Don't talk or text at the gym on the equipment!!!!

I can totally understand the OP's point. She's not talking about people resting between sets. There are a few people at my gym, quite a few lately, who have been using one of the three bench presses as their own personal locker room. They put their keys, drinks, etc down on the bench to go use something else. That pisses me off. At least four different people I have seen do this in the last month.

There's another girl now, who drops her stuff on the bench, and then proceeds to take a bar from another bench to walk around with, and uses dumbbells and two other benches all at the same time. She does some bizarro stuff too. I finally had to talk to the manager about it. She is totally out of control. I have never seen someone take up so much space at once. You'd have to see it to believe it.

One other guy, likes to superset the leg sled, calf machine, and two other things on Sunday mornings. Leaves something at each one, drink, shirt, Whatever to hold his place while he bounces around. It's Sunday morning, it's busy and there's only one of each of these things. Him and I had it out one day.

Being respectful and basic etiquette in a gym is not a lot to ask. If you're not using something, don't take up that space. Whether it's texting, talking or using it as a coat or coffee rack. If you're using it, that's a totally different story.

I think we can all agree that we use our phones for music, tracking and other stuff. That's normal.