worst gym dude of all time?
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sparklybelle
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Today at the gym:
There's one squat rack. I wait 15 minutes to use it while someone is finishing up. No problem, I fit in some other work. When he's done, I wait a minute, nobody sets up, and so I rack up my warm-up weights for squatting. As I'm starting, a guy shows up and says he was going to use this next but he "had to wee-wee." I say I'll keep it short today and just do a few sets. He says he wants to work in instead. I say OK. I start my first set. WHILE I'M SQUATTING, he throws two 2.5# weights between my legs and they land in front of my feet. He says he needs them for his set. I try to stay calm. During my second set, HE STANDS IN THE SQUAT RACK WITH ME. (btw, I'm female.) He does a set. For my third set I go to change to a higher weight. He gets irritated and sweeps all the weight off one side of the barbell so that it crashes 5 feet to the floor and tells me I shouldn't have changed the weight. I walk away and say it's all his.
I've only been lifting weights for nine months, and every other lifter I've met is kind and lovely. But this guy was truly the worst.
Venting over.
There's one squat rack. I wait 15 minutes to use it while someone is finishing up. No problem, I fit in some other work. When he's done, I wait a minute, nobody sets up, and so I rack up my warm-up weights for squatting. As I'm starting, a guy shows up and says he was going to use this next but he "had to wee-wee." I say I'll keep it short today and just do a few sets. He says he wants to work in instead. I say OK. I start my first set. WHILE I'M SQUATTING, he throws two 2.5# weights between my legs and they land in front of my feet. He says he needs them for his set. I try to stay calm. During my second set, HE STANDS IN THE SQUAT RACK WITH ME. (btw, I'm female.) He does a set. For my third set I go to change to a higher weight. He gets irritated and sweeps all the weight off one side of the barbell so that it crashes 5 feet to the floor and tells me I shouldn't have changed the weight. I walk away and say it's all his.
I've only been lifting weights for nine months, and every other lifter I've met is kind and lovely. But this guy was truly the worst.
Venting over.
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Did you report that?9
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I did not. I know I should have. I will if I see him again. He's dangerous and a menace.3
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What a pig. Deffo should report if tries that again5
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Why would you not say something right then?5
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you win.
that is defintely the worst gym pig of all time.
There are times when one might wish to have the superpower of being able to fart on command. But, not loud, just really rotton-eggs-smelly. This would be one of those times.15 -
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Definitely report that. That kind of behavior will get someone banned from a lot of gyms.
If someone had violated my personal space in that way I would have probably punched them in self defense.6 -
Definitely report him if he does it again. That's a BIG no no.6
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Sounds like a tool. What an idiot3
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Many times when I click on these threads it's someone complaining that people are watching them gym or that they are sitting playing on their fun too long or something. But this may be an actual worst gym dude of all time.8
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That type of behavior used to happen at least once a week at my old gym. Reporting it did little to no good, so I'm now at a new gym. Turns out this new gym has 3 other gyms that I can go to, and everyone is very considerate of everyone else around them.
OP: it may or may not do any good to report that incident to management, but it's worth a shot anyway.1 -
*kitten* like this is why ill NEVER join a gym.1
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Report him? For what??? She gave him permission to work in and didn't object when he acted like a complete and total tool. She should have told him to GTFO as soon as he started that childish mess.
Not gonna lie, the OP kinda lost me when the rack was clear but she still waited a few more minutes to see if someone else wanted to use it before she stepped into it. WHAT EVEN WAS THAT????4 -
xCyanideGirlx wrote: »*kitten* like this is why ill NEVER join a gym.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
Lots of people go to the gym on a regular basis for years and years and never have a bad experience with other gym members.5 -
Report him? For what??? She gave him permission to work in and didn't object when he acted like a complete and total tool. She should have told him to GTFO as soon as he started that childish mess.
Not gonna lie, the OP kinda lost me when the rack was clear but she still waited a few more minutes to see if someone else wanted to use it before she stepped into it. WHAT EVEN WAS THAT????
"That" was courtesy above and beyond what was required.19 -
The guy sounds like a jerk to me.
Although I felt like I was that jerk recently - there was a woman setting between the machine I wanted and then walking off to use some other machine (I assume, I actually have no ide where she went) but she left her town so I knew it was in use. I stepped in to another machine to fill the time. When she left the machine (taking her towel this time), I jumped in. Half way through my set she reappeared. I felt like a jerk. So I finished my set, reset the machine to the weight that she had been using, and apologised profusely, explainng that when she took the towel I thought she was done.
Fortunately, she accepted the apology and admitted that she'd changed her mind and decided to come back for another set. I spend the rest of my session feeling like a jerk and being exceptionally careful about stepping in on anyone else's machine.1 -
sparklybelle wrote: »
Was it still today? I'd call the gym honestly. Just report it as a thing that happened, tell them you thought they should know about this guy. It's possible you're not the first to complain but if no one is speaking up its time to start. Someone could have been hurt!6 -
Anaris2014 wrote: »The guy sounds like a jerk to me.
Although I felt like I was that jerk recently - there was a woman setting between the machine I wanted and then walking off to use some other machine (I assume, I actually have no ide where she went) but she left her town so I knew it was in use. I stepped in to another machine to fill the time. When she left the machine (taking her towel this time), I jumped in. Half way through my set she reappeared. I felt like a jerk. So I finished my set, reset the machine to the weight that she had been using, and apologised profusely, explainng that when she took the towel I thought she was done.
Fortunately, she accepted the apology and admitted that she'd changed her mind and decided to come back for another set. I spend the rest of my session feeling like a jerk and being exceptionally careful about stepping in on anyone else's machine.
Actually, you sound like a really kind and considerate person!10 -
VeloRat1969 wrote: »Report him? For what??? She gave him permission to work in and didn't object when he acted like a complete and total tool. She should have told him to GTFO as soon as he started that childish mess.
Not gonna lie, the OP kinda lost me when the rack was clear but she still waited a few more minutes to see if someone else wanted to use it before she stepped into it. WHAT EVEN WAS THAT????
"That" was courtesy above and beyond what was required.
no doubt, you wouldn't see me potentially passing up a squat rack after already waiting fifteen bloody minutes for it.3 -
xCyanideGirlx wrote: »*kitten* like this is why ill NEVER join a gym.
Any excuse will do10
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