Man… every gym I go to hardly anyone is actually working at all. they’re literally just glued to their phones.
I pay no mind. Only thing that catches my attention is something freakish lifting wise or I see the potential that someone’s gonna get hurt. I deliberately pick quiet times for more of a free run,if I can’t get my way with my intended exercise sequence. I work around it. That guy on the bench with 40 kgs,has paid exactly the same amount as my 3 plate ass. I can’t claim precedence. If he’s taking his sweet time,so be it. Mental note of the time.
In your defense,everyone would find that rude. The difficulty of populous gyms and peak hours
I’d hope so… these assholes have no sense of awareness
Might of been an awkward type attempt to try and work in,some kids don’t know how to ask nicely. But the hovering around your personal space,yea no.
Just leaning on it texting away
A perfect dead leg opportunity
Thai plum and crush his ribs… Kid was literally just leaning on it while I’m training
I lifted in a gym that was usually always dudes for about year, but I was just curious about powerlifting. I never actually became one. A powerlifter, I mean.
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I go to a commercial gym. In recent years, they have added prowlers, bumper plates, platforms, a climbing/rope pull machine, a decent pelvic thrust machine which can hold 700 pounds, and they don’t squawk if I bring chains or attachments they don’t have. So it is better than most.
People go there with different goals and level of knowledge. There are certainly people who spent plenty of time on phones and setting up tripods. The 10% of people who work extremely hard are easy to spot. But who am I to say what anyone should do, if they are reasonably clean, polite, lifting safely, and not bothering anyone?
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If it was a great gym I might, but not specifically because it’s male-only. Guys at the gym can park their asses in a good machine while they watch TikTok just as much as women do, so it’s not like only having men in the gym would improve the experience.
As for commercial gyms, I work out at a Crunch gym and it is the best gym I’ve ever been to. It’s HUGE. I never have to wait for a stairmill to open up. There are multiple machines for every body part so you can find one that fits just right. I’ve never seen so many dumbbells anywhere else. And multiple racks of fixed dumbbells—straight and cambered. The benches are bolted to the floor so people can’t wander off with them. There are six platforms. Plenty of cable options. And it’s open early so I can work out at 5am on weekdays when there are less than ten people there so nobody gets in my way. And I get all of that for $15.99 a month.
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I went to an all-boy high school, all 4 years.
It taught me that men, absent the presence of women, are disgusting.
I went on to enroll in a University that had a 70/30 ratio of women to men.
It was like being released from prison.
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Increase your membership and take advantage of the cryochair…love this
No. The idea of sex-segregated gyms strikes me as ridiculous. And in my sport, Olympic-style weightlifting, the women are awesome and can teach you plenty.
@BrickHead THAT is probably one of my biggest pet peeves of the modern gym….if you politely stand nearby where they can clearly see you are waiting (and not being an ass about it, mad dogging them or anything), they make no effort to keep their “rest” periods short and frankly sometimes even seem to move slower. So if you approach them and ask if you can work in, and it’s relatively easy to do so (like on a machine where you can just move the weight pin to your desired weight), they have to think real hard on it for a few seconds before they almost always reply “uhh, I got like 4 more sets”. To which I’ll say “cool, can I work in?” and they’ll go “I’ve got 4 more sets”….as in, no, you can’t but I’m too passive aggressive to specifically say that, but no, I don’t want to share.
And I KNOW they artificially bump up the number of sets they have left to make you not want to wait and hope you just drift away.
Depending on my mood, I’ll just move on while trying not to freak out but man, some days I’ll just get all up close to them, and since I’m actually training HARD I’m all sweaty, and basically force myself into the seat/machine, adjust the weight, and do my sets, completely ignoring their bullshit.
But yeah, back in the day people would gladly let you work in no problem. Or, if they were actually just jacking around, they’d say “eh, go ahead man, I’m done here” and get up and let you do your thing. Nowadays there’s all this unnecessary passive aggressiveness about NOT letting somebody get YOUR machine, and people don’t give 2 shits about parking on, say, the leg extension machine and continuing to sit on it between sets while watching tik tok, making their 5 sets last 20 minutes! Like, they’ll tell you they have a million sets left, meanwhile they are dry as a bone, usually don’t have any appreciable muscle on them, looking like they got lost and happened to wander in the gym, still wearing baggy wind pants and crocs. I don’t understand.
Nor do I understand how, in this day and age of you tube, tik tok, instagram, and just the internet in general, how all these young idiots still continue to lift with such horrible form, or do the most asinine exercises while trying to “get jacked bro”. All those videos, all that information on diet, protein, different training splits/methods, and these young idiots not only workout like retards, but I see the same ones in there all the time and they never ever put on any muscle.
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No, because of the gays. It would also become a gay environment probably.
A good reason to go to a male-only gym is because of the girls. Each one wears tight leggings which sometimes give me a small boner. Am tired of looking away.
just wait till that happens at a male-only gym. You’ll have to switch to a home gym
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So, I’ve been going to a purple gym in a well populated suburb. This is my first real gym membership experience and I’ll say this:
Its awesome. 
. Milfs are awesome. Booty chicks are awesome. Cardio bunnies are awesome. Strength chicks are awesome.
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I worked out for years at a Powerhouse in Bayside, Queens in the late 90s and early 2000s. My close friend and former TN poster Arash used to go there too. I recall only one time in which someone was being fussy with working in, and I was pushy with him because it was for triceps pushdowns, of all equipment!
It was not uncommon for people who didn’t even know each other to share squat racks. I think somewhere around the mid 2010s gym etiquette declined.
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I’d be fascinated to read a paper/article on what the causal factors were that eroded the gym atmosphere/etiquette that was common up until the 2010’s (I agree, it feels like it was around this time that there was a paradigm shift. The previous decades seemed to foster a much more friendly/helpful environment).
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