What do you want to say to certain people at the gym?

Bry_Fitness70
Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
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On almost a daily basis, I see things in the gym that I wish I could change. Admittedly , I’m reasonably certain that others have looked at what I’m doing in the gym over the years and have had critical thoughts about it. So in that spirit, and in the spirit of passive-aggressiveness, I’d like to help some of my fellow exercisers out by assessing them on a message board that they will never read:

1) Hunched over on the treadmill / stair master person. I noticed you are working hard. You are on that machine for a long duration and sweating up a storm. But why are you bent over and leaning on the handles the whole time? Or grasping the front of it like your life depends on it? Don’t you realize that you are failing to work several key muscles and also reducing the cardio benefit? Adjust the speed and the incline so that you can remain upright with a good posture, you will get a lot more out of it.

2) Heavy weight lifting with minimal nutrition guy. You work out like an animal, with your big weight belt strapped on tightly. You are very dedicated, I see you in the gym almost every time I’m here, grunting away. But you never seem to look any different. You are in your late 20s-early 30s and are in the prime of your life. You have big arms, a big barrel chest, a pot belly, and often tiny legs (because who wastes time on legs when you can work in another bench day?). I’m thinking that once you walk out of the gym, you don’t invest any effort into fueling your body properly, beyond that big protein shake. Have you considered logging your diet? If you are going to invest all of these hours in the gym, maybe you should consider nailing down your diet and seeing more progress? (There are also these machines and exercises that provide cardio benefits that you haven’t seemed to notice, but that is a discussion for another day…)

3) Circuit guy. No one piece of equipment can hold you down for long. You need 2, 3, sometimes even 4, all unoccupied and available for you when you are ready to pounce from station to station! Unfortunately, there are only so many machines available, and there are a lot of people trying to work out within a limited amount of time (and space). I know it is upsetting when some non-circuit slacker notices that a machine that has been unoccupied for 40-50 seconds and begins using it, when they should know full well that you are in need of that as soon as you finish this other machine you are on. Have you ever considered a home gym where you don’t have to interact with other people and their annoying need to utilize machines that you need?

(If you have an impaired sense of sarcasm /humor, this thread may not be right for you)
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  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    Uh, the dude that doesn't wipe down the machine when he's done.

    I just want to tell him to be a sweetie and wipe the seatie!
  • Pirate_chick
    Pirate_chick Posts: 1,216 Member
    Nothing. am there for me and me alone. I focus on my workout and don't care what other people are doing.
  • chazster123
    chazster123 Posts: 28
    Stop posing in the mirror n hogging all the weight area space
  • Phildog47
    Phildog47 Posts: 255 Member
    You forgot "stinky, crusty guy!" and "hot gym girl" who has 12 guys (and their drool) following her every move! :laugh:
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    What do you want to say to certain people at the gym?

    You're doing it wrong
  • Perplexities
    Perplexities Posts: 612 Member
    Invisible lat syndrome isn't a valid reason to park in the handicap parking space.
  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
    Nothing. am there for me and me alone. I focus on my workout and don't care what other people are doing.

    I don't see any reason why I would refrain from being constantly aware of my surroundings. Some of the most valuable things that I've learned to do / not to do in life have been learned from observing others.
  • crazie4lulu
    crazie4lulu Posts: 762 Member
    PLEASE dont curl in the squat rack!!! TYVM!!!!!
  • jrknotts
    jrknotts Posts: 45 Member
    Re-rack the plates. Seriously.
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    What I'd like to say: Hot guy with the very sexy muscles, visible abs, and well-inked tattoo, would you like to grab a drink sometime?

    AKA, never have the nerve to say.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    Please use some deodorant, please!!
  • thatonegirlwiththestuff
    thatonegirlwiththestuff Posts: 1,171 Member
    It's not necessary to wear perfume to the gym. You're not covering your sweat stink by any measure, and now I have a sinus headache.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member

    2) Heavy weight lifting with minimal nutrition guy. You work out like an animal, with your big weight belt strapped on tightly. You are very dedicated, I see you in the gym almost every time I’m here, grunting away. But you never seem to look any different. You are in your late 20s-early 30s and are in the prime of your life. You have big arms, a big barrel chest, a pot belly, and often tiny legs (because who wastes time on legs when you can work in another bench day?). I’m thinking that once you walk out of the gym, you don’t invest any effort into fueling your body properly, beyond that big protein shake. Have you considered logging your diet? If you are going to invest all of these hours in the gym, maybe you should consider nailing down your diet and seeing more progress? (There are also these machines and exercises that provide cardio benefits that you haven’t seemed to notice, but that is a discussion for another day...)

    I used to work in a grocery store across the street from a gym. The swoll guys would come in shopping and I would check out their carts. Nothing but processed crap. All frozen meals or.Hamburger Helper type things. All I could think of was "Doesn't that all just negate what you did at the gym?" They were clearly muscular guys but muscularly fat or fatly muscular if that makes any sense. Their t!ts were nearly as big as mine.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Dude in the rack who just squatted my warm up for your 1rm, please don't scream ala Rick Flair style "Woooo" to draw attention to yourself, I'm glad you making progress, but its blowing leafs in my breeze...
  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    Wipe the machine down after you use it! I don't care how not sweaty you think you are, just wipe it down.
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    Re-rack the plates. Seriously.

    QFT!!!!!!!!
  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
    Uh, the dude that doesn't wipe down the machine when he's done.

    I just want to tell him to be a sweetie and wipe the seatie!

    :laugh: Yes!
  • Kaylee_Loren
    Kaylee_Loren Posts: 56 Member
    Hey, guy who can only lift half as much as me, I don't want your critiques or advice.
  • DymonNdaRgh40
    DymonNdaRgh40 Posts: 661 Member
    Umm, don't worry about how long I've been working out, thanks. Let me do me and you do you!:wink:
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Yes! I hate it when people don't put things back the way they were! Be it re-racking weights or putting stability balls back on the rack or moving benches back to where they were. Drives me nuts!

    Also, the guy who runs while holding on/hunding over the handles on the treadmill? That just makes no sense to me...
  • jenbit
    jenbit Posts: 4,252 Member
    Please stop staring at my boobs and butt when I lift... I can see you lol
  • Lofteren
    Lofteren Posts: 960 Member
    It's not a squat if you don't break parallel!
  • lozzatao
    lozzatao Posts: 53 Member
    Get off the d*amn bench while you're updating your Facebook page .. or tweeting all your non gym going mates that you are at the gym .. but only working out your fingers !!! aaaaaaagggghhhhhhhhhh !!
  • ConnieChick
    ConnieChick Posts: 70 Member
    It's not a squat if you don't break parallel!
    What he said! I saw you Missie, making those Cleans into power cleans!
  • jeannevdl
    jeannevdl Posts: 33
    Girls who look like they had a professional make-up artist do their make-up prior to their gym session. I actually see them apply make-up in the locker room. Don't even break a sweat, come to gym to take a selfie.
  • histora
    histora Posts: 287 Member
    It's cute that you have a boytoy, but could you two maybe go make out in the corner of some dimly-lit hallway (or, *gasp* your dorm!!) instead of making goo-goo eyes at each other on the only weight bench? YOU'RE IN MY WAY.

    If you put your weights on the floor and walk out of the room, not only am I going to take them and use them, but I am going to think you are a complete twit when you come back in a minute or two later and whine that I took them. I don't care that your bf called. But kudos on going out to use the phone.

    Thank you for helping me with my form.
  • gemmamummy
    gemmamummy Posts: 185 Member
    Is it really necessary to grunt that loudly???
  • SugarBaby71
    SugarBaby71 Posts: 3,630 Member
    1. To the pretty blonde with the amazing hair... that she keeps fiddling with: Yes, your hair looks fine.
    2. To the cardio bunnies that spend hours and hours on the dreadmill: If you have to hold on so you don't fall off, the incline is too much for you
    3. To that guy I see every day with the massive chest and arms...: Great work. But about the chicken legs... DONT SKIP LEG DAY... again.

    That is all. for today.
  • trojan_bb
    trojan_bb Posts: 699 Member

    2) Heavy weight lifting with minimal nutrition guy. You work out like an animal, with your big weight belt strapped on tightly. You are very dedicated, I see you in the gym almost every time I’m here, grunting away. But you never seem to look any different. You are in your late 20s-early 30s and are in the prime of your life. You have big arms, a big barrel chest, a pot belly, and often tiny legs (because who wastes time on legs when you can work in another bench day?). I’m thinking that once you walk out of the gym, you don’t invest any effort into fueling your body properly, beyond that big protein shake. Have you considered logging your diet? If you are going to invest all of these hours in the gym, maybe you should consider nailing down your diet and seeing more progress? (There are also these machines and exercises that provide cardio benefits that you haven’t seemed to notice, but that is a discussion for another day...)

    I used to work in a grocery store across the street from a gym. The swoll guys would come in shopping and I would check out their carts. Nothing but processed crap. All frozen meals or.Hamburger Helper type things. All I could think of was "Doesn't that all just negate what you did at the gym?" They were clearly muscular guys but muscularly fat or fatly muscular if that makes any sense. Their t!ts were nearly as big as mine.

    I eat all frozen meals and Hamburger helper. It negates nothing. it builds muscle and it's convenient.

    Guy doing chest fly's in the tricep extension pulley using two cables. Hey bro, see those FOUR dedicated chest fly cable machines. Go use them. I need to train arms. While you're at it, ditch the cable flies, they clearly arent working.

    The only thing that really pisses me off is guys walking right in front of me then stopping and doing a set right in front of the mirror.

    or guys traveling in bro packs of four.

    Or guys doing quarter squats and looking at my squat bar with a smug look like "I'm doing more weight than you". No, no you are not.

    just kidding, many things piss me off the gym. I am an angry, angry gym rat. The littlest things put me on edge
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    Is it really necessary to grunt that loudly???

    Now I did this today during my deadlifts and yes, it was necessary to get that last rep up :drinker:

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