One thing thats nice about the gyms in the Marine Corps is if you do not pick up after yourself, you may very well get chewed out. Also people don’t take their sweet time quite as much either.
Its sometimes hard to find 45lbs or 10lbs plates because usually all the 45s have moved to the squat racks/platforms and the tens are somewhere near the preachers benches/bench presses.
[quote]debraD wrote:
I just walk away and leave everything as it is, plates all over the floor and a general mess.
(I work out at home, ha)[/quote]
I put everything away for the same reason. I’m pretty anal about it. If stuff is out of place, it distracts me. This is more of an issue because it’s my place. In fact, I’ve been known to sweep the garage floor between sets and pull down cobwebs. It’s the new power clean. When I leave, I have the rack set up for whatever I’m doing my next day so I can just walk in and get started.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
I strip everything, organize the DB’s AND put the “right” weights in the “right” place on the squat rack.
<======= Anal retentive OCD gym rat!
The good thing is that the trainers know it and appreciate it so they don’t bitch at me for dropping weights or using chalk or staying a little late to finish up if it’s a long day.
Edit: AND if I’m in a gym with the old style 45’s (as opposed to the one’s with handles), I make sure the lip of the 45 is facing the “right” way! LOL[/quote]
THIS IS WHAT I DO!!
I rearrange the db’s so they are in ascending order left to right. I tighten all the loose dbs when I come across them to the best of my ability without an allen key. I organize the weight trees when people just throw their weights there haphazardly.
Luckily this doesn’t happen much at my gym, the staff’s really good at cleaning up after people.
I strip everything regardless of the exercise. If I had my way, I would leave a 45 on each side of the deadlift bar because even girls start with 135. But, we do have a deadlift jack so stripping the last plate is no big deal.
I like to warm up with the bar on bench press but if there’s already 45’s on it, I warm up with that because I don’t feel right taking the 45’s just to put them back on again. The bench press at my gym almost always has a pair of 45’s on it.
So if I find it with the 45’s, I’ll leave it with a pair of 45s. If I find it empty, I’ll warm up with that and leave it empty. I don’t pay a membership fee to pick up after other douchebags.
I always put the dumbells back where they belong even if I pick them up off the floor or the wrong place on the rack. I hate when I see people dragging the dumbbells away from the dumbbell area and leaving them all over the gym.
I always leave a 45 on any of the HS machines unless it’s the end of the night and they’re closing. That’s just the way my gym is. You’ll never find any of the HS equipment stripped and I have no problem with this.
All of the above is etiquette for my commercial gym. At my college gym, it’s a fucking nightmare. I leave shit just the way I find it because that place is hopeless. People constantly leave 3 plates on in the rack after quarter squats and a 45, 25, 10, 5 on the bench press.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
I strip everything, organize the DB’s AND put the “right” weights in the “right” place on the squat rack.
<======= Anal retentive OCD gym rat!
The good thing is that the trainers know it and appreciate it so they don’t bitch at me for dropping weights or using chalk or staying a little late to finish up if it’s a long day.
Edit: AND if I’m in a gym with the old style 45’s (as opposed to the one’s with handles), I make sure the lip of the 45 is facing the “right” way! LOL[/quote]
This is me. I absolutely HATE things to be out of order. This even extends to movies on the shelf in stores. People are just plain lazy sometimes!!! LOL!
If I use the seated calf raise or t-bar station I’ll leave a 45 on there because I’ve never seen anyone use those with less than 45. All other equipment gets stripped of weight. I try to put DBs as close as possible to their labeled spot.
I clean what I use. What bothers me is that since I am one of the bigger dudes in my little corporate gym (My home gym has more equipment) and people see other equipment loaded, they assume I put it there and ask me to clean it. I just tell 'em I didn’t put it there and continue with my workout.
If it bothers them so much why the fuck don’t they clean it? As I mentioned my home gym has more however since my kids and wife use it I can’t find time to use it. It’s all good, someday the kids will move on and I’ll have my gym back. Better than the kids getting a poor lifestyle.
Take everything down to the bar. I like to start off working a little form with the bar on most primarys.
Has anyone reamed out a fellow gym-goer for NOT unracking? I have pulled a lot of weight off the bar that people left there/re-racked misplaced dumbells so I dont bust my ass tripping over them in a deadlift-drunk blur.
I put everything away. I get pissy when I see douchebags that just leave shit laying all over like mommy and daddy are going to come and clean up after them. Or idiots that think 3 pieces of equipment belong to them alone cause they are doing a circuit and txting there gf and talking trash about 5 chicks they slamed in the past week with the idiots doing curls in the power rack.
[quote]SSC wrote:
Because one douchebag who used the machine/equipment before didn’t know how to pick up after themselves does not give anyone else reason not to.[/quote]
^x10
I put dumbells back in the right spot and clear the bar. And even put the jumpstretch bands back in there spot. Why be a prick just because you can.[/quote]
^This.
DB
I also hate when people mix the plates on the trees, like putting 5s and 2.5s on top of 10s/25s etc. So, I will take what i need and straighten them out/rearrange them when I put them back.
This dfeels like the right thread; If you saw someone throw a half eaten bannana on the ground outside,would you hate them? Because it’s bio degradable.
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
Rerack all weight and wipe down the bench- its the right thing to do.
Nobody wants to lie in your pool of youjuice.[/quote]
Do most of the more “anal” people on here wipe equipment down when they are done? At least at my gym I never see it happen and I dont really do it either.
[quote]Stength4life wrote:
This dfeels like the right thread; If you saw someone throw a half eaten banana on the ground outside,would you hate them? Because it’s bio degradable.[/quote]
No, wrong thread. This is a totally different topic. For me it depends on where they throw it. For an apple core or something I’d be more tolerant about where it landed. Bananas can get pretty disgusting so it better be where I ain’t ever going to see it.