I wish my gym had a ban on ___________

lyndsei

I wish my gym had a ban on people who use machines as thier personal call center or social post up spot... get off the phone and go hang out somewhere else!!! People are waiting patiently to use the machine after you!!! ... Grrr!!! Just sayin'

Brevans04

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:

:laugh: yes! It's true! It's us type As out there I guess, lol :laugh:

So guilty of this, if we are in the ab room doing AYTHING, I am trying to outlast you. I love doing situps on the pilates ball, and start when the next person does and win.. its like my own victory.

Tybalt71

I wish my gym had a ban on people who use machines as thier personal call center or social post up spot... get off the phone and go hang out somewhere else!!! People are waiting patiently to use the machine after you!!! ... Grrr!!! Just sayin'

I wish my gym didnt have a ban on lyndsei

Brevans04

They need to ban people that sit on the "stretch" mats and talk to people and dont do anything!! Other people have a life and I have a limited amount of time at the gym and actually use the machines!!! Plus I want to look over at them and say the quicker you use the machines the higher your heart rate, the more fat you burn retard.

ByrdBarajas

^^^^^^^ AGREE!!!

LollipopViolet

We have a guy that comes in with his wheel chair. This might sound harsh at first but this dude uses a wheel chair as a quazi-gym bag. He walks perfectly and does all kind of exercises as somebody without a handicap does, never uses it for aid. All he does with the wheel chair is uses it to carry his own medicine ball, a bunch of rubber bands, and a gym mat. I guess that's one way of getting around the "No Gym Bags in the Exercise Area" rule. LOL

OK, have you ever watched him leave after his workout? Some people can move around perfectly well some of the time, but say, after a visit to the gym, they need some help. Example, someone with arthritis, who's been advised to try and keep as active as possible. Just another point of view.

I'd like to ban perfumes/body sprays too. I'm a foot away from you in a locker room, please don't spray that stuff in such close proximity!

Ditto jeans in the gym - just looks... strange.

I can live with the weight lifters clanging weights and grunting occasionally, but PLEASE re-rack your weights! My gym actually has signs around that say, "If you're strong enough to lift the weights, you're strong enough to put them back. Thank you."

Tybalt71

I want my gym to band any and all workout equipment and just have a huge wide open space

ksalmon1998

the folks that set the speed and incline on the treadmill so fast and high that they have to hang on to the front of the machine. It irks the living **** out of me if you feel the need to hang on for dear life you're goin to fast or cant do the incline. STOP THAT MADNESS please

I use the incline and hold onto the front due to balance issues. I could set the treadmill at 1.0 with no incline and still have to hold on.

JNick77

We have a guy that comes in with his wheel chair. This might sound harsh at first but this dude uses a wheel chair as a quazi-gym bag. He walks perfectly and does all kind of exercises as somebody without a handicap does, never uses it for aid. All he does with the wheel chair is uses it to carry his own medicine ball, a bunch of rubber bands, and a gym mat. I guess that's one way of getting around the "No Gym Bags in the Exercise Area" rule. LOL

OK, have you ever watched him leave after his workout? Some people can move around perfectly well some of the time, but say, after a visit to the gym, they need some help. Example, someone with arthritis, who's been advised to try and keep as active as possible. Just another point of view.

Yup, actually I've seen him come and go. Word is that he told a few people his hobby is climbing mountains.

marieautumn

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

Planet Fitness is lame for doing that. It's not always intentional, sometimes it's just part of the lift like Deadlifting or Power Cleans. I can't really help it; I mean there's no nice gentle way to set down 300lbs when doing reps of deadlifts. Although I do admit that some men are just stupid about it and do it excessively.

- People who curl in the power racks
- Men who wear tons of cologne. Seriously, shower and get all primped to hit the gym???
- People that curl in the power rack and then sit down in the rack and take a 10 minute break in-between sets reading a book.
- People that don't unrack their weights. If you can Deadlift 400lbs then your *kitten* better un-rack it for the next person that can't.

plus if the weight is too heavy you are supposed to dump it. idk why planet fitness has that rule unless its to discourage people from actually challenging themselves when working with the weights.

bahacca

people who don't re-rack their weights!

I have to agree! Sometimes racking their weights is more workout than I originally intended!

This one! I don't need to be reracking 45 lb plates. I once tracked down a guy who had loaded 1 end of the squat cage bar and left it loaded on the FLOOR like that. I can unrack while they are in their PROPER place, but with it on the FLOOR??? Sorry dude. YOUR mess to clean up.

marieautumn

on people who make horrible noises while lifting the weights. we are going for reps most of the time, so if you cant move the weight easily then obviously you arent as strong as you want everyone to think and you need to take some weight off your bar!

A good lifting program has you do low reps high weight, so that is the point, make the weight difficult to lift, get better results. Now the noises usually are not necessary but can sometimes be involuntary.

my gym is crossfit so usually if we are doing reps you are doing them as part of a sequence of movements (ex: 15 split jerks, 9 toes to bar, 400 meter sprint -AMRAP for 15 mins. The trainer lines up all up with our weight goals based on level prior to starting the clock, so these guys know what weight they SHOULD be moving. i could understand if it was days where we are doing reps to find your max weight, but its annoying to hear some one grunting like a gorilla next to me when i'm already fatigued.

yesthistime

Hmm... I like a lot of the things that others want to ban, because it makes for good people-watching while I work out (yes, I know that means I am not working hard but whatevz!). If I had to ban something at my gym, I would ban 90% of the TVs being tuned into Fox News. I mean, clearly the gym has cable so why not have a little variety? Something a little lighter and less.... Fox News-ish... to make my workout more enjoyable. Just a thought :flowerforyou:

marieautumn

on people who make horrible noises while lifting the weights. we are going for reps most of the time, so if you cant move the weight easily then obviously you arent as strong as you want everyone to think and you need to take some weight off your bar!

Huh? Heavy lifters don't "go for reps" they go for failure.

thats only if you are trying to find your max weight. we go for reps all the time during actual work outs.

yesthistime

the folks that set the speed and incline on the treadmill so fast and high that they have to hang on to the front of the machine. It irks the living **** out of me if you feel the need to hang on for dear life you're goin to fast or cant do the incline. STOP THAT MADNESS please

I use the incline and hold onto the front due to balance issues. I could set the treadmill at 1.0 with no incline and still have to hold on.

There's "holding on" and there's "hanging on".... we all know what she's talking about, and it's not you

beachquilt

We have one lady at our YMCA who insists on blow drying her hair and putting on her makeup... stark naked!! And it is right by the door so it is hard to avoid her! Yikes!!!

sjackson1717

I wish my gym had a ban on................... women dousing themselves in body spray, hair spray, scented lotion, perfume, etc. Totally choked out last night getting back to my locker, walking through a veritable cloud of perfumigation.

Was just about to post the same thing. I would rather smell your stink than your perfume, please.

I don't know people this one is a toss up for me. I was on the NO purfume ban-wagon for along time until last Sunday...OMG can I say JESUS...this young dude who got on to the stairmaster next to me had a stennnnCHA (beyond FUNK) so bad I thought I was going to vomit in the middle of my work out. Now I know B.O. is somehow attractive in some foreign countries but not here, in the US of A, in MY gym next, next to ME! I seriously don't know how anyone ALIVE could smell that bad. It would have been way more curtious if he had taken a bath in cologne before he came to the gym.

superbeffie

I gotta say, I'm not stopping to wash mine off just to get on the treadmill. I'll wash it off in my shower when I get home. Why does my eyeliner bother you?

Nopedotjpeg

Nothing because my gym is better than yours.

zookeepersuzy

People who don't wipe down their equipment after using it! So, SO gross!

^^^^ THIS THIS THIS!!! ^^^^

I wish that class instructors would call ppl out about not wiping equipment down at the end of class. I've started wiping my spin bike down before class too.

Victoriav99

Fill in the blank!

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

That's my biggest pet peeve.

FORIANN

When I go to the gym I put in my etymotic high-isolation ear phones and either do cardio for an hour or my strength training. I don't care what others are doing.....I'm kicking my workout in the *kitten*. :laugh:

tameko2

Haha - this!

And I also hate the grunting/moaning that sounds like you're getting pleasured. You know who you are... and everyone else knows what I mean.

BAAAAAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YES!

*blush* Look uh .... I have to exhale when I've got some significant amount of weight on there. I have tried to not make a noise when I exhale and so far I have not been successful - I don't actually know how sexual it is but I imagine any harsh exhale grunting noise might sound sexual to someone. I'm really not doing it on purpose, I'm just trying to get my barbell back up. If it helps my trainer had a client who sounded like she was throwing up everytime she exhaled to push the weight up. That would be worse right? And no I don't have "too much" weight on there, i'm maintaining good form and full range of motion the whole time - Its just heavy.

I haven't really experienced the perfume thing but its probably because I don't cardio on the machines much or go to areas of the gym that have a lot of women.

And also to the person who complained about the girl wearing a bare midriff with a flabby belly - Whatever. Its her body not yours, she can show it or not as she likes. If she feels comfortable and good that way then its fine with me. I wore a bikini at over 200 lbs - I looked like a fat beached whale in it. I'm sure many people were horrified. Tough titties. One pieces are actually really uncomfortable when you're fat (or maybe I didn't own one that fit around my fat belly well) and I hate having to pull a tankini down all day. My clothes (or lack thereof) are for me, not for you.

That said - there's really no benefit to not wearing at least a thin tank top to soak up some of the extra sweat and keep less of your skin exposed to germs/other people's sweat. But I imagine you'd still see her fat belly under the tank. You can certainly see mine in my tank.

Also I am surprised more people didn't complain about people chatting on equipment instead of using it. My weight room was packed yesterday and there were these two guys just chatting away on one of the benches while TWO of us were obviously waiting. I gave them 3 minutes (benefit of the doubt that maybe they were in a really long rest interval) and then asked if they were done. They said "sorry one more, we're just being chatty cathys!" I said "yes, you are"

Seriously, go have social hour somewhere else, the equipment is limited and chances are someone is waiting for what you are using.

Oh and - fat guys who come in the weight room, do some bicep curls (often poorly) and some cable work and leave. I guess its better than nothing but really, just get SOME kind of plan online or a book or something and follow it. what you are doing is only slightly better than pointless. Your bicep curls will not prevent people from noticing how fat and weak your stomach, legs and back are.

sarahsmithard

1. Women who stand in the pool and chat - the clue is in the title ladies - it's a SWIMMING pool!
2. The assumption that EVERY class needs to be based on some kind of choreography. I don't want to do sequences in a pop video I want variety

tameko2

people who don't re-rack their weights!

I have to agree! Sometimes racking their weights is more workout than I originally intended!

This one! I don't need to be reracking 45 lb plates. I once tracked down a guy who had loaded 1 end of the squat cage bar and left it loaded on the FLOOR like that. I can unrack while they are in their PROPER place, but with it on the FLOOR??? Sorry dude. YOUR mess to clean up.

true story - i actually like reracking other people's 45 lb weights. They aren't that heavy individually and its the only time I get to pick one up. Haha. (one day I will get to leave them on there because I will be using them, muahaha). But it is technically rude - almost everyone in my weight room does NOT re-rack, that I've noticed. For some reason it doesn't bother me but I can see why it might bother others.

Caffeine_Addict

Nude (them) to Clothed (me) conversations in the locker room. *awkwaaard*

kmozymoz

the "moves like jagger" song...geez

Hahaha. YES.

beautifulbeast11

People who 'save/reserve' a machine by putting their towel or water bottle on it and then don't return to use it for 30 minutes or more.

After 10 minutes, it's free game people!

ArtGeek22

I wish my gym would:


1) loud grunters (I don't mind the heavy breathing and stuff but these people are loud!)

2) moms bringing there 7 year old boy into the women's dressing room (which they do but sometimes they don't enforce it :grumble: )

3) Perves.......



Other than that Cheers :drinker: (with water of course!)


Keep Calm and Carry On,
Anna

dukes418

Women in the free weight room when there is a "Women's Gym" section fully furnished. Not that I don't mind a little "eye candy" but not in the gym and not with the cameltoe look in her spandex. That's pretty ferocious when it is all sweaty down there.

Obviously, I'm speaking about someone in particular. Hopefully she's not on MFP...