Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

rpurfield

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Jesus the drop off from last week to today is incredible. This time last week full gym, barely a car space. Today, back to the regulars.

Mine hasn't picked up at all since new year which has suprised me, and I've needed to go in at peak times a couple of times already. I think it could be to do with another gym in the town moving to a bigger premises and doing a big offer as part of it, it might take a few of the January gang away.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Mines still ok this year. Had a few extra bodies in Monday but it was dead last night.

Reps4jesus

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Mines still ok this year. Had a few extra bodies in Monday but it was dead last night.

Likewise in mine, Monday and Tuesday were busy but been quiet the past two days

Mr. CooL ICE

Whenever I hear that Ben Dunne radio ad, I internally scream "stop saying 'too hot to advertise'!!!"

Alf Veedersane

Mark Rippetoe wrote: »

Whenever I hear that Ben Dunne radio ad, I internally scream "stop saying 'too hot to advertise'!!!"

I just associate Ben Dunne gyms with lads using hairdryers on their bollocks.

TallGlass

Looks at this ****ing knob jocky. Exactly why I don't go to gyms. I'd murder someone if they done it to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJmVlt98FLA

Barna77

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Mines still ok this year. Had a few extra bodies in Monday but it was dead last night.

Mine was busy today for a Friday.



Saw this kid, I'm pretty sure one of the January newbies, doing facetime / video call while he was doing leg curls and extensions.
It drives me mad when you see people constantly on their phones, but this is a new low.

At least he was doing both things at the same time and not holding on the machine. Silverlinings :rolleyes:

Alf Veedersane

TallGlass wrote: »

Looks at this ****ing knob jocky. Exactly why I don't go to gyms. I'd murder someone if they done it to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJmVlt98FLA

Yeah that happens in all gyms all of the time.

EagererBeaver

TallGlass wrote: »

Looks at this ****ing knob jocky. Exactly why I don't go to gyms. I'd murder someone if they done it to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJmVlt98FLA

Bit of a daft thing to set up and stage so you can circulate it on the internet.

TallGlass

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Yeah that happens in all gyms all of the time.

Did I say it did?

SirChenjin

SusieBlue wrote: »

Went to use the leg curl machine last night, but someones jacket was on it.
I looked around for its owner, but couldn't get anyone's attention. So I went to move it when a middle aged woman using the chest press shouted over that she had claimed that machine to use next.

Upon looking around, and seeing some other confused people standing there awkwardly, it transpired she had also "claimed" the leg press with her bottle of water, and the lateral pull machine with her phone.
And was shouting at anyone who went near them, even though the only machine she was actually using at that time was the chest press.

She was spitting fire when I went and told on her at reception, and was told she couldn't claim machines she wasn't using. In fairness this is apparently her first week of membership, so maybe she didn't know she couldn't do that, but still.
The neck of her thinking everyone else should just stand around waiting for her to be done as if it was her own private space.

You have to wonder how some people's minds work... Or don't, in this case. Everyone else was supposed to stand around while her highness did her thing. FFS.

Mitch Connor

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Bit of a daft thing to set up and stage so you can circulate it on the internet.

Was filming form.

He had arguments with the fella before and had moved spots and put bouncers under to deaden the sound before this happened.

He moved gyms after it.

ButtersSuki

TallGlass wrote: »

Looks at this ****ing knob jocky. Exactly why I don't go to gyms. I'd murder someone if they done it to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJmVlt98FLA

Are there no staff in this gym?

Alf Veedersane

TallGlass wrote: »

Did I say it did?

You made it sound like it's a regular occurrence to the point that it's why you don't go to gyms. That's how it read, that's all.

Mr. CooL ICE

TallGlass wrote: »

Looks at this ****ing knob jocky. Exactly why I don't go to gyms. I'd murder someone if they done it to me.

That happened months ago and went viral because of how bad it was. The kid that was deadlifting said he sought permission from staff to deadlift and they said it's fine, but to use mats to reduce noise. Yer man that attacked him wasn't staff; just some random gym bro.

But to use videos like this as a reason not to go to gyms is quite frankly, ridiculous.

whelan2

SirChenjin wrote: »

You have to wonder how some people's minds work... Or don't, in this case. Everyone else was supposed to stand around while her highness did her thing. FFS.

We had this at a parent teacher meeting. Madam put her coat on a seat in one queue, then her bag on another and her fat butt in another queue

Casey78

I'm not a gym user, have my own weights and treadmill at home, but this is my favourite thread on boards. Keep it up. Some great stories on here.

TallGlass

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

You made it sound like it's a regular occurrence to the point that it's why you don't go to gyms. That's how it read, that's all.

I can see how it reads looking back at it, just to clear up I have used gyms and I know it doesn't happen and thankfully never seen anyone assaulted. I meant more so I can do my own thing and not worry if I am annoying someone, as in noise, time on a machine.

Apologies if I have come across as giving gyms an image of this happening all the time. The responses to me posting it where not what I intended.

Sundance_Kid

People using lockers and not putting a lock on the locker to show it is in use, wrecks my head.

I havent gone as far yet as putting my spare lock on a locker that has gear in it but no lock on it, but have resorted to leaving the locker door open with the contents of their locker on show.

Two lads sharing a locker without a lock came in the other day after I had left their locker open and got all panicky wondering was anything taken from their gear bag or did they close the door over in the first place.

I wouldnt mind but the gym sells locks and a shop next door sells them too.

Ruat Caelum

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

People using lockers and not putting a lock on the locker to show it is in use, wrecks my head.

I havent gone as far yet as putting my spare lock on a locker that has gear in it but no lock on it, but have resorted to leaving the locker door open with the contents of their locker on show.

So you've putting people's stuff on show for any dodgy characters to casually grab?



Your head might be wrecked, but it's not nice to put other people's property at risk (or even more at risk).

whippet

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

I havent gone as far yet as putting my spare lock on a locker that has gear in it but no lock on it, but have resorted to leaving the locker door open with the contents of their locker on.

A pretty **** thing to do on your part... if someone doesn’t use a lock it has zero effect on you and the availability of lockers. Just leave it be .. unless you like being an antagonist. If I walked in to the locker room and you were interfering with where my belonging were you’d be regretting it instantly.

leggo

I dunno, I’ve never done it myself (though I have had the thought) but I see it as kinda fair game. The lads who do it will, or at least should, learn their lesson. It’s incredibly cheap and lazy not to get a lock and lockers can be sparse at busier times, so why should I have to carry my bag around during a workout when I came prepared and others didn’t? Also it’s a waste of my time every morning to go in and have to check 20 lockers before finding one with no stuff already in it.

EagererBeaver

Why should you have use of a locker ahead of someone who was there before you? The fact you're more wary of the security of your belongings has nothing to do with somebody else's right to use a locker. If you're both paying members, you're both equally entitled to use the facilities.

Not putting a lock on is definitely irresponsible, but that doesn't make you any less of a prick if you **** about with someone's gear.

leggo

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Why should you have use of a locker ahead of someone who was there before you? The fact you're more wary of the security of your belongings has nothing to do with somebody else's right to use a locker. If you're both paying members, you're both equally entitled to use the facilities.

Not putting a lock on is definitely irresponsible, but that doesn't make you any less of a prick if you **** about with someone's gear.

I'm not doing it though. I'm saying it seems fair game because they're creating inconvenience for other members. Not having the correct equipment to use facilities will, often in life, deny you usage of said facilities in favour of people who do use them as intended and asked. If you arrive at Tesco before me and don't have €2 for a trolley, but I do and get the last one, I deserve it. If you ripped the trolley out, I'd still deserve to have it whether you got there first or not. It costs €2 to get a trolley. You put a lock on your locker (it's right there in the name like). It's not rocket science.

Also the person who's doing it isn't ****ing with their gear, he's not touching it. He's leaving the locker open when he comes across it. It's not his job to protect their gear by closing the door over. If anything that's just enabling bad behaviour and feeding the system that allows it to continue it for the sake of being 'nice' when he can give them a scare and teach them a lesson.

Sundance_Kid

whippet wrote: »

A pretty **** thing to do on your part... if someone doesn’t use a lock it has zero effect on you and the availability of lockers. Just leave it be .. unless you like being an antagonist. If I walked in to the locker room and you were interfering with where my belonging were you’d be regretting it instantly.

Hard man, lay off the roids.


Never once said I touched their gear.

I open a door that has no lock on it,hoping to put my gear in it, turns out there is gear already in the locker.

I simply dont close the door and move to the next locker with no lock on it hoping to put my gear in it.

haskellgeek

Weird one today didn't quite annoy me but was strange some guy going around the gym in thermals, the type you would see on football players in the cold, under bulky shorts. I don't mind what people wear it just left me wonder why not just wear tracksuit bottoms

road_high

Our gym has a €1 slot like shopping trolleys that locks when you slot the money in and you take the key out and can put on as an armband so you won’t lose it. Never any issues, I’d assumed they were everywhere!

haskellgeek

road_high wrote: »

Our gym has a €1 slot like shopping trolleys that locks when you slot the money in and you take the key out and can put on as an armband so you won’t lose it. Never any issues, I’d assumed they were everywhere!

They tend to be in more expensive gyms at least in my experience the cheaper ones expect you to have a lock/ sell them in vending machines etc

eoinob50

haskellgeek wrote: »

Weird one today didn't quite annoy me but was strange some guy going around the gym in thermals, the type you would see on football players in the cold, under bulky shorts. I don't mind what people wear it just left me wonder why not just wear tracksuit bottoms

Thats pretty common tbf. And id rather lads wear shorts over skin tight thermals than not.......

Thermals are used for compression

whippet

Sundance_Kid wrote: »

Hard man, lay off the roids.


Never once said I touched their gear.

I open a door that has no lock on it,hoping to put my gear in it, turns out there is gear already in the locker.

I simply dont close the door and move to the next locker with no lock on it hoping to put my gear in it.

But that is the dick move .. leaving the door open .. you are trying to be a dick by doing that. As for the roids statement .. pathetic ... the regret would be nothing physical.