What pisses you off at the gym?

[ann]

That is so funny and true Ms Fit.....I went out friday night, and some drunk wanted to arm wrestle me

[MsFit]

You should have done it just shut him up.
MsFit

[Super]

Originally posted by ann
I personally get a little irate when I am lifting, and a guy near me might say, " F ---K, she can lift more than me, now that suxs".

I usually feel like bitch slapping them......

LOL! That's hilarious! But I love it when that happens. It's a compliment. And even if they don't mean it as a compliment, that's how I'm going to take it!

[Pete235]

Ok Supe...if you're gonna laugh at me you've just blown any chance of us training together

[Super]

Originally posted by Pete235
Ok Supe...if you're gonna laugh at me you've just blown any chance of us training together

Don't worry Pete, I will turn away when I giggle, you won't even notice!

I remembered something else that drives me nuts. Guys that pick up the dumbbells and don't step back.

*I mean, hello? Get outta the way! You are blocking my way to the dumbbells!*

I am not longer even polite any more when people do this, I just reach right around them to get the weights I need.

[KrashRoute]

i train at a Y cause its between work and school and its cheap. I hate it its all over weight 40yr olds who watch tv while they work out drinking soda out of their McDonadls cups...its disturbing. Any how there is no gym edicate sp? at all what so ever. Also there are only 22 45lb plates so trying to do legpresses is a toughy. I also hate when people take dumbells and stand right infront of the rack and do shrugs. I hate when ppl abduct the stack im on when i get a drink and leave my towel on the cable. I hate all the extra loud benchers and curlers. I hate the old fogey music they play. I know they wont play what i listen to ...but something other than elton john would be just keen. Arg im realizing what an awesome gym I had up in jersey...everyone was serious, the weights were in order..never had to ask for a spot..and the on given was always perfect..and they let you play what ever cd you brough in. Oh and i HATE gym socializers who want to talk all the time esp wheil im lifting...and ruin my intensity. Ill have my headphones on doing weighted pullups and some guy will sap me on the side of the leg and ask me what the little things are that are holding my hands to the bar.......

[Abbaddon]

First off I work at the gym I train at so mind you there is no escape for me.

so here we go:

The idiot who has to drop the 50s from what seems like about the top of the motion to the floor when doing db military. This is after he has done about 6 reps screaming his head off the entire time.

The idiots who think that anyone smaller than them is someone they should make fun of and anyone bigger than them just got that way from using AS.

The people that use the squat rack for barbbell curls.(always seems to be on my leg day)

The women who are there just to get a date.

The guys that are there jsut to get a date.

The shit head who tells me I am doing something wrong when I have a dumbbell sitting on my knee that weighs more than he does preparing to do my set.

People who do not rack their fucking weight. It is just the rudest thing in the world to leave it for someone else to do.

And a knock against my own gym... Our music selection sucks, there is not one point in time from when I am warming up to cooling down that my MP3 player isnt on full volume.

[Tobey]

Abbaddon,
You would love this gym. It is located in Auburn Alabama and is owned by Bill Kazzemire (Spell ?) The name of it is SWATS. The music always rocks. It is a true BB dream gym. And yeah if you forget to rack your weight after a set, the mangement will come over to you and ask you to leave. You can return the next day but only if you have revaluated your manners. And get this, $25 dollars a month (no contract) and it is open 24 hours a day. If any of you are ever in Auburn Alabama, you gotta look this one up.
IC

[Super]

Tobey, I want to work out there!

[Mighty Joe]

Tobey,

I worked out in a Gym in Atlanta years ago when "Kaz" was working out there too!

He tore his pec and still benched 480lbs...go figure!

He is a true "gym rat" and stronger than....well..anybody!

The atmosphere in a gym when he walks through the door...is perfect for taking the intensity up a notch or two. I loved it and I have yet to find a place with that much aura since. I am jealous!
But I will stop by there next time I'm near Auburn.

MJ

[Tobey]

Hey Guy's,
Now if you are ever in Auburn, do not get confused. There is a gym there called Kazz Fittnes. It's a gym that Bill use to own but he lost it in his divorce to his ex-wife.(Or so that's how I heard it.) Anyway, it isn't all that great a gym. The gym that I was talking about is Bill's gym that he opened up since then called SWATS. Do not get the two confused because they are as different as night and day.

IC

[Shredz]

When you are done you workout..you go into the changeroom to do what ever and there is this big out of shape hairy guy that is completely naked either shaving in front of the mirror with his dick laying on the countertop.

or even better the same old guy with his foot up on the counter top clipping his nails. And does he clean up his nails? [SIZE=3][COLOR=red]NO!!!!

This drives me nuts. Save it for home and if you have to shave...wear a god damn towel.

thanks for posting this...I have need to vent about this for months.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

[puroresu]

All of you have legit gripes. Unfortunately I belong to a sports club where everyone who works out feels the need not to rerack their weights. Sometimes that place looks like a high school gym. The best thing about the place is they have these fat guys eating Mcdonalds walking around with shirts on that say "personal trainer" on the back. Now that drives me nutts!

[D-BolMan]

I ask "are you done with that" sometimes people are too lazy to put the damn weights back......i cant read minds to see if they are done or just being lazy

[Marcella]

I have to agree 110% with what Bert said earlier. I really hate to see all those tiny girls who just don't have a clue what they're doing... And the way they look at me or that other girl at my gym who also lifts heavy and hard... The message I read from their faces is like "yack, she's sweatting and grunting, how unfeminine" And off she goes to put on some more mascara - well, she doesn't have to worry about it spreading all over her face, now does she?? Anyway, I bet I get more admiring looks from the guys than the girlies

[Tobey]

Originally posted by Marcella
Anyway, I bet I get more admiring looks from the guys than the girlies [/B]

Marcella,
I don't for a moment doult that you do. At least I KNOW you would from my gym anyway. ( Ok what did you guy's think that the Iron Chef ONLY checked out receipe books from time to time? Comon!)

[Socio]

Guy who talk on their fones in the Gym , Guys who train in sunglasses like the muscletech budies , Guys who need a spot from rep 1 i saw this guy trying to do dumbell presses with 90lbs d/bs he can barely lift them off the ground and when he falls back to lift em .. he starts screaming then when u spot him he goes LESS SPOT LESS SPOT so u leave him hes like help help! then slams the weights on the floor and walks off.SKinny guy too.

ALso guys who cant spot!im lucky I have a great training partner who can spot me well ... but hes hurt him self so i always get guys who help too much and say u did it all ur self or guys who look at ass when im doing squats or behind the neck presses
i could go on ..... but i wont .

[Socio]

oh one more! guys who are talkin to u then when u start a set they keep talking and even ask u questions like you have many to go ...while doing reps ...this is pissing me off lol better stop before i get into a bad mood!!!! lol

[Fast Results]

this is a funny post!!! I can relate 100%.... I cant stand the rudeness of a person in he gym.

[Fast Results]

Originally posted by dane26
it's too bad we can't have gym for only members of this board and however else we hand select. our music, our wiehgts, and our rules. nothing but meatheads and big plates

Dane, thats funny...

just megine what we would learn if we're all on the same page!

[Denmark]

Originally posted by dane26
it's too bad we can't have gym for only members of this board and however else we hand select. our music, our wiehgts, and our rules. nothing but meatheads and big plates

That sounds like the gym, where i workout , Several National Danish champs here, and we got our own key to the gym so we can come and go as we please, when the dumbbells get to small,
we get bigger dumbbells, its in a few words a hardcore gym, with all the equiptment necesary to get big, and no fitness shit!.

[Terinox]

LOL okay here it goes...

First off, the music issue, you can't complain about that, not every bodybuilder likes to listen to heavy metal, or alternative music. I personally like all types of music, and depending on my mood, I like to listen to different types of music. On light weight days, I actually prefer soft music. On heavy weight days, where I feel really pumped up, I like techno/light alternative. But I mean hay, why the hell don't you just take a walkman/discman to the weight room with you. Everyone does that these days. You wear one of those cd holder belts, and listen to your own music!

In terms of what bugs me...basically everything that bugs you guys!!! Me and my friends practically have a name set up for everyone in our gym. Some have awful techniques/forms. There are the 120 pound guys who come into the gym and put on 45's on each side, and you can just see their friend SWEATING HIS ASS OFF trying to curl the fucken bar making it look like his buddy is actually benching it. Or the other guys who come in and put on 10 pounds on each side and struggle to death with it!!!

Then there are those few who act like they own the gym. They really act like they own the gym...they have this look, and this walk, as if they know everything, and all the equipment was made specially just for them to use.

What's wrong however with asking people if your done with a machine or how many sets you have left? A lot of the time in my gym you just go and "work-in" with someone at a machine. It's all good.

I also hate people who don't put the weights back, or are sitting at a bench, and have about 20 dumbells in front of them!!! I was at the YMCA once, and this fucker had AT LEAST 5 sets of dumbells around him. The fucker wasn't even using some of them, they were just there. IT WAS FUCKEN RIDICULOUS. It was a pooooool of dumbells. And if you were to ask him if he was done with that set of dumbells, he'd be like "NO DUDE, I got like 2 sets left!" WTF IS UP WITH THAT ???

GRRRRRR...

[EXCESS]

Originally posted by Terinox
I was at the YMCA once, and this fucker had AT LEAST 5 sets of dumbells around him. The fucker wasn't even using some of them, they were just there. IT WAS FUCKEN RIDICULOUS. It was a pooooool of dumbells. And if you were to ask him if he was done with that set of dumbells, he'd be like "NO DUDE, I got like 2 sets left!" WTF IS UP WITH THAT ???

I take the weights away without asking. If they have a problem they'll tell me, and we can have a civil discussion in the parking lot.

[bravo11p]

CELL PHONES!!!! I hate people talking on cell phones lolly-gagging around equipment or mid set and stopping to answer the phone. Understandably, if it's a real emergency, O.K. but not to just shoot the shit and talk about where your going later, etc. Oh, and fat women in spandex. Nothing worse than a fat woman in spandex.

[THE BIG RED MACHINE]

OK, here goes
I work out at the local community college where I’m a student, but I was a body builder long before that. Anyway, since it is a community based gym you get all kinds of wack jobs from all walks of life

-Kids
-Students who just go in because their program requires 2 w/o per week, so they just go in f**k around and clutter up the gym for an hour instead of actually doing what they’re told.
-Senior citizens (mostly) who like to sit on the equipment and remenis on the good old days while people who are really trying to work out have to work around them? Go into the change room if you want to shoot the shit!
-Gum snappers (c’mon girls, you know who you are) the ones who go in, all dolled up hair makeup the works, wearing the latest fluorescent spandex outfit they could find. They clutter up the cardio equipment (but keep it on a low setting for fear of breaking a sweat and ruining all that pretty make up), making damn sure that every guy in the gym notices the new boob job (nothing against boob jobs by the way) that their Camaro driving b/f just bought them and then giving a guy a dirty look for staring (ya, I got caught OK, so sue me)! If you don’t want people to look at your….uh, upper body, then quit showing it off in your tight ass little Nike speedo, wear a friggin sweater if its so uncomfortable to be seen.
-Guys walking around in the pit stained white Pro-Lab T-shirts (sorry Pete) with ILS (imaginary lat syndrome) so bad that they actually think that they need to turn sideways to get by equipment!
-Kids
-Students who do co-op placement at the gym that try to offer w/o advise to someone who’s twice their size and who’s obviously been working out for years, because the 3rd edition textbook that they used last semester says that incline bench press actually does nothing for upper chest development. Right, like anyone’s going to take w/o advise from someone who’s obviously never picked up a weight in his or her life. Sorry guys, but if you look like shit, there’s no way that your going to sell me any advise!
-Guys that offer to spot, but really have no idea how too. I know these guys mean well, but no hand on the bar mean NO HAND ON THE BAR. Then they say, “Its all you, Its all you” as your trying to press the weight. SHUT UP, I know its not all me, because I can see your bony little fingers turning purple.
-“No Grunting” sighs, what’s up with that? OK excessive I understand, but when you trying to rep out 500lb dead lifts, you may in fact hear a little whimper or two.
-Crappy music. I don’t know about the rest of you but if I’ve got to do one more set to Britany Spears, or some disposable Boy band one more time…
-Trying to work out on that same piece of equipment that should have had its cables changed months ago they fray a little more and each time you use it, then the little minimum wage earning staff member says, “OK, I’ll let someone know about it.) Nothing like a good law suit as a reminder, eh chief!

There’s more, but I don’t want to sound like I’m bitching or anything like that.
Oh ya, don’t forget
-Kids!!!

[Cali]

Big Red, if you weren't from Canada I'd swear we went to the same gym!!!

[THE BIG RED MACHINE]

Naw, by the sounds of it, there are clowns like this at every gym. Its just that the ones that are at mine say "Eh" and "Aboot" a lot!

[Fast Results]

Originally posted by MsFit


I get tired of that s*** too. Also I hate the general public wanting to arm wrestle me all the time or suggesting that I beat up my boyfriends..........

Oh, how about the two universal questions.

1) Do you work out? (duh)
2) How much do you lift? (on what?)
MsFit

I get some similar questions like How much can you bench? So I say like 700lbs .... thier like really? ohh yea thats just warm up reps. hehe but then againth dont know, its a compliment and ignarence at the same time
You guys have to admit it nice when people notice


Hppy new years brothers... Im hammerted already and my cycle starts tommorrow

[BigPoppaV]

Heh, seems we've all got our pet peeves at the house of worship
one of mine is people constantly talking behind my back about the juice I'm doing, even though I have been clean for exactly one year , shit I was bigger before I was on juice and these little 120lb. dickheads still couldn't stop from gossiping about what I'm injecting into my ass , just because I do 3 times the weight they struggle with I have to automatically be on something, it's fucking sad.. also people who sit at the bench press with a paper and coffee.. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ?!?! this isn't starbucks you reject, also what kind of a man loads a flat bench up with a 10 a side...?!??!!?

[justins82]

i hate it when someone with a shitty body tries to give advice or when some one with only a few years of training thinks they are the big dog and hasnt really paid their dues

[mopar_13]

I hate the music none of it motivates you to lift heavy. They need to play AC/DC in gyms. Also all the people who weigh 150 think they're huge.

[Mallet]

But we are huge! feel my arms! I can pose in front of these mirrors all night!

God I hate that!

[Tobey]

Originally posted by BigPoppaV
Heh, seems we've all got our pet peeves at the house of worship
one of mine is people constantly talking behind my back about the juice I'm doing, even though I have been clean for exactly one year

I hear ya Big Poppa,
Nothing pisses me off more than stupiud gossip. You always find it in the gym and it is almost always from those who are to lazy to get off their ass and make a difference.
IC

[maxthecat]

We have a couple of guys at the gym, who think they are hot and they are not. This one guy wears a bandana around his head and he has the start of an upper body with acne all over his shoulders and no legs at all, his gut is hanging out over his belt.
When he does work out everyone can hear him growling and I hate people that act like they are doing so much when you look over there is hardly any weights on. Always wanting to give advice to women. Our gym is so crowded with people, its three people to one machine and this ass of a human will not let anyone work in he says he is training. NOT!!! anyways I hate people that draws attention to themselves by making lound moaning noise YUK
I have to ask, do any of you guys wear the tights when you are at the gym or the real short shorts, we have alot of guys at out gym that does and let me tell you something ........YUK!!!!
maxthecat:

[BigPoppaV]

The only people I see in gear like that are the ones that compete,
and have the bodies for it.. I don't think I could picture some regular joe who works out once a week in hot pink speedo's working out.
=)

[Wrathchild]

What really pisses me off in my Gym is the ppl that use the Free Weight Area for "stretching" , and or "aerobics", I'm dead serious about this. Every Monday, when it's time for my Deadlifts, this guy decides to go for a "power walk" around the Gym messing up my concentration, he always passes a foot away from me behind my back when I'm getting positioned in front of the weights, I was thinking of taking the squat rack and place it in between the treadmills and the TV screen to see if the cardio freaks will be happy with me disturbing their cardio sessions. I haven't said anything to this guy 'cos he's and old dude, If he were a little younger I would have dropped a f****g plate on his foot.

[Wrathchild]

What really pisses me off in my Gym is the ppl that use the Free Weight Area for "stretching" , and or "aerobics", I'm dead serious about this. Every Monday, when it's time for my Deadlifts, this guy decides to go for a "power walk" around the Gym messing up my concentration, he always passes a foot away from me behind my back when I'm getting positioned in front of the weights, I was thinking of taking the squat rack and place it in between the treadmills and the TV screen to see if the cardio freaks will be happy with me disturbing their cardio sessions. I haven't said anything to this guy 'cos he's and old dude, If he were a little younger I would have dropped a f****g plate on his foot.

[Terinox]

Reading this shit just reminded me of something I saw at the YMCA over the christmas holidays.

Some teenager, wearing pure street clothes. He had jeans on, which were down low half way around his ass. He had a big bagy sweater on, headband, etc...He comes in, with a friend, goes over to the calf raise machine, and sits there, doing pussy reps, with a cell phone in his hand. What was amazing to me and my friend was that the guy wasn't even talking or anything. He had the cell phone up to his ear for about 20 minutes. I SWEAR!! He finishes his sets, gets up, and walks over to the cardio machines WITH THE CELL PHONE STILL TO HIS EAR. It was as if he was listening to the fucken news or something. But you couldn't hear anything. Maybe he was just crazy!!!

But there is nothing better to fuck up your concentration then shit like that.

Terinox

[bufchic]

#1 People staring at me. I can always tell whos new cause they havent seen me yet and boy is it a shock

#2 What Bert said about the woman with make-up, hair done, perfume. YUCK! They irritate the fuck out of me. Texas is the WORST for this. Save it for the night club!

#3 TVs blaring with the music blaring too.

#4 People using the WORST form. I just want to scream at them.

#5 Rude ass staff. I dont experience it where I live now but I have.

[BMANN]

i hate when punk ass little bitches try to throw up the most weight possible with the worst form and then think their little badasses.