Top Gym Peeves & Etiquette Breaches

[Dinahlady]

When two people training together do the same exercise at the same time. Like front raises or bicep curls etc. Just looks rediculous get into the pump class if you wanna do that synchronized shit.

so it does not effect you at all ? You just don't like the look of it?

I'm training with my boss at the moment and he's completely new to weights we do set after set one after another until we get to things like curls which would be pointless and time consuming doing otherwise.

Anyway pet peeve this week is the cheap gym owner not turning on the Aircon it's mid to late 30's (deg) for god sake.

Yeah its one of those things like that makes me feel ill to just look at it. I must have aspergers or something. Just can't stand it. Or I can't stand someone standing next to me doing the same exercise as me like if I'm in a rack doing deadlifts if someone comes next to me and starts deadlifting I'd be so mad.

And Les mills aircon is so annoying like it just takes the outside temparature but then its always even above that cos it gets hot inside from people doing cardio. sweating my bean off all last week when it was like 21 degrees in wellington and I wasn't even training.

[HarryB]

People who won't let me work in and think it's ok to make me wait!

[karm015]

guy came and tried to take a plate off of my leg press today... while i was repping lol. not the stand, but the leg press itself... loaded up :shifty:

[vracula]

Annoying gym instructors who get their clients to do stupid ab work outs quite close to my squat rack ,as in if he stands up he will hit his head on one of my plates of the barbell.As matter of fact they are just generally annoying in the rack and dumbell areas they get clients to do squatting hip rotating lunges in the most inconvinient locations.

[Terrymundo]

people who lung in the dumbest of places, like infront of the dumbell rack.

........................Really dude?......................................

[M.T]

people who lung in the dumbest of places, like infront of the dumbell rack.

........................Really dude?......................................

To add to that 1/2 or quarter 1/4 lunges :doh: pretty sure the exercise only works if your going all the way down or at least that's how I was tought.

People who won't let me work in and think it's ok to make me wait!

yeah you'd probably intimidate me so wouldn't let you work in either

[Dinahlady]

Today at work I walked past 3 people doing lying back extension in a row. It looked rediculous. I smiled and said "Hey can I join in?" But inside I was dying.

[Ann]

Guys telling me that they can't squat as they've got a sore lower back. Then continue on to say that, "In my day I could squat blah blah blah" - yeah right mate - that's why your legs look like crudd and you've got no arse! Go away. :roll:

[severe]

I have noticed a change in behaviour at my gym.

Suddenly guys are overloading the bars and doing partial reps. Bench, Squats...

And giving each other the 'chur bro' kudos.

They are the same guys who spend an hour between three of them on the flat bench. They would've had 5 minutes rest between each persons set... so maybe 10 minutes between personal sets. idk...

With all the information around, I find it surprising that people can be so retarded.

[icecream]

You guys need these shirts imo.

[Deez]

dudes who walk over near you, fart and then walk over to another area to hide the fact they did it and attempt to divert the smell and consequently you get the blame...I'm gonna take a photo of that phag next time. If I gotta release some wind, f*ck it! I do it where I stand.

[severe]

dudes who walk over near you, fart and then walk over to another area to hide the fact they did it and attempt to divert the smell and consequently you get the blame...I'm gonna take a photo of that phag next time. If I gotta release some wind, f*ck it! I do it where I stand.

Yeah, you got to fart by a group, not by an individual. Too obvious who it was.

[nemesis]

why every time I try and sneak one out (I train mornings so not usually many people around) thats the exact time someone choses to come upstairs and pick a piece of equipment near me to use? :oops: bit hard to deny it when you're the only other person on the floor :shifty:

[Coconut Maximus]

People who do supersets/giant sets claiming 2-3 exercise machines or stations at the same time. The real aggravating feature is they leave bits of clothing or gear at each of the stations preventing others from working in...arrrrrgh!!! :evil: :evil:

[Ronin]

The Phantom Talcum-powderer at my gym. Leaves a fine dusting of the shit all over the men's locker room floor, ya can't see it but f*ck me it's slippery. Lost count of the number of times I've just about arsed over :x :x

[dmcb]

The Phantom Talcum-powderer at my gym. Leaves a fine dusting of the shit all over the men's locker room floor, ya can't see it but f*ck me it's slippery. Lost count of the number of times I've just about arsed over :x :x

hahaha

[severe]

The ab warriors who do their wing chun in the mirrors.

[Diab0lic]

The Phantom Talcum-powderer at my gym. Leaves a fine dusting of the shit all over the men's locker room floor, ya can't see it but f*ck me it's slippery. Lost count of the number of times I've just about arsed over :x :x

There's some prick at my gym who obviously uses coal tar cream for his/her shitty skin, as often when I go in the morning half the benches and machines in the gym REEK of coal tar and have a thin greasy film on them...

There are sterile wipe things all over the gym too but som fukkers just dont think/learn/care :evil:

[ctec27]

Just joined a 24 hour gym and the owner attempting to justify why the shower temperature doesn't quite go warm "a shower's not to get warm it's to clean and get out" first time I've come across this but when it's -2 in the morning and there's hot water in the hand basin pisses me off

[severe]

A laugh more than anything else:

The older guy who stands around talking to all the older women. Giving them tips on exercises. He's always sweaty but I have never seen him workout. Nicknamed him "the coach'.

Why anyone would take a fat guys info as gospel has me beat.

Last week he sat on a leg extension machine chatting to teh woman next to it on her crosstrainer. maybe more than half an hour?

Last night he spent the whole hour I was there, standing on a treadmill talking, then left. What a workout legend.

"Hey wife, going to the gym to workout" (more like check (the women) out)

[Dontrunwithknives]

Some guy came up and asked how many sets of deadlifts I had left. I said two or three. He said sweet, went away for a few minutes then came back and waited. I did another two sets quickly because I had already done about 5 sets and I didn't want to hog the platform for too long. I was pretty fucked but I started unloading the bar quickly so he could get on with his deadlifts. He rolls the empty bar out of the way and starts skipping on the deadlift platform... :x

[tii]

peak time PT shenanigans,

used to train at Les Mills Terrace time to time and peak time there would always be one PT doing a circut in the middle of a midget gym with 1 of each dumbbell and 2-3 machines

[M.T]

peak time PT shenanigans,

used to train at Les Mills Terrace time to time and peak time there would always be one PT doing a circut in the middle of a midget gym with 1 of each dumbbell and 2-3 machines

Dude I was there too and that ALWAYS pissed me right always the BBW's doing boxing the middle of an already tight arse gym wwwwwhy!?!

Or that PT with the hat getting clients to kick with no form what so ever.

[Riccardo]

I once told off some prick of a PT at the gym for doing some kind of circuit on the deadlift platform with 4 of his clients. An absolute idiot. Messed up thing is at my gym there is actually a circuit room. kitted out with a buzzer that goes off every minute.

[Gym rat]

People walking in front of me while I am doing walking lunges or getting in my way :evil: