Annoyances at the gym!
Options
Replies
-
rainbowbow wrote: »I have a pretty annoying problem where dudes will just set their stuff down on a bench and then walk away somewhere else for god knows how long. The second i use the bench they come over and say "i'm using that".
I straight up told one of the guys last time, "no, you weren't. you weren't even over here" while handing their stuff back to them.
This happens almost on a weekly basis and it's always the same few rude jerks.
YES!! I don't have the guts to do what you do though.2 -
I'm just going to share all the annoying things I do. You people would probably hate me.
Eat burritos in the parking lot before going in to work out.
Wear socks and sandals or slippers for my entire workout.
Hog the squat rack for an hour. (Literally)
Rest 5 minutes between sets. Look at my phone or talk to people during this time.
Walk back across the gym in between every set, drink a lot of water and take a lot of pee breaks.
Super set my accessories.
Put my deadlifts down kinda loudly or drop them completely because I've lost my grip (you try to set a 300 lb bar down and make zero sound.. try it.)
Eat DURING my workout.
Carry a big bag o crap around.
There's probably more buy you get the idea.
Hit a 20 lb deadlift PR last week though, no plans to change what I do at all.
15 -
-
My philosophy has always been: "Leave it as you find it or better" aka. put your stuff away and wipe up your sweat.
I don't really mind slow swimmers in the lanes - just let people pass at the ends and it is all good.0 -
6
-
Instructors with attitudes1
-
The Idiot who decides everyday to Vacuum the Track at 6pm the busiest time of the day!! It couldn't be done when the place is slow?? By the way a Vacuum can fly 32.4 feet with a good kick5
-
My fitness center is so small that I'm typically the only person there. The most annoying thing to me is that the sound on the TV doesn't work, nor does the CC - which is what I prefer, since I usually use headphones while watching.0
-
My only beef is people who complain about dropping weights or grunting.
I realize this is probably ignorance about weightlifting so I go to a lifting gym. Problem solved.8 -
Having to use the treadmill whose TV is stuck on the E! channel. Honestly there's only so much of 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' a girl can take.9
-
JessicaMcB wrote: »I thankfully run trail in the on season and am blessed with a treadmill in my basement for marathon training in winter so I don't have to bother with gym culture. I've got to know though, posters who mentioned they are irked by people running hard or "loud", how the hell do you hit a significant incline or speed quietly? Have I been running wrong all this time? lol
My issue is when the treadmill itself is loud and squeaky, not the runner.
Though I remember now one woman Wahoo used to make sex noises when she was lifting weights. I know she was just working hard but it was really distracting!0 -
People who play solitaire on the treadmill. They look like zombies trudging along with no expression.0
-
JessicaMcB wrote: »I thankfully run trail in the on season and am blessed with a treadmill in my basement for marathon training in winter so I don't have to bother with gym culture. I've got to know though, posters who mentioned they are irked by people running hard or "loud", how the hell do you hit a significant incline or speed quietly? Have I been running wrong all this time? lol
My issue is when the treadmill itself is loud and squeaky, not the runner.
Though I remember now one woman Wahoo used to make sex noises when she was lifting weights. I know she was just working hard but it was really distracting!
Working hard at what? :huh:
1 -
JessicaMcB wrote: »I thankfully run trail in the on season and am blessed with a treadmill in my basement for marathon training in winter so I don't have to bother with gym culture. I've got to know though, posters who mentioned they are irked by people running hard or "loud", how the hell do you hit a significant incline or speed quietly? Have I been running wrong all this time? lol
My issue is when the treadmill itself is loud and squeaky, not the runner.
Though I remember now one woman Wahoo used to make sex noises when she was lifting weights. I know she was just working hard but it was really distracting!
Why was her wahoo making sex noises????9 -
TresaAswegan wrote: »I'm just going to share all the annoying things I do. You people would probably hate me.
Eat burritos in the parking lot before going in to work out.
Wear socks and sandals or slippers for my entire workout.
Hog the squat rack for an hour. (Literally)
Rest 5 minutes between sets. Look at my phone or talk to people during this time.
Walk back across the gym in between every set, drink a lot of water and take a lot of pee breaks.
Super set my accessories.
Put my deadlifts down kinda loudly or drop them completely because I've lost my grip (you try to set a 300 lb bar down and make zero sound.. try it.)
Eat DURING my workout.
Carry a big bag o crap around.
There's probably more buy you get the idea.
Hit a 20 lb deadlift PR last week though, no plans to change what I do at all.
Yeah, see that's the thing. If you're lifting heavy, the weights drop sometimes. Now I don't lift anything near what other people would consider remotely heavy, but I've failed lifts and had to drop weights at times. It happens. People who don't lift don't understand that people who drop weights aren't doing this to show off. It's the same with grunting.
I also chew gum on the treadmill. And while I lift. I chew gum all the time. I have chronic dry mouth.
I was never one to take classes, but I realize people of all levels of ability take them. I'd be worrying about my own ish if I took them and not anyone else's, frankly.
I was just a gym neat freak and hated stuff left all over the place. That was my only pet peeve. I'm the same way about my house, tbh. I used to straighten up the lifting area while I was resting during my sets. I'd organize the dumbbells. It was nuts.
2 -
Guys who take their shirts off, I mean topless, in the mirror to lift
People who spit anything in the water bottle holders
The dude at my gym who leg presses in 70s style track shorts. No one wants to see your junk!
People who talk smack really loud and nonstop about other gym members during supposed cardio . If you have that much air in you, you're not working hard enough3 -
JessicaMcB wrote: »I thankfully run trail in the on season and am blessed with a treadmill in my basement for marathon training in winter so I don't have to bother with gym culture. I've got to know though, posters who mentioned they are irked by people running hard or "loud", how the hell do you hit a significant incline or speed quietly? Have I been running wrong all this time? lol
My issue is when the treadmill itself is loud and squeaky, not the runner.
Though I remember now one woman Wahoo used to make sex noises when she was lifting weights. I know she was just working hard but it was really distracting!
There was one guy in my old gym who used to make sex noises when he was running on the treadmill. It was so hard not to laugh at him.1 -
azulvioleta6 wrote: »
-people who stand in the front in a dance fitness class when they can't keep up/have no idea what they are doing
-people with no musicality, timing or ability to count who try to take dance fitness classes
-people moving the wrong way in a group class...especially if they are doing this in my blind spot
This is why I don't take the classes or go to the gym. I've tried, but the attitude I get from the more experienced people makes me feel inadequate and unwelcome. Oh, an instructor might be encouraging, but then I get grief from the other people in a class--because apparently I need to have personally trained with Bob Fosse to be in a beginner class (which is probably not your situation).
That and the people who have given me attitude or made audible comments because I'm not fit and thin already. I don't need that. I'll stick to walking outdoors and trying to do stuff at home.8 -
not_my_first_rodeo wrote: »azulvioleta6 wrote: »
-people who stand in the front in a dance fitness class when they can't keep up/have no idea what they are doing
-people with no musicality, timing or ability to count who try to take dance fitness classes
-people moving the wrong way in a group class...especially if they are doing this in my blind spot
This is why I don't take the classes or go to the gym. I've tried, but the attitude I get from the more experienced people makes me feel inadequate and unwelcome. Oh, an instructor might be encouraging, but then I get grief from the other people in a class--because apparently I need to have personally trained with Bob Fosse to be in a beginner class (which is probably not your situation).
That and the people who have given me attitude or made audible comments because I'm not fit and thin already. I don't need that. I'll stick to walking outdoors and trying to do stuff at home.
Most people at the gym really are not like that, fortunately. You generally will not be judged except by a few select, um, special... yeah... special... people.16 -
I always say this on these threads, but it's people who use the treadmill right next to mine when there are twenty others open.
My gym has a long line of perfectly identical treadmills (same make and model, all purchased at the same time and kept in good repair) facing onto second-floor windows. There is no reason other than weird superstition or a desire to be annoying that I can fathom that would necessitate using one specific treadmill there as they are exactly the same both materially and as far as view is concerned.
Every time I post this, someone is like "but I always have to use one specific machine at my gym because _____" and I get that, but at my gym they are IDENTICAL (I know this because for the past year I have habitually used a different one every day if they're empty to ease my mind about the calibration/to see if there IS a reason people always do this to me) and so it makes me super peeved when someone parks themselves right next to me and I have to listen to them on their phones or smell their cologne overdose when I just want to zone out and enjoy my run with a little personal space. It's like bathroom stalls or movie theatre or train seats - whhhhhhy would you choose the right-next-to-someone option if there are so many others available?
There's one old guy who, for the past few weeks, every Monday and Wednesday morning at 7:00 when I am half-finished my run, chooses the treadmill right next to mine (no matter which one it is, even though there are usually only one or two other people in the whole row) and proceeds to walk for fifteen minutes while glancing over at my screen constantly and absolutely reeking of sandalwood. It drives me bonkers but I don't want to stop running, wipe the machine down, and go to a different one when I'm in the zone. Grrrr.7
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TnNYTMExApI
This discussion has been closed.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 391.4K Introduce Yourself
- 43.4K Getting Started
- 259.7K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.6K Food and Nutrition
- 47.3K Recipes
- 232.3K Fitness and Exercise
- 388 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.4K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 152.7K Motivation and Support
- 7.8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.2K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.2K MyFitnessPal Information
- 22 News and Announcements
- 917 Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.3K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions