new year GYM newbies argg get ready

quirkytizzy

:sad:

It's okay, we love you too! :flowerforyou: Plenty o love on teh MFP to go around.

a_certain_shade_of_green

the OP has come across as a bit of a tool really hasnt he...

Dave198lbs

the OP has come across as a bit of a tool really hasnt he...

he has atoned

banish your judgmental thoughts

it is the day of baby jesus and all that

Maaarkk

No cell phones would be a ridiculous idea. I record every exercise, weight & set on mine so I can go by them next time and improve.

durajim

My gym has a no mobile phone policy (calls, that is) It's bliss.

leantool

this is why i feel intimidated by gyms.better working out to a video and joining beginners' classes.

katevarner

Looking forward to some of them, actually. There are a couple of classes at my gym that are almost empty, and I don't want the gym to get rid of them, so here's hoping they are full of noobs the next couple of months!

jacquerd

Bring on the newbies!!!!! I could use another workout partner!!

Dauntlessness

I hope I don't offend anyone but I totally agree. In the gym too. I don't want to seem arrogant or disrespectful but I get super annoyed when I have to wait for machines because all the noobies have decided to flock in. I have committed myself for the last 2 years going 6 days a week and screwing up my routine drives me bananas. Prove that you are committed then you'll earn my respect and I wont mind as much.
For mfp, this whole thing of "support me, I need help, I need people to make me do this, I cant do it on my own" type things drive me up the wall too. Accountability people. No one is truly there when you make the decision to workout or not or eat those cookies. This is about YOU finding your own willpower. So, yeah, my friend additions will be pretty limited in the new year. It bothers me to put a bunch of my time and effort into someone who gives up so easily.

quirkytizzy

Prove that you are committed then you'll earn my respect and I wont mind as much.

Uhm, how do they prove they are committed without showing up? EDIT: I think you meant prove commitment by working out alone and friendless for a time before you will work with them.

Eh. I get it.

uk_ja

I hope I don't offend anyone but I totally agree. In the gym too. I don't want to seem arrogant or disrespectful but I get super annoyed when I have to wait for machines because all the noobies have decided to flock in. I have committed myself for the last 2 years going 6 days a week and screwing up my routine drives me bananas. Prove that you are committed then you'll earn my respect and I wont mind as much.
For mfp, this whole thing of "support me, I need help, I need people to make me do this, I cant do it on my own" type things drive me up the wall too. Accountability people. No one is truly there when you make the decision to workout or not or eat those cookies. This is about YOU finding your own willpower. So, yeah, my friend additions will be pretty limited in the new year. It bothers me to put a bunch of my time and effort into someone who gives up so easily.

I like your point of view and you made me think of this

Dave198lbs

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AsrarHussain

I hope I don't offend anyone but I totally agree. In the gym too. I don't want to seem arrogant or disrespectful but I get super annoyed when I have to wait for machines because all the noobies have decided to flock in. I have committed myself for the last 2 years going 6 days a week and screwing up my routine drives me bananas. Prove that you are committed then you'll earn my respect and I wont mind as much.
For mfp, this whole thing of "support me, I need help, I need people to make me do this, I cant do it on my own" type things drive me up the wall too. Accountability people. No one is truly there when you make the decision to workout or not or eat those cookies. This is about YOU finding your own willpower. So, yeah, my friend additions will be pretty limited in the new year. It bothers me to put a bunch of my time and effort into someone who gives up so easily.

I agree with you

sarahrbraun

I hope I don't offend anyone but I totally agree. In the gym too. I don't want to seem arrogant or disrespectful but I get super annoyed when I have to wait for machines because all the noobies have decided to flock in. I have committed myself for the last 2 years going 6 days a week and screwing up my routine drives me bananas. Prove that you are committed then you'll earn my respect and I wont mind as much.
For mfp, this whole thing of "support me, I need help, I need people to make me do this, I cant do it on my own" type things drive me up the wall too. Accountability people. No one is truly there when you make the decision to workout or not or eat those cookies. This is about YOU finding your own willpower. So, yeah, my friend additions will be pretty limited in the new year. It bothers me to put a bunch of my time and effort into someone who gives up so easily.

I know what you mean. When I started at the gym in February, a few of us got together to hold each other accountable. That way we would feel "guilty" if we let the other person down. By March my friend was only making it to the gym maybe once a week. I thought about not going when she couldn't go, but then I had a moment...I realized that if I let her dictate when *I* went to the gym, I was giving HER the power to keep me fat. I didn't WANT to be fat anymore. So I went no matter what. If she called me and asked if I was going on X day, I would ADD that day to my week. I lost weight, she did not.

Then this fall I had a friend who was in the mood to be my workout partner...but she also was sporadic. After maybe a month she told me that she felt she was needed elsewhere, so she couldn't work out with me anymore.

Dave198lbs

Prove that you are committed then you'll earn my respect and I wont mind as much.

you know...it is baby jesus day and I am wanting to be nice and non judgmental and all of that

but your kind of statement really makes me sad and angry and depressed and makes me wonder what would jesus do and I dont even believe in jesus but I believe in the message and I wish and I hope ...oh the agony

which reminds me of a song by the greatest rock band of all time...

"Hey hey, what can I do
I got a woman, she won't be true
Lord, hear what I say
I got a woman, wanna ball all day"

MemphisKitten

How about trying to help someone who doesn't know how to use a machine or use proper form? Wouldn't that make you feel better than simply complaining about it? How do you think they feel? EMPATHY is the key word here!! :noway:

chaNyn613

Yes, its that time of year again, newbies (NYP- New Years resloution People) in the gym, looking a little lost and possibly intimidated. My New Year's Resolution, and has been for the past 3 years, to encourage any one of them continue and find enjoyment in the workout. If just 5% of the NYPers stick with their health commitment then my community is 5% healthier. And hopefully, they will pay it forward. I get much more annoyed at the self-centered, look-at-me regulars than I do the newbies. But I do understand the OPs rant. I don't really appreciate anyone hogging the weights, machines etc. I didn't get up at 5 am to watch you stand in the squat rack.

TriciaAllen7251

Maybe they wouldn't disappear if there was more acceptance. Instead of complaining about them, reach out and offer to help. There's nothing worse than attempting to change your outlook on working out and then getting the stink eye at the gym because you are new or not one of the "rats". I wouldn't me around for long either.

meshashesha2012

you do realize that the resolutioners help keep your gym prices low right? if there wasnt a huge influx of resolutioners joining current membership rates would more than likely increase. i've been to gyms like that and they get really expensive. maybe you're balling like that and can afford the increases you'd incur but i dont know many others who could.

crazy4lulu

just remember.... we all started from somewhere. yes there will be new people. and yes you will have your NYR ( that New Year Resolutions). But thats how people get started ... and some people actually will stick with it... Give them a chance. Teach them something. Possibly smile and ask if they might need help, because believe it or not... that how i got started there. I knew absolutely nothing. brand spankin new. all it took was for someone to say... " hey if you need a hand let me know". thats all it took. and im hooked!!!

AsaThorsWoman

Everybody's gotta start sometime. Maybe they'll see you killing it at the gym and be motivated, even though the original plan may have just been to lurk on the cable machines or bike and text. Give them a chance.

When I first started at the gym a few years ago, I looked like one of those girls just lazing away on the bike for 5 minutes, or spending 3 minutes on the elliptical then calling it a day. You know what though? A few weeks before that, I was entirely paralyzed from a stroke. I literally could not move my arms or legs. Those 3 or 5 minutes were as hard then as squatting 135 is for me now. Probably harder, actually.

Let's not judge those when we don't know their story.

Thank you!!!

This!!!

iluvprettyshoes

Everybody's gotta start sometime. Maybe they'll see you killing it at the gym and be motivated, even though the original plan may have just been to lurk on the cable machines or bike and text. Give them a chance.

When I first started at the gym a few years ago, I looked like one of those girls just lazing away on the bike for 5 minutes, or spending 3 minutes on the elliptical then calling it a day. You know what though? A few weeks before that, I was entirely paralyzed from a stroke. I literally could not move my arms or legs. Those 3 or 5 minutes were as hard then as squatting 135 is for me now. Probably harder, actually.

Let's not judge those when we don't know their story.

Same here. I walked very slow on the treadmill after my stroke. I was sure there were people there that thought I was just being lazy which made it even harder than it already was!

fittertanme

I know waht you mean about the gym after the christmas but I have to admit I was one of them but if you can stick with it even when its not going your way you can do it

TylerJ76

MAYBE some would stay more if you actually helped them out, instead of being an *kitten*.

angel79202

the brand new matching clothes..
the resolve that ends in a couple of weeks..
The ones that I am scared for are the ones that go from nothing..then try to go hardcore...my gym called 911 10 times last January for newbies..just need to keep it safe!

I always offer to help the newbies...the gym now has a mandatory orientation.

Coffeeholic8

I hope i dont offend anyone. (Translation = I don't give a crap if this offends anyone)

I think the OP is a bit of a ****.

AmiC0717

Oh now this I love. I am admitting it. I've totally had the same thoughts and I don't care. I can't rearrange my schedule to go at 5am to avoid them. I have kids and work early. My only hope is that they prefer other locations of the Y not the one I go to too

PikaKnight

I hope I don't offend anyone but I totally agree. In the gym too. I don't want to seem arrogant or disrespectful but I get super annoyed when I have to wait for machines because all the noobies have decided to flock in. I have committed myself for the last 2 years going 6 days a week and screwing up my routine drives me bananas. Prove that you are committed then you'll earn my respect and I wont mind as much.
For mfp, this whole thing of "support me, I need help, I need people to make me do this, I cant do it on my own" type things drive me up the wall too. Accountability people. No one is truly there when you make the decision to workout or not or eat those cookies. This is about YOU finding your own willpower. So, yeah, my friend additions will be pretty limited in the new year. It bothers me to put a bunch of my time and effort into someone who gives up so easily.

I like your point of view and you made me think of this

LMAO! Epic...hahahaha....

And to the poster above the awesome image....Some people realize they have no willpower. Sometimes it takes seeing and learning from other people and getting told to get up and do something about it, helps nudge them to finding that strength that they never thought they had.

I hope that the influx of new people both to the gym and to this site find that something inside them and stick to their goals and know that there are people both in RL and on here that will lend their advice and support. Who knows, maybe they'll stay longer than a month because they felt not judged and welcomed.

Elzecat

There is nothing wrong with New Gym members. My only problem are the ones that occupy the good equipment and they are just watching the television attached or chatting on the AB-X chairs with their besties.

thats who i was saying it to people think im saying to the good people im saying people who go the gym and lazy off dont workout text dont even break a sweat keep talking wastes time on the machines

The ONE guy at my gym who sits around and texts/chats on the phone while hogging machines that others would like to use---is NOT a newbie. He's been a regular at my gym for years and must be working out some of the time because he's got the body to show for it. But...he is DEFINITELY not a newbie and should know gym etiquette by now--he's just a d$ck. That's why I find posts like yours to be silly---you're calling out all the so-called new year's resolutioners/newbies for bad gym behavior, when it's more likely to be the egotistical buff dude who thinks he's god's gift to women and tells people to go use a different machine...so he can sit there and continue a fifteen-minute conversation instead of using the machine. And maybe he's conversing with his doctor or something, so maybe I shouldn't judge him, but it's annoying as heck.

And yeah, anytime you start a post with "I am not trying to offend anyone but"--it's really obvious that you KNOW you are going to offend people.

/facepalm

AmiC0717

Another thing that I did when I first joined the gym was to avoid going at the busiest or popular times. I created my schedule to not be in people's way that had been there for a long time. I also had a fitness member take me around and show me what machines did what and made sure when I had questions that I went to the employees and asked. It's about accountability to yourself and to the regulars. My biggest annoyance are the unsupervised kids but even that is rare because the employees are good about finding parents.