Gym Etiquette - what bugs you?

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  • ThisGirl2013
    ThisGirl2013 Posts: 220 Member
    People who worry about what other people are doing rather than just focusing on their own workouts.


    ^^This^^

    but recently I've been letting my own insecurities get to me with all the girls who show up to the gym all done up pretty.

    Exactly! Also, I tend to go when it is not very busy but don't climb on to a machine RIGHT NEXT TO ME when there are the same machines where we could have at least one in between us. Obviously if it is busy, no worries but I just hate it when they do that and then I can see them peeking at my numbers (like calories burned or distance).
    Maybe I just need to be less insecure *lol*
  • SweetlyVague
    SweetlyVague Posts: 172 Member
    -Not wiping down machines
    -Standing around and talking while blocking machines
    -Street clothes
  • Liftnlove
    Liftnlove Posts: 235
    People...in there...breathing. It's SSSSSSIIIICK. :sick:
  • lisa799
    lisa799 Posts: 79 Member
    Last week, I was trying to get through a particularly challenging run on the treadmill. There was a teen girl on the elliptical next to me talking on her phone, so I was annoyed by that...then it got worse when her little friend came to hang out with her and wedged herself between my treadmill and the elliptical. Then they had a typical teen girl (screaming alternated with giggling and shrieking) convo for the next 10 minutes or so. I usually don't care what anyone else is doing at the gym & I really wanted to say something to them but I refrained.
  • kylTKe
    kylTKe Posts: 146 Member
    Honestly, pretty much everything people do at the gym. Especially the things that fall in the category of egotism. Like flexing or taking pictures of yourself in the mirror, girls who work out in a sports bra, etc...
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    When people on cardio machines next to each other try to hold a conversation, without realizing they're talking extremely loudly to each other over the sound of the machine. It can be to the point I can't drown out their personal conversations with my ear buds.
  • melanelson
    melanelson Posts: 16 Member
    1) When you have to open nearly every locker to find an empty one because people aren't using locks (NOT safe at all, folks). Then the same people complain after their purse has been stolen from their unlocked locker.

    2) People that fart next to you on the treadmill.

    3) When people try to start a conversation with me while I have my headphones on. It's not social hour, for me anyways.

    4) When I miss one or two days and the staff feels the need to L O U D L Y point this out when I walk in door.

    5) People that just sit on the weight machines without doing anything, or they sit and text message.

    6) When people bring their children in and let them run amok. There is a daycare there for a reason. If you don't want to pay the extra fee every month for it, then invest in some at home workout equipment. If I have to wait to use the treadmill because your 7-year-old is occupying it, walking backwards in winter boots, I will let the staff know.
  • ebailey710
    ebailey710 Posts: 271 Member
    I hate to make this sound mean, but there's a family at the gym at my apartment that come in who have an adult child with special needs. I happen to run into them every once in a while at the gym, and though the girl is usually not bothering anyone, she can be really annoying. I feel like they bring her not because she really wants to be there, but because one person doesn't want to stay home with her while the parents work out. I was on the treadmill one day, and the girl was next to me on the elliptical, just standing there. My water bottle doesn't really fit very well in the cupholder, so was tipping over and causing her to make a fuss about it. She was pretty much screaming at me over my headphones. :/ I just try to avoid going in during the evening.

    Also, I hate when people leave the incline up on the treadmills. It really only takes 20 seconds to put it back down, I shouldn't have to spend my time adjusting it just so I can use it.
  • erinsueburns
    erinsueburns Posts: 865 Member
    Honestly, pretty much everything people do at the gym. Especially the things that fall in the category of egotism. Like flexing or taking pictures of yourself in the mirror, girls who work out in a sports bra, etc...

    I don't mind the people working out in a sports bra. If that was allowed at my gym I would probably do it too. I once had a traumatizing incident where a baggy shirt got caught in a machine so it makes me very uncomfortable. But the pictures thing does bother me a bit.
  • dammuggle
    dammuggle Posts: 4 Member
    About the girls that don't sweat at the gym, I hardly sweat. I can be working out just as hard as one of my friends, and while she is drenched in sweat I might have just a bit of sweat on my back.
    My gym pet peeve would definitely be the people using more than one machine at a time.
  • tricelive
    tricelive Posts: 93 Member
    The girls who get on the machine next to you & try to compete with you; they keep glancing over at u to see how fast you're going & try to go faster. After 5 minutes they give out. People who come to the gym & barely work out; looking around, on the phone not pushing themselves. People who have been going there before u came they take all the classes but haven't lost any weight; and I'm not talking about people who are in maintenance mode. I wonder if they go home & eat their calories back?
  • redraidergirl2009
    redraidergirl2009 Posts: 2,560 Member
    People that don't wipe down the machines.



    People obviously lifting something too heavy trying to be bada$$ and look stupid.

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