I wish my gym had a ban on ___________

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  • Erinslove
    Erinslove Posts: 139
    Women walking naked all over the locker room just for fun.

    I am not sure what walking around "just for fun" includes. However, I certainly feel like it's ok to be naked in the dressing room. I hate conservative, Southern gyms that make me feel like I have to hide behind some silly curtain in a cramped space to change clothes. What is the biggie? Also, if I am showering at gym and drying my hair I am probably hot and remaining out of my clothes while getting ready (I do wrap a towel around me) helps keep me cool. Who wants to sweat while applying makeup?
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    lane hogging in the pool. Three's a tri-club that has taken over the pool on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they don't know how to circle swim so instead of staying reasonably condensed and allow other members to use the pool the spread out and hog the whole thing. Half of them aren't even members!
  • allegedglobalconspiracy
    allegedglobalconspiracy Posts: 65 Member
    MMA and UFC wannabes. bad tattoos and bro downs need to go!
  • azwildcatfan94
    azwildcatfan94 Posts: 314 Member
    women who wear shorts so small and short you can see there vagina when they stretch. yes this bothers me, how would you feel if my stuff was hanging out all the time??

    Men with too short shorts too. Where I live, it is always a military dude (but not all military dudes) wearing the military issue shorts... eeew. definitely no "OORAH" for them
  • mandiemma
    mandiemma Posts: 128 Member
    exercise anorexics. I know it's a serious illness but it is hard to watch a skeletal girl kill herself on the elliptical for an hour.

    This^^

    My gym actually ended up quietly banning a woman who they said was trying to "convert" other gym goers into her type of starvation/exercise diets.
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    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.

    Ummm I would rather smell neither!! I almost choked with weights in my hands because some guy was so funky he should have had a green cloud around him to at least warn me.

    I'd rather smell disgusting old sweat BO than be perfumigated.
  • mfisher16508
    mfisher16508 Posts: 269 Member
    peeps who dont wipe down the equipment and I say this cause I got ringworm on my face from peeps who dont do this,so dont touch your face no matter what. and wipe your machine down b and after.,...just sayin;)
  • PrincessLou71186
    PrincessLou71186 Posts: 741 Member
    I wish my gym had a ban on wearing perfume etc in the pool. Oh wait, it does,

    I've lost count the amount of times I've been swimming, pass someone and they smell of perfume or cologne or something else. It's chokable. Lol.
  • worej
    worej Posts: 108
    exercise anorexics. I know it's a serious illness but it is hard to watch a skeletal girl kill herself on the elliptical for an hour.

    Banning them isn't going to cure them, and we don't ban other people we don't enjoy looking at...
  • morgansmom02
    morgansmom02 Posts: 1,131 Member
    Children.... which to me is ANYONE under 18.... (well, I could make an exception here and there, but it would be a case by case basis).

    AND.... Mother's who have no freakin' sense and bring their 8 yr. old SON into the WOMEN'S locker room! There are FAMILY locker rooms just for this situation.

    You must not have kids...

    I agree with kids not being in the gym part, but sometimes you have to drag your son into the women's locker room if the family one is full! Especially if he has to pee. I am not sending him in the men's locker room by himself!
  • blakejohn
    blakejohn Posts: 1,129 Member
    Over charging me for crap I don't want or use.
  • Erinslove
    Erinslove Posts: 139
    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.
  • gdunn55
    gdunn55 Posts: 363
    MMA and UFC wannabes. bad tattooss and bro downs need to go!
    Ha!
  • richied26
    richied26 Posts: 948 Member
    Steroid junkies who drop the weights.... just to let everyone know they can bench the weight of a small family car
  • lizard053
    lizard053 Posts: 2,344 Member
    Cell phones, frat boys sitting on machines and not using them, pizza (I hate pizza night at the gym, nearly made me puke all over last night!)
  • HealthyHappy120
    HealthyHappy120 Posts: 262
    Cell phone usage. This lady would NOT stop talking on the treadmill behind me! and I had my volume pretty high..
  • chachita7
    chachita7 Posts: 996 Member
    ...attention *kitten*...
  • ShanniLee
    ShanniLee Posts: 69
    ...On wearing a sports-bra as a top for women who have grab-able fat on their abdomen. There is 1 young girl who does this. Since she’s like 19 with a bellybutton ring I guess she feels she is hot stuff but her blubber literally has some overhang onto her pants, ewww! Keep it covered until you have something worthy to show off. It’s possible she weighed a lot more so now she is hot stuff compared to her former self but unless you keep a before photo tagged to your back all we see is gross squish, no thanks.

    That is pretty rude!! Just because you don't have the confidence she does, does not give you the right to put her down. Maybe you should think about wearing a ski mask over your face. Take it as you will!!!
  • CountryBoy65
    CountryBoy65 Posts: 908 Member
    Women walking naked all over the locker room just for fun.

    Unfortunately, I never see women walking naked all over the locker room in the gym where I work out.....
  • DannyMussels
    DannyMussels Posts: 1,842 Member
    Beards.
  • chcoley
    chcoley Posts: 63 Member
    Constant chit chatting during classes. If you want to chat, do it before or after the class, not during when I can't hear the instructor over your giggling and talking.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 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.

    my thoughts exactly. They may like that machine better for a variety of reasons. I usually pick my machine (if I have the option) based on position to the fan (I like it blowing on me to help keep me somewhat cool).
  • Erinslove
    Erinslove Posts: 139
    People who sweat profusely and insist on wearing a skimpy tank top that doesn't absorb any of the sweat. I don't need to see drippy pits!

    Ummm, I am so not with you on this one. Some people, like me, sweat profusely when we work out and we wear tanks because we are hot. I have a sweat towel and I clean my machine when done and I don't hug other gym goers so I am going to continue to feel just fine about being a hard working and appropriately dressed athlete. :-)
  • azwildcatfan94
    azwildcatfan94 Posts: 314 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.

    That's absolutely not true. I go to the gym straight after work and do not take the time to take off my make-up. That doesn't mean I am not there to work out. I take pride in how I look, whether it be at the gym, grocery store, work, etc. I also think I look DAMN "pretty" when I work out, thank you very much. & I sweat A LOT.

    P.S. I also don't break out from wearing make-up to the gym. Let's try and remember that everyone is different.Thanks.

    I have to agree with this. If I see a woman come in in work clothes, change to gym clothes, and work up a sweat, I'm not going to judge. But, then there are the people who come in and look like they did themselves up just to go to the gym and spend more time wandering around than actually exercising.
  • mfisher16508
    mfisher16508 Posts: 269 Member
    i hate it when skinny girls use equipment with blank looks on their face, it is like they aren't even trying to get a burn. or when big people use the treadmill and power walk with no incline, it is like honestly, put the incline up a little bit and you will burn so many more calories. ooh and highschool girls that have no clue what they are doing and just walk around flaunting their stuff.

    but i think my biggest irritant comes from the guys. you know the ones that are there everyday and only work out their upper body and arms and therefore looke insanely out of proportion and then glare at you because you are not as "in shape" as they are. seriously guys, you don't look good. try working out your back, not just your chest.



    maybe the "big people" dont know this, I would politely tell them that bit of info, being a big person myself, I would appreciate it, but why diiferentiate between skinny and big only, I am sure there are more sterotypes we could include here, but seriously let them know, or maybe they are not at that point yet. remember education is the key, not judging from afar.

    Good luck I hope they are receptive
  • mikehorn91
    mikehorn91 Posts: 6 Member
    ...attention *kitten*...

    haha seriously.
  • AmethystSif
    AmethystSif Posts: 5
    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!

    So agree! I am there to work out, not worry about my lip gloss or mascara running into my eye.
  • billgiersberg
    billgiersberg Posts: 163
    lol.... ALL the above .... (except the girls in the shorty shorts):devil:

    About the only thing I have not seen mentioned is people who will wait for a place to park up close to the entrance instead of walking across the parking lot. Haha.... looks so funny.

    All these res reasons I'm glad I do my workouts at home ... plus the money I save. (I wonder if I can get my wife to wear those shorty shorts though.....)
  • jessie580
    jessie580 Posts: 87
    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.

    THIS!!!! my gosh, I have asthma and this makes me barely able to workout because the smells makes me wheezy! :\
  • Erinslove
    Erinslove Posts: 139
    Fill in the blank!

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


    oh ya! I find that so rude.

    I have had them put a ban on eating food at the gym. Im allergic to bananas and I kept seeing the same guy walking on the treadmill eating a banana! WTH? I now have to worry about what this guy touched so I don't touch it? Im not deathly allergic, but I sure don't like looking like I was beat by a cheese grater.

    I once saw someone eating on a treadmill and it made me laugh out loud - what was his point?? Seriously, the only time you have to grab a meal is DURING your workout? I mean, when training for a marathon I have sucked an energy gel on long runs but when I hop to the gym for an hour on the tread I don't bring a pot roast!

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