so how crowded is your gym with newbies?

HI!
QUESTION :

Weren't you all "new" to your gym at some point in time? Or were you born there????
Just sayin' :bigsmile:

What's this got to do with anything? We are simply commenting on the same old crowd that joins in the new year and stops somewhere in february (if they make it that long).

It has less to do with the time the signed up- after all anyone i see in the gym is either IN SHAPE or trying to get IN SHAPE. Makes no difference to me. What DOES bother me is the sudden influx of people who go to the gym to do a half-assed workout, take up a bunch of space talking, and don't have common courtesy like re-racking weights.

Either way, best of luck to them!

OP said "newbies". That's what it's " got to do with anything".
I'm tired of hearing that term used on this site. Unless you were a founding member of your gym or of this site, you too are a newbie... meaning you are new. At what point in time do all of the elite get to decide who is no longer a newbie?
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my gym was actually busier before the new year. Now lately when I go in its a pretty small crowd. But thats good for me. I like it that way

I've been working out at home and outside for almost a year and a half, and I was considering joining a gym to work with people. A lot of gyms have good deals for membership these first few weeks.

Then I read this thread.

My thought exactly - I am reasonably active, and I've been thinking of joining a gym too, thinking that it would give me an extra boost and support for my goals. But my fear of people looking down on me may actually be true (according to this thread). We all have to start somewhere, and it seems that people who are already there, or ahead of me seem to forget that they had to start somewhere too. Very disheartening

Please don't let it be.

MOST people are actually quite nice, and and can be very helpful. I would suggest reading on gym etiquette before going. (Everyone should do this, not just new people)

We're not looking down on the people who just joined the gym, it just gets frustrating when the gym is so overflowing with people that there are long waits to use equipment/machines, and the people using your preferred equipment/machine are lollygagging or curling in the squat rack.

And then almost all of the new people abruptly quit and return next January to crowd up the gym and leave plates all over the place and curl in the squat rack and aggghhh

I really try not to judge or have bad thoughts towards the 'resolutionists' because we all start somewhere, right? So I didn't mock the people who couldn't keep up in spin, or the ones who gave up after 3 minutes on the elliptical...

....then I saw a guy in his skinny jeans and a big white belt 'running' around the track on Saturday morning.....and I'm sorry, but that was just begging for ridicule :laugh:

Mine is still pretty empty. I did see a new guy and who I'd guess was his daughter working out. Both were seriously overweight. I made sure I said hi and asked how it was going. Hope they come back.

I hate hearing judgmental stuff liek this. I wrote a post about it: http://weightsover.com/a-note-to-gym-rats/
And it's why I quit my `st gym 8 years ago and didn't go again until last year. Let's share some support and love- not know the newbies!

alot of you are complaining about the "newbies" crowding the gym because they use the machines wrong or longer than normal... well, guess what, im at the gym daily, and guess who i see clogging up the machines? i see the desperate houseives, who are also there everyday, sitting on machines, with thier pretty little hair-do's, perfect make-up, and nice matching gym outfits... batting thier eyes and chatting it up with every man that walks by... not using the machines, just "staging" themself in cute positions on them. this morning, these 2 cackling hens were literally sitting on the 2 machines that i use, having a very in depth conversation, never actually using the machine, for atleast 15 minutes. i went ahead and did my other workouts before i decided to go stand right in front of them as if i was listening in, only to let them know that IM WAITING IN LINE FOR "THIER SEAT"... then they got up and took thier conversation to another set of machines... these 2 are there every morning as well... its not the "newbies" who are crowding the gym, its people in gerneral who are not there to work hard, and obviously are there for other reasons...

And then almost all of the new people abruptly quit and return next January to crowd up the gym and leave plates all over the place and curl in the squat rack and aggghhh

At my gym, it's a few regulars that leave plates all over the place and/or on bars. I think the noobs are too scared to step out of line. Which is a good thing.

And you were NEVER new...right?

Everyone has to start somewhere. And maybe a few will stick it out.

Honestly, pretty quiet. There's been like two....

Really weird. Never seen it this slow in January before.

Now that I've said something...........

For the first time I ever I did the strong lifts workout without having to wait. I think its because I'm at a university gym though.

I actually had better luck off campus than on back in the day.

This is my least favorite thing about gyms, and also, kind of about humanity. Because you KNOW that in a month, it's going to clear out.

I canceled my gym membership and take fitness classes at a place near my house so that I go every time and so that I know it won't be overcrowded, since you have to pre-register. I also belong to two yoga studios, so I can mix up times and go when I know it'll be less crowded.

I can't stand the resolution crowd!

We all had to start somewhere. Dont forget that we were like that once too. You should be encouraging, not discouraging, just saying

^^^^^ I was part of the 2012 resolution crowd and I'm still going!

I read nothing discouraging in that at all. It's fact that 80% of those that join in January won't be back in Feb, and less by March.

It is what it is.

This post is still alive................? :yawn:

Ack, the Resolutioners!!! It started in full force yesterday. Of course, they wait until a monday to start!!! Not knocking them...just really hard to get through a class when there is double the number of normal people there and I don't really want to make new friends because I'm afraid that they are just going to leave in a couple of months. I'm ready for those who aren't actually committed to get committed or get the heck out!