Gym Etiquette breaches....

I work out at home, so... When my husband leaves his guitar *kitten* all over the living room? Does that count?

The other one is a bit subjective and I run the risk of being blasted for this : People who want to share your machine whilst you rest. Now speaking personally, if I am using a machine I have the height / width / weight settings etc set for me and to be quite honest I would rather be left alone to finish my sets.

I have asked to slip onto a machine a couple of times while someone is resting. I *always* set it back to the way they had it when I am done.

My peeve is since I am at a Rec Center Gym once in a while a a group of teenagers decide to *play* in the gym. You can tell it gets on everyone's nerves.

Not reracking your weights. It means I can't tell if that equipment is free, it means someone has to pickup after you and it means you're an assh0le.

THIS!! GGRRR

There's a dude who uses the gym in our apartment building - which is a very small gym - and he listens to his iPod really loudly, WITHOUT HEADPHONES. Drives me nuts. Who does that?? I want to listen to my own music, not his.

I workout in my apartment complex gym and there is this girl who talks very loudly on her phone. She will be curling or doing shoulder presses and practically screaming.....it is terrible. I usually just leave.

id say my gyms squat rack gets used equally for:

curling
military press
squats

not sure how big our gym is size wise but (and sorry i dont know all the technical terms)

2 flat benches
1 incline bench
1 decline bench
2 adjustable benches
1 decline bench for situps
1 preacher curl
1 tbar row
combined of the following setup
1 seated row
1 cable crossover
1 dip/pullup
1 lat pulldown
1 tricep pull down
1 squat rack
1 smith machine
hack squat
seated leg press

machines are
preacher curl
tricep extension
pec dec
leg rasies
lat pull down
back extensions
hamstring curls
leg curls
leg press


5 elliptical
2 stair steppers
3 arc trainers
4 treadmills
4 bikes


so you have to make do with what you can make do


as far as working in with someone, as you can see its not a terribly huge gym but some days men synch up their workouts like women do their periods

I hate when people don't wipe down the equipment after use know one wants to sit in your sweat. There is walls i guess they are in between the equipment that had disinfect spray and paper towels and garbage to wipe down the machine and throw the paper towel away. Another is when they don't throw the towel away and leave it in the cup holders

At my gym the court style floor is seperated into 3 sections with the middle being for basketball and one side each for ping pong (I don't get it either) and aerobics with only a weighted curtain the seperate them. The basketball guys seem to think that they can just run THROUGH the curtain and run into us during our workouts. I have almost been run over multiple times, but when we say stuff all they say is that they can't stop (and I call BS on that).

Also, I work as a civilian for the AF and we are given 3 hours a week paid to workout (healthier force=more effective force) and I see guys in the gym just talking for their entire hour then going home. Grrrr, that is NOT what this time is for *kitten*!