Gym Pet Peeves

[pig]

1. People who take their supplements at that gym. Not so much those that do it discretely but those those who take their gym bag, place it on a bench and begin to treat the bench like a kitchen counter mixing drinks and laying out supplements.

2. People who throw weights around by dropping them etc. Mostly young kids and dofusses who equate a loud bang with intensity. Sorry kid if you can't work out with 50 pound dumbells without dropping them from three feet, don't use them. I don't drop any dumbells even if they're over 100 pounds. That's how you lift. Show respect for the equipment and others.

3. People who don't put weight back on the racks. No I am not interested in taking off your plates before I begin my training. I once got so mad I put six one hundred pound plates on the smith machine and jacked it up to the highest peg. It stayed that way for three weeks until I took it down. People are lazy.

4. People who talk loudly about idiotic things. Usually teenagers talking loudly about how they got laid last weekend when it's clear they probably never ever had a woman talk to them before.

5. People who grunt excessively. I don't mind the occaisional rrrrrrr or whatever but not every rep needs to be accompanied by blood curdling screams.

6. People who don't do exercises correctly. Love to see weak people throw a bar around like they are doing some kind of tantric movement using every body part other then the one they are trying to work and looking all proud of the still low weight they are using.

7. People who go barefoot or shoeless in the gym. Disgusting. Get deadlifting shoes or something. And people wearing flip flops. YUK!

8. People who set a bench so close to the dumbell rack that you can't get to the dumbells without interrupting them.

Please add yours...........

[Frappuccino]

When the gym is crowded, there is a line for a cardio machine, and I see some ladies barely walking a snails pace while reading a book on the treadmill.

When the gym is crowded, people are sitting on weight machines that I am waiting to use, taking 5 minute breaks in-between sets. Shite or get off the pot.



"People who don't do exercises correctly"
and, people who stare at me at the gym. If I am doing something wrong, by all means show me the right way

[Deleted]

Those really muscular guys who think that I am interested in their pick up lines.

[pig]

If I am doing something wrong, by all means show me the right way

That's against the gym code.

LOL MM. What sign are you Fam?

[Deleted]

What sign are you Fam?

Yet another to add to my collection.

[ty]

Their dirty bathrooms and leaving their sweat on the machines they use.

[mtntigger]

#2, #6, and reading on the cardio machine... yes, Yes and YES!
Oh, and walking around nude in the changing room. The other day, I saw a 60+ y.o. Yes, she looks great for her age in clothes, but without them, all I could think of was the saggy, baggy elephant.

[KaraBoo]

"People who don't do exercises correctly"
and, people who stare at me at the gym. If I am doing something wrong, by all means show me the right way



Sorry!!
I'm just trying to figure out how to use you in my next installment of toture theater!

[tractor]

Axe body spray. I hate to smell the crap, especially when it follows you out of the locker room in a big cloud.

[tractor]

I also hate having little kids running around the gym like it's their personal playground. It doesn't happen often, but I find myself compelled to watch the kids instead of focusing on my workout, because the parents clearly don't care if someone drops a 45 lb weight on their head, or the fall off the squat rack while trying to climb to the top.

It's also annoying that all the hot chicks insist on wearing loose fitting cloths. At least give us something to look at.

[Formerly SK]

May 2, 2011 13:38:20 GMT -5 @mtntigger said:

Oh, and walking around nude in the changing room. The other day, I saw a 60+ y.o. Yes, she looks great for her age in clothes, but without them, all I could think of was the saggy, baggy elephant.

Not to pick on you, but I'm astounded at this comment. I think it's fantastic that a 60yo is naked in a locker room. How great for her that she takes care of herself, and even more great that she has the maturity and confidence to expose herself. I don't bring my kids to the gym, but I'd love it if they grew up seeing more "real" bodies naked. If all they see are magazine covers and articles about the Kardashians then they get a distorted view of health and the human body. One reason I would never get plastic surgery is I want them to see what having children did to my body so they can understand aging and the magnificence of what our bodies are capable of doing. It isn't about looking "good" but about being healthy/fit enough to do whatever it is you want to do.

[Sum Dum Gai]

Not to pick on you, but I'm astounded at this comment. I think it's fantastic that a 60yo is naked in a locker room.

Somebody has obviously never seen a naked 60 year old...

[Sum Dum Gai]

My gym pet peeves are when the kids leave their bikes and stuff in my workout area. When I get lazy and don't sweep the lifting platform for months, and then can't get decent traction when trying to lift due to the dust on the floor. When the wife organizes the garage, or goes in there looking for something, and piles stuff up in the workout area. The fact that the garage isn't heated, cooled, or insulated very well so it's almost never the right temperature. I could also use a little more space, but it would take a major reorganization to get my beer fridge moved to free up some space and I'm lazy.

[Formerly SK]

May 2, 2011 16:44:43 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

Not to pick on you, but I'm astounded at this comment. I think it's fantastic that a 60yo is naked in a locker room.

Somebody has obviously never seen a naked 60 year old...

So you plan to hide your body from your wife when you're 60? You plan to be repulsed by hers? That's too bad...

[mtntigger]

Not to pick on you, but I'm astounded at this comment. I think it's fantastic that a 60yo is naked in a locker room.

Don't get me wrong; I do too and I wouldn't care if it was for 5 minutes. Twice though, it's been over 20 minutes (the time it takes me to change out of my gym clothes, take a shower, change back into regular attire and dry my hair). To me that's a little excessive for ANYBODY (no matter what age) to do in a relatively public place; the woman was walking from the changing area, to the toilets, to the sinks, back to the changing area, and back to the sinks.

[Artemis Windsong]

MM:

SBS: She's an exhibitionist.

When guys stand under the cable machines and talk, and talk, and talk. See the nice comfy couch over there?

Leaving dumbbells in the black hole at the front or back of benches. Roll it under the bench and it will still be there when you come back.

Not wiping off the machines with the wipes provided and not wiping off the mats or balls. And the wipe containers running out.

A mass of humanity in the entry way lobby. One day there were so many people there I couldn't change my shoes.

People get annoyed at me because I am watching their combination move or the workout their trainer is giving them; and I will be using that soon. I am also astounded that people pay that much money for a trainer to watch you do basic workout stuff like p/u or s/u or leg lifts. The trainers frown when I use their routine.

I am guilty of not doing walking lunges correctly or doing a half-hearted move.

The showers after noon hour.

I hate the mirror in the women's restroom that abuses me everytime I get out of the shower. Our showers are private. At one club and have curtains with a changing area before the shower door in the other. A lot of people change in the toilet stalls.

The foot slap of flat footed runners on the treadmill. The trainers dislike this also. The guy running across American said he did a mid-foot step. Landing on the ball of the foot is what I understood to be a correct running step.

The hotel next door uses the parking lot for overflow parking and fakes me out that the club will be way full.

Gym employees eating real food and letting me see it when I'm famished and have to wait to cool off before going in a gazillion below zero temperature.

[azphx1972]

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't rerack their weights and force me to go on a treasure hunt for them.

Not wiping sweat from equipment and hogging machines/weights are pretty annoying too.

[pig]

LOL wear a headband so you can look like a member of the village people yeah right Snerd. You are the one that should be working out at home since you don't need more than a soup can to challenge yourself.

[pig]

What time?

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

People who let their kids play on the equipment while they're working out.

Women who drown themselves in perfume.

People who set themselves up thisclose to you in a weight class, despite the fact that there's a lot more room available. If I have your 'space', then get here earlier the next time and get it yourself - don't try to nudge me out.

People who bring a phone into the gym. Can't you disconnect for an hour?

[tractor]

After last night, I have a new one. People who wash blood off in the drinking fountain. I think it's time to start bringing my own water bottle.

[Deleted]

Yuck!!!!

[shandi76]

Snooty, unfriendly, patronising women in exercise classes.

Usually I just ignore them and talk to all the lovely, friendly people I know, but this evening the skinny 20-something woman in front of me in Body Pump, who has never spoken to me once in the 6 months I have been going to this gym, decides to talk to me. Not to be friendly. Just to question whether I have lost track of what is next because she thought the weights I was putting on the bar were too heavy for me to manage for the bicep track. I explained I was finding the lighter weight a bit light, but agreed I might regret it by the end of the track. She just looked at me like I was a moron, and threw a knowing glance at another old timer.

10 seconds into the track, I looked at her bar and realised she had the same weights on as me. Cheeky cow! She struggled with it more than I did though

[gooddecisions]

1. The month of January when it's too packed to move
2. Being stared at
3. A stranger telling me my form is wrong. Guess what- your squats don't look perfect either and don't get me started on your clean & press. You worry about your workout and I'll worry about mine.
4. Women in full make-up, jewelry and cutsy outfits flirting like it's social hour. Aren't there other places for that?

[pig]

A stranger telling me my form is wrong. Guess what- your squats don't look perfect either and don't get me started on your clean & press. You worry about your workout and I'll worry about mine.

Unwritten code. Don't give advice unless asked.

Women in full make-up, jewelry and cutsy outfits flirting like it's social hour

I call that a perk not a peeve.

[Deleted]

4. Women in full make-up, jewelry and cutsy outfits flirting like it's social hour. Aren't there other places for that?

I only go to the gym once in a while because I prefer to work out at home. However, I do wear make up and nice outfits, but no usually no jewelry. I don't want to scare the other people there. ;D

eta: Hi MM, I didn't see your response! I loved that little pink and black number you had on yesterday at the gym, especially with that hot pink lipstick.

[pig]

They're just jealous MM.

[Deleted]

They're just jealous MM

And they have every reason to be.

[mtntigger]

One of my pet peeves is people in spin class who don't put any tension on the bike and talk the entire time through class... it is so unbelievably rude to the instructor and the rest of the class...

LOL! ;D I'm glad I'm not the only one who has them.
Or, the instructor saying if it's too hard for you, lighten the resistance or pedal slower. Hey, it's hard enough getting my ass in here; don't give me an excuse to be more of a slacker!

[Artemis Windsong]

Snerdley: Does the gym provide towels? If so, put out the suggestion of placing towels around the exercise equipment so they can grab one if they forget.

At least people are sweating in your gym. Most people I see aren't. I have seen guys ride the exercise bike for hours that look so fresh . I dislike getting sweaty hot.

One day I walked in the gym, just got out of winter clothes and the office manager walks up to me and says I smell sweaty. WHAAAT? Since I was the only one in there. For heaven's sake, clean the machines, couch, and carpet. I'd had an oars bath before I went in and was freshly frozen.

Doc: It's a gender issue. Some gyms a person does not want to get caught in the locker room. Both M&F.