Biggest Pet Peeves at the Gym

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  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    The new years revolutionaries as I like to call them. They are the ones who make a new years resolution to get in shape. You know the ones. Get there at the start of a new year. Hog all the equipment or take up room in a class. You can tell they don't want to be there. Then by March they are all gone. I went to a gym years ago where we couldn't even get into our classes for all of them. And they put forth no effort when they were there.
  • iWaffle
    iWaffle Posts: 2,208 Member
    1 - women wearing clothes that hide everything
    2 - women that don't smell nice
    3 - women that stay in the cardio section and don't come join me in the weights room
    4 - women that look rough as houses and give painful scornful looks at the lookers in the gym
    5 - women that don't appreciate a good body and read a book whilst working out
    6 - women that don't look like xPrincessx

    List goes on and on...

    So, just women then. :laugh:
  • Bluescat1
    Bluescat1 Posts: 207 Member
    Guys that sit in the steam room without a towell naked or get in whirlpool naked. I just don't get it.
  • SethosTBG
    SethosTBG Posts: 16 Member
    I'd have to agree with you on those.
  • Su funny and true!!! All of them! Lmao!!
  • TyFit08
    TyFit08 Posts: 799 Member
    -Gyms trying to push their 900 dollar personal training package on you

    -They guy that thinks because you are a woman you don't know what you are doing

    -The gym running out of paper towels leaving me with nothing to clean the machines with (this happened to me today)

    -All of the good equipment reserved for those with the 900 dollar personal training packages

    -Slow jams playing on the gyms speakers. I used to go to a gym that would do this and I noticed I was going slower and slower o the treadmill. I don't have to like the song, but it needs to be fast

    -People who monopolize the machines

    Earlier someone mentioned women shouldn't wear just sports bras. I used to do it all the time and when I get my body back, I will surely do it again. It motivates me to see fit women, and if you are going to hate on women that can pull of just wearing a sports bra, use that hate to motivate you

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  • sathor
    sathor Posts: 202 Member

    1.) Guys that spend more time looking in the mirror at themselves than they do lifting weights. A group of four guys at my gym do that. I wonder just how many successful relationships start at gyms...hmm.

    Ok, I did that one day last week, I caught myself in the big mirror wall, and though "holy f#!k! My legs got bigger." which probably wouldn't happen (the surprise, not the size increase) if the mirrors in our house were at a useful hight. (My wife made me change medicine cabinets to one that I can barely use to shave with, because the old one was low enough that she might accidentally see her chest in. Only one mirror even goes to my stomach, and it is kinda covered with random stuff. My wife hates mirrors.) (And she is a size 2!)
  • jesz124
    jesz124 Posts: 1,004 Member
    Personal trainers that are out of shape. We've got quite a few trainers at my gym, I'd say maybe 5-6 that do different days. I can honestly say there is only one of them that I would chose to have a session with purely judging by his body. Maybe this is just me but I wouldn't use an out of shape personal trainer. Wouldn't really motivate if they can't practise what they preach!
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    Those dudes who strut around like they own the place even though they look ridiculous from working out everything but the legs.
  • Jindra12
    Jindra12 Posts: 256 Member
    Those dudes who strut around like they own the place even though they look ridiculous from working out everything but the legs.

    YES!!!!
  • jesz124
    jesz124 Posts: 1,004 Member
    Those dudes who strut around like they own the place even though they look ridiculous from working out everything but the legs.

    Maybe they think it makes their top halfs look bigger? :-)
  • KiltFuPanda
    KiltFuPanda Posts: 574 Member
    Guys who hang out around the squat and deadlift area and talk more than they lift - I don't care how much you "lifted" two days ago, go grab a bar and do some lifting or go somewhere else. It's my turn to lift. (Seriously - I had someone talk to me for 15 minutes straight when I was in the middle of my lifting.)

    Other than that, I have no problems with my gym - it's mostly a free weight gym with plenty of squat racks, barbells, and heavy metal for all :)