Things people do on the treadmill that bug you..

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  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    when they walk backwards (one guy even does a side-to-side crab walk). I mean WTF?

    It works different muscles, same concept as going up hill or down hill backwards, a lot of people do it actually.
  • suzywantsitall
    suzywantsitall Posts: 85 Member
    What bugs me most is when they get OFF and don't wipe the machine down. I am at Planet Fitness and they have signs posted every few feet. But yet some think their sweat is worth sharing ! ECK ....
  • shoneybabes
    shoneybabes Posts: 199 Member
    Why does it bug you? Let it go, what is the point of being frustrated over other people? There are other things to be thinking about than how people annoy you on a treadmill.

    I recommend running outside if it is an issue. Don't have to worry about other folk.

    At least these people are exercising. :)
  • andrea464
    andrea464 Posts: 238 Member
    Tell me! What things bug you when they are happening on the treadmill next to you?

    One thing to start: When I'm running my miles, the rest of the treadmill people hold their handlebars as if they are in a supermarkt, pushing their cart!

    What bugs ME is people nosying into my workout and judging me for doing what I'm doing... Does it affect your weight loss or performance if I'M holding on to MY handlebars? Why on earth should it bug you?:huh: I may be checking my heart rate, I may be new and worried about flying off the end (that WAS me when I first started actually :laugh: ), I may have a balance issue... who cares unless it is actually interfering with your ability to do your workout? Concentrate on YOUR workout and you won't notice the poor probably already-self-consious handlebar-grabbers.

    Ah, you beat me to it!
  • teebeegeebee
    teebeegeebee Posts: 218 Member
    Ok

    I have several pet hates on the treadmill....

    1 the guy or girl next to you decides to compete only they are 30 years younger and weigh about 100lbs less than i do
    2 in competing they have zero incline on their machine whilst im pushing along at anything up to 10% incline
    3 they want to chat to you.....while the sweat fountain is running all down my face the last thing I want to do is chat....
    4 work colleagues always call when i hit the treadmill - for goodness sake after work is my time .....

    rant over I love my gym time - great post
  • rocket_ace
    rocket_ace Posts: 380 Member
    I hate it when all the treadmills are taken up and you see people literally doing the whole workout walking slower than if they were out side having a stroll on the beach! Drives me insane!

    Haha me too. Why not just walk up and down your street?! That's free!

    I think this one is a little unfair - people have different starting points. like there was a senior next to me walking - he has every right to use the treadmill too. also, I walk some and I run some, it just depends. I would prefer outside but its cold.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    i hate feeling like the person next to me is competing with me.

    i'm insanely competitive, and get really discouraged if i feel like i'm not 'winning'. not being particularly fit, i rarely 'win', so ive gone to a deliberate effort to not go to the gym with people i know, because i'll just compare myself to them and end up feeling bad.

    so when the stranger next to me is looking at my speed and incline and then bumping theirs up higher, it just makes me want to give up and go home!

    I'm evil. I love to compete on treadmill. But I don't have to look over at anyone's display to see that I'm winning. I can tell when I'm going faster, harder and further than the guy next to me. Bwahahaha! (I keep it to myself, though. Probably most people couldn't tell what I'm thinking.) :devil:
  • kg4ulu
    kg4ulu Posts: 39 Member
    ^^^this

    I'm there to focus on me!
  • basillowe66
    basillowe66 Posts: 432 Member
    I don't understand why what other people do bothers you? I'm not being smart, but some people have a balance problem. I run mostly outside, however when I run on the treadmill I hold on most of the time. We ARE all different. We all have our things that bug us that other people do, however they really aren't doing it to bug you.
  • Docmahi
    Docmahi Posts: 1,603 Member
    good lord some of the complaints ive read in this thread are ridiculous

    This is why I do cardio in a hoodie w/headphones - block out the world
  • Sepa
    Sepa Posts: 243 Member
    I hate it when all the treadmills are taken up and you see people literally doing the whole workout walking slower than if they were out side having a stroll on the beach! Drives me insane!

    Haha me too. Why not just walk up and down your street?! That's free!

    I think this one is a little unfair - people have different starting points. like there was a senior next to me walking - he has every right to use the treadmill too. also, I walk some and I run some, it just depends. I would prefer outside but its cold.


    I live in a pretty small town so I see a lot of the gym users around town. They walk quicker outside than on the treadmill. I know people are all different but using a treadmill at 2.5mph when you usually walk 3-4mph is annoying!
  • Brownsbacker4evr
    Brownsbacker4evr Posts: 365 Member
    To each their own. But one time I saw this lady on a treadmill walking backwards and lifting small dumbbells. It didn't bug me, but i was laughing on the inside. We should stop taking time at the gym to worry about what others are doing though. Unless they are intentionally doing something ridiculous that you literally can't miss.
  • gym_king_carlie
    gym_king_carlie Posts: 528 Member
    I HATE but I also LOVE when people keep glancing at my machine to see my speed, for some reason I always attract people who want to compete (usually posers) who see me as a big guy and easy to beat when doing cardio, I never challenge but I never turn one down either, if your competing with me, im competing with you and it satifys me when they give in :) sounds arrogant, but it raises my game and in a weird way, I appriciate it lol
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    good lord some of the complaints ive read in this thread are ridiculous

    This is why I do cardio in a hoodie w/headphones - block out the world

    I've seen that. It doesn't so much bother me as confuse me. Wouldn't wearing the hoodie make it unbearably hot?
  • Lanise_10
    Lanise_10 Posts: 432 Member
    Seriously, unless they're directly affecting your workout by being loud or disruptive, I don't see why it matters if they're holding on the the bars, walking backwards, walking slow, you don't see a change in their appearance or whatever....
  • taiyola
    taiyola Posts: 964 Member
    I hate it when all the treadmills are taken up and you see people literally doing the whole workout walking slower than if they were out side having a stroll on the beach! Drives me insane!

    This.

    Don't see the point in going on the treadmill to walk for 30 minutes - just go outside in the sunshine!

    When I'm doing HIIT and the people next to me give me funny looks wondering wtf I'm doing whilst they're walking.

    People on their phones in the gym in general... and people who're constantly on their phones in general...
  • AQ3107
    AQ3107 Posts: 81 Member
    good lord some of the complaints ive read in this thread are ridiculous

    This is why I do cardio in a hoodie w/headphones - block out the world

    I've seen that. It doesn't so much bother me as confuse me. Wouldn't wearing the hoodie make it unbearably hot?

    I do that too. Love it. Makes me look unbearably hot whilst running hehe
  • mikeyrp
    mikeyrp Posts: 1,616 Member
    Nothing people do on a tread mill bugs me.

    However, People using a rowing machine badly bugs the hell out of me... Partly because I know it can really damage their back but largely because it just looks so stupid when people are moving their arms and legs in opposite directions (arms forward, legs back at the same time...) - honestly - the bit you are supposed to be pulling is staying still!!!!! ARRRGGG *BOOM* head explodes.

    Actually - in general people lifting with bad technique bugs me because I worry they will hurt themselves but know its none of my business if they do...
  • ladyark
    ladyark Posts: 1,101 Member
    When they crank up the incline and hang on for dear life.


    This just makes me crazy! You look like an idiot! Slow it down or lower it......One lady at my gym does this and trys to jog while holding on for dear life....
  • agirlscamaro
    agirlscamaro Posts: 175 Member
    Tell me! What things bug you when they are happening on the treadmill next to you?

    One thing to start: When I'm running my miles, the rest of the treadmill people hold their handlebars as if they are in a supermarkt, pushing their cart!


    I have to hold unless i'm running. For some reason if I don't I end up trying to go off the belt. My balance sucks.

    My pet peeve is when you'll have 10 empty treadmills and someone comes up and gets on one right next to you.
  • TNR32
    TNR32 Posts: 110 Member
    I'm one of those that sing while on the treadmill (good thing I don't go to a gym)...but the reason why I do that is to try to control my breathing kinda like calling cadence in boot while on the morning run. But on the other hand when I did go to the gym I didn't pay attention to anyone else there.
  • marksvizz
    marksvizz Posts: 33
    When I get on the treadmill, Im usually in my own zone . However dislike when peaple are on treadmill and are on there cell phone
  • mummum2
    mummum2 Posts: 415 Member
    Seriously, unless they're directly affecting your workout by being loud or disruptive, I don't see why it matters if they're holding on the the bars, walking backwards, walking slow, you don't see a change in their appearance or whatever....

    ^This^^ mind ones one business and if it does not impact on your 'life' mind your own!
  • saschka7
    saschka7 Posts: 577 Member
    I once saw a girl on a treadmill suddenly switch directions (i.e.instead of the normal face-forward) to some complicated sidestepping--or galloping/leaping actually). I suspect she was trying to work a different muscle group but it terrified me--I was sure she was going to put her foot down wrong and trip and meet certain death or serious injury.

    Use common sense, people! Be safe!
  • peacefulsong
    peacefulsong Posts: 223 Member
    Every now and then I'll see someone post about how they want to join a gym but they are intimidated by going in there with all those other people who have been going forever, are in better shape, etc. Those are always met with a chorus of people saying "Don't worry, no one is paying attention to you, they're focusing on their own workout!!" And then a thread like this pops up, where everyone chimes in on how much it bugs them that someone isn't exercising the way they do.

    I mean, I can understand if someone is doing something that actively intrudes on your concentration or ability to work out as you wish, but things like going slower, or holding the handlebars, really?
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    You lot are all so lucky.

    The ONLY thing that really annoys me, not even on the treadmill next to me, it pretty much just has to be in the same room, you can't get away from it,

    is when they stamp on the front of the treadmill *thud* every *thud* step *thud* they *thud* take *thud*
    You *thud* can't *thud* get *thud* away *thud* from *thud* it, *thud* it's *thud* just *thud* so *thud* loud *thud* and *thud* annoying! *thud* Don't *thud* they *thud* know *thud* they're *thud* doing *thud* it? *thud*

    *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud*

    anyway, you get the idea. Just do that for an 30-60mins while I'm working out. That annoys me.
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    It really bothers me when people on the treadmill are too busy paying attention to what others are doing on their treadmill....


    That's it.
  • lostinthe619
    lostinthe619 Posts: 98
    Crop dusters... :sick:

    I'm a big guy still and push myself hard on the treadmill so I'm already huffin and puffin as I run along focusing on doing my thing, the other day I had someone almost knock me off the treadmill with their funk. Nothin like taking a deep breath of someone's noxious fumes. :noway:

    Get it out before the gym, or if it hits you then go to the restroom!
  • angserino
    angserino Posts: 59
    When people are paying more attention to what you are doing, than what they are doing themselves.

    Exactly!!!
  • k_town78
    k_town78 Posts: 21
    There is a lady at my gym that likes to bring soda with her to the TM. This time of year though the gym is full of people who are doing it ALL wrong. (Resolutioners)

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