Ok folks,

Let's hear 'em. What are some of your pet peeves at the gym?

I'll start off with a few...

1) your heart rate monitor has taken over my heart rate monitor.
2) perfume/cologne guy/gal. seriously?!?
3) rerack your weights aka me doing reps of reracking your weights. (i'm gonna have to start writing that down in my book)

The guy who leans on the weight rack to do one of his lifting moves. Seriously dude, use a bench and get out of the way.

Nosy people who like to peer over at your elliptical display to see how you're doing.

The mirror guy. Honestly...I understand you have to check your form while you're lifting. No worries. But when you're constantly checking yourself out while running on the elliptical, your head craned to one side to stare at yourself...don't you see that you look like a twerp?

Grunters. Nuff said.

People who don't clean their cardio machines off when they're done.

People who change the tv channel without asking if anyone's watching what's on.

Stinkers.

Geeze Kate, you been watching me work out

I hate that...I always clean the elliptical before I use it anyway...

Excessive noise grunting man.

I get it... I make a few grunts towards the end of some of my sets. However, a few people make birthing sounds while doing each set.

Don't make me think those noise are the same noises you make in other areas of your life. *bleh* I just barfed in my mouth a little.

I hate being the only fat guy in the gym, lol.

Shouldn't the fat people be the ones there?

1. Old naked men hanging out in the locker room chatting away with no towels near them for coverage. ( I have seen this group of guys chatting when I began my workout and when I finished 1.5 hours later they were still in the locker room naked and chatting. Ugh! )

2. When someone is singing along with their mp3 player during their workout.

3. People who don't clean the equipment when they are finished using it.

people who sweat so much that they sweat on you-ewww!!!

-people who have to have certain pieces of cardio equipment when so many other of the same types of equipment are available and they are waiting for the one you are on.

-people who wear such low cut clothing that thier butt crack shows-eww

-loud cell phone conversations

-People who try to life more than they can do, and end up using their last breath to ask for assistance.

-The guy who sits on the leg lift and reads his magazine.

-The dude behind the front desk telling me to get rhomboid implants.

Hahaha! Labor is fun.

aww.. well, don't worry, you'll be one of them before you know it.. AND maybe they were in your position before? just think of all the other ppl who aren't at the gym, and maybe that's why they are the way they are


i HATE HATE HATE all the people who make the new years resolution to lose weight... so they go to the gym for like 3 weeks straight in january... and take up ALL the cardio equipment that us regular gym goers have been using for the past couple YEARS, and then quit after those 3 weeks.

it's miserable when you go into the gym at every hour of the day and it's packed.. and you can't get a machine
i went yesterday at 9pm (my school gym is open until 11:45) and there wasn't a single cardio machine. half of these ppl are going to stop going, and i have to suffer.

Since I work out at home, my biggest pet peeve right now is my treadmill malfunctioning and shutting off. I really need to call for service. Another pet (this is going to be a bad pun) peeve is getting dog hair all over me when I'm too lazy to vacuum.

I'm living in Hong Kong and what bugs me are

- those old Chinese gramps who use the treadmill beside yours. They run at a constant medium speed, then accelerate and keep on going like duracel bunnies while one suffers an asthma attack trying to keep up with them.

- the vamped up girl in stilletos and fake LV bag sitting on the bench press bank and watching her boyfriend lifting weights. And when she gets bored she's doing her make-up... again!!!

- the middle-aged housewife who switches the Gym-TV to some cooking channel. Thanks, I still need to run 40 minutes and I'm getting hungry already.

my fave are the guys that come in and load the squat rack up with 400-500 pounds then only go half way when they squat!

but my current pet peeve has already been mentioned by jocelyn. don't worry my dear, only one more week till the new years resolution group is back on the couch. =)

as one of my friends always says... LESS TALK, MORE ROCK!!!

Mine wasn't a new years resolution... that count? I just happened to start on Jan 6th to get to a goal weight . I want to do it more for what I want to do in life than for a stupid resolution I can never keep.

I want to go hiking for days and just be able to be out in the wilderness and be okay. Also I want to become a volunteer firefighter.

1) The person who passes up 8 empty ellipticals to use the one right next to me. And of course, they smell like a whole farm on a hot summer's day.

2) Trainers who give you that strange look for no reason. Don't you have someone to help lift weights?

3) That guy who reads the newspaper on the leg press machine. Can you move your a**?

4) The guy who does the number 2 in the bathroom and does NOT close the stall door. Are you kidding me?

5) My gym's CRAPPY hours

My pet peeve is the "ladies" who think the crunch and leg lifts machines are tables at Starbucks and sit on them for an hour and half and "chat". Of course they refuse to move and let others use the machines, because they are "working out" on them (then listening to them in the locker room afterwards complaining about how they come to the gym for 2 hours every day and haven't lost a pound).
Sorry for the rant, can you tell they bug me?

people who leave their garbage (i.e magazines, empty water bottles , tissues, chewed gum etc.) in the cup holders.

-also, when the cleaning crew vacuums and uses the heavy chemicals and cleaning stuff on the floor while you are working out so you are heavily inhaling the poison. or they are repairing something in the ceiling and dust from everywhere is flying on to you. oh so that reminds me, i appreciate when people clean the machines, but oh do i hate when they take the bottle and spray spray spray it in the air and all over so everyone can inhale that poison too! cant people aim into the towel? oh and another one, again i appreciate people trying to clean the machines, but not with their USED SWEATY TOWELS-ughhh! better off not cleaning them at all!
ok you can tell i watch peoples habits alot at the gym!

Wow, I guess I have a pretty good gym!

I am a bit annoyed at the resolution crew, crowding the gym and parking lot and having NO freakin' idea what they're doing. I've said it before, but the one and only squat rack is not for your barbell curls; if you can curl the weight, you can lift the damn thing off the floor. Now get out of my way so I can do a real exercise. It's the inconsiderate ones that get to me...

As for old naked guys, there are a couple, but not as bad as it was when I was at Bally's... I remember the gaggle of floppy/wrinkly old men (like a bunch of ppl wearing potato sacks made out of skin), spread out through the locker room and nearly surrounding me in the shower, singing along to Unchained Melody. That was a little freaky. And who the hell pipes Unchained Melody to the morning gym crowd??? I don't miss that place.

Other than that, up until yesterday we did have an inordinate amount of treadmills out of order.

Oh dear...


I'm so with you, man. Training on the elliptical next to the 39 pound model who can run faster than I can while reading a book, putting on her makeup AND talking on the phone... while I'm there just hoping to finish my ½ hour without dying... GRRR!!


Hmm, I don't usually sweat on people, but I did make a puddle underneath the elliptical yesterday.
A SWEAT puddle!! Geesh, what ARE you people thinking!!??


Trust me. Being a 140 kg out-of-shape guy on an elliptical probably comes the closest that a man with EVER feel to giving birth...


Oh. Sorry ;)


my #1 pet peeve? My gym has the BEST prices in town, but doesn't have all the machines I need. It's tiny. No squat-helper-thingie whatchamacallit, very few freeweights and the lockers are too small for my gym bag.

So now I have to find a new gym

haha, no ara i don't mean like, everybody who made a new years resolution to lose weight in general, i just mean they make the resolution, go to the gym everyday for three weeks, so there are a million ppl there, then stop going all together haha. it just puts a damper on my workout haha.

it's like 15 degrees here, otherwise i'd just run out side :-P

i dont mind if people sweat. i think its awesome if you get a good sweat going but not if you sweat on someone else. bring a towel and wipe yourself up before it starts flying on to someone else!

the other thing i hate is that-when im doing my hiit work outs and now suddenly the person next to me is in competition. everytime i increase my intensity they increase theirs. it is so funny. the only person im in competition with is myself. its funny b/c im not in good shape but i notice when i start working out hard all of a sudden people need to increase their intensity. it happens almost all of the time.

also, i hate what ill call "reservers." they put their water bottle down and come back an hour later. they are reserving their yoga spot or their cardio equipment for them and/or their friend. have some respect people!!

one other thing-people who scream across the gym to their friends and have conversations or people who have conversations over you. lets say there are 3 of you in a row riding a bike and you are in the middle and they are talking the whole time, loudly having a conversation. how annoying!!!

i keep thinking of more. blatant spouse cheating! at least be a little discreet people.

i think im going to print this and hang it in my gym!

You guys have no idea the amount of wanton nudity going down in the locker room of my gym.

Seriously... no idea.

While completely naked people:

Watch TV
Have in depth conversations
Talk on the telephone
Sleep
Go #2 (I dont know why, but this one disturbs me.)
Groom
and much more...

Don't get me wrong, I'm comfortable with the locker room, but this particular gym is starting to turn into a roman bath.

Scott Red Handed - that's exactly why I don't even go in the locker room unless it's a dire emergency (i.e. when Mother Nature keeps calling and I can't keep putting her on hold). Other than that, the locker room is off limits.

SCARINESS!

Since I work out on my lunch break, I really don't have any other options than to change and shower with them.

One of my favorites is when they walk around with the towel... over there shoulder and thats it.

EYT!

Eww
Yuck
Throw-up!

Why on earth do some guys hang out like that in the Locker Room?

This is seriously my biggest issue with the Gym I go to. My wife says that this sort of thing is not happening in the ladies locker room, so why do some guys use the locker room as a social nakedness time? I really don't get it and find it very disturbing. I don't mind people talking in the locker room, but please put some pants on.

And a shirt, Jeff.

I would settle for just the pants if I had to make a compromise. But a shirt as well would be ideal.