What frustrates you in the gym?
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shin splints0
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As someone else posted, people who wear perfume/cologne to work out. I get headachy when I have to sniff strong colognes, and I sure don't want you near me if I have 200 lbs on my back0
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Good looking lifters who HAVE to work out right in front of me while I cycle. Wait, no. That's my favorite thing.0
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Thank you all -- it's so nice to know I'm not the only one with some of these pet peeves!
The people who sit and don't use equipment don't bother me much, because I'll just walk up and ask "Are you using this? Because it doesn't look like you are." Evil but effective. I've also been known to walk over to the idiot who drops the weights with a crash (which often breaks the machine) that if he needs to drop the weight, it's too heavy for him and he should back off to something he can handle. Probably helps that this is a university gym and the students seem to think I'm a professor, not a grad student.
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Old people walking around naked trying to hug everyone.0
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ClubSilencio wrote: »schibsted750 wrote: »ClubSilencio wrote: »People that do circuit training and tie up all kinds of equipment during the morning rush hour. That level of entitlement is comical.
What do you mean "tie it up?" They can only be on one machine at a time, right? So do they tell people not to use the other machines even though they're empty?
They leave their towel draped over a bench or keys and water bottle next to a cable pulley.
eh, I just work in and move their stuff if need be. Doesn't bother me if someone does that to me. I hate when dudes tie up the squat racks for an hour all the while leaving like 300 pounds of weight on it. I can't move that crap.
But mostly I find it motivating to see people working so hard.
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Michael_Lucas wrote: »Old people walking around naked trying to hug everyone.
That's my favorite part about the family gym!0 -
Nothing really. I tune out the world around me and get my workout on. My time is my time. People might be frustrated with me but I wouldn't know and don't care.
Exactly.
Turn the music up; tune the surroundings out. The best sort of solution.
Although, when people don't wipe off machines. That's a no, no.0 -
I have my own gym at my house but for things like deadlifts and other certain exercises, I force myself to go.0
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davidsnewsham wrote: »
Life is so hard sometimes.... But if someone has to be there, might as well be me
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I train Rocky style. Who needs a gym?0
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Even though it's none of my business, bad form frustrates me. I see people with really bad form and heavy weight and I want to jump in and help but I don't unless they ask. Oh well, live and learn.0
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@ThatFatAsianNerd Love that dog dude! I had a basset hound. Switched up after she passed and now we have two little *kitten* min pins. Mother and son, and their only mission in life, is to destroy you.
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There are some 200 pound toddlers who don't know how to put away their toys at the rec center I use. Every time I go in its like an Easter egg hunt to find the plates, bars and other equipment I need. Last time I couldn't find a single 25# plate in the free weight area. Finally found them stacked in a corner on the other side of the room.0
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- Guys that don't rerack their weights. You never know if that bench or squat rack is taken and the guy just went for water or if it's been abandoned for 15 minutes.
- On that note, guys that wander around for 5 minutes between sets. It's fine if you have to rest but stay in the area.
- The music the gym plays. I've heard 2 good songs in almost 2 years.
- That one guy with the oxygen deprivation mask and the 7 people that follow him around to watch him workout.
- People get too close to you while deadlifting. That's highly distracting.
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@ThatFatAsianNerd Love that dog dude! I had a basset hound. Switched up after she passed and now we have two little *kitten* min pins. Mother and son, and their only mission in life, is to destroy you.
Yeah, they're pretty awesome. I had one for nearly 14 years, basically grew up with him. They can eat anything. I used to chuck McDonald's cheeseburgers and all that on the floor and they'd just devour it in seconds. Only thing about Bassets is that they will run up on people coming to your house in an aggressive manner (FRIENDLY though) and slobber all over them.
I'll probably get one some time down the road, but like you, having two smaller ones at this time is more than a handful at times.
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When I scan my card and the little turnstile doesn't budge and makes me look a fool to the person at the desk.0
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People that cruise around the parking lot looking for a spot near the entrance.0
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ClubSilencio wrote: »People that cruise around the parking lot looking for a spot near the entrance.
Hahaha, right? You are at the gym, the extra 100' you have to walk won't kill you!0 -
People who just sit in the machines and not use them. People who just go there to socialize and take up all the equipment instead of letting those of us who are there to workout use them.0
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I find it so irritating when girls are on the treadmills, going at a ridiculously slow walking pace, holding there phones checking their facebook page!!!!0
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Slowly cycling/walking on the treadmill, not breaking a sweat whilst playing games on their phone, updating twitter, retouching the make up (mainly just the girls, and the occasional dude) and reading their fashion magazine. Then loudly comment to their friends about what an exhausting workout they have just done.0
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ClubSilencio wrote: »People that cruise around the parking lot looking for a spot near the entrance.
I hate these people, or those that will honk at you for your parking space. I just shut the truck off and play on my phone until they leave. I don't even park in the front for the lack of space to back out (F350 crew cab, long bed dually - 20 point turn to get out of a space). And most of these people, well, they could use the extra walk.
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Inability to re-rack weights. Or re-racking them in the wrong area. Can you really not read the sticker that states that should be a 35 lb. dumbbell where you decided to put the 15??!0
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People using up valuable bench space texting.
Some people are using their phones to follow online fitness/lifting programs. I know it's annoying but it's part of our current society. I know my son is a starving college student and he can't afford a trainer. He uses an app at the on campus gym.0 -
Listened to 2 catty women snark about another woman that wasn't present today...through my ear buds, cranked up. Just a general pet peeve, but use INSIDE voices! lol0
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headofphat wrote: »Even though it's none of my business, bad form frustrates me. I see people with really bad form and heavy weight and I want to jump in and help but I don't unless they ask. Oh well, live and learn.
@headofphat I disagree, it's your business because if they become disabled, from an injury & can't work you'll be providing their food stamps & section 8.0
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