Do you re-rack your weights or are you a douche?!!??

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always re-racks... but sometimes forgets to wipe the equipment when done. :-(

I never leave a plate on the bar. And, my YMCA is used by lots of teens. They leave plates and dumbbells on the ground. They move benches around. They re-rack plates in the wrong place.
Yes, I am a bit obsessive.
Yes, I spend time picking these things up and/or moving them to the right place while I work out.

Love my gym! Guess a gym is as good as it's clientele? Weights are usually racked and machines are usually cleaned. There are plenty of towel dispensers and spray bottles around, and great storage racks for all the loose equipment. When it is made easy, and the rules are posted, it usually gets done.
One thing that I do see is a lot of wasted time looking for the interchangeable hand loops. I think they need some extra as they seem to be missing some.
One other thing, that really can be bad, is the floors not being kept clean and free of debris left by clients. Our gym just recently changed cleaners due to some neglected chores. I am so glad they have a new cleaning person. A new sign has been put on the door as well, "Leave muddy shoes outside!"
Happy with the workings of my gym, The Rock is the best!
Donna155

I re-rack my weights AND I'm a douche :grumble:

I rerack and tend to rerack others during rest sets. The gym owner saw me doing this and has since said something but you still find douche bags (male and female) who don't.

i do the same, although the people at my new gym rarely forget to rerack, which is nice for a change (prob because its a Planet Fitness, and they'll press that stupid lunk alarm if you do anything meat-headish)

at any gym ive been to, i always rerack. its common decency

i also think people are douches if they hog weights that they dont plan to use in the immediate future (im not talking within the next 5 min. im talking about people who grab (for example) 2 sets of dumbbells and 2 sets of barbells and leave them by their weight bench, and it may be 10+ minutes until they start using the other sets). 2 women at my old gym would do that, and then proceed to talk to each other for 15 min without using a single weight that they had hogged. at that point, i dont even ask to use a set - i just take it... and then rerack it for good measure instead of bringing it back to them.

I always re-rack, my set just doesn't feel finished until then. My gym has signs all over the weights area reminding people to re-rack, plus one that says" Men, please re-rack your weights when finished so the ladies don't have to" Not sure how I feel about that one . . . .

Whenever I am unracking someone else's weights that they left behind, I think about my mom. When she started working out (a long time ago now), she was really weak. She had to get a gym employee to help her unrack if things had been left behind that were too heavy for her -- 45's & 35's. She stuck it out and now she can do things at 75 years old that I can't, but I remember how hard that was for her at first.

Seems like you shouldn't make it harder for the next person -- it might be somebody's mom!!

On another board, someone recently posted the line "If you're strong enough to lift it, you're strong enough to put it away."

People at my gym are pretty good about putting their stuff away however which is good because I've been in gyms in the past where it was an annoying problem.

I re-rack my wights AND I am a douche. I don't have to be one or the other. But seriously, this is one of the things I complain about. Douches also sit on weight benches and machines between sets instead of getting up and letting other people work in between their sets. And...they stand in front of the rack in everyone's way while they lift the dumbbells instead of standing a few feet away. I can complain all day about douches.

Forgive me if I misunderstand here, but you want me to re-rack in between sets and get up so you can rack the bench and work your set, then have me load my bar, do another set, re-rack, let you work another set...you or someone else? Ummm...call me what you want, but you can have the bench or machine or whatever, when I'm done with all my reps and sets.