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What’s your pet hate at the gym?
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golfchess6 wrote: »
ha, the joke is on them because the clothes not only stay wet in the sauna but their clothes capture all of the "aroma" from all of the other people in the gym
Aroma?🤢😂 Gross!1 -
You'd love my gym then because I don't let that happen. Our members are really good at unracking and putting stuff away now compared to other gyms because we enforce it. I always let members know that it's proper and considerate to do. My basic line is "we ask that you rerack the plates/weights you use for safety of others. Not all have the ability to pull off the weights off the bars and now they are in a position where they can't use the equipment that they pay a monthly charge for. In consideration for others, we ask you please rerack." Very rare that I get backlash. ALL GYMS should enforce it. Talk to the gym manager. It's there job to ensure it's getting done.
You would be surprised and I hope saddened how often the answer to “excuse me can I work in?” or “are you nearly done, I’d like to use that too?” is “No. I need it”
After a while, it tends to make one give up asking. And there are rarely any staff to ask to intervene.
The same goes for the bars left waaayy above my head height (often loaded) in the rack - although other gym goers are more helpful there when I ask a random person to fish it down for me.
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My biggest pet peeve right now is when I have to ask someone to abide to the mask mandate, they get all pissy and complain that we don't need to tell them. DUH, if they wore it right (over the nose) then I wouldn't have to bring it up. No one wants to wear it. But to be able to keep open, we have to abide by the counties mandate.
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 9 -
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The gym is my pet hate about the gym.
I hate gyms.
There, I said it.
I’ve learned over time and failure to not force myself into doing something that I strongly dislike during my journey to better health. I used to force myself to go to a gym as that’s what I thought I was “supposed” to do to get in shape/lose weight. I tried a few and I just plain don’t like them. Anything about them. Lol.
It’s like cauliflower. No matter how many times I try it and in a variety of ways, I still don’t like it. I’m not eating it just because it’s good for me. I just eat different veggies with the same nutrients instead ☺️
I’m an outdoors gal. I ENJOY exercise in the outdoors, therefore that’s what I’ve learned is most successful and consistent for me.
Hats off to all the gym lovers. I wish I could enjoy them too as it would help in the Canadian winter 😂 ☺️5 -
Stepping into the hot tub after a workout to relieve muscle soreness, only the hot tub is barely a tepidly warm tub.
I try not to get bothered by other people at the gym, I'm sure I'm unconsciously guilty of doing something to annoy somebody else. But the two people aspects which get to me:
Entering the "danger zone" of somebody exercising. Whether that means getting close enough that you could potentially be hit by a moving weight/limb, or moving between a person lifting and the mirror they are using to check their form, you are putting somebody at risk of injury. Go around, wait a few seconds for the set to end first, something.
Also, though my gym doesn't have problems with people reracking weights, the OCD in me gets driven absolutely nuts at times when they are put back out of order... fifty pound weights placed HERE, when they belong over THERE, etc. Quite often between sets I find myself shuffling DB's to their proper places so the weights progress up in weight in correct order. Not only does this then satisfy my inner OCD, but it helps alleviate delays in lifting where you're looking for a specific weight, but cannot find it since it's located waaaaay over there...12 -
Entering the "danger zone" of somebody exercising. Whether that means getting close enough that you could potentially be hit by a moving weight/limb, or moving between a person lifting and the mirror they are using to check their form, you are putting somebody at risk of injury. Go around, wait a few seconds for the set to end first, something.
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I once had a guy step over the bar I was getting ready to deadlift. He was rough-housing with his friends and nearly got the shock of his life!6 -
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »i have a long list of things that annoy me.... from not wiping machines down (and i dont trust anyone which is why i wipe down not only after but also before my workouts) to not putting away weights or accessories but my #1 most hated offense, that i think should result in an immediate ban from every gym everywhere?
wearing perfume or cologne while working out.
just GTFO
Ugh, now I'm having flashbacks about the perfumed women who used to use the overhead track the same time I did. I changed times. Come to think of it, I changed gyms. I did move, but that gym was close to work so I didn't really have to change gyms...
We've (hopefully) sold our house and during the inspection the buyer's realtor came to the house wearing way too much perfume...I swear I could still smell it the next day. I want an extra $20,000...2 -
Oh my.... there is a guy at my gym who uses his sweat rag to wipe the equipment off. I guess a lot of people have complained. The other day one of the regular morning women (who is pregnant) said he blew his nose into his rag and the wiped down his elliptical. OMG!!!!!4
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Oh my.... there is a guy at my gym who uses his sweat rag to wipe the equipment off. I guess a lot of people have complained. The other day one of the regular morning women (who is pregnant) said he blew his nose into his rag and the wiped down his elliptical. OMG!!!!!
Uck. I think you win this thread.10 -
People who spend more time using their phones than the equipment. Excuse me...can I use the leg curler. Its not your personal chair. Inconsiderate bunch fs arses!7
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People who do not clean the equipment when they are done. Nobody wants to sit in your funk, pandemic or not.5
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People with no *kitten* awareness of where they are. Which I guess is common in society in general.
My gym has a nice 25 yard by 2 yard piece of field turf and a Prowler sled to be used on the turf. In addition, the space is great for walking lunges, farmers carries, etc. on either side of the turf there is 20+ feet of space
There are 2 signs asking people not to stretch on the turf area (it's not padded at all), but guess what, people will plop down on the turf when there is loads of space right next to it. The trainers setting up their clients on it are some of the worst offenders.
Also people with their head down on their phones will walk across the turf, not paying attention to anyone actually using it. Have seen several people get close to being wiped out.3 -
The yappers that camp out on a bench and gab with whoever will listen to them. Get off the damn machines if you’re not lifting!!!
Groups of 3 that take over the bench press rotating between themselves for an hour. I can adjust to work around equipment in use, but not if you monopolize it for an hour.2 -
Women who follow us around, echoing our monthly workout sheets as we execute our coach's instructions "for our optimal body goals"... Annoying a.f. Pay for your own damn assessment/program.
Further, 25# or 45# lifters who hog weight machines, benches, spaces in the free weights area for hours texting/clueless/taking selfies.
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At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
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At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
ah yes, "wife bad" boomer humor, hilarious. you know, kids these days are trying a crazy new thing called "don't marry someone you hate," but i guess there's something to be said for the classics.
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dear old man at pf: there's literally the whole rest of the room for you to set up your mat and do your situps or whatever. it is 6 AM and you and I are the only living beings here. could you maybe not set up three feet away from me?10 -
loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi5 -
goal06082021 wrote: »loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi
You're reading a tone. You have no idea what the real tone was in the remarks. You have no idea what their joint idea of humor is. You have no idea how the person posting embellished or spun the story to make it funny, which clearly they were trying to be (hint: the reveal that the poster works out at home and the mocking woman with the beer is the poster's wife is what's called a punchline -- and before you get excited, "punch" lines aren't about domestic violence).18 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »
You're reading a tone. You have no idea what the real tone was in the remarks. You have no idea what their joint idea of humor is. You have no idea how the person posting embellished or spun the story to make it funny, which clearly they were trying to be (hint: the reveal that the poster works out at home and the mocking woman with the beer is the poster's wife is what's called a punchline -- and before you get excited, "punch" lines aren't about domestic violence).
okay but like
why is it funny to talk about your spouse, a person whom you purportedly love enough to have made it official in the eyes of the state and/or your God, in a disparaging manner?
genuinely, why is that A Thing, in the parlance of my generation? I'm reading exactly the tone that was intended, WiFe BaD sO FuNniE. It's a bad joke, the whole class of them are bad jokes that aren't funny. I'm beginning to think the jokes won't die until the people making them do. Stop trashing your spouse for the lulz.9 -
goal06082021 wrote: »
okay but like
why is it funny to talk about your spouse, a person whom you purportedly love enough to have made it official in the eyes of the state and/or your God, in a disparaging manner?
genuinely, why is that A Thing, in the parlance of my generation? I'm reading exactly the tone that was intended, WiFe BaD sO FuNniE. It's a bad joke, the whole class of them are bad jokes that aren't funny. I'm beginning to think the jokes won't die until the people making them do. Stop trashing your spouse for the lulz.
Are you in a bad marriage because it's...just...a...joke.
And it was funny.
(They say dying's hard. Comedy is harder.
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goal06082021 wrote: »
okay but like
why is it funny to talk about your spouse, a person whom you purportedly love enough to have made it official in the eyes of the state and/or your God, in a disparaging manner?
genuinely, why is that A Thing, in the parlance of my generation? I'm reading exactly the tone that was intended, WiFe BaD sO FuNniE. It's a bad joke, the whole class of them are bad jokes that aren't funny. I'm beginning to think the jokes won't die until the people making them do. Stop trashing your spouse for the lulz.
I don't see it remotely as being in that class of joke. It's about this horrific image of a person going out of her way to mock total strangers as entertainment (complete with drinks and snacks) being turned on its head by the reveal that it's a home gym.
It's not: My wife is such a nag. You should see our blacksmith bills. Ba dum tss!12 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »
I don't see it remotely as being in that class of joke. It's about this horrific image of a person going out of her way to mock total strangers as entertainment (complete with drinks and snacks) being turned on its head by the reveal that it's a home gym.
It's not: My wife is such a nag. You should see our blacksmith bills. Ba dum tss!
I had to read that 3 times to get it all the while thinking if you have to explain a joke, it's not funny. 😁2 -
goal06082021 wrote: »
ah yes, "wife bad" boomer humor, hilarious. you know, kids these days are trying a crazy new thing called "don't marry someone you hate," but i guess there's something to be said for the classics.
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dear old man at pf: there's literally the whole rest of the room for you to set up your mat and do your situps or whatever. it is 6 AM and you and I are the only living beings here. could you maybe not set up three feet away from me?
The fact that my post was labeled as "boomer humor" makes this 30 year old a happy man. I'll continue to perfect my dad jokes while rocking my jorts and white new balances in hopes to continue my journey into the ultimate dad. Good luck with your old man at pf, I think he likes you 20 -
goal06082021 wrote: »
ah yes, "wife bad" boomer humor, hilarious. you know, kids these days are trying a crazy new thing called "don't marry someone you hate," but i guess there's something to be said for the classics.
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dear old man at pf: there's literally the whole rest of the room for you to set up your mat and do your situps or whatever. it is 6 AM and you and I are the only living beings here. could you maybe not set up three feet away from me?
What difference does the person's age or sex make?4 -
In general, people that do not wipe down equipment!
At my condo gym specifically, they never turn on the aircon. 90 degrees at 90% humidity-we need aircon.4 -
At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.11 -
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.
Replace old man with fat man or fat woman and see if there is a sense of humor about that.1 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »
Replace old man with fat man or fat woman and see if there is a sense of humor about that.
There was no "old man" in that story to replace.3
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