Gym Etiquette

mookie9999
mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
edited January 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
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?
"The leads are weak!"

"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

"What's your name?"

"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    piss down the drain,,it all goes to the same place
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    NY PJ1 wrote:
    piss down the drain,,it all goes to the same place

    GREAT! So are you the reason the locker room at my gym smells like a guy who sleeps on a subway?
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Just wanted to point out a few pet peeves of mine about the gym. Feel free to add any of yours.


    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?

    awesome # 3. i can't stand that shit either. you covered the basics.

    i hate the old, wrinkly men that wear ridiculously short shorts. i don't want to see your balls everytime you sit down on a machine... hide those bad boys in a pair of sweat pants please.
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    mookie9999 wrote:
    GREAT! So are you the reason the locker room at my gym smells like a guy who sleeps on a subway?


    ive never stepped foot inside a gym :)

    hence my big muscles
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I hate everything about the gym.

    The gym I went to was so shit. Most of the equipment was broken, which was a good excuse to stop going. :D
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    actually... i have a few more.

    1. the dumb bitches that work out while talking loud as hell on their cell phone.

    2. the guys who actually get dressed up to work out. Ie: designer work out clothes (you know, $150 pair of sweat pants, $80 wife beater), spikey gelled hair and jewlery all over themselves.

    rot in hell.
  • CServant
    CServant DCO Posts: 1,182
    It bugs me when people pretend to wipe down the last machine they used. I'd have more respect for them if they'd just leave it sweaty. We have one guy who always grabs a paper towel, doesn't even squirt it down, then runs it across the faceplate of the stair stepper. I guess appearance is everything for some people.
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    This is why I work out at home
  • kenshunt
    kenshunt London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,863
    My workout consists of lifting a cheese burger to my mouth, or a little ball hockey game:)Don't need a gym
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  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    singularity wrote:
    actually... i have a few more.

    1. the dumb bitches that work out while talking loud as hell on their cell phone.

    2. the guys who actually get dressed up to work out. Ie: designer work out clothes (you know, $150 pair of sweat pants, $80 wife beater), spikey gelled hair and jewlery all over themselves.

    rot in hell.

    Good examples. The gym I work out at has both men and women yapping on their phones. Folks, if you can manage a conversation while doing your cardio along with laughing and snorting, then you are obviously not working out hard enough. The people in the designer duds make me laugh as well. Never understood the idea of picking someone up at the gym. I guess if they see and smell you after a workout and are still willing to talk to you, you have a great chance once you're cleaned up.
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Saturnal wrote:
    This is why I work out at home

    Yeah me too... I keep thinking of joining a gym but every time I walk into one, the machisimo in the room is so thick you can cut it with a knife and I can't be arsed..
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    I have a few as well.

    Stop pissing in the showers right at the end of your shower so it sits there for the next guy.. Damn, it's downright nasty.

    Shower before getting in to the sauna, who wants to share your body oils and funk?

    Stop string at your self in the mirror for 10 minutes in between sets while you sit there hogging up a machine like a slug waiting for the "inspiration" to miraculously kick in

    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.

    Stop pretending you have tennis balls under your armpits when you walk around.

    If your filling a water bottle and someone is behind you just going for a sip in between sets don't fill up the whole bottle like a inconsiderate boob.

    Keep it quiet and focused....go to a starbucks and cuddle and if you need to bond longer than a few minutes for loud boisterous discussions. Some People gots some work to get done and are rather serious about it ;)

    But honestly though stop pissing in the shower, and clean your sweaty a$$ up before occupying up a small hot airspace (sauna) with other people.

    That is all.... :D
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    singularity wrote:
    1. the dumb bitches that work out while talking loud as hell on their cell phone.

    omg, I want to punch them in the face

    fucking shut up
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    What about the fat old wrinkly dudes who love to stand naked next to you at the sink, combing their hair?
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    fanch75 wrote:
    What about the fat old wrinkly dudes who love to stand naked next to you at the sink, combing their hair?


    You have that guy too? he never brings a towel.....ahahaha
    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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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Almost forgot...stop clearing your nose in the shower and leaving snots chunks everywhere.

    Hideous...
    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.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    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!
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    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.

    2. Not putting the weights back on the right pegs. Every time I start to use a piece of equipment, the weights are invariably all mixed and matched. Is it that hard to put all the 10s on one peg, all the 25s on another, etc.?? Apparently, nobody but me finds this annoying, but I usually spend 2 minutes re-organizing all of the weights before I start to lift at each piece of equipment.

    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.
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    And I refuse to even use the locker room due to all the aforementioned reasons from this thread.

    I change at work or at home before I leave. If I need to use the bathroom, I use the restroom out by the front desk and not the locker room.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Almost forgot...stop clearing your nose in the shower and leaving snots chunks everywhere.

    Hideous...
    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.
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