What I hate about weight room etiquette

[CheapPinz]

Is it too hard for a grown adult to pick up after themself???
to not leave 10,20,30# clutter in other people's way....

Why do people always insist on taking a rest break on the bench I want?
...and then sometimes have the nerve to say they are "almost done"

Mirrors are great for form, and I'd never walk between a man doing his thing, watching his form when I can just as easily walk behind.

Sweating like a pig: my gym actually won't let you in unless you have a tiny little sweat rag to wipe up after yourself. I'm sure this is because of the people leaving the wet seats, benches, and stairmasters for years on end.... leaving their dna on whatever they touch. ok, that's just gross.

social hour: gym should be a time to focus, exercise, and get it done. Going out to a nice location is when you chat with your friends, not at the gym. Once you're well known in town, its nice that people want to say hi, but I really think some guys would rather bs than lift weights. Leaving the ear plugs in send a message...sometimes it works.

 

[cottoncc]

Well said! That's why I crank up the iPod when I go to the gym. Not time for talking, time to do work!

 

[hardrock]

I hate those damn weight farmers. 10 friggin dumbbells laying around them. Can't find shit cause they all scattered around him.

And I hear ya on the ear buds.

A buddy of mine will actually take about 3 hrs to workout. Fuckin chats with everyone. Do a set, and BS with everyone for 10 minutes. I will never ride with him to the gym again.

 

[stevesmi]

luckily my gym is not busy . only times where you cannot get a bench is during extreme peak times monday or wednesday at 5-6pm. other then that the place is empty.

 

[kx250rider]

My peeve is deliberate barbell slamming. I've been lifting for 30 years, and never slammed a barbell on the floor. Yes, we all have to do a hard set-down sometimes, but it doesn't make you look more badass to try to bust up the concrete slab under the flooring! I'm not saying you have to lay it down like a little girl lays down her doll on a pillow at bed time, but c'mon... don't make a demolition hammer out of it either...

Charles

 

[SpyWizard]

i HATE wen some dum cunt loads 20-30, 50 pound plates on the 45 degree leg press, and does half reps, then walks away n leaves them there n u gotta go collect them

always usualy a stocky guy who thinks his huge but is pure fat

with that said i see nothing wrong with socialising at a gym, hell i hate gyms where no one will talk to eachother, it does my head in, i love saying hello to people,

hell i walk into my gym and id leave having over 50 people saying hello to me and asking wats new

with that said i HATE guys who will ask me whether im using a machine wen im half way through leg pressing, like honestly if im half way through a set on a leg press and sweating do you think im using im using the preacher curl machine you dum cunt

ive always loved the social aspect of gym,

however i dont like the guys or friends who come in groups of 5-6 n spend there whole time talking and hogging a bench, they annoy me, but i happily kik them off n load on 315 and rep it out for 8, while they were struggling with there 90 pounds

or worse wen someone will ask wat my lift is in a certain exercise, and then tell me there not far off or use to be able to lift that amount of weight, like seriously


or how can we forget the famous quotes

'i have a friend who is huge'

'i use to be as big as you'

you dont know shit, or had shit buddy lol

i always yell "Hey, excuse me.. are you done with these?? "

or if i don't catch them say very loudly " Wow, they must have been to spent and worn out to put the weights away.."

wonder what they'd do next time if i left 12 plates per side on that same machine..

idiots..

 

[Roxy722]

I hate those damn weight farmers. 10 friggin dumbbells laying around them. Can't find shit cause they all scattered around him.

And I hear ya on the ear buds.

A buddy of mine will actually take about 3 hrs to workout. Fuckin chats with everyone. Do a set, and BS with everyone for 10 minutes. I will never ride with him to the gym again.

Totally agree!! Drives me insane!!

I hate the guys who do curls directly in front of the mirror which is directly in front of all the dumbbells...so you're blocked from getting in to get what you need.

I don't like the travelling packs of 3-4 guys standing around like a nightclub either.

Guys who are giving me advice but have bad form and are pulling less weight.

Girls who wear gym pants with sequins on their butts!

and...

the extra loud grunts and groans from the guy who wants us all to know he's doing a pull up.

I can tell I'm dieting...a little bit irritable.

 

[CitizenKane]

What you are describing is not 'weight room etiquette'... it is a total lack of weight room etiquette!

 

[cw801]

Ok...my peeves are beginning to stack up the longer I work out!

There's a guy at our gym who I swear is on crack - he's a scrawny guy (but still pretty strong) and he's loud and obnoxious. Even WITH my Ipod on I can hear him yappin' at everyone around him. He can't sit still, and he works his mouth out far more than anything else. Thank God he doesn't try to talk to me - I get SUPER annoyed because I'm not there for social hour.

YES on people who walk in front of you - or STAND in between you and the mirror as they stare at the weight rack and take 5 minutes to figure out which weights they want!

There is a little man at my gym who does half of the weight I do on the leg press, yet he has to grunt SO loud every time he lifts - you'd swear he is lifting 800 lbs and giving himself a hernia at every push!

That's pretty much it for me.....I'm the non-social chick who walks in, goes straight to work (with Ipod already on so as not to encourage any "how are you's"), does her thing and leaves, so unless it's pretty blatant and loud, not much actually really gets to me.....

 

[stevesmi]

I will say whats up or have a very short convo with people at the gym but the people that blab I try to avoid. one time I was on the 5th mile on a run on the treadmill and it was like 85 degrees in the gym and a guy i knew came up to me and started blabbing to me while I was trying to finish my 6 miles. could he of not waited for me to finish then talk?

and the one i hate the most is the people who smoke right outside the gym door. i actually blasted a guy for doing that one time. i told him "dont you think its poor etiquette to be smoking right outside the doors?" no one wants to have a whiff of your toxins coming out of your lungs as we walk out of the gym and are sucking air.

the worst of all is the disgusting pigs in the locker room. the ones who take a huge dump and stink the whole place up. or walk around butt naked (i dont want to see your ugly old hairy ass), or the ones who hog up the entire benches in the lockerrooms for like 15 minutes.

 

[Rebecca D]

Cell phones, cell phones, cell phones. If you need to talk on the phone then please leave the weight room.

Rebecca D

 

[stevesmi]

Cell phones, cell phones, cell phones. If you need to talk on the phone then please leave the weight room.

Rebecca D

any guy who carries his cell phone around is pussy whipped bigtime.

"honey where are you?"
"at the gym"
"when are you coming home?"
"soon"

5 minutes later

"are you almost done, I'm bored"
"no I am only on my 2nd set"
"well how many sets are you doing?"
"I will cut my workout short and be there soon"

 

[CitizenKane]

any guy who carries his cell phone around is pussy whipped bigtime.

"honey where are you?"
"at the gym"
"when are you coming home?"
"soon"

5 minutes later

"are you almost done, I'm bored"
"no I am only on my 2nd set"
"well how many sets are you doing?"
"I will cut my workout short and be there soon"

To be fair, I'm a lawyer and I basically have to have my phone with me all the time, I tend not to talk on it much in the gym but I do need to have it with me.

 

[hardrock]

Another one is the guy who slams the weight at every excercise he does. Hard fast jerking motion that makes my back hurt just watching. We have one inparticular we call Maxx Torque. Fukin knob.


Or the guy who wears a belt for every excercise, and it's loose as hell.

 

[kx250rider]

and the one i hate the most is the people who smoke right outside the gym door. i actually blasted a guy for doing that one time. i told him "dont you think its poor etiquette to be smoking right outside the doors?" no one wants to have a whiff of your toxins coming out of your lungs as we walk out of the gym and are sucking air.

I think I changed my mind, and this is WORSE than the barbell slamming. And the smokers are belligerent about it, as if you're the bad guy for not smoking. I think they do it on purpose because they're sore about not being allowed to destroy the air INside the building. Some places (not necessarily gyms), have signs "NO smoking within 10 feet of door", but there is often a crowd of smokers standing exactly 10 feet and a quarter inch from the door, and they always just happen to be standing upwind, and there always seems to be a vacuum in the building to suck the smoke right in. Ugh!

To be fair, I'm a lawyer and I basically have to have my phone with me all the time, I tend not to talk on it much in the gym but I do need to have it with me.

Doctors, lawyers, and volunteer firefighters I understand... I object to people just jibber-jabbering in public places (the gym included), shouting about things like who's coming or not coming to golf next weekend, or women at top volume discussing PMS and how Walgreen's has a better price on Tampax than Long's does, etc.

Charles

 

[shibs]

 

[Tblock1]

I've seen quite a few weightlifting accident videos and that may be one of the greatest Ive seen haha! Thanks for sharing I still dont even quite understand how that happened...did he just let go of the bar?

 

[jesse_01]

Haha that guy need's to work on his grip.

One thing I hate is the bigger heavier set girls wearing skin tight clothing all whore up. Like really do I have to see you gunt hanging out all because your shirt is a size small.

I don't hate this, but it sometime break's my concentration. Girls in really good shape wearing tight little spandex and just a sports bra cruising around with rock hard nipples.

There has been times where I pump my self all up to do to a heavy ass squat/dl. Goto get under or grab the bar. Look in the mirror and see a girl, rock hard nips and tight body at the station next to me.

 

[trex74]

LOL@ gunt, jesse_01...
I think the only thing that really bugs me is when the gym is almost empty, just me and some other person, and they ask to work in on whatever I'm using at the time. Really? You can't just do something else for five minutes or whatever? If it were busy I'd understand, but not when its dead.

 

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[SPEKTOR-AAA]

Im not a huge fan of old men in the locker room hanging their nuts and sausage all over the sink area in front of the mirrors, it disturbs me actually. Like you can shave with a towel around you dude, haha

and the BIGGEST peeve...

dont ask me how to do a lift have me show you and let me see you again and ask the same FRIGGING question, or better yet miserably fail at what I just showed you how to do.

 

[shibs]

Im not a huge fan of old men in the locker room hanging their nuts and sausage all over the sink area in front of the mirrors, it disturbs me actually. Like you can shave with a towel around you dude, haha

THIS^^

jesus christ i HATE when i walk in and get a big picture of some old fat guy brushing his teeth or something. you could do that clothed just as easily!!

i also hate one guy in particular who gels his hair, wears abercrombie jackets with the collar popped, and then american eagle cut off shirts, skinny as hell, and does 20 sets of triceps and then leaves. but he also even flexes his arms in the mirror, not caring who sees. i hate ppl like this.

 

[coyotekid84]

preface: i work out in a small gym in afghanistan, the equipment is limited or in bad shape, we have one cage.
The thing that erks me the most, are the beach body ass hats that use the cage for every other exercies except squats.(curls,back row)

 

[grubd]

Can not stand when I'm on a piece of cardio and some ass bag hops on the one right next to me and starts trying to race me. It is stationary dumb stick, quit looking over! Go on a different machine we are the only two in the whole darn place.

 

[OSUBEAVERS]

Only thing that bothers me are the naked old men. I can get over everything else.

 

[Roxy722]

Can not stand when I'm on a piece of cardio and some ass bag hops on the one right next to me and starts trying to race me. It is stationary dumb stick, quit looking over! Go on a different machine we are the only two in the whole darn place.

Or the guy who gets on next to you and starts jogging and has the worst BO ever...so bad you can taste it and have to get off your machine! Doesn't happen often but yikes!!