Gym pet peeves....

Does anyone else have pet peeves about things people do at the gym??  Your running your ass off on a tread mill and the person next to you feels the need to strike up a conversation....sometimes even while you have head phones attached to your ears.  The other thing that annoys me is people who are there every time you go...but do nothing except walk around and talk to people or oogle the opposit sex.  In one hour they may do 5 minutes of activity.  

there is a guy at my gym i know and he has walked up to me while i am on like the leg press machine or somthing, and added more weight, saying,'oh you can do more than that' that guy really bugs me

That would piss me off royally!!  you should say something.  I think it is really hard to fully concentrate on your workout if thats what youre actually there for, when you have people running around randomly chatting.

It irritates the heck out of me when people don't wipe down the equipment they've been sweating all over... especially when there's spray and paper towels available nearly every 10 feet!

I go to a gym in london, where all the model girls come in fully made up, walk on the tread mills for 20 mins then pose around and then leave still looking perfect, no sweat and yet they get to stay skinny. Yes im jealous :-(

Also annoying that all the foreign guys check out the girls and comment on what we look like...you may think you speak another language but i can understand you, its not polite.

How about the people who talk on their cellphone while on the treadmill or elliptical machine?

But the stupidest thing I ever saw at the gym was this guy in nothing but a loose-fitting towel, walking around in the main lobby, brushing his hair.  I mean, they do have locker rooms! 

Oooh..love this post. I have  lots of pet peeves about the gym, heres the list:

-smelly plp..i dont mean just a little b.o. but like full blown havent washed thier gym clothes in a week kinda smell, and esp when they come next to u and ure running..its hard enough to run but having to hold ur breath too is ridiculous.

-people who drench machines in sweat and just walk away expecting that the next person would clean up after them.. that is gross!

-trainers who come up to u and try to hit on u...wait people in general coming up to u while u're working out (and sweating profusely) and trying to hit on u or start some kind of conversation to try to get ur number...the gym is not a dating center!!!!

-old men that sit on a machine and literally stare at u as ure running/ellipticalling/bicycling/stair climbing...and theyre not ashamed they just keep staring!

-equipment thats always broken! at the price of dues..you would think they'd have the money to fix these things.

-plp who work there hog the machines all day long...arent they suppose to be working? not hogging the machines!?!?

ok thats about it...haha this is a long overdue post.

I go to the Y here. I haven't had to many peeves, but a couple are people who come to class with out a card, taking the spot of someone who was there earlier and had a card, also not leaving enough equipment if the class is full.

and this was the killer. In one of my pilates classes {Stott Mat}, a girl was wearing loose fitting shorts and from what I could see no undies. During certain moves I was  getting a  free x rated show, not something I was prepared to deal with at 6am.  If I was a guy I probably would have been thrilled, but as a straight female I{or probably many if not most gay women as well}, I was just revolted.

I mean in the locker room I expect to see women in various states of dress, but most use a towel and are standing so I can move my eyes, but this was just ick.

Excessive perfume! Especially doing cardio, it makes it hard to breathe when someone hops on the machine next to you after bathing in scent.

I agree with what people said about wiping down equipment, excessive perfume, and things that are broken.  My gym takes forever to fix things.  It's so expensive to join there, they should have the money with all the memberships they have to pay for things that need to be fixed.

My gym is pretty good about people not hitting on you or talking to you while you're working out.  Occasionally a trainer will come over and say something about you not working hard enough and ask you to train with them.  Most of the time I'll do it because they show me something new and I don't have to pay for a trainer package.   It is kind of annoying sometimes though because I'm just doing my thing.  Sometimes I'm tired and I'm not into giving it my all but want to just be active.

 It really bothers me when people are next to you and they're singing out loud or talking to themselves.  And you can hear them over headphones.  Talk about rude.

How about wannabe macho guys with "imaginary lat syndrome"? What I mean by that is they strut around, usually wearing a weightlifting belt and weightlifing gloves, with their arms hanging out away from their bodies as though their back muscles (lats) were much wider than they actually are.

(These guys can usually be found engaging in extra-loud coversations with their other not-so-in-shape friends about how ''hard core" and disciplined their workout and nutrition regimes are).

HAHAHAHAHA i love this post i complain to my friends all the time about my gym pet peeves but they never really get it because they dont go to the gym! it seems ew all have alot of the same pet peeves, here are some of mine:

1. yes, people talking to me while im working out. this is MY time, leave me alone

2. im suprised only one other person sid this one... people who walk around and talk to other people but dont ever do anything! why are you so lazy! this isnt a bar!

3.  women (and men, but i see women do it the most) who wear baseball caps in the gym. IN the gym...does anybody else not see how stupid that is? ummm you arent getting the sun in your eyes...you arent getting a sunburn...whats the deal? they make ponytail holders for long hair and headbands for short hair. go get some and stop looking like a jackass

4. women that walk around butt naked in the locker room, who sit on the locker room benches with their naked butts, people who get on the scale with wet, bare feet...EW! PLEASE! stop!

5. mikeottawa -- DEFINATELY the guys with imaginary lat syndrome, hahaha i love that! did you make that up?? i cant STAND those guys!

6. women with long hair that dont put it up and you can tell its getting in their face and sweaty

i have more but i cant think of them 

Teenage Chavettes in the gym 

Always come in pairs, always wearing those tacky, cheap, velour tracksuit bottoms too long for their short, pudgy legs, accessorised with an overspill of flab, barely covered by a colour co-ordinated vest top. The uniform is set off by a full face of make-up applied with a trowl, hair preened to perfection with 8 gallons of hairspray, and 18 sets of gold Elizabeth Duke hoop earrings dragging their earlobes to the ground. They then proceed to wander around the gym giggling for an hour, with the occasional five minute bursts of exercise, during which they work out at the same rate as a 90-year-old man with no legs or arms. After this "gruelling" workout they then head for the scales and wonder why they haven't lost any weight, then saunter out, having not dropped one bead of sweat. It's a gym, not a fashion parade. Why not spend your mum's fiver elsewhere, like on a new top from Primark or a MacDonald's. Or just bugger off.

hehe :-) u guys woulda hated me. When i first went to the gym, i never wiped after myself after using the equipment, but that wasnt on purpose though, I just didnt know that we were suppose to do something like that....

Thelovelybones that is tooo funny, but soooo true!!  Another pet peeve of mine is when people come to the gym wearing jeans and a shirt....no work out attire!!  Come one its not hard to slap on gym shorts and a t-shirt with shoes.  I have seen people come and work out in flip flops!

There's a guy at the gym that I go to who does this funky breathing thing whenever he does a machine. It's like he's giving birth to the machine or something. It sounds kind of like lamaze (spelling?) breathing.

And the there are the stalkers. They just HAVE TO be on the machine that you're on and they won't stop walking around in circles until you get up. Which is when they dive on the machine.

Oooh. And I really hate walking on a treadmill next to someone who's running full-speed ahead. (But, I must clarify, it's not that I don't like those people. They are doing a great job. Very commited and persistant.) I just don't like being next to them. hahaha

Juvarni...i feel the same way about being next to someone who is running on the tread mills.  Makes you feel even worse even though you are at the gym trying to get more fit/lose weight.  I have found though that sometimes thats motivation for me.  Its like ok well if they can do that then i could probably do this.  I constantly find myself wanting to complete with people which i guess is good because it keeps me from slacking.  I also am constantly trying to push myself a little further each time.  It is like a game i play with myself to see if i can do certain things.  I think everytime, i have figured out that i am able to do it.  The thing i love about the YMCA i go to is they have two different sections to work out  in.  One if the main life center with tons of machines cardio and strength...and then they have a mini section of that for those who dont want to work out with everyone else.  I like this section because it is mainly those who are larger like myself so I dont feel so HUGE, and like everyone is walking by and thinking holy crap shes big. 

Ok i thought of another pet peeve.  Being cursed with boobs every woman in my family has not matter how large their body actually is, i feel like the girls are ready to slug me in the face when running or any sort of bouncing movement.  That is annoying enough, then add in some pervy dude beside you on the other machine watching them. 

I LOVE THIS POST!

Most of mine have already been said, not wiping down machines, people walking around and flirting.

BUT, it drives me nuts when people (especially the big-macho type guys) use the weight machines with a lot of weight, but use them incorrectly! Arrghh, it drives me nuts. There is this one guy who does the machines with way too much weight, and he does really heavy breathing, and has really bad form. I can't believe he hasn't hurt himself yet. Oh, and in between sets, he looks around to make sure people notice him!

I also once had a creepy guy just stand in front of me and STARE! I mean, come on, he wasn't even subtle about it. I actually had to tell him that he was making me nervous, and would he please stop looking at me. BTW, as well as staring, he was giving me tips (incorrect ones), and he was wearing SANDALS!!

Thanks for letting me rant!

Oh, good post.

People who constantly complain (how fat they are, someone took their favorite machine, etc)

People who won't share or won't ask if it's ok to get in the lane.  I don't mine sharing the swim lane I'm in, but say something to me first so that I at least know there's someone else there.

Excessive smells -- don't get a lot of perfumey people in the pool, thank goodness.  But, there have been several times when I go in the locker room and there's some combination that someone has just sprayed that smells like the ubiquitous pink medicine (amoxacilin) from childhood. 

Naked people.  Please, I'm happy that you have a good self image, but please cover up in a public place.

There was a custodian at my gym who always talked to everyone, even in the change room while getting changed! I appreciate the friendliness but she could never remember my name! Seriously, I must have told her 10 times. If I don't remember someone after 10 times, I wouldn't address them! She left though. I like not knowing anyone at the gym :)

FAT PERSONAL TRAINERS!!!!  I mean, really.....How can you tell people how to train when you can't even get moderately healthy yourself????

Inappropriate Workout Attire--This can be anything from jeans (which my club supposedly doesn't allow), to women who look like they are going straight to their night job--at the strip club.

Gear Spreaders--We have racquetball courts that line one wall of the exercise area and some of the players have these giant bags that they throw EVERYWHERE!  Please, the exercise area is not a locker room.

Just my thoughts--thanks

Michael