What are your gym pet peeves?

[LiftingIsLife]

Originally Posted by jsmircich

My Pet Peeves:

1. Needing to workout in front of the mirror, so no one can get DBs or rerack anything,:

TOTALLY agree here. In fact, this is my biggest pet peeve. WTF? if you are not strong enough to walk a few feet to the bench with the desired dumbdells, then you are lifting TOO heavy. Get the hell away from the dumbell rack so anyone else can get the equipment they need there.

Ah, yes, one other thing. Can't stand it when guys do curls in the squat racks. Afraid you're gonna drop it?? then you are lifting WAY too heavy....

best,
~lifer

[LiftingIsLife]

Originally Posted by Blessed_Mommy

15. and women who are shapped like Rosanne Barr, but dress like they are Monica Brandt...seriously, ladies, no one wants to see that!

LOL!!! how true!!! nothing makes me gag more than semi-fat to fat women who just love to show off their naked fat bellies....................

best,
~lifer

[nunu713]

Originally Posted by LiftingIsLife

LOL!!! how true!!! nothing makes me gag more than semi-fat to fat women who just love to show off their naked fat bellies....................

This is one of my husband's pet peeves. He always says that the people who dress provocatively no one wants to look at, and the people who should be dressing that way, don't. He's always trying to get me to wear skimpier things to the gym - I tell him that I'm there to work, not to get noticed

[Wattsup]

My BIGGEST pet peeves:

I don't go to the gym to socialize...
I WEAR my IPOD for 2 reasons:

1. to pump me up and get me through my workout
2. so I CAN avoid talking

I am not a "B" but I have limited time as it is, and I am there to get in and get out.

Pet peeve #1 - when people make me take my ipod off to talk while I am in the middle of my workout!
Pet peeve #2 - when people tap me in the middle of a set and ask if I am almost done! Are you KIDDING ME???

[twinnett]

I just find this one kind of sad:

The people that don't realize that the "Sweatin' to the Oldies" decade of wearing leotards and tights to the gym is over! And then there's "Hammer Pants Man" w/ the huge weight belt and chalkin' it up all over the place..


This is NOT a good look!!!

[precisou2004]

It might have been mentioned but the "overweight" people who wear tight shorts/showing off their vajayjay/pubic hair almost and have bulging skin comin'out thinking they look SEXY.. Hellooooooooooo you DONT look sexy you look STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!! ur OVERWEIGHT COVER UR FATNESS FOR CRYING OUTLOUD !!!!

[precisou2004]

Originally Posted by twinnett

I just find this one kind of sad:

The people that don't realize that the "Sweatin' to the Oldies" decade of wearing leotards and tights to the gym is over! And then there's "Hammer Pants Man" w/ the huge weight belt and chalkin' it up all over the place..


This is NOT a good look!!!

lmfao... NONE of those people do ! MOUAHAHAH

[DemetriaF]

Originally Posted by poly_dolly

-Someone getting on a treadmill RIGHT next to me when there are tons of others open

Yes! Why do people do this? Drives me nuts, especially when I make a point of using the treadmills waaaaaaay over in the corner, away from everyone and everything.

[precisou2004]

One guy at my gym, who thinks he's too good (yeah right you look STUPID !!!), goes on the treadmill and HOLDS himself running at 8mph like he was gonna fall off LMFAO.... u dumbass, you do NOT hold yourself when u RUN u twat !!!!

[Skylox]

Originally Posted by precisou2004

One guy at my gym, who thinks he's too good (yeah right you look STUPID !!!), goes on the treadmill and HOLDS himself running at 8mph like he was gonna fall off LMFAO.... u dumbass, you do NOT hold yourself when u RUN u twat !!!!

haha lucie i know who your talking about
as far i remember hes been doing that forever
meet him in locker the other day after a dreaded legs day had hard time picking my stuff and he was looking at me whit hes im better than you look just wanted to smack hes face up -.-

[precisou2004]

LOl... really he thinks he's soo damn good also on "Jacob's Ladder" he stops, looks around and goes back on... YOU WIMP I CAN DO 30 MIN NON STOP WITHOUT LOOKING AT ANYONE lol....

[Skylox]

Originally Posted by precisou2004

LOl... really he thinks he's soo damn good also on "Jacob's Ladder" he stops, looks around and goes back on... YOU WIMP I CAN DO 30 MIN NON STOP WITHOUT LOOKING AT ANYONE lol....

lol i never saw him pick any weight nor using machine other than cardio did yu?

[precisou2004]

Originally Posted by Skylox

lol i never saw him pick any weight nor using machine other than cardio did yu?

come to think of it, yes ur right... can you say DOOFUS ? LOL

[Katie_McD]

I just started going to a new gym today and for who knows what reason they keep all of the handles, ropes, etc. for the cable machines behind the staff desk so you have to go ask each time you need something, and they'll only give you 1 at a time! So annoying! I don't want to waste my time walking to the desk every time I need something!

It's a big switch going from the "hard core" gym I was a member of to a university gym. Nothing like college freshman doing endless bench presses or curls.

Oh and if girls lifting 5# weights or reading while doing cardio wasn't bad enough today I saw a guy lifting those 5s and another SITTING on a bike reading a book...that's right he wasn't pedaling!

The equipment is nice, it's a HUGE facility, and it's cheap...but I think next semester I'll pay the extra $12.50 a month to go back to a real gym!

[Michael_78]

#1: clowns who throw and slam weights around
#2: people who pick nose or scratch butt in the gym
#3: body odor or way to much cologne/perfume
haha someone actually said douchebag!!! way too funny

[nunu713]

The other day I actually had someone ask me to step aside so he could watch himself in the mirror curling 7 pounds. Are you kidding me?!

[precisou2004]

Originally Posted by Michael_78

#1: clowns who throw and slam weights around
#2: people who pick nose or scratch butt in the gym
#3: body odor or way to much cologne/perfume
haha someone actually said douchebag!!! way too funny

you forgot the little bimbette who wear 3 inches of make-up LMFAO

I saw that quite a few times when I was going to a woman's gym 2 yrs ago... Good grief !

[Eileen]

Got a new one, and sorry if it's sexist: really cut guys who wear loose baggy clothes so you can't see any of their muscles. I know, I know, but a little inspiration would be nice.

[MuscleMan009]

I can't stand the females that will do like 50 reps with some light ass weight because "I don't want to get big and bulky"

[BatsyWatsy]

Originally Posted by nunu713

The other day I actually had someone ask me to step aside so he could watch himself in the mirror curling 7 pounds. Are you kidding me?!

LOL!! That's hilarious!

[BatsyWatsy]

"Oh Man, I have a "creepy naked lady" at my gym! One time, I was walking into the locker room and there she was, in all her glory with her foot up on the bench clipping her toenails!! *barf*[/QUOTE]

Oh...that is sooo gross. This is why I NEVER go into the locker room. Too many nightmares spurred from experiences at the YMCA as a child...

[RHINO240]

Originally Posted by BatsyWatsy

"Oh Man, I have a "creepy naked lady" at my gym! One time, I was walking into the locker room and there she was, in all her glory with her foot up on the bench clipping her toenails!! *barf*

Oh...that is sooo gross. This is why I NEVER go into the locker room. Too many nightmares spurred from experiences at the YMCA as a child...[/QUOTE]
That's bad naked!

[metaldrummer]

Originally Posted by precisou2004

oh and something to add.. those "larger" woman who don't wear proper bra support ???? ITS UGLY AS **** TO HAVE TO LOOK AT UR BIG BOOBS SLAPPING UP AND DOWN !!!!

Hater... I love that ****! You're just jealous.

[metaldrummer]

I like boobies.

[Thuirwyne]

All of these are my pet peeves too, but today there was a good one...

There was a guy doing db presses on a flat bench that was VERY close to the squat rack, close enough that my butt would've been able to do box squats on the same bench.

As I walked past him to the rack (no, I didn't say a word, and I don't think I made a face, that he saw, anyway), he jumped up and moved the bench back with a ,"Does this give you enough room?"

Awwww....

but then upon leaving and entering the locker room, there stood butt-naked Bertha, in all her glory, and towel, which was only wrapped around her hair. Fortunately, my locker was on the other end; my friend, however had to squeeze past.

[brandon92]

I agree with everything everyone has said. Except about the girls not wanting to get bulky. I don't have a problem with them staying fit, not ripped. But, I think maybe what your saying is that they can lift more than their cell phones and not look like a female ronnie coleman?

[Geno]

When the wife or kid throws/hangs/sets/lays anything on any of my equipment. Hello, I will be using that within the day thank you. It is not a clothes hangar/shelf/table/chairback/closet.etc.

Oh and girls can get as bulky as they like.

[brandon92]

Originally Posted by Geno

When the wife or kid throws/hangs/sets/lays anything on any of my equipment. Hello, I will be using that within the day thank you. It is not a clothes hangar/shelf/table/chairback/closet.etc.

Oh and girls can get as bulky as they like.

I can't stand that. I have a bench in the garage, and everyone seems to think it's a rack for anything but weights.

[nunu713]

Originally Posted by brandon92

I agree with everything everyone has said. Except about the girls not wanting to get bulky. I don't have a problem with them staying fit, not ripped. But, I think maybe what your saying is that they can lift more than their cell phones and not look like a female ronnie coleman?

I think it's a common misconception amongst girls - they think that lifting weights means they're going to get bulky. If they only knew how difficult it was to get bulky. My husband's been eating everything that's not nailed down, and he still can't break 190lbs. Girls just need to realize that diet is the main component of bulking up - not how much weight you move.

But I think everyone in this forum already got that memo!

[loreleieve]

The stalker. You know, the guy that follows you around as you go through your workout. Towards the end, he decides to talk to you while you're in the middle of a set and tells you a better way to do things. Does he have any clue as to what I'm trying to accomplish?! Heck no! Mind your own business.

All the guys with terrible form-mostly on bicep curls that look like they're trying to go into a back bend. Ouch. They then think they can offer useful advice.