I get to see all of those weekly. It just drives my hate for humans up every visit. I just don’t understand how any self respecting person can act like that.
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The sweaty guy was funny.
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- Horrendous trainers who put their clients at risk of injury every time they do a movement.
- Quarter squatters, especially the ones who ask me for “form checks.” What am I supposed to say?
- Women never lifting enough weight to challenge themselves, probably from some misguided notion that they’ll get jacked and look like a man.
- Guys mean-mugging me when their girlfriends are checking me out, because I’m hotter and more jacked than them.
- Spotters who insist on touching the bar and “guiding it” just because my bar speed slows a little–even after I specifically say, don’t do anything unless I say “Help.”
- Spotters who yell “c’mon, you got one more, one more!” after I finish my set even though they don’t know my program or that I have more sets to do, or that not everyone else is an ego lifter on every set.
- People who don’t know how to put back weights in any organized way.
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You see I SWEAT like its going to kill me. BUT I also take a towel with me to the gym when I go. And will turn back from the gym if I didn’t bring it.
The reverse of this - I was spotting a guy on bench press. I’m under instruction not to touch the bar unless he asked for help. Which will be on rep 3 or 4 depending.
Rep 2 and he slowed right down - kinda got a bit stuck but sorted him self out in the end. But racked the bar. Apparently don’t touch the bar until he asked for it meant “if I slow down give me a hand”. And “I’m gonna do 3-4 reps” meant “I can do 3-4 reps if you help me through rep 2”.
The amount of times I have been asked for lifting advice from women only to get this as a response after designing a simple plan 
- The guy whose thighs are skinnier than my neck trying to give me squat/leg press “advice”
- The screamer - some grunting is useful, but enough is enough
- The “bodybuilders” who only work chest/biceps and look like they will fall over forward if you breath too hard in their direction
- Teenagers who work out in groups of 6 - not so much a problem at my current gym at least
- Anybody attempting a “circuit” during gym rush hour - thanks for hogging the only squat rack and only smith machine.
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There were a couple in my gym in Shanghai- I deadlifted more than them
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Right now I think I’d be willing to forgive anybody else in the gym anything, just so long as it re-opens and I can get in there.
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People that do their hobby different from the way I do my hobby.
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I haven’t been in a gym for 3 years now (basement gym FTW) and I don’t miss it at all.
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Dude(ette)s that get pissed when you tell them you have more than 3 sets, offer to let them work in, and they refuse.
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Dudes (only dudes do this) that artificially lower their voice as much as possible and have a yelling conversation with their buddy that’s 2 feet away
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Bad spotters
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People that walk really close to you when you have heavy weight in your hands/on your back…everyone loves having a 400+ lb squat sidejacked mid-rep
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Permaflexers
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Screamers. Not 1RM screamers, but every-rep-including-warmup screamers
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Dudes that cry 'Roids about everyone that’s stronger than them
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Serious shit talkers. Everyone loves fun shit talk, but some literally talk shit to strangers
I am experiencing this for the first time at the latest gym I go to (the last six years). The good thing is that it is usually the same person.
Come on now - we can all collectively hate on the guy who doesn’t wipe his sweat off the bench…
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The guy who was notorious for this at my last gym would throw his towel on the smith machine after one set and then not return for 20 minutes while he did other work. I got permission from the gym staff to remove the towel after 5 minutes of inactivity and do what I had to do.
You might consider me an offender here. Back-in-the-day when the gyms only had a single piece of equipment (no duplications) it was very common practice to “work-in” together. You know. Share. That was expected. It always happened.
No, I don’t get pissed. I just ask, “You don’t mind if I work in with you, do you?” [Currently, Covid makes this “work-in” less sanitary, so I don’t ask to “work-in”] I am persistent if the person seems to reject my request with something like, “You don’t want to hog the machine, do you?”
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Good catch! It’s the ones that refuse to work in and get mad that piss me off.
Screw 5 minutes! I’m working in. Where the hell has gym etiquette gotten to? It was never that way in the "'70’s, '80’s, or '90’s.
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I don’t like working in, but I don’t get mad
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As a misanthrope, I hate on everyone equally.
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I would work in if the guy was actually working…it’s more like he laid claim to the territory and then abandoned it. I could get all my sets of rows or whatever in before he came back to the machine.
Those are funny people. I should know. I was one. I recall the “wake up call”.
You must understand a consideration that there was little information available at the time and I had no peers to compare ideas. It was 1970 and I found a bodybuilding contest was coming to Durham, NC in November. I was training to get in shape, as best I could. I believed that I had the best physique in the gym (and I probably did, but that wasn’t saying much).
It was contest time. It was the 1970 Mr. All South. It was a time when AAU bodybuilding was phasing out the athletic requirement. We had a meeting before the contest where we were addressed by the judges. This was said, " We know all of you guys have chest, shoulders, and arms or you wouldn’t be here. We’ll be looking for development in you legs, back, and abs." I remember those words as if it were said yesterday. Guess how I trained my legs. Leg extensions, leg curls, and running was my leg routine. As you might guess I came in last place. Oh yeah, I was 6 feet tall with relatively long legs.
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I used to know a guy like that. I really dont think he ever washed his gym clothes. God, he reeked!