What is your biggest pet peeve at the gym

The ladies with perfect hair/makeup/designer workout clothing who stand and talk and never break into a sweat while I look like I've been dragged through a bush backwards.

lol...I know, are you working out or looking for a man!

Ppl who pass gas OMG lol

Hahaha I was running on treadmill and a woman on the treadmill in front of me kept picking her wedgie and then farted! Then she had the nerve to keep looking back at me! Just...EW. Hate when people sweat all over the machines and don't even wipe them though.

people who fart or stink even before they start their workout

OMG this guy "pops" his gum the entire time he works out! I have earphones on and can still hear him. The other guy who sings while he works out and gets to certain parts of the song and yells. The lady who gets on the machine next to you and sees you have earphones on and are hard at work and wants to talk! Do you see why I do some home workouts and love working outside; come on spring! lol

The people that stop to watch you on a machine to learn it and then wait for your entire session to try it right after. For multiple machines. And not the circuit training.


Admission time: I'm partially guilty of the makeup thing. There are times when I get out of class and head right for the gym during the gym-rush hours, and the last thing I want to do is risk having all the machines fill up while I locker my stuff, take off my jewelry, wipe off my makeup and tie up my hair. I'll locker and and head to a machine with makeup on and tie my hair back while in motion to make sure I'm not waiting 20 minutes on a floor mat for something to open up.

My own makeup peeve goes to the girls that go in the pool with fresh mascara. Day old mascara might streak after some rubbing in the pool, but fresh streaks and runs almost immediately. Not fooling anyone, girls. Don't apply and dive!

OOH My biggest gym pet peeve would have to be when the teenage boys come into the gym in groups.
I dunno what it is, but I've seen it in so many places!

They come in, 3-4 boys, and sorta mill about looking at the machines. Then one will try a machine out while the others stand around him and watch. He'll do about 4 reps of the machine, sit on it and catch his breathe, talk for 10 minutes, then they go poke around another machine!
It's SO annoying because they just crowd up the place and they're not even doing anything! If you ask them if they need help, they just blink back and looked bewildered.
Not that I'm charging about the place demanding everyone move out of the way, but if you're not using a machine, don't sit on it! Don't invite your mates to watch you do a pitiful amount of weights. Argh!

I feel better

I love the aerobics classes at my gym - and the instructors are absolutely magnetic ... but the room where they hold classes has one wall that's a window and looks out to the circuit training room. When you're in a class, your back is to this window. You forget that it's there. Until you turn around to see at least six old men sitting on the machines just staring.
It's really bad when they're talking to their buddies, and they point at people in the class. It's like they forget that we can see them. It's a window, not a television screen!

There would be days when I would just stop what I was doing, walk right up to the window, point and laugh. OR even better walk out fo the class, go to where the jerks are and start critiquing them right to their face. It's stuff like this why I don't go to a gym anymore.

I go to a very small gym, by small I mean there are only 3 treadmills, 1 bike, 2 elipicals and 1 of each standard weight machines. It always seems like when I am there doesn't matter the time that these 2 teenage come in a work out. Yay for the youth of america getting healthy... except! They have broken two treadmills because of screwing around.

Hmm... seems like most of my biggest peeves are listed - too much perfume/cologne, flinging sweat, not wiping things down, not re-racking weights....

What I also dislike is when someone uses a cardio machine next to me and I can hear their music... from their headphones... OVER the music on my headphones! Ugh. I don't want to blast my ears to bloody messes just so I don't have to hear your music.

Also, anyone on the weight floor that grunts super loud, practically yelling and/or drops weights around.

Teenage girls who show up after school to sit on the equipment and talk and laugh with their friends. Most of the time they do not use the equipment at all, then when they get bored with that they go get candy bars and chips from the vending machine and stand in front of the locker room and talk (right in the way). This happened again today, sorry for the rant.

That gym has a great logic to keep people paying if they have a vending machine full of chips and candy right in the gym

I can't stand when people just stand around and watch other's sweat their *kitten* off!!
Also, now I know some people enjoy working out with friends (not me, I like a solo routine), when I can hear you yelling over my music and you're not even talking to me - that drives me crazy! I don't really want to hear about last night's hook up!!

Love Planet Fitness, but they need to get some more recumbent bikes, cause people seem to like the just sit on them and oh so slowly move their legs.

People who stand there waiting for u to get off a machine. no pressure.

I hate it when people try to race me on the ellipitical...
IT DRIVES ME BONKERS!!!
I am on level 14, go sit down somewhere lady with your LEVEL ONENESS!!!
Or when I'm the only person on a ellipitical and the next person has to get on the one right next to me?
Is there something wrong with the other ten machines available?

the boys who just sit on the weight machines for absolutely ages without doing anything! if it's such hard work that you need to sit and recover for 10 minutes every 5 seconds, use smaller weights!

"Wow, You lift a lot for a girl." Yeah and I punch hard for being a girl too...

That's effing insulting. :mad: "For a girl..." I've seen this guy squat and I squat almost TWICE what he squats. :grumble: "For a girl..." apparently he doesn't lift very much for a guy then. GAH.:explode:


Yes a realise that was supposed to be a compliment but the dude that always says it is the same creeper who follows me around and says something pretty much every time I change lifts. I know I'm strong- thatnks for noticing now get the *kitten* outta here and let me do work.