Gym Pet Peeves?

We have workout equipment in our garage & I HATE when my stepdad doesn't take his weight plates off the squat rack or the weight bench. I can't take your 200 pounds down myself! :grumble:

I read my kindle fire while jogging on the treadmill. My heart rates up to 180 and I'm listening to music and I'm still reading. Some of us can do that. I also read while on the bike but I'm sweating and pushing it. I also go for around 90+ mins while on the treadmill so I may not be running and I may be reading but I'm in for the long haul.
My peeves are;

* teenagers having sex in the hot tub
* People who stand in the swimming lanes to talk and the old biddies that walk in the lanes and gossip
* The "handicapped" lady who comes to our gym everyday and insists she needs help pushing her chair in and out of the pool area, help getting her things in the dressing room, and needs everyone to move out of the way for her to come through doorways, hallways, etc. and then I see her fold up her chair and put it in her van before she climbs into the driver's seat.
* The lady at the front desk who stares you down until you swipe your card and then acts like she's doing you a favor by allowing you to enter.
* Not cleaning the machines
* The tennis jerks who don't pick up their balls and spend hours just talking at the net and then maybe hit a few over before another talk session while other people are waiting for the court.
* The teenagers that try to steal things out of your lockers and mess with your padlocks
* Baby mamma's who bring their spawn to the pool just so they can stand there in their bikini's flirting with the lifeguard while their spawn sit in their car-seats
* Parents who don't watch their kids .

- people at the water fountain who clearly see there are other people waiting to take a quick sip, but they still take 5011 seconds to fill up their water bottle.

- people who shoot me dirty looks when I'm on the treadmill doing HIIT like i'm breathing too hard for them during my rest period

- people who dont pay attention to where they are walking in the weight room. if i'm doing lunges or step ups in the squat cage, wait until i'm not in motion to try and walk to the side of the cage to grab a plate. and why are they grabbing plates from that cage anyway where there are plates in multiple locations in the weight room

- people who take up the entire bench space with their stuff in the locket room and this is hard to do at my gym since the benches are long and wide that 2 people down can sit one on each side and not touch

- people who fling their wet hair around. i hate finding random hair that's not mine on my person, on my towel, etc. these people need to just use one of the many hair dryers the gym provides

- people who stop your workout to ask you how long you're going to be on a particular machine or weight station. i'll be done when i'm done damn it! this is only really happens to me on 1 machine (the versa climber) and it's annoying because i never see anyone use it, in fact most of the people who work there have told me i'm the only one they've seen use it since they bought it a few years ago. so these are just people who see me using it and want to give it a go. nothing wrong with that, but doesnt interrupt my workout with your dumb question.. one person even asked me twice during a workout. when i was done i ended up increasing the resistance to as much as it would go and watched while they tried to work it. they lasted about 15 seconds trying to figure it out :laugh:

- people in the treadmill area who turn off the ceiling fans or wall fans when they first get in and don't bother asking those of us who are already there, working out and sweating. the last time this happened i asked the lady why she did it and when she said she was cold i told her she needs to ask before she does it since other people need it. i told her if she's cold she needs to start working out. then i turned the fan back on. :laugh: she looked like she was going to turn it back off, but i gave her a :devil: look and she ended up going to the ellipticals instead. there were 2 other guys on the 'mills and they just laughed about it. one even got off the treadmill to turn the fan on higher.

- people who stand right outside the locker room in the blind spot. i cnat tell you how many times i've crashed into people because they are standing right at this position and i dont see them because there's a corner and wham. i'm a pretty solid girl, so ive knocked a few people over

- people who are non-instructors in yoga classes who take it upon themselves to try and correct your form. last time this happened i was doing a modified plow pose (legs over to the side of my head rather than straight behind) because i have big boobs and a big gut so having that right in my face will suffocate me :laugh: the instructor even said "nice modification" when she was walking by but afterwards this lady who was 90 lbs soak and wet tried to tell me i was doing it wrong.

1. Paper towels and water bottles just left at machines/on the floor
2. Guys who bring dates to the gym
3. People with horrible BO even by gym standards
4. The personal trainer wannabe who tries to "help" your workout
5. Dudes in the lockerroom who just walk around with it all out

I was one of the new years resolution people but I have been going 6 days a week since January 1. So hopefully I have graduated now. It does but me when people bring their kids and all the treadmills are taken but the kid is on and off not really working out.

People who are obviously not giving it 100% or are using poor technique, especially if I see a guy on a rower going at it in a half arsed manner, makes me want to jump on the rower next to them and reduce them to a gibbering pool of mush on the floor.:devil: (Have had to do it in the past).

People who appear to have poor personal hygiene and people wearing inappropriate footwear.

My friend and I talked between sets but we were discussing proper form. I'm new to it all.

I personally don't have any gripes about people at my gym.. I usually have my music up & am too focused on my pace/ form to care about anyone else.

I have to say though- I'm honestly amazed at how many gripes people have about trivial, meaningless things! Each to their own I say. What's it to you if the guy next to you is only walking on the treadmill, not running?? Or if he's reading? He's paid his membership & has every right to be there and walk at the pace he pleases. And another thing- I wear lip balm to the gym cause when I get puffed, I breathe through my mouth & get chapped lips. I had no idea I was being judged so harshly about it!

when people look at you like they think they're better than you because they're running faster - you're probably burning less than me running faster on a low incline than when i run a little slower if i'm running uphill.

I do the Life Fitness strength training circuit and now I have this guy who zooms in toward the end of my workout, piicks the next machine down and camps it for like 15 minutes. So sometimes I have to skip it if there isn't one in the old models. Don't say he's hitting on my cause he's young enough to be one of my kids, lol. Oh and circuit training campers, they zoom in and do like 10 cardio speed sets then leave, geez, go get on a treadmill for cardio. Same folks that will complain months later that their muscles aren't any stronger, lol.

i have two.

1. the hulks..... the guys who have huge top halves and wee skinny legs who wear a vest thats that small it would fit a 12 year old girl..... the hulks sit in front of the mirror with ridiculously sized weights, lift it once. put it down. ---- stare in mirror at unnaturally tanned body for scotland, then repeat process with other arm. maybe nod aknowledingly at other hulks and send a text message or 2.

2. the barbies. .... the ridiculously orange girls who are caked in make-up who gather at the abs machine which is conviently located behind the free weight where the hulks hang about. the barbies wear more make-up than i own and are always in packs of 2 or 3 and never seperate. they always have perfect hair and never sweat and spend the whole time giggling and staring at hulks.

both should be banned

This! I will never understand the women who come into the gym in full flippin makeup!

What is considred to be an uncessary amount of noise?

My pet peeves are the guy who looks the same since the day I joined the gym giving me dirty looks when I let a little bear like noise out. You know the guy. The guy who does 40 hours of cardio a week never breaks a sweat and uses the inner and outer thigh machine right after he does assisted chinups with 90 lbs.

THAT GUY!

I go to the gym on the Air Force base every Tuesday and Thursday and without fail there is this MORON there who gets on the elliptical 5 ft from me, puts it on level 1 and speeds erratically. That isn't the worst part. He has his headphones in and sings at the top of his lungs and goes "WOOOOO" every 2 minutes.

I'm going to show him WOO.

LMAO!!

Def. people walking on a treadmill at an incline of nothing! Like, you are at the gym to work out, not to drag your feet on the treadmill. If you are going to do that, go walk around the mall or something.