Biggest pet peeve at the gym?

[Scout200]

What's your biggest pet peeve? What annoys you most when working out at the gym?

[POTA]

- When people rack plates with the inside facing outward.

- When people don't rack their weights when they finish.

- People who, when curling, go a fraction of the way down. Also, when they don't go all the way up.

- People who walk around with straps and use them for about every exercise. It's even worse when they use them for chest/shoulder/tri exercises.

- People who walk around with little notebooks to chart everything they do. I don't even see big powerlifters doing that (however, if they did, they'd be excused).

[yates fan]

when there is no chalk avaiable.

[EatShizzel]

Mexicans and fuckers doing bicep curls in the power rack.

[Scout200]

- When people rack plates with the inside facing outward.

- When people don't rack their weights when they finish.

- People who, when curling, go a fraction of the way down. Also, when they don't go all the way up.

- People who walk around with straps and use them for about every exercise. It's even worse when they use them for chest/shoulder/tri exercises.

- People who walk around with little notebooks to chart everything they do. I don't even see big powerlifters doing that (however, if they did, they'd be excused).

Ha, nicely said!! I'll also add:

-People who camp out on a piece of equipment just to chat.

-Horrid top forty music - that you hear over and over and over and over again lol

-People who talk non stop on their phones

-Those who wear cologne to "cover up" their BO - I walk away gagging with tears in my eyes from the stench.... lol

[SHUTUPANDTRAIN]

Mexicans and fuckers doing bicep curls in the power rack.

Yeah you're not RACIST on anything are you...LOL

[newmom]

people that circle the parking lot to get a closer spot..WTF

[Jadeveon Clowney]

people that circle the parking lot to get a closer spot..WTF

You never know when you're going to have to come running out and take off in a hurry.  That's why I always park nose out too. 

[Nirvana]

using benches to set your drinks and cell phone down.

sharing your "new" workout program and supplement plan with me

the fact that everyone trains chest monday at 6 starting with flat bench.

people who train abs.

[peaker]

youngsters who congregate around equipment and watching each other lift like they are the biggest things in the gym.

[Princess L]

There's a guy that comes in every Saturday and does the same bench thing every week.  He goes about 165# tops.  Loads up the bar with anywhere from 315# to 385# - I think he's even gone 405#.
He straps on this sling shot thing, unracks it with a spotter, has someone else hold an 8 inch board on his chest, and proceeds to arch his back up and down never actually moving the weight.    I don't know why, but it bugs the crap out of me.


Sling shot thingy

[CalvinH]

People who don't unrack the weights.my gym isn't a hardcore gym and I usually help unrack when I see a woman staring at the legg press with 45lbs loaded up.


.....I don't mind if the girl is cute

[w8m8]

People who don't unrack the weights.my gym isn't a hardcore gym and I usually help unrack when I see a woman staring at the legg press with 45lbs loaded up.


.....I don't mind if the girl is cute

? 45 lbs ?

really ? you're joking .. you do that for her digits not because she can't unload 45 lbs right ?

[CalvinH]

? 45 lbs ?

really ? you're joking .. you do that for her digits not because she can't unload 45 lbs right ?

Sorry,I meant more then one.

[The Showstoppa]

People who don't unrack the weights.my gym isn't a hardcore gym and I usually help unrack when I see a woman staring at the legg press with 45lbs loaded up.


.....I don't mind if the girl is cute

Do you get Gene to help if there are 100lb plates loaded?

[Jadeveon Clowney]

I prefer to help women unrack only lighter weights myself. Don't want to strain myself or anything.  If I notice a leg press loaded up situation, I usually act like I'm having a really interesting conversation on my cell phone. or really getting into my music.  If all else fails, I start shadow-boxing really intensely.

[Butterbean]

Gum popping.

[newmom]

Gum popping.

I'm notorious for doing that

[Butterbean]

or really getting into my music.  If all else fails, I start shadow-boxing really intensely.

 

I'm notorious for doing that

That is worse than "O" man moaning away on the eliptical.

[EatShizzel]

I'm not racist. I hate illegals and eskimos.

[nasht5]

My gym peev's:

the person who needs to have the 20,30 & 40lbs dumbbells with them so they can do a circuit of some P90x routine.

no joke I see it all the time, curls in the power rack. it really does happen.

the guy who trains arms/shoulders and chest 3 days a wk.... and nothing else.

we got a guy who gets nose bleeds everyother wk from deadlifts but he doesn't clean it up off the floor!

my friends who walk in and just drop their belt/wraps/keys/phone/wallet in the middle of the workout area and like i'm a bastard when I suggest they get a gym bag for their stuff so I can stop kicking their shit out of the way so i don't step on it.

the two guys who want to "work in" on the leg press but can't do half the weight I am doing!! then they talk to each other about chic shit during thier reps. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LOAD THE BAR WITH SOME SERIOUS FUCKING WEIGHT AND WORKOUT!!!

oh, shit... time to go workout. I feel motivated just thinking of the crap that pisses me off.

[Butterbean]

Squeaky/grindy/noisy machines

The vacuum cleaner       

[CalvinH]

The vacuum cleaner       

Hi Oscar and Jane.

[Butterbean]

Hi Oscar and Jane.

Do they run from it or attack it

[CalvinH]

Do they run from it or attack it

Run!