What is your gym pet peeve?
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_dracarys_ wrote: »Oh this thread again -_- I see the usual answers but awaiting following answers:
-women who wear tight clothes
-women who wear makeup
Shouldn't be long now.
I am looking for a husband. Is that against the rules too?5 -
None. I don't go to gym to worry about what others are doing, I go for my goals.
I'm with you, except when I have to spend a good portion of my limited gym time re racking the plates and putting away the dumbbells and curl bars that get left lying all over the floor and benches just so I can access the equipment I need. I did impress myself by doing my first farmer carry with 75lb dumbbells in each hand last week, but it wasn't part of my workout plan for that day.
There's some 200 pound toddlers that work out Sunday night and leave the rec center in shambles for my Monday morning workout. I keep threatening to leave a note that says "It's OK if you're not strong enough to put your weights away. The middle aged mom who works out after you can do it."21 -
devil_in_a_blue_dress wrote: »_dracarys_ wrote: »Oh this thread again -_- I see the usual answers but awaiting following answers:
-women who wear tight clothes
-women who wear makeup
Shouldn't be long now.
I am looking for a husband. Is that against the rules too?
Better put your lipstick on, hussy!4 -
kendra91784 wrote: »When the person next to me is singing with their headphones in... or making loud noises as they work out. and weight droppers............
If I'm lip syncing does that count? I do have to admit I'll jam out but am aware enough to keep the verbal on the inside. Now the white boy dance I have no control over.14 -
girls that leave their sweat all over the equipment and don't wipe it down. I mean...if you leave a dang puddle where you were sitting...um please clean it up. GROSS0
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my pet peeve is people that don't focus on their own workout and worry about what others are doing...10
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I do hate when people don't re-rack the weight, but also when I go and have to move two 45's and a 25 to get to a 10. It's pretty easy to put the weights back in a nice orderly fashion, but people love to put them all on the closest rack because it's the easiet thing to do. Also we have two smith machines in the gym, and it for some shoulder work stuff, and if they are both being used it is easy to find something else to do, but two weeks ago, there was one guy using both smith machines rotating back and forth between each to get his workout done plus take a rest in between, so that was a fun day. He did give one up, when I asked how much longer he was going to be.0
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my comment was sarcasm based on OP's post...but I guess you missed that..
translation - focus on your own workout and don't worry about what others are doing..
clear?
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jdscrubs32 wrote: »None. I don't go to gym to worry about what others are doing, I go for my goals.
While I would normally agree with this, there is one newish guy in my gym who when he is doing deadlifts or bent over barbell rows lets the barbell hit the floor so loud, that it is louder than anything I have ever heard in my life. that has become my pet peeve.
There are a couple people like this at my gym too. I don't know why they need to slam the barbell down like they're trying to break something. The people who grunt really loudly on every single rep bother me too.0 -
The occasional guy who grunts LOUDLY (like a p*rn video) when he's lifting. You don't see me grunting even if if the weight is heavy. I roll my eyes.1
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Only pet peeve is when my phone dies, and when I get on a treadmill right next to someone, they won't turn up their damn volume on their own headphones. How inconsiderate!8
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my comment was sarcasm based on OP's post...but I guess you missed that..
translation - focus on your own workout and don't worry about what others are doing..
clear?
Oh I 100% got it (good one), but you can focus on your workout and have gym pet peeves as well, it might have nothing do with other people at the gym.
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I go to a college gym, so the equipment is actually pretty decent and plentiful; for example, they have three squat racks, and a smith machine. It can still get pretty busy though, especially from 5-7pm, so I'm trying to force myself to go in the morning when I know I'm going to have to hog multiple machines for my supersets. I don't want to be that person during their busy hours.
During those busy hours, I ask to work in if I see someone taking long rests on a machine that I need to use to get my workout in for the day (...which I don't understand, but that's besides the point). Most people don't mind. It's those that say, "I have a lot of reps left" when I ask to work in. Okay bro, but I have only 3 sets of 5, and I'll probably be done before you anyway. In fact, I usually am done with my entire workout and I still see them adding 2.5lb weights to their squats.
Oh, I also strongly dislike when 5 people use the same machine (squat rack, bench press, etc) but also take super long breaks/stand around chatting. I appreciate that you're trying to all work out together, but please, actually get your workouts in, and then gossip.2 -
my comment was sarcasm based on OP's post...but I guess you missed that..
translation - focus on your own workout and don't worry about what others are doing..
clear?
Kind of hard not to focus, even a little bit, on others when it is directly affecting you, no?3 -
Not re-racking weights or DB's and/or leaving them lying all over the place.0
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Having to actually work out to see results. Just going should be enough. *pout*17
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When it's one of the 15 or so days a year that you can't drop weights. Or when the hockey guys insist on their country music.1
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People who don't return the weights to where they belong and you spend half an hour looking for them1
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Willbenchforcupcakes wrote: »When it's one of the 15 or so days a year that you can't drop weights. Or when the hockey guys insist on their country music.
The country music would totally do it for me. I deal with the Christian music on occasion, I mean, I do work at a Catholic hospital and use the YMCA, but country music? Deal breaker.2 -
- Unsolicited advice of any kind.
- When people try to chit-chat.
- The music broadcast over the speakers at every gym ever always sucks.
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at the classes, when someone 'claims' a bike or a spot and throws a hissy if anyone else sits there2
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People who wear too much perfume, and people who camp out on machines/benches/racks.2
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »
my comment was sarcasm based on OP's post...but I guess you missed that..
translation - focus on your own workout and don't worry about what others are doing..
clear?
Kind of hard not to focus, even a little bit, on others when it is directly affecting you, no?
not sure how some clown who is wearing too much cologne affects me doing deadlifts when I am half way across the room...0 -
People that groan. I get you're working hard but keep it together Hulk.0
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non friendly staff!2
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This is exactly why I have 3 on my wrists at all times. My hair is so thick that it only has a possibility of staying up with two ties, and an extra for when one inevitably breaks.jessiferrrb wrote: »when i forget my hair tie.
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