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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)
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There was a couple (I assume) hogging a certain machine (of which there's only one in the entire gym), taking turns doing sets. One gets up, does a set, gets off, the other instantly gets on, does their set, gets off, the other gets on, and so on and so on and so on.
The gym was closing in ten minutes and this machine was the last thing i needed to do so I was fairly eager to use it. But if I didn't get to, it wasn't the end of the world.
I sat close to the machine, making it obvious I was hoping to get to use it. They both just kept doing their thing, clearly ignoring the hell out of me on purpose.
After a few mins I asked them if they had many sets left. Barely acknowledging my presence, they kinda look at each other and make a half-assed attempt to answer me, counting up how many they have left and told me the answer, barely looking at me.
At this point, I hadn't yet asked I could use the machine. Surely at this point they recognise that I am hoping to use it before the gym closes, yet they can't be arsed to even pretend to give a **** that someone else might want to use the machine they've been hogging for 15 minutes.
Finally, I ask them is it okay if I work in. The just guy stares at me in the most bizarre way, saying nothing, and the girl stumbles over her words and kinda manages to get the word "yeah" out.
I stared back at the guy in the eyes until he eventually looked away. What was he hoping to achieve by staring me out of it?
What annoyed me about this was not that I may not have got to use the machine, and not that they may have needed it themselves for the last ten mins of opening time and genuinely may not have been able to let me use it - I get that. It was the sheer ignorance and arrogance of their behaviour towards someone else in the gym who was clearly hoping to use the equipment they were taking turns hogging for a good 15 minutes.
They clearly weren't right in the head because it was 60 seconds of bizarre, antisocial behaviour.
Thankfully this was actually the first time I've ever not had someone try to be helpful when they can see I would like to use the machine they're using. My gym's good
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There was a couple (I assume) hogging a certain machine (of which there's only one in the entire gym), taking turns doing sets. One gets up, does a set, gets off, the other instantly gets on, does their set, gets off, the other gets on, and so on and so on and so on.
The gym was closing in ten minutes and this machine was the last thing i needed to do so I was fairly eager to use it. But if I didn't get to, it wasn't the end of the world.
I sat close to the machine, making it obvious I was hoping to get to use it. They both just kept doing their thing, clearly ignoring the hell out of me on purpose.
After a few mins I asked them if they had many sets left. Barely acknowledging my presence, they kinda look at each other and make a half-assed attempt to answer me, counting up how many they have left and told me the answer, barely looking at me.
At this point, I hadn't yet asked I could use the machine. Surely at this point they recognise that I am hoping to use it before the gym closes, yet they can't be arsed to even pretend to give a **** that someone else might want to use the machine they've been hogging for 15 minutes.
Finally, I ask them is it okay if I work in. The just guy stares at me in the most bizarre way, saying nothing, and the girl stumbles over her words and kinda manages to get the word "yeah" out.
I stared back at the guy in the eyes until he eventually looked away. What was he hoping to achieve by staring me out of it?
What annoyed me about this was not that I may not have got to use the machine, and not that they may have needed it themselves for the last ten mins of opening time and genuinely may not have been able to let me use it - I get that. It was the sheer ignorance and arrogance of their behaviour towards someone else in the gym who was clearly hoping to use the equipment they were taking turns hogging for a good 15 minutes.
They clearly weren't right in the head because it was 60 seconds of bizarre, antisocial behaviour.
Thankfully this was actually the first time I've ever not had someone try to be helpful when they can see I would like to use the machine they're using. My gym's good
Yeah, but was the girl hot or not?
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There was a couple (I assume) hogging a certain machine (of which there's only one in the entire gym), taking turns doing sets. One gets up, does a set, gets off, the other instantly gets on, does their set, gets off, the other gets on, and so on and so on and so on.
The gym was closing in ten minutes and this machine was the last thing i needed to do so I was fairly eager to use it. But if I didn't get to, it wasn't the end of the world.
I sat close to the machine, making it obvious I was hoping to get to use it. They both just kept doing their thing, clearly ignoring the hell out of me on purpose.
After a few mins I asked them if they had many sets left. Barely acknowledging my presence, they kinda look at each other and make a half-assed attempt to answer me, counting up how many they have left and told me the answer, barely looking at me.
At this point, I hadn't yet asked I could use the machine. Surely at this point they recognise that I am hoping to use it before the gym closes, yet they can't be arsed to even pretend to give a **** that someone else might want to use the machine they've been hogging for 15 minutes.
Finally, I ask them is it okay if I work in. The just guy stares at me in the most bizarre way, saying nothing, and the girl stumbles over her words and kinda manages to get the word "yeah" out.
I stared back at the guy in the eyes until he eventually looked away. What was he hoping to achieve by staring me out of it?
What annoyed me about this was not that I may not have got to use the machine, and not that they may have needed it themselves for the last ten mins of opening time and genuinely may not have been able to let me use it - I get that. It was the sheer ignorance and arrogance of their behaviour towards someone else in the gym who was clearly hoping to use the equipment they were taking turns hogging for a good 15 minutes.
They clearly weren't right in the head because it was 60 seconds of bizarre, antisocial behaviour.
Thankfully this was actually the first time I've ever not had someone try to be helpful when they can see I would like to use the machine they're using. My gym's good
Joking aside, I've seen this before, a real pain if you're waiting.
As bad as a couple are, what irritates me more is when a group 3-4 late teenage/early 20ish males come in and hog a machine x 3/x4 persons doing multiple sets AND DELAYING EVERYTHING EVEN FURTHER THROUGH SPENDING AS MUCH TIME ON THEIR PHONES AS THEY DO LIFTING.0 -
There was a couple (I assume) hogging a certain machine (of which there's only one in the entire gym), taking turns doing sets. One gets up, does a set, gets off, the other instantly gets on, does their set, gets off, the other gets on, and so on and so on and so on.
The gym was closing in ten minutes and this machine was the last thing i needed to do so I was fairly eager to use it. But if I didn't get to, it wasn't the end of the world.
I sat close to the machine, making it obvious I was hoping to get to use it. They both just kept doing their thing, clearly ignoring the hell out of me on purpose.
After a few mins I asked them if they had many sets left. Barely acknowledging my presence, they kinda look at each other and make a half-assed attempt to answer me, counting up how many they have left and told me the answer, barely looking at me.
At this point, I hadn't yet asked I could use the machine. Surely at this point they recognise that I am hoping to use it before the gym closes, yet they can't be arsed to even pretend to give a **** that someone else might want to use the machine they've been hogging for 15 minutes.
Finally, I ask them is it okay if I work in. The just guy stares at me in the most bizarre way, saying nothing, and the girl stumbles over her words and kinda manages to get the word "yeah" out.
I stared back at the guy in the eyes until he eventually looked away. What was he hoping to achieve by staring me out of it?
What annoyed me about this was not that I may not have got to use the machine, and not that they may have needed it themselves for the last ten mins of opening time and genuinely may not have been able to let me use it - I get that. It was the sheer ignorance and arrogance of their behaviour towards someone else in the gym who was clearly hoping to use the equipment they were taking turns hogging for a good 15 minutes.
They clearly weren't right in the head because it was 60 seconds of bizarre, antisocial behaviour.
Thankfully this was actually the first time I've ever not had someone try to be helpful when they can see I would like to use the machine they're using. My gym's good
Man, sounds like there is a real passive aggressive guy in your gym!
I hope he didn't put that nice couple off their workout.0 -
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EagererBeaver wrote: »The way one of them "instantly gets on" after the other isn't a bad thing. They were already there and are clearly in the middle of a work out that is no less important than yours, and they're doing it as efficiently as possible.
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I don't what the issue is with a couple tag-teaming a machine like that. The fact they are a couple isn't irrelevant imo. Quick changes mean they are faster overall.
People can oblivious to others waiting to use a machine. And "how many have you left" can be passive aggressive. Case by case thing I suppose. But categorizing people are arseholes for share a machine is odd either way.
If someone is doing 5 sets on a squat rack in 5 minutes, they are lifting some very easy weights. It means low intensity, high volume, high tempo. There's nothing wrong with that, as a training format. But it's completely unreasonable to expect expect everyone to do the same.Hunky Monster wrote: »Ah yeah but 15 minutes is a LONG time to be on a single machine. I’ve often seen people in groups of 2 or 3 take half an hour on key machines in the gym like bench press or squat rack which is very very unfair if they’re the only ones in the gym. I mean how long does it take to do 3, 4, 5 sets? 5 minutes is fair.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with 15-30mins on the squat rack imo. Especially if it covers two lifts.0 -
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There was a couple (I assume) hogging a certain machine (of which there's only one in the entire gym), taking turns doing sets. One gets up, does a set, gets off, the other instantly gets on, does their set, gets off, the other gets on, and so on and so on and so on.
The gym was closing in ten minutes and this machine was the last thing i needed to do so I was fairly eager to use it. But if I didn't get to, it wasn't the end of the world.
I sat close to the machine, making it obvious I was hoping to get to use it. They both just kept doing their thing, clearly ignoring the hell out of me on purpose.
After a few mins I asked them if they had many sets left. Barely acknowledging my presence, they kinda look at each other and make a half-assed attempt to answer me, counting up how many they have left and told me the answer, barely looking at me.
At this point, I hadn't yet asked I could use the machine. Surely at this point they recognise that I am hoping to use it before the gym closes, yet they can't be arsed to even pretend to give a **** that someone else might want to use the machine they've been hogging for 15 minutes.
Finally, I ask them is it okay if I work in. The just guy stares at me in the most bizarre way, saying nothing, and the girl stumbles over her words and kinda manages to get the word "yeah" out.
I stared back at the guy in the eyes until he eventually looked away. What was he hoping to achieve by staring me out of it?
What annoyed me about this was not that I may not have got to use the machine, and not that they may have needed it themselves for the last ten mins of opening time and genuinely may not have been able to let me use it - I get that. It was the sheer ignorance and arrogance of their behaviour towards someone else in the gym who was clearly hoping to use the equipment they were taking turns hogging for a good 15 minutes.
They clearly weren't right in the head because it was 60 seconds of bizarre, antisocial behaviour.
Thankfully this was actually the first time I've ever not had someone try to be helpful when they can see I would like to use the machine they're using. My gym's good
Sounds like the couple in my gym, they started coming a few weeks ago but tonight they decided to hog a machine for 20 minutes! She kept giving me evils too and the fella was doing the slowest sets ever, same as yourself was near closing time.0
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