Do you have a gym nemesis?

No, as with all things, I am my own worse enemy.....

I actually do! This woman just looks at me as if I have some sort of nerve to be on any of the machines. It's really funny actually.

Besides the stinky old man who bites his nails, stares at every, single woman and never wipes the equipment, I can't think of anyone.

There's this one woman who is in her early 60s I'd say. At my gym there are fans around the cardio area and if nobody is using one, you can go grab one and plug it in in front or behind of your machine so you have the cool air blowing on you. It's really nice and I enjoy that they have that option.

Anyways, this SAME lady has come up to my machine, given me a dirty look and then UNPLUGGED my fan and taken it away to her machine. This has happened at least 3 or 4 times.

I'm not a confrontational person so I haven't said anything but if she does it again I might have to.

You're kidding!!! That is so incredibly rude of her!

When I'm at the gym, there's a woman, probably at least 10 years older then me, who STARES at me the entire time. If she's not staring directly at me, she's staring at my reflection in the glass. And it's not a nice stare either!

At first I was like "no way b*tch, stop staring at me!" but now I'm like "wellllll I'm awesome and she just wants to be me"
Then my head gets so big I can't fit out the door..

None. I've made an incredible amount of friends at the gym. You know who the regulars are and those who go hard. It is nothing but mutual respect and nods of the head as I'm not there to socialize but I will acknowledge them. Moreover, I've caught folks many times trying to catch the numbers on the machines I'm working out on and often imitating my workouts. Nothing but love at the gym.

I do. She's a middle-aged couger. Fake tan, hair dyed blackest black, and always at the spinning class. She's the reason I don't go to spinning. She makes my blood boil and we haven't said more than 2 sentences to each other. She's the only person I've ever had around me that I just INSTANTLY disliked. Anyways, she always makes me want to do better than her.

There's this one woman who is in her early 60s I'd say. At my gym there are fans around the cardio area and if nobody is using one, you can go grab one and plug it in in front or behind of your machine so you have the cool air blowing on you. It's really nice and I enjoy that they have that option.

Anyways, this SAME lady has come up to my machine, given me a dirty look and then UNPLUGGED my fan and taken it away to her machine. This has happened at least 3 or 4 times.

I'm not a confrontational person so I haven't said anything but if she does it again I might have to.

HAAH OMG that is kind of hilarious, you should go unplug the fan from her!

One time I was at machines with a friend and we put our waterbottles and ipods on the machine and went for a quick stretch on the mats, I looked over and noticed this dude bout 60 on my machine. We walked over, he had taken my ipod, waterbottle, and towel off the machine and placed it on the floor. My friend and I told him that we were using the machines and asked him if he could use a different one that was available. The gym wasn't very crowded, or else I would not put my stuff on the machine and just expect people to not get angered. So he refused to get off and we had to get the 18 year old kid at the desk to ask him to get off, and he did, whilst he yelled at my friend. I didn't want to have a gym enemy since I see this guy all the time so afterward I walked over to him and told him I appreciated him relocating and apologized for leaving my stuff on the machine while not using it. He touched my arm and thanked me for being so kind and apologized. So I guess the lesson is that people are revved up sometimes about life and a little understanding goes a long way.

My NEW nemesis is this lady in her late 40s early 50s that told me the lesmills cxworx class was really really hard after she looked me up and down. I thought to myself "yeah I'm fat but I'm strong and athletic and motivated," it's cool cause I've hear her talking trash about other people like she is a 15 year old high school girl, while I'm focusing on ME and busting my *kitten* to get in shape. Hope shes still at the gym in 1 mo, 2 mo, 1 year, however long it takes for me to get to my goal weight and body fat so I can see the look on her face while I'm hot and she still has ugly "mom hair"

My gym nemesis is this one skinny little thing that always smirks and gives me dirty looks.
Especially when I'm on the arc trainer, she always make it a point to be right beside me and she smirks about going way faster then I do on it.
The thing is though, I set mine on the highest incline and 80 out of 100 resistance.
Of course she can go faster on 0 incline with like 5 resistance.

Check the cals burned, mine are always substantially higher just saying.

Yes! This guy that carries a book with him and takes like 5 minute reading breaks between sets. Once he's on that circuit machine, forget about getting to it any time soon.