Stupid Things People Do At The Gym...

All in good fun...please don't be offended.

1. The soccer mom's that come with their friends who have gossip-fests while slowly walking on the treadmills.

2. Those silly girls that wear bows, earings and makeup who attempt to workout but end up "accidentally" walking past the mirrors.

3. Big, bulky guys who make loud noises when lifting weights.

4. People who sing out loud with their i-pods while working out.

5. People who come to the gym, look around at the equipment, get a protein shake...and then call it a day.

6. People who save machines for their friends! (Ahh don't do that)!

7. People who don't clean up the machine when they are done. (GROSS)! Come on now.

8. The ever-popular person who talks on the phone while attempting to work-out.

9. People who walk around naked in the locker-rooms. I know it IS a locker room...but its still a public place and some people don't really want to see that much! Haha

10. People who bring novels to read while they ride their bikes. (Sorry but I just don't get it.)

After reviewing my list...I wonder why I go to the gym sometimes. But I love the machines. I'm a small girl...but I am a hardcore running, stair-climbing, elliptical-ing, sweating freak! I go to the gym to sweat my guts out and I don't talk to anyone. The gym is not a place to mingle in my opinion.

There's my two cents! Please feel free to add to the list! :)

lol at fart fest.


thats another thing that bothers me..... when theres tons of other machines to go on... but they have to use the one right next to you.
i always try to go on thats farthest from people or use the end ones cuz i know at least id only have one person next to me.

I just thought of another one as I was working out at the gym today! I hate it when I accidently push the 'STOP' button on the machines and ALL of my workout stats get erased! Of course...this was all my fault haha. I was so stupid I did it three different times in one workout. Geez. :)

I have one thing that I cant stand.  When I am running on the treadmill and someone trips over the cord and unplugs the machine.  It stops me right in the middle of my workout and I loose all my data, like miles and calories.  It's funny how the same people always seem to do it over and over again, I feel like saying "The cord is still right there, just like it was last time", but of course I don't, because I don't want to be rude.

My favorite guy at the gym is the one who uses 3 machines at once, then gets all upset at you for taking one of his machines. My response: "We know you want to work out 3 muscle groups at once, but there are other people at the gym!" And of course this guy does his "3 machines at one time" routine during prime time when the gym is slammed. No common courtesy at all.

My second favorite guy is the one who walks into your equipment or machine when you are on it. If one more person hits my bar while I am doing bench presses, I am gonna lose it.

These pesky nuances aside; I do love my gym. I love working up a sweat on the elliptical, I love weight training, I love the camraderie, and I really love seeing the results.

Oh my god!! These are great, and I totally have some to add.

There is this woman I see at my gym all the time, walking on the treadmill..... IN FLIP FLOPS!!!! What gives?? And I've seen people doing cardio in leather jackets, jeans, even nice professional clothes and big dangly earrings!!

Another one that totally threw me for a loop, was one day I was doing my cardio, and I saw a guy reading his book while doing BACK EXTENSIONS!!!! How in the hell do you read a book while you're weight training??

Mind boggling..

OMG these are too funny. I have a gym at my office which makes it really nice. So I see people naked that I work with, so that can be disturbing as well. The one question is what is the fart edicate when you are working out cause I know it seems to get things moving which I understand. I do my best to hold them in until I get some place out of the way, but dang it sometimes hurts to do that...any suggestions??  Oh yea hence my nick name..Stinky1 I get it honestly...

I would suggest perhaps trying to go to the bathroom pre-workout, incorporate some beano or gas-x into your routine, I dunno?

Another annoying one: the person who decides to CHEW GUM while they're working out. ARGH, that makes my jaw hurt watching them. Especially annoying if they're right next to you, smacking their lips. Hahahaha.

I'm a #10. Guilty as charged. Oh, and I've totally farted before. I'm guilty of the silent ones that sneak by undetected (definitely not deadly)...but the ones that pop out and you have to play them off? Crap. Those SUCK.

THe other day a guy was on the elliptical next to me, and he pulled a drink out of his bag... Not water, not gatorade, but a DIET COKE! Hahahaha. Nothing like dehydrating yourself while you're exercising!

digdig: Another annoying one: the person who decides to CHEW GUM while they're working out.

This one made me laugh -- my BF actually keeps Hubba Bubba (yes, it's not even sugar-free gum) on the elliptical in our bedroom.  He HAS to chew gum while working out -- I don't get it!  At least no one has to watch him do it, though!

Nakedness definetly bothers me at the gym. Im a gum chewer, it helps settle my stomach, which is weird i know. Its not like im a cow chewer though. I hate it when people what their music so loud that i can hear it through my Ipod.

Okay, so the gym I go to is the Y in my area, and they actually have people that will clean the machines for you when you're finished, AND they'll clean them (with disinfectent) before, if you ask them, so thats totally awesome.  As far as the earring and make up thing...  I'm guilty.. LoL   I go straight from work and there have been a few times that I forget to take my earrings out, and most of the time, they're trendy earrings that matched whatever I wore that day.   And the make up too.. I'm not taking my make up off, that I wore to work, just to work out.    My peeve is def the nakedness...   I"m all about letting it all hang out, but damn... I dont need to see your old wrinkly butt as you walk to or from the shower.   Or, the best is when they get out of the pool, take their suit off in front of the dryer, put it in there, THEN walk to their locker, butt ass nekked!!!  COME ON NOW...

Oh yeah.  We have a couple characters at my gym.  The first one I call The Stomper because she does the treadmill on random incline and when the incline goes high she holds on to the top of the treadmill for dear life and stomps so loud my husband always has to turn up his iPod!  I want to tell her she's not only screwing up her knees but cheating the treadmill by holding on, but I don't.

The other guy whom I hate is the one who power walks on the treadmill while reading the Wall Street Journal and chugging Diet Coke!  He doesn't just read the WSJ, too, he flips it around, chucks out different sections to the floor, then swigs some Diet Coke and has a "meeting" on his cell phone.  I HATE that guy.

I walk around the gym naked ....

Of course, the elliptical is in my bedroom ...

At the gym I used to go to, there was this woman who was always there when I was there, and she was one of those "walk-around-the-locker-room-butt-naked" types.  I was trying to get stuff out of a lower locker once, so I was bent over (clothed, mind you, I was on my way out!), and she walked up RIGHT NEXT TO ME, butt naked.  And I was bent over.  And I almost gagged.

Blech.

Yachtracer - I almost just threw up in my mouth!  LoL 

oops..  double post  :) 

OMG jenka we tooootally have stompers at my gym too!!!

I never got that?! Let me crank the incline all the way up and then hold onto the bars and lean back while I'm walking... it completely defeats the purpose!!

and stlgirl I totally know what you mean about the makeup thing, I go to the gym straight from work too so it just happens to be on, and I never thought about the earrings that way but it makes sense now, I completely forget to take my rings off sometimes.. but always end up taking them off a few minutes into my cardio..

these are really funny guys keep em coming! :)

Whenever I do an excercise, I concentrate on that one muscle group and I try to keep the rest of me stationary.

I notice alot of people winding their whole body up so they can achieve a higher weight number.  Curling seems to be the worst.

I guess I figured that the number is not as important as what you are doing.....

Mr. Frothbeast, you are totaly right when you say the amount of weight is not as imporntant as form.  It's funny to see people trying to look cool or strong who have way too much weight and can't do the exercise with the proper form.  That can lead to injury pretty quick too.

I also hate it when people use dumbells or plates and don't put them back.

Sigh...I can't help being a stomper.  At 235 pounds, when my cardio workup is in the 8s and 9s, I know people can here me galloping away, as well as the occasional moan as I try to push myself.