Gym Etiquette

I was using the leg press machine. Enter random juice head jerk. He stands there glaring at me while I am in motion not even a rest. Tapping his watch.. I looked up took out my head phone and said YES IM USING THIS! HE said, " Well can you hurry I need to use it too quit being selfish with the machine"... I pointed to the other leg press the one where add your own plates to it.. Thankfully a manager came over and told the guy that his rudeness wasn't welcome!

I hate people who go to the gym walk on the treadmill for 20 mins and leave, this is their everyday workout. Why come to the gym at all? Do some weights, put the thing on incline, boost the speed, hit the elliptical or a bike. This also goes with the person who comes into the gym does 20 on the recumbant bike and leaves. I guess some just go for the social atmosphere?

Maybe these people just don't have enough time to do more, at least they are doing something instead of sitting at home. Or maybe they just had surgery or something and can't do anything strenuous. This is one thing I feel like people judge me for while at the gym, I walk, I don't run, I can't run, but at least I am there to do what I can!

I knew I would catch some flack..but in the 6 years that i have went to this gym, that is all I have ever seen these people do, nothing more nothing less. I guess it is their money.

I hate people who go to the gym walk on the treadmill for 20 mins and leave, this is their everyday workout. Why come to the gym at all? Do some weights, put the thing on incline, boost the speed, hit the elliptical or a bike. This also goes with the person who comes into the gym does 20 on the recumbant bike and leaves. I guess some just go for the social atmosphere?

Maybe these people just don't have enough time to do more, at least they are doing something instead of sitting at home. Or maybe they just had surgery or something and can't do anything strenuous. This is one thing I feel like people judge me for while at the gym, I walk, I don't run, I can't run, but at least I am there to do what I can!

I knew I would catch some flack..but in the 6 years that i have went to this gym, that is all I have ever seen these people do, nothing more nothing less. I guess it is their money.

They are using the equipment for its intended purpose. Your approval is not required. The only way this will stop bothering you is if you make a choice not to let it bother you.

The guys who do arm curls in our only squat rack, that bothers me a bit... I actually ask them if they minded using the arm curl station so I can squat in the squat rack.

-I get listening to music while you work out. However, you are in a public place and thus you must interact with other people. If your music is so loud you can't hear other people asking you questions or addressing someother concern you should probably take your work out home.

I have to say; I do not speak to people. I'm not there to speak to people. If people want to ask me questions, do so when I'm stretching/don't have my iPod on.

I never realised that sitting in the weight machines between reps is bad behaviour. Literally everybody at my gym does this and that's their "turn" on the machines. I don't go during peak times though so I suppose that's a bit different..

My pet peeve? Girls who put on make-up, perfume and do their hair BEFORE going to the gym and then come and stink of perfume right next to me!

And on that line of offence, what annoys me is the girls who sit in the locker rooms, texting on their phones. Just sit there, 15 mins at a time. With their locker open. So I have to haul my naked *kitten* between her and this open locker.. What tends to happen is either I passive-aggressively slam the locker shut or risk shoving my sweaty crack in their face (yeah, TMI for you guys! ).

I crossfit and the culture is pretty intense, but it also teaches you to be disciplined in all aspects of your life, including caring for your "community". That said, I get ticked off when people don't put away their weight plates, or leave out their abmats. Today I saw someone chucked a bandaid on the floor - I called them out on it and said it was gross. Oh, and really is it too much to take off your wet shoes at the door?

I've got major pet peeves at the gym but I tend to just try to focus on my workout and ignore the idiots. I've got a degree in sports med and worked at clubs when I was younger, so, I've learned that no matter how hard you try, you're not going to change them.

I hate people who use bad form when lifting free weights. I want to tell them how much damage they're actually doing to their body but I keep my mouth shut.

I do sit on a machine in between sets, but, I rarely take more than 1 minute between sets and I go at sort of an "off" time.

I watch to see if someone else is using a machine before I head over to it. I'm flexible, I can rearrange my workout if I have to so I can share machines.

I'm sure people give me looks with my phone in my hand BUT I'm using the ActivTrax website that our Y is linked to. My workout is on my phone and I enter in my reps, weights, etc on it. I can't stand carrying around the paper and then typing it into the computer later, this way it's all done when I'm done. I do not talk on the phone at the gym, ever. That's for outside.

As for time crunch, there are some days all I have time for is to get in a cardio workout or a quick weight circuit. Other days I can stay longer. The only day I'm there at a set time is Monday, so, I'm sure people wonder. I really don't care. It's my workout, not theirs.

Biggest pet peeve, I think would be people who think they "own" the gym and the rest of us are in their way.

One of the funnier comments ever made to me by an instructor was because I had moved from the area I typically was in during her class to the other side. She said it kept screwing her up because she was looking for me and I wasn't there. I had to laugh. We were all very close in that class and really tried to make new people feel welcome. I hate walking into a class where everyone is stuck up and witchy.

The gym I go to is small, and there's not a lot of equipment. There are 2 treadmills & 3 ellipticals. If both treadmills are in use, and I've waited 25mins and this one particular guy is showing no sign of stopping, I DO interrupt and ask when he's going to be done. Gym policy is clear: 30mins when someone is waiting. He also sweats all over the machine & doesn't wipe it down. Disgusting.
I'm talking several times this month, that he has done this. I'm going to let the gym manager handle it from now on.

-I get listening to music while you work out. However, you are in a public place and thus you must interact with other people. If your music is so loud you can't hear other people asking you questions or addressing someother concern you should probably take your work out home.

I have to disagree and that I am not there to talk. It is a public place but it is also a gym. There is no point in working out if you can carry on a conversation. You should be just out of breath enough not to be able to or you are not working out hard enough and there is no point in coming. Please, go to a public place that was meant for conversing with others like a coffee shop or something. That brings me to my biggest pet peeve.

1. The people who sit or stand on a machine or in front of one having a full blown conversation. You could be blocking someone's way from them actually wanting to use the gym.
2. I don't see anything wrong with taking rests on the machines as long as they are a minute or less rests in between sets. I am not going to get up and walk away to just come back 30 seconds later.
3. I have to say the girl that said people try to "save" and "own" the equipment, it is not anbody's to save. Everybody pays the same membership so it has to be shared.
4. Other than that, just don't be rude to others.

No you're not.

Gym etiquette: keep your eyes off my cardio machine. You don't need to know how long I've been on, how far I've gone, how fast I'm going, etc. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS! And you better believe if I catch you looking at my machine, I'm going to look at you, look at my machine.

My thoughts exactly. Thank you for posting

Girls in full make up, reading magazines, while on the cardio machines. WHY??

I dont wear makeup on the machines... but I am known to read a good book while I am on there. Or watch my favorite show. Anything to help me get through that incline of 15 for and hour.

So thankful I go to an all womens gym too.

I use my phone all the time, but it is for music, and logging my workouts.
I sit on the machine/equipment, until I'm done with all my sets, but I only rest 60 seconds max between sets. I pull out my phone to start my timer after I log what I lifted during that 60 second period.
I tend to be OCD on organizing the plates. I hate it when they are scattered all over the floor, and in an unorganized manner on the racks, so between sets, I usually organize them according to weight to make it easier to find what I'm looking for.

I hate people who go to the gym walk on the treadmill for 20 mins and leave, this is their everyday workout. Why come to the gym at all? Do some weights, put the thing on incline, boost the speed, hit the elliptical or a bike. This also goes with the person who comes into the gym does 20 on the recumbant bike and leaves. I guess some just go for the social atmosphere?

Maybe these people just don't have enough time to do more, at least they are doing something instead of sitting at home. Or maybe they just had surgery or something and can't do anything strenuous. This is one thing I feel like people judge me for while at the gym, I walk, I don't run, I can't run, but at least I am there to do what I can!

I knew I would catch some flack..but in the 6 years that i have went to this gym, that is all I have ever seen these people do, nothing more nothing less. I guess it is their money.

That was kind of rude. I agree that maybe those people only had 20 minutes of spare time to be at the gym. I, too, walk and don't run or do vigorous exercises and I usually do it 20 or 30 minutes at a time. It's my pace. It's not being rude to anyone.