What annoys you at the gym?

I work out at 5;20 AM so that there are less people at the Gym. Love the post here, My 2 cents please

I think I have met the same two ladies at my gym! The hipocracy is amusing isnt it?
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Having a phone at the gym means your not "Present" and not concentrating on what you are there for! What you cant get away for 30 min, really!

WIPE the machines down, there is nothing more gross than a sweaty usually overweight person really working hard and leaving there funk on the machine!!! AHHHHH I wipe down every time.

What is wrong with hitting on the ladies at the gym!!!! LOL, I know most have headphones on for a reason, but the view is still nice! LOL

"Grunting sounds like an Orgasm", it does?

Gym rats are amusing! I recently copied a really difficult routine I saw being done. Let me share.
3 Pull Ups, 5 Push Ups, 7 squats as many reps/times as you can do in 5 min! Rest for two min, then repeat! Wow, that added cardio to my wieght routine, thanks sir gym rat!

I have taken to swimming instead of running for cardio, same calorie burn, it is great. I only do freestyle for 30 min 50 meter laps, usually get in 20 in about 28 min.

Work out, concentrate on you and dont get annoyed (Except at people that dont wipe machines) and enjoy the humanity at the gym, hey they are their at least.

See you at the gym!

What annoys me, since we are on a list. Those who walk up to you and ask to hop in. As if your last set will throw them off balance,

You have a sign on your forehead that tells how many sets you have left, do you? Or is there some other way people are supposed to know you have only one set left?

Usually if I see someone hanging out near some equipment I need to use, I ask if they are using it. Most of the time they hurry on up or are willing to share.

Oh and don't get me going about the sounds of a guy masturbating in the shower.... it validates every thing I do to not actually contact the floor or walls or anything with my skin... (flip flops, plastic bags etc)

Oh now that is gross!!!!! Worst offense I've read in this thread! Thank god I'm a woman...

I can't stand people that drop weights after a set. If you are strong enough to lift it, you are strong enough to put it down gently! It sounds like bombs are going off in my gym with the guys who drop the weights like they're hot. I guess it's because they want us all to turn around and see how heavy the weight is that they clearly can't lift properly!!!

Have you ever lifted heavy? If you're lifting to failure then often times no you can't just drop it. I'm not going to injure myself so your ears don't have to hear the weights drop.

Have you ever lifted heavy? If you're lifting to failure then often times no you can't just drop it. I'm not going to injure myself so your ears don't have to hear the weights drop.

If your lifting weights that are designed to be dropped then by all means drop them. They are designed for that. Most gyms in my experience (LA Fitness 24 Hour Bally) do not have rubber coated / pvc coated weights. You are simply going to damage the floor, weights or other people in the area.

If you can't sustain a lift half way to clean lift you shouldn't be lifting it, unless of course again it was designed for that then drop them all you want because if they are dropping weights they won't be that loud and they bounce.

Not that concerned about the noise I am more concerned about the idiot dropping it and injuring someone else or themselves.

My husband and I own a Gym and I know your talking about with the cell phones:). My husband is into making signs so he just made one with a saying off the Internet that read....." if your on your cell phone... You must be so important" ( the picture next to it is a " leave it to Beaver" mom winking her eye. It is so funny, I love it

CJ

Seems like that would be better using the Willy Wonka meme:

I hate waiting for machines and weights when the persons rest period between sets is like 5 minutes. Or they read a magazine in between. It also irritates me those who do two machines at once....alternating between. Yes it speeds up your workout but your hogging two machines at once.

Seriously, there are a lot of haters in here who need to chill out. I can understand some of the things people are raising (from a courtesy point of view), but to be honest, if you have the energy and time to notice half this stuff then you're not working hard enough!!!

As for the grunting & sweating, that part and parcel with pushing your physical boundaries............ if you are not sweating & grunting then again, you're not working hard enough.

Chill out people.

Great post! And I find it hilarious that these two women came in with calorie laden Starbuck's drinks and then put down people actually exercising.

Anyway, I have been working out for years in a gym and I have accumulated a list o fthings that annoy me but the things that come to mind are the following:

1. People using benches and other gym equipment to store their towel, water bottle etc.
2. People who do circuit training. Sorry, but I am old school, three sets and then on to the next exercise.
3. People who use the gym as a social hour. Having a brief conversation is fine but spending twenty minutes on the weight bench talking about other people in the gym is not cool.
4. The half an hour rule on cardio equipment. This should be bumped to at least fourty minutes in my opinion. I hate feeling like the "gym police" are going to come tackle me off the Eliptical once I have been on their 31 minutes.
5. Grunting and dropping weights. I am all about weight lifting but I do not want to hear some one's primal scream while they lift weights nor do I want to look up every few minutes to make sure no one is hurt when I hear the metal clank of weight dropping on the ground. Just not cool...

oh another one of my peeves... creepy men that watch me while i lift weights "yes i am a girl and can lift" them staring makes me feel uncomfortable it is hard to workout.

Yup, the grunters!

i try not to pay too much attention to everyone else, but it annoys me when ppl dont use enough weight, like on any one of the machines, you can just hear them clack- clack- clack slamming them...theres no resistance whatsoever, why r u even using the fing machine.?!!!
and girls that flock into the classes in large giggly groups and put in no effort into it whatsoever. just there to take up space. annoying! also ppl who crowd in the classes, like back the f up!

Whenever I see people texting or chatting on the phone while killing time in the treadmill or elliptical. Also whenever I see women in the free weights area lifting like a 1-2lb tiny dumbbells while chatting with their boyfriends who also lifts sissily too & I can tell both of them are just killing time & doing it low intensity because of the way they can continue conversing non-stop while at the same time lifting. Their giving their mouths & jaws more workout than their bodies.

not wiping down the machines even when there are spray bottles and paper towels and SIGNS all over the place asking you to wipe down. I hardly ever get sick...and I've had 3 stomach bugs since rejoining the gym in Feb. I spoke to one of the staff and the reply was "we can't enforce it." When I said I had been sick 3 times recently, the reply was "I can believe it!". :huh: I spend most of my time, feeling like I'm doing housework there - wiping down before and after. Before for my health, after for the next person.

Most people who *do* wipe them down don't do so in a way that would prevent the spread of germs. Your sweat on the backrest is not going to get anybody sick. Wipe off the handles!

Great post! And I find it hilarious that these two women came in with calorie laden Starbuck's drinks and then put down people actually exercising.

Anyway, I have been working out for years in a gym and I have accumulated a list o fthings that annoy me but the things that come to mind are the following:

1. People using benches and other gym equipment to store their towel, water bottle etc.
2. People who do circuit training. Sorry, but I am old school, three sets and then on to the next exercise.
3. People who use the gym as a social hour. Having a brief conversation is fine but spending twenty minutes on the weight bench talking about other people in the gym is not cool.
4. The half an hour rule on cardio equipment. This should be bumped to at least fourty minutes in my opinion. I hate feeling like the "gym police" are going to come tackle me off the Eliptical once I have been on their 31 minutes.
5. Grunting and dropping weights. I am all about weight lifting but I do not want to hear some one's primal scream while they lift weights nor do I want to look up every few minutes to make sure no one is hurt when I hear the metal clank of weight dropping on the ground. Just not cool...

I totally understand #4. I am one of those people who is on the treadmill for a solid 65 minutes. So far no one has given me dirty looks....although the one personal trainer was teasing me one day about creating a puddle of sweat on the floor ( another trainer happened to be mopping when I came over to spray my towel so I could wipe the treadmill down).