Top 5 Gym Annoyances

People who leave q-tips in the shower. No, you're really NOT doing me a favor because I'm not going to use the q-tips you so generously left me... I don't even want to touch them. If you carry it in with you, carry it out!

I just recently started at a new co-ed gym..I had belonged to a very small womens only gym that was very girly, very clean, etc..

WELL,...often times in the locker room women just leave their *kitten* on the floor, towels, bras, thong underwear and do whatever it is they are doing. Yesterday someone had left two dirty qtips on the ground as well!

And the most irritating thing thus far, and it tops the dude who was watching Game 1 of the World Series on the treadmill yelling at the tv when plays weren't going his way, was the fact that a lady brought her three young boys (under the age of 8) with her to the cardio deck and they were all attempting to use equipment that clearly is NOT for young children while she was working out! I mean the two smaller ones were just about falling off the cybex machines and those things just don't stop when you want them to, they could have seriously been hurt.

Now I appreciate that this woman is trying to get healthy, lose weight, whatever her goal is. Every woman (and man) needs to do that for themselves...but wow. I am surprised the gym allowed that.

Most of the time I can smile and mind my own business after small speculation on my part, laugh it off, whatever. I know when I get going on cardio I can start stinking when I sweat, whatever..we've all got our "gym things" you know? But yesterday? When the kids were using equipment I pay a hefty fee to use, preventing other gym goers from using it, then roaming around like banshee's in the weights 50 feet away from her? That pissed me off.

And those are my annoying gym things. That and the fact that there isn't enough eye candy he he...just jooooking

The grunters are the funniest. I always giggle when I hear them!

Thanks for the enjoyable post!

-Chancy

I use to feel the same way about the grunters until I started working with free weights. I totally understand now. When I am on my last set and you are using everything you have in you sometimes it just comes out. Now I don't understand some of the people that are so loud with the grunting it will make you drop your weights it scares you so bad. I have learned to wipe any machines off before and after I workout. I don't care if I seen the person wipe it off, I'm going to make sure it's wiped off good.

1.I hate when some women there are a group of three women gossiping just looking at everyone
2. I hate how some people bring coffee with them to work out!! Why?????

Mine isn't exactly an annoyance, it's more like dazed bewilderment. It's those people who have to drive slowly through the parking lot like vultures waiting to pounce on the perfect-up-front-closest-to-the-door parking space. What the heck? For crying out loud people, go park in the other lot and take a few extra steps to walk to the building. It's not like you have to cross a busy street or anything, it's just the lot that is on the side of the gym instead of smack dab in front of the building. After all, isn't getting a little bit of exercise what we are there for to begin with? Then again, never mind, I don't want anyone to know of the best kept secret where I can always find a place, park my car, get my gym bag out of the trunk, and get into the building before some of those vultures even make one lap in their cars looking around for those front spaces.

Mine isn't exactly an annoyance, it's more like dazed bewilderment. It's those people who have to drive slowly through the parking lot like vultures waiting to pounce on the perfect-up-front-closest-to-the-door parking space. What the heck? For crying out loud people, go park in the other lot and take a few extra steps to walk to the building. It's not like you have to cross a busy street or anything, it's just the lot that is on the side of the gym instead of smack dab in front of the building. After all, isn't getting a little bit of exercise what we are there for to begin with? Then again, never mind, I don't want anyone to know of the best kept secret where I can always find a place, park my car, get my gym bag out of the trunk, and get into the building before some of those vultures even make one lap in their cars looking around for those front spaces.

SO true. I used to watch the same thing happen when I went up to the local open space preserve to run. I'd park at the top of the hill and walk down to the trail, and pass all the idling cars waiting for that close spot so they could go exercise!

The #1 most annoying trait is people that complain about what others do in the gym instead of worrying about why they are at the the gym and not what others do at the gym, IE the person who would bother to make a post like this one

I grunt, I sweat, I dont stare, I don't cell phone and I could care what others are doing. I am focused on what I have to do to get the most out of my workout. If I use the mirror to confirm proper form and someone does too good for him. If I drop the weights so be it. If I listen to music you can hear coming out off my headphones, who's problem is that? I clean the machines cause that is just dirty otherwise.

If you got time to see all these things then you aren't working out hard enough!!!!!

I have to agree with you. If someone is soooo focused on what other people are doing, they are not giving 100 % in their workout. The only ones that I thought actually applied were people taking up the gym equipment while talking on the phone, you have not started because of them so you are obviously not able to give 100%. Other than that, who cares if people grunt, chat, listen to music. Focus on your goals.

My biggest annoyance at the gym are the boys, yes thats probably you, who stare at women in the free weights room. I've come up with a variety of reasons why this may be occurring:

1. Are they checking me out? Because if they are thats disgusting considering I am sweating from head to toe and smell somewhat gross.
2. Are they pissed I'm using these weights because they want to use them?
3. Do they feel their manliness is in jeopardy because there is now a female in "their" area?

Whether it is one of these reasons or maybe another that I have not yet thought of, it really makes me feel uncomfortable. It's hard to be focused on working out when I know that I have eyes on me (considering I can see them in the mirror). Am I the only one this happens to??

They are checking you out!!!!!! Do you really think the fact that you are sweating is somehow a deterant,come on!

Put the damn weights back where they belong! mommy does not work here.