Most Annoying Gym Habits

[STAYHUNGRY]

1. Putting a weight machine on ZERO pounds and doing 15,000 repetitions while on a cell phone call and while serious lifters are waiting for the equipment.

2. Giving unwanted and un-asked for advice on how one should work out. It usually is some pencil neck, totally out of shape loser telling an in-shape muscular lifter how to lift. "Hey man...you should do triceps like this...it hits both heads......" HARDEE HAR HAR. Shut the F up and get in shape before giving advice.

3. Leaving sweat puddles on a piece of equipment. Nuff said.

4. Not putting your weights back after using them. Unfortunately, this is most common with TOTALLY out of shape losers who whip out 7-10 dumbells for their "circuit workout" and then leave them all strewn across the weight room as they take their TOTALLY out of shape body back to the locker room to sit in the steam room for an hour and a half and massage their fat belly.

5. Revealing outfits on women that are too old to wear them. How many times have you seen some crinkly old hag wearing tight spandex and a HOT babe next to her in sweats and a big baggy sweatshirt that reveals nothing? Oh....its just not right!

6. Loose guest policies. I think it is totally appropriate to have a guest policy so others may sample a gym and see if they might like to join. However, there are times when I see some BASTARD that is there 10-15 times per month while paying NO MEMBERSHIP DUES and just "sliding by" the teenager at the membership desk.

7. Body odor. Again.....nuff said. I can't stand it but it's at most gyms by dumb bastards who can't smell how nasty they reek for some reason.

8. People who ask you to spot them and try to lift too much weight. I spotted some dude the other day in an incline bench press and he couldn't even do ONE REP! I had to do a full bicep curl to get the damn bar up. As I began to rerack it..the idiot says...."NO...let me go for three more!" You stupid idiot...you didn't get one! I'm not your buddy and am not here to lift your weights for you. Light spotting is fine, but know your limits and don't be an imposing jerk on other members at the gym!!!!!!

9. "In the closet" homosexuals. I have absolutely NO PROBLEM with gay people. Let's get that straight. However there are some guys who are in the closet and they STARE....AND STARE.....AND STARE....AND STARE.......at you working out. They follow you from room to room and really can make one feel uncomfortable. Dude, if you're gay, embrace it and just be respectful to other people no matter what their orientation. But don't sit and ogle muscular guys at the gym who are straight. It's not right and is offensive.

10. Female teases. You know what you got but that's not enough. You have to wear the tight little shorts with half your buttocks hanging out and the crop top without a bra. This would be great except for the fact that more often than not you are married and have the excuse that you wear this stripper outfit because it's "comfortable to work out in". You little tease.


That's it for now. Anyone else have a beef with gyms?

[lucabratzi]

i agree with everysingle one...and everyone pisses me off just as much...seems like there at every gym...

[Moe-mentum]

Definitely #8..lol

As for #9, maybe if you did'nt wink and lead them on you wouldn't have that problem.....I'm just sayin.

And I only wish I had problem #10

[chest6]

ahh i hate #8

[zaneisgreat]

I hate watching people squat on the smith machine. I hate watching people toss around medicine balls. I hate watching people use the big bouncy balls to do abs or even pressing movements. I know, they may actually work effectively but they just look too...... cute hah.

ok, end rant.

[Mizfit]

Smelly people is my number one pet peave.

#10 - what women wear to the gym. I don't wear cropped tops, but i do wear shorter shorts sometimes and a fitted top. Sorry dude for some people, less cloths is more comfy. Some women do go a bit overboard, but most peoples gym cloths can be questioned in some manner.

[perfectbeast2001]

people who talk to me while im doing cardio with headphones on,
Skinny/overweight people who ask advice expecting a magic pill answer then start yawning as i tell them about diet.
Fat ppl who train abs for over an hour. YOU CANT SEE THEM THERE COVERED IN FLAB. Hour better spent doing cardio.
PPL who sing or even worse rap to there mp3.
Little dudes who walk round the gym with there arms out at right angles as if there lats are so big they cant get there arms by there sides.
PPL who take gear in the stinking toilets. WHY? One guy was shooting test E in there like it was going to kick in in the next 5 minutes.

[stayinstacked]

People who do stupid shit on the treadmills like swing their arms around all weird or walk on it backwards. There is this nasty chick at my gym, she starts waiving her hands around like some sort of feminine bullshit power trip walk, I wanna smack her. I wont even do cardio on a machine if that bitch is in front of me, I'll go to another one so I dont have to look at her

[Timm1704]

people who ask for advice but dont take it. people who think that taking 'one of those milkshake thingys' with their bowl of frosties in the morning is nutritionally sound. fat guys telling me they want to get ripped for the summer so they are doing alot of situps (ohhhh..... dear). people who rely on steroids to train, and when they are off cycle, they dont train, or EVEN WORSE, take a full cycle but dont actually train. WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL?!

[Smak]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

Please don't talk to me if i'm wearing my headphones.

[perfectbeast2001]

people who ask for advice but dont take it. people who think that taking 'one of those milkshake thingys' with their bowl of frosties in the morning is nutritionally sound. fat guys telling me they want to get ripped for the summer so they are doing alot of situps (ohhhh..... dear). people who rely on steroids to train, and when they are off cycle, they dont train, or EVEN WORSE, take a full cycle but dont actually train. WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL?!

LMAO I know a guy who has been running gear for over two years non stop and he weighs 28 stone of flab. He is in the process of booking in for a stomach stapling but he is STILL taking gear. He has never been to a gym. Im suprised if he can leave his armchair. He takes gear "because it makes him big and strong". Well he sure is big.

[boxingbean]

sweat puddles...weights..ESPECIALLY DUMBELLS!!! and leaving ****IN MAGAZINES ON MY TREADMILLS!!!!!!

[perfectbeast2001]

PPL who constantly accuse me of CHEATING and saying I must use gear just because they look like SHIT. Yeah its nothing to do with my diet or the fact that im busting my ass in the gym while they sit around discussing the price of houses ect.

[spywizard]

how about really short people that adjust the machines to child size to do 1 set of reps..

or

people that want to do cuircut training using 4 machines at 5 pm..

or

ugly people.. they shouldn't be allowed to wear that little amount of clothes..

or

women that wear no bra under thier t shirts, and it's obvious that they have had boob jobs.... no wait we like that one..

[novastepp]

guys that talk at the squat rack...

lift it and get the F out of my way. you may be bigger than me, but i'm 21 years old and i'm wanting to get bigger. plus i could knife you at any time. so move it meathead!

[boxingbean]

oh and lil kids coming up to me with ?s of steroids...i just say..like anyone else in here would say

1st cycle----FOOD

[rar1015]

I cant stand it when people have body odor at the gym. Its so hard to work out when someone next to you just smells like crap. I go to the gym around 8:30-9:00 pm and i always take a shower beforehand. Then when i get home i take one if im not to tired, otherwise i take it in the morning.

[Mizfit]

guys that feel im taking up the squat rack

[Ejuicer]

My biggest annoyance would be the screamers. Not a low key grunting or anything like that but a scream that can be heard from the other side of the gym and is extremely distracting. Plus, they start yelling on their first rep it's not like they start after several when the weight might start to become difficult. Plus most of the time it's with some rediculous weight that most people would never find difficult enough to lift to warrant any form of noise to come out of them.
Number 5 especially on that list as well. It doesn't just apply to women however, i've seen some old fat guys in very disgusting short shorts with their asses hanging out of them practically.
Luckily in our company we have a dress code, but when I work out at a different location then my own at 12am, the staff there don't tend to enforce anything.

[StoneGRMI]

Naked old fat men that come to the gym just to sit in the sauna for a few then move directly to the couches in the locker room to watch tv, still naked.

[HULKBOY]

you forgot the group of of 8-1321432154234 high school kids that take up one of the bench presses stations. then there hoggin up the wrack along with the area around where all the premarked barbells are at. then their done for the day but still stick around for an hour with their buddies..then they do it all again in the same order the next day..hell every dam day. except friday when its 10000 sets of bis.

[rar1015]

Naked old fat men that come to the gym just to sit in the sauna for a few then move directly to the couches in the locker room to watch tv, still naked.

I cant stand it when people do that.....its nasty.

[helium3]

kids coming in the gym and throwing big weights about with no form f@@ks me off.

[MrMeathead]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

Please don't talk to me if i'm wearing my headphones.

Im not a complainer at all about many things and I hate to bitch but when people come up and start talking to me while they see me wearing headphones because it is pretty dam obvious that im listening to something it really just sets me off. Number 8 about how people want you to spot them and they can't even get 1/4 of a rep out of the weight they are attempting to do is pretty annoying IMO also.

[MrMeathead]

Naked old fat men that come to the gym just to sit in the sauna for a few then move directly to the couches in the locker room to watch tv, still naked.

OMG! I totally forgot about that one. That is by far the worst thing that could ever possibly happen to anyone with a weak stomach. I am still haunted by the last time I walked into the locker room after lifting. I fear going in there now. LMFAO.

[Ejuicer]

Just remember some other incidents from my gym.
A couple of incidents of fat homosexual males hitting on straight guys in the hot tub. In one incident the gay guy actually started massaging the other guys thigh and got punched out. Cops came and everything.
Then there's the guys who shave their chest hair in the sink, or facial hair into the hot tub.

[perfectbeast2001]

A guy chatted my friend up in the showers so my friend peed on his leg while they were chatting. the guy never noticed.

[mark_newcastle]

number 3 is way too common, think im the only guy in the gym who takes a towel lol

[StoneGRMI]

I cant stand it when people do that.....its nasty.

I lift after work everyday around 5-6. I get in the locker room around 6 and EVERYDAY there is the same group of old men watching Seinfeld from 6-7 on TBS. Sickens me... They also stand in front of the mirrors naked to shave their face. WTF? Put a towel around yourself!

[Anabolios]

people who talk to me while im doing cardio with headphones on,
Skinny/overweight people who ask advice expecting a magic pill answer then start yawning as i tell them about diet.
Fat ppl who train abs for over an hour. YOU CANT SEE THEM THERE COVERED IN FLAB. Hour better spent doing cardio.
PPL who sing or even worse rap to there mp3.
Little dudes who walk round the gym with there arms out at right angles as if there lats are so big they cant get there arms by there sides.
PPL who take gear in the stinking toilets. WHY? One guy was shooting test E in there like it was going to kick in in the next 5 minutes.

lol did you ask him as he was injecting or kinda like the grey poupon commercial..youre takin a shieeet next to him and ask...excuse me sir..do you have any testosterone enanthate? (with english accent)
and there is always this small asian kid in my gym wearing his bandana getting REALLLLY into rapping to his mp3 player you can tell hes a gunit fan

[Anabolios]

I lift after work everyday around 5-6. I get in the locker room around 6 and EVERYDAY there is the same group of old men watching Seinfeld from 6-7 on TBS. Sickens me... They also stand in front of the mirrors naked to shave their face. WTF? Put a towel around yourself!

Don't even get me started on this! Why do they insist on getting COMPLETELY NAKED before they do everything. Stretch,brush their teeth,shave, obviously shower, weigh themselves, then be courteous enough to put on a towel while theyre getting dressed...WTF that's why I'm in and out of that creepy locker room.

[thestudent]

I was doing cardio this morning and I realized there were three overweigh guys all wearing sunglasses inside of the gym. Why would anyone lift with sunglasses on inside of a building??? To make it worse one guy spent at least 25 minutes on his cell phone yapping away sitting on the lat pull. Gotta love people watching while getting in morning cardio.

[Anabolios]

I was doing cardio this morning and I realized there were three overweigh guys all wearing sunglasses inside of the gym. Why would anyone lift with sunglasses on inside of a building??? To make it worse one guy spent at least 25 minutes on his cell phone yapping away sitting on the lat pull. Gotta love people watching while getting in morning cardio.

That's so weird because if it didn't say you were from TX I would have sworn you were from my gym. This 350lb. guy (literraly give or take a few lbs) Does the lat pulldown everytime I see him and does it all day with shades on. Then he walks on the treadmill and talks on his phone

[SprintUSMC]

I hate the people who walk real slow, shecking out every machine, chugging there water like they are taking a break. But they only sit at the machine, do about 3 reps, and look around. Then, they get up again, and real slow, they walk around, checking out all the machines again. lol. I go at about 3 am here, and I see the same guys doing it every morning.

[Teabagger]

I have a serious things with cell phones in the gym...leave them the fvck at home, in your car, or in your bag...off!! I don't care to hear some business ass talking business, or the young punk ass human pin cushion going on about his hoe, score, new tat, or whatever. You wanna talk on the phone...leave the gym.

You guys have blasted the old, fat, skinny, ugly members at a gym, but I also get really pissed at the roid monkeys bogarting the incline bench with dbells. Short loud sets, with like 8 minute rest between sets. I just ask to work in between and most of the time they look at me like I just asked them for money.

They also leave 10000 friggin' pounds of plates on the machines when their done...wtf...your momma isn't here...put your own shit back.

So its not just the uninformed or out of shape that do not follow any type of gym etiquette...sometimes some of us are the worst offenders, acting like we own the gym....

[Tren Bull]

it annoys me when guys use weight which is obviously way too heavy for them. you know what they call that?

its called ego lifting

i also get annoyd when guys grunt and almost yell while they are working out.

[Beefyman]

I would have to say when a guy come and takes your spot w/o asking
or when you have someone spot you and his sweat gets in your eye....

That pisses me off!!

And also when people use some dirty ass green or dog shit shoes with grass stuck on the bottom that pisses me off too

like damn boy get another set or something!

[cfiler]

I HATE people who do that huge grunt while lifting. Shut the **** up.

People who talk to me, when I'm doing my cardio. Unless I'm in danger, leave me alone.

Naked people in the change room. Put on some clothes.

Women who wear baggy sweat suits. Unless you are old or fat, you should be wearing spandex.

[cfiler]

I hate people who eat on the cardio bikes. Eating that protien bar is not going to help. Pedal faster, or leave.

People who only do 5minutes of cardio. What's the point? You are just hogging the treadmill.

I hate skinny and fat people who flex infront of the mirror. Try practising your posedown when you get into shape.

[daytrader]

haha... its unbelievable how i have a picture of a person in my head for EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY LISTED! Ive dealt with each type in the past...im sure you all have too....
I got one
How about the mother ****er that comes up to you and starts trying to talk while your in the middle of a all out set!!! What the F is wrong with people!.........I mean im not the best at reading every single social situation.... but when someones face is turing red, veins are poping out, and theyre grunting in sheer burning pain...... give em a few seconds to finish the set b4 you start talking to them.... GEEZ!