PUT THE DAMN PHONE AWAY!!!

Totally agree.

Besides for me, my gym time is my ME time. During that time I am pretty much only concerned with ME. Is this terrible? Not if I want to be healthy and there for my family for a long time. In most cases the call can wait an hour, or at least long enough that I can walk away from the exercise area so I don't have to share my problems with the rest of the world.

I am torn both ways on this, I don't really like cardio but my doctor prescribed it so I read while doing my treadmill time. However, for the strength training half of my workout I hate the folks who use the machines as a social media chair, the gym has chairs, move your *kitten* to a chair and stop camping the machines.

I have my phone when I'm working out (weights AND cardio) cause I don't always remember what weight I did the other day on which machine or free weights. So, I use it to keep track. And cause of how many I do, I can't just wait til after I finish to enter it in. It takes a few seconds and is a good thing to do in between my sets. But I'm also at the gym early (right after they open) so there aren't people waiting for for the weights or machines.

Lol uh..do you feel better now? Sorry that people actually do things that you don't agree with.

Uhh....I only play games on my phone while I'm on the stationary bike? Does that count as bad? I actually probably put more effort into my workout this way. Music is in the background that I'm listening to and my legs go to the beat. It keeps me going, and if I wasn't playing I probably wouldn't put as much time on the bike as I do. (It's only about twenty to thirty minutes in my routine, but still.)

here is a quarter...

go get a pack of getoveryourself

some people use it to listen to music though.

Or maybe their updating their MFP to show what they just completed

^^^^ This. When at the gym I don't do just one thing, I do a bunch of different workouts and they're all different for different times and intensities. If I don't log it after I do it or during my cool down, then it doesn't get logged because by the time I get home, all the numbers run together.

I get that you mean people who show up to the gym, text and giggle and don't break a sweat, but there are people who are there to work hard and use their phone as a necessity for their workout routine (be it to listen to music, podcasts, fitness timers, fitness website logging, etc.).

Personally, I don't really even notice what other people are doing or what's going on. I'm there to work out...I do my thing, I find my machine or execute a backup workout if the machine I was looking for is all tied up, and I get out of there. If someone wants to spend $XXX on a gym membership each month/year to just hang out and text, that's their business...unfortunate business, but still theirs alone to worry about.

I live on my phone, seriously it goes everywhere with me. That being said I switch it to silent when I'm in the gym. I do take notes for lifting in it, update MFP, and I'm a parent so....... But I don't sit on a machine and use it. And I agree if I can hear you conversation over my headphones then I give you the evil look.

I use mine while I'm on the elliptical or any other machine that is used for cardio and I'm on for an extended time.

some people use it to listen to music though.

Or maybe their updating their MFP to show what they just completed

*addicted to MFP* thread :laugh:

if they are using it between sets i dont see a problem. maybe mind your own business?

At the beginning of my gym time, I didn't use my phone at all. Now, almost 2 years later, I use my phone more and more.
I listen to music while on the elliptical or bike, and lately (as workouts get harder) I have to look up the right music to push me through. I could make lists for the different speeds, but I'm just too busy to take time for this.
I get my workout programs from my personal trainer via email, so I check the right weights, heights, reps, sets etc on my phone. I used to print it out for 1.5 years, and check the paper. I fill in what I did, right when I'm done with the exercise (before it was on paper, now I'm typing on my phone). Sometimes I even check between sets because I tend to switch off my brain when at the gym. After I'm completely done, I might even log into MFP to log my exercise.
I usually take a look around me to see if there might be someone waiting to take my place. I too usually don't stand next to a machine to wait for it to be mine. People get their time and free room to finish their workout. But if I see them chatting, phoneing, wasting time, I walk up and ask how long they need to finish. That way they know there's somebody waiting to use what they occupy.
I NEVER use my phone when I'm working out with my personal trainer. It may vibrate, somebody calling, texting, whatever, I don't care. I have it with me to fix a new appointment, and then it's ignored. PT hour is me-time and I don't let anybody take this from me. If there's a really huge emergency, people who would be allowed to disturb me know where I am, and could call the gym.
This all is a question of manners and etiquette. Some people are well educated, others just don't care.