Gym Etiquette - what bugs you?
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1. If you can text on a machine, you are not working hard enough.
2. 30 seconds on a machine is not effective, don't be Mr bad *kitten*.. pace yourself.
3. It is flu season, sanitize and wipe please. Every Time
4. Your not a dog, don't reward yourself with food.
5. Stop listening to everyone's fitness advice. Not everyone is qualified.
i txt on machines sometimes if its necessary...and its during my warmup. obviously i cant text while im running lol0 -
The body odor thing. Gosh, I cannot BELIEVE the smells I smell at the gym. Yikes!
its a gym LOL of course you will get body odour people are sweating there *kitten* off working out0 -
1. People who don't wipe machines down.
2. Those who feel the need to come and run on the treadmill right next to me when there are about 20 others free, WHYYYY!? Puts me off more than anything!
Sweetie, have you seen you? Gyms are full of creepers, almost as bad as MFP. Just try to tune it out.0 -
not re-racking weights. there were at one point signs in our weight room that said that those who failed to re-rack would have their membership revoked. it's seriously like another workout for me just to re-rack the huge weights that some of these guys just leave on the bars when they're done. not all of us can squat 315.
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Agreed. Nothing annoys me more than going to the hack squat machine to find it loaded down with 10 -45 lbs plates. Granted, unloading them (I only do 4 -45 lbs plates) could be considered a workout as well, but it's interfering with my workout time and my routine.
Okay, maybe not "nothing"..... sitting on a machine, texting/talking while people are waiting. Use the machine or MOVE YOUR *kitten*. I track my workouts on MFP, so I do have my phone in the gym, but I enter my workouts between sets while my partner is doing her set.0 -
All the FARTING! GEESH!
Oh wait.....that's me.
i never get stomach bubbles until someone gets on a machine next to me.....0 -
The person I saw use the ladies room and then hit the equipment without washing her hands. Yuck! I'd rather deal with the sweat not being wiped off!
Oh goodness nooooooooooo! :sick:0 -
I would like the personal trainers to be yoked! Or, at least is better shape than I am. Fat trainers crack me up.0
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People who pop their pimples in front of the gym mirrors. Really? You can't do that in the bathroom?0
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Oh, ho, ho boy have you opened a can of worms here! I could write reams but here are just a few...
1. Dropping/Slamming Weights
2. Not putting away equipment when finished workout
3. Taking excessive rest periods between sets or not clearing the area between rotations so others can use equipment
4. Using training area as social area
5. Not picking up after yourself
I could go on and on. I belong to one of our area's most elite facilities where many professional athletes as well as many of we serious Fitness Enthusiasts. Unfortunately, being a Moe affluent locale, we have many who are either there for appearance sake and many spoiled punks who have their dues paid for them and I guess they think their mommies are going to come pick up after them. With all that said, the number one thng that tics me off is how someone can have the energy to workout and yet can't quite muster the strength to close up their locker befor they leave!
It can all be summed up in the simple fact that if people would simply be a bit more considerate, it would be a so much more pleasant world. Still an old addage stands true. Money cannot buy class or taste.0 -
not re-racking weights. there were at one point signs in our weight room that said that those who failed to re-rack would have their membership revoked. it's seriously like another workout for me just to re-rack the huge weights that some of these guys just leave on the bars when they're done. not all of us can squat 315.
This. Most things I can overlook, but this drives me up the wall. It's just flat out inconsiderate.0 -
The guy in the treadmill next to me with disgusting breath!!!0
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Women who go to the gym with their hair and make-up done; B!tch, you're here to get in shape, stinky and sweaty. This isn't Eharmony. Go home.
How do you know they didn't just get off of work? Judgy.
I should have added in that these said women also don't work out while at the gym, they just walk around and prey on single men. Excuse me.0 -
People that come on the internet and whine about other people at the gym.
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When you are the only one on a treadmill with 10 empty treadmills around you and someone gets on the one rightnexttoyou! Go use the one at the end of the row! Don't be right next to me!0
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People who think they know it all...you are busy lifting your weights n they come to show you how to lift better..am like plizzz!0
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Nothing bothers me at the gym. I know people are going to be sweaty and smelly - they are at the GYM!!
Gym time is me time and I don't like to waste it hating other people working out. I don't really focus on anything else. If I am bothered by something, I move away.
Well put.
But for me, i have my music loud so no one ever bothers me as i never hear anyone. Most of the time, i just have tunnel vision in the gym anyway.
Reading the responses in this thread really makes me think that some people forget what a gym is for.
Who cares if someone is checking you out, that should be motivation if anything. Now if they start stalking you as you leave the gym or are there every time you are at the gym, then it's time to get worried.0 -
Not sure why this bothers me but it does: women who workout in full make up and tons of jewelry0
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People who worry about what other people are doing rather than just focusing on their own workouts.
Well, that and people who keep talking to me when I'm trying to work out.
Yeah! i get this alot too. infact ive changed to another gym a few months back and this one is better0 -
Not sure why this bothers me but it does: women who workout in full make up and tons of jewelry
I work out in full makeup and some jewellry, I go to the gym from work I'm hardly going to bother taking my makeup off before working out. And I figure my jewellry is safer on me than in the lockers at the gym. I can't really see how either of these things effect you?0 -
Major pet peeve, sitting on the equipment doing nothing. Im not being snobby and saying nothings as in hardly anything but literally sitting, watching tv. Especially when there is only one of that particular machine.
A few months back an old guy fell asleep on the only crunch machine (no idea of the actual name). I actually thought he was dead for a while, then someone prodded him and he woke up (I was scared to prod incase he was dead and he slumped over or something and I would seem like a totally heartless cow being all 'can someone move the cadaver cos I gotta do my crunches').
Also, deep heat. I know it is good for the muscles and everything, but any machine that is used by someone who liberally uses deep heat will stink for the next few hours.0 -
I would like the personal trainers to be yoked! Or, at least is better shape than I am. Fat trainers crack me up.
^^ yeah this. I recently had the gall to ask the person at my gym's front desk how to use a certian piece of equipment. After smiling and walking right over to help me she had to admit that she didn't really have a clue. Ugh.0 -
I'm sorry to sound high maintenance, but I don't understand when I see people at the gym that:
1) Sweat all over the cardio machines (dripping sweat) and don't wipe them down
2) Talk REALLY loud on their cell phone. Loud enough to hear their whole conversation
3) Come in with extremely bad body odor.
Do you all feel the same way? What else bothers you?
Cell/mobile phones.
Some people need to understand that everybody needs some personal "me" time and with their ear stuck permanently to their phone, they are not getting quiet time.
The gym is perfect for turning that phone off and making other people understand that you are not at their beck and call at all times.0 -
I would like the personal trainers to be yoked! Or, at least is better shape than I am. Fat trainers crack me up.
^^ yeah this. I recently had the gall to ask the person at my gym's front desk how to use a certian piece of equipment. After smiling and walking right over to help me she had to admit that she didn't really have a clue. Ugh.
LOL. I won a free hour of personal training when I was at the YMCA. When I set up an appointment, I told them I just needed someone to help me with my form on basic lifts - squats, deadlifts, cleans, etc. It took them 3 days before they could find someone to call me back; during the session, he had to make 2 phone calls to someone else so he could try to answer my questions.
I went home and video'ed myself instead.0 -
Dropping the weights and grunting excessively. It's your warm up set, bro. Calm it down.0
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Cell phones. Arrived into the locker room last night and a woman was chatting away on the phone- granted it's better in there than out in the workout area BUT I see this so often that I wonder why people just can't tell the person they'll call them back or go into the lobby so others in the locker room aren't subjected to the conversation.
I also wonder why people can't just accept that they need this 30 min, 60 min etc... for themselves! Put the phone away- stop texting, stop talking on it (not saying you can't talk to those at the gym) but allow yourself this time to focus on why you are there!
But..... to each their own, I guess.
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The girl at my gym who wears pantyhose...I think she might think they are tights...And I can see her thong.. I don't want to see that.0
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#1 problem in the gyms is people making it a social hour or not being considerate of others waiting to use equipment. I don't necessarily have a problem with people on phones but I really hate when people are not considerate of those of us waiting to use equipment.0
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Last night a girl got on the treadmill beside of me with flashcards and started running. Her phone nearly fell off the little ledge when she finally got to her max speed. She turned on Pandora - like, max volume - WITHOUT HEADPHONES - and proceeded to run while singing and sorting through her flash cards. REALLY?0
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People who worry about what other people are doing rather than just focusing on their own workouts.
Well, that and people who keep talking to me when I'm trying to work out.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:explode:0 -
The body odor thing. Gosh, I cannot BELIEVE the smells I smell at the gym. Yikes!
its a gym LOL of course you will get body odour people are sweating there *kitten* off working out
there is a HUGE difference between the smell of sweat, and then there is the smell of... deodorant is against my religion0
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