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What’s your pet hate at the gym?
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People sitting on the equipment playing with their phone for ages.
Use the equipment, or get out of my blinkin way.12 -
ChaoticMoira wrote: »
- People who don't wipe the equipment down when they're done.
- People who don't put their effing weights back!!!!
These.
And “that guy” who takes 20min breaks between sets but won’t vacate the bench / squat rack / machine to do so preventing others (ok, me) using it.
If someone is camping out need to use your words and ask to work in.
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kchapmanma wrote: »Heh, when I read the subject line, my first thought was "There are gyms that let you take your pet with you? Damn, I doubt my cats would be into that, though. Pretty sure they'd hate everything - and me for taking them there."
You don't take your cat to the bird gym??2 -
When my IPOD batteries die mid-workout, and I'm left listening to the gym's musical selection on the overhead speakers. Sometimes it's alright (Guns 'n Roses, Bon Jovi), but other times it's incredibly difficult to get psyched up for a difficult lift if the overhead is playing Celine Dion. (I have no problem with music like that, but save it for times of quiet or during romantic interludes, not while exercising!)13
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People that load up the leg press with several 45lbs plates and do a knee bend as a rep for ego boosting. QUIT WASTING USE of 45lbs plate that you can't press!!!!!! Others could use those 45's for legitimate lifts.
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ChaoticMoira wrote: »
- People who don't wipe the equipment down when they're done.
- People who don't put their effing weights back!!!!
These.
And “that guy” who takes 20min breaks between sets but won’t vacate the bench / squat rack / machine to do so preventing others (ok, me) using it.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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People that walk over the platform I’m on when I’m about to clean or snatch. Had a guy walk into the bar when I stood with it on my shoulders and knock me flying (I’m quite small). Didn’t think he was looking and I couldn’t actually go anywhere so I just stood still and he still walked into the bar.
People that hog the nice bar collars 🤣5 -
claireychn074 wrote: »People that walk over the platform I’m on when I’m about to clean or snatch. Had a guy walk into the bar when I stood with it on my shoulders and knock me flying (I’m quite small). Didn’t think he was looking and I couldn’t actually go anywhere so I just stood still and he still walked into the bar.
People that hog the nice bar collars 🤣
These are actually pretty nice (same thing my gym has for general use). I bought a set and keep in my gym bag for when no collars around.
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Not wiping down the equipment. I mean, look at that seat; it’s all wet. Eww!! I no longer go to gyms, primarily due to the gym being closed for so long. Outside, I now ski in the winter and hike in the other months. Inside, I use our Bowflex weight machine. I have found that I use the Bowflex so much more frequently than I ever went to the gym.5
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So, in addition to our usual dues, we paid the trainer to put together a training program for my son, a beginning lifter. Did they put him over in the Nautilus machines...where no one ever goes? Noooooo. They put him in the gang of heavy duty muscle heads in the free weights/squat/cable rack. Other heavy duty muscle heads are waiting in line to get to that part of the building, he doesn't stand a chance. Thanks! Maybe I'll get him out of school early so he can go do the workout we paid you to design for him. /snark
Why won't trainers design a routine using the lonely Nautilus machines for beginners?? Why is it always free weights?
* No heavy duty muscle heads were harmed in the composition of this post.7 -
I like to swim and the pool at my gym has lanes for lap swimming and a big open area for water fitness and I hate when there is someone doing water fitness in a lane. You can literally use the whole rest of the pool for that!! Why take a lane when they are limited and you can see people waiting for an open lane.9
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When I was able to go to the gym my pet hate was that it was closed on Sunday, closed at 6 pm on Saturday, and only open until 9 pm the rest of the week.
Small towns. Sheesh.5 -
Watching people use the rowing machines in ways that are going to give them back problems. (Yes, I tell the staff, if it's that bad.)
Actually, if I'm honest, frequently just watching people use the rowing machines at all is kinda cringe-y, but that's none of my business, and it's snooty of me besides. When I saw the trainer who teaches senior fit classes on the C2, I figured out who'd been teaching all the seniors to row in ways that (sigh) were likely to give them back problems. (I'm a senior, too, so no diss to seniors.)
Also, that sniffling . . . woman . . . on the next bike at spin class who kept grabbing paper towels from the dispenser between us, blowing her nose, then tossing the towels in the wastebasket on her other side. That was about a week before I came down with a bodacious respiratory virus that lasted weeks (shortly pre-Covid, but one reason I haven't been back to spin class since Covid). Generally, people who think it's fine to go to the gym when obviously sick and share their germs around.10 -
Wow I had a few disagrees on my last pet hate?
Another are people dropping your weights, if you can pick them up place them down especially if they are not heavy!
Maybe because they think expecting people not to sweat/smell at gyms (even with deodorant) is unrealistic? 😉😆 I wash, use deodorant, wear clean clothes . . . then sweat buckets and probably smell sometimes, despite being a sweet delicate flower of li'l ol' lady-hood. 🤷♀️
I'm not suggesting you're not allowed to hate it, though.10 -
ChaoticMoira wrote: »
- People who don't wipe the equipment down when they're done.
- People who don't put their effing weights back!!!!
These.
And “that guy” who takes 20min breaks between sets but won’t vacate the bench / squat rack / machine to do so preventing others (ok, me) using it.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
so one of my pet peeves are people who, when you ask them to let you work in, look annoyed and act like they're doing you some huge favor instead of apologizing for monopolizing the equipment for 20+ minutes.13 -
Also, people offering unsolicited advice. Or people trying to chat me up in the middle of my workout.
And of course people who don't rerack their weights and plates.
I'm noticing a pattern. It's always people, isn't it?18 -
@AnnPT77 i suppose my comment needs some elaborating lol.
I’m understanding it’s hard not to smell sometimes as the gym and yes I don’t know for some people what is causing it but sometimes it’s that bad it is obvious someone has not made an effort to spray and it’s not what you want to taste when training.
I can only assume on their diet that comment was more of a joke of what people say when someone farts allot in the gym.
Hygiene in the gym is key for everyone from deodorant, sneezing and coughing into your towel, not wiping down things and leaving your rubbish on the floor.😀6 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »ChaoticMoira wrote: »
- People who don't wipe the equipment down when they're done.
- People who don't put their effing weights back!!!!
These.
And “that guy” who takes 20min breaks between sets but won’t vacate the bench / squat rack / machine to do so preventing others (ok, me) using it.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
so one of my pet peeves are people who, when you ask them to let you work in, look annoyed and act like they're doing you some huge favor instead of apologizing for monopolizing the equipment for 20+ minutes.
Who gives one flying *kitten* what they look like? Just do your work.0 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »claireychn074 wrote: »People that walk over the platform I’m on when I’m about to clean or snatch. Had a guy walk into the bar when I stood with it on my shoulders and knock me flying (I’m quite small). Didn’t think he was looking and I couldn’t actually go anywhere so I just stood still and he still walked into the bar.
People that hog the nice bar collars 🤣
These are actually pretty nice (same thing my gym has for general use). I bought a set and keep in my gym bag for when no collars around.
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