Proper Gym Etiquette

power2lift

Posting my version of Gym Etiquette

1) Put your weights back in their proper location when you are finished with them.

2) Do not drop or throw the weights.

3) Do not exercise in front of the dumbbell racks.

4) If you are on equipment or using something that someone else is waiting to use, Let them work in between your sets if they ask you politely.

5) Wipe your sweat off the equipment.

6) At busy times do not use Cardio equipment more than 30 minutes.

7) Do not place Dumbbell, Barbell or Weights on the benches.

8) Practice proper hygiene.

9) No Grunting.

10) Keep gym bags out of the way - Do not carry them with you

Huffdogg

9) No Grunting.

=don't work hard

dbmata

9) No Grunting.

=don't work hard

true.dat

Only people I've met who are "intimidated" or "offended" by normal grunting, are the treadmill walkers.

Susieout

I hate it when people shove their property eg drink bottle, towel or shoes etc onto the spin bikes to reserve them & then walk off for 20mins or so! They think they own the bikes!!!!

calivandewoestyne

Biggest Pet Peeve EVER - People who curl in the squat rack.

amybg1

At the location I go now have had less issues but the one I went to before (I use the city fitness centres; my membership allows me access to every one of 'em)

It's fine to ask the staff for help; and it's cool if your son used to go to school with him too. But don't think he's your personal trainer every time you go there; he's there to help/supervise everyone - not to socialize for hours on end with you.

Don't give me advice if you don't know it yourself all and aren't there to REALLY work. This being the same lady in above-mentioned friend of gym staff, skinny as all hell NO muscle whatsoever, I could probably bench this person...Takes five-minute breaks and a few times used to give me advice when I was working with free weights.

Grunting is fine if you're doing 1RMs and what have you but really loud grunting and panting by the same person every time I go there? Are you using heavy weights to help you relieve chronic constipation or something and trying to work one out?

Slamming down your weights: I understand you're using heavy weights which is fine but please don't drop them. The last thing I want to feel is as though an earthquake happened when you slam you weights down so hard the whole floor shakes.

If you're taking long breaks, don't hold up a station. If i ask nicely do the both of us a favor and allow me to work in with you. this particular incident happened last week. Older gent had a younger lady who was his workout partner/trainer, using the landmine press station. His rests were at LEAST two minutes long and he spent them all talking to the young lady beside him. I would have had time to set up my weight, do my set, unload the weight and allow him to put his back on WY before he was done his between-set chat.

Tone it down or eliminate perfumes...Smelling sweaty means you're working hard and every gym-goer will be sweaty to some degree so please don't suffocate me with the half can of Axe you spray on daily.

Mustang_Susie

Everything that has been posted is 100% accurate and you will see all of these offenses repeatably and may end up being guilty of them eventually at some point in time. The point is to be courteous and respectful of the fact that this is not your home or personal gym.

The one I'll add is directed more for the "meat head" men who insist on loading up a weight rack machine with as much weight as possible and then leaving the weights on the machine for the next person to somehow figure out how to remove them. I would love to be able to use the Smith machine but when there are always 200+ lbs loaded on the machine, I can't safely remove all those weights to a more reasonable amount for me to work out with. So if you're a "meat head," please take the weights off the machine when you're done & wipe it down, so that those of us who want a tone physique rather than a beef physique can use the machine after you

Same said "meat heads" probably don't think you should be using "their" machine "just" to tone...:grumble:

Mustang_Susie

im guessing i am a little OCD

pick up after yourself. the people employed at the gym should not have to go pick up paper towels off the floor cause you missed the garbage can or all the water that accumulates on the sink.

Me too.
HATE that!

bonitacash08

:glasses: double post

jzammetti

Don't talk to someone who's working out while you are using your 20 minute rest period between sets. UGH - I am WORKING here!!!

bonitacash08

1. Use machines properly.
Bicep Curls in the Squat Rack
Shoulder Shrugs in the Squat Rack
Bench Press in the Squat Rack
Calf Raises in the Squat Rack

Anything that isn't a SQUAT in the Squat Rack irritates me. There are machines for all of those moves. I know you want to look cool and use a bar but it really isn't helping you.

2. Don't (openly) make fun of someone's effort.
To the guy who snickered at me when I bench pressed last week only using the Oly bar: Eff you! My legs are bigger than yours ya jerk! I JUST started SL 5x5.

3. Do your reps. Finish your sets. Move on in a timely fashion.
People who hog machines/equipment during their 10 minute "rests" and text or chat with their partner while people are waiting.

akindc

9) No Grunting.

=don't work hard

true.dat

Only people I've met who are "intimidated" or "offended" by normal grunting, are the treadmill walkers.

There's an older man who ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS has to literally drop down and do pushups right behind me every.morning. and grunts loudly. It's gross. You don't need to be grunting that hard for pushups.

marz42

Don't come in late to a class with a several friends all being loud, and then crowd out the people who got there on time and picked their spot before the class started, particularly when there is plenty of room on the other side of the room. We all ended up having to re-arrange part way through.

I used to go to a zumba class where I did end up coming in late a lot..it was the only one of that type in a reasonable distance, but the time between getting off work and the class start was pretty tight so if the traffic was bad I'd end up slightly late. But I was always already dressed, ready to set my stuff down and go, and slipped into the back of the class as unobtrusively as possible. It was a big big room with plenty of room and the door by the back of the room.

Renee4joy

I notice that people still don't wipe the machines down... the very ones that complain that they should be wiped down..Thats what should be a rule...Dont be a hypocrite .....I have seen it in action..

ncahill77

What is proper ettiquite on doing heavy shrugs in the squat rack when there really isn't any open space to do them on the floor?

ncahill77

Oh and doing DB curls right in front of the DB rack, take 2 steps back you dumb@ss.

jesindc

Don't sit in the sauna naked.

What are you supposed to wear in the sauna? I don't think I go to particularly racy gyms, but I've never seen anyone enter a sauna with anything more than a towel.

dbmata

9) No Grunting.

=don't work hard

true.dat

Only people I've met who are "intimidated" or "offended" by normal grunting, are the treadmill walkers.

There's an older man who ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS has to literally drop down and do pushups right behind me every.morning. and grunts loudly. It's gross. You don't need to be grunting that hard for pushups.

Next time.
Turn around, and yell at him, "Faster! Faster you grunting maniac! Your weakness displeases me! That's no pushup, are you trying to mate with the floor? Push like you have a set you neutered goat!"

dbmata

What is proper ettiquite on doing heavy shrugs in the squat rack when there really isn't any open space to do them on the floor?

What's a shrug bro? You gotta deadlift bro. Rock back and make that back work bro.

What's this shrugging I see bro? You confused bro? Here, let me take that bro. I'm all confused now too bro.

Huffdogg

What is proper ettiquite on doing heavy shrugs in the squat rack when there really isn't any open space to do them on the floor?

Does your gym really have no intermediate racks of any kind? Just a full squat rack or nothing?