Who is the most obnoxious person at YOUR gym??

this couple comes in...and they are grunters.... I mean...to the point in which I have joked with people that work there...that they need to make gym rules and post that they are not allowed to make noises like they are getting it on...


It wouldnt be SO bad..if it was like 450 deadlifts...but the dude is BP'ing 120...

So, just because he's not strong enough to suit you, he's more obnoxious? :huh:

When someone sits on a machine and reads.

The person who leaves all of their crap on a machine to "claim" it during the busiest time of the evening. Purse was hanging off of it, water bottle there, and so on. The person was nowhere in sight.

And the girl who smelled like she'd bathed in hair spary before coming to exercise. I got a few good mouthfuls of that and almost choked to death on the elliptical.

1. The guy who is constantly looking at himself in the mirror while moving from machine to machine to flex his muscles.

2. The girl who needs to walk into "my space" as I am deadlifting heavy. Especially after I told her not to do that just in case I go to failure and can't hold the bar anymore as I might drop this on her foot.

3. People who complain it is "too hard" or "too painful" to workout/ train/ lift. Really!?!? I'm in my forties, female w/ injuries and I manage to lift heavy. Suck it up.

My gym is my living room, and the most obnoxious person there is my cat. The little a-hole attacks my ponytail when im doing crunches and jumps on my arms and chews my hands when i do chest flies. then when im on my feet he either watches me, staring, until i go back down, or sits in front of the TV, or attempts to destroy my yoga mat.

Can you imagine if someone at the GYM tried to do that to you?

That's hilarious! My dog thinks I want to play so comes and tries to get in my face. I end up getting an extra workout doing pushup/situps and throwing a toy to get him out of my way!

Definitely the older gentleman that critiques what the women are doing. I made the mistake of being pleasant pre:Christmas. Big mistake. He sits, he leers, he wants an ongoing dialog. One of the other retirees has taken him to task on several occasions. (ie. Leave Bailey alone and let her do her workout....he doesn't take a hint and I hate being rude.)

Most entertaining is a dude I refer to as Travolta. Keeps to himself off in a corner, hood pulled up, barbell propped up like a walking stick and dancing in front of the mirror :-) He's gotta be mid-40's has great moves but without knowing what music he's listening to it looks pretty comical :-)))

i hate these damn threads. every time someone wants to start lifting they post how they are scared to go because they don't want to be judged. and i come in, along with tons of my "mean" friends, and we encourage them to just go work out and that no one is judging them, no one is thinking about them, no one is saying mean things behind their back.

and right as they start to believe it, they will come in an read bull**** threads like this one and wonder if someone is going to be making a post and laughing about them. thanks for making a liar out of me.

This is just plain awesome. And so true. I find the gym intimidating, and didn't join one for the longest time because I felt like people were looking at me the last time I had a membership. Eventually, I decided that I cared more about getting strong than I cared whether or not people were looking at me, but still - how awful to have it confirmed that people are always judging.

You know, the more into my workouts I get the less I notice/give a s*it what anyopne else there is doing. As long as they don't come near me when I'm lifting something heavy I honestly do not care how 'obnoxious' they are being.

mainly this
however, there is a guy at my gym who constantly gives people advice when they don't ask for it,
talks at the top of his lungs about very basic work out directives ("YAH YOU KNOW I GOTTA DO MY BACK TODAY CAUSE I DID MY ARMS YESTERDAY AND YOU DONT WANNA DO YOUR ARMS TWO DAYS IN A ROW") to basically anyone who will listen
and then starts fights with people and has yelling matches with them while he tells them to work out harder
he is hilarious.

Wait, some of you are actually upset about people being naked in the locker room? Seriously?

Wait, some of you are actually upset about people being naked in the locker room? Seriously?

"There's good naked...and there's bad naked" - Seinfeld

LOL. Yep. And bad naked should cover up their wrinkly behind on the way to the shower.

This thread makes me miss the gym terribly.

don't really have anyone i can't stand, but there is one guys who recent seems to want to do the exact same thing as i do at procisely the same time. thats a problem at a crap gym like PF lol

this couple comes in...and they are grunters.... I mean...to the point in which I have joked with people that work there...that they need to make gym rules and post that they are not allowed to make noises like they are getting it on...


It wouldnt be SO bad..if it was like 450 deadlifts...but the dude is BP'ing 120...

So, just because he's not strong enough to suit you, he's more obnoxious? :huh:

My max on the bench press is 65. It takes everything in my body to get it to happen. I make noise. Obviously I need to be shot and killed so other people can work out in peace. Noted.

Every time I see a thread like this, I think Great, way to prove to everyone that is scared people might be watching them - that there ARE a whole BUNCH of people watching AND judging them, that cant wait to go talk about it on the internet.

So encouraging.

OMG! Thanks for saying this...when something is unacceptable such as not wiping down machines, I'd understand. But someone grunting cuz they really are going at their maximum capacity is perfectly normal and not something to be made fun of.

I don't mind anyone that is just there to get their workout in. There is no reason to be self-conscious about going to a gym to get in shape. I admire every person I see who is actually at the gym to get a workout in.

However, the people that are craving attention by dancing obnoxiously before class starts (and doing the routines because they know them so well), talking loudly to each other while the instructor is teaching, watching themselves in the mirror not because they want to check form, but because they are in love with themselves (and yes, you can tell the difference), and singing loudly to the music during class? Sorry, but I will be annoyed. There is a group of girls at my gym who go to every freakin' class and they do all of these things at all classes. You can't help but notice them - they want you too. They act like they own the gym. Oh, and ETA they drop their weights too. That kills me. It's one thing if you are an olympic lifter, but in Body pump, if you need to drop it, it's too heavy.

I'm also annoyed by the guy who brings "insanity" to the gym and plays it very loudly on his portable DVD player while taking frequent breaks. Obviously all about attention.

My trainer when she kicks my a**! (j/k)