If a car at the light stayed stopped for 30 seconds and no one was behind them, would it matter?
It used to bother me that people didn’t rerack their weights. But if it’s weights that I wasn’t planning on using, why do I care? If I’m standing at the rack and no one is around, what is the harm? It would be a dick move for me to walk in front of someone and hog an area. I don’t do that. I do have other people that do it to me. I can be on a bench and a guy will stand in front of me and do his thing. For bonus points, they will drop the weights and leave them.
In one of the gyms that I used to belong to, they had a great idea of overselling memberships. This made afternoons and evenings very busy, so I moved my training to mornings. It’s a good crowd in the morning anyway, but the eye candy is to be desired…
well, when I got there in the morning, the dumbell rack was, of course, all out of whack, since the newbs, and the young-uns had never learned gym etiquette. So I took it upon my self to just re-arrange the DB’s back to the proper order. I figured that it was just a good way to warm up, and it is better than getting pissed.
Sometimes you have to be the cure, not the disease.
amirite?"
Definitely apples and oranges. In the dumbbell rack case, I am waiting a short period of time for someone doing what is intended done in a gym. In the other case, I waiting someone who isn’t doing what is expected by any reasonable person.
The gym etiquette that I developed over 53 years centers on working around others when possible, and working in when working around is insufficient. I would have no issues working around or working in with someone is only impacting 30 seconds of possible disruption.
Let’s focus on the lazy bum taking up the squat rack to do barbell curls. That is far from a 30 second disruption.
I dislike people putting their bag/bottle/clothing on the machine next to the one they are using. This gets me even when it’s not equipment I am not going to use.
I used to ask them to move their stuff whether I was using or not (“has your phone finished it’s set?”) thinking I was doing a good deed. Then I saw a few people just move on to the next machine and do the same thing.
I also realised you come across as a bit of a dick lol I would just ignore these days…
So to answer your question, yes it’s the principle
I once broke down at a stoplight at the top of a hill, middle of the afternoon, sunny day, two lanes. Hazards on, bonnet up. I assumed you could see this from a mile away.
6 people pulled up and stopped behind me. 2 of them when the light was green, one of those stayed for a full green-red-green cycle before going around.
Some people cannot deal with something unexpected in the environment…
Some things you have to let go. In KC, I would never blow my horn at someone sitting at a light. People got shot that way. I got into an argument with a woman on a train once, I was being a dick, when she got up, the blade she had in her bag slid out and cut the woman next to her as she walked by. That taught me a lesson, don’t worry about stuff you don’t need to. You don’t know someone’s mindset. Last year at the gym, Friends there told me about a guy who flipped the fuck out when someone asked him if he was on a machine. He said yeah, when they asked to work in, he flipped out and threatened to kill people. Management stepped in and asked him to leave. He left after threatening to kill everyone again.
It’s not smart to put yourself in a situation for something you will agree is minor in afterthought. It is the gym’s responsibility to correct behavior if it goes against policy. I see people break gym etiquette all the time, but why should I put myself in a situation where I have to watch my back everyday at the gym.
It’s one thing to talk like you would do this and you would do that, but if you haven’t lived that life, I think you might want to reconsider. I’ve put it all on the line and done some things that left me looking over my shoulder for years. When I look back, I wish I could have just walked away. Life would have been so much more peaceful. So ignore the small stuff, if people are not really bothering you, don’t let it bother you.
Even for a six inch rom… That’s pretty impressive (50 literal plates). I think my vertebrae would disintegrate under that weight.
Pet peeves of my own? Dropping weights obnoxiously for no reason (i.e doing a set of side laterals with 10kg, then lifting the dumbells overhead, dropping them and grunting at the same time as to amass as much noise as possible).
A mildly opposing pet peeve: I have sloppy shoulder joints and when doing flat bench press with dumbbells I bring them down to my chest and drop them on the floor in a pretty controlled manner. But still, 90-110lb dumbbells make some noise and vibrate the floor, ya know?
I hate when I’m in the middle of a heavy set and someone picks that 15-20 seconds to start their curl/shrug set either directly next to me, or directly in front of me. I usually drop the dumbbells with a little extra gusto to give em a fright.
What I’ve come to learn with most things, is that the vast majority of the time people are innocently oblivious, not malicious.
Fair enough. But like…if ventilation is the issue, why wear tights or shorts hiked so far up one’s cooch, they’re liable to catch a yeast infection?
I’m all for shaving off layers if it means you’re comfortable, but is it really just that? Cant tell you how many chicks I’ve seen not wearing underwear with the perfect Rorschach sweat blotches all over their nether regions.
At that point, I figured they know what they’re doing, they know which clothes yield better ventilation. Choice is theirs anyways.
I was just saying that because in the summer, a lot of women in the gym I go to in Shanghai show up in sports bras and booty shorts.
No one really pays attention (ie comments or stares) and they don’t seem to mind that no one is paying attention (ie strategically going in front of a good looking personal trainer to do glute exercises)
