Things people do on the treadmill that bug you..
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People judging others in the gym, THATS my peeve.
Is it any wonder people fear working out at fitness centers these days? With comments like these, and quite frankly, some of the pet peeves are freaking ridiculous! Holding the handlebars? Air drumming? Changing a TV channel? Telling a friend about their workout? Someone looking at your speed, incline, etc? Walking backwards?
How about this... Get over yourself! If you are noticing what other people are doing on equipment around you, then YOU obviously are not working out hard enough!
Everyone is fighting their own battles, be it rehabilitation, balance, or they FINALLY decided to join a gym to get into shape. Mind your own damn business!0 -
People judging others in the gym, THATS my peeve.
Is it any wonder people fear working out at fitness centers these days? With comments like these, and quite frankly, some of the pet peeves are freaking ridiculous! Holding the handlebars? Air drumming? Changing a TV channel? Telling a friend about their workout? Someone looking at your speed, incline, etc? Walking backwards?
How about this... Get over yourself! If you are noticing what other people are doing on equipment around you, then YOU obviously are not working out hard enough!
Everyone is fighting their own battles, be it rehabilitation, balance, or they FINALLY decided to join a gym to get into shape. Mind your own damn business!
Just what I was thinking,.... Threads like these are mostly a wind up though aren't they?0 -
Nothing really. People may do some things that are odd, but I don't really care, doesn't bother me. One day the lady next to me was doing intervals, jumping on and off, which I have not figured out how to do.. LOL, so I kinda watched her out of the corner of my eye, only cuz I thought I need to learn how to do that and my intervals would be more effective. Maybe. lol, I'd probably kill myself though.
She shouldn't be jumping off the machine. An interval is a period of intense work with a period of light workout. She should be reducing from a run to a walk. Not jumping off completely and bringing her workout to a complete standstill.
Some machines have quick speed settings so you can set two speeds and only have to hit a button to change your interval instead of holding down speed up or down to help with intervals and some have speed interval programs.
This is the correct answer. Control the speed. If you are ending a period of intense work with an elevated HR, and just STOP, your HR won't automatically lower. This can give the same effect as hanging upside down, and you can black out. Have seen it, and almost did it....once.
Yep... pretty pointless unless you are whacking off.
What's wrong with a release while doing cardio??0 -
People judging others in the gym, THATS my peeve.
Is it any wonder people fear working out at fitness centers these days? With comments like these, and quite frankly, some of the pet peeves are freaking ridiculous! Holding the handlebars? Air drumming? Changing a TV channel? Telling a friend about their workout? Someone looking at your speed, incline, etc? Walking backwards?
How about this... Get over yourself! If you are noticing what other people are doing on equipment around you, then YOU obviously are not working out hard enough!
Everyone is fighting their own battles, be it rehabilitation, balance, or they FINALLY decided to join a gym to get into shape. Mind your own damn business!
I LOL'd at this. I do 1/2 the stuff people complain about. I run extremely loud, sweat, and blast my music. I don't care if it's a pet peeve, annoying, whatever to anyone. Nobody should. It's not judgement to point out a pet peeve. wow...0 -
The muscle head sitting on the bike and cycling like he is sitting in front of the TV. Hands locked behind his head and pedaling at 3mph.
Or how bout the skinny chick walking on the treadmill at 15% incline and holding the top rail in front of them. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using an incline?
Yes, I know it was probably a warm up or cool down, but for some reason, that day, it really bothered me.
Judgemental much??? Everyone thinkgs they are going to go to a gym and get stared down by "muscle heads" or "skinny girls" but really it's the bitter, out of shape, unconfident but heads who feel the need to minimize everyone elses efforts. Who cares who does what and how they do it!? Everyone is there for the same reason to get or to stay healthy. No judgement or critisizm needed.
Agreed! Im always hearing newbies complain about people being rude or insulting at the gym but as someone who been consistently going to gyms for 13 years I have never encountered any such thing from regular gym go-ers.
Also...and I'm not a "muscle head" (whatever that is)...but I do lift and my sessions are rather intense...a nice slow cycle or 2.5-3 MPH walk is usually my "recovery" cardio...all I'm trying to do is move and cool down from my lift.
This is why people should really just mind their own fitness goals. If you saw some "muscle head" or me just slowly walking a treadmill or leisurely cycle, you're probably only seeing about 2% of the actual workout...yet you judge as if that's all we're doing. We've all paid our membership dues...just because you don't comprehend others people's fitness goals doesn't mean they're "doing it wrong."
Honestly, I don't know if I've ever annoyed someone with my slow, post lift cycling or treadmill walking...I just don't pay that much attention. I just know that I have my routine and my routine is not over just because someone doesn't like my slow treadmill walking.0 -
Talking to me when I am running on the TM and I clearly can't even breath let alone talk!0
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The muscle head sitting on the bike and cycling like he is sitting in front of the TV. Hands locked behind his head and pedaling at 3mph.
Or how bout the skinny chick walking on the treadmill at 15% incline and holding the top rail in front of them. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using an incline?
Yes, I know it was probably a warm up or cool down, but for some reason, that day, it really bothered me.
Judgemental much??? Everyone thinkgs they are going to go to a gym and get stared down by "muscle heads" or "skinny girls" but really it's the bitter, out of shape, unconfident but heads who feel the need to minimize everyone elses efforts. Who cares who does what and how they do it!? Everyone is there for the same reason to get or to stay healthy. No judgement or critisizm needed.
Agreed! Im always hearing newbies complain about people being rude or insulting at the gym but as someone who been consistently going to gyms for 13 years I have never encountered any such thing from regular gym go-ers.
Also...and I'm not a "muscle head" (whatever that is)...but I do lift and my sessions are rather intense...a nice slow cycle or 2.5-3 MPH walk is usually my "recovery" cardio...all I'm trying to do is move and cool down from my lift.
This is why people should really just mind their own fitness goals. If you saw some "muscle head" or me just slowly walking a treadmill or leisurely cycle, you're probably only seeing about 2% of the actual workout...yet you judge as if that's all we're doing. We've all paid our membership dues...just because you don't comprehend others people's fitness goals doesn't mean they're "doing it wrong."
Honestly, I don't know if I've ever annoyed someone with my slow, post lift cycling or treadmill walking...I just don't pay that much attention. I just know that I have my routine and my routine is not over just because someone doesn't like my slow treadmill walking.
I make jokes but in all honesty, you don't really know where someone is in their training. I lost the majority of my weight working out at home but there is something motivating about working out in a room with others. It's just human nature to be curious about what another is doing but again just keep in mind that you're doing this for yourself and they don't know you're history or if you're injured or whatever.0 -
i hate feeling like the person next to me is competing with me.
i'm insanely competitive, and get really discouraged if i feel like i'm not 'winning'. not being particularly fit, i rarely 'win', so ive gone to a deliberate effort to not go to the gym with people i know, because i'll just compare myself to them and end up feeling bad.
so when the stranger next to me is looking at my speed and incline and then bumping theirs up higher, it just makes me want to give up and go home!
^I'm that person... but I'm not competing I swear! I'm using you as motivation to make my *kitten* work harder.
second this^^^^^
It helps me get motivated.0 -
Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
get off the treadmill!!! :devil:
Seriously.
Why do you care so much?
Why have you made post after post YELLING your point across?
Read the title of this thread......oh and CUBS SUCK!!!0 -
People judging others in the gym, THATS my peeve.
Is it any wonder people fear working out at fitness centers these days? With comments like these, and quite frankly, some of the pet peeves are freaking ridiculous! Holding the handlebars? Air drumming? Changing a TV channel? Telling a friend about their workout? Someone looking at your speed, incline, etc? Walking backwards?
How about this... Get over yourself! If you are noticing what other people are doing on equipment around you, then YOU obviously are not working out hard enough!
Everyone is fighting their own battles, be it rehabilitation, balance, or they FINALLY decided to join a gym to get into shape. Mind your own damn business!
I LOL'd at this. I do 1/2 the stuff people complain about. I run extremely loud, sweat, and blast my music. I don't care if it's a pet peeve, annoying, whatever to anyone. Nobody should. It's not judgement to point out a pet peeve. wow...
Well said broski!0 -
Haha exactly!!0 -
I've been a member at my gym for 2 years and I've just worked up the nerve to go on the treadmill because I know there are judgmental, arrogant people like you out there.
At least I'm moving and not sitting around anymore like I used to after I injured my hip in 2010.
Don't pass judgement on people you know nothing about
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i do wear my makeup because washing your face too many times a day is not good once you get to be 30+. I dont wear a lot of makeup though0
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I love these threads.
What I hate is when the other members at my gym get on the treadmill and crank up the speed to an unsafe level...and then they hang onto the handlebars and lift themselves up so their feet are just barely touching.
Ok, I know you said your kids do this...but there are 2 people at my gym who do this and it doesn't bother me, but I don't understand why...0 -
People judging others in the gym, THATS my peeve.
Is it any wonder people fear working out at fitness centers these days? With comments like these, and quite frankly, some of the pet peeves are freaking ridiculous! Holding the handlebars? Air drumming? Changing a TV channel? Telling a friend about their workout? Someone looking at your speed, incline, etc? Walking backwards?
How about this... Get over yourself! If you are noticing what other people are doing on equipment around you, then YOU obviously are not working out hard enough!
Everyone is fighting their own battles, be it rehabilitation, balance, or they FINALLY decided to join a gym to get into shape. Mind your own damn business!
You get a special reply since you mentioned air drumming and I'm the guy who mentioned the air drummer. Maybe you should pay more attention when reading these posts. I specifically said that I had NO problem with the air drummer, I just thought it was funny.
Yes, even though I could care less what others are doing when working out as it's none of my business, I do notice many times what people are doing. Please don't tell me that I'm "obviously" not working out hard enough. As any of my friends on here can vouch for I burn between 5000-7000 calories every week doing cardio, no exceptions.
In the end we agree that everyone should mind their own business, but you seem to make assumptions and misread things. Just saying.0 -
Please for the love of god.......... STOP HOLDING ON TO THE MACHINE! whats the effen point of putting the treadmill on a steep incline if youre gonna HOLD ON!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????
get off the treadmill!!! :devil:
And please pretty please STOP TALKIN ON YOU CELLPHONE!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR REALZ!0 -
People judging others in the gym, THATS my peeve.
Is it any wonder people fear working out at fitness centers these days? With comments like these, and quite frankly, some of the pet peeves are freaking ridiculous! Holding the handlebars? Air drumming? Changing a TV channel? Telling a friend about their workout? Someone looking at your speed, incline, etc? Walking backwards?
How about this... Get over yourself! If you are noticing what other people are doing on equipment around you, then YOU obviously are not working out hard enough!
Everyone is fighting their own battles, be it rehabilitation, balance, or they FINALLY decided to join a gym to get into shape. Mind your own damn business!
I LOL'd at this. I do 1/2 the stuff people complain about. I run extremely loud, sweat, and blast my music. I don't care if it's a pet peeve, annoying, whatever to anyone. Nobody should. It's not judgement to point out a pet peeve. wow...
You sweat? How dare you!!!!!!!! 0 -
Can someone please explain to me how stating a pet peeve is "judgemental", and why so many people are getting butt-hurt over it?0
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People judging others in the gym, THATS my peeve.
Is it any wonder people fear working out at fitness centers these days? With comments like these, and quite frankly, some of the pet peeves are freaking ridiculous! Holding the handlebars? Air drumming? Changing a TV channel? Telling a friend about their workout? Someone looking at your speed, incline, etc? Walking backwards?
How about this... Get over yourself! If you are noticing what other people are doing on equipment around you, then YOU obviously are not working out hard enough!
Everyone is fighting their own battles, be it rehabilitation, balance, or they FINALLY decided to join a gym to get into shape. Mind your own damn business!
Why yes, changing a TV channel would be annoying...in the context the poster used. Person changes the channel on the TV that they are about to watch and changes the channel on multiple tv's because they're standing 10 ft away and hit 2-3 receivers. Most likely TV changed to something other person doesn't care for, now will interupt workout to change their tv back.
Make sense?0 -
Can someone please explain to me how stating a pet peeve is "judgemental", and why so many people are getting butt-hurt over it?
because, of course we cant have our own personal opinions
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