Gym Etiquette - what bugs you?
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When the user lets the weight plates slam together really loud because they can lift them, but can't resist them down. That really bugs me! I can hear over my iPod and it's bad for the equipment.0
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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...I couldn't use the squat bar one day because some dude and the bar over my head with 45lb weights... Okay I can lift the 45lbs weights..but prolly not over my head...it pissed me OFF!! Other than that I like to go to my gym when it is mostly empty..so I don't have to deal with other peoples ****...but I'm like that.0 -
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.
because I leave my children home alone to work out and they need to be able to reach me...and because sometimes that is when my bf has to time to talk to me...why do you care? my workout, yeah it means I'm there longer to get my stuff done..but I want to text who I want to text when I want to text....0 -
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?
I have no idea how/why people don't get an armband. I watch people knock their phone off the treadmill/elliptical 6-8 times in the 1st five minutes then quit using it.0 -
The one thing that really annoys me is when I'm taking a group class, and I put my stuff in a specific spot to "mark my territory" while I go get equipment/sweat towel/water, and they either crowd me in, or move my stuff. It's very rude. Especially when they see me put my stuff down and walk away. I had set up my bench the other day for step class waaaaay in the back corner. There was plenty of room in the class, but some lady came over...moved my bench out of the way to put her bench down and then told me I was crowding HER. I was in shock so all I could do was gape at her. It really makes it so that I don't want to take group fitness classes anymore....0
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One day I was on a stationary bike when a woman came in and got on the bike next to mine. She was wearing street clothes, not exercise gear, and pedaled verrrry slowly, just barely moving the pedals around.
What was she doing? Watching the soap opera that was on the TV above us. Since it was the middle of the day, I suppose she wasn't keeping anyone else off the equipment, but I did think it was funny--and iffy gym etiquette. All I could figure was that she was on her lunch hour from her job, and was popping into the gym to catch her soap.
When I first started working out, I would go to my gym during my lunch hour and walk on the treadmill. It was too cold to walk outside, but I wanted to be active during my break. While walking, I would wear running shoes. But I knew I wasn't going to sweat much, or be extremely active, so I would stay in my jeans. I don't think it is a big deal. 0 -
the only thing that bugs me at the gym is the people who are paying an unhealthy amount of attention to what you are doing and not focusing on their own workout!! talk about awkward! lol0
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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?
Full make up here as well. I don't bother to wash it off to hit the gym... just change and go. If I don't have it on for the day, then no, I don't go full make up. Not sure where make up would interfere with anyone's workout.0 -
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:
^^This. Yup. I don't seem to notice half the crap people b*tch about in the "lets complain about people from my gym" subject~which seems to be a daily subject now-a-days. This is either A: I try real hard not to judge people so harshly; after all I am not perfect myself. B: I'm too much in my own little world and don't pay that much attention to OTHER people.
What bugs me in the gym though is when my phone isn't picking up their WIFI and I can't get my pandora to work (& I don't get the best reception there.) Now that bugs the crap out of me!0 -
I'm not bothered by most things at the gym but I do get annoyed when there is a row of available machines and a person comes and gets on the machine right next to me. I guess that is how guys feel about urinals lol. Anyway, I had a guy do that the other day then when I got off the machine (after about 5 minutes) later so did he! Wtf. So weird.0
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The woman FACETIMING her bit on the side in changing room, and then calling her husband straight after... after spending only 10 minutes walking up and down in the gym anyway. All kinds of wrong.0
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The other day I wanted to do bench presses and some guy had taken ALL the weights over 5 lbs under 45 lbs and put them on various bars for his circuit. RAGE.
Hate it when someone is doing some sort of circuit that involves a machine that I want to use and it takes them like 20 minutes to get done with it. I can understand alternating between a couple different things, but no more than that, please.
As far as people being "lazy" on the machines... sometimes if it's not a workout day for me I'll still go to the gym when it's quiet and walk for an hour or so while I listen to a podcast or read a magazine or something. I live in freaking Minnesota, it's -20 outside and I want to get a little activity into my day but with the program I'm on I don't want to do heavy cardio and it's my rest day so I'm not doing weights either. But I don't want to sit around the house all day. So mind your beeswax.
Basically as long as someone isn't impeding on my workout, do what you want. Come in with makeup, come in looking like crap, talk to your girlfriends, whatever. BUT DON'T HOG THE WEIGHTS!0 -
Not re-racking weights.
Folks who sit on machines or benches (that I need) while texting/talking on their phones.0 -
i wanted to go postal on a couple 9th-10th graders last night. they were basically hanging out with their other friends there in front of the dumbbell rack and wouldnt move as im carrying my weights back. or standing too close to me when i was doing inclined curls.
these are the kids that are followers too, they follow the biggest guy around all the time and will sit on the machines around what he is doing.
also im old and generally i get annoyed easily, and this doesnt help0 -
i wanted to go postal on a couple 9th-10th graders last night. they were basically hanging out with their other friends there in front of the dumbbell rack and wouldnt move as im carrying my weights back. or standing too close to me when i was doing inclined curls.
these are the kids that are followers too, they follow the biggest guy around all the time and will sit on the machines around what he is doing.
also im old and generally i get annoyed easily, and this doesn't help
Not just you. Last night in the stretching/warm up area there were two girls sitting on a mat on the floor, one had her iPhone charger plugged into the wall and the other was sitting on her phone.
I did the ab circuit and there were two ladies chatting the middle, on sitting on the machine through 3 rotations. Her son and his friend were on another machine playing around and abusing the equipment and by the time I came around to it I *****ed them out to move on.
First day at Planet Fitness and it was a combo of great and horrible. BUT It works for the price.0 -
also im old and generally i get annoyed easily, and this doesnt help
42 is old? Pfft. 0 -
When you shower at the gym, and there's a huge row of open showers, and someone shower's right next to you, so their dirty water splashes into your shower when you're trying to dry off. Drives me nuts!!!
And also girls who wear a pound of make-up to the gym...really?!0 -
I don't like when females go to the gym in full hair and make-up and their sexiest workout clothes (sometiems just a sports bra), just to WALK on the treadmill for an hour and not break a sweat. They fill up the machines and make my fat, sweaty, *kitten* look like a running rhino. lol. I don't see thins at my currect gym but LA fitness was so bad!0
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Not wiping the machines off after use is my main gripe.0
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I'm surprised that other people's clothing choice matters so much to folks. Who cares if someone working out in jeans / make-up / jorts / overalls / underwear ? It has no impact on you or your workout whatsoever.
Know what's bad gym etiquette? Old guys that blow-dry their junk in the locker room.
Oh, and folks that bring their gd kids into the gym and let them run around without supervision. If your gym doesn't have a kid area, leave your crotch-fruit at home (crate it or something).0 -
When the oh-so-hot and extremely fit and better-than-me chick steals the machine that I was using right after my first set...when I have 2 more sets to go...and I'm still sitting at the machine.
What just happened?!0 -
1. Women who come in looking like they're about to go on the cat walk.
2. Men stop hogging the damn weights!
3. People who look at you funny because you're not slim...urm..what?0 -
I'm surprised that other people's clothing choice matters so much to folks. Who cares if someone working out in jeans / make-up / jorts / overalls / underwear ? It has no impact on you or your workout whatsoever.
Know what's bad gym etiquette? Old guys that blow-dry their junk in the locker room.
Oh, and folks that bring their gd kids into the gym and let them run around without supervision. If your gym doesn't have a kid area, leave your crotch-fruit at home (crate it or something).
i just blew my nuts out!! (almonds) :laugh: :drinker: :laugh:0 -
I'd like to add...
Chicks who wear perfume.
Grunters. Loud grunters. Is it REALLY necessary?
Women who ask me for help, with EVERYTHING. I don't mind helping them get started on a treadmill or whatever but if you have more than one question find an employee, that's what they get paid for.0 -
In response,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?
1) Sweat is proof that I was there. I need justification for this triple cheesburger that I'm about to eat, even if it means leaving behind my sweat for you to see/smell
2) I have to talk loud because of all those huge muscly men grunting and dropping weights!
3) Somebody has to balance out all the perfume-ridden cardio bunnies
LOL @ #30 -
Oh, and folks that bring their gd kids into the gym and let them run around without supervision. If your gym doesn't have a kid area, leave your crotch-fruit at home (crate it or something).
Crotch fruit. lol.0 -
1. People working out in front of the dumbell rack and blocking them. Take a step back please.
2. People who horde equipment. For some machines there are attachements. Some people grab all the attachements for their workout and prevent anyone else from using them.0 -
Know what's bad gym etiquette? Old guys that blow-dry their junk in the locker room.
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I'm surprised that other people's clothing choice matters so much to folks. Who cares if someone working out in jeans / make-up / jorts / overalls / underwear ? It has no impact on you or your workout whatsoever.
Know what's bad gym etiquette? Old guys that blow-dry their junk in the locker room.
Oh, and folks that bring their gd kids into the gym and let them run around without supervision. If your gym doesn't have a kid area, leave your crotch-fruit at home (crate it or something).
bahahaha...
Exactly! Anyone using equipment in a way in which is NOT meant to be used... yes, including blow dryers!0 -
I hate:
1. People who stink and then workout, stink some more, and stink up the whole gym.
2. People who were layers and layers at the gym. If you're gonna sweat, it better be from your own effort.
3. Gym bunnies (or anyone else) who put little to no effort in their workout. Really they're just wasting space in a gym.
4. Chicks that come to the gym with a full face of makeup on.0
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