Gym Etiquette - what bugs you?

People who worry about what other people are doing rather than just focusing on their own workouts.

^^This^^

but recently I've been letting my own insecurities get to me with all the girls who show up to the gym all done up pretty.

Mobile phones going off and then shouting so the whole gym can hear:grumble:

Sitting on an equipment (eg a rower) and not using it, because they want to talk to their friend, to me all that time they spend talking they could use the rower

people breaking eqipment and not telling anyone until it is your turn to use it :frown:

We have a policy at our gym that if its busy you are limited to 20 minutes, somehow we have got an idiot who doesnt understand this rule and is very selfish we all like to get fit etc but have some consideration for others. He usually gets told though to get off in a nice but polite way
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I don't like it when somebody leaves a puddle of sweat under the machine and won't wipe it up. I was actually waiting for the ArcTrainer one day, and the woman getting off wiped off the machine and told me that she wasn't going to wipe up the lake on the floor. It made me a little sick to my stomach to have to look at that. I had to go get some of the hand towels that my gym provides and put them over the puddle to soak it up.

What bothers me the most is when somebody gets on a machine that is squealing or making a loud "thunk" noise. That means something is wrong, people. Don't just keep exercising and making that godawful noise. Go tell management!

I have a blog post that partly addresses this . . . part of my brain will do almost anything to stop me from working out, and a few times, even though I manage to get myself to the gym I will forget some aspect of my workout gear -- shorts or runners, etc. Although I would never work out in sandals or crocks (that's an obvious safely issue) I have done spin class, wights, or the elliptical wearing jeans, or hiking boots with wool socks, or a skirt, or even knee-high boots.

It takes me 20-45 minutes to get to the gym depending on whether i bus or walk, there are no overnight lockers where I can store my workout gear, and I have to go straight from the gym to work. So once I get there I'm working out, even if I have to look stupid doing it

People in street clothes going 1.1mph on the treadmill while loudly discussing mundane things.
The guy at my gym who smells like old pee.
****ers who don't wipe their pools of sweat off the machine.
Watching the personal trainers sitting at the desk eating pizza/fries/wings/doughnuts/fried chicken as the smell of it wafts around the gym.
Getting hit with other peoples sweat.
People who cluster in front of the swipe in machine so I can't swipe in.

perfume/cologne. A handful of times in the past few months since I started going to the gym, I really thought I was going to choke from the smell and ended up switching to a different ellipse or treadmill.

Guys who wear beanies (and other head gear that isn't a sweat band) to the gym.

Why? I wear a stocking cap every day. A) It keeps the sweat out of my eyes. It holds my ear buds in place.

One day I was on a stationary bike when a woman came in and got on the bike next to mine. She was wearing street clothes, not exercise gear, and pedaled verrrry slowly, just barely moving the pedals around.

What was she doing? Watching the soap opera that was on the TV above us. Since it was the middle of the day, I suppose she wasn't keeping anyone else off the equipment, but I did think it was funny--and iffy gym etiquette. All I could figure was that she was on her lunch hour from her job, and was popping into the gym to catch her soap.

Naked guys in the sauna. Hate this the most. I love a empty sauna, then i can do some dragonflys.

One day I was on a stationary bike when a woman came in and got on the bike next to mine. She was wearing street clothes, not exercise gear, and pedaled verrrry slowly, just barely moving the pedals around.

What was she doing? Watching the soap opera that was on the TV above us. Since it was the middle of the day, I suppose she wasn't keeping anyone else off the equipment, but I did think it was funny--and iffy gym etiquette. All I could figure was that she was on her lunch hour from her job, and was popping into the gym to catch her soap.

There's a quotation on the wall in my gym 'No matter how hard you go you're still lapping everyone on the couch'
Always makes me feel so much better ;-)

3. People ''saving' multiple weight machines so that they can just rotate between 'their' set for the day without other people using it... You get the one machine that you are on! Everyone else wants to be able to use the machines too!

Ugh, I hate this. There's only one assisted pull up machine at my gym, and I'm headed over there and a lady and her husband reach it and take over, using it, then doing squats and burpees after, alternating with one another. All in all they had the machine blocked for 30 minutes. I was not happy.

Easy solutions for this. Find a regular pullup bar, have someone hold your feet or use a resistance band.

I saw the most annoying girl at the gym yesterday. She drove me nuts.

She was there with her boyfriend. He was quite muscley, obviously into working out. She looked like she just dragged herself out of bed (on a Sunday at 4pm), wearing baggy sweat paints, scruffy-looking hair, etc.

Her boyfriend would be on a machine, and she would be sitting right on the floor, pouting and staring at him while he did his reps.

He'd move to another machine, she'd get up, shuffle along and sit down again with an exaggerated sigh and a miserable look on her face.

She did this for an hour.

He kept motioning for her to go try some machines, but she'd just shrug and continue moping and acting like a miserable child.

She totally threw off my groove... why did she even come to the gym if she was going to be so freaking miserable about it?!!?

I feel that everyone's responses here have been justified, but I do have one additional thing...it's only happened to me like twice ever, but it was the most annoying thing...I hate being hit on at the gym.

I dont need some dude, staring at me on the eliptical, then thinking it's ok to stroll up and begin chatting me up while I'm dripping sweat, looking terrible and most important, trying to work out.
It's distracting, and really disturbing to see them go hit on some other poor girl after I've told them I have a BF...you want to scam on chicks go to bar, dont bug me while I'm working out.

That is all

1. Not using the 30 minute circuit workout area correctly

2. Not wiping down equipment

3. Not really an etiquette thing but it REALLY bugs me that Planet Fitness gives out free pizza and bagels (1st Mon/Tue of month), tootsie rolls at front desk ALWAYS, and now giving away cupcakes if they get a certain number of "Pats on the Back".... I never partake, it just bugs me that a GYM would offer these things.....

1. Not using the 30 minute circuit workout area correctly

2. Not wiping down equipment

THESE.

I have 30 Minute Circuit on my workout schedule once a week, and last week the circuit area was fairly crowded. Two of the people in the area were a couple of friends (they kept checking in with each other) who were using the upper body machines and not doing the circuit. I had to wait for them a couple of times, even after switching the order I was using machines because they were tying them up. They eventually got the hint and left the area.