Things you see at the Gym
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Wow, we must go to the same gym
I saw someone there in jeans and a long sleeve flannel shirt on the eliptical! 0 -
I'm somewhat curmudgeonly and don't have a lot of patience, I admit that freely
1) Snippy teens and twentysomethings who stare and make snide comments. At my heaviest, I was over 500 lbs, so this was something I experienced on occasion. The last one to do that got an earful. I am not afraid to assert myself.
2) New Year's resolution crowds that clog up machines, working out at a snail's pace and stop going within 1-2 weeks because their bodies have not magically transformed overnight.
3) Dutiful girlfriends and BFF's who sit on machines when people are waiting to use them.
4) Soccer mom crowds. Sorry, soccer moms. I'm there to work out, and having to work out next to a gaggle of yakkers talking about their kids/husbands/various complaints makes my teeth grind. I know this is a gross generalization, but it's a trend at my gym. (I go later at night to avoid them because hey- we all pay money to be there and are equally entitled to use the facilities, right?). In all honesty, I think this is more my problem than theirs ;-)
5) People who stare through the window at me while I am swimming laps.
6) Getting back to people sitting on machines, people who do this on the circuit. If you MUST do this, please choose another machine that is NOT on a circuit. Or better yet- STAY HOME.
7) I thought about adding the requisite fashion plate with full makeup who is deathly afraid of sweating, but then decided not to add them. I just hope they enjoy the bloom of youth and lightning-pace metabolisms while they got it. One day, they will be violently thrust into reality and have to actually make an effort.
8) Nakedness doesn't bother me. All I ask is that you don't lean over me while I'm sitting on the bench putting my wet pool clothes into my gym bag. I know the towel bin is next to me, but having your giant purple areola thrust into my face was a little much. I am glad you scuttled way from me after I said I would bite it off if you did it again. A tiny bit of personal boundary is appreciated. Also, please place a towel down on the benches if you plan to sit down naked. I don't know where your "area" has been, and I don't want to find out a week later at the OBGYN. 0 -
At my gym only a select few people are allowed into the classes at once and the zumba one fills up soooo fast, so I go in 30 minutes early and do some ab work and stretch.
Well the other day I was stretching and i thought my subconscious was playing tricks on me because I started smelling chocolate. But then I looked over and honest to god there was a chick next to me who had just folded up her snickers bar wrapper and was starting to unwrap her twix.
OMG that is so funny.:laugh:0 -
I like the upside down T-Rex's You know big arms with little legs...very inspiring...
I love going to the gym, freaks and all...but i love to people watch. My gym is like a meat market for cousins HEE HEE.
I also see women who have perfect hair and never sweat? Plus I've been in the same gym for 5 years and everyone looks the same. At least I got fat:laugh:0 -
Women who wear T-Shirts and then roll them up like a halter top! I mean really is it that serious?
The guy who wants to run wind sprints right next to the treadmill! I mean really dude if you want to run, get your *kitten* on the treadmill lol!0 -
:laugh:8) Nakedness doesn't bother me. All I ask is that you don't lean over me while I'm sitting on the bench putting my wet pool clothes into my gym bag. I know the towel bin is next to me, but having your giant purple areola thrust into my face was a little much. I am glad you scuttled way from me after I said I would bite it off if you did it again.0 -
I know the towel bin is next to me, but having your giant purple areola thrust into my face was a little much. I am glad you scuttled way from me after I said I would bite it off if you did it again. A tiny bit of personal boundary is appreciated. Also, please place a towel down on the benches if you plan to sit down naked. I don't know where your "area" has been, and I don't want to find out a week later at the OBGYN.
LOL Giant purple areola omg hahaha :')
I see a lot of teens wearing ugg boots sitting on machines texting their friends ' like omgz at the gym for 2 hrs lolz' Please just get off the machine!
There's one guy who walks back and forth by one of the TWO weight benches like he's guarding some gold chest or something.0 -
The guy who has his clothes and such spread out the entire length of the bench and gets annoyed if I ask him to move some of it so I can now get dressed!
The locker room is not YOUR BATHROOM!0 -
On wednesday I saw a guy in a rain jacket doing weights. I know we live in Scotland but Come on! And The two skinny girls with tiny clothes on having a chat on the bikes next to me pedalling so slowly while I am going mental trying to keep up my RPMs sweating like crazy!0
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they girls who come in with full face of make-up, hair all done, eyelashes on, and designer tracksuits and do about 4 sit ups and just walk around flicking their hair and leave in the same condition.
get oot the gym!!!!!0 -
I love people watching! The gym is this myriad of personalities and crazy all thrust into sweaty harmony!
I think the only thing that has ever made me annoyed is these two teenage girls snidely giggling at an obese woman (who I could swap clothes with) on an elliptical. I gave them the what for...and as they scuttled away they were probably exchanging quips regarding the fat ***** that told them to F off. Rude, inconsiderate twerps, I can't wait for reality to bite them in the behind.
My friend and I do sprints on the track when it's empty enough and one day I just smoked my friend, these two guys who were doing bag work came over and high fived us for giving it our all.
I love the gym. Even the stinky sweaty guy...at least he's gettin his sweat on!0 -
Well the other day I was stretching and i thought my subconscious was playing tricks on me because I started smelling chocolate. But then I looked over and honest to god there was a chick next to me who had just folded up her snickers bar wrapper and was starting to unwrap her twix.
I'd have snapped her hand off for that Twix!
My gym has a 'no food allowed' policy on the gym floor. There is a seated area opposite the changing roms, with a snack bar, should anyone feel hungry.0 -
The things that bug me the most at the gym:
-people chatting on the phone LOUDLY.
-hogging the squat rack for 30 mins. There is only one in the gym. Do you really need to do 10 sets of squats???
-the guys who do curls with too much weight and have to swing their arms to complete the excercise.0 -
I see these fat guys with their weight lifting belts cinched tight about their lard stuffed waists, and they lumber through their futile, unchanging routines, looking about the same this year as they did last year only fatter.
I just want to grab them and chain them to a treadmill - DO CARDIO!0 -
the homo-erotic scene in the free weights, with the massive guys all admiring themselves and each other in the mirrors, hands on each others biceps appreciation - No I do not want tickets to that gun show!
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1) I would have to say the ones who work out in Jeans.
2) That show up after my workout starts, stay 5-10 minutes, walking on the treadmill, then leave.
3) the guy who gets on the circuit training (cybex machines) and clangs the weights with every move. I want to just say do you know the object is controled movements with no clanging...
4) the guy on the eliptical machine that is hugging it, sweating over all the controls and then walks away without even wiping it down, EWWWWWWWW
5) the people who have the TV on very loudly but then they have their ipods in their ears, so they cant even hear it.
6) the lady who brings her child to the kid area and lets her scream bloody murder and she just smiles and keeps on working out, but then once the child calms down, peaks into the room and starts the kids screaming all over again!
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I am betting those "skinny" girls that do barely anything and have perfect makeup are hoping to become trophy wives or something lol, I swear I see those same girls at lacrosse games, we call them arena bunnies lol. The thing is I know a ton of lacrosse players and all their wives are just normal (myself included)0
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The girls (and the guy from yesterday) that go the the corner where it's the boxing and/or battle rope area. No, instead they have to come over and do something else and not let me use the bags/battle ropes. Yesterday a guy was sitting right next to the battle ropes having more space around him. I stood there watching over until i just moved in and picked up the ropes. He eventually moved a little.0
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This thread is completely awesome and is keeping me laughing. I've seen some really interesting things at the gym myself.
I don't mind the naked thing, although I find it's always the old ladies with the huge, sagging boobs that are there. The other day, the moment I walked into the locker room, girl was bum naked with her legs spread up over the lockers in a split, putting on lotion. Really? Had to do that on top of the lockers? I suppose there must have been some earth-shattering reason why she couldn't have her undies and bra on while putting lotion on her legs...
People who ignore the giant sign that says "NO OPPOSITE SEX CHILDREN IN THE LOCKER ROOM" while a woman comes in with four boys ranging from infant to around eleven or so. Sorry, but your eleven year old son doesn't need to see a bunch of naked girls. Use the family dressing room.
I usually have my headphones on and listen to music while I'm working out because it helps me to pass the time and work more, but I like the people who come in with full-sized ipads and are watching movies on the bike while they continually forget to actually pedal.
When extremely obese, extremely hairy guys sit on the steps at the entrance to the spa so nobody can get in (or would even want to).
When people have "gym buddies" and take up machines but then just sit there, doing nothing. The only thing exercising on them are their mouths.
Along with that, I hate when really large people get on the weights, pull once, and then sit there texting or being on the phone or even reading a book. I'm sure it's a good book, and I get that you want to turn those 150 extra pounds of fat into muscle but really, if one pull is what you can manage for now, then please, get off the machine so somebody else can use it. You can update your facebook status later.
People who think it's a great idea to do yoga in the walkway. We have a specified area for that. Lots of room, no people, get your butt over there.
People who run up and down the stairs where we need to go to get between the machines and the locker room. We have stair machines. Use them. I'm sure they want to be genuine but really, they're knocking people over and making it a hazard to try to move around.
People who leave their kids in the cardio section so they can go get a manicure.0 -
People who ignore the giant sign that says "NO OPPOSITE SEX CHILDREN IN THE LOCKER ROOM" while a woman comes in with four boys ranging from infant to around eleven or so. Sorry, but your eleven year old son doesn't need to see a bunch of naked girls. Use the family dressing room.
Agreed and I hate the reverse of that.
If I see another single dude with no children or wife in the family changing room I'm grabbing him by the collar and tossing him out the door. I REALLY don't care for that. Like at all. I don't care how new you are, there's a sign on the door saying "Family Changing Room". There's a picture of kids on the door. I'm done with these b.s. resolutionist excuses "Oh I'm new! I can't possibly be expected to know how to read!"0 -
This thread makes me happy that I work out at home. LOL! I am loving it. Keep 'um coming! :drinker:0
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i'm just envious that i can't turn up in teeny tiny shorts and bra tops with flawless hair and make up and do 10 minutes at snails pace and have a body to kill for.
i wish i had that much self control with food, but i don't, so i have to seriously work my butt off and sweat like a horse in my baggy old daggy gym clothes.
You are not alone. I also have to seriously work my butt off and sweat like a horse in my baggy old daggy gym clothes too! :happy:
Even when I was fit I wasn't comfortable wearing bra tops and stuff like that... I'd be the one in the gym having a clothing malfunction, causing y'all to talk about me on this thread! :laugh:0 -
2) New Year's resolution crowds that clog up machines, working out at a snail's pace and stop going within 1-2 weeks because their bodies have not magically transformed overnight.
YES, this. It was so annoying at my gym. Right after the new year you couldn't go on a week night after dinner (7pm) and find a treadmill or elliptical to get on! It was insane. And guess what, it's already pretty much back to the way it was before the new year started. Only about half of the machines are in use when I get there. Why wait to make a resolution? Had I decided in October to wait until January, I'd still have most of the weight I've lost on me!0 -
Most recent peeve: I use the rowing machine a lot for Cardio, and I'm fairly fit, can quite happily drop under 7mins for a 2k. I often get people looking at me (I sweat a lot), get on the erg next to me, and are constantly looking over to see my pace and trying to do it themselves. They usually last a minute tops. The wall is mirrored so I can see them doing it. Odd people.0
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A guy came in yesterday with steel toe work boots, jeans that he wore below is butt, t-shirt with a plaid over shirt over top and a ball cap. He then decided to hop on the bike for some cardio. I think I laughed out loud with my headphones on.0
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One of the cleaning staff in my gym always somehow ends up "cleaning" in the area around/behind my treadmill.. Very awkward. lol
Then there's another guy who will flex his biceps inbetween his sets on the leg extension machine. I see him all the time, lol. I guess he's just very proud of himself, Go That Guy! LOL
But cell phones in the gym (talking and/or texting) is my all time pet peeve!0 -
It makes me crazy when you see WOMEN with full face of make-up on – I just don’t get it, I can understand after work and you don’t wash your face.. But at 5:30 am really? There is one woman who has a Personal Trainer (he’s easy on the eyes) and has her hair and make-up done. Not like "I’ve got to go to work" make-up but "I’m going to a dark bar make-up and I want to be noticed".. But, I guess if that’s what makes her feel good so be it and I shouldn’t judge, right?!?!
I just question her sanity!0 -
Honestly, I'm a "live and let live" kind of person so people's different weirdnesses don't get to me much. Just adds some entertainment in between sets for me.
There was ONE little number that had me grinding my teeth during spin class yesterday though. It was the lunch time spin class with everyone's favorite instructor. It's always packed, it just happens. But this was the first time people were actually turned away because there just werent enough bikes for everyone. I felt bad but got down to business, until I saw this girl who looked like she would blow away in a breeze in a pink jump suit (again, weird choice for a sweaty class, but meh...) make-up and hair (down) perfect and not a drop of sweat on her...half way through the class. She should have been dripping like the rest of us. So it was then I noticed, not only was she NOT following the instructor, but anytime she started to get even a smidge moist, she would gently dab her face with a towel to keep her perfect make up perfect. This pissed me off to no end because there were a lot of people who were actually there to work out that had to be turned away!! No excuse for that crap. Ugh...
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-When people wear their pajamas to the gym
-girls wearing full-faced makeup with chandelier earrings
-guys who spend a full 30 minutes just flexing in front of the mirror
-when people stand behind me (not doing anything, just watching me) when I'm on the Stairmaster or bent leg kick-back machine
-people hogging the machines by just sitting on them, not using them, texting their friends
-children sneaking in and fooling around, bouncing the exercise balls off the walls (my gym is 16+)
-the slobs that don't wipe off their machines. I hunt them down, throw a rag and spray bottle at them.
No thanks, I don't want your herpes.0 -
Honestly, I'm a "live and let live" kind of person so people's different weirdnesses don't get to me much. Just adds some entertainment in between sets for me.
There was ONE little number that had me grinding my teeth during spin class yesterday though. It was the lunch time spin class with everyone's favorite instructor. It's always packed, it just happens. But this was the first time people were actually turned away because there just werent enough bikes for everyone. I felt bad but got down to business, until I saw this girl who looked like she would blow away in a breeze in a pink jump suit (again, weird choice for a sweaty class, but meh...) make-up and hair (down) perfect and not a drop of sweat on her...half way through the class. She should have been dripping like the rest of us. So it was then I noticed, not only was she NOT following the instructor, but anytime she started to get even a smidge moist, she would gently dab her face with a towel to keep her perfect make up perfect. This pissed me off to no end because there were a lot of people who were actually there to work out that had to be turned away!! No excuse for that crap. Ugh...
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I've seen a lot on this thread ranting about women who are all worked up with the makeup and the hair and whatnot. I was pondering on it, and realized I'm not sure I've seen this. Maybe I'm just really unobservant. I know I go with just foundation on, (and it doesn't run off with the sweat so I'm not having to reapply it every few minutes), and my hair is up in a clip so it's not all sweating down my back. I also dangle earrings because they don't bother me when I work out and actually, it's all I own. Is this what people are talking about? Because if it is, it's got nothing to do with trying to look too pretty for working out. Or am I really just that blind and haven't seen these walking dolls? :ohwell:0
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