pet peeves at the gym

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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    you use clips when you bench???
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  • levitateme
    levitateme Posts: 999 Member
    I have recently decided that not re-racking your weights really bothers me. I was waiting for a bench to open up one day and one finally did so I set up on it, but there were no clips, so I looked around and found some on another bench. I had been watching the guys that were using this bench for quite some time and at this point they had been off their bench for about 10-15 minutes and had disappeared somewhere else in the gym. However they had left their bar loaded with weights and clips, but since I hadn't seen them for that long I took the clips and put them on my bar. I proceeded to do my sets not thinking much of it until just as I was doing my last set I saw these guys come back to their bench. When they saw that their clips were gone they started to get all worked up about how someone had taken them. I finished up and told them I was done and gave them the clips and unloaded my bar. I watched them finish up a couple more sets and then proceed to leave the gym for the day, still without unloading their bar.
    It seems like every night after all the big meatheads have left the gym there are unloaded weights on nearly every piece of equipment, weights scattered all over the weight room floor and the few weights that are re-racked are put in the wrong place. You've got ten pound weights buried beneath two 45s with a 25 in the middle, dumbells just left on the floor. Some people are so lazy, you can only imagine what their house looks like.

    Preach. I'm sick of people throwing plates all over the floor and leaving.
  • MrsKGrady
    MrsKGrady Posts: 276 Member
    I don't go to the gym but one of my friends' pet peeves is when she goes to the gym and does her workout and there are five or six women our age (30's) who sit on the equipment chatting in their workout gear and never do any exercise. Ever. She said they are not rude and will politely move when she is headed toward the machines or whatever...but it's just weird because they go every day and she's seen ONE of them use a treadmill ONCE in many months of gym attendance. To me it sound like they may as well be in a coffee shop or someone's living room.

    Yes....this! I call them the Gossip Girls and they drive me crazy. I'm going to go deaf from turning up my music so I don't have to listen to them.

    Here's a list of other pet peeves that I saw online yesterday: http://www.eonline.com/news/560780/the-9-worst-people-you-see-in-every-gym
  • fooninie
    fooninie Posts: 291 Member
    My biggest peeve is when people feel they "own" a spot or machine. One lady told me "That's my spot for this class." My response "I think it's important to change things up sometimes."

    Also, the toilet-flushing thing really ticks me off...just flush already!
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    you use clips when you bench???

    I use clips with all barbell lifts, is this wrong?

    no it isn't wrong- I mean clips are there for a reason- but you do not NEED them typically. They shouldn't hold up a work out.

    I only use mine 100% of the time for dead lifts- because the plates do not fit super tight to teh bar- so they lean and wobble without the clips (they still lean and wobble but it's just a lot less lean and wobbly)

    squats OHP and bench- clips are totally optional LOL
  • handyrunner
    handyrunner Posts: 32,662 Member
    Please ...rack....your...weights ... 10lbs goes where they marked the thing with a "10lbs" sticker.

    I'm not sure what makes me more sad, the lack of weight racking or the inability to match numbers. Is this a reflection on the deterioration of home teaching of manners AND our education system?

    This x1000
  • CynthiaT60
    CynthiaT60 Posts: 1,280 Member
    Standing directly in front of free weights even leaning on railing to do what ever. Leaving towel and or water bottle at bench/ machine but their nowhere in site.Already mentioned but that one weird super fast guy that grabs a weight swings out like 3 reps then runs off and does something else then back swinging something again like a friggen ninja on crack.( no offense to real ninjas or crackheads)
    You mean supersets? :bigsmile:
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  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    men that just blatantly stand watching me making strange homer simpson like noises or men in speedo's and thongs trying to get you to join them in the jacuzzi or sauna:noway:

    same here, except replace the word 'men' with 'women' and the thong in the sauna....blech. . . .hate when women do this.
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  • lmr0528
    lmr0528 Posts: 427 Member
    When someone doesn't wipe down the machine after they use it and people who talk on their cell phones while they work out. The other night there were 3 other people in the gym while I was there and each of them were talking on their phones.
  • MyRummyHens
    MyRummyHens Posts: 141 Member
    People who get too close. I mean do they think they are going to absorb some of my workout by doing nothing and standing REALLY close to me? I swear one woman was all for getting into the squat rack with me the other day!
  • SrMaggalicious
    SrMaggalicious Posts: 495 Member
    This thread is why I have my own full home gym - and well worth the investment. No lines, no waiting, no germ-infested sweat...no smelly people...play my own music, use my own bathroom...it's freakin' heaven!
  • RachelSteeners
    RachelSteeners Posts: 249 Member
    Creepy guy staring at me and trying to make conversation. Leave me alone! It's become so annoying, I now go to the gym at a different time of the day to avoid this person... :grumble:
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  • levitateme
    levitateme Posts: 999 Member
    When people use the fail rail on the squat rack to do shrug super sets and walk away for 20 minutes, especially when both squat racks are being used for this. Work in with each other, I'm actually trying to squat.

    When people throw plates all over the floor and leave them there (as previously mentioned).

    When people use machines for things other than their intended purpose: Stop putting the bottoms of your sneakers on the pad where my knees go on the dip machine, gross.

    When I see dudes with giant pecs and biceps and tiny calves the size of my forearm. Why?
  • RachelSteeners
    RachelSteeners Posts: 249 Member
    People who use machines - get them all sweaty and gross - and then don't wipe them down. Ewww.... soooo gross! :huh:
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  • dgoupil66
    dgoupil66 Posts: 17
    Not wiping down machines is the big one. Or, using the same piece of paper towel to wipe machines but not spray them down.

    Bad form. See it all the time. Why bother?
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Little skinny dweebs that try to give me advice on anything.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Not optional for me, my right side can always outdo my left and towards the end of my set sometimes the left elbow will begin to weaken and cannot push the bar up at the same rate as the right side, so my bar starts to angle a bit and I worry about plates sliding off.

    and this is the reason why you don't use clips. It's kind of a self correcting thing. Learn to bench evenly and you don't worry about it.
    you use clips when you bench???

    I use clips with all barbell lifts, is this wrong?

    no it isn't wrong- I mean clips are there for a reason- but you do not NEED them typically. They shouldn't hold up a work out.

    I only use mine 100% of the time for dead lifts- because the plates do not fit super tight to teh bar- so they lean and wobble without the clips (they still lean and wobble but it's just a lot less lean and wobbly)

    squats OHP and bench- clips are totally optional LOL

    What about on the smith machine?

    You absolutely MUST use them on the smitch machine- for ALL lifts.

    (god I love people who put clips on the smith machine)
  • marissanik
    marissanik Posts: 344 Member
    The people who jack up the incline on the treadmill and then hang on for dear life.

    Pet peeve or entertainment? ;) hahaha
  • Sugarbeat
    Sugarbeat Posts: 824 Member
    This thread is why I have my own full home gym - and well worth the investment. No lines, no waiting, no germ-infested sweat...no smelly people...play my own music, use my own bathroom...it's freakin' heaven!

    +1. My pet peeves usually include dogs looking at me funny, cats waiting and watching until I've fiddled with the DVD player and TV and am all set to start and THEN wanting out, and a guinea pig who makes a lot of noise at 5 am asking for his breakfast carrot.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    New one, today. Classes that think it's OK to interrupt your workout because they just finished theirs and (I guess) want to get back to the lockers in record time.

    Had a bunch of seniors finish up a class they were doing in the middle of the indoor track, turn as one like a school of fish, and stroll straight across the track while chatting up a storm - and directly in front of me while I'm running. One stride, and I was surrounded! I had to actually stop and dodge several times to avoid knocking one of them down. I'm kind of surprised I didn't hurt myself. My knees aren't fans of sudden sideways movements.

    It was like being in a really slow-moving stampede. Totally bizarre.
  • Gingersfit
    Gingersfit Posts: 31
    I must have the greatest gym ever... I haven't really run into any of these situations (except maybe the loud grunting noises, but hey, I make those when necessary, too). My gym is affiliated with a hospital and the membership is pretty expensive... maybe more money to be there influences how nice you try to keep the place.
  • Sugarbeat
    Sugarbeat Posts: 824 Member
    This thread is why I have my own full home gym - and well worth the investment. No lines, no waiting, no germ-infested sweat...no smelly people...play my own music, use my own bathroom...it's freakin' heaven!

    Let's be honest, most of the things people whine about probably don't come up that much and aren't that big of a deal. The only equipment I ever have any real trouble getting on is the squat rack, and that's only if I go to my gym's location that only has one rack. The one I go to weekends has three. Sweat? Meh, I whipe down but I never check if anyone else does. It's just sweat and it won't kill you. Smelly people? Meh, it's a gym. Everyone stinks. I've never encountered anyone that really really really stinks. The bathrooms at my gym are fine and the music is, well, tuned out. Who cares what the gym plays? Bring your own.

    I don't know, in every one of these threads there are a lot of folks complaining about people not re-racking weights or wiping down machines. Those seem to be the biggest two. Makes me think it probably happens a lot, maybe just not at your gym. <shrugs> And it only takes one weird person staring or prancing around nekkid to make me REALLY glad I have a home gym.
  • Gingersfit
    Gingersfit Posts: 31
    My home treadmill peeve? My 55 pound pit bull thinks it's his treadmill because he does walk on it some -- my first 5 or 10 minutes on the treadmill include straddling him as I try to walk or constant kicking motions off to the side trying to keep him from jumping back on.

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