Gym Pet-Peeves

#51
Anyone who throws or drops weights on the deck making a loud crash. Pisses me off to no fucking end. They act like they are tough shit because they made a big ass noise. I think if you can't recover the weights and put them back on the rack normally you have no business picking them up to begin with.
 
#52

Let's not forget about guys like myself who are so tore up physically and riddled with arthritis that straps and braces tend to be a necessity. 28 with the pains and issues of at 82 year old.

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#53


That's a crossfit thing. I understand it when the guy is dropping 300 pounds to get away from the bar, but for the dumbass slamming 150 like he's the hulk, it is annoying as balls, and very funny to me.

I have found that when you look at them and laugh, they stop doing it.
 
#55
Also, people who find unique ways to use a machine in a manner in which it was not intended to be used. Like hanging upside down on a ab machine to get a tricep workout... Sometimes I just feel like getting out my cell camera and hope for a good 'gym fail' video to unfold...
 
#57
1. I am that guy that will drop the weight when doing squat/power cleans. Getting the bar from the ground to resting on my shoulders is the less painful part, trying to get the bar off my shoulders and back on the ground with just my finger tips is a pain in the ass, and with a 50% compressed L5/S1 disc it's also a major pain in the back.

2. I use straps for pull-ups, because it takes 2 weeks to build a callous, and about 3 pull-ups to rip it off.

3. I hate chalk because that shit is deadly, having a foot slide out from underneath you at any point in a deadlift, squat, front squat, power clean, squat clean, jerk, snatch or numerous other multi joint moves can be hazerdous to you, and those around you.
95% of the ass hats that use it at the base gym I go to have it in a zip-lock bag, get a hand full of it then throw it around like a sumo wrestler leaving that shit everywhere.

I apologize if I'm one of those "gym noobs" that annoy you, but I'm not at the gym to make friends, I'm there to improve myself.
 
#62
Old naked dude trollin the fuckin locker room. Every gym has one, go workout and come back in an hour, naked dude is still there. Also superset guy who thinks he can just use all the machines he wants at the same time. Eh bro, can I work in??? Ah no shitmate you may not...
 
#66

Yeah, I have wondered what was up with this shit since I was a kid. When you get old, is there some need to walk around with cock and balls flopping around? I hate seeing cocks and balls when I am just putting a hoodie in the locker. Use a fucking towel.
 
#67
I cannot stand the gay music they play in most gyms. Lifting weights to miley cyrus and Selena fucking Gomez or some other american idol bullshit. Come on, really?
 
#69
I had a guy leave his towel on the squat rack the other day and go use another machine across the gym. I went to go use the squat rack and he ran over and stepped in to tell me he was using it. If it wasn't for my wife being with me I would have given him a proper gym etiquette lesson. It wouldn't have pissed me off so much, but it was on of those new years resolution jokers to top the whole situation off. Oh and I forgot to mention, the stupid f&%K was doing curls on the squat rack!
 
#75

+1
Not really into the gym scene, but this should be outlawed across the board, especially grocery stores. A guy wants a healthy appetite when buying food goods.
 
#77
Umm i bring my cellphone to the gym to listen to music so i dont have to listen to crappy gym music. I also use my cellphone to video my reps sometimes so i can judge my form and technique. Cause most personal trainers dont know their head from their ass rather have soccer moms doing one arm dumbell shoulder press on a bonsai ball(so functional). Sue me!!!
 
#78
Gym pet peeve. When all the bros gather around watching me do oly lifts. Here on the jersey shore if your not benching or doin brocep curls your just not functional. When women do farmer walks inches behind me doing oly lifts. Lady almost caught a bar to the face. When idiots leave all their weight on the bar and walk off. I came to workout, not extend my warm up time cleaning your shit. When people can't put the weights back in the order their suppose to be. I have to pull 3 45lb plates a 25lb and a 10lb plate just to get to that last 5lb plate I'm looking for. When idiots don't use the curl rack and instead use the squat/power rack to do curls. When people bring those giant fucking balls in the freeweight room and start bouncing/kicking it around. some idiot is bouncing that ball like he is playing basketball. Of course the ball clips a plate and flys at me while I'm in the bottom position of a snatch. When haters are mad cause my little ass is lifting a lot more than them and then they go mumble to their bros how im gonna hurt myself yada yada. Doing certain routines that call for 10 sets of two reps at 90% max weight and some tard wants to mumble to his son how I would be better off reducing the weight and do 10 reps instead as if he had a clue what he was doing.
 
#79
1. Guys who lift too much with horrible form.
2. Guys who make hulk sounds or sound like steam is escaping with every rep.
3. Girls with way too much perfume on next to you on the cardio equipment.
4. +1 on the old naked dudes trolling the locker room, especially if they like to hang out and brush their teeth at the sink.
5. Guys who walk barefoot in the locker room.
6. Guys who sit bare-assed on the locker room benches.
7. Guys who walk up to the mirror and then angle away while they do a quick flex and check...yep, you're still skinny.
8. Guys who come up and ask me how much I bench.
9. Guys who act like more weight = tougher, because tricep pushdowns win fights.
10. Guys in spandex shorts.
11. ^ especially when they do crunches and look at you.
12. +1 on the squat rack being used for curls.
13. Guys who ask you how many more sets you have in the middle of a set.
14. Anybody who uses the gym as a meat market. Lift more, then go to a bar/club.

I'm a 2x per day kind of person, so I have a bit more time to observe.

That being said, I have crop dusted before. My most humble of apologies. If it makes you feel any better I always try to do it when I have some space to myself. It never fails though that at about the time the obnoxious waste gets nose level that someone wants to come over to where I'm at. Then I have to pretend that I'm not the only other one there who didn't shit his pants.
 
#81
I hate it when someone swoops in and uses the bench I have been using for the last five sets of whatever after clearly having marked it by leaving my sweatshirt and iphone at the head of it. Some f$&@ers just don't understand it is etiquette to ask before using a piece of equipment that some may be using.
 
#82
People that show up to the gym STINKING. Be it the after work crowd, the just got out of bed I'll shower afterward crowd, the I'll just put on 6oz of perfume/cologne and no one will notice crowd etc.
 
#83
more or less locker room ethics. Don't leave your shit on the back of a chair go take a shit, shower ect.... then come back and act like your pissed because i am using the chair that your shit was on because you were to fn lazy to put it back in a locker.... shit really happened this week I was about to go ape shit on this dude.
 
#84
Valentines day 2200hours I'm in the gym and their is one other guy. I like it like that. I can curl in the squat rack, since I'm curling the weight most of the squat pissers are squatting with. No one to bother me. I hate having to go when the after work crowd is coming in. I see guys who can't lift shit, bitching about all the "new guys"! I just need to become independently wealthy and put in a real gym at home...
 
#85
I'll tell you what freaks me out. I've spent a lot of time in locker rooms with guys that I know, whether it be football teammates or during my time in the corps. You have bled, sweated, and sometimes cried with these guys. Your family.

I am not family or even know these dudes in the locker room at the gym. They freak me out, period. I walked in the other day and an old man, I'm talking a dude around 70yrs old sitting on the bench in an area where he has a good view of the locker room, eating a banana. That's just weird. At this gym, they have hand dryers mounted high on the wall near the showers. There's guys that don't use towels and just come out and stand there under the dryer. That shits weird, or am I just crazy? The club does have towels, use them...I don't know you.
 
#87
Chicks that are doing cardio on machines next to me and continuously bust ass because they know the other chicks doing cardio will just blame the old bald dude (me).
 
#88
This shit is right in my wheelhouse because I genuinely loathe most people.

1. I'm here to lift, not talk (already discussed in this thread)
2. Don't tie up two machines that are inevitably the two most popular machines in the gym
3. Don't try to impress people by using more weight than you should when you look like a whirling fucking dervish just trying to get the weight started
4. Hey, bitch! You've been sitting on that machine for ten minutes and you haven't even started a rep? Move!!
5. Why are you curling in front of the rack and now I can't get to the dumbbell without getting you to move?
6. If you sweat, wipe that shit off!
7. Get off the treadmill if you're only moving at 0.002 MPH
8. What's with all these people doing these rotator cuff exercises on the pulley machines? It's like everyone over the age of 55 seem to think their rotator cuffs are worth tying up the machine for half an hour
9. The douche who grunts like he's giving birth to Mr. Slave (1000 internets to whoever gets that reference)
10. The New Year's crowd that suddenly show up on January 2nd and tie up EVERY machine. Thankfully, 99% of them are missing by January 15th

In short, everyone at the gym
 
#89
Reading this threads brings back memories of my high school gym. Man, I can't believe so many asshats shared class with me. Ever since being diagnosed with high blood pressure, I have considered getting a gym membership because I don't think my night time jogs on warm nights are going to cut it. Anyways, as for my main peeve back in high school gym, it was the idiots feeling the need to talk to me while I was trying to work out. My friends would do this to me as well and it drove me fucking nuts. Oddly enough I have a similar problem with my night jogs. There always seems to be some other jogger out there who feels the need to jog right next to me. I don't know what's creepier. When they talk to me or when they just jog next to me and say nothing.
 
#90
What about the 70 year old man with Alzheimer's that walks around naked for an hour in the locker room after showering because he can't find his locker. Oh yea, he's the one that shit in the jacuzzi and didn't know it or forgot about it. Bless his heart though because he can't help it either.
 
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#92
Most stuff does not bother me and I have been guilty of doing several of the already mentioned complaints.

What does bother me is when someone wants carry on a conversation with me or my spotter while I am trying to work out. It slows things down to a snails pace when they are BSing.
 
#94
Gym Pet-Peeves

We have a lady at my gym who sits on the bench press bench and stretches. She does this during peak hours in the morning when people are obviously waiting to use it. It takes her upwards of 20 minutes. I have seen people get a manager to make her move and she gets indignant. Drives me nuts...
 
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#96
The muscular guys who have the shirts that look like stretched out thong with the crotch cut out. yes I get it you are huge. Put a frakking shirt on and use that towel.

I may not he able to move as much as you but I can crush your nuts with that 5lb dumbbell faster than you can say shirt.
 
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