurt. I control the weight, but if something goes wrong when I'm doing Olympic lifts, I will disregard your need to have a quite gym and only consider my safety.

    Couldn't care less, dropping weights and grunting should be banned. If you can't lift and lower the weight safely then your lifting too much.

    Obviously you've never tried hard. Come back to me when you can ATG squat 2x your body weight with out making a sound. Come back to me when you can perform a perfect oly snatch EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. Dude not even the people in the Olympics perform their lifts perfect every time and have to ditch the bar. Grow up and realize that some people have different lifting goals than you.

    Dude, still don't really care, the thread was about what we wished our gym had a ban on, my answer , dropping weights, grunting and flexing in mirrors in the middle of the gym. I answered the question as asked. You may need to do the growing up my good man.
  • LisamarieBond14
    LisamarieBond14 Posts: 133 Member
    People taking the middle of three machines. :mad:

    I am so curious what is annoying about this? Seriously, not being snarky here just perplexed! Do tell.

    In my opinion on this matter, it's either because I'm with a friend and we want to spur each other on without having to shout over a randomer, or maybe I just don't want to stand next to a stranger, especially if said stranger is fitter than me!!
  • jessicaacampbell1
    jessicaacampbell1 Posts: 133 Member
    Women walking naked all over the locker room just for fun.

    1. No, I don't want to have a conversations with you while you're kibbles and bits are hanging out!! Just b/c you're comfortable doesn't mean I am.

    2. Excessive sweating!! there is not reason why i should feel your sweat on my arm when you're one machine away from me. :explode:
  • stormieweather
    stormieweather Posts: 2,549 Member
    I wish my gym had a ban on...wearing makeup.

    I hate being the only bummy-looking bare-face girl there. :/ but at least I know my workout isn't going to cause me a breakout!

    I hear you, clearly you are not there to work out if you have that much make up on. The gym is not a place to meet a mate, you are there to exercise, and that doesn't look pretty if you do it right.

    Yeah well, I go straight from work, full makeup and all. Sorry, not gonna wash it off to please anyone. The sweat will take care of that issue for me.
  • luhluhlaura
    luhluhlaura Posts: 278 Member
    People next to me on the treadmill or the elliptical that feel the need to look at my machine. Keep track of your own workouts, and not mine. K thnx

    Sorry, I just had to see if I was being lame and I have to step it up...LOL! Guilty

    +1! it just motivates me to work harder if someone is killin' it on the machine next to me.
  • nay1228
    nay1228 Posts: 64 Member
    I'm with you guys on the jeans thing. A woman walks an hour on the treadmill every single day in jeans and it annoys me for some reason.

    Also...people who have consumed massive amounts of garlic prior to working out. I hate gagging from the smell of garlic and sweat.
  • JNick77
    JNick77 Posts: 3,783 Member
    Couldn't care less, dropping weights and grunting/flexing in mirrors just to look at yourself should be banned. If you can't lift and lower the weight safely then your lifting too much.

    As far as the comment on dropping weights, lowering weights safely... you've obviously never done any powerlifting, olympic lifting, or maximal strength lifting of any kind. Just because the weight may slam a little doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. Some men are excessive and stupid, like if they throw the bar down after doing barbell curls, but that's just the way some lifts are. And banning them is stupid. What the trainers should look for is if the men, in this case, are performing the exercise correctly or if they're just being obnoxious.
  • Fit_Canuck
    Fit_Canuck Posts: 788 Member
    I wish my gym had a ban on...wearing makeup.

    I hate being the only bummy-looking bare-face girl there. :/ but at least I know my workout isn't going to cause me a breakout!

    I hear you, clearly you are not there to work out if you have that much make up on. The gym is not a place to meet a mate, you are there to exercise, and that doesn't look pretty if you do it right.

    Yeah well, I go straight from work, full makeup and all. Sorry, not gonna wash it off to please anyone. The sweat will take care of that issue for me.

    Make up wouldn't really bother me but strong scents would. A lot of people are scent sensitivities and it is a shared environment so you need to respect others. I know that wasn't in your post but thought I'd add on to it :)
  • Tiff1124
    Tiff1124 Posts: 261 Member
    People next to me on the treadmill or the elliptical that feel the need to look at my machine. Keep track of your own workouts, and not mine. K thnx

    Sorry, I just had to see if I was being lame and I have to step it up...LOL! Guilty

    +1! it just motivates me to work harder if someone is killin' it on the machine next to me.

    Okay now that I see where you guys are coming from, I guess it's not so irritating :) nice to know it's to help others push themselves more.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,990 Member
    People not putting their equipment/plates back where it belongs!



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  • stormieweather
    stormieweather Posts: 2,549 Member
    I wish my gym had a ban on...wearing makeup.

    I hate being the only bummy-looking bare-face girl there. :/ but at least I know my workout isn't going to cause me a breakout!

    I hear you, clearly you are not there to work out if you have that much make up on. The gym is not a place to meet a mate, you are there to exercise, and that doesn't look pretty if you do it right.

    Yeah well, I go straight from work, full makeup and all. Sorry, not gonna wash it off to please anyone. The sweat will take care of that issue for me.

    Make up wouldn't really bother me but strong scents would. A lot of people are scent sensitivities and it is a shared environment so you need to respect others. I know that wasn't in your post but thought I'd add on to it :)

    Agreed! In fact, I wear only light perfume to work as it is very bad manners to choke your coworkers. By the time I get to the gym, it's fully dissippated.
  • Anaconda62
    Anaconda62 Posts: 181
    Perhaps Planet Fitness bans sweat too? I imagine that as a place where one walks in and they hand you a magazine to read as you sit on the recumbent bike on the lowest setting for an hour while watching the news.

    Wow, lots of Planet Fitness haters on here. I have been going there since I started my "betterment" routine, and I think it's a nice, friendly place.
  • brittigno
    brittigno Posts: 193 Member
    People who blast their headphones so loud that everyone else around them can hear it, too.

    I don't want to hear your early 90s techno mix, thanks. :huh:
  • dieseljay74
    dieseljay74 Posts: 376
    Monkeys who take two or three machines rotating between all of them and cry when you sit down on one. Douche bags
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    Women walking naked all over the locker room just for fun.

    1. No, I don't want to have a conversations with you while you're kibbles and bits are hanging out!! Just b/c you're comfortable doesn't mean I am.

    2. Excessive sweating!! there is not reason why i should feel your sweat on my arm when you're one machine away from me. :explode:

    I hate to break it to you, but people have no control over how much they sweat. By the time I finish my workout, I look like I just jumped into the pool fully clothed. Granted, I take great care to wipe down the machines I use, and I keep an appropriate distance from other members....but banning excessive sweating?! :huh:
  • cdpm
    cdpm Posts: 297 Member
    Men looking at women in a disapproving way when they go near the free weights or resistance machines. It is quite rude.
  • BreakOnThru
    BreakOnThru Posts: 66 Member
    chatty morning people.....lol

    Ha! I hear you there. You see me in the gym early, you'd best stay away!
  • gobifree59
    gobifree59 Posts: 56 Member
    I totally agree!! I am really sensitive to the chemicals in hairspray, perfume, deoderant, etc. I only use all natural products so my body goes into a frenzy/coughing jag when I smell those. I tried getting them banned at my health club and the director said he "would have to ask the higher ups". After 3 mo. of no response, I asked him again and he said he was told he couldn't do it. I said"This is supposed to be a health club!! How healthy is it for everyone to breathe all that stuff?" Go figure!
  • Guitarjon
    Guitarjon Posts: 204 Member
    Loads of things annoy me in the gym, one or two of my top ones.

    People who go to socialise and wear stupid fashion hats and clothing that are inappropriate for real graft.

    People who gather loads of different free weights and different bars, remove them from the designated area and hog them all making a mini circuit for themselves. I can see why they do it but I don't think they should 1) Not do it when its busy and 2) Use the designated circuit times or move on to something else if someone happens to have the bar/free weight they want. They should not hog it all.

    I have had someone tell me thy were using all of them at once when I asked if I could use some. The spiteful git said I couldn't take them. I then watched him for the rest of the session and he didn't even bloomin pick up the weight I wanted! Annoyed!

    Loads of other annoying things too.
    Another annoying thing, not because i'm really bothered but hate to see people doing it wrong. People coming to the gym, no warm up what so ever, go for the biggest heaviest weight straight away and start doing reps (usually with bad form too).
  • thefuzz1290
    thefuzz1290 Posts: 777 Member
    Curls in the power rack!
  • Erinslove
    Erinslove Posts: 139
    Women walking around in the buff...especially in the sauna! HOW RUDE!

    It's not rude to be naked in a sauna. As a matter of fact many gyms ban clothes in the sauna. It's perfectly normal to be clothed or unclothed (whatever your preference) in the sauna.
  • Teenagers hanging out socializing after school!!!! :angry:
  • freeasharold
    freeasharold Posts: 133 Member
    I finally understand that commercial with the "I lift things up and put them down". I had honestly been so confused lol!
  • gobifree59
    gobifree59 Posts: 56 Member
    I also wish my gym had a ban on using cell phones in the exercise rooms! I don't particularly want to hear your conversations. Take it outside!
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    Guys hitting on you while you're trying to lift weights. Like dude it's 5 am and I'm not here to mingle. Pleaseeeeee go away. And the creepy ones keep doing it time after time. Eff off :mad:

    or.... just.... staring.... like they've never seen a girl wiff muskles
  • brittigno
    brittigno Posts: 193 Member
  • yesthistime
    yesthistime Posts: 2,051 Member
    People next to me on the treadmill or the elliptical that feel the need to look at my machine. Keep track of your own workouts, and not mine. K thnx

    Sorry, I just had to see if I was being lame and I have to step it up...LOL! Guilty

    Yup. If you get on the machine next to me, we are now competing. :laugh:
  • fatboypup
    fatboypup Posts: 1,873 Member
    i need a girl with musklez to train me .... im uber weak
  • LisamarieBond14
    LisamarieBond14 Posts: 133 Member
    For me, it's not a particular set of people or actions... but I'm really irked by the showers that at first appear pretty nice and suddenly become disgusting when you realize there's a clump of hair that's been sitting atop the drain for... like... weeks. Makes me question the cleanliness of the whole place and I feel like retching (other people's hair does that to me; don't know why). For goodness' sake, gyms, clean your showers.

    Agreed! Even at home (currently back with the parents and older brother, who has long hair) I can't bring myself to touch drain hair!


    EDIT: Also, I feel like I should apologise in case I do something that others want to "ban"! -- I'm a starer. Not intentionally but I just tend to phase out and it seems that I'm staring at you or your machine, I'm really not, I'm just in a bit of a daze and actually staring right through you! I am trying to work on it but for now, I'm sorry!!
  • emmamcblain
    emmamcblain Posts: 342
    Fill in the blank!

    (For me it's dudes who slam the weights down in the weight room)



    You should try Planet Fitness gym, they literally do have a ban on people who slam weights! They even have an alarm called the "Lunk alarm" that you can set off whenever you see someone doing it. :laugh:

    That's hilarious. :') Might request a "Lunk alarm" button for mine, as doing that seems to be the "new thing." :explode:
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