Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

will56 · 23-10-2015 8:47am

Skipping Rope ! People taking up walkways etc skipping, that give you the evils when you ask them to move out of the effing way.

Instructors who insist on using 3/4/5 pieces of equipment to put a client through a circuit, but refuse to let you work in on one piece.

Failure to re-rack weights, even though it has led to weights being removed from the floor so you have to spend ages looking for the one pair of matching dumbbells for your set

pinkypinky · 23-10-2015 9:27am

There's a cohort of guys at my gym who on seeing each other, shake hands and hug, then they proceed to shout at each other across the gym while they work out separately.

Tell me how · 23-10-2015 10:09am

During the winter a few years ago a well known intercounty hurler used to come in to the gym at about half nine or so, gym closed at ten. He would ask the receptionist to sign him in "log him on the county team gym record sheet" and then just go in for a shower.

That wasn't really what annoyed me though.

Before going in to the shower he used to wrap his boxers around the head of the hair dryer and turn it on. He would leave that running while in the shower.

20 minutes later he'd be out the door with a toasty ball sack and the county manager feeling the lads are putting in the effort.

Alf Veedersane · 23-10-2015 10:50am

Tell me how wrote: »

Before going in to the shower he used to wrap his boxers around the head of the hair dryer and turn it on. He would leave that running while in the shower.

20 minutes later he'd be out the door with a toasty ball sack

Logged under 'pro tip'.

lbj666 · 23-10-2015 10:55am

Doing rehab from an injury in a gym well known for its overcrowding, have an excersise moving from a reserve lunge to a step up takes a little bit of space. The amount of idiots walking right behind me i have hit into mid excersise is rediculous.

heroics · 23-10-2015 11:31am

will56 wrote: »

Skipping Rope ! People taking up walkways etc skipping, that give you the evils when you ask them to move out of the effing way.

In the gym I was in there was 1 guy who used to skip right in front of dumbell rack. Basically stopping everyone else from getting to the weights.

Zillah · 23-10-2015 11:37am

lbj666 wrote: »

Doing rehab from an injury in a gym well known for its overcrowding, have an excersise moving from a reserve lunge to a step up takes a little bit of space. The amount of idiots walking right behind me i have hit into mid excersise is rediculous.

This sounds a bit like someone reversing out onto a road complaining about all the cars hitting them.

(People don't expect other people to suddenly lunge backwards, it's your responsibility to make sure it's clear)

deadlybuzzman · 23-10-2015 11:53am

It's strange, my current gym has only normal nice people, I still can't get used to it.
In my old gym however I turned my back on the bar while warming up on Deadlift and when I turned back I noticed that my chalk bag was quite flat and had a footprint on it.
There was only one other guy in the gym and he was walking away with an invisible telly under each arm (the big man walk).
I'm not particularly big so I presume this was him trying to make himself feel better about some insecurity or another by figuratively kicking sand in my face.
I just kept throwing on the plates and smiling at him..... one of the 2 things made him uncomfortable anyway because he lost the 2 invisible telly's and shuffled off into a corner out of the way

Jimmy Iovine · 23-10-2015 8:04pm

I arrived at a gym in England last year to find a squad car outside. The police were inside escorting a guy from the weights section to the front door. No idea what it was about. That episode summed up the gym. It was a pile of ****e.

discus · 23-10-2015 8:24pm

Was it in Plymouth by any chance? The one I'm at now has some right characters.

edit: story removed incase the world is small!

power pants · 23-10-2015 8:45pm

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

MightyMandarin · 23-10-2015 9:11pm

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I arrived at a gym in England last year to find a squad car outside. The police were inside escorting a guy from the weights section to the front door. No idea what it was about. That episode summed up the gym. It was a pile of ****e.

Probably some guy caught with his wheyroids and creabols stash. Poor guy was only trying to make some gains.

discus · 23-10-2015 9:13pm

power pants wrote: »

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

I'm going to be feeling very self concious this sunday :eek:

drdeadlift · 23-10-2015 10:32pm

Making more noise than needed,dropping weights slamming bars back needlessly.Very annoying stuff

deadlybuzzman · 23-10-2015 11:01pm

power pants wrote: »

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

....... oh you SAY you don't want to look but......

mezzanine08 · 24-10-2015 12:17am

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

Dont know whos taking the p*ss now.........

GAA shorts and socks (everyone gets it you play GAA well done)

It's funny I bought a pair of GAA shorts at Elverys when they were on sale and I've held a hurley about 5 times total my whole life

Jon Stark · 25-10-2015 9:00am

drdeadlift wrote: »

Making more noise than needed,dropping weights slamming bars back needlessly.Very annoying stuff

Don't you know that they have to do that #clangingandbanging bro.

I actually experienced such a fool in my gym on Thursday. Everytime he slammed the bar down he just postured and looked around to see if anyone was looking at him.

Type of bloke to be laughed at.

Nervous Wreck · 25-10-2015 10:01am

There's a PT in Flyefit Macken St who puts a 24inch plyo box in a power cage and then has his client stand in front of it and do anything from deadlifts to curls. They never once use the cage or the box but take the use of both away from anyone else who may want to use them. They spend a good 45 mins with that set up but will often walk away to do other things and leave all the stuff set up so no one else can move it. He's also a shîte PT from everything I've seen him do with his clients. Infuriating.

El Horseboxo · 25-10-2015 10:25am

I like to get in and out. Only things that annoy me is any behavior that unnecessarily impedes that. Like taking 10 mins between Squats due to talking. Suppose any piece of equipment. Basically if you use something without any consideration of others. You're a dick.

play it again · 25-10-2015 10:47am

Jon Stark wrote: »

Don't you know that they have to do that #clangingandbanging bro.

I actually experienced such a fool in my gym on Thursday. Everytime he slammed the bar down he just postured and looked around to see if anyone was looking at him.

Type of bloke to be laughed at.

Nothing wrecks my head more than dropping weights , I can stand just about anything but cunce dropping weights , I was in a gym in London that had a sign at the weights rack saying " if you can't put them down quitely , don't pick them up "

Wanderer78 · 25-10-2015 11:27am

El Horseboxo wrote: »

I like to get in and out. Only things that annoy me is any behavior that unnecessarily impedes that. Like taking 10 mins between Squats due to talking. Suppose any piece of equipment. Basically if you use something without any consideration of others. You're a dick.

fairly annoying alright but i do think people are rushing around too much. i spend a couple of hours in the gym at a time taking my time. yes that means you ll be waiting for me to finish with a piece of equipment. slow down and enjoy your work out. it isnt a race

Dwarf.Shortage · 25-10-2015 11:48am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

fairly annoying alright but i do think people are rushing around too much. i spend a couple of hours in the gym at a time taking my time. yes that means you ll be waiting for me to finish with a piece of equipment. slow down and enjoy your work out. it isnt a race

To be fair I tend to go at lunchtime and want to burst through a session in 45 mins. It's a fairly common thing, could be 10 or 15 suits hanging up in the changing room at 12:30. If I couldn't get it done in an hour I'd have to question my intensity.

Wanderer78 · 25-10-2015 11:51am

Dwarf.Shortage wrote: »

To be fair I tend to go at lunchtime and want to burst through a session in 45 mins. It's a fairly common thing, could be 10 or 15 suits hanging up in the changing room at 12:30. If I couldn't get it done in an hour I'd have to question my intensity.

thats fair enough i guess but i do know others that do something similar to you. i guess its just not for me. exercise time is where you should slow the world down and connect with yourself. people really are running around too much. i have intense periods in my routine but mainly its nice and slow and relaxing.

coffee_cake · 25-10-2015 11:52am

I prefer going in the evenings so I have a bit less clock watching on my own part but people could have all sorts of things to rush off to, so whatever works

Mr. CooL ICE · 25-10-2015 1:07pm

Regarding the bar slamming... For deadlifts and barbell rows, I tend to not lower it down slowly and it is kinda loud. I never let it fall out of my hands and always drop with it. Is that frowned upon? If I lower slowly, I tend to get lower back ache.

25-10-2015 1:11pm

People who think it somehow thinks its possible to re-rack 40kg+ dumbells without dropping them and making some noise after a hard set, that's why they and the floor are rubberized, I will be damned if I will tear my rotator cuff so you can pretend its a library whilst scribbling in your training diary......

My pet peeve is people that train so skinking of BO that I can taste it, I dont mind the smell of a gym, its a place of sweat and effort, I have had to train in a old tee cause I forgot a clean one, but you all know some fellas be stinking really bad.

Wanderer78 · 25-10-2015 1:15pm

Joyce Happy Adhesive wrote: »

My pet peeve is people that train so skinking of BO that I can taste it, I dont mind the smell of a gym, its a place of sweat and effort, I have had to train in a old tee cause I forgot a clean one, but you all know some fellas be stinking really bad.

i ll make sure to stay away from your gym then. i never use deodorant

25-10-2015 1:44pm

Wanderer78 wrote: »

i ll make sure to stay away from your gym then. i never use deodorant

Usually said smelly fellow will pass by you just before some good looking girl sits on the next bench, making her think you skink like a tramp.

play it again · 25-10-2015 3:15pm

Joyce Happy Adhesive wrote: »

People who think it somehow thinks its possible to re-rack 40kg+ dumbells without dropping them and making some noise after a hard set, that's why they and the floor are rubberized, I will be damned if I will tear my rotator cuff so you can pretend its a library whilst scribbling in your training diary......

My pet peeve is people that train so skinking of BO that I can taste it, I dont mind the smell of a gym, its a place of sweat and effort, I have had to train in a old tee cause I forgot a clean one, but you all know some fellas be stinking really bad.

I'm thinking more of the guys who drop weights from hip height while staring themselves out of it at the mirror after doing 3 reps on the guns

Zillah · 25-10-2015 11:16pm

Joyce Happy Adhesive wrote: »

People who think it somehow thinks its possible to re-rack 40kg+ dumbells without dropping them and making some noise after a hard set, that's why they and the floor are rubberized, I will be damned if I will tear my rotator cuff so you can pretend its a library whilst scribbling in your training diary......

There's a big difference between making some noise and just abandoning them mid-air.

My pet peeve is people that train so skinking of BO that I can taste it, I dont mind the smell of a gym, its a place of sweat and effort, I have had to train in a old tee cause I forgot a clean one, but you all know some fellas be stinking really bad.

Fresh sweat doesn't smell, so they're either not washing themselves or they're wearing filthy old clothes. It's amazing how big a cloud they carry around with them, like, a fifteen feet sphere around them. On more than one occasion I've changed what I'm doing just to get away from it.

Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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