Some Rules for Gym Noobs.

You look insane for 47 lol ..... and I don't because i've not noticed anyone else doing it. Just the seats.

JeffseekingV wrote: »

Since we use rubber plates (not bumper), it gets chalk marks on it from handling. I'll give them a quick wipe just so the Y staff doesn't get their panties in a bunch and ban chalk. Sounds silly but I do it just so the gym stays cleaner

^^when I lift in gyms I wipe the chalk off - but that's because I am not sure if they allow it and so am being sneaky lol.

JeffseekingV wrote: »

I've found using liquid chalk stays on your hands and doesn't transfer to much else, but it's expensive.

I also don't like it that much. I tried it and it helps - but it makes my hands feel odd and the chalk helps much better with my callouses.

Agree with all, although I would add my own pet peeve.

#13 (or whatever number we're up to given other people's suggestions). If you've come to the gym to use a treadmill to walk no faster, and with no more resistance than you would normally (and it's not for rehab purposes), just so you can check in on Facebook that you went to a gym, read your book, and pat yourself on the back because you went over 10,000 steps on your FitBit..........please just use that energy to walk back home, and stop looking perplexed because you can't reach your goals even though you "exercise every day". You're not doing yourself any favors, and you're occupying a machine when someone who really wants to work might actually use it for what it's intended for.

Sorry, I really had to speak my peace on this one. My employer had a nice size fitness center, and there were always the usual suspects guilty of this offense. It became annoying because others are trying to fit in a lunchtime workout, and there are some who are just looking for some form of emotional gratification. If you are rehabbing something, then this isn't aimed at you. On the other side, don't hop on the treadmill with no incline and at less than 2.5MPH, read your book, and then whine because you "are at the gym every day, but can't seem to lose the weight".............UGGGGHHHHHH.

I shall step down off my soap box now.

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WOW. Just WOW.

dbmata wrote: »

I'd want some of the silly stuff, like a prowler, cambered squat bar, safety squat bar, monolift (because it looks cool), 20 foot bouldering wall, conan wheel. Maybe a tv for showing re-runs of Tosh.0 while I'm working out.

You know, the normal stuff that no one needs.

lol. Last month, I did get a calf raise machine (it was from a used gym equipment place and in really good nick and only $125), mainly as a joke (albeit a useful one) as a certain person who shall not be named *cough*SideSteel*cough* keeps taking the piss about the size (or lack thereof) of my calves.

Actually was going there to get a cable machine when I saw it. Cable machine was a sweet deal and now my dining room comprises about 75% lifting shiz - with the dining table crammed against the wall lol.

DanniBuchanan1 wrote: »

Agree with all, although I would add my own pet peeve.

#13 (or whatever number we're up to given other people's suggestions). If you've come to the gym to use a treadmill to walk no faster, and with no more resistance than you would normally (and it's not for rehab purposes), just so you can check in on Facebook that you went to a gym, read your book, and pat yourself on the back because you went over 10,000 steps on your FitBit..........please just use that energy to walk back home, and stop looking perplexed because you can't reach your goals even though you "exercise every day". You're not doing yourself any favors, and you're occupying a machine when someone who really wants to work might actually use it for what it's intended for.

Sorry, I really had to speak my peace on this one. My employer had a nice size fitness center, and there were always the usual suspects guilty of this offense. It became annoying because others are trying to fit in a lunchtime workout, and there are some who are just looking for some form of emotional gratification. If you are rehabbing something, then this isn't aimed at you. On the other side, don't hop on the treadmill with no incline and at less than 2.5MPH, read your book, and then whine because you "are at the gym every day, but can't seem to lose the weight".............UGGGGHHHHHH.

I shall step down off my soap box now.

WOW. Just WOW.

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Yeah, careful stepping down from your soap box - it looks high.

Every step those people take is better than the steps they DON'T take by going out to McDonalds for lunch or sitting at their desk.

You are ABSOLUTELY doing yourself a favour by walking, regardless of whether or not it's at 2.5mph and you check facebook while you do it.

If they get emotional gratification from it, then who are you to judge? You should be happy that they have found something that gratifies them emotionally, sorry to hear it bothers your so much.

At the peak of my half marathon training I was running in the dead of winter on a treadmill for 2 hours including warm up and cool down. Do you know in those 2 hours how many people step on one of the other treadmills, walk for 10 minutes and step off? TONS! Not once did I ever think that they were wasting space, they deserve the gym as much as I do and they can do whatever the hell they want.

It's people like you that make it so incredibly difficult for people to start a healthy lifestyle. As if the gym isn't terrifying enough when you're new, now they have to worry that people think they aren't working hard enough once they are there?