Don't talk or text at the gym on the equipment!!!!

melissa6771

I can totally understand the OP's point. She's not talking about people resting between sets. There are a few people at my gym, quite a few lately, who have been using one of the three bench presses as their own personal locker room. They put their keys, drinks, etc down on the bench to go use something else. That pisses me off. At least four different people I have seen do this in the last month.

There's another girl now, who drops her stuff on the bench, and then proceeds to take a bar from another bench to walk around with, and uses dumbbells and two other benches all at the same time. She does some bizarro stuff too. I finally had to talk to the manager about it. She is totally out of control. I have never seen someone take up so much space at once. You'd have to see it to believe it.

One other guy, likes to superset the leg sled, calf machine, and two other things on Sunday mornings. Leaves something at each one, drink, shirt, Whatever to hold his place while he bounces around. It's Sunday morning, it's busy and there's only one of each of these things. Him and I had it out one day.

Being respectful and basic etiquette in a gym is not a lot to ask. If you're not using something, don't take up that space. Whether it's texting, talking or using it as a coat or coffee rack. If you're using it, that's a totally different story.

I think we can all agree that we use our phones for music, tracking and other stuff. That's normal.

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PowerliftingMom

shadow2soul wrote: »

PowerliftingMom wrote: »

You can always go to Planet Fitness The one I go to has signs plastered all over the gym "no cell phones allowed except in the lobby"

That would be a deal breaker for me. My phone serves as my workout tracker, my rest timer, and has my workout playlist. So I’m definitely on mine while at the gym. Any gym that says I can’t use it during my workouts isn’t getting my money.

I only go there for cardio. I belong to another gym that doesn't have strict rules

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jumpsquats

The amount of people I see running on the treadmill having full on conversations over the phone

MeanderingMammal

jumpsquats wrote: »

The amount of people I see running on the treadmill having full on conversations over the phone

Perfectly reasonable during an easy paced run.

I did 15Km the other night and could have easily held a conversation throughout.

carolyn000000

Ha! I knew people were going to lose their minds over this post! Sorry Stacie, but people just sit around and wait for posts like this so they can go in for the kill. No worries, it is all good. Many posters get what you are saying and agree with you, myself included.

Okiludy

bbell1985 wrote: »

Sorry, when I'm lifting 90% of my max and above my rests are long and I'll do what I damn well please during them.

I’m with you on this. Sometimes I need more time than someone doing a bro split or even hypertrophy work. If it means sitting there for 5-10minutes between sets I will sit there. I am not going to stare at a wall or perv out watching folks. So why not read the news?

I don’t mind if people want to work in but ask they help reset my weights. Strangely no one ever asks to work in. They would rather wait and that’s fine with me also.

Packerjohn

MeanderingMammal wrote: »

jumpsquats wrote: »

The amount of people I see running on the treadmill having full on conversations over the phone

Perfectly reasonable during an easy paced run.

I did 15Km the other night and could have easily held a conversation throughout.

The bad thing is, in most commercial gyms. because of the crappy music piped in and the noise of the cardio equipment, you have to talk so loud that people in a large circle around can hear you.

Ripd27

@ Melissa6771
"Being respectful and basic etiquette in a gym is not a lot to ask. If you're not using something, don't take up that space. Whether it's texting, talking or using it as a coat or coffee rack. If you're using it, that's a totally different story.

I think we can all agree that we use our phones for music, tracking and other stuff. That's normal."

I couldn't agree with you more. I think so many people have posted about what they do that would be considered legitimate use of a phone such as scrolling through a playlist, etc. I do not believe that was the point of the OP.
Being respectful is a two way street. I wouldn't dream of rushing someone along who is legitimately using equipment just because I had a certain ideal order in my head for what I'd like to do. Just to make this perfectly clear, there is basically zero chance of confusing rest between sets, logging stats, or scrolling a playlist with idle *#$@%*% around. With that being said, the people using equipment as a texting chair, coat rack, or whatever other overly entitled behavior would highly benefit from not dreaming of making others wait just because they have a certain ideal order in their heads...being texting and socializing first and working out a distant second.

ceiswyn

Wait... so if I spend the two minute rest between sets reading Facebook, am I a bad person?