I have a private place to workout now but the public gyms were hell for me.
God forbid I take two steps away from my station to rest when some asshole starts taking off my weights or taking my dumbbells without asking if I’m done.
When some jerk takes every 45 plate in the gym and loads the leg press like he’s Tom Platz and doesn’t go through the full range of motion. Or does it for calves.
People who sweat on the equipment and don’t wipe up after themselves.
[quote]johnny_law wrote:
People who sweat on the equipment and don’t wipe up after themselves.
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Gosh that reminds me…once there was this girl with a massive Ringworm breakout, perspiring all over the equipment and not wiping them down. Same with this guy who had obvious Conjunctivits, which is extremely contagious by contact with tiny amounts of the fluids. And then the anyonymous person who left their bowel movement on the floor by the free weights. Yuck. Makes me thankful to have my own equipment now.
[quote]chinadoll wrote:
johnny_law wrote:
People who sweat on the equipment and don’t wipe up after themselves.
And then the anyonymous person who left their bowel movement on the floor by the free weights. Yuck. Makes me thankful to have my own equipment now.
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What! thats crazy!
Once someone took a crap in a shower cubicle for me too find 
1)Injuries.
2)The battle for flexability. I am using the Magnificent Mobility DVD, but it seems like I need to do the whole thing for it to be effective. 10 minutes my ass.
[quote]CU AeroStallion wrote:
people curling in the squat rack[/quote]
I’ll second that one…WHY, WHY,WHY in the “SQUAT” rack??? Guess they think we should just use the smith machine…HA
[quote]DT20 wrote:
I wish results could be achieved with 1 set per exercise. [/quote] They can!
I hate all the mirrors in my gym because I constantly have to see myself in them which typically results in an erection.
[quote]TX T. wrote:
I dislike the old dude that likes to meditate in between sets on some of the machines we use during our workout and some days it seems he follows us around grrrrrrrrrr…I am not kidding he will meditate about 5-10 min in between sets. I hardly ever see him actually using the damned machine. See him on the machine with his eyes closed, index finger touching thumbs and the whole deal. DRIVES ME INSANE!
Yes I would also have to agree with re-racking weights. After a tough set the last thing you want to do is unload the leg press. Though I hate having to unload it when I have not even used it as well. ;-)[/quote]
that’s not Paul Chek is it?! 
thats funny! you should put that in the squat rack curls thread!
Being an easy overtrainer, I find it sucks to get better results with less training.
Mostly the motley assortment of douchebags and showoffs who work out at my gym.
If I see one more cocksucker shadow boxing, I’m going to throw a 50 lb. dumbbell at his head.
Ok, after reading all the shiat that you guys have to put up with in your gyms. My gym isn’t nearly as bad as I thought. yeah, it’s small, not alot of equipment but it has the essentials. What it doesn’t have though are all the idiots that every other gym seems to have. I feel pretty dang lucky to not have to put up with the shiat that you guys do.
[quote]MODOK wrote:
Nagging joint and tendon injuries. Sometimes it feels like you are 50 years older than you are.[/quote]
Amen to this one. For me though, I’d say they come from having played sports at a pretty high level at least as much as lifting.
You know, I can live with loading and racking weights. I can live with scraped shins. I can live with having to eat like a beast in order to bulk. All in all, I can live with pretty much everything having to do with weightlifting itself, but what I hate more than anything is how expensive supplements are.
And yeah, I know, Biotest this and Biotest that, but when you’re a college student having to buy books that cost hundreds of dollars while only making eight bucks an hour, even the thirteen dollar creatine makes a huge dent in your savings.
Mostly the people.
I hate the 6 weeks of overcrowding in January and February until everyone abandons their resolutions. I was a January joiner though, so I shouldn’t say much.
Flirts… Guy - girl is bad enough. Guy-guy just screams “Soy!” If girls want to hit on me, that’s cool though.
People doing super-sets when the weight room is packed.
People using vacant equipment as a personal towel rack, a seat for their talkative buddy, or a place to keep the three sets of dumbbells they’re not using while doing preacher curls.
Poor locker room behavior, including
Ass dragging. A little hustle would go a long way. I assure you, I am not sitting in the locker room because I like hanging out there or enjoy watching you change. Get out of my way!
Misuse of the bench such as leaving bags / used towels / shoes on them while showering or working out. There is ample space on TOP of the locker, IN the locker, or BELOW the bench. If two people leave their stuff out, that means the other 15 people who have lockers in that row have to move dirty towels, look like they’re stealing someone else’s bag as they move it, or just change standing.
Yeah, the other people are definitely the worst part.
[quote]WOrta1128 wrote:
You know, I can live with loading and racking weights. I can live with scraped shins. I can live with having to eat like a beast in order to bulk. All in all, I can live with pretty much everything having to do with weightlifting itself, but what I hate more than anything is how expensive supplements are.
And yeah, I know, Biotest this and Biotest that, but when you’re a college student having to buy books that cost hundreds of dollars while only making eight bucks an hour, even the thirteen dollar creatine makes a huge dent in your savings.[/quote]
So get a clue and figure out that supplements are useless. The very best supplements, that is, the ones that have been studied and shown to have ANY effect on the body/muscles are still negligible at best.
Supplements HAVE been proven to be an incredible money maker, however, for those who are corrupt enough to manufacture and pawn their supplements off to naive teenagers and anyone else ignorant enough to buy the shit.
My balls getting squashed between my legs.
I have to start to walk differently.
[quote]MattFarlick wrote:
WOrta1128 wrote:
You know, I can live with loading and racking weights. I can live with scraped shins. I can live with having to eat like a beast in order to bulk. All in all, I can live with pretty much everything having to do with weightlifting itself, but what I hate more than anything is how expensive supplements are.
And yeah, I know, Biotest this and Biotest that, but when you’re a college student having to buy books that cost hundreds of dollars while only making eight bucks an hour, even the thirteen dollar creatine makes a huge dent in your savings.
So get a clue and figure out that supplements are useless. The very best supplements, that is, the ones that have been studied and shown to have ANY effect on the body/muscles are still negligible at best.
Supplements HAVE been proven to be an incredible money maker, however, for those who are corrupt enough to manufacture and pawn their supplements off to naive teenagers and anyone else ignorant enough to buy the shit.
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Point very well taken.
But I still enjoy my protein powders from time to time.
Why do people insist on using the locker RIGHT NEXT to an already occupied locker?
I go out of my way to find a locker with three or four empties on either side.
After my workout,I find there’s a guy changing and using the locker right next to mine, even though there are plenty of free ones with space around them
[quote]harris447 wrote:
Why do people insist on using the locker RIGHT NEXT to an already occupied locker?
I go out of my way to find a locker with three or four empties on either side.
After my workout,I find there’s a guy changing and using the locker right next to mine, even though there are plenty of free ones with space around them[/quote]
it’s always like that. no matter what, it’s guaranteed that somebody will need to get into the locker next to yours while your there. i think it’s in the bible…
first muscleonians, chapter seven verse three…
yea he doth said unto them, bringith forth thine sweaty and ill begotten cloth of dispear. place it not into the void of the un-holy free locker domain. nay, thy shalt placeth it forth into the arms of thy brother, and at his side reign always your stench. thou shalt expose thine humblest of forms for all to bear witness, and thou shalt bendeth down to retrieve thine socks and in doing so, bear unto them the darkest hole of thine person. in this my will be done.
AMEN
[quote]Rykker wrote:
I love lifting, but I hate the way it can sometimes fuck with my head, and totally psych me out.
Like when I walked out of the gym yesterday morning feeling like a total weak-ass waste of skin after a lackluster squat session.
Goes along with the results not coming fast enough to meet my own standards.[/quote]
Right on. I’m very bipolar when it comes to lifting. It either leaves me sky high or lower than low. I’m too psychologically invested in it.
I hate carrying my shit from station to station. Notebook, pen, tupperware container full of chalk, Surge, and sometimes straps. It’s a pain in the ass. I knocked my open chalk container over yesterday. The gym floor looked like Tony Montana’s desk.