Those jerkoffs who feel the need to use the drinking fountain to fill up their 64oz water jugs. It wouldn’t be so bad if they moved to the side while people got their drinks from the fountain, but no. They just stand there and act like no one is waiting to get a drink from the fountain. Tonight there was this one chick filling hers up and a line of about 5 people were waiting to get a drink. She just looked at us all and kept on filling her jug.
I understand you want cold water, but just put ice in your damn jug and fill it up in the bathroom. If you put enough ice in there when you leave the house you should still have enough left inside for when you fill it back up. Don’t make me wait 2 minutes just so you can get cold water for your jug.
And don’t get me started on the huge guys who put 800lbs in 100lb plates on the leg press machine and leave them on there when they are done. Fucksticks.
Yeah but they dont enforce them. It just irks me when I am trying to get ready to do leg presses and see that I need to move a few hundred pounds of weights before I can.
What I hate is when someone stands next to the machine I’m using and taps his/hers foot waiting for me to finish… Couldn’t you go for a walk or use another friggin machine while I finish? The more you tap, the more I take my time asshole
I promise not to tap, jools, just so long as you aren’t one of those people who view the machine as a park bench to sit on as they talk with their friends.
This is kind of dorky but I keep used water bottles and fill them with water at home and then stick them in the freezer. When it’s time to go to the gym, I take one out and bring it with me. By the time I’m done with my workout I have a bottle of deliciously freezing cold water. Mmmmm.
I can’t stand people who don’t wipe down the equipment after use. Nothing worse than plopping your knee in someone else’s pool of sweat.
This seems like a good place to ask a gym etiquette question I’ve been wondering about. I understand why it’s good manners to reset the machines to zero when I’m done, and I do that, but should I also reset the seat and bar positions? I’m a lot taller than most of the people in the gym, so the next person is almost guaranteed to have to adjust the machine. OTOH, I can’t know the exact size of the next person, so they’ll probably have to do some re-adjusting even if I do try to reset them.
I hate those idiots that sit on the machine between sets for two minutes. When you ask if you can do a set while they are waiting, they look at you like you have just asked them for their first born. Inconsiderate shitheads…
My other pet peeve are those morons that grab one of each dumbell and wander off into some obscure corner of the gym to do their secret workout and then leave all of the weights there.
But I have to agree with Stinkpalm that the water-mongers are amongst the worst offenders, especially at my gym where the water fountain has a flash cooler that can’t keep up to those 1.5L bottles…the first person after that gets a mouthful of piss-hot water.
I don’t have a problem with people who don’t change seat adjustments, but I hate hate HATE having to wipe down equipment before I can use it. We’re provided with spray cleaner and rags - free - many bottles - yet there are those who can’t seem to be bothered to wipe down after themselves. They irritate me more than the socializers - I have no problem with saying “Are you done with that station?” but I shouldn’t have to ask an adult to clean up sweaty equipment. I bet these are the same people who don’t wash their hands in the bathroom…
The people I hate are the ones who stagger into the locker room, strip off all of their clothes, spread them all over the floor, and benches, and then wander off to take a shower.
I had one guy who had all of his clothes spread out all along the aisle. I had to straddle his gear to get into my locker. He then returned from his shower, eyed me standing uncomfortably over parts of this stuff, and proceeded to go on about his business. Arg!
I am so happy to hear others feel the same way about the water bottle issue. Invariably when I’m done with an intense cardio workout gasping for water… someone is busy filling up their supersize water bottle at the fountain. And I hate to say it, but according to my observations most of the time it’s a female.
FTR, I could be considered a “body builder” and take my gym workouts fairly seriously… no newspapers, chatting or languishing between sets for me.
Also, most workouts require three sets with a minute or so rest between sets.
Other pet peeves…
Guys who dress/undress and set their super-giant sized gymbags on the bench with all their requisite doo-dads spread around. I can get buy with just a small corner to sit while tieing my shoes… and sometimes that’s asking for too much.
Guys who need 8 sets of dumbbells for one workout… usually they read some article in a fitness magazine entitled something like a super-power-mega-energy set.
Needy people who interrupt my workout for a spot. I don’t mind ONCE… but asking again makes me want to charge a personal trainer fee.
If it’s busy, I don’t mind someone asking to work in a set with me. But if it’s 2 in the afternoon and the gym is virtually empty… please don’t ask… just find another machine… I’m usually finished in a short amount of time.
Sloppy guys who leave their towels on the floor, spray baby powder everywhere, let their old bandaids fall off in the shower area, etc.
Jeez. Just the other night I’ve got a few high school football meatheads (yes, I was one too… years ago. I was 16 then and I’m 42 now!) moving from machine to machine giving no consideration to others. I walk up to one with the spray bottle and a paper towel, hand it to him and nod my head toward the machine he just left. He, using his extensive vocabulary, says…
“hunh?”
Me- “Well put! Now, could you please wipe down that machine?”
meathead “oh.”
Me- “Gentlemen!” I announced “Could you please wipe down the machines and benches with THIS (brandishing spray bottle) and THIS (brandishing paper towels) when you’re done with your set?!”
I thought for sure they were going to ignore me and walk out, but evidently I struck a nerve in them and they complied!
Well, that AND I’m easily a third larger and far stronger than any of them.
And please don’t drop the dumbbells! If you’re too exhausted to put them down safely, then you’re too exhausted. I’ve seen dumbells bounce and hit other people. I even saw one end fall off a 100 lb. dumbell that had been regularly dropped. The guy who was using it at that moment was doing an excercise where the dumbells were carried over his face. Thank Og that it fell apart when it was over the floor, or he would have been seriously injured.
If you’;re working your legs, you want to get on with the working of legs rathern than waste time clearing somebody else’s weight load out of the way. It’s just good manners to clean up after oneself.
I grow tired of the fat old trolls who go to the gym to lurk in the showers and troll for dick. I got no problem with meeting a guy at the gym and then going home to get it on, but being creepily predatory is just inexcusable. If you’re going to the gym to work out, then work out and get rid of some of that blubber;otherwise, go to a sex club–that’s what they’re for.
And second on the idiots who use benches as conversation settees. If you’re working a set, then do it Don’t just sit there and gab, taking up space while other people who are serious about their workouts are trying to get on with it.
Stinkpalm was complaining specifically about people who leave 100 lb plates on the machines. Those are hard to move; in fact, a lot of people are shit out of luck in that case. If you leave a bunch of 45 lb plates, you’re still an asshole, but you’re less of an asshole than if you had left 100 lb plates. Get the difference?
I must be lucky. At the gym I go to, everyone seems to be pretty courteous. Granted, I’m going late at night, and that may make a difference, but I’m still having a pretty good time of it.
Do people really do this? I never really thought about it before. How do I know if there is an old troll lurking for dick in the shower? I tend to not look at other dudes in the shower so how do you know if some dude is looking at your cock and getting hungry? Do they walk up and say something to you or grab your ass or something?
Guess I understand why they do it. I guess I would troll for vagina if I knew there would be naked girls in the shower everyday at the gym.
