Annoying Gym People-Post Yours

[cdog204]

How about the people who groan or grunt loudly? I can understand it in the weight area but on the elliptical? Be quiet.

Guys who make a mess in the locker room annoy me. I manage to maintain my clothes/towels/etc. to my locker and maybe a little bit of the bench. Some of these guys have crap strewn over multiple lockers and benches, totally hogging up the space.

Fat people who brag about how intense and how often they work out. I'm there pretty much every day... I know they're full of it.

People who leave a mess or trail behind them. There is one woman in particular who wipes down a recumbent bike and then throws the paper towel on the floor even though there is a trash can 5 feet away. People also often tended to leave dirty, sweaty towels on machines or on the floor at a gym that I have since stopped going to.

 

[D_Kick Tindy Icehole]

People who spend an hour doing beach weights in front of the mirror when they can't bench or squat properly, and they've probably never even attempted to deadlift.

 

[catman]

Oh, add to that the guy who creates a huge CLOUD of baby powder (one ethnic group in particular) then leaves a long trail of footprints everywhere....there has got to be a better way of doing that...

and of course the 'room fogger' of cologne...one squirt is enough! if you stink that bad bathing in it won't help fella!

 

[Northland]

The fat ass weight lifter. You know...the type that cam bench 300 pounds but weigh 300 pouinds themselves. Do some aerobics fat ass.

Yes, we heard your complaint before, Mona.

http://www.lpsg.org/91782-annoying-gym-people-series-2-a.html with this opening salvo: You know the type. They have a huge gut sticking out but think they are so great cause they can bench 300 pounds. "Hey,,have you ever heard of aerobics?" Worse yet you see personal trainers with fatties as their clients intent of giving these tubs of lard a weight training regime. "Hey...these people need to be on the aerobic machines BREAKING A SWEAT full time!!! ( http://www.lpsg.org/1548414-post1.html ) from June of last year.

Perhaps when you learn to wipe your sweat off equipment, people will give you wider berth. I present your obnoxious sweating: http://www.lpsg.org/1698918-post1.html

Here's what it comes down to, the heavyset person is at the gym. They are lifting weights, they are attempting to do something about their physical being. In 6 months to a year, they will make you look like the overweight out of shape person and perhaps petition to have you barred from ever again entering that gym- the sweat issue alone would give them legal grounds.

 

[D_Lawhitton Megabutt]

People who spend an hour doing beach weights in front of the mirror when they can't bench or squat properly, and they've probably never even attempted to deadlift.

that kills me too. people doing 'squats' halfway to parallel or deadlifting with curved backs, you cant say shit tho can ya

 

[B_OtterJoq]

I have no prejudice against fatties,,,its just ,,okay...ive seen some fat asses there for 3,,4 years ,,they hardly break a sweat and are still as fat or fatter than ever. One lady who was very obese ,,lost alot of weight because she actually WORKED at it and sweated and WORKED out and I have ALOT of respect for her and others like her,,,well done.

People,,,who don't,,,,know,,,,how to use,,,commas piss me off,,,,more than,,,,fat,,,,people at the,,,,,gym.

 

[B_abc]

I hate when these 4 or 5 douches who think are king shit go to the gym and workout in rotation occupying 5 machines.

 

[BiItalianBro]

*** the human sweat stains who dont wipe down equiptment
*** the locker lizards who spend 15 minutes on the floor and 4 1/2 hours in the locker room/steam/sauna
*** men/women who wear clothes that are more appropriate for pole dancing than pilates.
*** women/men that more interested in finding a mate than tending to the business of fitness
*** #1 peeve, the Power Grunters who need to let everyone in the building know that they are benching XXXlbs/Kgs by making noises akin to an Abu Garb torture chamber

 

[D_Diesel Oyl]

My gyms parking lot at about 6:00 is like a war zone - people are insane. I was pulling into a parking space and an aeorbic-manic-freak chick tries to pull in front of me - never saw anything like it before or since. If they don't get their workout in, they go freaking insane.

Guys that leave a big-ass pig mess near their locker - clothes and wet towels all over the place.

People talking in the sauna - I agree with the above post that it's great when you can just sit there, bake in the heat and forget about the world for 10 minutes.

Staying on equipment when you are using it, between sets, and acting as if you own the machine for a stretch of time and no one else can get near. You practically have to beg these people to work in on the machine, and even at that they act pissed that they have to stand up and step aside for a few seconds.

The list could go on and on - BUT, most people on the whole are pretty good. Only a few bad apples that piss me off.

 

[element16ca]

The fat ass weight lifter. You know...the type that cam bench 300 pounds but weigh 300 pouinds themselves. Do some aerobics fat ass.

im with pdxman on this

 

[EL_Duderino]

i hate people who dont work hard and cry about being hard gainers... plus the idiots who do every exercise wrong then spout off big numbers about what they can bench or squat when they dont get range of motion..... as for the grunting I do that in the gym when im in the middle of a very rough circuit workout and I really am giving it everything i got. it seems to me that the avg guy is always the one complaining about the noise since he doesnt get what he needs to be doing in the gym to make gains.

 

[D_Odipherous Pitts]

I dislike people who don't put away their weights after their done. They walk away from a fully loaded leg press or bench press and expect someone else to upload it for them. I have, on occasion, gone up to them and asked them if their mother was in the gym with them. When they've replyed that she isn't I comment "I guess that means you're going to have to put away those weights yourself then..."

I dislike people who don't wipe the sweat off of the equipment they're using.

I dislike the guys who walk around the gym in the tank tops, do rags, and sunglasses (indoors) and act like they are the biggest and baddest dudes in the gym when in reality they are skinny punks with no muscle mass whatsoever and only work chest and biceps. You NEVER seen them doing squats.... which is why they don't wear shorts and if they do they go down to their ankles... and the waist is down around their mid butt.

I dislike guys doing curls in the squat rack. Squat there or get out of my way.

I dislike guys who try to impress everyone on how much they can lift and end up doing 1/4 reps with really bad form. I bet they only put it in their boyfriends ass a little ways too and call it good. They swing the weight around with so much momentum that they are not even working the bodypart they're trying to work. I actually watched a guy curling 135 lbs and he didn't even move his arms. It was a total back workout swinging the weight up and down... damn that must have hurt later. That doesn't impress me or others and eventually they'll get hurt.

I dislike the gal who will drive around and around the gym parking lot trying to find a close parking spot. You'll then see her in the gym only doing cardio. Why didn't she just walk a little farther and get in some extra cardio... Lord knows she could use it.

I dislike the guy or gal who will try to monoplize a few pieces of equipment at the same time. Going from one to the other and expecting everyone to wait until he is done.

The list is endless for all the mindless out there....

 

[Torque8]

I hate when these 4 or 5 douches who think are king shit go to the gym and workout in rotation occupying 5 machines.

Get over it! Some of you seem rather naive or understand anything about mini-circuit training and why those of us that are serious bb's do it! The real douchebags are the ones that carry around cell phones, occupy a bench or a machine while chatting on their phones......you're NOT impressing anyone....leave the damn phone in your locker!

 

[D_Diesel Oyl]

I wish TORQUE lifted at my gym....

 

[BiItalianBro]

LMAO....the parking lot thing is SOOOOOO true!! Love seeing people shark for prince(ss) parking and then hop on the cardio machines.

There is a McDonalds on the far end of the parking lot my gym shares...I get a kick out of seeing people hit the drive thru as they leave. The cell phone thing was annoying, my place adopted a *very* strict policy on using them on the floors and locker rooms. First offense is a warning, second is a 2 weeks suspention, third they pull you membership...life is much better now.

 

[MuscleDick]

I second EVERYTHING "Most Muscular" said above in his post - the list of annoying shit that goes on at the gym is too long to post on this forum.

I find probably 80%+ of people annoying at most gyms I have belonged to and choose to use headphones and mp3 player the minute I enter the gym in order to block others out and focus on my own training.

Probably the single most annoying gym goer is the "Ego Lifter" who uses poundages far exceeding his ability and atrocious form in order to boost his ego. I have often thought of walking over to one of these guys (typically a benching fanatic) and pushing the bar into their sternum as they struggle to eek out a 1/4 rep single....cruel but funny (at least to me).

 

[D_Odipherous Pitts]

Probably the single most annoying gym goer is the "Ego Lifter" who uses poundages far exceeding his ability and atrocious form in order to boost his ego. I have often thought of walking over to one of these guys (typically a benching fanatic) and pushing the bar into their sternum as they struggle to eek out a 1/4 rep single....cruel but funny (at least to me).

At times I'll get some young kid asking me to spot him on the bench so I'll go over there and stand above him... he'll get about 4 or 5 (if he's lucky) and then start struggling. He barely pushed the bar up (with bad form, his legs hopping all over, etc. He then says "one more rep" I think "WTF? You hardly lifted that one what makes you think you can do another one?" So I let him try. This is where is usual lifting buddy probably jumps in and helps him pull it up. I let him struggle. I put my fingers under the bar to prevent it from going down but damn if I'm going to help him lift it up. It's not my deadlift day! The look of panic upon their face is priceless. They suddenly realise I'm not going to help them and they turn red in the face trying to push it up and rack it. Once it's racked I walk away. They never ask again.

 

[jj8inch]

Guys who are using 2 or more machines in a rotation and when you get on one you hear from across the room "I'm still using that".

 

[crescendo69]

Four guys who are taking turns on one machine for half-an-hour.

 

[D_Doe_Ray_Mi]

I echo some of the above and the guy who shaves, leaving his used disposable razor on the counter, sink full of whiskers and shaving cream not bothering to clean up for the next guy. same with combs, etc. at the sink. "peepee watchers" just hanging out in the showers and locker room obviously there for a vicarious thrill. Ditto on shucking your sweaty w/o clothes on the floor or bench in front of your and adjacent lockers. No respect for others. Guys working out together, asking to work in and then not letting you finish your set(s). Cell phone use on the w/o floor. Women and men dressed and be-jeweled like they are going out to a cocktail party. Towels left on the floor outside the shower after they've protected themselves stepping out of the shower onto a damp floor. Grunters and moaners as above.