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:

CORPSE POSE

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 :(

I hate it when...

--Two people sit on adjacent machines and have a 20 minute conversation without doing any work.  Get off the machine, there are other people here!

--Additionally...why are you on your cell phone why using a cardio machine?  Are you insane?!

 

I haven't done anything super embarrassing, but a couple weeks ago I ripped my nose ring out while wiping my face with a towel.  I had to move the elliptical to find it.  Of-course it was in a pile of dirt and dust balls.

I drop the exercise ball sometimes.  I await the day I fall of the treadmill...

I got gassy the other day when I was doing cruches....  That's bad.... 

YES!

There's this guy who uses all the machines and insists on looking at the muscle group he is exercising while he's doing it -- like if he's lying on his stomach working his legs/butt/whatever, he arches his neck and looks over his shoulder at his butt -- as if it's going to get bigger before his eyes. He'll get so hurt one day, but in the mean time it's quite entertaining.

 

And for ME, i am cheap and refuse to get an arm-band thingy for my iPod. So the other day when i was on the elliptical, i kept hitting the chord with my hand and sent my iPod flying across the room. I did this three times. I verbally apologized each time and laughed, and no one laughed with me. Guess it's time for an arm band.

I think its annoying when I see a girl weighing herself throughout her work out. Cardio...scale...cardio... scale

I'm always tempted to give a lecture on water weight.

Ooh I also can't stand when men grunt or clear their throats of mucus. I know sometimes they can't help it, or even know their doing it, but it is still annoying!

I walked into the womans locker room once.   Totally just was not even paying attention strolling along and them BAM! I've actually seen a woman fall off of the treadmill once, this may sound horrible, but it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.  She was alright though.

i hated it when two women were together at the gym- mind you- women i never ever see at the gym and i am there 4 hrs a day often - and they have the gall to look at me and say stuff- i actually took my headphones off & said "i may have my music on, but i can hear you talking about my back & shoulders behind my back -- it's what happens to your shoulders & back muscles when you come to the gym everyday & work out instead of talking about other women- & it's not too manly looking! It's fit!"

my most embarrassing- early on it was using pulleys wrong in the weight room & NO ONE telling me what to do -- or -- deadlifts were just plain embarrassing until i got my loads up!

OK I have an embarrassing moment:

I ALWAYS wear a sports bra under my t-shirt to the gym.  When I get hot while doing cardio, I just take off my shirt and I'm wearing my sports bra underneath.  No big deal, right?  Well, the other day, I had forgotten my sports bra by accident, so I just worked out in my regular bra under my t-shirt.  Well, halfway through my cardio, I was getting pretty sweaty and hot, and so without thinking about it, out of habit, I took off my shirt and tossed it on the ground beside the elliptical.  There I was in all my glory, in a skimpy brassiere in front of the whole damn gym.  Doesn't that border on illegal?  It took me a little while to realize what I had done, but when I did, you better believe I crouched down on the floor like I was looking for something and put my shirt back on.  I was mortified.  I have no idea how many people saw or what they thought.  I just kept going with my workout.  Needless to say it wasn't just the cardio making my face red that day.

I hate it when there are pervy men staring at the group aerobics classes. The way my gym is set up you can watch the group classes while on the elipticals, usually no one pays attention. Twice in the past two weeks or so I have been on an eliptical next to this old man who is barely moving and staring at the girls. He doesn't even try to hide his bulging eyes and drool chin. Not only that, he keeps 'readjusting'. *gag*

Oh, and, people who don't clean the equipment after really irk me too.

Things that annoy me:

• People who sit on a bench and talk on their cell phone
• People who do 1 set go to a different exercise, and leave a towel or something so they can claim 2 spots...not cool
• People who do 1 set go to a different exercise, and come back and say they were still using that
• Annoying skinny high school boys who think they'll get a girl by coming to the gym, doing 15 minutes of biceps curls and maybe a set of bench and leave
• People who stand right over a bench while doing curls, making it impossible for anyone to use the bench, even though they don't need it
• People who don't rack their weights when they are done (that's the biggest)
• Probably a few others

As for my embarrising moment...let's just say that I have to make sure I'm all cleared out before doing a set of squats...

something that annoys me: girl in the gym yesterday, clearly hot,perfect body but knew it.....strolling...literally on the treadmill....pickin at her fack nails......right if ur gonna be on the treadmill......be on it for a reason......seriously ive never seen someone walk this slow on the treadmill....fixin er hair lookin round for guys............and then when in the changing room....shes takin over the miror by standin in front of the mirror admiring herself completely naked...dnt mind the 10 other girls in here who want to dry there hair.....ahhhh.....weird!

funny thing i did: fell of the stairmaster...and couldn get bak on cos it was goin really fast so had to time my jump......yeh that took 2 goes.....

I can't stand people that talk on their cell phone while on the elliptical, treadmill, etc.

yes smartjock, PEOPLE WHO DO NOT RACK THEIR WEIGHTS!! I know you're a big strong man lifting all those 45 lbs plates, but they turn into sniveling 3 year olds when they are done and can't clean up after themselves. I'm waiting for the day I can catch one in the act because it's gonna be a very sad moment for them.

Another embarrassing moment for me: I was running on the track and majestically tripped and fell. I ate it so bad. Everyone came running over to see if I was ok and I was, I was just so embarrassed I wanted to DIE.

Also I'm laughing at the shirt/bra story. That's awesome

I remember one guy who had a bad cold, and would sniff it back instead of blowing his nose, then wipe his nose with the back of his hand. EWWW.

Dude, it won't kill you to take a day off if you're sick.

What I've done: I tripped on my shoelace in the middle of a bouncy high-impact class and I went flying.  All I could do was laugh about it but I felt so silly.

peachynerd- My friend does that!  It drives me crazy, she weighs herself before her workout and after.  The other day she also told me she didn't want to wear a hair clip in order to keep her sweaty hair out of her face during her workout, because hair "clips are for dorky girls."  I guess that makes me #1 dork.  I'll never let that one go.....

I think I've done plenty of really embarassing things in the gym, I fell off the treadmill once, I fell down in yoga class, the list goes on...  One day I can look really sharp and beautiful, and the next day I look like a goofy super clumsy wierdo....

I can't stand when people don't wipe off their cardio machines when they are finished. Wipe your sweat off the machine so someone else can use it. That is probably my biggest pet peeve at the gym... and when people use their phones, that's annoying too.

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.  Please get dressed.  No one wants to see you flapping around in the breeze.  There is a new invention just out called a towel please use one.

I dont remember anything embarrasing at the gym.  I am sure there are things that have happened but I dont get embarrased easy so it doesnt stay in my memory.

I forgot to screw the top on my water bottle once because I was chatting to my friend after a workout. I went to take a gulp from the bottle, forgetting I hadn't put it back and, and covered myself in about half the water that had been in it. Not only that but for once I was wearing a white shirt and as a result it looked like I was literally dripping with sweat.

Worth it just for the filthy evils some skank gave me when I brushed past her to get into the changing room though :D

-Men wearing shorty shorts on the leg press machines....the junk is barely able to hang on in the tighty whitey's

-the "gym cruiser"...come in to see who is there and then stand and eye cruise the room

-people jumping around like little bunnies on the Nautilus machines....takes them more time to adjust the machine for the 30 pounds they plan to lift then it does for them to do the 5 or 6 speed reps.....only to hop across the room and do the same thing on another machine

 

*as for me...I was trying to walk off some of the massive pain I had just caused myself...wait, sorry....I was walking off the WONDERFUL burn I accomplished and congratulating myself on my FANTASTIC muscle mass...ah hem, anyway....walking it off I walked right into the side of the overhead press machine that was occupied by a rather large and focused individual....needless to say he was not impressed....I got the giggles...he....did not.....

The thing that erks me the most at the gym is a mother/son duet that I see once a week.  The mother (probably about 30-35) hits the elliptical for 30mins, then takes an aerobic class.  While she leaves her son, (13 or 14) to do whatever.  Well, he always ends up on the treadmill next to me, which wouldn't be a problem if...

1. He didn't wear a hoodie
2. He didn't run at a 10.5MPH pace for maybe 30seconds while holding himself up with the rails or laying across the display/controls.
3. He wasn't so loud!  The kid is so awkward when he runs (because he runs at a pace much faster then his fitness allows him) and all you hear is stomp stomp stomp.
4. During his rest periods (after those killer 'runs') he hovers over my display taking tabs of my workout.

Then this kid tends to jump on a weight machine or two, do one or two reps, and then stops.  Blahhh!!! Can we ban this kid from the gym, or get him some PT sessions or something?

 

 

My embarrasing moment:
I don't use my arm band for my iPhone when I run on the treadmill because I like to be able to easily change songs while on the go and what not.  So I have the headphone wire bouning in front of me.  There have been many occasions where my arm hits the wire and knocks off my phone, well one time I decided I would catch it as it passed by me.  At the time I was running at 9.5MPH, I tried to keep that pace, bend over, grab my phone, and get back up without stopping.  That didn't work so well, I got down, missed my phone, stumbled for a good 15 seconds, finally regained composure, hopped off the back of the treadmill, picked up my phone, and continued my run.

first of all im new here. so hi :)

i hate my gym, i loathe my gym. but its the only one i can afford and it includes tanning.

these are the 4 types of people at my gym

the muscle guys who go and life weights and do 5000 crunches, and look at you like your the biggest dumb ass they have ever seen when you come into their area to do ANYTHING. even grab some 10 lbs weights.

 

then there is the size 0 girls that dress their best to go there, and wear their military hats( i dont know why, but they all do) and they do the elliptical for 10 min. then walk around, and sit on machines and talk to their friends( i hate them and i am very jealous of them at the same time)

 

then there is the big buff guys who go to work out, but bring their size 0 girlfriends who just follow them around and put lip gloss on while the guy is on a machine. and then they kiss them after each machine

 

then there are the power girls. the girls who spend over an hour on the treadmill/elliptical at a resistance of like 150. seriously...get a life.

 

 

and then theres people like me, who are very rare, who go to try to lose weight, who are not huge work out nuts and do not know how to use all the equipment.

 

i havent done much embarrassing stuff at the gym, other then flinging my ipod all over the place because i have yet to get an arm band, and of course dropping the weights is always embarrassing.