Things that annoy you at the gym cont'd

RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
edited March 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
For some reason I'll never understand people that do the following....

- Leaving the water running full blast the entire time they're shaving, or brushing their teeth. wtf...

- Opening the sauna door (coming or going) as though they're entering a wild west saloon so it cools down very noticeably.

- Leaving the locker doors wide open afterwards.

-Not showering before entering the sauna. this really becoms annoying. 90% of people I notice do not do this. Some people skip their morning shower, workout in the afternoon, then bring it all into the sauna. You can toitally get away with it if you eat/live clean, but some people just smell. I'm guessing it's the fast food, cigs., alcohol, and other junk they consume on a regular basis.

argh...
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Mine is still putting mixed and mismatched weights on the weight racks. Is it really so difficult to put the 25s all on one peg, etc.??!!
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  • ReleasHReleasH Posts: 743
    *Getting off the cardio machines for 1 minute to get a drink of water DOES NOT mean that the 40 minute limit restarts.

    *People having IN DEPTH personal conversations on their cell phones while on the cardio machines.
  • RiverrunnerRiverrunner Posts: 2,419
    For some reason I'll never understand people that do the following....

    - Leaving the water running full blast the entire time they're shaving, or brushing their teeth. wtf...

    Me too! My husband has a tendency to do that here at home and I remind him how much water he is wasting! He gets annoyed at me!!!

    Also, I hate walking up to a sink at the gym and finding a big ole gob of hair in it. Some women blow dry and curl/straighten their hair and just leave the stuff in the sink! That really pisses me off.

    Women sitting naked in the chairs and on the benches. A lot of them are older women who do the pool exercise classes and I know they need to sit to get dressed, but they could sit on a towel or something. Some women are too shy too change in the locker room so they go to the bathroom stalls to change after getting out of the pool. Then they get water all over the floor and the toilet and it is nasty. Personnel recently put signs up that say if you change clothes in the stalls you should clean up the water and that has helped!
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  • there's this one trainer at my gym who seems like he could be a good trainer, but he is so LOUD. He screams at his clients non-stop. "come on baby, you can do it, look at me baby, one more baby, keep it comin', one more" and then he counts at top volume. It's REALLY hard to concentrate with this guy around.
  • Sonja_SSonja_S Posts: 444
    Members who are adults when they sign their memberships but then suddenly aren't responsible for their signature anymore when they decide they want out of the contract.

    Sorry, but I'm the Sales & Marketing Director for some gyms over here and people are trying everything except for taking responsibility for their forgetfulness if they missed the proper period for cancellation and it pisses me off how some of them harass my staff instead of asking nicely or sucking it up and staying until the next possible cancellation date.

    We don't have hair in the sinks, shaving is not allowed - same goes for cell phones - and our members don't hog the cardio machines though, so I guess we're lucky ;)
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    there's this one trainer at my gym who seems like he could be a good trainer, but he is so LOUD. He screams at his clients non-stop. "come on baby, you can do it, look at me baby, one more baby, keep it comin', one more" and then he counts at top volume. It's REALLY hard to concentrate with this guy around.

    Ha ha! I can well imagine how annoying that would be. I never understood how somebody shouting at you was going to help you push yourself anyway. If I'm trying to concentrate and bust out one last rep, the last thing I would want is some over-zealous dickhead calling me baby!
  • Almost forgot, one more (and this is why I always bring my own towels). Members that are too lazy/forgetful to bring flip flops so they put the bath towels on the floor to stand on...some even wipe up the floor with them afterwards...ack...

    Yesterday this guy had a towel on the floor in the change room using it like a door mat and also to catch all the dead skin from scrubbing his feet for like 10 minutes rigorously with a pumice stone. Honestly...some things are best left for home. The same guy then blow dried his entire body with a hair dryer top to bottom afterwards... groin area...armpits ....everything...it's all so remarkably bizarre.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Almost forgot, one more (and this is why I always bring my own towels). Members that are too lazy/forgetful to bring flip flops so they put the bath towels on the floor to stand on...some even wipe up the floor with them afterwards...ack...

    Yesterday this guy had a towel on the floor in the change room using it like a door mat and also to catch all the dead skin from scrubbing his feet for like 10 minutes rigorously with a pumice stone. Honestly...some things are best left for home. The same guy then blow dried his entire body with a hair dryer top to bottom afterwards... groin area...armpits ....everything...it's all so remarkably bizarre.

    These are all examples of why I do not even go into the locker room at my gym anymore. I change at the office or home before I go.
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  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Almost forgot, one more (and this is why I always bring my own towels). Members that are too lazy/forgetful to bring flip flops so they put the bath towels on the floor to stand on...some even wipe up the floor with them afterwards...ack...

    Yesterday this guy had a towel on the floor in the change room using it like a door mat and also to catch all the dead skin from scrubbing his feet for like 10 minutes rigorously with a pumice stone. Honestly...some things are best left for home. The same guy then blow dried his entire body with a hair dryer top to bottom afterwards... groin area...armpits ....everything...it's all so remarkably bizarre.
    ew....and while he was blowdrying his body he was blowing that skin all over the room. :eek:
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  • JwmccJwmcc Posts: 451
    "- Leaving the locker doors wide open afterwards."

    Ugh, that is the worst. I banged my head pretty good on an open locker after reaching down to pick something up. Ended up bleeding and everything.
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  • KosmicJelliKosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    When I go to the gym... mind u fairly small (not Bally's) always some cluster of 5 young guys in back grunting and moaning while they lift weights and then it always feels like testosteroneFEST

    ick...
  • know1 wrote:
    These are all examples of why I do not even go into the locker room at my gym anymore. I change at the office or home before I go.

    my new gym and the locker room are spotless. they clean it CONSTANTLY. I've never gone to the shower without bumping into the cleaning lady first. if you live where there are Sports Clubs I highly recommend it for cleanliness.
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Sonja_S wrote:
    Members who are adults when they sign their memberships but then suddenly aren't responsible for their signature anymore when they decide they want out of the contract.

    Sorry, but I'm the Sales & Marketing Director for some gyms over here and people are trying everything except for taking responsibility for their forgetfulness if they missed the proper period for cancellation and it pisses me off how some of them harass my staff instead of asking nicely or sucking it up and staying until the next possible cancellation date.

    Oh how I agree with this! I own a small fitness center myself, and deal with that kind of crap too.
    there's this one trainer at my gym who seems like he could be a good trainer, but he is so LOUD. He screams at his clients non-stop. "come on baby, you can do it, look at me baby, one more baby, keep it comin', one more" and then he counts at top volume. It's REALLY hard to concentrate with this guy around.

    LOl - I've been teaching some small group personal training. I wonder what they'd do if I start yelling that.

    I guess, personally I'd like to people to PAY ATTENTION when I'm giving an important form tip in class. Invariably the ones who are gabbing as I describe body placement before an exercise are the ones who tell me later that it didn't 'feel right' :rolleyes:
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  • londonwprlondonwpr Posts: 293
    My biggest complaint is people who walk around the locker room completely naked. I probably see 5-7 sets of cock and balls on a daily basis and it's disgusting. I don't understand why they can't wear a towel...usually it's in their hands...just put it around your waist!!!!
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  • sweet adelinesweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    this dude always burps and farts while he is lifting and has his headphones on while he works out. i guess he figures that since he can't hear it, no one else can.

    also, he wears those thin tank tops that expose pretty much your whole body. he's always nipped out, hence his nickname is "nips". i loathe him.
  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    this dude always burps and farts while he is lifting and has his headphones on while he works out. i guess he figures that since he can't hear it, no one else can.
    this made me lol. :D i take my headphones off every now and then just to make sure my breathing isn't too loud to those without headphones...but sounds like what nips is doing is much worse...haha.
  • Dylan StoneDylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    londonwpr wrote:
    My biggest complaint is people who walk around the locker room completely naked. I probably see 5-7 sets of cock and balls on a daily basis and it's disgusting. I don't understand why they can't wear a towel...usually it's in their hands...just put it around your waist!!!!

    Apparently there were some dudes at my gym... a family... that would all blow dry their male parts right out in the open with the blow dryers in the mens locker room.

    People complained and they were told they aren't allowed to do it any more! :D
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    What the fuck is wrong with people?! When I used to go to the gym a few years back, there was a guy who would stand at the sinks shaving, but for some reason never felt the need to put a towel around his waist - he used to put it on the side, right next to him. It's like I get it, you're comfortable being naked, but what makes you think everyone else wants to see your dirty old twig and giggle-berries?!
  • fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    Apparently there were some dudes at my gym... a family... that would all blow dry their male parts right out in the open with the blow dryers in the mens locker room.

    People complained and they were told they aren't allowed to do it any more! :D

    What if that's the only way they can get blowjobs?
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  • Dylan StoneDylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    I go to a really nice gym. Super clean with like granite counters in the bathrooms and crap. I go there A LOT. Like too much if there is such a thing. Recently there has been this woman...she looks to be in her 50's and...

    Every time i see this woman at the gym all she appears to be doing is showering and grooming herself!

    Countdown to gross... 3...2...1... the other day...where she always changes which is at temp locker right next to my yearly rental locker....I found a douche box. Recently there is always grooming stuff... or like dirty "stuff" (used tissues etc...) around this spot.

    I swear I have never even seen her on the gym floor.

    I really think she just pays her $50/month so she would have someplace nice to get ready for work every day (and douche?!?!)

    And oh... of course she always walks around all naked and shit.

    *shivers*
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Saturnal wrote:
    My power rack & stationary bike are clearly the best investments I ever made.

    Yep, I went the same way! No waiting for equipment, no having to brave the hideous sights in the changing rooms, no expensive memberships...
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,603
    Almost forgot, one more (and this is why I always bring my own towels). Members that are too lazy/forgetful to bring flip flops so they put the bath towels on the floor to stand on...some even wipe up the floor with them afterwards...ack...

    Yesterday this guy had a towel on the floor in the change room using it like a door mat and also to catch all the dead skin from scrubbing his feet for like 10 minutes rigorously with a pumice stone. Honestly...some things are best left for home. The same guy then blow dried his entire body with a hair dryer top to bottom afterwards... groin area...armpits ....everything...it's all so remarkably bizarre.
    so..

    what do i find weirder??....

    some guy at a health club drying off his nutsack after taking a shower???

    or the fact that YOU were checking him out the whole time he was drying off his nutsack.....and then YOU decided to come here and share the experience that you had watching this guy dry off his nutsack????
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    so..

    what do i find weirder??....

    some guy at a health club drying off his nutsack after taking a shower???

    or the fact that YOU were checking him out the whole time he was drying off his nutsack.....and then YOU decided to come here and share the experience that you had watching this guy dry off his nutsack????

    You shouldn't judge everyone by your own standards! Noticing somebody's odd behaviour is not the same as staring at them doing it!
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,603
    You shouldn't judge everyone by your own standards! Noticing somebody's odd behaviour is not the same as staring at them doing it!
    you right...

    i shouldnt give you people a hard time...

    its not my fault that you enjoy checking out naked men in locker rooms...

    and then discussing those naked men on the internet....
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    you right...

    i shouldnt give you people a hard time...

    its not my fault that you enjoy checking out naked men in locker rooms...

    and then discussing those naked men on the internet....

    As opposed to you, who seems to be prolonging the conversation of naked men, once again indicating that you're a chutney miner!
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,603
    As opposed to you, who seems to be prolonging the conversation of naked men, once again indicating that you're a chutney miner!
    chutney miner????

    hehehehehehehehehehe...............
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  • sweet adelinesweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    nfanel wrote:
    this made me lol. :D i take my headphones off every now and then just to make sure my breathing isn't too loud to those without headphones...but sounds like what nips is doing is much worse...haha.

    well given that he drinks protein shakes and energy drinks WHILE he is working out, it would make sense that he has to burp and fart the whole time. he is a gross, old, short man with a porn star mustache. he could be a character on a tv show. nips manless.
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    Apparently there were some dudes at my gym... a family... that would all blow dry their male parts right out in the open with the blow dryers in the mens locker room.

    Why do they do that? Are they trying to avoid skin problems or something? I think I'm glad I mainly teach women.

    And at my facility, I'm not kidding, we had an AMISH guy (probably 30 or so) stumble into our facility today. He was looking for the bus station which is around the other side of the mall where my center is. My clients told him where it was as they were coming in to class, but he wasn't leaving (I teach aerobics) - he was just standing there as I was calling out the moves, so I had to tell the class to keep going, hop off the stage, throw on my hoodie, and escort him out! It was the wildest thing ever. When I came back in the whole class burst out laughing.
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  • maybe it's because i don't work out at a gym, but seriously, who the fuck shaves there? why wouldn't you shave in the morning before you leave the house for work or whatnot? that seems so fucking strange to me.
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