Gym Etiquette

SPEEDY MCCREADY

fanch75 wrote:

The gym I go looks like absolute shit from the outside, but it's so hardcore and oldschool it's awesome! It's less than a mile from where I work so I can go and get my lift in at lunch time on MWF.

All the equipment is old, there are huge mean looking dudes lifting instead of sitting around reading the newspaper or whatever (like at the more upscale one before). The first time I went in and it was like that scene in Rocky when he goes into that old gym with Apollo Creed. No lie, I saw about six bench presses! Plus there are three real squat racks instead of that pulley thing in RC.

There was this dude yesterday that looked like Divo from the movie "Friday," he was benching 350 (doing sets!!!). He was bouncing it off his chest like a basketball, too. He was a monster, I don't think he smiled or said a word to anyone the whole time he was in there. He was business!!!! Plus the fat chick with a mullet doing military presses. Awesome.

And you'd love this - they have two punching bags in there - one huge "body" one and the other is the wind-up kind that you see boxers training with. There was this HUGE dude just beating the h*ll out of the punching bag. Not a dude sitting & reading a newspaper in sight! Yeah!

A real gym!

fanch.....

go get yourself some gloves and start hitting the heavy bag 2-3 times a week....

its fucking addicting....

and its a kick ass workout......

mookie9999

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

There is such a thing as working in. You don't own the machine until you're done getting around to all your sets out. You just might get to meet someone and enjoy it.

Now that you mention it, that doesn't happen at my gym. Where I used to work out in California people were constantly asking to work in. It was quite a good motivator to push yourself more than just on your own. Here in NYC the machines are everyones own personal real estate.

intodeep

TrixieCat wrote:

What kind of gym are you working out in???
Peeing and nose blowing in the shower????? And you use them???
I would rather be all gross on the way home then be subjected to that filth.
ick.

I tend to avoid the shower at my gym too. I go home all gross and shower at home.

mookie9999

TrixieCat wrote:

What kind of gym are you working out in???
Peeing and nose blowing in the shower????? And you use them???
I would rather be all gross on the way home then be subjected to that filth.
ick.

Exactly! I only live a block from my gym so there's no way in hell I'm showering in that germ infested boy in a snot bubble palace!

peacocoaNMO

NY PJ1 wrote:

piss down the drain,,it all goes to the same place

do you want me to call a plumber right now?!

Dylan Stone

I just hate the gym this time of year.

I'll like it a whole lot better in 3 weeks when all the resolutionists stop coming!!!

TrixieCat

mookie9999 wrote:

Exactly! I only live a block from my gym so there's no way in hell I'm showering in that germ infested boy in a snot bubble palace!

I have a 10 min drive but it would be better than that! :eek:
Grosses me out just thinking about it.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

TrixieCat wrote:

What kind of gym are you working out in???
Peeing and nose blowing in the shower????? And you use them???
I would rather be all gross on the way home then be subjected to that filth.
ick.

Not everyone does it, and they clean the place constantly throughout the day. It's a really clean, posh place, there's just some rich pigs that have some pretty sick habits, and I notice it because I'm there all the time.

There was that one booger on the shower curtain in one of the stalls that hung on for a while though...lol

Flip flops are key.

GreenTeaDisease

mookie9999 wrote:

Just wanted to point out a few pet peeves of mine about the gym. Feel free to add any of yours.

1. Guys Who Grunt: I'm sure you're looking forward to that case of hemorroids and six additional forehead veins that you will soon be the proud owners of considering the amount of straining you're doing, but it's a bit much if I can hear it over my IPOD.

2. Gym Music. To avoid going deaf prematurely I generally keep my IPOD turned down to a medium volume level. This also allows me to hear if the gym actually plays a decent song now and again (they don't). So imagine my suprise the other night when I heard something that sounded a bit off. I hit pause on my player to hear the sweet and tasteful sound of 2 Live Crews "Pop That P*ssy". Nice guys, nice.

3. Guys who hover around two to three machines leaving articles around each one marking their territory like they were Hansel and Gretel promising to return at some point to use these machines, just not anytime in the next 45 minutes. To you I say, don't shoot looks at me when I throw your shit out of the way and try to stare me down you cromagnon looking piece of trash. I'm sure you'd love to take a swing at me if only you could unbend your arm and extend it out far enough to punch. Unfortunately for you the only time your arm extends out is when you're receiving your 'scrip for your magic growing pills.

So that's it for now. I'm sure I'll think of more throughout the day. So, what bothers everyone else about the gym?

I agree with all three of those. As for #1, there was a guy in my last gym who would scream. literally scream. You'd be there concentrating on a lift and he'd just scare the shit out of you from all the way across the gym. As for #2, my new gym has a big problem with this. today in the locker room I got to hear a song about there being too many ladies...or something like that.

I'll also add some others

1) perfume/cologne in the gym. no no no no no. there is nothing worse than breathing heavily of the treadmill and sucking in the nasty perfuming you're sweating off.

2) People who do not re-rack weights. I think this is my biggest pet peeve. when I was in grad school this was the biggest problem at the university gym. I am a 5'3" female, I cannot remove your 45 lb plates from the tipity top of the squat rack without risking serious injury, nor do I want to spend 10 minutes of my work out putting back your weights. I complained about this non stop at that university gym. I would yell at these frat boys and they'd just stare at me and walk away .

TrixieCat

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Not everyone does it, and they clean the place constantly throughout the day. It's a really clean, posh place, there's just some rich pigs that have some pretty sick habits, and I notice it because I'm there all the time.

There was that one booger on the shower curtain in one of the stalls that hung on for a while though...lol

Flip flops are key.

No, I can't do it. Flip flops are open and the water that rushed over what was there can rush into your flops. :eek:
I wasn't insinuating you worked out at a gross gym.

I don't have any gym issues I guess. I keep to myself or see a couple gfs that work there once in a while. I mind my own biz.

fanch75

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I agree with all three of those. As for #1, there was a guy in my last gym who would scream. literally scream. You'd be there concentrating on a lift and he'd just scare the shit out of you from all the way across the gym.

I used to do that and didn't even realize it. It wasn't a macho thing, it was involuntary. A workout partner brought it to my attention and I got it under control.

intodeep

GTFLYGIRL wrote:

I just hate the gym this time of year.

I'll like it a whole lot better in 3 weeks when all the resolutionists stop coming!!!

That is soooo true!

I'm not Mr Super Healthy or Super fit Gym rat but i go on a regular basis and have been going for years now and Jan is always the busiest month and it makes it harder for me to get done the little that i do there

GreenTeaDisease

oh if we're talking locker room stuff...for the past few months I went to an all-female gym that is NOTORIOUS for being the nakdest locker room on earth...the locker room is like a spa- there's showers, massage, whirlpool, sauna, and steam room. Women just stroll to each buck naked and stop to have conversations, read a magazine, get a drink of water, whathaveyou. and it's always crowded so it's just like walking into a big nudest colony. the worst is that the glass dividers between the showers are too clear and you are surrounded by naked people on both sides-and when someone leans their butt against the glass...eewwwww....it's something you really don't want to see.

mookie9999

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

1) perfume/cologne in the gym. no no no no no. there is nothing worse than breathing heavily of the treadmill and sucking in the nasty perfuming you're sweating off.

YES!!!! The Tony Manero wannabe on the treadmill next to me last night apparently got the Brut power pack for XMAS and wanted everyone to know about it. He jumped on the treadmill about 10 minutes into my 60 and stayed for over 30 minutes. I figured if it made me sick I could always aim for him.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

know1 wrote:

Here are my top gym pet peeves:

1. Dropping/slamming the weights. If you can't set it down carefully, it's too heavy for you.

If you have to drop the weights, you aren't ready to use them, or under developed (too weak) in one area. Imbalanced training. Lowering them gracefully and slowly is the best part of the last rep. It's a typical testosterone ego chest thump imo.

I used to work out a golds gym and almost all the bench press bars were permanently bowed (bent) from dudes benchin 500+ pounds. Pretty nuts. Every Friday this guy would pull up in his car out back, and honk the horn and all the monster dudes would run out to buy roids from him.

tybird

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

1) perfume/cologne in the gym. no no no no no. there is nothing worse than breathing heavily of the treadmill and sucking in the nasty perfuming you're sweating off.

Oh yeah....my old gym had a dude (late 50'-early 60's), who must have bathed in the stuff....hell, he used enough that he might have actually been pickled in the stuff. You could track all around the building by sight!!! You could see the shit hanging in the air!!!

rival.

wow, this thread made me hate the gym even more. i should just start working out in my apartment and jogging around the neighborhood.

mookie9999

singularity wrote:

wow, this thread made me hate the gym even more. i should just start working out in my apartment and jogging around the neighborhood.

Can you jog in this weather?!? After running for an hour last night feeling great I jogged the block home and thought my chest was gonna explode!

fanch75

mookie9999 wrote:

YES!!!! The Tony Manero wannabe on the treadmill next to me last night apparently got the Brut power pack for XMAS and wanted everyone to know about it. He jumped on the treadmill about 10 minutes into my 60 and stayed for over 30 minutes. I figured if it made me sick I could always aim for him.

LOL!!! The "Brut Power Pack for Christmas." Kickass, great post!

GreenTeaDisease

know1 wrote:

Here are my top gym pet peeves:

3. Sitting on a machine for 2-5 minutes between sets just staring off into space. If you're going to sit there that long, you might as well let someone else work in.

that being said (and yes, I do hate this too) I hate when people ask me to work in while I am on my 30 second rest. I HATE it. I don't want to rest longer than 30 seconds between sets and if I let you work in I will have to. I got here first, go do something else for the 5 minutes I'm using this.