Gym Etiquette - what bugs you?

hardly anyone wipes their equipment down. doesnt really bother me unless its wet.

Iam always on my phone(texting, logging workouts, playing bike race, changing the song)

what bugs me

people that are extremely close to me for no reason
People that use excessive amounts of space/or take up walkways for no apparent reason
people that use the only rack in the gym for body weight exercises?
Guys that wear excessively gay clothes
When people have horrible form and i happen to be watching

4. Your not a dog, don't reward yourself with food.

Hahaha

When people don't wipe down the machines. I don't want to sit on their *kitten* sweat!

People talking on the phone on cardio equipment and not silencing their phone at the gym. I don't need to hear alerts every time someone gets a message. And during group classes chatting. I think it's disrespectful to the instructor and everyone else in the room. I've also noticed people will leave their tissue behind on cardio equipment and that bugs me.

people who hog the mirrors and machines. i could careless how you smell, and i really don't care if you talk on the phone (free entertainment, anyone?) as long as you stay outta my way and let me work it!

1. People who don't wipe down machines. Ew!
2. People who act creepy. Please don't stare at me while I'm working out it creeps me out and makes me not want to go to the gym.
3. People (usually adolescent girls) who sit on some piece of equipment and text for 10 minutes without ever doing a single rep. Come on! If you can text while working out efficiently or briefly between sets, I don't care. But why do I have to wait forever to use some piece of equipment so that you can plant your *kitten*... Grrr...
4. People who try to come up and talk to me while I'm working out. I have my ear buds in for a reason!
5. People who spit on the floor. Just gross.

i hate the GYM, PERIOD!, will not go!

People that use the Planet Fitness circuit training area for anything but circuit training. It should only bother me when it interfers with my workout, since my workouts have been impacted so much by this, I am annoyed everytime I see it.

Tips for gym newbies:
1) Remember why you're there - to workout. Keep your mind focused on that and less on texting your friend, checking in on Facebook, holding a conversation, or flirting with Joe Steroids over there.

2) Remember that other people are there to workout, too. Instead of occupying the only ab machine in the gym for all 120 sets of 12 reps you plan on doing, how about limiting your use to 3 sets per occupation and let someone else get their sets in between yours?

3) If you, ma'am, think I might be creeping you, I probably am. I need motivation just like everyone else.

4) Before you judge me for my potbelly and graying goatee, remember that even Joe Steroids over there was a spaghetti-armed shrimp at one point. It didn't take me a week to get this fat...it'll take me longer than that to get back to being buff.

5) Wipe down the machines when you are done. Use a paper towel, alcohol wipe, or your own towel - I don't care what you use - just do it.

6) If you bring your kids to the gym (my gym is at the Y), please don't let them occupy machines that other people need to use just because you want to keep them busy. If they are legitimately using them, that's another story.

7) If you see me doing weird stretches in the corner before I workout, it's because I am allergic to bodily injury. I stretch to warm up and prevent injury. I still do PT stretches that I did in the Army. It served me well for my 9-year Army career and I walked away with zero damage from PT. Not everyone does things the way you do them and that's okay.

8) If you need to fill up your 6 gallon water bottle, please go to an empty workout room or seldom-used bubbler to do it. Your bottle you just filled sapped all the cold water out of the bubbler reservoir and I am now drinking what has the same temp as fresh pee.

9) If the people obviously half-assing their workouts bug you, don't fret - they'll be gone by the end of next month.

10) I feel it bears repeating that you don't have to follow people as they walk to their cars so you can park as close to the front door as possible. You are there for fitness. Walking from the far edge of the parking lot counts.

ok, i guess i'm venting.

Plyometrics are a great workout... and i wouldn't fault you one bit for doing them at the gym, on the nice upholstered benches. Except i go to planet fitness. And it just pisses me off that they have no problem with the random people who come in and do one day of plyo (only never to be seen again), while i am not aloud to do a dead lift (or blah, blah, blah).

Mean while 3 benches sit there with no upholstery at all

I only have two things that really bug me.

1. When people don't wipe down machines. Especially in the winter with th Flu going around. When I'm sick I skip the gym and workout at home so everyone else doesn't get sick. Some people don't care.

2. Boys that are like 10-12 years old running around the gym using all the equipment. Maybe it's just me but why would a young kid with tons of energy need to go to a gym to workout? You're with all your friends, go run around outside and play a game. My nephew is 11 and he doesn't go to a gym to work out. It really bothers me when I'm on a roll and I'm ready to move from a machine to something else and I can't get on a specific machine because a 10 year old thinks he needs to work out on an elliptical.

Our YMCA doesn't allow anyone under 16 in the fitness room. There is an allowance for 14-15 year olds but they have to attend a glass and pass a test first. Kids under 16 actually have their own circuit training room downstairs.

I have my cell phone with me because I have 4 kids (1 special needs) and I keep track of how many reps/weight/sets so I can record on MFP later also a lot of people use them for music.

Pet Peeves:
1. Guys who come in to use the cardio machines looking like the unibomber the whole time with their hoodies up.
2. People who use the weight machines as stools while they wait for the next machine to open up.

Our Y also does not allow the use of cell phones in the fitness areas or locker rooms ( for privacy issues because of camera function).

It's not so much a peeve as much as "things that make you go hmmm...":

People who are several moves/beats behind in BodyStep.
It's like "can you not see the pattern, repetition of moves and that you're doing something TOTALLY different than everyone else?"

People that use the Planet Fitness circuit training area for anything but circuit training. It should only bother me when it interfers with my workout, since my workouts have been impacted so much by this, I am annoyed everytime I see it.

i've seen one person use the circuit trainning area for what it was intended, one time, the entire 7 years i've been there.

People that come on the internet and whine about other people at the gym.

This.

Especially women that complain about other women wearing make up at the gym.

How does the fact that another girl wears make up effect your workout?

a lot of people may be using thier phones to log wieght/reps and or follow a particular program btw... which you may or may not be mistaking for texting.

Man, there's a pretty big list, but I'll limit myself.

1. Due to several bulging discs in my back, I'm somewhat restricted to what cardio I can do for extensive times, and the recumbent bike is where I burn the majority of calories after strength training. So... the straps on the pedals are not supposed to fit like d!ck skin. There is no reason that day after day I go to a bike, sit down, and try to fit my feet into what is obviously the "condom" setting on the straps. It's not that serious, people.

2. The old men in the gym. This is not to say ALL old men- I'm referring to the specific subset of old men that smell like peanut butter and balls. Get your creepy pedophile *kitten* the eff back.

3. As I have aged, I have become more and more of a germaphobe. Now at 33, I go to the gym in sweatpants/track pants and a hooded sweatshirt, nightly. One reason is to sweat- that's the whole point of working out, and in Florida, I can just walk outside to do that. The other reason is so no part of my body touches the equipment. I spray down the equipment before AND after I use it, because I know some dirty *kitten* have funkdafied it without wiping it down.

Again, there are more, but these are the ones that aggravate the most.