Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

optimistic_

Whatever happened to that old thread? I loved that thread.

Anyway, wanted it back because it's entertaining reading. I'm finding it hard to get the ball rolling because at 6.30am there's not much in the way of annoying behaviour in my gym. The usual plates not returned to racks or whatever. Or people splashing big gross wet footprints around the place after the shower.

What new horror stories have we for 2015?

Hanley

Furious masturbation.

optimistic_

Hanley wrote: »

Furious masturbation.

Thank god you said furious. My leisurely joyful **** are alright then

Alf Veedersane

Hanley wrote: »

Furious masturbation.

Dat pump, doe.

Mr. CooL ICE

I go in the morning when it's somewhat quiet. Only regular annoying behaviour is some girl doing some cardio circuit on top of all the exercise mats at once. I.e. there's an area used for warmups/stretching stuff with a small pile of mats. You take a mat, do what you gotta do, then put it back. This girl uses all of them at once for whatever the hell she is doing.

I see some stupid gym behaviour (curl bros with weightlifting gloves), but it doesn't affect me so I ignore it.

MightyMandarin

A guy in my gym turns up every so often in a onesie or pyjamas. We should really ask him to wear some proper clothes.

ninamc

I set up a little circuit in the gym Tuesday night. Prowler, box jumps, farmers walks, 50kg deadlifts. Some knob comes in, plonks his stuff on the box I was using for jumping and then shoots me daggers when I motion at him to take them off. Then proceeds to randomly hop in on my circuit, lifting the deadlift bar a few times, using the sandbags etc. I have no problem with people jumping in if the place is busy, or I'm at an in-demand squat rack or platform. But the DL bar was set up on the matting in front of the prowler. I nearly shook my head off my shoulders thinking "you complete fu*cking ar*se -wipe".

COH

Fordiners usin all te heavy waits

MightyMandarin

COH wrote: »

Fordiners usin all te heavy waits

Comein ovr ere takin our pl8s and takin our dumbels

_davidsmith_

MightyMandarin wrote: »

Comein ovr ere takin our pl8s and takin our dumbels

Dont know whos taking the p*ss now.........

I used to be in a certain gym owned by a shopping center guru, and iv seen every sin known to man.

Gloves (keep your hands soft so your handy j's are nice and smooth)

Flat peaked fashion baseball caps

sleeveless ts and skinny tracksuit bottoms

GAA shorts and socks (everyone gets it you play GAA well done)

building a dumbell fort around you for a ridiculous "dropset"

ridiculous shouting/standing around having the chats

Taking the treadmill/machine right beside you when the whole row is free

Alf Veedersane

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

GAA shorts and socks (everyone gets it you play GAA well done)

Yeah! You're not in Kansas anymore, muck savage!!!

Buy some gym shorts, tbf.

Chris_Bradley

Women wearing loads of make-up.

_davidsmith_

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Yeah! You're not in Kansas anymore, muck savage!!!

Buy some gym shorts, tbf.

Ha my thoughts exactly iv boxer shorts that are longer that those ball strangler shorts.

Oh and i forgot my no1 annoyance, lads in there gym shorts under armour tshirts lovely runners, and still in their black dress socks from the days work, just plain nasty, youve changed everything else get into a pair of proper socks you animal!

Alf Veedersane

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

Ha my thoughts exactly iv boxer shorts that are longer that those ball strangler shorts.

I wasn't being serious.

If I just had shorts for Gah because I played a lot of Gah, I'd wear them to the gym. If you don't like the show, don't buy a ticket.

heroics

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

Dont know whos taking the p*ss now.........

GAA shorts and socks (everyone gets it you play GAA well done)

What's wrong with GAA shorts? I wear them or rugby shorts or running shorts whatever comes out of the gear box first going to the gym.
Its the gym not a fashion parade.

Zillah

What's with lads wearing wetsuits? They're probably not wetsuits but they shure do look it.

Zymurgist

I seen a lad shaving his armpits in the changing room the other week...not annoying behaviour but definitely unusual

_davidsmith_

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I wasn't being serious.

If I just had shorts for Gah because I played a lot of Gah, I'd wear them to the gym. If you don't like the show, don't buy a ticket.

I bet if your lovely socks are dirty you wear your black ones instead, animal

_davidsmith_

heroics wrote: »

What's wrong with GAA shorts? I wear them or rugby shorts or running shorts whatever comes out of the gear box first going to the gym.
Its the gym not a fashion parade.

AND socks, i was getting at the full kit w*nker thing here. Jeez you GAA lads are awful sensitive

Pat Mustard

Fellas sitting there, taking up space, reading their phones.

_davidsmith_

Pat Mustard wrote: »

Fellas sitting there, taking up space, reading their phones.

Its not a workout unless its plastered on social media :pac:

Alf Veedersane

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

I bet if your lovely socks are dirty you wear your black ones instead, animal

No, I wear the dirty socks so people know I played a game in them for my GAA club.

Because I play GAA.

COH

Judgmental people
Insecure people
Confident people
Weak people
People who are too strong
People who take no pride in their appearance
People who take pride in their appearance
Smells
Sweat
People who dont sweat
Naked people in showers
People with differing views to my own
Foreigners
Irish people
People who record their lifting
People who dont record their lifting
People who use equipment
People who dont use any equipment
Poeople who only do classes
People who lift weights
People who do cardio
People who take supplements
Loud people
People who wear headphones
People with testicles
People with tits
People with legs
People
F*cking people doing THINGS
STUFF
THINGS
OTHER THINGS
WAAA WAAA WAAAA

_davidsmith_

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

No, I wear the dirty socks so people know I played a game in them for my GAA club.

Because I play GAA.

I suppose the crowds of people would demand a refund if the all-star showed up to the squat rack in civilian socks

_davidsmith_

COH wrote: »

Judgmental people
Insecure people
Confident people
Weak people
People who are too strong
People who take no pride in their appearance
People who take pride in their appearance
Smells
Sweat
People who dont sweat
Naked people in showers
People with differing views to my own
Foreigners
Irish people
People who record their lifting
People who dont record their lifting
People who use equipment
People who dont use any equipment
Poeople who only do classes
People who lift weights
People who do cardio
People who take supplements
Loud people
People who wear headphones
People with testicles
People with tits
People with legs
People
F*cking people doing THINGS
STUFF
THINGS
OTHER THINGS
WAAA WAAA WAAAA

Oh god we've upset the pro......................

bucketybuck

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

AND socks, i was getting at the full kit w*nker thing here. Jeez you GAA lads are awful sensitive

But thats the gear they have, why would they go out and buy more gear when they have perfectly good socks, shorts, tops already? Bit pretentious to think they should go buy the "proper" gear for fashion reasons, no?

_davidsmith_

bucketybuck wrote: »

But thats the gear they have, why would they go out and buy more gear when they have perfectly good socks, shorts, tops already? Bit pretentious to think they should go buy the "proper" gear for fashion reasons, no?

ha wow didnt see this causing such a stir, lads this GAA attire thing its one idiots opinion, chill

deadlybuzzman

COH wrote: »

People with testicles
AND tits

.... these are the worst
...... especially if they've also got on too much make up

Reps4jesus

a lad in the changing room the other day decided he would spend about 30 seconds drying his feet with the hair dryer while standing stark naked in front of the mirrors basically pointing his hoop at the door to give everyone a good view while they walked in......

Yer Aul One

Reps4jesus wrote: »

a lad in the changing room the other day decided he would spend about 30 seconds drying his feet with the hair dryer while standing stark naked in front of the mirrors basically pointing his hoop at the door to give everyone a good view while they walked in......

Haha I saw this before too. A sign then went up "hair dryers are for drying the hair on your head, only"

Jon Stark

Lads in the nip trying to have a conversation with you in the dressing room.

Lads and women who spend more time congregating for the chats at the desk than actually doing a bit. Extra knob marks if you holler at me with a smirk "leaving so soon haw haw?"

Gym staff that look at you peplexingly when you point out equipment is broken. The treadmill has been busted for over a month, sort it out!

Other than that I can take most behaviour in my stride.

will56

Skipping Rope ! People taking up walkways etc skipping, that give you the evils when you ask them to move out of the effing way.

Instructors who insist on using 3/4/5 pieces of equipment to put a client through a circuit, but refuse to let you work in on one piece.

Failure to re-rack weights, even though it has led to weights being removed from the floor so you have to spend ages looking for the one pair of matching dumbbells for your set

pinkypinky

There's a cohort of guys at my gym who on seeing each other, shake hands and hug, then they proceed to shout at each other across the gym while they work out separately.

Tell me how

During the winter a few years ago a well known intercounty hurler used to come in to the gym at about half nine or so, gym closed at ten. He would ask the receptionist to sign him in "log him on the county team gym record sheet" and then just go in for a shower.

That wasn't really what annoyed me though.

Before going in to the shower he used to wrap his boxers around the head of the hair dryer and turn it on. He would leave that running while in the shower.

20 minutes later he'd be out the door with a toasty ball sack and the county manager feeling the lads are putting in the effort.

Alf Veedersane

Tell me how wrote: »

Before going in to the shower he used to wrap his boxers around the head of the hair dryer and turn it on. He would leave that running while in the shower.

20 minutes later he'd be out the door with a toasty ball sack

Logged under 'pro tip'.

lbj666

Doing rehab from an injury in a gym well known for its overcrowding, have an excersise moving from a reserve lunge to a step up takes a little bit of space. The amount of idiots walking right behind me i have hit into mid excersise is rediculous.

heroics

will56 wrote: »

Skipping Rope ! People taking up walkways etc skipping, that give you the evils when you ask them to move out of the effing way.

In the gym I was in there was 1 guy who used to skip right in front of dumbell rack. Basically stopping everyone else from getting to the weights.

Zillah

lbj666 wrote: »

Doing rehab from an injury in a gym well known for its overcrowding, have an excersise moving from a reserve lunge to a step up takes a little bit of space. The amount of idiots walking right behind me i have hit into mid excersise is rediculous.

This sounds a bit like someone reversing out onto a road complaining about all the cars hitting them.

(People don't expect other people to suddenly lunge backwards, it's your responsibility to make sure it's clear)

deadlybuzzman

It's strange, my current gym has only normal nice people, I still can't get used to it.
In my old gym however I turned my back on the bar while warming up on Deadlift and when I turned back I noticed that my chalk bag was quite flat and had a footprint on it.
There was only one other guy in the gym and he was walking away with an invisible telly under each arm (the big man walk).
I'm not particularly big so I presume this was him trying to make himself feel better about some insecurity or another by figuratively kicking sand in my face.
I just kept throwing on the plates and smiling at him..... one of the 2 things made him uncomfortable anyway because he lost the 2 invisible telly's and shuffled off into a corner out of the way

Jimmy Iovine

I arrived at a gym in England last year to find a squad car outside. The police were inside escorting a guy from the weights section to the front door. No idea what it was about. That episode summed up the gym. It was a pile of ****e.

discus

Was it in Plymouth by any chance? The one I'm at now has some right characters.

edit: story removed incase the world is small!

power pants

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

MightyMandarin

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I arrived at a gym in England last year to find a squad car outside. The police were inside escorting a guy from the weights section to the front door. No idea what it was about. That episode summed up the gym. It was a pile of ****e.

Probably some guy caught with his wheyroids and creabols stash. Poor guy was only trying to make some gains.

discus

power pants wrote: »

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

I'm going to be feeling very self concious this sunday :eek:

drdeadlift

Making more noise than needed,dropping weights slamming bars back needlessly.Very annoying stuff

deadlybuzzman

power pants wrote: »

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

....... oh you SAY you don't want to look but......

mezzanine08

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

Dont know whos taking the p*ss now.........

GAA shorts and socks (everyone gets it you play GAA well done)

It's funny I bought a pair of GAA shorts at Elverys when they were on sale and I've held a hurley about 5 times total my whole life

Jon Stark

drdeadlift wrote: »

Making more noise than needed,dropping weights slamming bars back needlessly.Very annoying stuff

Don't you know that they have to do that #clangingandbanging bro.

I actually experienced such a fool in my gym on Thursday. Everytime he slammed the bar down he just postured and looked around to see if anyone was looking at him.

Type of bloke to be laughed at.

Nervous Wreck

There's a PT in Flyefit Macken St who puts a 24inch plyo box in a power cage and then has his client stand in front of it and do anything from deadlifts to curls. They never once use the cage or the box but take the use of both away from anyone else who may want to use them. They spend a good 45 mins with that set up but will often walk away to do other things and leave all the stuff set up so no one else can move it. He's also a shîte PT from everything I've seen him do with his clients. Infuriating.

El Horseboxo

I like to get in and out. Only things that annoy me is any behavior that unnecessarily impedes that. Like taking 10 mins between Squats due to talking. Suppose any piece of equipment. Basically if you use something without any consideration of others. You're a dick.

play it again

Jon Stark wrote: »

Don't you know that they have to do that #clangingandbanging bro.

I actually experienced such a fool in my gym on Thursday. Everytime he slammed the bar down he just postured and looked around to see if anyone was looking at him.

Type of bloke to be laughed at.

Nothing wrecks my head more than dropping weights , I can stand just about anything but cunce dropping weights , I was in a gym in London that had a sign at the weights rack saying " if you can't put them down quitely , don't pick them up "