What is your gym pet peeve?

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  • Mandygring
    Mandygring Posts: 704 Member
    i also hate being next to someone who keeps farting bad smelly farts. The other thing is ppl that come in for 5min, don't break a sweat and leave. What's the point of even going to the gym?
  • jenniferburns1989
    jenniferburns1989 Posts: 21 Member
    Stinky arm pits..
  • debrag12
    debrag12 Posts: 1,071 Member
    _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.

    Really? What else are we to wear, a chav tracksuit?
  • computer4
    computer4 Posts: 5 Member
    People that sit on the machines texting.
  • debrag12
    debrag12 Posts: 1,071 Member
    Packerjohn wrote: »
    Packerjohn wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    Packerjohn wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    as someone who works at a gym, I can probably give a different perspective. If you don't restack/put away your weight, the gym staff have to do it for you, and they will hate you with a burning passion. Weight-droppers - all you're doing is damaging the floor, which means the prices of memberships have to go up, as we have to cover the price of replacing/fixing the floor. Same goes for people who bang weights in to walls/mirrors/etc. People who leave the treadmills on an inclination of about 10+ degrees. People who leave blue roll/tissues (especially sweaty dirty ones) all over the floor. That one person who is always "just finishing up" when you're trying to lock up and keeps going for an extra 15-20 minutes. Like, you know when we close, please just leave, we're hungry and tired. Lastly, those people who NEVER leave, they're there all day, from opening til closing. Damn, rant over, didn't realise I had so many pent up issues :')

    wait, don't you get paid to do all these things?

    Our cleaning lady, Pat, gets paid to clean our office buildings, but that doesn't mean I go around leaving trash all over the ground.

    so gym staff should complain about having to re-rack weights and clean up the place where they work at? Back when I worked in restaurants I had to clean up all kinds of nasty stuff, I did it because I got paid to do it.

    When you eat in a fast food place do you take your trash and put it in the garbage can or do you just leave it? Sure someone will come around and clean up after you, but it is customary in a place like that to throw your trash away, just like it is customary to put your weights back.

    so then what is the job of a "gym attendant"?

    Putting weights back after *kitten* leave them on barbells, the floor, etc would be one of the things. A janitor has to clean a bathroom, that doesn't make it okay for someone to drop a deuce on the floor.

    So racking a weight is to gym employee as picking up feces on the floor is to custodian/janitor?

    A point that can be made for both is this: As a janitor/custodian, part of agreeing to the job is that accidents will happen and they may come into contact with stank logs on the floor. As a gym employee, part of agreeing to the job is keeping a tidy gym even when members don't rack the weights.

    And a point we can agree on is people that don't put the weights back are *kitten*?

    I'll back you 100% on that. Even to the point that I'll rack somebody else's weight if they leave it. However, the only point I'm trying to make is that gym staff can expect to do it as well and really don't have a leg to stand on as far as complaining about it goes (IMO).

    I complain about expects of my job all the time, am I not allowed to?
  • debrag12
    debrag12 Posts: 1,071 Member
    Also people that use cardio equipment when its not raining. (most likely vegans)

    That's a new one for me. I use a treadmill on each gym visit. I actually like running outdoors in the rain/cold than in the hot sun.
  • Ngegee
    Ngegee Posts: 35 Member
    Chieflrg wrote: »
    None. I don't go to gym to worry about what others are doing, I go for my goals.

    Noble sentiment but given your narcissistic profile pic I'm not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek?!
  • alexpn
    alexpn Posts: 59 Member
    edited August 2016
    All of the above but can we include the changing/shower rooms in the gym too? I despise those men who feel it's acceptable to clean out their sinuses and spit it out when they are getting showered. It's F@cking disgusting!

    Yes girls, this really happens!
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited August 2016
    Ngegee wrote: »
    Chieflrg wrote: »
    None. I don't go to gym to worry about what others are doing, I go for my goals.

    Noble sentiment but given your narcissistic profile pic I'm not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek?!

    That word. I do not think it means what you think it means. From the first sentence in the online dictionary definition of narcissism:
    inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.

    Doesn't sound like somebody who's concerned with what others think or are doing.
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    edited August 2016
    Losers that tell me I'm lifting way too heavy for a girl and if I want to tone up more I should be lifting less.
  • urloved33
    urloved33 Posts: 3,323 Member
    sfcrocker wrote: »
    My main one is people who sit on the weight machines for 10+ minutes playing on their phones when other people are waiting to use them.

    This was my greatest pet peeve (and still is) but last week there was a woman SITTING on the leg extension machine READING a BOOK..and every so often she would lift her legs and do an extension WITH NO WEIGHTS ON IT. omg...I could not contain my feelings of disgust....it was written all over my face/ UGH.

  • urloved33
    urloved33 Posts: 3,323 Member
    sfcrocker wrote: »
    My main one is people who sit on the weight machines for 10+ minutes playing on their phones when other people are waiting to use them.

    just ask to work in. i do. it's never been a problem. how are they supposed to know other people are waiting unless someone tells them?

    well they can start by being aware of their surroundings.

  • urloved33
    urloved33 Posts: 3,323 Member
    ralfprz wrote: »
    I dont smell the greatest after a 2 hour cardio sesh but theres always that one SUPER STINNNKYY/PISS/B.O person in the gym, huge pet peeve when they start working out next to you and you cant even breathe.

    OR the people who wear so MUCH perfume/oils/cologne TO THE GYM its hard to breathe when they walk by or worst when they set up camp next to you. ugh...how dang inconsiderate.

  • LazSommer
    LazSommer Posts: 1,851 Member
    edited August 2016
    Ngegee wrote: »
    Chieflrg wrote: »
    None. I don't go to gym to worry about what others are doing, I go for my goals.

    Noble sentiment but given your narcissistic profile pic I'm not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek?!

    check ur sodium intake m8 ur saltier than the ded sea breh
  • AbigailC17
    AbigailC17 Posts: 78 Member
    When I see drops of sweat all over the gym equipment, I have to go wipe a strangers dna and hope it didn't get into my skin lol
  • JaxxieKat
    JaxxieKat Posts: 427 Member
    edited August 2016
    I can second people hogging the machines and benches. If the gym is busy and I'm resting between sets, I'll get up and let someone else do their set. If the gym is empty I just stay put. The other is people who roll out yoga mats and do Pilates and block the abs benches.
  • silverfiend
    silverfiend Posts: 329 Member
    People who think it's acceptable to walk naked around the locker like they are at home. I won't even go in the locker room any more. Have a smidge of decency and wrap a towel around your waist if you aren't in the process of dressing/undressing!

    Second peeve is the ones who talk to themselves trying to psych themselves up before/during a run or lift.
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    debrag12 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.

    Really? What else are we to wear, a chav tracksuit?

    Usually in these threads, aside from a lot of what has been mentioned already, someone throws in a "OMG, GIRLS WHO WEAR TIGHT CLOTHES AND MAKEUP! ARE YOU TRYING TO CATCH A HUSBAND?!" I was merely pointing out that those two things had not been mentioned yet.

    Signed,
    Someone who wears tight clothes and makeup to the gym
  • jdhcm2006
    jdhcm2006 Posts: 2,254 Member
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    debrag12 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.

    Really? What else are we to wear, a chav tracksuit?

    Usually in these threads, aside from a lot of what has been mentioned already, someone throws in a "OMG, GIRLS WHO WEAR TIGHT CLOTHES AND MAKEUP! ARE YOU TRYING TO CATCH A HUSBAND?!" I was merely pointing out that those two things had not been mentioned yet.

    Signed,
    Someone who wears tight clothes and makeup to the gym

    I've been waiting for the comments as well. Surprisingly I haven't seen them. Also, normally its from a man who is shirtless in his profile pic and moaning about how "inappropriate" women dress to the gym :|
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    People who think it's acceptable to walk naked around the locker like they are at home. I won't even go in the locker room any more. Have a smidge of decency and wrap a towel around your waist if you aren't in the process of dressing/undressing!

    Second peeve is the ones who talk to themselves trying to psych themselves up before/during a run or lift.

    Its a locker room for the love of all that is good. It is normal to expect naked people in there. Don't need to be naked hiking a foot up on the sink to clean one's junk, but just basically walking around?
  • silverfiend
    silverfiend Posts: 329 Member
    edited August 2016
    Packerjohn wrote: »
    People who think it's acceptable to walk naked around the locker like they are at home. I won't even go in the locker room any more. Have a smidge of decency and wrap a towel around your waist if you aren't in the process of dressing/undressing!

    Second peeve is the ones who talk to themselves trying to psych themselves up before/during a run or lift.

    Its a locker room for the love of all that is good. It is normal to expect naked people in there. Don't need to be naked hiking a foot up on the sink to clean one's junk, but just basically walking around?

    I'm talking guys who get naked, walk over the sink, stand there doing god knows what, then back to the locker, then to the shower, then somewhere else.... it's like they are just there to walk around naked. I spent 22 years in the Army, I'm used to group bathroom and shower facilities, but you sure as hell don't see guys acting like that!

    Like I said the first time, have a tiny bit of decency and put a towel on!
  • Ben_there_done_that
    Ben_there_done_that Posts: 732 Member
    Curling in the squat rack. Hate those guys...
  • peleroja
    peleroja Posts: 3,979 Member
    When there are twenty empty treadmills but someone needs to use the one right next to the one I'm on.

    At my gym, they look out onto the street and are all identical with personal entertainment screens, so I cannot fathom a reason behind this other than a desire to annoy me. Maybe they want to compete so they want to see my screen? Maybe they're hoping to have a chat? Maybe they just really want to get whipped in the eye with my ponytail? I don't know.
  • kchartinc
    kchartinc Posts: 21 Member
    edited August 2016
    Losers that tell me I'm lifting way too heavy for a girl and if I want to tone up more I should be lifting less.
    I am actually excited for this to happen to me. Once or twice that is - then I'll know my lifts are starting to get impressive! After that, my RBF should hopefully keep them away.
  • Wicked_Seraph
    Wicked_Seraph Posts: 388 Member
    Pet peeves:

    - Several treadmills and y'all gotta use the one RIGHT next to me. Why? Why???
    - This one dude who would grunt and drop weights all the effing time.
    - People who don't put away their weights.
    - Y U NO WIPE DOWN EQUIPMENT, PPL?
  • sweetsarahj
    sweetsarahj Posts: 701 Member
    I get grumpy if I have amped myself up for a run and when I get to the treadmills, they are all taken. arrrggghhhhh
  • sweetsarahj
    sweetsarahj Posts: 701 Member
    sfcrocker wrote: »
    My main one is people who sit on the weight machines for 10+ minutes playing on their phones when other people are waiting to use them.

    just ask to work in. i do. it's never been a problem. how are they supposed to know other people are waiting unless someone tells them?

    IDK how it works elsewhere, but in Canada the only appropriate way to deal with this is to glare at them passive aggressively. If someone asked he/she to share the machine, it would imply that he/she was rude by sitting on it. And we are all terrified of being rude, or pointing out someone else's rudeness, since it is punishable by death / extradition. Afterwards, we all say "sorry" an inordinate amount of times, then drink coffee and play shinny.
  • IcanIwill1
    IcanIwill1 Posts: 137 Member
    Also people that use cardio equipment when its not raining. (most likely vegans)
    haha... I hate gyms with those annoying notices 'politely' asking the likes of moi, to limit my time on the cardio machines to less than my usual 80mins. >:):s



  • terrinicolefit
    terrinicolefit Posts: 99 Member
    People that interrupt my workout to tell me I'm going to get "too big"... First of all, that's my goal. Second of all, I'm 100lbs... Like really?