Biggest Pet Peeves at the Gym

Another peeve.... that the gym is open 24/7 monday- thursday but closes at 9 on Fridays..... What the H! Surely I'm not the only one wanting to get pumped on a Friday night!

People texting or playing on their phone as you wait for them to hurry up and finish !

1) I hate it when a person, uses the machine, and just sits on it for during long breaks in between sets.

2) When people don't clear the things they use.

i know this is kinda rude and sometimes unavoidable but men who smell REALLY REALLY bad running on the tredmil right beside mine. couldn't you have picked a different tredmil ?

I completely agree with that, if you know your body gets that way, bring something for your hygiene lol.

I have a small gym at home, looks like Im missing out on alot of fun! And some eye candy...damn

This is stupid. You sweat off your make up any ways. If you don't, you're not doing a good enough job. NO ONE should look "cute" or "pretty" after a work out. Not even models do.

EDIT: Sorry, I'm new to posting. This was a response to this :

"Women that come in with no make up and any old shirt they pull off the floor.

people that stare at me when im on my phone ....seriously f off"

I must say my number one is the same as Yaboimugs'. Even if they aren't holding up a machine or weights, the "Chatty Charlies" really bug me when they're standing somewhere other than to the side and I have to constantly walk around them. I can't help but think, you are wasting space...and stealing oxygen...get out of the way. Maybe I'm a jerk or easily annoyed, but chatting is for chat rooms and coffee houses.

At the gym, I WORK.

Otherwise, people who blatantly ignore the fact that they are intruding on the space you need to properly execute your lift. Today, I was doing incline flyes when a guy got on the bench next to me to do flat chest flyes. After we nearly smashed knuckles a few times I just got up (there were plenty of empty benches) I guess it is the gym's fault for packing too much equipment into one space.

I try to mind my own so doofuses don't make my head explode.

People that wear heavy perfume or body spray to the gym. They often wear it to an ultra sweaty class like Zumba and stink up the room.

I did actually yell at 3 people last week for not wiping their sweat off the machines last week (it was a Mom, Dad, and their 20-something year old son). I waited a 1/2 hour and went to get my wipes. I leaned over the rail into the weight section and said: "Hey, would you guys like me to clean off your machines too? I'm happy to help since I noticed you did not clean yours." The son ran over to help and I said "do you need help remembering which machines you were on? and gestured to the 4 machines they sweated on.

People suck.

Perfume or cologne at the gym. Yuck. Makes me sneeze.

People who glare at you when you are on a cardio machine for more than 30 minutes when the gym is empty. I'm more than willing to comply with that rule when it's busy but if there's lots available, go find another one!

Guys that not only sit around chatting it up, but also guys that spend more time walking over and checking their phones than actually working out. I mean, just get your burn in, and get out.

Now, there is nothing I can do about this, but I hate when I'm at the gym and doing my strength circuits with the gym and there are like 10 guys there benching my weight or more while I have the puny 8 pounders. Not that I want to be able to lift that, but I'm chunky and stuff and they're all lean and buff and I feel like they're all staring at me and judging me (which I know they aren't). It makes me really self conscious.

People that use the mirrors not just for checking their form.

Nastiness in the locker rooms. This isn't your house and your mother doesn't work here - clean up after yourself! Someone left a used band-aid in one of the showers yesterday. Disgusting!

I'm new at this and can't wait to try some these ideas cos I don't know what faaack a squat rack does.. but today I did run into a lady in one lane of the lap pool holding on to side and doing to water stuff... then a lady in the lane next to her just kinda hanging out...doing some knee lifts... when she could have been sharing the lane with the other lady as neither were moving from their spot, not swimming laps and it was a loooong lane. call it lane hogs...

These Gym annoyances are insane! I haven't been to the gym since mid-winter, as I workout from home, but my Shin pain was preventing me from running on my treadmill, or jumping rope so I was paying the $9.00 Drop-In fee at the YMCA to use their ellipticals/bikes (I recently saved for a Spin Bike, so I Spin @ Home now


But when I WAS there, .... Even though I don't have enough definitive time to create a compilation of annoyances, I guess I will throw mine out there:

* People who stare, and I don't mean glance then look away, 'cause that's obviously natural human tendencies, or look as I may be in their line of sight from their said-cardio machine but - Stare, like, a Western Stare down. Really? Um, uncomfortable

* Guys who stare when I go to the weight section, then the women when I start doing Bicep curls with 25's.

* The Treadmill/Elliptical thing. 7 machines or so, and I go to the furthest at the end, someone goes.. right beside me. Uh, OKAY THEN.

NOW, since I work out from home (Thank goodness) Here are my home workout woes:


* My Cat taking a dump in the cat litter when I am doing cardio, not only does it waft up, but imagine that plus the addition of extra oxygen your body is requiring .. Yeah.

* My dogs barking as the male man/woman comes to the house, if you haven't got music in your ears, this will make you jump off the bench in fright.

* Spiders and bugs. I seldomly see them, but when you're doing leg curls and looking down whilst lying down.. and there's a spider in your line of sight, .... You want to finish your set, but you're afraid they will bar all concepts of crawling and leap onto your face. Yes.. Look, it could happen, mind you... my perceptions are flawed after seeing Arachnophobia..

* When you're doing your thing down there, and you're squatting or deadlifting, and your mother comes down in the midst to ask you how to sign in to her e-mail... Mom, busy now...


In reality I think I prefer to workout at home, sometimes I wish I had a spotter (even though I have a rack) or someone else besides to motivate me, or if I could learn from another, or share would be nice.. But right now it works.

i dunno if this is really a pet peeve, but i don't understand walking on a treadmill... wouldn't it be more interesting to walk outside? you can walk pretty much anywhere, and theres the whole bonus of a changing environment to keep you interested. i realize you can run outside too but its so much easier to push yourself with the treadmill going at fixed speed.

also germaphobes... yes sweat is "gross" but thats the peril of using shared equipment. wiping it off with a towel may make you feel better but honestly its not going to do much to eliminate the chances of you catching a bacterial infection from someone else, especially if the towel they use has been repeatedly used for the purpose of cleaning sweat off machines. take a freaking shower after you work out and get over it. while its true that a lot of infections spread in gyms its also true that the majority of people who go to gyms don't get infections... the instinctive revulsion seems unjustified compared to the actual danger posed by contact with someone elses sweat.