I too was with you until here. Maybe the people who walk on the treadmills are doing so for the same that you run on one; their knees (or hips or ankles) can’t handle the impact of walking on the track or anywhere else. Treadmills provide a cushion unlike any solid walking surface. Plus, you have no clue what kind of aerobic output these folks are getting by walking. Some of them might also be cardiac patients who can’t run. The speed at which other gym members use the treadmills isn’t your business.
Oh, and screw you for using gay as pejorative and attempting repeatedly to defend it. You’re not 8 and this isn’t a playground. Grow the hell up.
You’re going to complain to a man who hung on a cross and shoplifted a set of keys from Hell becuase people are making fun of you for not changing your special shoes quickly enough to get to the treadmill in time? You are sooo coming down with a mysterious case of scrotal eczema.
Sorry, dude. Jesus just left me a message and asked me to tell you to shut the fuck up. He’s busy. The downtrodden in the world take precedence over your paranoid schizophrenia and severe homophobia.
Put me on the list. Watch the fun! Wanna get pissed off even more? I WALK on the treadmill AND I use the elliptical.
Perhaps you should take a class on how to ride your bike so you are not such a danger to yourself an others. Riding on the right, using hand signals, making sure I’m appropriately visible and obeying traffic laws
I have to admit I have no idea what this means.
If you don’t calm down, you could give yourself a heart attack next time you’re at the gym which would really screw up the lines.
Sigh. You must feel like such a big man for 1) defending your territory and 2) using the anonymity of the internet to come across as a homophobic ass.
Oh, one more thing you can make yourself feel better about: I enjoy wrestling. I find that using the guard is a good resting place/transition to other holds. Surely I’m much gayer than anyone who would use a low-impact exercise device.
Fuck all if I’m gonna sit here and defend my actual position and feelings towards homosexuals, or if you think you got it nailed because I referred to one exercise from the gym with a joke from “Jay & Silent Bob” and then ran with it when you piped in.
Perhaps you should come take a ride with me from my house, in the middle of Baltimore, during rush hour, in the dark, on damp streets with no shoulders on hills where you either get run down or go 40 mph around corners. Please tell me just how well that hand signal and halogen light work at the intersection with a grand total of 11 lanes with cars stacked deep with their lights on in 4 directions.
If we could get away from the gay thing, I’d open this up to some more general gym complaints. . .
Stop camping on the equipment. If I ask to work in, don’t say that you have “just one more set” and then continue to sit on the damn machine!
Older guy in the International Male 1-piece? Don’t. Just don’t. Even 19-year-old guys with <10% bodyfat would be hard pressed to pull that off and you just. . . can’t.
The two really hot workout partners? Stop yelling! Yes, I know you two are all fired up to get pumped, but screaming after each rep like Richard Simmons at a shoe sale is annoying. Stop it.
If you’re reading a magazine as you ride the stationary bike, you’re cheating yourself. Not my problem, just a heads up.
Gym management, I pay $69.95/mo. to use your gym, and the markup for post-workout drinks is just plain greedy.
Ugly, fat guy in the sauna? If you exerted the energy on the workout floor that you spend cruising for dick, you’d probably have a 32 in. waist by now. In any event, I have no interest in watching you whack it, so please stop abusing the poor wee thing and cover up.
Sounds like someone needs to be hit by a clue-by-four.
Okay, moron. How is “Waah! My knee hurts! I need to walk instead of run!” any different from “Waah! My knee hurts! I need to use a treadmill instead of running on the track!” Hmmm… It really isn’t. You’re both aware of the limits your body gives, and you fear that pushing those limits will really injure you.
I ran cross country for 6 years. That means on uneven ground, up hills, over tree roots, through streams, on roads… you name it. Do I curse you for not being able to run on a fucking track? To me, running on a track is like running on a fucking sponge. But (here comes the obvious part) you and I have different bodies. Different limits. Different exercises we can reasonably do. So why, Idiot of all Idiots, do you curse those who can’t run, and need to walk instead?
note: I do not mean to offend anyone by my use of “Waah!”
Yes! Here’s a hint. If I can do three sets at my weight station before you’ve started your second, you’re just wasting everyone’s time…and probably your own.
And don’t act surprised when the weight room is packed to the rafter and someone asks to work in, either.
Actually, I can read a magazine on the stationary bike and have my RPMs where they should be and be in my target heart rate zone. I can’t do it while on the treadmill or the elliptical or the stair climber or the horrible escalator thing (it’s funny to watch people on the escalator holding their weight up on their arms and reading) but for some reason, I can actually read on the bike while exercising.
I found that out one day when I really didn’t feel like working out at all, but was willing to go through the motions of working out, so I brought a book with me and pedaled, and kept looking down and at the heart rate monitor and finding out “hey, that’s target! cool!” and then went back to reading.
I’m with amarinth. I can read while getting a good stationary bike workout. And I definitely sweat. And my quads ache due to the resistanec. But the reason I’m able to keep going is that I take my mind off of how much I want to stop and rest. I’m done before I know it. What I want to know is, who grunts while they do cardio?
UrbanChic, you saw right through me. I’m a verbal utterance elitist. I’m currently organizing a grassroots organization aiming to restrict the rights of those whose verbal utterances aren’t up to my high standard. But that’s for another thread.
<girly squeak> Scarlett67! </girly squeak> Haven’t seen you in ages! And I was just thinking of you the other day as I changed my email sig line to my favorite holiday quote:
“If wishing for a return to “each holiday in its own good time” makes me a Grinch, well then pass the Who Hash. Harrumph” – Scarlett67
