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! :)

the most hilarious thing to me at the gym is when people will drive aroudn the first couple rows of parking spaces until they find a spot instead of parking in the back and walking to the front door. YOU'RE GOING TO WORK OUT! hahaha it's like you might as well get a few extra steps in before you go into the gym. It just makes me laugh.

i always seem to work out next to the person who makes moaning sounds when they are pushing themeselves....kinda sounds like an orgasm. it makes me embarrased for them heh.

I do really long cardio work outs- about 45 minutes on the elliptical and 45 on the bikes, so I am a reader.  I am also in grad school, and so I have to use every bit of my time that I can.

What annoys me are the people who use the elevator to go up 1 flight from the basement (cardio room) to the locker rooms!  Why, I don't know, I mean seriously, if you are there to work out, are the stairs gonna hurt you?!

As for the rest, I go to the school's gym- try finding anyone over 20 there!  Everyone is on their cell phones, reading for exams, flirting and showing off- I can't wait to go to a normal gym =)

Very funny list!!  One of the things that I find really amusing also is the girls who "work out" for about 5 minutes and then leave.  What's the point? What I find annoying is that there is a sign at the Y where I go that says no gum allowed, yet at least 50% of the people there are chewing gum! I have even seen employees chewing!Why make rules if they are not going to be enforced? Or how about the guy who sits on the machine for 10-15 minutes between sets? Hello! there are other people here, and if your set is so hard that it takes that long to recover, maybe you should do less.
I confess to using the elevator, but its 5 floors from the locker rooms to the ellipticals,and my hips hurt when I walk up stairs, but I do walk up the stairs if its only a floor or two.

We have this guy that comes into the weight section wearing, I kind you not, sunglasses that never come off, tight bike shorts and a bandana. He'll lift some weights, but he mainly spends his time karate-kicking into the mirror and yelling kung-fu terms. Seriously funny.

Lol... I love these posts.  Ahhh makes me almost kind of miss when I attended my college gym, maybe I'll join again in a couple months.

My favorite are the 18 year old girls wearing "I'm rick james B****" shorty shorts and spend their entire hour there sitting on the stretching mats gossiping.

Small gym, I'd like to stretch before my workout too... >>;

HMmmm, well I've never read a novel while working out, I think my eyes move too much, I'd have to re-read the pages.  Sounds like something I might do.  I def. wear make up to the gym, I already have it on, it isn't full "night time" make up, just to help conceal my lovely blemishes, *thanks genetics* >>. 

EDIT:  OH GOD, and the people who forget to bring breath mints or brush their teeth before working out, I ALWAYS get stuck next to them, you know they're breathing in and out of their mouth, and man it reeks. 

And not like onions or garlic, it's like "morning breath, and I still havn't brushed them"

when people let the weights slam - that noise shoots right through my BONES. ashgash...nails on a chalk board

too much perfume - i agree - gag...i  would rather smell a stinky body. at least that wouldnt give me a nausea laced headache.

THAT guy - you know..that guy..they guy that comes up and talks to you when you are sweating like a pig/feeling very angry you even have to be there. hey baby crap....

we had one of those at the last gym i was at. he would not just go away. i tried to act totally bored..and he was doing the gross up and down thing...yes guys...we see that crap so dont think you are getting away with it....finally i said " do i look like i want to talk to you" his face went red...i became the treadmill room hero for the girls that were in there as they giggled and thanked me after he left the room. he was making wierd comments otherwise i wouldnt of been so nasty. he would hit on everyone that looked young(high school age) so i was told.(which made it even creepier as he looked older middle aged and i looked back then 16 in my 20's though)

i always ran home from the gym so i never had any locker room experience..staying out of there...lol

Hi, I live way out in the middle of nowhere now so I have my own gym in the house. I have a TV set up so I don't get too bored. When I was in the city I went to a gym that was sort of the everyday working stiffs kind of place so you could see just about anything.

One guy, he was nice to talk to but he wore like a luberjack shirt (with long sleves) I know we were in Canada but... Also the arobics room only had a half wall with an instructor that played her music at full blast and screamed instructions at the top of her lungs.

There were not too many posers or pervs but the locker rooms... well I don't even want to go there.

Here is one I came across by accident. I had a polar HRM that I used to wear while working out. One day I did some inclined leg presses and then went over by where the treadmills were to get a towel to wipedown the machine. My heartrate was still way up and there was only a small wall by the treadmills. This allowed you to get within 3' of the readout end of the TM. This girl was walking with her hands on the sensor watching her HR when mine overrode her's. Her eyes bugged out of her head and she started putting her fingers to her neck.

Had great fun in between sets after that... those were the days :)

-jiggles

Yesterday I read this post, and then completely experienced it last night.  Funny.  I work out at my apartment fitness center and I was all by myself for a while.  This girl (probably 18) walks to the door and can't get in (you have to have the combination), so me being the sweet person I am, I let her in.  Big mistake.  She had her hair curled, big hoop earrings, necklace and bracelet, jeans, and flip flops.  She walks in and just starts walking around looking at the different machines.  She pulls out her cell phone and starts making phone calls the rest of the time she was in there, which was probably 45 minutes.  She got on the treadmill for maybe 30 seconds max, then takes off her flip flops and gets on the bike.  She doesn't pedal, but she just pushes all the buttons so there is a loud BEEP BEEP BEEP all the while chatting away on her phone.  Drove me crazy.

OMG!  These are toooooo funny.  I have not laughed this hard in, I couldn't begin to tell you when.  I suppose I've seen all of what's been discussed here, I just hadn't paid much attention to it.  Thanks to this thread, I'm not sure I'll ever  be able to keep a straight face again as I pass by the nudie in the locker room, or the grunter on weights and NEVER again past Mr. Breezy who cut the Cheezy.  You guys are too much.  Thanks for the laugh (and the great ab workout!)   :]

hehehe, great thread.

My gym has a little pool that you normally you get to yourself or share with maybe 2 or 3 others but a few weeks ago there was a woman who made sex noises at every stroke (if you pardon the expression).

It really put me off, and while we're at it - what about people who get in the water to cling to the side and chat - never even swim!!!?

(could have an entire thread about swimming  stupidity)

I have to add one for my husband...

There are these two old buddies who hang out in the weightlifting section in the morning.  One will do a "set" (barely breaking a sweat) on a machine gabbing with the other, and then they'll take about a 10-15 minute break between each set.  The worst part is, one will sit down to talk on a machine they're not even using, though someone's standing right there waiting to use it.  My husband finally asked the guy to move, and *he* got pissed off.  What?  He was just sitting there for 45 minutes, not even lifting weights!

Ok... maybe I subconsciously asked for it in my earlier complaint about grunting. But last night I had the KING of GRUNTERS... in a spin class. First off, is it really necessary to moan loudly while spinning?

Secondly, you have to picture this guy. Fully clad in skin tight spandex from head to toe, complete with matching sweat bands on wrists and head. He cast his black leather weight lifting belt aside before hopping on his bike for the hour long class, and started grunting loudly during the WARM UP. Then, it gets even better when he busts out this fake Arnold Schwartzenegger accent at every comment the instructor makes. Example:

instructor: Ok everyone! We're going to bring it up to a 8 level of intensity!

Arnold: (in fully fake obnoxious accent) We Going to Bring Up to an Eight! Fast-er, fast-er! *GRUNT* *MOAN*

The wanker kept this up for the entire duration of the class. When the instructor turned up the music to drown him out, he just got louder.

I swear I am not making this up. You can't make this kind of stuff up.

I was working out one day, doing my usual routine...and this guy walks into the cardio section strutting a jump-suit and snow boots! I'm serious haha! After he did the elliptical for about 5 minutes, he grabbed a paper towel. He proceded to clean off the machine, BLOW HIS NOSE in it, and then cleaned his machine again! All with the same paper towel! I was disgusted. He was a weird dude.

I agree with the perfume . . . I don't want to smell perfume at the gym!!!!   But how 'bout a smoker that gets up on a machine right next to you and has no clue how badly he/she reeks of smoke to a nonsmoker!!!!

I was going to Y today, but I don't think I will if its full of judgemental people like this. I'm embarassed enough being a an horribly obese person, that I don't want to go to gym.  Now I have to worry about people silently judging me for doing the wrong thing like reading a book or talking to me friends on a cell phone for encouragment, or being naked in the shower room.  Its even possible I might sweat some, I'm sure that would disgust you.

I thought the point of the gym was to work out to be healthier, not to treat it like tea with Queen.

Ok, about the gym rules, here's one that grossed me out over a year ago and i haven't touched a bench since:

a girl walks into the bathroom from the shower naked, uses the washroom, washes hands (still naked) in front of the mirrors, then heads to change room, still naked, not even a towel around her neck,,,,then just happened to have the locker next to me and proceeds to put on her socks first, WHILE standing, and lifting the leg to do it.  then sat bare naked on bench to put on bra & shirt next,,,undies and pants were dead last....GEEZ.  as i said i always put a towel on bench ever since and that's even to set my gym bag down.

YUCK!  :(

Let's not forget those who wear cologne and perfume to the gym.   

i have to strongly disagree with Kylee about reading on the bikes;  I have read and enjoyed many books while on the bike.  It not only doubles the utilization of your time, but the time passes faster, don't see how it could annoy ANYONE, it doesn't make noise or create odors.  There is one guy at my gym who calls me "Professor" because I read all the time.  Beats staring into space.  I guess the thing that annoys me most is in the parking areas, people who actually sit in their car for minutes waiting for someone to come out so they can get a close place; why did they come to the gym in the first place?  Couldn't be excerise, could it?

Hey SCGUY... too right !!!! There is not a problem at all reading on a bike... why not.  Until the gyms can afford those high tech machines with the virtual scenary, there's nothing wrong with reading.  And yes, the parking thing is stupid... why hire a guy to drive a tram...