NutMisc. - People & Things That Annoy You in the Gym

[moneyrich]

Nothing really, except when the stuff I want to use is being used. Im usually very easy going. I socialize/text between sets.

Thats because you don't use the squat rack since you don't do legs.

[midcoastking33]

What do you mean? Someone who uses two different 45s, for example?

Yeah you'll come to the plate rack and it's just dotted with none of them matching

[Christiffer]

Thats because you don't use the squat rack since you don't do legs.

Your forgetting. He does use it......, for curls.

[hockeytownfan]

There are about three people in my entire gym that foam roll. Every damn time I foam roll, somebody asks me what I'm doing, what it for, how to use this complicated device, etc etc etc.

When warming up I'll use an eliptical or treadmill. Always hate it when these two girls take the two right beside me and yammer while not really moving at all. they are loud enough that I can hear them over my iPod and they use the word "cute" about 600 times a minute.

[Ajaro]

Lately, the guy who does 4 plates on the bench but just "inch benches".

Typical 1/8th front squatters/back squatters with way too much weight and the bar pad

(I usually don't care about other people, just when they're taking up space)

[awkwrdturtle]

I'm surprised so many people get upset when other people have bad form. Their form doesn't affect me at all so I really could not care less. I do get pretty pissed when people don't rack their weights though. That's just lazy.

[womanoid]

Interesting I go to a very working class gym and I've never had anything stolen/heard of anything being stolen. People leave their jackets/bags at the side (I use the mini-lockers). The other day I even saw a PT running around asking who's iPod was left on the side... told him I don't have that much faith in people.

I worked at the largest 24 hour fitness in Texas, 5 mins from downtown Houston, so it was always a madhouse at peak hours. Wallets, watches, purses, ipods, phones... you name it, it gets stolen. And I'm talking on a daily basis, professional thieves who come in just to steal (every now and again they could be traced to using the same entry card at other gyms the same day, just making the rounds) & just punks with the opportunity. Members don't hear about it because that would be really bad business.

[PerpetualMotion]

Yeah you'll come to the plate rack and it's just dotted with none of them matching

I think I almost always lift with mixed plates. A 45 is a 45 to me. Sometimes I squat with a circle on the left and a hexagon on the right.

[womanoid]

Lately, the guy who does 4 plates on the bench but just "inch benches".

Typical 1/8th front squatters/back squatters with way too much weight and the bar pad

(I usually don't care about other people, just when they're taking up space)

Yes. Like the people who have no clue what to do with equipment & just b.s. around with it while you wait.

[lovingit]

I will say I got pretty pissed when there was only one available bench (press) at the gym and just as I was walking to it to, you know, bench press, this guy raced over, laid his towel out very neatly on it, and then proceeded to do sets of crunches on it for almost 30 minutes. I raged a little that day.

[Galapp]

pisses me off seeing people that are bigger than me doing an exercise wrong and other people looking up to them. this guys teaching some people how to squat and the way he does it his back won't last long... now there's 2 more people in the world doing the same stupid ****.

[SimonThePieman]

There are about three people in my entire gym that foam roll. Every damn time I foam roll, somebody asks me what I'm doing, what it for, how to use this complicated device, etc etc etc.

When warming up I'll use an eliptical or treadmill. Always hate it when these two girls take the two right beside me and yammer while not really moving at all. they are loud enough that I can hear them over my iPod and they use the word "cute" about 600 times a minute.

disregard cardio. acquire threesome

[minigun450]

home gym ftw! i dont have to put up with any of these douchebags! the only thing that irks me is my reflection in the mirror, or when the cat walks up to my feet for a pet when im mid set on some sweet rack pulls

This, except minus the cat.

[hockeytownfan]

disregard cardio. acquire threesome

I could only do it if I duct taped their mouths, then half the fun is already gone.

[TomBremner]

when i deadlift and set the weight down and its a little loud people glare at me. pisses me off way more than it should but the whole time i'm thinking "im one of about 5 ppl here that actually lift" (i lift at the Y, so srs)

[hockeytownfan]

You fool, they want you to talk to them. srs

Oh shiat, I never caught that. Thanks bro.

[womanoid]

I could only do it if I duct taped their mouths, then half the fun is already gone.

*1/3 of the fun

[jammyo40]

I worked at the largest 24 hour fitness in Texas, 5 mins from downtown Houston, so it was always a madhouse at peak hours. Wallets, watches, purses, ipods, phones... you name it, it gets stolen. And I'm talking on a daily basis, professional thieves who come in just to steal (every now and again they could be traced to using the same entry card at other gyms the same day, just making the rounds) & just punks with the opportunity. Members don't hear about it because that would be really bad business.

Found your problem

[hockeytownfan]

*1/3 of the fun

I'm not that kind of guy

[MITCHAPAL00ZA]

when a group of "bros" take 2 hours on bench

[trance__dreamer]

1. People who have poor personal hygiene
2. Screaming spin/pump/step instructors WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO

most bothersome aspect of being a group fitness instructor. i'm expected to be uppity & cheerful like this. i'm the quietest aerobics teacher i've ever come across. o__O

Let the hate flow through you...

bahaha. family guy. goood. goooood.

psyching myself up and waiting for the peak moment of a song (takes a minute or so)

I'm more like a "random Asian guy who's solid & thick & wears cargo shorts" kind of a deal.

solid, tight, thick. thanks for the continuous motivation.

[Andrew_S]

I'm guilty of Nut Miscing between sets lol

I'm guilty of this too. Well, not so much the misc...just the nut and ing I guess. Never need to do wrist curls, brahs.

PR, hnnnnnnnnnnnnnngn

[sawoobley]

home gym ftw! i dont have to put up with any of these douchebags! the only thing that irks me is my reflection in the mirror, or when the cat walks up to my feet for a pet when im mid set on some sweet rack pulls

^This. My biggest problem is having to press pause on my computer when watching Hulu because I'm benching and can't see the screen.

[t12jm]

One story comes to mind:

Huge, smelly, viking-looking guy is doing his thing, being very demonstrative, while me and a friend are talking about his elbow pain. Viking overhears, yells from across the gym, "it hurts when you lift? YOU NEED A SLEEVE!!". My friend (who's a giant himself), gives the guy the bertstare. Apparently the viking was offended that we didn't praise him for the advice he yelled at us, because a few moments later he walks by and says, and I quote: "but what do I know, I'm just a strength and conditioning EXPERT!"

Couldn't help but laugh.

Also, maybe 15 minutes later, the same guy walks up to us and drops a 95 lb dumbbell at our feet and says "if y'all were looking for the 95, I had it out in the hall".

Yea, there's a rack for that...thanks for letting us know you move big weight, Viking.

[fad3d]

THe worst thing which drives me nuts, is when some one asks how many sets you have left.


WHILST YOU ARE MID MOVEMENT.

10x worse when you are squatting or deadlifting.

Oh gawd...I did that to a guy once. Apologized right after he finished his set, but I still feel like a dick. Fortunately he was just doing DB curls but wow, I bertstared myself right when I asked him. Couldn't believe it.

[MooseLaddin]

On the subject of Asian guys in the gym, the younger generation trains in packs, lol.

lmao so true!

for me #1 thing that annoys me at the gym is horrible hygiene. I can ignore a lot of things in the gym, and put up with a lot of stuff, but I can't plug my nose

[spicyprice]

lmao so true!

for me #1 thing that annoys me at the gym is horrible hygiene. I can ignore a lot of things in the gym, and put up with a lot of stuff, but I can't plug my nose

There used to be a guy who came in that just reeked of cheap cologne. Breathing within a 4 foot radius was risking hypoxic eschemic encephalopathy.

Today, I was breathing REALLY hard (reasons unknown) and walked by a guy with the worst BO ever.... mid inspiration. Wanted to vomit!




Please, people.... a shower and deodorant!

[SoulZeppelin]

There used to be a guy who came in that just reeked of cheap cologne. Breathing within a 4 foot radius was risking hypoxic eschemic encephalopathy.

Today, I was breathing REALLY hard (reasons unknown) and walked by a guy with the worst BO ever.... mid inspiration. Wanted to vomit!




Please, people.... a shower and deodorant!

^^^^^^^^^^ this. You shouldn't smell like the circus at the gym but that doesn't mean that you should bathe in hai karate or polo before you work out.

[Dexter3000]

These fukking walruses taking up space to do their crunches..

[ALEXH-]

1/8 of a rep on squats/bench. Fuuu