Who is the most obnoxious person at YOUR gym??

1) screamers

2) people who walk around naked in the locker room.

Especially when they're the same person.

I normally don't care what anyone else at my gym does, but the gym member known only as "Onion Vagina" negatively impacted a lot of people's workouts.

I normally don't care what anyone else at my gym does, but the gym member known only as "Onion Vagina" negatively impacted a lot of people's workouts.

I was told that she prefers "Ongina". One word. Like "Madonna".

This award goes to two equally braindead individuals where I go:

1. Airhead who wanders the gym aimlessly chewing gum and looking at herself in the mirror, only to occassionally get on a cardio machine to make a phone call

2. The guy who is SO JUICED UP his eyelids are puffy and look like slits. He talks to himself and looks around to see if anyone else is watching his lifts. (Clearly, I am. You can't miss this dude.) Another thing he does that I LOVE is lifts his shorts up so he can observe his quads in the mirror.

Am I the ONLY one who has this problem?? I can't be. I just can't!!

The guy that walks into the gym, watches what everyone else is doing and then posts gripes about strangers on the internet, that have nothing to do with his goals or the topic of Fitness and Exercise, and just likes insulting harmless demographics because he enjoys bonding with other judgmental people.

People who pretend to never be judgmental as they make a judgmental post about others.


edited for spelling. Because people will judge me on that.

We don't have any actually. I go to a really nice local gym and they even organise dinners and bowling nights out for us all. The funniest thing was the last dinner seeing a whole table of people leaving their rice, noodles etc and just eating chicken and veg.

And he talks to everyone. That just gets on my nerves - don't talk to me when I'm exercising in there -

thought I was the only one. stop talking to me in between my sets. I look like I'm doing nothing but I'm psyching myself up for the next set. Shutty please!

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?

Bahahahaha! Love this! :laugh:

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?

One of my cats jumps on my stomach when I'm on my weight bench. Good way to make sure you have your core engaged, if you're always assuming 10 pounds of fluff and claws might land on you at any given moment.

The guy with horrible body odor who runs backwards sprints on the Nautilus. Give me break.

So many busybodies at these gyms. Wow. I go to workout. I concentrate on what I'm doing or if I'm resting between sets I might be talking to the owner, reading a reprint, or whatever. In the locker room I don't care if your naked or dressed in pajamas, it's a transition space. I like to have a coffee, an apfelschorle or a beer at the gym bar before leaving and everyone is pretty low key about it.

If I knew the place was a judging festival, hmm, not sure I would have started.

People I work with keep asking me about the gym, it's 50 meters from our office and about 30$ a month, free classes, yet they are still intimidated.

In my gym, there is the very heavy guy, he has diabetes, he grunts loudly and, yes, smells a little bit at the end of his session. He's not obnoxious - he's lost 60 damn kilos, he's damn proud and he actually knows the poetry of Donald Justice.

There is the old lady - she struggles, doesn't know how to use some of the machines, and walks on the elliptical. When she's on a machine I would work elsewhere because I know she's going to take her time. She's not obnoxious and I hope her son finds work. She's worried.

There is the "cardio bunny" with makeup and perfume - she just came from the office, we work in same company. And I know that later, she'll pull a second shift in logistics. She's not obnoxious. She speaks French and want to live in Spain.

Me? I rarely talk to people there, not only is my head elsewhere but language is a bit of a barrier, but they have their stories, they are individuals and to brand them as obnoxious is to lose some of the richness of human interaction and not see them as Jack, Janet and Leslie.

What a dehumanizing thread. You all have a nice day.

Quoted for poetic beauty :flowerforyou:

I don't normally go to a gym, but occasionally use a free pass. When I did a step class, the trainer told us to choose how many steps to use according to our height, not our fitness level, so I did as I was told and took two steps. A very well-kept older gym-goer felt the need to tell me not to, because it would be too difficult for me. I was fine. She checked how it went at the end, and I told her it was fine. I definitely felt she was obnoxious.

However, I don't know her or why she felt the need to say that. Perhaps she was used to being a CEO or a high-powered mother, and she's retired or her children have all grown up. Maybe she can't turn off the belief that she is always right and needs to keep everyone else safe.

Also, what does it say about me? I was annoyed because I hate to be patronised more than anything else. I hate when someone assumes I am less knowledgeable, intelligent or fit than I believe I am. Why? Why does that matter to me so much? Maybe I should try working that out...

In the long run I want a home gym and a PT of my choosing. Mainly this would be for convenience, but also because I don't feel any desire to get involved in the social element of a gym. I'm a very sociable person, but the gym doesn't seem to be the right social space for me.

20 year old female who goes up to the weight lifting area to do glute kickbacks on a workout bench, rather than do it on the floor in the mat area.

Meat head who slaps himself in the face before every set, then does a 1/4 rep on any given exercise.

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OMG THIS GUY!!! The one at my gym grunts loudly with every raise of his 20lb dumbbell then precedes to kiss his arms after each rep. I swear he spends more time smiling at himself and kissing his arms then actually working out. Sorry to break it to you kiddo but we're staring because you look like an idiot not a hottie.

Side Note: Grunting while you work out is fine when your actually doing the work. Yes its awkward but so is my heavy breathing when I run lol.

I'd just grab a 30 lb dumbbell, plant myself where he could see me easily and silently do my reps, ignoring him the entire time. Being shown up by a chick usually sinks in pretty well.

So many busybodies at these gyms. Wow. I go to workout. I concentrate on what I'm doing or if I'm resting between sets I might be talking to the owner, reading a reprint, or whatever. In the locker room I don't care if your naked or dressed in pajamas, it's a transition space. I like to have a coffee, an apfelschorle or a beer at the gym bar before leaving and everyone is pretty low key about it.

If I knew the place was a judging festival, hmm, not sure I would have started.

People I work with keep asking me about the gym, it's 50 meters from our office and about 30$ a month, free classes, yet they are still intimidated.

In my gym, there is the very heavy guy, he has diabetes, he grunts loudly and, yes, smells a little bit at the end of his session. He's not obnoxious - he's lost 60 damn kilos, he's damn proud and he actually knows the poetry of Donald Justice.

There is the old lady - she struggles, doesn't know how to use some of the machines, and walks on the elliptical. When she's on a machine I would work elsewhere because I know she's going to take her time. She's not obnoxious and I hope her son finds work. She's worried.

There is the "cardio bunny" with makeup and perfume - she just came from the office, we work in same company. And I know that later, she'll pull a second shift in logistics. She's not obnoxious. She speaks French and want to live in Spain.

Me? I rarely talk to people there, not only is my head elsewhere but language is a bit of a barrier, but they have their stories, they are individuals and to brand them as obnoxious is to lose some of the richness of human interaction and not see them as Jack, Janet and Leslie.

What a dehumanizing thread. You all have a nice day.

:flowerforyou:

Haha... I'm a people-watcher, pretty hardcore, so I'll be honest... I love this. LOL.

Anyway, there are a few at my gym... they're not annoying to me at all, I just like the entertainment of having no idea what someone is doing or why (which, sometimes might just show how ignorant I am).

There's one guy who sports a man ponytail and likes to YELL. Like, not just grunt, YELL. He cycles through different exercises, and he's always lifting like REALLY heavy stuff and almost screaming while he's doing it, and then he literally THROWS them on the ground. Like I said... doesn't bother me, but it's good entertainment for the people-watcher in me. :laugh:

This week there was a guy on one of the weight machines, with diet coke in hand... and that was pretty funny!

Last week one of the trainers was working with a couple, and having them do squats in the rack. Another lady was standing there, just watching them, and sipping her shake, for a long while... she finally walked over and interrupted the trainer, told him he was doing it all wrong, and then proceeded to stand around watching all the people working out. I don't think she ever did any exercises of her own! LOL. The trainer then took his clients to the other end of the gym, looking very red in the face.

There was a girl once doing these weird yoga moves or something on a stability ball, but IN the smith machine. Not sure what that was about.... she also had a bench pulled over there, and was doing all these weird like one-legged balancing acts, and I could not for the life of me figure out what the heck? LOL.

There's one guy who goes on the same days that I do, and he is a BIG guy. Hyooooge muscles (except I noticed he must be cutting now or something because he's looking a lot slimmer). And he's not much taller than me, either. I call him "Thunder". Once he was chatting with a couple of other guys doing the leg press, and the conversation was:

Thunder: So, is this your warm-up set?
Two guys: *shocked face, jaw on the floor, then...* LOL!!!!! No, actually, our goal is that when you get over here you'll have to take weights OFF... HA!
Thunder: Oh, yeah?? Ha! Well, almost there, then....
Two guys: *again, shocked face, jaw on the floor*

^ They were struggling before he walked up, so, hahaha...



Yep, lots of entertainment at my gym! I'm not complaining, and hope I can provide at least some entertainment to others.... I'm sure I do, being the noob that I am. :laugh:

probably me. I take WAY more than 30 second breaks between sets while I chat with my trainer. Some guy actually asked us to hurry up a few weeks ago, and when I'm on the treadmill I turn my music up really loud, so I have no idea if I am making weird loud noises while running :ohwell:

Haha, I know what you mean about the music.... I'm actually always paranoid about that.... :laugh: