Diesel, One of my buddies, a 290 pound freak show, would cart around the world’s biggest gym bag. It was meant for hockey players to carry all their crap in. It would also fit a body and I’m sure people noticed. Although this lunatic wished someone would step on it or ask him to leave it in the locker room, strangely no one ever did. It could be that he had the physique and the temper of a shaven gorilla. Actually once I kicked it just to torment him because we were buddies. He was disturbed and tried to beat me with his weight belt, although I managed to scamper away.
- Guys who pile a stack of 45’s on the calf machine and then proceed to move the stack through a one-inch range of motion.
2)The group of training buddies hogging the only two squat racks for hours during prime training time.
I forgot the one that always drives me nuts!People popping zits, squeezing blackheads, in the mirrors, or picking stuff out of their teeth as though they are unobserved in their own bathroom. GRROOOSS!!! don’t do that!!!
Humans, enough said.
What sometimes annoys me are others that spend more time watching others and whining than working and paying attention to what they’re doing themselves.
Hates. 1)curling in the squat rack 2)gym physiologists, offering "to tone you gotta…to build ya gotta. the whole "doing cardio will… 3)Social seekers working in groups of 5, 4)mirror watchers. If you dont have at least a sense of joint position, body position sense, perhaps your focus should be on something else. 5)Not a hate, but reason to laugh…the belt and wrapper for everyset boys or girls and the step master lovers in a perpetual state of isometric dip.
EeeBee, GeeBee SHAZAMM! you guys! Sounds like you guys are in some mighty FUNKY gyms! (The Lion gets GOOSE BUMPS about being confronted with wet rocks, poop on the tanning bed, and zit juice on his brush…eeeessshhh)! (smile!:)— Mufasa…LOL!
I don’t mind having T-men work out around me, but being in the gym with other people is very annoying… hehehe…
Also, I don’t like conversations in the gym. I’m in there for one reason, and one reason only - to workout. Therefore, I’ll even avoid people I know well, just to have a good workout.
Just like NaturalMan I’ve gone to a gym where
somebody pissed on the sauna rocks, it took a
couple of weeks to get the odour out and I’ve
also noticed chicks directing the jets in the
hottub at their clits and asses.
Hello everyone…AWESOME SITE!! Finally, some real education on the subjects I need to know about. I’m a familiar with a lot, but I am NEWBIE here I need to learn. Doug, thanks for the opening question. I am in agreement with all except the first part–we don’t really have any of that, but yeah, it is not the place.
My irks:
Bad Form: you would not believe it!!! Why did I see a guy doing biceps curls bouncing on his toes like a gogo dancer, and guys using their backs to move weights doing everything else? I knew there was a reason to not ask for advice in my gym besides being a bit apprehensive. Scary!
People who won’t rerack: I am a lightweight…some guy the size or Arnold S, just finished with 600 lbs and walks off and leaves it. At one point signs went up about revoking memberships…well someone (lol)called their lawyer, and Balley’s took them down.
Well, if the Bally’s “staff” would “work” instead of just haning out for new sign-ups, lusting after women and talking about everyone else, they just might create a climate of mandatory participation–you lift–you rerack! It looks like a war zone at times.
Product Store: only a couple of people can work the register, and most of the time you have to pry them from the phone, or put out an APB to get some service, or like yesterday I wanted to buy a single serving of something. One is on the phone, the one with a key is nowhere to be found, and one of the mangers simply says no and walks off, after his staff member asks him if he can ring me up. Worse, they just close down without any warning, so if you need to get something in an emergency, forget it. Am I glad I don’t have to count on that everyday.
Music: it sucks! For me, some good house music with a good dance beat and a reasonable volume is good–not the techno, but slower than that—like the music beat to Madonna’s Vogue. At least they got rid of the radio…DUHHH? One day they even tried rap music–that really slow stuff where the artist mumbles, curses and says degrading things about women. I just wanted to curl up an take a nap–after I barfed that is. THAT was the last straw.
Fortunately, enough of us complained and they didn’t try that anymore, now, music (tolorable)is piped in with abrupt commercials for…what else, Bally’s line of nutritionals. On top of that, add several TV monitors blasting on different channels. Fortunately, I am in the weight room most of the time so it is not so intense.
OK, I am almost done!
Safety: The guy who does the cleaning. Why is he trying to clean while the weight room is packed? He is talking to people and the mop is going every which way… under the guys feet who was in the process of running to rerack weights before losing his grip…whoops…slllliiiiip, BAM!! Ouch! And spraying stuff everywhere to give people asthma attacks if they are prone to it. I do not understand.
Noise: groaning…yeah we have that too…one night I thought there was wild animal in the gym…I am telling you this guy sounded like a wounded moose! Several people ran to the weight room to see what happened…nothing, just doing bench presses with a 45 plate on each end. Slamming the weights together, throwing them down, rolling across the floor under sombody’s feet who is trying to get out of the way of someone with too much weight on a barbell over their head in bad form, and then slaming it down and strutting off like a rooster…cock-i-doodle-dummy! How many people just stepped over that empty bottle there…?
Ahh, the good ole days when it was Holiday and just “anybody” could not walk in for $19.00 a month.
I saw the questions and feedback on personal trainers…See, I KNEW I was not crazy when I keep telling several of my buddies to do some research before hiring a trainer. I mean, I see some of these people at my gym, and elsewhere and they look the same from like 2 or 3 years ago! Hmmm, let me see, I could have charged them half, given them some basic info on nutrition and the importance of proper rest and sent them to this website. “I may have to think about that one.”
I have seen some of the “trainers” watching themselves in the mirror, or checking somebody out while the guy or woman on the bench is thrusting his back a foot off the bench and holding his or her breath. Wow, I did not know people could turn that shade of blue so fast! If they ever suggest that I hire one of their trainers I will remain calm, and simply respond with the article I found of this site, and tell them to just leave me alone!
Find another gym you are thinking…not, when I got in on a lifetime membership with Holiday with $5 renewable fees year. There are sources I can contact if it really gets out of hand.
So, I will tune into this site often, learn all I can, make some mistakes, try to go when it is the least crowded and see all of you at the top!
more gym turn offs:
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too much perfume/cologne
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REALLY BAD faring (go to the locker room)
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gross body odor
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flashers: guys who wear boxer shorts under their shorts and unknowingly/knowingly flash the rest of us while they are doing flat bench work
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women not wearing underwear and sporting a tear in their tights/shorts/sweats (kind of gross when giving an exercise class)
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while we’re on the subject of genitalia, how about guys who wear spandex shorts/tights like a sheet of cling wrap, clearly outlining every wrinkle, contour, and outline of their penis’s? wear a cup, PULLLEASSSSSSSE!
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someone doing a pansy-assed backwards set with free weights or a machine i’m waiting for.
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someone whose mind is off meditating in lala land between sets, yet still sitting on the eqiupment i’d like to use.