Things that drive you crazy at the gym, and something embarrassing you did!
It's only fair to slam yourself if you're slamming someone else! Here's my beef o'the day:
There is a very small area in our gym where you can do things like stretch or do other bodyweight things. TWICE IN TWO DAYS I have had to forgo using that area because someone was doing the corpse pose. In case you don't know what that is, here is a picture:
In case you're wondering if you're seeing this right, yes some guy (a different guy each day) was just laying there.
What did I do?
WELL, my ego got the best of me the other day and I loaded up more weight than I usually do for the chest press. I did two reps then totally failed on the third. I'm laying there on the bench pinned down by the bar. I rolled it over my boobs and Mt Fat (my gut) then sat up. I had to reach over to pull off the collars and slide off the weights. As I'm doing this one of the weights falls off and rolls across the gym and hits someone. Normally I say "hey just do your thing no one is looking at you" Well when you're sending weights rolling around the gym and smushing down your boobs with a barbell, they probably are looking at you :(
Original Post by sszcar:
The thing that really bothers me is in the locker room. At least in the mens locker room. Men of all ages stand around naked talking on cell phones, or walking around for the hell of it.
Seriously, if people have their cell phones out in the locker room, tell them to put them away. Most gyms have "no cell phones in the locker room" rules and they should be followed, most cell phones have cameras on them and you never know who's a pervert.
Original Post by cellophane_star:
To people without an armband for their iPods... you need to get an iPod Shuffle! They're like $80, hold 1 GB and they click right on to your shirt/shorts! I used to tuck my Nano into my shorts until I bought this... it's great!
I love my Shuffle for the gym for that reason.
HATE: A-holes that monopolize an area like they are King of the Gym
Embarrassing moment: I split my pants wide open in Tae Kwon Do one time, and I mean from crotch up to the end of my buttcrack. Even our evil Korean master who never smiles laughed at me :(
LOL!! I too hate the people on their cell phones while working out. Especially those using them while on a weight lifting machine. I also hate when people don't rack their weights and I'm left to lift those 45 pounds weight, not one but usually 4 before I can even put my own weights on. I hate the funky people in the gym. Why can't people spray on some light spritz if they are prone to funkiness? I will tear my face up in a minute if I smell someone stinking!!
As far as embarrassing moments. I've done the ipod thing too. I don't like to use the arm band while doing cardio so I sit it up on the display part and sometimes my hand will hit the cord and off it goes.
Also I'm not embarrassed by this but I'm sure people are looking at me crazy when I'm dancing on the elliptical machine. I be gettin down like I'm in a club sometimes. LOL! I can't help it, the music sounds so good in my ears and it pumps me up!!! *Party like a rockstar*
Original Post by nenewa:
Also I'm not embarrassed by this but I'm sure people are looking at me crazy when I'm dancing on the elliptical machine. I be gettin down like I'm in a club sometimes. LOL! I can't help it, the music sounds so good in my ears and it pumps me up!!! *Party like a rockstar*
I do that when I'm hitting the trail out behind my house. The other day there were a few deer right by the trail so they got an impromptu dance recital. I mean hell, no one else will sit there and stare while I bust out my moves!
I was moving benches in the free weight room around to give me more room. This guy comes up to me and asks if I need help moving anything and just to ask anyone (all guys around) if I need help moving something. I felt like lifting up the bench above my head, lol. I had also just finished a deadlift with like 65lbs, but he must not have been watching.
My most embarrassing thing has been when I was trying a new workout where I had to put my feet on a ball, I kept falling off and at one point my legs went like a foot over and a poster came down a wall, oops.
Oh my gosh! These are hilarious! Ok...I have a gym complaint:
There is this older man at my gym (65-70) and he comes to spin class every once and awhile. Every time he comes into the class wearing normal athletic shorts, but before he gets on the bike he insists upon taking his shorts off. Now, I know this sounds ok...you're thinking he has bike shorts on underneath...WRONG! He is wearing hanes WHITE boxer briefs!!! It is sooooo disturbing. Somebody should tell him that those are not appropriate! UGH!
Original Post by set24:
Oh my gosh! These are hilarious! Ok...I have a gym complaint:
There is this older man at my gym (65-70) and he comes to spin class every once and awhile. Every time he comes into the class wearing normal athletic shorts, but before he gets on the bike he insists upon taking his shorts off. Now, I know this sounds ok...you're thinking he has bike shorts on underneath...WRONG! He is wearing hanes WHITE boxer briefs!!! It is sooooo disturbing. Somebody should tell him that those are not appropriate! UGH!
had to reply just to say ewww.
These posts are a hoot!
Most weird, disturbing thing I saw in my local small town Gym. A butt naked woman in the locker greeting another woman friend with a four year old little boy by her side. The naked woman is the boys pre school teacher and is all in this little boys face, boobs dangling , and saying 'Hi Johnny!' recognize who I am?' The look on that little boys face haunts me still. He is going to need serious therapy some day!
Most embarrassing thing to happen to me? Needing to ask someone how to turn on the treadmill my first day. You'd have thought I was a complete idiot by the look I got. I never asked again and became a quick learner after that.
Most annoying: The muscle bound guys who occupy every INCH of the free weights section. As if I'm not already intimidated? All of you need to go away, or they need to make a 'lady's only' section. I don't want to fight over the dumbbells with a 6'5" 250 lb. guy with 8% body fat. (THEY'RE ALL LIKE THAT O_O)
And about flinging the iphone for not wanting an arm band, because you can't change the tunes fast? I wear my arm band on the inside of my lower arm right near my elbow so all I have to do is bring my arm up, and press next :)
My biggest complaint about my gym are the high school (even some college) boys who hop from machine to machine with about 10 of their friends, so you can never get on the one you want. Theres always at least two of them hanging on every machine.
As for embarrassing, I occasionally wear a 'slimmer belt' that fits around my stomach and hips. Depending on the workout pants I wear I sometimes wear shorts underneath, because the fabric on the outside of the belt is slippery and causes my pants to fall down. Well lucky me bought new workout pants and didn't test them. I didn't wear shorts and sure enough halfway through my elliptical I reach back to check myself (i'm kinda self conscious about any back skin showing lol) and realize that not only had the pants slipped below my belt but half of my butt was showing (luckly i had on plain white panties, I usually wear the crappy ones in the back of the drawer) I don't know if anyone saw but I didn't go back to the gym for a few days.
Oh, I am loving this thread! It's good to see the things that annoy me get other people, too!
Ok, two things I hate:
I work out at the Y, so moms often bring their kids. Which is fine, I just HATE when they yell at their kids from across the room! And not just once, but they're yelling at their kid(s) during their ENTIRE workout!
I also hate the cardio junkies. The tiny girls who move from one cardio machine to the other (treadmill to stairmaster to elliptical) and never use one strengthening machine, never pick up one weight, never stretch a single muscle...arg!
As for embarrassing: I was at my boyfriend's gym on a guest pass. It's a gym for big, meaty guys whose biceps are bigger than their heads. I was using a weight machine to work my back, except that even with the pin in the last hole in the weight stack, it was a little too heavy. I'm not sure how heavy, because the weights are so old that there's no label to tell you how much it weighs. I kept working, though. Well, this huge guy comes over to me to tell me how to correct my form. He tells me he sees that I'm trying to lift too much weight. So I say it's true, but there's no way for me to make it lighter. He reaches over and pulls the pin completely out of the weight stack. Then when I lifted, only the top weight goes up, instead of the top two, since the last pin-hole was in the second weight.
I felt very ditzy. My boyfriend laughed and said I probably made that meat-head feel smart for a day, which probably isn't something he's used to. That made me feel better.
Nothing I have is as bad as that, amunet, but there IS this one lady, probably late 60's and is very fit for her age, who where's spandex shorts and tucks her t-shirt in to them! She has bunchies and wrinkles all around her waste - it looks so ridiculous.
HA! I have another one.
I wear suits and biz-casual clothes to work and change quickly at work before driving to the gym. The other day i had a super fancy event that i was dressed for and I went to the gym afterward. I put on my gym clothes, waltzed right in, got loooooaaaads of stares, and realized that i was still wearing my pearl set -- earrings, necklace, bracelet, the works. I looked like freakin Ivana Trump in sweat pants.
Well I've flung the MP3 player, clanged the weights and even had the embarassing gas problem while working the abs.
But we have this guy who comes in about three days a week for two weeks, then takes a break for like a months and then is back again for his two-week period. Always talks and makes excuses why he can't get to the gym and attempts to engage everyone he passes in conversation about sports. any sport, any time of year, sports, sports sports! I call his workout the B.S. workout. He is talking more than anything; spends like an hour there with maybe 5 minutes of actual activity. I try to avoid him like the plague.
I don't do the gym anymore, got too expensive and I got pregnant (which was actually the WORST time to quit the gym)... anyway, I can't wait to get back. But while I was there I was the jerk of the gym :) I didn't clean my machines (didn't know I was supposed to!), I ran hard for 2 seconds and then hopped off the machine... and a lot of my time was spent chilling in the sauna or hot tub LOL
Now, after reading this, (thanks spirochete!!!) I will be a better and more respectful gym-goer!
Anyway, my most embarrasing moment... I wore a pair of nike swish pants that were a little too small (didn't quite make it over the belly) and while I ran they kept sliding down. It's really hard to run at 5.0mph and hold your pants up at the same time! I went to grab my water bottle and started to lose balance, so I grabbed for the machine. What do ya know, my pants started to fall just at that moment (not to mention, I was wearing a thong)... and let's just say the people on the elipticals behind me got more than they bargained for that day at the gym!
Original Post by garbluv:
These posts are a hoot!
Most weird, disturbing thing I saw in my local small town Gym. A butt naked woman in the locker greeting another woman friend with a four year old little boy by her side. The naked woman is the boys pre school teacher and is all in this little boys face, boobs dangling , and saying 'Hi Johnny!' recognize who I am?' The look on that little boys face haunts me still. He is going to need serious therapy some day!
Most embarrassing thing to happen to me? Needing to ask someone how to turn on the treadmill my first day. You'd have thought I was a complete idiot by the look I got. I never asked again and became a quick learner after that.
OMG! Yeah I never knew how to operate a treadmill either! (I always did my runnin' outside) I live maybe 20 yards away from this gym that I can go to anytime I want for free.
And for like a year I never went because I didn't want to look stupid standing on a treadmill for like minutes on end until I figured out how to work one! See, your not the only one...
So annoying AND embarrassing:
I've been going to a step class led by the same instructor for the past three weeks. Somehow the instructor learned my name and is constantly shouting things out over the microphone like: "Knees higher, Jenny!" "LEFT foot, Jenny!" "What, you don't have any more energy, Jenny?" "Let's go, Jenny!" etc.
He's not really being mean and I think he's actually just trying to be friendly because he does it to a couple of other students too. But it makes me really self-conscious especially because I just started this whole step and workout stuff so I have a lot of room for improvement.
I almost fell off the treadmill. Here's what went down. I was just walking on an incline reading a magazine. Then I drifted off to the left of the machine, tripped on the non-moving part, stumbled almost fell, caught myself but ended up facing the whole gym while the thing was moving until someone caught me by the arm and stopped the machine. I'm not making this up. Then this old guy who is facing me on the weight bench says "You're supposed to stop the machine if you want to get off of it." Thanks man, I needed that.
Another time, I had to use the treadmill facing the mirrors with all the other machines being used behind me. When I got done with my workout I went to the locker room I noticed my underwear tag sticking out of my workout pants like a little white tail. How cute.
Has to be the dude who is grunting loudly, trying to lift a weight that is too heavy for him to lift in a controlled way, so he is banging the weights together then dropping them on the ground at the end of the set. I especially like it when the same guy comes over to give me "tips" on lifting...as if i'm the one who doesn't know what i'm doing.
an embarrassing moment? that time i tried to play racquetball
