GRRR Gym No-No's!
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More people need to piss you off more often. Too funny.0
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If someone's got a dumbbell in each hand equivalent to your body weight, and is throwing them about themselves on the heavily padded floor area, it may be in case they drop them.
Please don't put your yoga mat practically under them, it's dangerous. 5 times I had to move today, up and down the matted weights area.
Is that your drinks bottle, pen, book and locker key? No? Then why are you right next to them? Perhaps I was visiting the rack to get weights?
It may seem petty, but there were never more than 3 people on the mats at once. I must've smelled really good today or something.0 -
Also, people who come up and want to start chatting with me. While I clearly have headphones in. WTF?!? Even taking them out dramatically doesn't seem to deter them...
This happens to me at least once a week
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Guys who pick up dumbells off the rack and do their set right there without stepping back.
When I can hear your headphones over my headphones
Guys who work out in packs of 5 or more and take forever to get off a machine. (This last one only mildly annoys me. I can appreciate guys who get their socializing in at the gym.)
There's one guy at my gym who must be going to a black tie event as soon as he leaves. I swear his make-up bag is than my backpack.0 -
Lol! Thanks for the laugh! I know, people need to bring back the fact that the gym is for WORKING OUT!0
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Love your posts GorillaEsq.
What gets me are the ladies who turn up in their designer workout gear, makeup and hair all done like they've just stepped out of the salon, and then sit on the rower with their friend on the next one talking while doing a little light rowing (number 1 on the resistance). C'mon if you're at the gym you are there to get hot and sweaty (I pretty much do as I walk in the place - could be an allergic reaction still to exercise though) not to be able to say "I've just spent an hour in the gym"!
The guys that drop the really heavy weights they are lifting too - I know you've just done a really hard set, but do you have to drop the weights and make the floor shake??0 -
The guys that drop the really heavy weights they are lifting too - I know you've just done a really hard set, but do you have to drop the weights and make the floor shake??
How else are you supposed to tell everyone that you have just lifted all that weight?0 -
Weigh droppers for me. I admit I'm just awesome, but I can bench press the 125's, sit up with them (safely), and set them down so they hardly make a peep. The only lift I do that makes noise is a heavy deadlift, and that's my gym's fault for not having any rubber coated plates (I never "drop" it, just set it down pretty quick).
I've seen guys just throw down weights while doing incline press, shoulderpress, tricep extentions, one arm rows, and others where there really is not too much stress to set the weights down.
These guys might have to do fewer forearm curls if they learned to control weights...0 -
Help!!!! Your balls just popped out and tried to wink at me!!!!!!!!0
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I am one of those bad people on their phones, but it's because I have an app that tracks my sets, reps and weight. I do however make sure I'm not sitting on the machines while entering this into my phone. My gym is a women's only, and sadly, there are not very many women in the free weights area, and even less near the squat rack so I tend to have it to myself.0
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The guys that drop the really heavy weights they are lifting too - I know you've just done a really hard set, but do you have to drop the weights and make the floor shake??
How else are you supposed to tell everyone that you have just lifted all that weight?
By the all grunting that has been going on while doing said set!0 -
The guys that drop the really heavy weights they are lifting too - I know you've just done a really hard set, but do you have to drop the weights and make the floor shake??
How else are you supposed to tell everyone that you have just lifted all that weight?
By the all grunting that has been going on while doing said set!
you have a point. But if there's grunting AND you drop the weights then it has to be REALLY heavy right?0 -
Yesterday, a man several treadmills down was talking to his friend about his personal relationship with Jesus. Which, is cool and all, but his idea of "talking" was speaking loud enough to snuff out the music. He was the only thing I could hear. And he went on and on and on. It's hard to get into the frame of mind to "trample the weak and hurdle the dead" when I'm listening to someone's thoughts on Jesus.0
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Also, the lady that spends 90 minutes on the elliptical with no resistance moving so slowly that she can read a book...how is this helping you? Its not, and its hogging the machine which has a clearly stated 30 minute time limit so others can us a high traffic machine.0
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My gym has a No phone policy ( unless your using it to listen to music)0
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The guys that drop the really heavy weights they are lifting too - I know you've just done a really hard set, but do you have to drop the weights and make the floor shake??
How else are you supposed to tell everyone that you have just lifted all that weight?
True - I suppose it makes them feel better - personally can't help but think they are doing it for the extra attention from the pretty blonde ladies on the cardio machines opposite the weights section - the grunting and dropping of weights does seem to increase then ;-)
By the all grunting that has been going on while doing said set!
you have a point. But if there's grunting AND you drop the weights then it has to be REALLY heavy right?0 -
grin smile chuckle blush grin sigh. love this!!0
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+1 on this. I see it on treadmills more than ellipticals. If you can read while working out, you're doing it wrong.Also, the lady that spends 90 minutes on the elliptical with no resistance moving so slowly that she can read a book...how is this helping you? Its not, and its hogging the machine which has a clearly stated 30 minute time limit so others can us a high traffic machine.0 -
Walking around the locker room naked for an inordinate amount of time. I understand the locker room is for changing, so a renegade boob or a random butt cheek doesn't irk me. Just be expedient about it. Panties and a bra or a towel are all I'm asking here.
Standing around naked just chatting or leaning over the counter (agh, me eyes!) doing your makeup in the buff is just not necessary. I don't even do that at home!
Also, people who come up and want to start chatting with me. While I clearly have headphones in. WTF?!? Even taking them out dramatically doesn't seem to deter them...
Renegage boob = :laugh:
from OP...I have problems 1 and 3 at my gym. Drives me insane - particularly the staring. Dude, I'm working out. Please save your Chester the Molester leer for the bars.0 -
Looky-Lookerson with a chronic case of Stare-idus.
WTF? Did my b@lls suddenly pop-out and smile at you?
Hey, I've seen it happen. Well, maybe not smile...but I was on a treadmill once, and there was a guy across from me riding the recumbent bike. With loose shorts on. Commando.
How can you NOT stare.0 -
Yes. For a nominal fee.You're awesome! Will come come to my gym and take the b*tches down?0 -
Yeah. There's a guy at my gym that smells like a dead body had a baby with a pair of feet.
Sitting on equipment I need, talking on your cell phone.
I would rather have this guy - heck, I wouldn't even mind if he brought his laptop and set up office on the bench if it meant he didn't smell like they guy down my gym last night!
I swear he came to the gym straight from being trapped in a Chilean mine for 3 months!
"Oh my God, the smell is disgusting, it seems to be following us around!" My wife said to me as I followed her around
I had to pull her face into my armpit to prove it wasn't me. I smelled delicious0 -
Yeah. There's a guy at my gym that smells like a dead body had a baby with a pair of feet.
Sitting on equipment I need, talking on your cell phone.
I would rather have this guy - heck, I wouldn't even mind if he brought his laptop and set up office on the bench if it meant he didn't smell like they guy down my gym last night!
I swear he came to the gym straight from being trapped in a Chilean mine for 3 months!
"Oh my God, the smell is disgusting, it seems to be following us around!" My wife said to me as I followed her around
I had to pull her face into my armpit to prove it wasn't me. I smelled delicious
With....a pair of..feet? Not sure how that would work, exactly. I have all sorts of strange mental pictures floating around in my head, now.0 -
Perv. Did you see my post right under yours on the insult string?With....a pair of..feet? Not sure how that would work, exactly. I have all sorts of strange mental pictures floating around in my head, now.0
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