What is your number 1 petpeeve in the gym?

[Get_Swole]

Mine has to be that when your bag and everything is sitting right in front of a machine and you back off to catch your breath, and are still within say 5 feet of the machine and someone walks up and starts using it. I just wanna tee off on the back of their head when this happens. Happens alot with the old fucks that work out at my gym. Half of them have Alzheimer's i think but it still makes me mad as shit. I could think of a ton more but thats just one. Whats yours?

 

[Shaptown]

Douchebags that walk with their arms inflated like they cant control them and flail them around "inadvertantly" hitting you when in your proximity. I mean seriously can you not walk without bumping your shit into other people?

 

[irish2003]

skinnies or fatties who walk big because they load up bars or use heavy db's for 1/4 reps and grunt to make sure everyone is watching and thinking they're strong and big.....also chicks who leisurely walk on the treadmill....if you can read a book when doing cardio and not go cross eyed from the movement then you're not working out....you're being a stupid biatch

 

[majortguns]

I would say people that don't know how to use a machine the right way. I watched a guy do curls on a hamstring machine the other day, all I could do was shake my head. Oh yeah and guys that wear underarmour shirts that have 12inch arms.

 

[freakinthegym]

it was freezing cold the other night and this women had the gym front door wide open , when shes doing her cardio, well more like walkin,lol
she told some kids she doesnt like to get to hot, shes about 300lbs, whatever i dont make fun of big people. im just not really wantting to workout in the cold, im not rocky . anyway i said f that i'm shutting this door. got the evil eye, thats about it.lol

 

[chotto]

When my cat jumps up on my chest when I'm in the middle of a bench press.

 

[steph]

I can't pick just ONE, so here's my ever-growing list:

1. People with poor hygiene.
2. People with staring problems.
3. People who leave their shit all over the place (towels on machines that they aren't using; plates on machines that they're finished using because they are too damn lazy to put them back where they belong).
4. Dumbbells that aren't put back where they belong because d-bags are either too lazy to put them back on the rack, or simply can't count.
5. People who interrupt me for stupid small talk when I'm in the middle of a set.
6. Resolutioners who take up all the parking spaces. When will they quit already??
7. People who will sit on a machine and text for 20 minutes, instead of do their damn sets.
8. I belong to a sports club and if I go too early in the evening or on weekends, kids are running around doing group or swimming classes and every so often, one will run over close to the free weights while their fat ass parents are too busy chatting the other parents to realize.
9. The fat ass old women who hang out in the locker room all night, then shower and go home. I don't even know what they do... swim or hang out in the sauna, I think. Why bother paying almost $60/month for a gym membership though, if that's all you're going to do?
10. Women who want to chat in the locker rooms. There's one girl I see every so often who's serious about lifting and who's pretty cool, but aside from that, I'm not there to make friends!

Umm... I'm sure there's more. People piss me off in the gym ALL the time, lol.

 

[dorian123]

no.7 on steph's list, damn that pisses me off more than anything-FUCKING go to you car and and that
then when you ask,"are you using this" they say, "uh, yeah" and keep texting like a dumbass

 

[mickdoo]

when its crowded, people just talking,

 

[tatzoo]

Mine has to be that when your bag and everything is sitting right in front of a machine and you back off to catch your breath, and are still within say 5 feet of the machine and someone walks up and starts using it. I just wanna tee off on the back of their head when this happens. Happens alot with the old fucks that work out at my gym.

Well we know this just happend to me too, I f*cking hate that too...

I would say people that don't know how to use a machine the right way. I watched a guy do curls on a hamstring machine the other day, all I could do was shake my head. Oh yeah and guys that wear underarmour shirts that have 12inch arms.

people doing crunches on the treadmill....wtf?

2. People with staring problems.

Im HEAVILY tattoo'ed and to most people I prob look like I just was released from prison because of the tat's. I live in a private gated community and use our gym in the community and I hate it when people look at me like I dont belong there..

 

[steph]

Im HEAVILY tattoo'ed and to most people I prob look like I just was released from prison because of the tat's. I live in a private gated community and use our gym in the community and I hate it when people look at me like I dont belong there..

I also have alot of ink (for a girl, especially) so between that, the septum ring and probably from being one of the few girls at my gym who actually lifts, I get looks... alot. I keep to myself though and I ignore people, but I'm observant and I still notice, which makes it annoying.

 

[The Dude]

The scrawny dipshits that haven't ever lifted a real weight in their lives and spend an hour doing every possible movement on a cable that they can imagine!! Some of us would like to use those!! If you can't do a correct squat wtf are you doing using cables and machines!!! Get Swole... I just walk up to those people and say "sorry chief I'm still using that". I've never had an issue after that. Command presence!

 

[Get_Swole]

^^ yeah ive done that too but usually i just walk away and go to another exercise because im so pissed. I had a guy sit there and watch me workout and then just jump on in between my set one time. I was like ok ill let this pass but then he didnt get up after he was done just sat there. I grabbed his gymbag and threw it across the gym spilling everything that was in it including a protein shake gave him the look like ill murder you if you try anything and he just kinda stumbled away quickly. Surprised i didnt get kicked out of the gym that day but they let it pass.

 

[The Dude]

^^ yeah ive done that too but usually i just walk away and go to another exercise because im so pissed. I had a guy sit there and watch me workout and then just jump on in between my set one time. I was like ok ill let this pass but then he didnt get up after he was done just sat there. I grabbed his gymbag and threw it across the gym spilling everything that was in it including a protein shake gave him the look like ill murder you if you try anything and he just kinda stumbled away quickly. Surprised i didnt get kicked out of the gym that day but they let it pass.

That's awesome! I had a kid want to get in a squat rack when I was squatting. I had 405 on there and he asked if he could "hop in". Jokingly I said sure. He barely got it off the stops and then it just drove him to the floor. I thought it would be funny, but I ended up feeling bad. He got pretty badly hurt. The safety stop bars were there, but very low, I think his chin hit his nuts. Never saw him again. Usually my g/f helps to keep my temper in check.

 

[dakoteyah27]

I hate guys that using the cable machine and put the pin to one of the bottom plates to do squats and deadlifts and strut around like the're doing actual weight. I hate guys that make thier own little lifting circuit out of the whole gym epecially when the gyms crowded. I've came across this a bunch of times, the guys doing bench, hits the curl rack, heads over to squats, and if you're benching by the time he gets back then he'll puff out the chicken chest and stare like I'm the dickhead.

 

[CH3NO2]

Peole who see me in the gym and think they know me and want to bullshit with me about my day. Seriously, I dont know you and I dont give a shit about you. You dont even know my fucking name so stop acting like you're my friend. I am here to work out. So piss the fuck off.

Bad Hygiene. I am sorry, there was one woman who stunk so bad her fucking pussy cleared the room. Ask Letherhead. Her crotch smelled like 15 day old gym socks smothered in onions. I almost puked. She laid down on the bench next to us and it was fuggin sick. Wash your ass people.

No parking because of the new years resolution. Just let me kick you in the balls and take your membership money, because you wont be in the gym next week. So why the fuck to you even try. I guess you like the "free" key tag.

 

[mcgaret]

I think his chin hit his nuts.

Thats funny. My gym gives a free week to anyone who walks in. We get
some idiots but they are mostly there during peak times which I try to
avoid.

 

[jtunderdog]

Idiots who flex for 45 minutes and do 2 exercises and 3 sets and leave. The other would have been people who don't wipe the freaking pads off on benches or machines. My gym is now my house so there it is one of my kids trying to ask me questions when I am straining with a blue vein throbber in my forehead. I love em but I tell them when Im concentrating leave me alone.

 

[NAIR]

the guys who wear shirts that are cut down to their shorts so you can see their chest and back and shit. That to me is the epitome of homsexuality

 

[Cracker69]

I have a ton, but I'd say my #1 pet peeve would have to be the little fuckin cage fighters shadow boxing in between sets. I've been a martial artist for going on 18 years now, and actually plan on getting back into mma soon. I could probably easily take on 99% of the pussy ass excuses for fighters in this area, but I never feel the need to put it on display that I am a fighter by shadow boxing in between sets. These fuckin retards that are all tatted up and wearing their "Tap Out" or "Affliction" shirts drive me up a fucking wall.