pet peeve at the gym

Okay so i get annoyed easily.  But i just need to vent and share my pet peeve.  at my gym there are three changing rooms  and plenty of lockers.  I don't understand why people after they work out put all of their stuff in the changing room and then go into the shower (they are not next to each other and you can't see the changing rooms from the showers).  Two women do it every morning -- leaving only one changing room left.  Just leave your stuff in your locker until you are out of the shower -- duh - Plus then their stuff is not even locked up -- I know I am very trusting but not even I leave my purse out while i am in the shower - a curtain isn't going to deture a theif

So anyone else have a gym pet peeve?

I say move their stuff, after a time or two, they'll figure it out... That would annoy me, too!

When people sweat all over the machine and don't wipe it down afterwards!!!

ooooooooooohhhh, talking on the cell phone while on the cardio machines!!!!

I completely agree with all the pet peeves that have been mentioned so far...

Here are some of mine:

Big juice-monkeys who make the really loud grunting sounds... c'mon who are you trying to impress?

People who don't put the free weights back where they found them.

Mine is the people who want to be on the machine I'm currently on that stare me down until I get off or act all huffy about it.

I definitely agree about the sweat, though! I always bring a towel to wipe mine off. I mean, you're gonna sweat but there's no reason to leave your mark!

I'm with moonsky9, I take a towel with me, wipe down before and after I use the maschine, just one thing different, I have a small bottle of Hand sanitizer in my poket and use that after every maschine too.

i agree with the wiping down the machines.. our gym has spray bottles of sanitizer and paper towels EVERYWHERE!  and still there are tons of people who leave the machines a sweaty mess!  it's gross!

my gym has the nice premoisted towel dispensers and sign everywhere telling you to wipe down the machines.

I wish I could just move their stuff but they lay it all out --clothes in a pile on the bench, things hanging, towels laid on the floor,

I agree with the grunting people -- i don't grunt when i lift -

eww.... sweaty equipment - I try not to be a prude with my little Clorox wipes - but it's yucky!!  That and not putting the free weights back - arg!

Kat - those ladies sound like they have waaaay too much time on their hands if they're lollygagging around in the locker room:)  I feel for ya.

I've noticed that if there are females in the weight room, a few of the younger guys tend to bang around and drop weights.  I'm assuming this is an attempt to draw attention to just how much weight they're lifting.  :)

I don't mind folks trying to use heavy weights, even if it is just to impress girls, but I hate to see the equipment get abused.

Fidgety people beside me - totally my problem and I know it but the other day there was this lady and she would walk a couple of steps till she was almost off the back of the treadmill and then run up to the top and then repeat over and over - kind of drove me nuts!! It was so distracting but it was kind of funny too in a way - she didn't mean me no harm so I just sucked it up and didn't let on how annoying it was!! LOL And also, people who hack and cough right beside me - last time that happened, I got my first cold virus in like 6 years!! If you have a contagious illness, don't go to the gym please!!!!!

You think that's bad?  I always run into the fat naked old guy
who's about to take a shower.  Our men's room has a bathroom
section and then a door into the locker room section.  Anytime I
open the door, theres a bent over naked old guy RIGHT THERE.  Not
in the corner area, not a little further down...right in front of the
door, waiting to ambush me.  I've learned to open the door while
looking up at the top row of lockers, cause I've seen way too much ass.

lol

I hate when there are a million different machines available and someone takes the machine RIGHT NEXT TO ME! If it's busy, fine, but when there's no one else, can I have a little personal space?!

Also, along with the naked thing...there are these little old ladies who wander out of the shower buck naked to weigh themselves. I can't really get angry because it's so funny :)

But I also hate the cell phone thing...especially when they talk very loudly.

people who sigh.  loudly.  especially when they're waiting for my machine.

Also, the trophy wives who come in and have to have attention from like 3 personal trainers so there's nobody to ask questions of if you have them.  And they talk so LOUD.

And the tvs at my old gym sucked, none of them were closed-captioned but one, which had such poor signal you couldn't read it, and the others supposedly had their audio on some AM band that you could only ever pick up from one bike (and my workout never included bikes).

Here's another one - Horribly warm and humid changing rooms!! What the heck??  Try to get dressed in that - YUCK!!

just thought of another -- there is a lady that comes in right as i am finishing my am workout and I am ussually at my locker putting my shoes on -- She always picks the locker right next to mine even though the locker room is huge and no one else is in there.  So i always have to more over a little to let her get into that locker --I am going to try putting my stuff in a completely different spot in the locker room tommorrow and see if she still does it

old ladies wearing bathing caps with giant flowers on them....HOGGING THE WHOLE DARN POOL!