gyms crowding this time of year?

tomatoey
tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
edited November 14 in Health and Weight Loss
I might have to find a new place. Everyone s thinking about summer abs now :(

Things have been getting really busy this week (huge lineups for things busy)
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  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    edited March 2015
    And they are coming in groups of 3-4, talking on the phone all the time, peeing on the toilet seats, and are generally not cool.
  • fearlessleader104
    fearlessleader104 Posts: 723 Member
    Be nice and help them feel welcomed
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    Everything s been great since I started here and now it's full of seat sprinklers
  • jodycoady
    jodycoady Posts: 598 Member
    uhg! Tell me about it...I am pretty shy...I used to have the whole gym to myself some nights....Now its crazy-crowded...I just bought myself a treadmill and getting a free weights and weight bench pretty soon.
  • SciranBG
    SciranBG Posts: 97 Member
    Crowded gyms are a good thing. Congratulations on those people for trying to better themselves.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    It's like the "second New Year" around this time - more people in the gyms, and I've noticed more people posting about questions about all the fad diets and cleanses. Swimsuit season is right around the corner and everyone panics because they either didn't stick with or never started their resolution back in January. :stuck_out_tongue:
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
    A lot of colleges were on spring break this week and last--maybe it's the staycation crowd hitting the gym instead of going somewhere warm?
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    edited March 2015
    I noticed there are just enough power lifters in my gym who know that Monday is international bench press day, so the squat racks have been more crowded. Guess I'll just have to plan to wait.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    On the contrary, as the weather warms up, mine seems to get emptier - the cardio-only crowd is starting to run/walk outside again.
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    I noticed there are just enough power lifters in my gym who know that Monday is international bench press day, so the squat racks have been more crowded. Guess I'll just have to plan to wait.

    The waiting added an hour to my workout, I'm going to have to find another time to go. I wonder if they did some kind of promotion.
    jodycoady wrote: »
    uhg! Tell me about it...I am pretty shy...I used to have the whole gym to myself some nights....Now its crazy-crowded...I just bought myself a treadmill and getting a free weights and weight bench pretty soon.

    Sounds like a good solution! I need to vary cardio options and can't do bodyweight impact so I'm stuck in a gym. Although I was thinking about maybe picking up some kind of sport.

    I'm not particularly shy, but before all these people came there was a culture of "everybody mind their own business and be polite about stuff" (except for a couple of dudes). Now there are great numbers of people being very, very assertive about their right to the fitness room, for example, or the bike. Quite a lot of them are interested in doing circuits. Many of them may be new to circuits by the looks of things. I don't know, I feel like, if you're new to a place, maybe you wait and see how things go before you start stomping around and having meetings on your phone and peeing on seats.
    fearlessleader104 wrote: »
    Be nice and help them feel welcomed

    They don't need me to do that, they've made themselves right at home, lol
    SciranBG wrote: »
    Crowded gyms are a good thing. Congratulations on those people for trying to better themselves.

    Cui bono, friend, cui bono
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    mitch16 wrote: »
    A lot of colleges were on spring break this week and last--maybe it's the staycation crowd hitting the gym instead of going somewhere warm?

    Maybe!
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    On the contrary, as the weather warms up, mine seems to get emptier - the cardio-only crowd is starting to run/walk outside again.

    Jelly
  • sammik307
    sammik307 Posts: 19
    This is seriously the worst ever.. Im glad people want to better themselves but my Gym consists of people NEVER putting weights away so your spending 10 minutes looking for what you want, people sitting on machines talking on their phones and so much more... Abs arent made in a month people.. Agh rant for the day.. Sorry about that
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    edited March 2015
    No no, no apologies needed, lol! It's an adjustment, for sure. lol
  • sammik307
    sammik307 Posts: 19
    Maybe i should go back to the gym and take out some of that rage lol.. Its probably empty now
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    I thought about sticking around for another hour too, lol. Yeah I might have to go later :/
  • sammik307
    sammik307 Posts: 19
    Haha i wish that was an option but 5 am comes early
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    sammik307 wrote: »
    This is seriously the worst ever.. Im glad people want to better themselves but my Gym consists of people NEVER putting weights away so your spending 10 minutes looking for what you want, people sitting on machines talking on their phones and so much more... Abs arent made in a month people.. Agh rant for the day.. Sorry about that

    rar
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    Wait, there's a time of year for people peeing on the toilet seat?!
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    auddii wrote: »
    Wait, there's a time of year for people peeing on the toilet seat?!

    i don't know who these heathens are :(:(
  • sammik307
    sammik307 Posts: 19
    edited March 2015
    Ive seen a few... Not at the toilet but im pretty sure i can guess who they are
  • haysavam
    haysavam Posts: 74 Member
    edited March 2015
    Best time of day to go to the gym is 11:00a-2:00p and 7:00p-9p pending on your gym hours. (Mine is 5a-9p)
    Source: I watch that *kitten* like a hawk.

    Worse comes worse I go cardio it up outdoors.
  • sammik307
    sammik307 Posts: 19
    haysavam wrote: »
    Best time of day to go to the gym is 11:00a-2:00p and 7:00p-9p pending on your gym hours. (Mine is 5a-9p)
    Source: I watch that *kitten* like a hawk.

    Worse comes worse I go cardio it up outdoors.

    True.story
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    sammik307 wrote: »
    Ive seen a few... Not at the toilet but im pretty sure i can guess who they are

    Lol! I think I can, too
    haysavam wrote: »
    Best time of day to go to the gym is 11:00a-2:00p and 7:00p-9p pending on your gym hours. (Mine is 5a-9p)
    Source: I watch that *kitten* like a hawk.

    Worse comes worse I go cardio it up outdoors.

    ^5, these are my new hours
  • bdlingafel
    bdlingafel Posts: 59 Member
    haysavam wrote: »
    Best time of day to go to the gym is 11:00a-2:00p and 7:00p-9p pending on your gym hours. (Mine is 5a-9p)
    Source: I watch that *kitten* like a hawk.

    Worse comes worse I go cardio it up outdoors.
    My gym is 24/7 and if you want to be there by yourself be there between midnight and 5am. I get there at 4am and occasionally someone will come in around 430 but normally I'm the only one there... It's awesome!
  • crystalnichols395
    crystalnichols395 Posts: 68 Member
    I work out in a 24/7 gym also and I try to get there around 3 pm there is maybe 2 or 3 people there at that time but by the time I leave 10-15 more people have done walked in. But Sunday mornings around 7 am it DEAD!
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    Yep, you just cowboy up for a few weeks and drive on. I'm looking forward to it getting close to the time of year where I can get most of my workout done in the parking lot.

    I think that about this time of year a lot of places run deals like they did at New Year's too.
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    bdlingafel wrote: »
    haysavam wrote: »
    Best time of day to go to the gym is 11:00a-2:00p and 7:00p-9p pending on your gym hours. (Mine is 5a-9p)
    Source: I watch that *kitten* like a hawk.

    Worse comes worse I go cardio it up outdoors.
    My gym is 24/7 and if you want to be there by yourself be there between midnight and 5am. I get there at 4am and occasionally someone will come in around 430 but normally I'm the only one there... It's awesome!

    I appreciate what you're saying and also prefer nights but I feel like having to do that's a step too far!
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    crystalnichols395 wrote: »
    I work out in a 24/7 gym also and I try to get there around 3 pm there is maybe 2 or 3 people there at that time but by the time I leave 10-15 more people have done walked in. But Sunday mornings around 7 am it DEAD!

    Never in my life will I be at a gym on a Sunday morning at 7 am, lol! Thanks, though :)
  • I_Will_End_You
    I_Will_End_You Posts: 4,397 Member
    tomatoey wrote: »

    Sounds like a good solution! I need to vary cardio options and can't do bodyweight impact so I'm stuck in a gym. Although I was thinking about maybe picking up some kind of sport.


    My biggest calorie burner is when I play volleyball on Sundays. Especially the spring/summer/fall sand leagues. Looking into a sport could be a good idea. It's a lot more fun than the gym, that's for sure.
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