A "situation" in the gym - how would you handle it?
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Kindness kills. All you need to do is say "hey bud, please re-rack your equipment, -and your triceps are lookin' top notch! Keep it up man!" -end of story. Trainer says 'Thanks bruh" and re-racks. DONE.0
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Expatmommy79 wrote: »I hear you... there is a guy at my gym who loads like 200KG on the leg press every.single.day... he can barely press that much and he has awful form btw.... And then walks away. He does this with every piece of equipment in there. So annoying. And he sweats like a dog and leaves a trail of sweaty disgustingness behind him. He wipes down with a paper towel, but never uses the disinfectant spray that is provided.
I haven't found the words yet....
I do it every day with guys who do this crap. They'd be annoyed if their mother, wife or sister had to unload it to workout and that's how you have to put it across to him.
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I'd like to think this is not a sexist comment
right? cause im stronger than my ex, equally as strong as my best friend (male), and well, my boyfriend is stronger than me but weights are his thing. LOLOL
and i clean up after myself
keep going to the gym manager and i would get in touch with the owner. it's absolutely uncalled for.
or, find a new gym ..0 -
Accidently drop a handful of tampons on the floor where he is between his sets. If he says anything, reply you thought he was done and tell him they don't weigh much.0
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You did good, and yes, he should be barred from the gym. He's setting a bad example for every one else.0
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Gym etiquette is gym etiquette and as a trainer the guy should be setting an example of how to behave in an enclosed space where access to resources have been paid for and are equally available to all.
Posters/notes are for the passive aggressive. I'd attempt to escalate to the gym owner, if nothing else just to let them know why you're going to start using another gym.
If you want to be more confrontational about it you could just call him out on it every single time he does it, from anywhere in the gym.0 -
If an employee or trainer had said that to me at my gym, I wouldn't have bothered replying, but would have gone straight to the centre manager to report a violation of the diversity policy. The use of the word tampon was clearly aimed to denigrate women, and shouldn't be tolerated.0
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tell management every single day he leaves equipment out and ask them to put it back for you to use. They'll get tired of racking his weights and then they'll do something more effective than hanging more signs
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After that I'd have gone straight to the manager with the sexism/bullying card....he was well out of order and then was bullying....bet if you were a 6' meat head he wouldn't have been such a prick.0
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There was a guy who went to my old gym who (along with pretty much everyone else there) never re-racked his weights. When he had walked away from the leg press leaving it fully loaded up, I approached him and asked if he was done with it. When he replied he was, I said "I'll help you re-rack the weights". He took the one side and I took the other. I am not sure it clicked for him, but maybe deep down it made him think/remember.
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Accidently drop a handful of tampons on the floor where he is between his sets. If he says anything, reply you thought he was done and tell him they don't weigh much.
Hahahaha that would be amazing. Seriously. Please do this. Please.
But, if you don't want to do that, I'd go to management a few more times and then I'd demand to speak to the manager. You say that you think if they had to get rid of someone it would be you, but I would disagree. This trainer probably does this to numerous people. So the trainer brings in some new people, some may become regulars, most will end up paying for a few months and being gone. If the PT forces out regulars because they are annoyed with his crap then the gym loses out on the monthly revenue from numerous long time clients. Not to mention he's instilling crap etiquette in new members. If I was an owner/manager I'd get that crap dealt with ASAP and if I had to I would ban the PT from my gym, I'm sure the owner could find a new PT.0 -
I ask him, like the last time, if he was done, he said "yes", and I again like the last time I ask him to re-rack. To which he replies "It weighs like a tampon, you take it off".
What would've you done?
He seriously said that? He needs to crawl back under the rock that he emerged from in the first place!
I'd pull every string I had to have him permanently removed from a place that you are a paying customer. Contact not only the manager(s), but also the owner. Nobody wants somebody like that working for their organization.0 -
2) accept that nobody, ever, needs to use a Smith machine
agree that SM is not free weights but isolation equipment and not substitution for barbell or dumbbell bench, which many do, but it has its place and purposeCherimoose wrote: »If i'm going to confront someone, i wait until i have a solid case, like you did with the barbell. I wouldn't ask to rerack light plates, because that just looks like i'm going around antagonizing him over every little thing he does wrong.
But what ticked me is not the weight - the behaviour.Accidently drop a handful of tampons on the floor where he is between his sets. If he says anything, reply you thought he was done and tell him they don't weigh much.
I like thisidea!!!!
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SingingSingleTracker wrote: »I ask him, like the last time, if he was done, he said "yes", and I again like the last time I ask him to re-rack. To which he replies "It weighs like a tampon, you take it off".
What would've you done?
He seriously said that? He needs to crawl back under the rock that he emerged from in the first place!
I'd pull every string I had to have him permanently removed from a place that you are a paying customer. Contact not only the manager(s), but also the owner. Nobody wants somebody like that working for their organization.
I seriously hope you intended this pun.0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »SingingSingleTracker wrote: »I ask him, like the last time, if he was done, he said "yes", and I again like the last time I ask him to re-rack. To which he replies "It weighs like a tampon, you take it off".
What would've you done?
He seriously said that? He needs to crawl back under the rock that he emerged from in the first place!
I'd pull every string I had to have him permanently removed from a place that you are a paying customer. Contact not only the manager(s), but also the owner. Nobody wants somebody like that working for their organization.
I seriously hope you intended this pun.
ROTFLMFAO0 -
You lost me at "Smith Machine" :P0
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tiny_clanger wrote: »If an employee or trainer had said that to me at my gym, I wouldn't have bothered replying, but would have gone straight to the centre manager to report a violation of the diversity policy. The use of the word tampon was clearly aimed to denigrate women, and shouldn't be tolerated.
What diversity policy?
I mean I agree with it being a poor comment but I've never been in a gym that had an actual posted diversity policy.0 -
I've calld some REALLY big dudes out on this... and it usually is a giant announcement like this
<pulls 45 off the bar> drops it loudly
pulls nother 45 off the bar- drop that on top of the plate...
and then make a HUGE announcement
"HEY DON"T WORRY I GOT THIS I SEE YOU'RE REALLY BUSY WITH YOUR CLIENT- but DON'T YOU WORRY_ I"LL CLEAN UP AFTER YOU AND YOU"RE CLIENT"
I publicly shame people CONSTANTLY. It's effing annoying as hell.
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also- " if it's so light then you shouldn't have a problem putting it away"
PS you are teaching your client bad gym etiquette.0 -
Tbh sounds like he had / has everything done for him
He also sounds like he's shocked you asked
Some people are plain lazy & simply believe it's beyond themselves to pick up and tidy
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Seems to me, he is the clients Bit*h, so he should be responsible for re-racking their weights. He of all people should understand gym etiquette. The gym owner doesn't want to kick him out because that dude brings people in. I think I'd show up 5 minutes early and make sure he knows what it's like.0
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