Biggest Pet Peeves at the Gym

slkehl

When you're doing some pre workout stretching, eyeing the only unoccupied elliptical, and just as you're about done, someone gets on it

jaysonhijinx

Share yours, but here are some of mine.

1. Guys that sit around and chit chat for like an hour, especially when they're holding up a piece of equipment or weights. I mean seriously, can you chatty cathys go grab a cup of coffee or something? I'm trying to get swole here!

2. Guys that go to the gym, and whose top priority is to pick up girls. I'm pretty sure the young lady came here to workout, not listen to your pick-up lines. (Although I do enjoy watching this from time to time. Some of the funniest rejections I've seen happened at gyms.)

3. That know-it-all guy, whose sole purpose is to walk around the gym and tell you that you're doing it wrong. Look at me, I'm pretty sure I have a grip on my workouts. Next time I need HGH advice, I'll come find you.

4. People who don't wipe after they use the equipment. I mean, come on! Really?

These are just a few of mine. Are you guilty of any of these? Do you have any of your own? Let me know.

All these plus people who will use a set of dumbbells or some plates and not put them back when they are finished!

And I'm proud to say I'm guilty of none of these! Apparently I have a good gym ethic, hehe.

Iceman1800

Funny how I've trained for over 30 years and now this whiney bs about wiping down machines has become a huge issue. Leaving a puddle of sweat is one thing. But dome feel they need to get the spray bottle out if they brush a machine as they walk past it. It's a gym, not a hospital. Get over the namby pamby crap and lift.

KS_4691

People who think randomly touching a wet wipe to a few spots on a machine actually makes a difference in the amount of germs that are on it.

I may very well have wiped it down, but based on the number of comments about this topic, I'm led to believe that there is an overabundance of germophobes out there. I probably didn't do a job satisfactory to your liking, so if you are so concerned about the sweat left behind by someone else, wipe it down before you get on.

Now...

what does bother me is lazy a-holes that will piss all over a toilet seat rather than lift it up first.

1. If you can't take the time (are are too scared of germs) to lift the seat, use the urinal, but...
2. If you are too embarrassed by the size of your manhood to use the urinal, then...
3. If you aim is so bad that you can't hit the hole, and you're too lazy (or scared) to lift it, then clean your piss off the seat when you finish.

I'd rather wipe up somebody's sweat than their urine.

Little known biochemistry fact: sweat has the same composition as urine.

MVal79

I agree with the OP, especially wiping down the machines. It doesn't matter if you were only on for 10 minutes warming up-wipe it down! Its courtesy. As per some other responses, I don't care what girls wear, or whether they are *actually* working out or not, how much make-up they have on or whether they are trying to pick men up, honestly. I have to agree with the DO for the BO post---and there are some chronic offenders at my gym. I don't have to deal with people holding onto machines at my gym (walking away, but still 'using'), people are pretty cordial and will wait their turn if the machine is taken.
There is a big room, the group training room at my gym, which has some weights and other equipment, but mostly it has lots of space. The rest of the gym is pretty tightly packed with equipment. My pet peeve is when people train doing walking lunges and short sprints and things in the aisles of the gym. Please use the group training room! There is more space and less chance that you are going to literally run into me when I decide to get off my machine!

Brooke_26

People who are always complaining about what others are wearing...if they wear t-shirts & sweats, they complain.....if they wear boy shorts & sports bra, they complain......who cares what others are wearing, your there to work out, not be a fashion critic :laugh:

Iceman1800

People who are always complaining about what others are wearing...if they wear t-shirts & sweats, they complain.....if they wear boy shorts & sports bra, they complain......who cares what others are wearing, your there to work out, not be a fashion critic :laugh:

agreed, I usually don't even notice what others are wearing, I'm there to pick stuff up and put it down.

sandylion

3. Girls who wear just a sports bra in front of the whole gym... I do not care how skinny you are it is just wrong!

I work out at a climbing gym with no air conditioning. 50% of the men there are shirtless. Why is it wrong to wear only a sports bra that does not show an inch of cleavage?

kaatielove

My biggest pet peeve is when someone gets on the treadmill next to me and stands on to belt with the machine still off for God only knows how long until they find whatever channel they want to watch on the TV. Is it not possible to start walking or something while youre flipping through the channels? It irritates me so bad. hah

poedunk65

Old men with their balls hanging out and standing there talking to you naked!!! EWWWW........

katie_berry

Guys who walk away from a bench/machine/whatever and then if you go near it say "I'm using that"
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I agree, its so annoying!!

fit_librarian

I don't really have pet peeves at the gym. But there was this time I didn't bring a magazine or my ipod and there weren't many people at the gym at the time, so I changed the channel on one of the many tvs from a baseball game to a different channel. All the other tvs had the same baseball game. Some guy came over and changed it back to the baseball game and then went off to a different part of the gym. I mean....come on!

kittenmcgowan

Women that come in with no make up and any old shirt they pull off the floor.

Why is that a problem? You're only going to get hot and sweaty anyway, it's a gym, not a bar or a catwalk, or even the local shops! I prefer that to some of the tarted up creatures who don't do impact because it will upset their latest 'surgery'. There is this gym near where I live that is like that. Damn I ran faster AWAY from that place than I ever have before!

kgb6days

Funny how I've trained for over 30 years and now this whiney bs about wiping down machines has become a huge issue. Leaving a puddle of sweat is one thing. But dome feel they need to get the spray bottle out if they brush a machine as they walk past it. It's a gym, not a hospital. Get over the namby pamby crap and lift.

Really! I'm with you! If you leave a wet spot - clean it up. Otherwise you get more germs at Walmart from the buggy. There is now a paranoia about germs that I don't understand and I'm a nurse

Berto0391

People who think randomly touching a wet wipe to a few spots on a machine actually makes a difference in the amount of germs that are on it.

I may very well have wiped it down, but based on the number of comments about this topic, I'm led to believe that there is an overabundance of germophobes out there. I probably didn't do a job satisfactory to your liking, so if you are so concerned about the sweat left behind by someone else, wipe it down before you get on.

Now...

what does bother me is lazy a-holes that will piss all over a toilet seat rather than lift it up first.

1. If you can't take the time (are are too scared of germs) to lift the seat, use the urinal, but...
2. If you are too embarrassed by the size of your manhood to use the urinal, then...
3. If you aim is so bad that you can't hit the hole, and you're too lazy (or scared) to lift it, then clean your piss off the seat when you finish.

I'd rather wipe up somebody's sweat than their urine.

Little known biochemistry fact: sweat has the same composition as urine.

Get over it.

ladytxn

People that talk on their cell phone while on the treadmill.

I totally agree about the people that don't wipe down the equipment - Gross!

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Both of these!!! Especially the talkers....considering I'm at the gym at 5:30 am. :huh:

DrMAvDPhD

Women that come in with no make up and any old shirt they pull off the floor.

Why is that a problem? You're only going to get hot and sweaty anyway, it's a gym, not a bar or a catwalk, or even the local shops! I prefer that to some of the tarted up creatures who don't do impact because it will upset their latest 'surgery'. There is this gym near where I live that is like that. Damn I ran faster AWAY from that place than I ever have before!

It was meant in sarcasm to all the people who thought it was okay to b**** about women doing the opposite to point out that some other chick wearing makeup has absolutely no impact on your workout.

DrMAvDPhD

3. Girls who wear just a sports bra in front of the whole gym... I do not care how skinny you are it is just wrong!

I work out at a climbing gym with no air conditioning. 50% of the men there are shirtless. Why is it wrong to wear only a sports bra that does not show an inch of cleavage?

Because you are supposed to be ashamed of your body, I guess.

jerber160

i saw a girl flip a guy the bird today as he walked by oogling her. i haven't been going that long and it shocked me.. she was pisssed as she tread the mill.

bigtwagner

The guy who only works one body part...same one every day!

gogojodee

1. Girls who spend two hours getting ready just to go to the gym and you can smell their perfume a mile away!

2. Girls who do not work up a sweat, you are at the gym to lose weight not to look pretty and pick up guys.

3. Girls who wear just a sports bra in front of the whole gym... I do not care how skinny you are it is just wrong!

Don't give a crap - I'm gonna just wear a sports bra when I'm at the gym, eventually. I've ran outside in just a sports bra but wanna have a flatter stomach!

I can't just wear a sports bra at the "gym" I go to considering it's on hospital property and doctors and health pros work and work out there not to mention patients.

itsbarbiie

The people in the circuit room doing sets. It wouldn't bother me if I wasn't using it correctly and you went to another machine when I'm about to use the one you are on. Seriously, you can see the rules posted on the wall. It just messes up my workout.

gogojodee

i saw a girl flip a guy the bird today as he walked by oogling her. i haven't been going that long and it shocked me.. she was pisssed as she tread the mill.

I would have done the same thing!

WowingOverWhinging

Share yours, but here are some of mine.

1. Guys that sit around and chit chat for like an hour, especially when they're holding up a piece of equipment or weights. I mean seriously, can you chatty cathys go grab a cup of coffee or something? I'm trying to get swole here!

2. Guys that go to the gym, and whose top priority is to pick up girls. I'm pretty sure the young lady came here to workout, not listen to your pick-up lines. (Although I do enjoy watching this from time to time. Some of the funniest rejections I've seen happened at gyms.)

3. That know-it-all guy, whose sole purpose is to walk around the gym and tell you that you're doing it wrong. Look at me, I'm pretty sure I have a grip on my workouts. Next time I need HGH advice, I'll come find you.

4. People who don't wipe after they use the equipment. I mean, come on! Really?

These are just a few of mine. Are you guilty of any of these? Do you have any of your own? Let me know.

I had every. single. one of these tonight in the gym. I was getting so agitated having to switch up my workouts because I felt too polite to ask/tell them to move. :explode:

Also, there was this girl who's only come to the gym a few times and it must've been the first time they'd seen her because they'd, very obviously, stopped what they were doing to stare at her on the rowing machine and she ended up slipping a few times and, I'm pretty sure, cutting her workout short before leaving not long after. I felt awful for her.

big_drake

Guys that grunt and drop weights.

This one is probably my biggest one. It's like they do it so everyone know how much weight they are lifting. Show some respect for other people and the equipment.

WowingOverWhinging

1. Girls who spend two hours getting ready just to go to the gym and you can smell their perfume a mile away!

2. Girls who do not work up a sweat, you are at the gym to lose weight not to look pretty and pick up guys.

3. Girls who wear just a sports bra in front of the whole gym... I do not care how skinny you are it is just wrong!

Don't give a crap - I'm gonna just wear a sports bra when I'm at the gym, eventually. I've ran outside in just a sports bra but wanna have a flatter stomach!

I can't just wear a sports bra at the "gym" I go to considering it's on hospital property and doctors and health pros work and work out there not to mention patients.

My bad, but this! ^ I've never, EVER, even been close to being able to wear a sports bra in my room, let alone in public. Forgive me, but if I ever get to that stage, I'm gonna be showing off my achievements. :')

ShaunaLaNee

#1 People who don't wipe their sweat off the machines, hello...I have no interest in siting in your *kitten* sweat!!!

#2 People who walk around looking in the mirror, doing more showing off than lifting weights....you're a joke...

KatiaClouse

1. Girls who spend two hours getting ready just to go to the gym and you can smell their perfume a mile away!

2. Girls who do not work up a sweat, you are at the gym to lose weight not to look pretty and pick up guys.

3. Girls who wear just a sports bra in front of the whole gym... I do not care how skinny you are it is just wrong!

anyone ever notice that the only people who ever have these complaints at the gym are other women:laugh:

I wouldn't say that girls who get prettied up to go to the gym is a "peeve" (I find it more amusing than anything else), but the overdone perfume is annoying. People are working out, breathing heavy, and here's this excessive perfume making it hard on people with allergies. Manners!

shanice_22

Women that come in with no make up

I hope this is a joke lol..

wee_wolfie

They've been mentioned before but:

- Dudes flinging weights down.

- How uncomfortable the guys in the free weight area can make chicks feel. It took me a long time to work up enough nerve to go in there, and I still find it difficult.


It;s not a peeve, but the dude who lifts his shirt to check his abs in the mirror after every single set of any exercise. Are you afraid of them disappearing, mate?