pet peeves at the gym

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  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    Women who look at themselves in the mirror constantly. Checking out the way they look, how their hair and make-up is, always on their phones and barely even working out! It is not a fashion show! Work out or go home!

    make- up? at the gym? .. why?

    Some people go to the gym right after work. They just don't bother to take the makeup off. Others can't stand to be seen in public without makeup for various reasons.

    Might as well ask why gym goers bother to color-coordinate their workout clothes, etc. Just because.

    :laugh: right?

    those peeves always come off as "i hate it when people look cuter than me while at the gym" :sad:

    this year i plan on perfecting the perfect liquid liner doe eye+ amplified pink lipstick+ 150 pound bench press :laugh:
  • dizzylizzie34
    dizzylizzie34 Posts: 29
    This one girl was walking around naked in the locker room and then used a hair blow dryer to dry off her pubes! and then she sat down and picked/dug at her toenails. disgusting. THE GYM IS NOT YOUR HOME
  • ariesflame
    ariesflame Posts: 82 Member
    Women who look at themselves in the mirror constantly. Checking out the way they look, how their hair and make-up is, always on their phones and barely even working out! It is not a fashion show! Work out or go home!

    make- up? at the gym? .. why?

    What's wrong with wanting to look your best in public? Someone wearing make-up should be of no concern to anyone, how can this be a pet peeve? It's just pure vindictive jealousy.

    its no pet peeve, just doesn't compute. chill.

    then again, make up in general doesn't compute on my hard drive. But I'm not hating on Macs just because I'm PC.
  • no_worries
    no_worries Posts: 61 Member
    I just really hate people who sit on the weight machines not doing anything. I got through 5 of my 6 exercises while eying the girl sitting on the machine I needed for the 6th. She sat there for over 30 minutes, not doing anything, and when I asked her if I could use it she just said "Ugh, I guess" in a really snotty tone.

    I go to the gym to get my **** done. I do my sets and then I move on.
  • chadya07
    chadya07 Posts: 627 Member
    im sure its been said but this thread was depressing me because i had convinced mysefl that people didnt give a **** about my form and are more concerned with their own business. and that i was allowed to be there even when my strength and skill isnt perfect yet. unfortunately i am finding that there really ARE people judging other peoples workouts.

    why should you care about some strangers progress?

    now i have to go back to convincing myself that people arent judging me even though i am fat and have lung and lower back problems and do the best i can.

    damn you.

    i hate push ups. cant do a good one to save my life. but when the instructor tells me to do them i keep doing them anyway. one of these days i will be strong enough to get it right.

    get over yourselves those who care about whether other people are perfect or not.

    i understand hygeine issues and issues with etiquette.
  • emcgehee1
    emcgehee1 Posts: 16 Member
    Okay this is embarrassing but I feel goofy wiping down the machines as I doubt I have ever dripped a drop of sweat in my life. I get a sheen of sweat but no dripping drops - obviously not working hard enough.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Women who look at themselves in the mirror constantly. Checking out the way they look, how their hair and make-up is, always on their phones and barely even working out! It is not a fashion show! Work out or go home!

    make- up? at the gym? .. why?

    Dudebros have to properly highlight their cheekbones somehow.

    Dude, mascara brings out the natural awesome of my eyes, shut it.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Women who look at themselves in the mirror constantly. Checking out the way they look, how their hair and make-up is, always on their phones and barely even working out! It is not a fashion show! Work out or go home!

    make- up? at the gym? .. why?

    The real question is.... why not??

    it doesn't bother you... it makes me feel better- so why does it bother you at all.

    Stop hating because you cant' do make up.
  • chiliqueen359
    chiliqueen359 Posts: 2 Member
    As a former gym worker then manager (in the south), It is the staff's responsibility to make the floor run smoothly. Walking around with spray bottle and putting it down beside a sweating man and giving him a big ole smile will give him the hit. Walking up to jabbering women on machines not using is the staff's problem and can be easily pushed to finishing with "ya'll stop ya yakking and finish!" The staff should remind big burly men to be sure to put up those 6 45# off the squat machine. Complain to management about the things ya'll are fussing about. You have a legit complaint and it should be remedied.
  • bekkyhadley
    bekkyhadley Posts: 15 Member
    I don't so much have over all pet peeves but there's two woman at the gym who annoy me.
    First is 'can't make up her mind' lady - who seems to pick one person to follow around every time she's there and just do what they do. She'll spend the 30 minutes she's there and go on everything for only about 2-5 minutes so maybe 5 minutes on the treadmill then 2 seconds of core work outs then 2 minutes on a bike and then back to the core and then one the weight machines and then she'll do some cooling down and stretching and then back on the treadmill. over and over and over.

    second is 'annoying naked lady' - the locker room @ my gym isn't very big - 4 cubicles, 5 showers and then some benches and lockers. Annoying naked lady seems to feel the need to get butt naked, go and have a shower, come and stand outside an empty cubicle and get all her stuff out of her bag and then she'll dry her hair, put on her jewellery and make-up while standing in the middle of the room in everyone's way while still being naked.



    Can you not.
  • BetterKimmer
    BetterKimmer Posts: 178 Member
    <rant>
    I have a pet peeve and it does affect me so don't be telling me to mind my own work out as that is what I am trying to do.

    My gym has three sections: one with treadmills etc, one with weights and another separate open section with the yoga mats skipping ropes etc. There is this one chick who for some unexplained reason likes to drag all the freaking equipment like the medicine balls, skipping ropes, yoga mats, those big *kitten* ball thingys from the section they are in to right in front of the dumbbell racks taking about about 3/4 of the length of the racks and then proceeds to do a cardio circuit. It makes it difficult to get to some of the dumbbells as her skipping rope is flying all over the place plus the fact that her little set up takes up as much space as about four or five benches. I haven't said anything yet but I am getting to my breaking point. The fact is there is a WHOLE other empty section where all this crap actually lives where she could do this without getting in the way. Why the **** is she bringing all that crap over to the weight section???. I can't understand her logic unless she wants to look at herself in the mirror, which she can't do half the time as she is on the floor being obscured by the dumbbell racks or she just wants dudes or girls or whatever to notice her. It ****s me off to no end and considering there is a designated section for that **** I don't get what the hell she is thinking. I would go talk to the trainers but there aren't any there at that time of the morning. It has happened every time I have been at the gym this week and I feel it is entirely inconsiderate to everyone else trying to lift weights.
    </rant>
    Also, I hate it when people don't rer-ack their weights. That is bull****.


    Guilty as charged. But hey, my PT was the one that taught me to pull together a few things in one area for a mini circuit. And right now I am in the middle of Shortcut to Shred from BodyBuilder.com, which has me in the weight area or on a weight machine replacing my rest periods with intense cardio, doing it with little to no breaks.. I have to skip rope for a few of them. I am very aware I might be annoying and hate it, but I'm on a mission. It is only a 6 week program so I'll get off their nerves soon. I also try to go at the times the least people are there.
    Sorry. :ohwell:

    For OP, the old re-rack the weights. The other day I was in the middle of the non-stop workout and had to re-rack each and every machine I used. UGGGG!! :angry: It messed up my flow and timing. And one more for those lying around on the cardio machines, if you can't hold your own body up on a cardio machine you are using it wrong! Slow it down until you can stand up for yourself and work up to the speed where you can handle it. You look ridiculous and get zero benefit from taking 50% of your weight off your work.
  • BetterKimmer
    BetterKimmer Posts: 178 Member
    omg!! Cyborg, you have me crying!! :laugh:
  • lovetowrite73
    lovetowrite73 Posts: 1,244 Member
    1) Not wiping your butt sweat off when you're done with a machine. I've wiped an especially sweaty looking seat once because the girl that had just gotten off didn't and..................apparently she was on her period.

    I just threw up in my mouth.

    Just like a lot of other folks here, folks not re-racking their weights really grind my gears.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    People who complain about grunting or noisy deadlifts
  • ThatMouse
    ThatMouse Posts: 229 Member
    I'm in the "re-rack your weights" club.

    I find it hilarious, because there's always folks who squat 1 plate and leave it up there. I don't do compound lifts at the moment (damn bum knee from running), but I keep an eye on the squat racks and if someone hasn't been back in there using that plate for the last ten-fifteen minutes, I'll walk on over and - in all of my 5'0" of tiny Asian chick glory - take those plates off and re-rack them. If you can squat it, you can sure as hell re-rack it. Keep my squat rack clean, you muppets.

    I also clean the entire TRX room after I'm done using it - taking down the dip-bar-apparatus-thingy and the platform apparatus and rolling away the tires and stacking the jumping boxes. What's with how messy early morning fitness classes are in the Y, anyways? Doesn't "respect the facility" also mean "clean up after yourself"? It's nice for me, though - gives me something to do during my rests between exercise sets.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    People who complain about grunting or noisy deadlifts

    :laugh:
  • caribear1984
    caribear1984 Posts: 203
    I'm in the "re-rack your weights" club.

    I find it hilarious, because there's always folks who squat 1 plate and leave it up there. I don't do compound lifts at the moment (damn bum knee from running), but I keep an eye on the squat racks and if someone hasn't been back in there using that plate for the last ten-fifteen minutes, I'll walk on over and - in all of my 5'0" of tiny Asian chick glory - take those plates off and re-rack them. If you can squat it, you can sure as hell re-rack it. Keep my squat rack clean, you muppets.

    I also clean the entire TRX room after I'm done using it - taking down the dip-bar-apparatus-thingy and the platform apparatus and rolling away the tires and stacking the jumping boxes. What's with how messy early morning fitness classes are in the Y, anyways? Doesn't "respect the facility" also mean "clean up after yourself"? It's nice for me, though - gives me something to do during my rests between exercise sets.

    Thank you for cleaning up after the inconsiderate people. I clean at a YMCA, and sometimes it is hard to get into a certain area to clean it.

    I also have the pleasure of unloading all the bars and machines in the weight room, and I have considered putting up signs that say "If you're strong enough to lift it, you are strong enough to put it back. Sincerely, the cleaning lady."
  • fitness_faeiry
    fitness_faeiry Posts: 354 Member
    This one girl was walking around naked in the locker room and then used a hair blow dryer to dry off her pubes! and then she sat down and picked/dug at her toenails. disgusting. THE GYM IS NOT YOUR HOME

    OMG - that is SO gross
  • fitness_faeiry
    fitness_faeiry Posts: 354 Member
    Men they make noises like dinosaurs when they benchpress.

    RAAAAAAWWRRRRRRRRRRR
  • shmerek
    shmerek Posts: 963 Member

    Guilty as charged. But hey, my PT was the one that taught me to pull together a few things in one area for a mini circuit. And right now I am in the middle of Shortcut to Shred from BodyBuilder.com, which has me in the weight area or on a weight machine replacing my rest periods with intense cardio, doing it with little to no breaks.. I have to skip rope for a few of them. I am very aware I might be annoying and hate it, but I'm on a mission. It is only a 6 week program so I'll get off their nerves soon. I also try to go at the times the least people are there.
    Sorry. :ohwell:

    For OP, the old re-rack the weights. The other day I was in the middle of the non-stop workout and had to re-rack each and every machine I used. UGGGG!! :angry: It messed up my flow and timing. And one more for those lying around on the cardio machines, if you can't hold your own body up on a cardio machine you are using it wrong! Slow it down until you can stand up for yourself and work up to the speed where you can handle it. You look ridiculous and get zero benefit from taking 50% of your weight off your work.
    Thing is she doesn't use any of the weight machines. It is so perplexing. She was in this morning but I was gone before she got off the treadmill.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Men they make noises like dinosaurs when they benchpress.

    RAAAAAAWWRRRRRRRRRRR

    I'm totally going to make dino noises at the gym today.

    RAAWWWWWWWRRRRRR!

    What's that noise? A velociraptor on arms day!
  • aledba
    aledba Posts: 564 Member
    Okay this is embarrassing but I feel goofy wiping down the machines as I doubt I have ever dripped a drop of sweat in my life. I get a sheen of sweat but no dripping drops - obviously not working hard enough.
    You wipe not just for sweat clean-up but because germs are gross and have no place living on an elliptical handle. It's etiquette.
  • JaimieAG
    JaimieAG Posts: 48
    People who use the equipment as park benches.
  • Carnivor0us
    Carnivor0us Posts: 1,752 Member
    The people who jack up the incline on the treadmill and then hang on for dear life.

    Actually, I happen to find that not so much a pet peeve as incredibly hilarious.
  • MrsKGrady
    MrsKGrady Posts: 276 Member
    Ran into that one woman who likes to spend more time on her phone than actually working out. She sat on one weight machine texting away for over 10 minutes (I know because she was on there for my entire warmup) and then she went to another machine for almost 30 minutes. I know that because that's how long I had to use the other machines before she moved so that I could use it. I should have said something, but I knew she'd eventually meander off to another machine. When I left, she was still texting away on one of the treadmills.

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