Biggest gym pet peeve?

[AndrewR]

I can't stand the gym-dweller socializers. They're always at the gym for a couple hours, but they never actually do anything. They just stand around with a towel and a sports drink, talking. Maybe they'll get on a machine and do ten reps on a light weight, but that's about the extent of it. Saw some of them tonight clogging up the aisle. You know, standing around near exercise equipment doesn't make you fit.

Anyone else have gym pet peeves, or is it the 'roid rage in me?

 

[TheAudit]

I hate shats who try to hog up several pieces of equipment at once.

 

[gigapet]

it shouldnt take you 30 minutes to use the leg press machine.

 

[yobarman]

the fact that its too crowded at the times I can go.... so I pretty much havent gone to the gym in about 2 months

 

[TheAudit]

Originally posted by: gigapet
it shouldnt take you 30 minutes to use the leg press machine.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

People who drive around for 5 minutes to get a close spot to just go and walk on the treadmill.

 

[Mo0o]

People who grunt really loud when working out

 

[CptObvious]

I hate it when people stand right next to me while waiting for me to finish :thumbsdown:

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: yobarman
the fact that its too crowded at the times I can go.... so I pretty much havent gone to the gym in about 2 months

I haven't heard anyone complaining about the new gym being crowded.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: gigapet
it shouldnt take you 30 minutes to use the leg press machine.

It takes me near 20 min. to use it. I start my leg day with 2 warmup sets, and 4-5 working sets. I take at least 2-3 minutes between my working sets, and about 1-2 minutes between the warmup sets.

That totalls close to 20min.

But... I know what you mean. I hate waiting for a machine when someone is on it for a long time. Good thing my gym is huge and has 6 leg press machines (3 at one angle, 3 at another), not including the Cybex cable machines.



The person I dislike the most at the gym, is the guy who stands in the locker room, completely naked, talking to you or someone else, with his leg up on the bench. COME ON DUDE! Put a freakin towel on! This isn't the 1920s...

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: edro13
The person I dislike the most at the gym, is the guy who stands in the locker room, completely naked, talking to you or someone else, with his leg up on the bench. COME ON DUDE! Put a freakin towel on! This isn't the 1920s...

The worst I've seen at the gym is this naked guy using the blow dryer to dry his crotch hair. Dude, WTF?!

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: isasir

Originally posted by: edro13
The person I dislike the most at the gym, is the guy who stands in the locker room, completely naked, talking to you or someone else, with his leg up on the bench. COME ON DUDE! Put a freakin towel on! This isn't the 1920s...

The worst I've seen at the gym is this naked guy using the blow dryer to dry his crotch hair. Dude, WTF?!

:Q

 

[yobarman]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz

Originally posted by: yobarman
the fact that its too crowded at the times I can go.... so I pretty much havent gone to the gym in about 2 months

I haven't heard anyone complaining about the new gym being crowded.

it was the first few weeks of school. maybe it died down. I know it gets crazy after new years with all those resolutions, but it does usually die down after that.

 

[vood0g]

Originally posted by: isasir

Originally posted by: edro13
The person I dislike the most at the gym, is the guy who stands in the locker room, completely naked, talking to you or someone else, with his leg up on the bench. COME ON DUDE! Put a freakin towel on! This isn't the 1920s...

The worst I've seen at the gym is this naked guy using the blow dryer to dry his crotch hair. Dude, WTF?!

LOL!!! That one took me by surprise. My boss had to come in to see what I was laughing about.

 

[Fritzo]

People that don't clean the machines after they're done. There's a towel and sanitizer right next to them, they sweat all over them, but they won't clean them!!! Yuck! Buncha slobs.

People that sit at a weight machine/bench for 15 minutes between lifts daydreaming. They'll do like 10 reps, stop, then just sit there staring straight ahead. WTH???

People that put their mouth on the water fountian...that is wrong on so many levels.

Posers- people that set the weights on the machines a few notches higher before they get off of them to make it look like they were lifting more than they actually were.

Fakers- People that take the trouble to get dressed, go to the gym, get their sports drink, magazine, and MP3 player, then use the cardio machines for exactly 3 minutes, do maybe one or two lifts on a weight machine, then either stop to watch tv or leave. What was the point of that???? I see people do this every time I'm at the gym.

People that make fun of fat/super skinny people that are trying to make themselves better. If I see a 400 guy on a tredmill, I think "Good for him! He's taking control of himself!" If I see a 70 pound nerdy guy, I think "Great, he's trying to improve himself to make himself feel better." Many other people start snickering or poking fun at them- uncool.

Finally, my biggest peave- People that TALK while they're lifting. I don't mean chatting with friends about the game or whatever, I mean people that say stuff like "COME ON BABY! OH YEAH!! GGHHHAAARRRRRRR I'M HUGE!!!!!!" I don't know if I should start laughing or just give them a simple "Will you STFU you tard!!!!"


Yes, I'm pretty annoyed when I work out I've been doing it three times a week for the last 5 months, so I've seen my share of idiots.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: gigapet
it shouldnt take you 30 minutes to use the leg press machine.

Even if it does that doesn't mean that others can't do their sets while you recover for your next set. If I see someone waiting to use a piece of equipment I am on I always offer to let them use it in between my sets. To me that's part of Gym etiquette

 

[scauffiel]

- Clowns using weight gloves and straps for the lightest of weights.
- Clowns that come into a mostly empty gym at 0500 in the morning and walk up to the machine you're using and act impatient. DUDE. YOU JUST GOT HERE. If you can't find something else to do in an empty gym you have issues.
- Clowns that take twenty minute showers. Hey, buttdart, this ain't your momma's house. Get your ass in and OUT of the damn shower.
- Clowns that stand two feet away from a fan blocking anyone else from enjoying the cooling effect. Hey, buttdart, you're not the only person in here. Besides, you aren't doing sh!t anyway, you don't NEED the damn fan.
- Men. Blow Dryers. 'Nuff said.
- Clowns that turn a locker room into a 'cambodian experience' by using all of the damn hot water during their twenty minute shower... and them making jokes about the 'lack of hot water'...
- You just DON'T bring a cup of coffee to workout. You just don't. Ditto that with a newspaper. I don't give a crap that you're reading it during your 'interval' ... You look like a tard. Tard.
- Clowns that complain about the radio station that's playing. Oh, these clowns only show up once a week, if that. Sorry, you don't count. Non-showing-up Tard.
- Clowns that use weight that is way too heavy for them and use their body weight to 'swing' it. Look, tard, just get out.
- Clowns that blow through their reps way way too fast. You're supposed to be able to feel it, that's kind of the damn point. Tard.
- Clowns that claim you have to do machines in a certain order. Look. Just.... don't. Tard.
- Clowns that can actually hold a conversation and speak fluently DURING their reps. No.
- Clowns that look like Rick Moranis giving lifting advice about getting bigger. Look, I'm not going to a homeless guy for financial advice, WTF do you think YOU'RE qualified for what you're saying??? You're a skinny-no-muscle-having-not-big-at-all-Tard.
- Clowns. Just clowns.
- And Tards.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

wow, don't want to run into scauffiel at the gym...

i hate fat weak football players who think they are soo big and tough and then a little skinny cross country runner like me who shouldn't even be in a gym comes and adds 100 lbs to what they were leg pressing

 

[Trygve]

Biggest peeves?

The one that bugged me the most was one time when I was at a gym with just one squat rack and there's a guy who has his belt (yes, one of those skinny-in-the-front-sold-to-people-who-down't-know-better) hung over the bar and is guarding it jealously to make sure nobody else touches it. I asked if I could work in, offered to take the weights back off the bar when I was done so it would be just like he had it, and he quite angrily said, "no!" In the hour-and-a-quarter I was there, he might have done two sets total, but never let anyone else get near the rack.

Much lower on the annoyance scale (but much more common) are the guys who ask you to spot them while they "bench" a weight that they can't lift on their own even once...and they insist that you keep doing upright for at least five or six reps or until you give up in disgust and rack the bar for them against their protestations.

Another one I've only had happen a couple of times is when somebody on a bench next to me starts losing control of the bar (with no collars), lets the weights slide off one side, and then lets the bar flip over to the other side. Smashed a mirror once.

 

[NuclearNed]

Twice a week I work with a personal trainer. I pay good money for this, so please, please, PLEASE don't try to get her to show you what is wrong with your frikkin workout. She's mine - MINE. She isn't cheap and doesn't have the time to answer inane questions about your grip position. Don't talk to her, don't look at her, don't talk to me, don't bother me, don't comment on my form, as a matter of fact keep all your stupid comments to yourself. I'm not there to socialize, and neither is she - leave us alone, or I will go into an early-morning rage, and you will spend the rest of your workday explaining to your buddies why you have a non-lubricated dumbbell sticking out your ass.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: scauffiel
- Clowns using weight gloves and straps for the lightest of weights.
- Clowns that come into a mostly empty gym at 0500 in the morning and walk up to the machine you're using and act impatient. DUDE. YOU JUST GOT HERE. If you can't find something else to do in an empty gym you have issues.
- Clowns that take twenty minute showers. Hey, buttdart, this ain't your momma's house. Get your ass in and OUT of the damn shower.
- Clowns that stand two feet away from a fan blocking anyone else from enjoying the cooling effect. Hey, buttdart, you're not the only person in here. Besides, you aren't doing sh!t anyway, you don't NEED the damn fan.
- Men. Blow Dryers. 'Nuff said.
- Clowns that turn a locker room into a 'cambodian experience' by using all of the damn hot water during their twenty minute shower... and them making jokes about the 'lack of hot water'...
- You just DON'T bring a cup of coffee to workout. You just don't. Ditto that with a newspaper. I don't give a crap that you're reading it during your 'interval' ... You look like a tard. Tard.
- Clowns that complain about the radio station that's playing. Oh, these clowns only show up once a week, if that. Sorry, you don't count. Non-showing-up Tard.
- Clowns that use weight that is way too heavy for them and use their body weight to 'swing' it. Look, tard, just get out.
- Clowns that blow through their reps way way too fast. You're supposed to be able to feel it, that's kind of the damn point. Tard.
- Clowns that claim you have to do machines in a certain order. Look. Just.... don't. Tard.
- Clowns that can actually hold a conversation and speak fluently DURING their reps. No.
- Clowns that look like Rick Moranis giving lifting advice about getting bigger. Look, I'm not going to a homeless guy for financial advice, WTF do you think YOU'RE qualified for what you're saying??? You're a skinny-no-muscle-having-not-big-at-all-Tard.
- Clowns. Just clowns.
- And Tards.

Clowns that worry to much about what others are doing at the Gym.

 

[Fritzo]

Oh, forgot one- people that spend hours on their upper body and never do anything below the chest, so they look like a big chested freak with bird legs.

 

[trilks]

I've been in lots of locker rooms in my life. I know you have to change, shower, etc. BUT FOR FVCKS SAKE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK AROUND NAKED EVERYWHERE! I mean, seriously, dry off, wrap the towel around you, and go and get dressed. No walking from the shower to your locker in all your naked glory. No putting things into/taking things out of your locker while completely naked. No nothing. Just get dressed. I mean, who the hell walks around naked in front of strangers? Nobody wants to see your hairy ass. God, I hate that. eh...</rant>

 

[Saulbadguy]

People that fart.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: scauffiel
- Clowns using weight gloves and straps for the lightest of weights.
- Clowns that come into a mostly empty gym at 0500 in the morning and walk up to the machine you're using and act impatient. DUDE. YOU JUST GOT HERE. If you can't find something else to do in an empty gym you have issues.
- Clowns that take twenty minute showers. Hey, buttdart, this ain't your momma's house. Get your ass in and OUT of the damn shower.
- Clowns that stand two feet away from a fan blocking anyone else from enjoying the cooling effect. Hey, buttdart, you're not the only person in here. Besides, you aren't doing sh!t anyway, you don't NEED the damn fan.
- Men. Blow Dryers. 'Nuff said.
- Clowns that turn a locker room into a 'cambodian experience' by using all of the damn hot water during their twenty minute shower... and them making jokes about the 'lack of hot water'...
- You just DON'T bring a cup of coffee to workout. You just don't. Ditto that with a newspaper. I don't give a crap that you're reading it during your 'interval' ... You look like a tard. Tard.
- Clowns that complain about the radio station that's playing. Oh, these clowns only show up once a week, if that. Sorry, you don't count. Non-showing-up Tard.
- Clowns that use weight that is way too heavy for them and use their body weight to 'swing' it. Look, tard, just get out.
- Clowns that blow through their reps way way too fast. You're supposed to be able to feel it, that's kind of the damn point. Tard.
- Clowns that claim you have to do machines in a certain order. Look. Just.... don't. Tard.
- Clowns that can actually hold a conversation and speak fluently DURING their reps. No.
- Clowns that look like Rick Moranis giving lifting advice about getting bigger. Look, I'm not going to a homeless guy for financial advice, WTF do you think YOU'RE qualified for what you're saying??? You're a skinny-no-muscle-having-not-big-at-all-Tard.
- Clowns. Just clowns.
- And Tards.

Clowns that worry to much about what others are doing at the Gym.

:laugh: