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    Things people do at the gym that you hate

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    • Posts: 208 Member
      Only the cologne/perfume thing. Nothing worse than working out hard and getting a nice deep breath of chemical. And that applies to basically anywhere outside the gym. I shouldn't know when you walk in a room by your smell...that's not the point. you should only smell it when you are CLOSE to someone. And it makes a lot of people nauseated.
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      If it's a judgement free zone, then who are you to say that they are only wearing their make up and all that jazz to impress someone? My nails are always done, my make up is on like 80% of the time. I do work up a sweat, but I just feel more comfortable with my make up on. I am married and am not trying to impress anyone.

      I judge people at the gym when they're not there to workout and taking up space. I mean my makeup is usually on if I come from work, but I see girls putting it on to go workout. Necessary? Not really. If your going to walk 2 miles an hour and chat to your girlfriend about how sweat is gross, just go to the mall or something. My opinion.

      And I wasn't trying to 'judge', anyone. But like I said, WHEN FITNESS IS INVOLVED and someone is sweating, people shouldn't be judging. But girls are girls and give the stink eye to anyone within their age bracket. So when two girls in their twenties walk by, they usually make some pretty unnecessary eye motions and then whisper to one another. I see them do it to other women too, so it's not just me.

      Again, just my opinions. Doesn't apply to everyone.
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      Yes. Distracting.

      Jesus is awesome!

      Yes Jesus is awesome! and hate the cell phone thing! But really hate being stopped by a 'chatter' when in my towel on way to shower...
    • Posts: 362 Member
      Creepy old guys

      15 yr old girls in skimpy shorts

      People who talk too much.
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      I judge people at the gym when they're not there to workout and taking up space. I mean my makeup is usually on if I come from work, but I see girls putting it on to go workout. Necessary? Not really. If your going to walk 2 miles an hour and chat to your girlfriend about how sweat is gross, just go to the mall or something. My opinion.

      And I wasn't trying to 'judge', anyone. But like I said, WHEN FITNESS IS INVOLVED and someone is sweating, people shouldn't be judging. But girls are girls and give the stink eye to anyone within their age bracket. So when two girls in their twenties walk by, they usually make some pretty unnecessary eye motions and then whisper to one another. I see them do it to other women too, so it's not just me.

      Again, just my opinions. Doesn't apply to everyone.


      I don't specifically do my make up to work out. If I'm already wearing it on a gym day I don't wash it off. But if i'm not already wearing it, I don't put it on before I go.

      Now you're making me wonder if people are judging my speed lol

      The minimum I go is 2.5. It's usually 3, but it's all I can handle, I am slowly trying to build up my speed but I do the best I can. My incline is anywhere between a 4 and a 10. I can handle the incline just not the speed.
    • Posts: 26 Member
      I seem to be an old man magnet at the gym. The thing that irritates me most is when these old men come over and start trying to talk to me while I"m exercising. I"m not here to socialize with you AND don't you see these headphones in my ears? And I'm not a rude person by nature so I always take my earphones out to hear what they have to say only for them to try and hit on me. I thhink at this point I'm done being nice. It happens like 50% of the time. I hate talking to people when I'm trying to work out. Lol.

      Now I hate that they don't hit on me LMAO. In my 20s, every man over 50 at the gym would talk to me. Now that I am 41, the guys pushing 70 offer an occasional "good job" when I am trying not to vomit from doing too many burpees and no one hits on me, ever.

      I don't really have any complaints since I mostly work out at the Y, which, in my experience, is a pretty basic, friendly place.
    • Posts: 4,868 Member
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      I have also worked with people with disabilites. I have nothing, i repeat nothing, against people with disabilites ( I was raised in a home with therapeutic foster children) I was not at all trying to be rude, but it is very awkward to have someone thrusting their junk at you, and to know that his mom is two rows back and doesnt have the couteousy to say something bothers me. You completely misunderstood me and what I am complaining about... it has nothing to do with disability.
      More to add: Do you think that since I should leave the class, that it is acceptable for him to be doing that stuff during a Zumba class? I am really curious what you think about this. IMO it is socially unnaceptable, regardless who it is. Do I get that he may not have understood this (when it first happened), yes but at the same time... many classes later it is still happening? You meantion that he has probably been picked on... did I ever say I said anything rude to him? No, and I never would because I don't set out to hurt others. I am just wondering what crap you deal with on a daily basis, and how is it rude that his gestures make me uncomfortable? How does that make me a terrible person? Please... enlighten me

      Heres the thing.. Have you ever said anything? From your first post and this one, it looks like No you haven't.. You're waiting for the mom to say something.. and sometimes, that doesn't always happen. You can clearly voice your concerns on here, so why can't you do it to his face?
    • Posts: 10,347 Member
      I work out at home now, but I remember one time that I quit working out at a particular gym because a personal trainer came up to me 3 times in one week, each time I had my headphones on and was usually at a full sprint on the treadmill, to try to talk to me about training with him, and I don't think he realized I was the same person he was harassing each time because I saw him do it to several other people each time I was there. I was so angry I couldn't finish my workouts because he had totally killed my flow, and I ended up complaining.

      Another thing I have had before is when guys come up to try to "help" me with the free weights. I love free weights and am very comfortable using them and have been for quite a long while. I know how to used good form, too. I had a particular guy at another gym try to do that several times, and I don't mind a few pointers here and there, but not when you are correcting my good form with something that is really just a matter of preference, like breathing on reps or how bent my elbow "needed" to be on chest flyes (he insisted they needed to be almost straight) and not when you are a chunky monkey with no definition to speak of and yet I see you in there every morning grunting and walking around like your arms are too big to hang normally. He would signal to me while I had my headphones on and finally I just gave him the dirtiest of looks and he quit trying to tell me what to do.
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      Gross!
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      Amen sista! I hate that also!! :wink:
    • Posts: 3
      Thumbs up! BUFFER ZONE!!!:wink:
    • Posts: 796 Member
      Big one- one woman who insists on changing next to the scale and steam room. There is an entire HUGE changing area that she could use, but she insists on using the small area between the scale and steam room-and blocking both. Irritating. Last week I actually asked her to move. She looked at me like I had three heads. FYI- when we work out we are the only two in the entire locker room.

      Small one- when people talk to each other while I'm trying to read my book while cycling. I know, there's no reason they shouldn't and kudos for them for being friends but it irks me 'cause I can't easily read and hear them at the same time. This one's my own little issue though. Sigh.
    • Posts: 59
      When youre in the middle of two people that know each other and are having a conversation.
    • Posts: 357 Member
      I hate it when I'm in one of the fitness classes (Turbo Kickboxing or Zumba, for example) and there is someone with insane gas just blowing the place up for the entire hour! :noway: I get letting one fart go. Fine, you are forgiven. But if you need to fart more than once in that hour, you should have gone to the bathroom before you left the house! :laugh: Or lay off the broccoli. Just saying...
    • Posts: 135 Member
      I hate it when people show up at the gym. I would much rather be the only person in the place. I can't say other people in there actually motivate more. More the opposite.
    • Posts: 154 Member
      Weave left in the shower....spitting up a hocker in the water fountain.....or simply talking too much. We're there to workout! Hush!!!
    • Posts: 2,005 Member
      when ppl just stand there, looking at everything thing you do.. Im like, hey, I HATE having a bodyguard, MOVE!
    • Posts: 32
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_yc6AKXLI

      For those of you that don't know about Jenna Marbles... She's a genius!
    • Posts: 2,362 Member
      There's a long row of treadmills and ellipticals all not in use...but the tall guy has to get on the one between me and the Tv. I'm trying to watch the news while I'm working....but now all I can see is the back of this dude's head.arghhh.
    • Posts: 188
      Boy am I glad we have a gym at our firehouse and I don't have to join a public gym! Most of the time I am alone while I work out!! :)
    • Posts: 2,005 Member
      I hate it when people show up at the gym. I would much rather be the only person in the place. I can't say other people in there actually motivate more. More the opposite.

      Im the same way!
    • Posts: 268 Member
      After reading these posts, it makes me even happier that I workout at home..


      Me too!
    • Posts: 308 Member
      space invasion....
      in classes they are too close for comfort
      in the locker room, naked and very close to me
      taking equipment right next to me when there is plenty of empty machines

      FFS get out of my space!

      THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!:explode:
    • Posts: 192 Member
      I hate the girls who walk in as a group, all done up (cute work out clothes, hair perfect, a TON of makeup etc) and then get on the ellipticals and chat away, barely moving the machine, gawking at guys. If you want to flirt and be cute, go to the pub and mingle. You're probably going to walk around the bar faster than you're "working out' here.

      Or the girl that's doing random stretching poses in the mirror like she's practicing stripping. Please stop.

      The guys that randomly walk by each other and give each other a high five. You think they're working out together, but you then realize they aren't even lifting partners. What?!

      My favorite of the last few weeks. There I am, power walking, dying on the treadmill, watching Sports Center. And a guy taps me on the shoulder and says "did you see that??" Okay, Yes, I'm a girl, I'm addicted to sports, and yes I watch sports center while I work out. But yes, I'm zoned out and NO, I don't want to discuss the fact that the New Orleans Saints coach is an *kitten* for telling his guys hurt the Kansas City players. Leave me alone.
    • Posts: 1,161 Member
      Sitting at the bench press doing nothing, and when I go there to ask if he's finished he tells me he is waiting some friends to come wtf?.
      People who throw weight to look like pros, but just look stupid.
      People who moan so loud, you can hear them in the next floor.
      People with headphones singing and screaming their fav song.
      Usually guys who occupy 10 pair of dumbells at once, when they can just leave also others to work, and use them one at a time.
      Two days ago, I saw a guy who was talking on cell for about 20 min, and in the other hand holding a dumbell, and doing some lame reps.

      Lot more...
    • Posts: 1,229 Member
      I hate the guys that think because i'm 5'1" and tiny that I can't workout on the machines by myself. If I need your help I'll ask.

      The fat *****es that just sit on the machine I need to use playing on their phones.

      People in Zumba that do their own moves instead of at least trying to follow the instructor.
    • Posts: 71 Member
      I have so many pet peeves, my main one is people who have no awareness of your own personal space and either stand 2 inches in front or beside me during a class when there's plenty of space for us all.

      Hogging machines, not cleaning then down afterwards, people who treat the gym like a social event and are only there to flirt or gossip. I could go on!!

      I am sure I of course do nothing to piss other people off!! Lol.
    • Posts: 640
      Hm..I think there have been posts about this exact thing before but here's some more of my own!

      When people walk around butt naked in the locker rooms. Yes, they have to get naked to change from gym clothes to normal or into a bathing suit but no need to walk from the locker area to the bathroom naked and then to the sink to put on their makeup naked and blow dry their hair naked and then SIT ON THE LEATHER COUCH naked....seriously, you're not at home.

      And the ladies who do this haven't got the best bodies in the world :noway:
    • Posts: 675 Member
      I usually don't pay much attention to others at the gym but the other day a lady irritated me so badly I wanted to hit her. She was on the elliptical, put her phone on speakerphone on the machine and proceeded to have an entire conversation loudly for the 30 minutes she was working out. I turned my mp3 player as loud as it would go and I could still hear her talking.
    • Posts: 613 Member
      I'm a few months new to the gym so havent run into anyone that annoying (Yet). I don't get bothered easily though.

      BUT I am wondering if I might be the "wierd one" at the gym because (I get migraines w bright lights) I tend to leave my sunglasses on all the time even when I work out. I even wear my sunglasses at night, like the song says.. LOL, but yea I always wonder if anyone is thinking I'm weird for wearing them while I work out (I usually take them off when I start sweating too much though).
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