What drives you CRAZY about your gym??

Well I live in Brooklyn so I could easily do without the guido's and juice pigs.

I work at the college and therefore use the college gym because its freeeeee and I'm broke.
However, in the summer they aren't open on weekends, except for the pool which is open for about 2 hours, alternating saturdays and sundays at like noon. It's ridiculuous. And during weekdays it's only open from 8:30am to 4:30pm, and I work from 8:30-4:00. I get what I can in during my lunch break and right after, but I wish they'd be open till like 6pm and at least saturdays

1.) When I get to the gym it's around 5:30 every day-the only time I can work out. EVERY night but Wednesday they have Zumba class in the only aerobics room of the gym. That's where I do my lunges!

2.) Men who take up all the room where the free weights and dumbbells are. Women like to use those too, thanks.

3.) The annoying trainer/gym employee who constantly watches me as I work out. Take a picture, it lasts longer!

4.) Not enough cardio machines. Have to wait in line to use elipticals, stair climbers, etc.

No squat rack.....I hate doing squats in a smith machine.....

^ Exactly...... my gym is our new Recreation Center. It's all machine weights except for the Smith Machine and dumbbells. I'd like to have an olympic bar and plates as well as curl bars.

Mostly I like my gym. I wish it was open 24/7 because there are some nights I'd prefer to go late, and some mornings it would be easier to go early.

I dislike the triathlon training group that gets together. They are all over the place all the time, don't do ANY strength training exercise right and do really random distracting things that throw me off. The hordes of students that come in with their HS or jr HS teams and "work out" during the afternoon. I'm never sure what they're doing, and they're mostly in the way.

I admit it. I HATE clangers and grunters. There's no need for it, really. A little grunting? Fine. If I'm REALLY pushing for those last reps I'll even let one out from time to time. But if you're going to snort like a bull every rep please go somewhere else or wait for another time to do it. Further, no one else wants to hear your damn plates hit the ground with every freaking rep. It's obnoxious, distracting, and potentially damaging to the equipment.

And yes, I dislike people who don't reset the equipment when they're done. This gym isn't as bad, but at one I'd used previously people used to leave the 100 lb plates on the leg press ALL THE TIME. And we're not talking like 1 on each side, it'd be up to 3 on each side. I'm 5'2, and at the time I weighed around 140. I really didn't want one of those dropping on my feet, so I'd have to ask people to help me pull them off all the time. On the plus side, I became friends with the super buff guy who worked out in the morning all the time and he was very nice about it. On the downside, mornings he wasn't there I'd have to approach some random strong looking guy and ask which made me feel really ridiculous.

Watching people get on the cardio machines and not break a sweat is still a pet peeve. 20 minutes of HIIT training and I'm sweating buckets, and then people look at me like *I'M* crazy for getting done so quickly.

People meandering, doing one thing here, one thing there, and generally doing it in a way that gets in MY way is annoying.

Moving my weights around, or resetting a machine that I'm using while I'm standing off to the side (or in the middle of a mini-circuit with) without checking to make sure no one is using it.

There's an admin at my school that I know pretty well. Very nice guy, but if he catches me at the gym he'll talk my ear off for like 30 minutes. And I always forget about it until I'm there, and he's coming my way. I don't want to be rude, but I don't want to be at the gym for an hour +. I prefer to keep my workouts an hour and under. I can run 5 miles in an hour if need be, and I can get a full weightlifting routine in in that hour. There's no reason for me to be there longer...

Gosh. Looking back I'm kind of picky apparently.

Last November Bally's was bought out by LA Fitness. I go to LA Fitness and it was never terribly busy. Then the nearby Bally's was shut down, so all those people headed over to LA Fitness. Combine this time period with new years resolution folks and it was a MAD HOUSE!! I don't think management was quite prepared. Plus knowing that LA Fitness honored their Bally's contracts (a lot less $$$) to keep all these people made me feel like a chump because I know I am paying more each month. Fortunate for me most of the new years resolution folks have already given up and combined with the warmer weather, it is back to normal. I wish this wasn't the case for their sakes, but I am going to be selfish and enjoy it.

I wish they would strip the floors at my gym more often. I go to the cardio classes, and the floors have been sticky lately making things hard on my knees when I need to turn... (

That it doesn't include a swimming pool, in order to keep costs of membership down, apparently. I love swimming, but the gym that did have a pool is further away and I didn't trust myself to go there regularly.

Also, hate their music choice.

I go t a local gym that has very old equipment. I mean I get my workout in pretty well but my problem is when the free weights don't match. I mean I know 45lbs is 45lbs but I want the plates and dumbells to match.

Sometimes the sound in the "cardio theater" is so loud it's deafening... yes, we have a cardio theater - running in the dark with the distraction of a good movie - LOVE it. Getting my ear drum busted..not so much.

I am pretty much in love with my gym, just wish they had more convenient hours for yoga. I never get to take yoga anymore