heres another one:
i work at a gym, and at the end of the night, we must make the place spotless. this means stripping all of the weights! so don’t be a jerk and strip the damn weights!
I think posting all of these is pointless since the people reading these are all T-men and T-vixens who obey these etiquette rules
I hate the guys who are stonger than me. I really hate the women who are stonger than me. I dislike woman who have more testosterone in them than the average race horse. I really hate crowded gyms. People who are in shape, but are still ugly as hell. My greatest pet peave is queers in the steamroom. Don’t mind them in the gym, I mind them alot in the steam room. Fortunately, this is not a common occurence.
How about cell phones in the gym. When I worked as a trainer (I know, but I was one of the GOOD ones), there was this kid who couldn’t have been more than 17 getting anywhere from 6-12 calls on his c-ph every workout. And he’d answer it!! Unless you’re a surgeon on call, leave the cell in your locker (or better yet, in your car).
- Sunglasses do not let you lift heavier. You look like a f* idiot with them on indoors.
- Putting the 20 lb dbs on the top rack and the 120s on the bottom rack. Who thought this was a good idea? Shouldn’t the heavy dbs be on top so you don’t tweak your back bending down to pick them up?
- PTs who cop atitude and act like I’m in their way because I’m using the equipment they want to use for their fat, lazy clients.
- The PT who holds 5 minute conversations with his client in between sets when I’m waiting to use the squat rack.
- Maybe instead of starring at me like I’m a pussy for using 95 lbs for my bb curls, you ought to look at my arms and realize they’re 2 1/2 " bigger than yours because I use 95 lbs for strict curls.
- Fat guys wearing t-shirts with the sleeves cut off to better show of their slab o’ shit arms and their cool so-trendy-it-ought-to-be-outlawed tribal arm ban tattoo.
I know bad form was mentioned a few times, but even worse than just not knowing what they are doing and using sloppy form are the guys (mostly teenagers like me I’ve noticed, I see it a lot) who when they are benching, drive their hips 8 or 10 inches up in the air, saying it’s a bridge to increase their bench, but they turn the thing into a decline bench, and then they strut around thinkin they are hardcore, because it jacked their bench up 30 lbs, but they can’t bench 225 keepin the ass and shoulders both on the bench, the way I look at it, if it wouldn’t be legit in a PL meet, then it’s not really a 1 RM… Although I could see maybe not using the pause, theres only so much damage someones ego can take.
How about some fat bastard walking across the gym parking lot smoking a cigarette and then tossing it as he walks in the door. Then he wanders around the gym stinking it up with the smell of smoke. As far as I’m concerned, smoking and the gym don’t mix.
Here are my peeves: 1) guys who set cell phones on the floor in the squat rack or in the freeweight room; 2) guys who use the benches or machines to sit on for rest while I’m waiitng for them; 3) guys who have terrible form and dumb routines, but look better than I do.
And now for the big one: when you ask someone for a spot (someone who LOOKS like they probably know what they’re doing because they have a halfway decent physique)and they OVERSPOT YOU FOR THE WHOLE DAMN SET!!! It ends up becoming a race between how fast I can move the bar and how fast his hands can lift the thing, and that’s a race you’ll never win! From rep 1, the bar just starts “floating” through the air - I get to do NONE of the work! And I’ll gasp out, at several times during the set, “I’ve got it!” yet he continues doing this! Look, at least for me, and the way I’ve always trained, progress on any excercise, expecially the major ones, comes from reaching failure and trying to surpass that point (in terms of reps, or in terms of weight with the same number of reps) at the next workout. If you DO ALL THE FRIGGIN’ WORK FOR ME THROUGHOUT THE SET, YOU’VE SET MY PROGRESS BACK BY A GOOD WEEK, YOU BASTARD!!! (Thank you).
(And of course, later on, you see this guy working out with his buddies and they’re all spotting each other like this, thinking they’re big because their spotter just “did” a whole set with 315 FOR them)!
My biggest dislike in the gym, is when I go to the squat racks to go do some real heavy squats, and there is guy using the squat rack as a rack for him doing barbell curls with a 30lb weight. I just want to say “buddy, you dont need a spotter rack for that, move asid for people who want to use the equipment properly”
Good ONES: 1) Guys who ask you why you’re working out so hard, while they fuck around 2) Guys coming in with Jeans/or slacks (no fucking kidding) - when you come in to the gym, dress for action! 3) And the usual group of talkers who slack around and bother the babes - If you have time to hit on chicks than you’re not doing shit! Hell, I get hit on (by chicks) and don’t even give time for small talk! 4) Mid life crisis for life (er, I mean body for life) zombies with their 15 minute ambition surge. 5) Idiots, I’ve learned not to give advice, ever - don’t waste your time as idiots only ask you a question hoping you’ll tell them what they want to hear (not the truth). If somebody asks me if it’s ok to eat twinkies while working out, I say, YOU BET BIG GUY! . . .
I hate being distracted at work for the rest of the day thinking about how good Ironbabe’s ass looks doing hamstring curls…How about putting a pic out there somewhere Ironbabe??
People who read magazines and talk on cells inbetween or during sets, flashers in loose shorts and no underwear, fat personal trainers, people who don’t TRY. Stupid questions like “why so much weight?” Being followed around, stared at “like a whore in church” The deer caught in the headlights look when I answer someone’s workout question.
A-Girl, as long as it is a hot chick with loose shorts and no underwear I am sure the guys in the gym won’t mind. I watched a girl do the butt machine where you are on all fours and lift your leg up and back, she wasn’t wearing underwear and had incredible grooming habits from what I could see and was pretty hot. So hot chicks please feel free to go with the loose shorts and no undies and lay down and spread your legs a lot…I did 8 or 9 sets of rows with about 30 pounds more weight than normal while and after watching that…Talk about a “T” boost…
I was doing leg press the other day and a fat chick comes up to me and asks me how many sets I have left, to which I answere 3. She then stood by the machine staring at me for the whole 3 sets!! I made sure to take 3min. rests between and added on a 5th set at the end. Why do fat chicks use the leg press?
LOL @ Jason B!!
i think pretty much everything i can think of has been covered except one thing: the assholes who carry their entire gym bag around with them while they work out and leave it on the floor while they’re doing a set. my gym is cramped enough without these pricks leaving their bags laying around! buy a damn lock already!!!
I hate the people that squat in the curl rack. I can’t help it if they don’t build a rack to squat in. Geez.
Well I agree with what everyone posted. Today we are the gym and these two guys go to the bench and do a warm-up set with 135lbs. Then immediately load up the bar with 495lbs. They proceed to take turns doing sets with this weight. One benching and the other lifting it off of them. Even with the spotter doing most of the work the bencher had his ass higher than the bar is racked. Then afterwards they went around in the locker talking about how they worked out with 500lbs today and making sure everyone heard. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Wow Big Chief, that was really mature of you. It must have taken all of your strength not to ask her to work in with you. You know, even though I pay just as much money at my gym as everyone else, I believe, much like you do, that the equipment was only made for me. I wanted to do curls the other day, but there was a fat chick using the bar I wanted, so I asked the manager to remove her because she was fat and because “fat chicks shouldn’t do curls.” I would like to change my previous post to say that I hate people like Big Chief in my gym. Dick.
I also hate it when people piss on the hot rocks in the sauna…stinks up the whole gym! And, I hate it when homos suck each other of in the sauna. I also hate it when a homo fingers his ass in the Tanning bed and leaves shit marks as evidence. Think I’m lying? True stories. I used to work at this gym. Then it just kept getting a little to gay and pretty much everyone I know has left.
My main peeves: 1)People who overspot, 2)Those idiots who think a spot involves screaming at you to “push harder” without doing a thing to help. 3)Dudes and chicks who dress up to work out, nobody gives a darn about how you dress, and if they do the don’t belong there, 4)guys who are there just to pick up chicks, 5)guys who talk to me in the middle of a set. I takes concentration not to kill myself with 265 lb. on my spine, whatever it is it can wait. and 6)Skinny prettyboys who think a month of bicep and chest training will make them buff and help get them laid.