View Full Version : Gym behaviour I find irritating...
These happen with such unbelievable consistency, I cant help but start a thread about it. I cant wait until the day that I can afford a fully functioning home gym...
Compression fit under armour - Are you serious? Wear something thats not meant for UNDERneath your equipment (hence the UNDER Armour name). You look like a try hard dbag, and no you dont look jacked in your medium.
People who "forget" their water bottle every single day - I see a lot of the same people in the gym day in and day out, and I cant help but notice some dudes taking their sweet ass time on machines and weights because they have to walk to fountain to get a drink and check themselves out in the mirror while they flex the whole time. Now I get to wait extra long for you on every trip. Its unreal dumb to not bring a water bottle. Even cavemen figured out how to transport water in a container for convenience. Youre such a ****ing dbag, ****.
Those are the two most annoying things I can think of right now. I will post more later.
People who dont put their shit back , I wanna drop someone when im running the rack and then have to stop because some tard didnt put shit away !!
^^LOL
guaranteed you work out in your medium UA compression gear. Probably with matching socks and cap too. Well done.
ironwill
13-10-2011, 03:01 PM
People that stop at the water fountain and read every article around it blocking my way to the water, then the folks waiting on me for the equipment get pissy because i take to long getting my water from the fountain....Those readers usually stink of bad BO, and i have to wait even longer to refrain from gagging while getting a drink of hi quality H2O....
:D
^^LOL
guaranteed you work out in your medium UA compression gear. Probably with matching socks and cap too. Well done.
negative
sweet pants, soaked XXL shirt, headphones...I don't give a shit about anything/anyone in the gym. I'm there to kill myself and leave asap.
moh2010
13-10-2011, 03:45 PM
2 years ago, I broke my foot because some 16 yo but a 25lbs plate on top of the smith machine (last pin, where you put the 2.5-5lbs plates...). **** it hurted. The guy heard me screaming and left the gym when it happened and he never came back. Couldn't train legs for 2 months, and squat for 3-4months.
I hate this guy so much. I hope I won't see him in the near future.
razorsedge
13-10-2011, 04:41 PM
How about the "texter" or guy answering / talking on cell phone despite clear signs / rules prohibiting cell phones and staff refuse to deal with it...the texter just ****in drives me and their "have to check every 30 seconds for texts" behaviour. What is so important...are these guys running NASA or something...
negative
sweet pants, soaked XXL shirt, headphones...I don't give a shit about anything/anyone in the gym. I'm there to kill myself and leave asap.
Man youre hardcore. Teach me to be like you sir.
moh2010
13-10-2011, 07:29 PM
Man youre hardcore. Teach me to be like you sir.
learn at animalpak.com hahaha
WTF ya have a cell phone in the gym for .....lol but yup have seen it , suppose its to chat with the Nash trainers actually drinking Starbucks while training someone ...lol
How about the "texter" or guy answering / talking on cell phone despite clear signs / rules prohibiting cell phones and staff refuse to deal with it...the texter just ****in drives me and their "have to check every 30 seconds for texts" behaviour. What is so important...are these guys running NASA or something...
Dont forget the squat rack curlers. A guy actually kicked me out of the squat rack he wasnt using yet so he could get his curls on. I proceeded to give it up and squat 420 next to him while he curled 90lbs with horrific form. He didnt have the balls to say anything after that. I did though.....lol
fathead
13-10-2011, 09:54 PM
people who practice karate kicks, tae kwon do, shadow boxing or kung fu or their basketball shot/tennis swing in the middle of the equipment. i cant believe how common this is
JacktheThriller
13-10-2011, 10:17 PM
4-6 guys working out together taking up 15 mins a set mostly chatter, desk staff who just sit there the whole ****ing day when weights in the gym could use some tightening and machines need greasing, enjoy that magazine ****face
dan1977
13-10-2011, 10:34 PM
I'm with you guys with the cellphones.
It makes me crack up inside and want to throw a bipolar episode. i would love to crack that f*cking Iphone on their noses. Can you talk now motherfu*ker?
What do people have to say????
jsmills
13-10-2011, 11:09 PM
Don't come over to where I am training and drop your ass next to me. Keep that shit to yourself.
My IPhone is with me 24/7.If I reply to a text or email between sets it's nobody's business.Sometimes the wife calls as well.
steve_d
14-10-2011, 08:55 AM
I have no problem with people on cell phones. Just like cog said, there are reasons. What is unacceptable is talking on your phone during a set. I've seen it - 1 arm dumbell curls with the cell phone in the other hand. Another unacceptable use of cell phones, is being really loud, enough that you know what they are talking about - and going on for more than a few minutes.
Sure, if you're loud on the phone in the effect of 'oh my god, my son just cut his hand off I will be home in a minute' , sure....But no one wants to hear about the girl you nailed last night, or where you are going to smoke pot tomorrow night...That stuff doesn't need to be broadcasted in the gym while I am grunting out my last rep on a 500 pound squat. Thankfully, my in ear noise cancelling headphones block everything out. I hear nothing but my own music. Of course a few times people talk to me while I appear the stuck up bodybuilder - but essentially, thats what I am while I am training!
Thorgrim
14-10-2011, 09:21 AM
Mainly when people use the power or squat rack for stupid shit like barbell curls. Or ask for a spot benching a weight they can not handle and I end up having to assist every rep. If they want to delude themselves great but don't get me involved.
natenator
14-10-2011, 09:24 AM
Mainly when people use the power or squat rack for stupid shit like barbell curls. Or ask for a spot benching a weight they can not handle and I end up having to assist every rep. If they want to delude themselves great but don't get me involved.
I simply tell them no. If I have to exert effort for their workout in a way which may impair my workout then that person is SOL
BigGuns21
16-10-2011, 02:51 PM
people who practice karate kicks, tae kwon do, shadow boxing or kung fu or their basketball shot/tennis swing in the middle of the equipment. i cant believe how common this is
I was beginning to think this was an Ottawa exclusive. I think everybody but myself and my training partners are trying out for the UFC these days! The funny part is you know these guys are f'n pussies because one, they all have horrible form and two, the toughest SOB's I know you don't find out how well trained they are until it's too late. They gym is not a DoJo people! I've been training for 15 years and I've never been forced to lock in an omoplata on a dude between sets. Although I have threatened to stick 45lb plates through peoples skull, but that's generally where it ends.
dan1977
16-10-2011, 07:00 PM
I was beginning to think this was an Ottawa exclusive. I think everybody but myself and my training partners are trying out for the UFC these days! The funny part is you know these guys are f'n pussies because one, they all have horrible form and two, the toughest SOB's I know you don't find out how well trained they are until it's too late. They gym is not a DoJo people! I've been training for 15 years and I've never been forced to lock in an omoplata on a dude between sets. Although I have threatened to stick 45lb plates through peoples skull, but that's generally where it ends.
So true... Society is made of sheeps, not many wolves.
natenator
16-10-2011, 07:32 PM
I was beginning to think this was an Ottawa exclusive. I think everybody but myself and my training partners are trying out for the UFC these days! The funny part is you know these guys are f'n pussies because one, they all have horrible form and two, the toughest SOB's I know you don't find out how well trained they are until it's too late. They gym is not a DoJo people! I've been training for 15 years and I've never been forced to lock in an omoplata on a dude between sets. Although I have threatened to stick 45lb plates through peoples skull, but that's generally where it ends.
The bar up the ass is better as then you can swing them around and get a good core workout lol
BigGuns21
16-10-2011, 07:34 PM
The bar up the ass is better as then you can swing them around and get a good core workout lol
I had thought of this too but did not want to be mistaken for a cross-fit doucebag, lmao.
Legit watched a guy shadow box with 15lb dumbbells not long ago. He is WELL known at my gym for having unbelievably bad ILS, as well as just looking like a downright massive dbag. Hes about 6'1, 180lbs max, but has the BIGGEST lats Ive ever seen (not at all). Its really messed up how guys actually walk around flared out like that when they look like long distance runners.
JifeLacket and NeverDieEasy no EXACTLY who I am talking about lol.
gustavo77
18-10-2011, 02:25 AM
....the squat rack curlers.
^This... i cannot even express in words the rage i feel when i get all warmed up... knees and quads flowing with blood from the bike and extensions and head over to the squat rack to see ****wad doing barbell curls...."then they give you the look, like ya, i am doing curls on this shit, what are you gonna do about it?" I mean WTF, really, it is only 65lbs douchebag...can;t you pick it up off the floor.. or is that too much work in your workout??
natenator
18-10-2011, 07:43 AM
^This... i cannot even express in words the rage i feel when i get all warmed up... knees and quads flowing with blood from the bike and extensions and head over to the squat rack to see ****wad doing barbell curls...."then they give you the look, like ya, i am doing curls on this shit, what are you gonna do about it?" I mean WTF, really, it is only 65lbs douchebag...can;t you pick it up off the floor.. or is that too much work in your workout??
I had a guy at my university gym tell me he had 16 sets left in the rack. I looked at the bar loaded with a 10lb plate on each side then back at him and the bar again and in disbelief asked.... 16 sets of curls with that?
I walked away shaking my head only to come and kick him off. I went and grabbed some dumbells and premade curl bars and set them on the floor and told him to use those.
If a guy is curling a plate or more it doesnt really bother me but when doing some wimpish weights i tend to take exception lol
ironwill
18-10-2011, 12:36 PM
I had a guy at my university gym tell me he had 16 sets left in the rack. I looked at the bar loaded with a 10lb plate on each side then back at him and the bar again and in disbelief asked.... 16 sets of curls with that?
I walked away shaking my head only to come and kick him off. I went and grabbed some dumbells and premade curl bars and set them on the floor and told him to use those.
If a guy is curling a plate or more it doesnt really bother me but when doing some wimpish weights i tend to take exception lol
I guess im ok then....lol....I do curls in the rack, i do move if i see someone that looks like they actually workout, and want to squat etc.....But i usually am curling a 45lb plate and a 25 or 35 per side...I only use it for ease of drop sets and changing plates, plus im kind of lazy....:fwave
natenator
18-10-2011, 12:53 PM
I guess im ok then....lol....I do curls in the rack, i do move if i see someone that looks like they actually workout, and want to squat etc.....But i usually am curling a 45lb plate and a 25 or 35 per side...I only use it for ease of drop sets and changing plates, plus im kind of lazy....:fwave
Its not lazy. Its efficient :D
SuperQT
18-10-2011, 10:24 PM
I saw a guy use chalk tonight to bench two plates. I am not against chalk I used it often to deadlift just never felt the need to use chalk on bench seems poserish especially at the weight he was using.
I get super irritated when people don't put things back as they should be dumbbells in the correct order etc. it really drives me nuts if it's a trainer and they are not putting things away correctly. You work there for cry out loud lead by example. I also hate when people don't wipe there sweat off the machine it just nasty.
I don't really have much of an issue with cell phones on the gym floor as long as it's not some how slowing down my workout. I know I text in between sets and I also log my workouts in my blackberry so can't really get annoyed with something I do.
I hate that one of the receptionist at my gym is a chain smoker or at least it seems like she is most nights I come in she is right out the front door smoking I guess that the price you pay for a small indy gym.
backer
08-11-2011, 01:27 AM
The big sign says no phones in the locker room.Why does everybody think that does not apply to them?
SuperQT
09-11-2011, 10:28 PM
is this gym close to sherway gardens mall?
Yes
Thorgrim
09-11-2011, 10:32 PM
Trainers that don't know what the hell they are doing and have their clients doing stuff that will eventually get them injured.
JacktheThriller
10-11-2011, 02:31 PM
rack curls are fine if you can curl more than 10-15 reps with the biggest pre weighted barbell in the gym and the ez-curl bar has to be occupied or non existent
Green_Giant
10-11-2011, 06:12 PM
People working out in jeans... wtf?
Felinecougar
10-11-2011, 10:16 PM
These happen with such unbelievable consistency, I cant help but start a thread about it. I cant wait until the day that I can afford a fully functioning home gym...
Compression fit under armour - Are you serious? Wear something thats not meant for UNDERneath your equipment (hence the UNDER Armour name). You look like a try hard dbag, and no you dont look jacked in your medium.
People who "forget" their water bottle every single day - I see a lot of the same people in the gym day in and day out, and I cant help but notice some dudes taking their sweet ass time on machines and weights because they have to walk to fountain to get a drink and check themselves out in the mirror while they flex the whole time. Now I get to wait extra long for you on every trip. Its unreal dumb to not bring a water bottle. Even cavemen figured out how to transport water in a container for convenience. Youre such a ****ing dbag, ****.
Those are the two most annoying things I can think of right now. I will post more later.
I don't bring a water bottle, I like the walk to the fountain to get my mind in it's place to lift my next set as heavy as I can.. I mark my bench or machine with my happy faced towels. I listen to my toons..do not look at people in the eye..I do not stop to chat unless it's at the end of my work out. Ya..my bench is marked by my towel...so come to me and ask, "Can I work in with you?"
Smelly arm pits are my pet peeve.
People doing preachers and not coming within 8-10 inches of fully extended.
TopHatPlus
11-11-2011, 04:48 PM
The "wiggers" that come in with there chains hanging, timbaland boots, and baseball team caps, shirts that are like xxxxxl and the matching pants... they look so dumb! Your at the gym but apparently not to workout... The same goes for woman, they get super dressed up with 2" of make up on and spend there time occupying machines and not doing anything... if you want to get laid go to a bar...
people using WAY to heavy weights
ie : 400-500lbs on the squat bar, 6 inches rom with their legs shaking. I'd pay for a nice rom (proper deep squat) with that stupid amount of weight
natenator
12-11-2011, 09:09 AM
people using WAY to heavy weights
ie : 400-500lbs on the squat bar, 6 inches rom with their legs shaking. I'd pay for a nice rom (proper deep squat) with that stupid amount of weight
I've actually offered a guy $1000 who squats 4 plates with 3" ROM to do to one full rep squat ass to grass. Told him $1000 was his if he could do just one rep. He said no because he was just finishing and legs were tired.
No problem I said, when's your next leg day and I'll make the same offer. He got annoyed and defensive.
I lol'd
Thorgrim
14-11-2011, 09:20 AM
I remember seeing some skinny kid doing 3" squats with 4 plates per side. Looked like if he would have gone another inch or two lower he would have crumpled. At least he had enough sense to have the safety bars in. . . ..
MacGyver
15-11-2011, 05:27 PM
I've never been "irritated" by the way other people do exercises. I find it funny that people could actually be annoyed. I have no idea what medical problems/limitations they have. I think this is more of a reflection on the person getting irritated than the person doing the exercise.
Now, if that person kept coming to me and saying how he lifts xxx and telling me how to do my workout, that would be different.
InkedSailor
15-11-2011, 06:04 PM
fat trainers. I workout at a military gym and dont understand how they can have female trainers that are 20lbs overweight
I've never been "irritated" by the way other people do exercises. I find it funny that people could actually be annoyed. I have no idea what medical problems/limitations they have. I think this is more of a reflection on the person getting irritated than the person doing the exercise.
Now, if that person kept coming to me and saying how he lifts xxx and telling me how to do my workout, that would be different.
When you see some kid on the edge of disaster trying to squat with about twice what he could squat deep with it is irritating.You might be working in close proximity and you don't know in which direction he might collapse.Or if you should just step in and tell him to smarten up.
Thorgrim
16-11-2011, 01:42 AM
There is some entertainment value to a certain degree but it is annoying when you are waiting for a piece of equipment and they are doing stupid shit that will get them no results and probably and injury eventually.
natenator
16-11-2011, 08:58 AM
When you see some kid on the edge of disaster trying to squat with about twice what he could squat deep with it is irritating.You might be working in close proximity and you don't know in which direction he might collapse.Or if you should just step in and tell him to smarten up.
or you could secretly get your camera phone out and try to catch the carnage for hours and hours of entertainment giggle...
MacGyver
16-11-2011, 10:00 AM
When you see some kid on the edge of disaster trying to squat with about twice what he could squat deep with it is irritating.You might be working in close proximity and you don't know in which direction he might collapse.Or if you should just step in and tell him to smarten up.
I completely agree with this. Working out can become stressful if there are consistently people there that you think you might have to save from breaking bones or crushing themselves. I just meant that when someone is not using proper form, or doing an exercise incorrectly but lifting more weight (in a non dangerous way), I more feel sorry that they haven't taken the time to educate themselves.
I think the thing I find most irritating is people who don't indicate that they are still on a machine/bench. If you walk away for over a minute, and you didn't leave anything near it/on it, how the hell am I supposed to know you are still using it?
JacktheThriller
16-11-2011, 02:10 PM
I think the thing I find most irritating is people who don't indicate that they are still on a machine/bench. If you walk away for over a minute, and you didn't leave anything near it/on it, how the hell am I supposed to know you are still using it?
Why do you care? Just use it. If you want to use equipment do a quick 360 trying to make eye contact with someone who might be using it. Can't find anyone well that's too bad. If they have the spine to tell me they are still using the machine then fine I'll move for a few sets.
Thorgrim
17-11-2011, 12:00 PM
This pissed me off.
Was doing squats in the rack last night. Go to grab a 25 off the side of the rack and a 5 pound plate falls off the top plate holder and lands on my right foot.
Some douche packed so many fives on there that the last one was barely on and decided to fall off right when my foot was under it. It was about a 6 foot drop and I was only wearing wrestling shoes. Hurt like a mother. I was ready to punch someone out but the culprit was long gone.
I just escaped disaster like this years back with a 45.Somebody had squeezed that last wheel barely hanging on a leg press.This beautiful female bb was visiting working out.As I went to start stripping a few she was right next to me on another leg press...my eyes kinda wandered on her a little(just a little)just as I touched the plate.It dropped straight down just between my feet....
Thorgrim
17-11-2011, 12:11 PM
A 45 would probably break your foot. I am just lucky it was a 5. From that height even a 10 could have ****ed something up.
the-vanilla-gorilla
19-12-2011, 04:02 PM
i could care less about what anyones doing in the gym i use to get worked rightup about shit and let it get to me now i have my music and zone out
i try to get along with them all even the idiots since you haveto see them most days might aswell try and make it productive
TVG
i work out at a good life. over night I hear the steam room turns into a gay gangbang, the equipment is shit (ive bent every bar in the building) and the trainers are dumb and fat.....
JacktheThriller
21-12-2011, 06:48 PM
goodlife's are hit and miss small towns usually have the fat trainers and bad equipment. How does a fat trainer convince someone they can get them in shape?
not sure...but they always seem to have some idiot that is willing to pay....on a good note tho, head trainer told me today that he ordered all new bars and a new squat rack!!
Hosehead
23-12-2011, 12:53 AM
goodlife's are hit and miss small towns usually have the fat trainers and bad equipment. How does a fat trainer convince someone they can get them in shape?
My Goodlife ****ing sucks and I only joined to get my wife interested. Only have 100lb dbs and the Hammer Strength stuff is stack loaded, not plate loaded. I used the whole stack on incline and it was the first time using one. I'm no beast either. The trainers are in decent shape but the reps are fat turds who smoke in front of the building. Lame as hell.
RkThinkFit
07-01-2012, 03:23 PM
Right now I find it extremely annoying how all these new years resolutioners are prancing around in their shiny new gym gear, taking up the squat racks (doing 1/4 squats and bb presses,) using all of the cardio equipment and leaving weights everywhere :/
TT Eric
07-01-2012, 07:16 PM
LOL yeah this is January! Well at least in Feb most are gone or will show up only once in a while.
Eric
DanisDanO
02-02-2012, 01:48 PM
The guy who uses one of every dumbbell and decides to put them back in the most random spaces instead of with the one they belong with.. then im stuck trying to find the other one in a sea of miss matched weights.
JacktheThriller
02-02-2012, 02:32 PM
I had to join a new gym because all the ****ing resolutioners were packing the gym. It stunk, you couldn't plan what you were going to train until you got there or else you would be waiting 10 mins of some equipment. New gym is 6X bigger with less people and heavier weights **** YES + the chicks are hotter
I had to join a new gym because all the ****ing resolutioners were packing the gym. It stunk, you couldn't plan what you were going to train until you got there or else you would be waiting 10 mins of some equipment. New gym is 6X bigger with less people and heavier weights **** YES + the chicks are hotter
Couldn't be better.
Couldn't be better.
Only if their weights were lighter
lol
:P
c24lamp
05-02-2012, 11:31 PM
how about the lost souls who pile up dumbbells around a bench/machine. always trying to build a castle made of weights. and you gotta love the giat/super set people using 8 pieces of equipment and taking 15 minute breaks in between :)
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