I rerack everytime and always put the DBs back where they go, drives me crazy having this nice ass gym and people trash it all the time.
Since i’m a regular at my gym, i have other people that i sometimes work in with. One day this ass clown decided to take all the db’s from 5 to 40 over to the corner and do some kind of circuit. When he was done he went over to the stupid ab ball throwing machine and just left like 10 db’s on the floor in the corner. Me and my homie picked up all the weight and dropped it next to him on top of all his shit. It’s always the small guys too.
I don’t worry about getting in trouble cause i know all the staff and most the regulars, so i terrorize most of the retards that don’t rack their weight. I also will get uncomfortably close to people when they start doing their lifts next to the db rack. How lazy are you that you can’t take 3 steps back so that you aren’t in the way of everyone else?
Here’s a video I made a few months back of the gym i go to in Taiwan. Now you should understand that 95% of the guys here do shitty curls and horrible bench press and that’s it. It is the silliest gym I’ve ever been to. So when I show the bench with 275 on it and say no guy was really benching that…I mean I’ve seen many, many guys in Taiwan do really short-range (as in 2 inches) bench with a buddy helping them every rep. You’ll see the E-Z Curl with about 150lbs on it…which I know some of us could curl…but I don’t think anyone here is doing it, other than turning the movement into some weird reverse Good Morning. I made some other videos of guys at my gym and you’ll see what I mean.
And don’t get me started on the music! Shit it’s even louder in person!
[quote]John S. wrote:
I leave a pair of 45’s on the bar. Almost everyone in my gym warms up with it.[/quote]
Funny. Everyone at my gym (not my rec center) warms up with the bar. And I’m pretty sure their numbers are a little better than all the dickwads in here talking about how you don’t belong in the gym if you can’t move 135.
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
John S. wrote:
I leave a pair of 45’s on the bar. Almost everyone in my gym warms up with it.
Funny. Everyone at my gym (not my rec center) warms up with the bar. And I’m pretty sure their numbers are a little better than all the dickwads in here talking about how you don’t belong in the gym if you can’t move 135.[/quote]
That’s true at my place too. My other observation is that the biggest, strongest guys never act like cunts making statements about who should and shouldn’t be in the gym.
^^ Agreed. If I were a woman (I’m not trying to sound sarcastic at all) I’d probably warm up with the bar and go up from there.
It’s also a waste of time for others because people may see the bar with weight on it and think it’s in use.
Though I will immediately use a bench if there’s no towel on it or water bottle next to it no matter how much is on it.
I would rather people no rerack the 180lb DBs that my group leaves at the deadlift platform to hold bands.
I usually follow the 1 plate rule.
But I will not clean up after someone. One time a worker told me to put the weights where I found it, and I did, I left them all over the floor. I basically told him I always re-rack my weights…but unfortunately most of the assfucks here dont so I refuse to clean up there mess…enforce the rules and revoke their membership.
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The weight room at my gym looks like a Serbian mine field. Dumbells, plates and bars strewn everywhere.
The management doesn’t give a shit. Their franchisor doesn’t give a shit. I try not to as well, but it’s hard sometimes.
I’ve wondered whether it’s lack of consideration, or sense of entitlement (ie: I pay my membership fees, someone else should do it).
[quote]johnson575 wrote:
I also will get uncomfortably close to people when they start doing their lifts next to the db rack. How lazy are you that you can’t take 3 steps back so that you aren’t in the way of everyone else?[/quote]
…kind of rude…but if I’m walking my heavy DB’s back to re-rack them and someone is righ on the rack curling, I’ll say something (excuse me, coming thru, move…whatever), but I’m walking straight thru.
…it’s usually the noobies who haven’t learned gym ettiquette of stepping away from the rack that do it.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
WormwoodTheory wrote:
It’s even worse when you work there. Then everyone feels the need to complain about it like it’s your fault people are lazy.
Yeah, I had a guy mention it to me last week. I apologized, said people are lazy and I went and helped clean up. He said I didn’t have too, but I get paid to be there, he doesn’t.
We have signs posted everywhere, no one bothers to be courteous anymore.
I will say that I leave 135 on the bench, becaues we have 6 of them.[/quote]
Not to be a dick, but isn’t it your guys jobs to at least try to enforce the rules? At my gym, the workers there see people leaving the plates and shit making a mess and don’t say a word. If I say something, it turns into a heated argument. IMO, it’s the people who work at the gym who should be enforcing the rules. But I’ve yet to see it once in the 2 gyms I workout in. One college, one commercial.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Reason I ask is because tonight I told a co-worker who I saw training with a group of guys doing curls in the squat rack (yeah!)
The issue was when they were done they moved on and left about 6 plates on the ground. I nicely asked my staff person working out if he could pick up the weights.
I went on to do an exercise and I hear his training partner saying along the lines of “they told you to put the weights away? Are you working? Let them tell me that. I pay my membership”
I blurted out while lifting that it’s not our jobs to pick up after members.
Once done I did apologize if I sounded rude but explained the reason for why a member should pick up after themselves (pretty much obvious that it’s common sense).
So, if you don’t pick up weights, why don’t you?
I always though it was just pure laziness, but it seems some people may think that they are entitled by paying a membership to not be courteous to others.
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I have thought that trainers who get and put back weights for their clients do disservice for the rest of us. These clients seem to forget to pick up after themselves because they have not had to. Entitlement is learned.
I have been known to ask someone if they are done with something, comment they should clean their weight, walk over with them like I am going to use the equipment, help them unload it, and the walk away afterward.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
WormwoodTheory wrote:
It’s even worse when you work there. Then everyone feels the need to complain about it like it’s your fault people are lazy.
Yeah, I had a guy mention it to me last week. I apologized, said people are lazy and I went and helped clean up. He said I didn’t have too, but I get paid to be there, he doesn’t.
We have signs posted everywhere, no one bothers to be courteous anymore.
I will say that I leave 135 on the bench, becaues we have 6 of them.
Not to be a dick, but isn’t it your guys jobs to at least try to enforce the rules? At my gym, the workers there see people leaving the plates and shit making a mess and don’t say a word. If I say something, it turns into a heated argument. IMO, it’s the people who work at the gym who should be enforcing the rules. But I’ve yet to see it once in the 2 gyms I workout in. One college, one commercial.
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Hence, me saying to put the weights back 
I usually try to make a mental note of who is lifting where and if I come back soon and the weights are there I’ll ask the person to put them away. Sometimes though I may not be around for a while and not sure if it was the person I saw or someone else.
For squat or deadlift I always clean off the bar. Always put dumbells back in the correct spot, or in the case of my rec center where there is no correct spot, I just put them where there is room. For bench I strip it down to 135 then take the 45s off and rest them on the side of the bench, so the next guy doesn’t have to go too far looking for some 45s.
I’m that considerate haha
[quote]Carlitosway wrote:
I always put them back. Would suck cleaning the other peoples messes. Just start putting up a lot of signs?[/quote]
Putting up MORE signs isn’t going to work.
Everbody KNOWS that they shouldn’t drop the dumbells and to put their weights away.
It’s like putting more signs in the men’s room, telling people to wash their hands.
It’s up to the management to enforce the rules. Period.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Here’s a video I made a few months back of the gym i go to in Taiwan. Now you should understand that 95% of the guys here do shitty curls and horrible bench press and that’s it. It is the silliest gym I’ve ever been to. So when I show the bench with 275 on it and say no guy was really benching that…I mean I’ve seen many, many guys in Taiwan do really short-range (as in 2 inches) bench with a buddy helping them every rep. You’ll see the E-Z Curl with about 150lbs on it…which I know some of us could curl…but I don’t think anyone here is doing it, other than turning the movement into some weird reverse Good Morning. I made some other videos of guys at my gym and you’ll see what I mean.
And don’t get me started on the music! Shit it’s even louder in person!
Your gym looks and sounds like a Studio 54 ripoff. Just terrible.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
sam_sneed wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
WormwoodTheory wrote:
It’s even worse when you work there. Then everyone feels the need to complain about it like it’s your fault people are lazy.
Yeah, I had a guy mention it to me last week. I apologized, said people are lazy and I went and helped clean up. He said I didn’t have too, but I get paid to be there, he doesn’t.
We have signs posted everywhere, no one bothers to be courteous anymore.
I will say that I leave 135 on the bench, becaues we have 6 of them.
Not to be a dick, but isn’t it your guys jobs to at least try to enforce the rules? At my gym, the workers there see people leaving the plates and shit making a mess and don’t say a word. If I say something, it turns into a heated argument. IMO, it’s the people who work at the gym who should be enforcing the rules. But I’ve yet to see it once in the 2 gyms I workout in. One college, one commercial.
Hence, me saying to put the weights back
I usually try to make a mental note of who is lifting where and if I come back soon and the weights are there I’ll ask the person to put them away. Sometimes though I may not be around for a while and not sure if it was the person I saw or someone else.[/quote]
I didn’t see where you told someone to put the weights back. Only that you helped clean up. If it was in a different post, then my bad. I’ve yet to see once of the workers at my gym ask someone to put weights back. They just put up useless passive aggressive signs.
Always put em away, my theory is if you’re strong enough to lift them you’re strong enough to put the fucking things back where you got them.
I always wipe everything down and put my weights away.
There’s a douche at our gym who leaves his sweat on everything and never unloads a bar. He also makes a crap load of noise and throws his water bottle around. Luckily there’s only one guy like him there. What a douche!