I swear my gym has got to be the worst ever when it comes to people putting their weights away. I absolutely hate it. No regard for other members. Even the personal trainer are guilty. I always rerack my weights out of respect for others. I think it gives you good gym karma. Is it just the people in people in Los Angeles or is the world going to shit when it comes to respect and common courtesy?
If you are one of these assholes, please start reracking the weights. Its not OK for someone else to take off a bunch of 45 plates and change that you left on the bar.
[quote]Hagar wrote:
I swear my gym has got to be the worst ever when it comes to people putting their weights away. I absolutely hate it. No regard for other members. Even the personal trainer are guilty. I always rerack my weights out of respect for others. I think it gives you good gym karma. Is it just the people in people in Los Angeles or is the world going to shit when it comes to respect and common courtesy?
If you are one of these assholes, please start reracking the weights. Its not OK for someone else to take off a bunch of 45 plates and change that you left on the bar.
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90% of these guys live at home with Mommy, and she’s not there to clean up after them.
Pisses me off something fierce and I always say shit and look around while removing weights someone left behind. If you take it out, put it back.
About 60 % of the time when we head back to squat some douchebag has left a stability ball back there. I love kicking those things. There is a Smith machine down the row and depending on where the bar is I either use it as a goal or an upright.
Nothing better than stuffing the stability ball, raising up your arms and shouting, "GOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLL… GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL… GOOOOOOOOOAAALLLLLLLLL.
Me big pet peeve is the leg press machine. People love to load it up and leave 4-8 plates on each side and walk away after their “sets”. I like to warmup with many sets to get ready and if someone doesn’t strip the weight down I WILL go find them if I know who it was and tell them to go back and take the plates off. It doesn’t make me a very popular person.
[quote]scottiscool wrote:
Me big pet peeve is the leg press machine. People love to load it up and leave 4-8 plates on each side and walk away after their “sets”. I like to warmup with many sets to get ready and if someone doesn’t strip the weight down I WILL go find them if I know who it was and tell them to go back and take the plates off. It doesn’t make me a very popular person. [/quote]
You have guts. Its much easier for some people to say nothing.
If there were only more people like you, this wouldn’t be such a problem. If I did this everyone at my gym would hate me and I wouldn’t be able to get a spotter. I have made a few people uncomfortable by looking right at them while I strip the weights and let them fall to floor. Thats enough to get my point across, but I’m getting feed up. My gym needs to at least put a sign up. Until then, the staff can rerack them as far as I’m concerned.
Why are you Nancy’s complaining? You are actually benefiting from cleaning up after those lazy morons. how? you are lifting more weight cleaning up. like a mini gpp for your training session.
[quote]John S. wrote:
Is it wrong that I leave a 45 on each side of the bar after I’m done benching so the other people don’t have to load it?[/quote]
This is something I was hoping would get brought up. Now if you lift in a hardcore powerlifting gym where everyone warms up with 135 for your first set, feel free. But I always am going to assume that it’s just as likely that the 110 lb girl is going to use the bench/machine as the 240 lb guy. Besides that fact, I warm up with the bar especially if it’s my first movement of the day and I don’t want to have to strip a 45 off because someone assumed that’s what should be on there.
It pains me to see an old or a small person especially a girl having to unload a bunch of plates off whatever they want to use because a jerk decided he was going to mark his territory or whatever caveman mentality that goes on with this.
LA Fitness definitely has this problem, but I notice it only with dumbbells really. People for the most part surprisingly rack their bars, but I don’t know how in the world you can leave about 30+% of all the dumbbells on the floor… in front of the dumbbell rack… It’s ridiculous.
[quote]scottiscool wrote:
John S. wrote:
Is it wrong that I leave a 45 on each side of the bar after I’m done benching so the other people don’t have to load it?
This is something I was hoping would get brought up. Now if you lift in a hardcore powerlifting gym where everyone warms up with 135 for your first set, feel free. But I always am going to assume that it’s just as likely that the 110 lb girl is going to use the bench/machine as the 240 lb guy. Besides that fact, I warm up with the bar especially if it’s my first movement of the day and I don’t want to have to strip a 45 off because someone assumed that’s what should be on there.
It pains me to see an old or a small person especially a girl having to unload a bunch of plates off whatever they want to use because a jerk decided he was going to mark his territory or whatever caveman mentality that goes on with this. [/quote]
Tho it is never my intention to mark my terratory, it just seems after being asked by people to leave it on for so long I always thought it was the polite thing to do to leave a 45 on each side, now I know so I will no longer do that.
[quote]John S. wrote:
Tho it is never my intention to mark my terratory, it just seems after being asked by people to leave it on for so long I always thought it was the polite thing to do to leave a 45 on each side, now I know so I will no longer do that.
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Even though I put mine away, I think thats fine in a big gym with lots of benches and multiple legpresses because most guys warm up with 135 or a few plates on the legpress. I like that and its accepted practice in most gyms. It saves me some work. As long as there’s some available that are stripped down for the ladies and the weaklings:DJK Newbs
Easy curl bars should always be striped. If someone leaves their plates on one, they should be executed then banned from the gym, or is it the other way around?
[quote]Hagar wrote:
John S. wrote:
Tho it is never my intention to mark my terratory, it just seems after being asked by people to leave it on for so long I always thought it was the polite thing to do to leave a 45 on each side, now I know so I will no longer do that.
Even though I put mine away, I think thats fine in a big gym with lots of benches and multiple legpresses because most guys warm up with 135 or a few plates on the legpress. I like that and its accepted practice in most gyms. It saves me some work. As long as there’s some available that are stripped down for the ladies and the weaklings:D
Easy curl bars should always be striped. If someone leaves their plates on one, they should be executed then banned from the gym, or is it the other way around?
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I agree, leave weight on the EZ bar and you deserve nothing less then death.
[quote]scottiscool wrote:
John S. wrote:
Is it wrong that I leave a 45 on each side of the bar after I’m done benching so the other people don’t have to load it?
This is something I was hoping would get brought up. Now if you lift in a hardcore powerlifting gym where everyone warms up with 135 for your first set, feel free. But I always am going to assume that it’s just as likely that the 110 lb girl is going to use the bench/machine as the 240 lb guy. Besides that fact, I warm up with the bar especially if it’s my first movement of the day and I don’t want to have to strip a 45 off because someone assumed that’s what should be on there.
It pains me to see an old or a small person especially a girl having to unload a bunch of plates off whatever they want to use because a jerk decided he was going to mark his territory or whatever caveman mentality that goes on with this. [/quote]
Yeah, you mentioned the leg press earlier, and honestly that is the machine that I see this happen on the most. We have 100’s at my gym and they sometimes get left on the leg press. There is no way that a 110 lb soaking wet newbie (be in woman or man) is going to pull off 3 100 lb plates off each side of the leg press and be able to re-rack them.
Personally as both a trainer and employee of the gym I make it an absolute rule for myself and my clients to re-rack the weights when finished with the bar/machine. It’s tough to tell people to rack their weights if they know that you don’t do so yourself.
It’s not just an LA problem by the way, it happens everywhere.
It pains me to see an old or a small person especially a girl having to unload a bunch of plates off whatever they want to use because a jerk decided he was going to mark his territory or whatever caveman mentality that goes on with this. [/quote]
Amen.
Along those lines, if they are really struggling, don’t be afraid to ask if they want some help. Sometimes people are apprehensive about accepting help even when they clearly need it, so throwing in a light-hearted disparaging comment about whoever left the plates on there in the first place isn’t a bad segue into offering help.
When you see a tiny 5’ tall girl wanting to get in the squat rack, but unable because she can’t pull the 45 lb plates off a bar racked higher than her head, you definitely realize the need to strip all the plates.
This is a big pet peeve of mine haha. I tell everyone who has ever lifted with me if they don’t rerack every single plate dumbbell or bar that they can stay home.
Come to my gym. I’m a manager there and I’m down right vindictive when it comes to tracking down gym patrons that don’t rerack their weights. That lack of common courtesy not only inconveniences other patrons, it also leaves me with a bunch of weights to rerack at the end of the day.
And just to add weight to a previous poster’s argument, no, there should be no plates left on the bar when you’re done, even if it only totals 135.
I have worked and worked out at a number of different gyms, health clubs and fitness centers primarily in Minnesota but in other parts of the country as well and it is prevelant everywhere.
I have chased guys down to remind them to put their weights away. I have gotten every response from “Sorry, I forgot” to “F*** you” to “Do you wanna step outside and discuss this?” (I sh** you not! To which I replied, “Sure just let me change my shirt so I don’t get your blood all over my personal trainer uniform” Didn’t make him too happy).
It is usually the gym morons who have to have to have everyone’s attention when they perform their grunting and screaming 1/4 rep leg press, bench press, etc. What really pisses’em off is when I ask to work in and warm-up with their 1/4 rep max weight. Plain old laziness is the second most common reason for not putting the weights away.
This of course causes multiple problems: One is obviously inconvience A. for other members, but B. for personal trainers (at least those of us who know what we are doing) who are trying to give their clients an efficient workout, Two is safety and Three is it just plain looks bad. the gym is my church and my church has to be neat and orderly…but again hat may be my OCD creeping in.