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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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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?

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fussyonion

Girls doing stretches in the changing room, meaning I've to walk around them to get to the lockers.
Do your stretches on the gym floor ffs; there's even a special area for stretches in my local gym!

People who get the treadmill going on a super fast speed, stand either side of it and then jump on and start sprinting.
I thought you were meant to build up to a sprint, no?

Alf Veedersane

fussyonion wrote: »

I thought you were meant to build up to a sprint, no?

I knew Bolt was doing something wrong.

granty1987

fussyonion wrote: »

People who get the treadmill going on a super fast speed, stand either side of it and then jump on and start sprinting.
I thought you were meant to build up to a sprint, no?

Presumably its part of some sprint style hiit training or something. ie 30s on, 30s off, rinse and repeat. But it might be a bit odd if they're just letting the hot tap run for a sec before starting a long run on it then its a little odd. Mind you, i dont understand running on a treadmill full stop. Just feels unnatural to me. give me grass anyday

2nd Row Donkey

fussyonion wrote:

People who get the treadmill going on a super fast speed, stand either side of it and then jump on and start sprinting. I thought you were meant to build up to a sprint, no?

Westpark again by any chance?

Mellor

fussyonion wrote: »

I thought you were meant to build up to a sprint, no?

No really tbh.
What they were doing sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

RTighe

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Westpark again by any chance?

its something I have seen in my local gym in Naas too, really don't understand the thinking behind it.

like the previous poster said, shouldn't you build up to a max speed?

RayCun

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I knew Bolt was doing something wrong.

Can guarantee you Bolt doesn't train by hopping on to a moving treadmill

Alf Veedersane

RayCun wrote: »

Can guarantee you Bolt doesn't train by hopping on to a moving treadmill

You don't say.

Not everyone has to get into warm up routine in the gym. Presumably it was sprint intervals. I don't see the issue.

JJayoo

A bird just shat on my head in my shedgym....

Alf Veedersane

JJayoo wrote: »

A bird just shat on my head in my shedgym....

Was she vlogging at the time?

JJayoo

Genuine lol

cert2009

After doing deadlifts, people who leave all the weights on the bar

granty1987

found a lovely toenail on the gym floor yesterday. Actually really hope it was a fingernail. This is the thread to comment on stuff you love about the gym right?

Hanley

granty1987 wrote: »

found a lovely toenail on the gym floor yesterday. Actually really hope it was a fingernail. This is the thread to comment on stuff you love about the gym right?

How'd it taste?

BrokenArrows

cert2009 wrote: »

After doing deadlifts, people who leave all the weights on the bar

Depends on how much you lift.

I quite like when i go to lift and the weight is already setup and waiting

But ya i suppose its annoying if you need to unload 100kg of stuff before you can work.

Alf Veedersane

It's probably not as inexcusable if there is an area that is primarily used for deadlifts but if it's an open area that's used for a load of different things, then leaving a fully loaded bar behind you is a dick move.

whippet

leaving any thing on the bar is a no no ... and in our gym you'd do it once and you wouldn't do it again as you would be pulled up on it fairly quickly.

Even if I am working up to 240kg on a DL i normally start with 60kg so even 100kg on the bar means I have to unload someone else's workout.

Zillah

BrokenArrows wrote: »

I quite like when i go to lift and the weight is already setup and waiting
But ya i suppose its annoying if you need to unload 100kg of stuff before you can work.

Oh man, I expressed this before did I get in trouble.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Plates left on a bar I can somewhat accept, but I understand how a very heavy bar can but troublesome for some people.. Its lazy to walk away from it, and a dick thing to do but I've honestly only ever been in one gym where you wouldn't find a thing out of place & that's my work gym, outside of that I expect people to be dicks about returning their weights.

While I try not get peeved about a loaded bar, it really wobbles my titties to find plates left flat on the ground or DB's left to roll about ~ that's just utter laziness & a 'not give a bollox attitude', never mind the fact you're leaving behind a trip hazard.

And its such a basic thing too, return your damned weights ~ YES even if you found them already on the bar or floor, return them to their rightful place.

caviardreams

This happened the other day:

There were 3 benches free beside each other. Leave my stuff down beside one, do some warm up band stuff for 2 mins or so standing beside it, change the bench from flat to incline, head over and get some warm up DBs and then do a set of 12 on the bench. Head over to get my working set DBs and when I get back to the bench 30 seconds later, a guy is sitting over it lowering it down flat again. I was actually a bit shocked, as all my stuff was beside it and I had left it for 30 seconds at most to get the DBs, and he just says "I was using the bench, but it's ok, I can put it back the way I had it myself" :eek: I apologised (my instinctive reaction) and said I didn't realise he was using it, picked up my stuff, two sets of DBs and moved to the bench that was free right beside him. And reset it up to an incline again.

Even if he had been using the bench, and expected it to be left vacant waiting for him at all times, with not so much as a water bottle 'marking' his territory, it actually would have been less hassle for him just to use one of the other free benches *right* beside it that were already flat, rather than have to reset mine back.

Then I realised it must be a special magic bench that is specifically designed for doing 2-inch ROM seal rows.:rolleyes:

learn_more

This is kinda trivial but I though I'd mention it...

Two guys come in regular as clockwork after work. They obviously work together, they arrive both wearing what looks like car mechanic overalls.

So they workout in tandem with each other, for every exercise. So that means, person 1 does a set, he rests, and the other 'takes his turn'.

The problem is they don't shut up talking to each other. It doesn't matter what volume of the background music, they will talk over it no matter what. So whichever guy is doing his set, the other guy is making small-talk like 'what's on tv tonight', for example.

This is not a city gym I currently attend, and I find some people to be a bit overly familiar in this gym but one of these guys has an annoying habit of initiating conversations with other gym users (always more advanced athletes) when the're in the middle of their workout. Usually it's just like some technical question he asks about the exercise and a mini discussion about it ensues. It's usually of the form of he's given an answer and he responds with 'yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah'. 'Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah'.

My compliant about that is when you see a group of people discussing something as if it were deadly seriously , you can't help being distracted from your own routine.

What I find really odd about them working in tandem with each other, and I know they have been gyming together for quite some time, is , I've never once seen them properly spotting for each other. Not once.

What's really sweet though is that when they take their shower, they jump back into their greasy car mechanic overalls that they arrived in.

Star_Nupa

Seems like the two lads just annoy you in general!

There's a person in the gym I go to who grunts very loudly. Almost shouting. I know working out and lifting can be intense and sometimes you let out hard breath or 4, but they really don't seem like grunts of exertion. Too forced. More like 'look at how hard I'm working' grunts.

Nonetheless, it's annoying. I'm sure it's been mentioned before but...

IvoryTower

when someone gets really close to you while you're lifting, i had someone ducking under my bar while i was squatting to grab a loose plate, "sorry" as they duck in and out, urgh

Star_Nupa

^ I've never seen anyone with the gaul (stupidity) to do that! Absolute eejits.

Dtp1979

Star_Nupa wrote: »

Seems like the two lads just annoy you in general!

There's a person in the gym I go to who grunts very loudly. Almost shouting. I know working out and lifting can be intense and sometimes you let out hard breath or 4, but they really don't seem like grunts of exertion. Too forced. More like 'look at how hard I'm working' grunts.

Nonetheless, it's annoying. I'm sure it's been mentioned before but...

And the he throws his 14kg dumbells on the ground after 5 half reps? Don't worry there's one of them in every gym

Tomw86

And the he throws his 14kg dumbells on the ground after 5 half reps? Don't worry there's one of them in every gym

This annoys me so much, like your lifting these weights over your head/chest/shoulders one handed and then you drop it from a foot off the ground - either you two hands to guide it down slowly, or do it in stages and take your time!

I used to be in a Ben Dunne and when someone did it on the floor above you it was very offputting!

BrokenArrows

IvoryTower wrote: »

when someone gets really close to you while you're lifting, i had someone ducking under my bar while i was squatting to grab a loose plate, "sorry" as they duck in and out, urgh

Ya, its annoying as hell and dangerous.

You could easily drop a weight on him or he could knock you off balance and hurt yourself/someone else.

Had a similar experience last week and a group of guys and girls were just hanging out dangerously close to my bar as it went up and down. Like within 1 inch. I could see them watching it and making sure they didnt actually hit it, but ffs just move a few feet away.

Utah

I really dislike the people who slam down the weights as a show of masculinity. "Look at me, I'm working harder than you".
It's pretty dangerous, I've seen dumbells skip across the floor, they could do damage!

jive

Utah wrote: »

I really dislike the people who slam down the weights as a show of masculinity. "Look at me, I'm working harder than you".
It's pretty dangerous, I've seen dumbells skip across the floor, they could do damage!

bro i lift real heavy so it's safer for me to shot put my weights across the gym floor

Tomw86

People loitering in groups around machines chatting
Grunting/making noises as you do your excercises
Dropping weights on the ground enough to make the ground vibrate

These are my 3 biggest hates in the gym.

Leaving weights on bars is something I consider ignorant and rude, but I don't necessarily hate it - for the record I would never do it as most gyms will have signs up, especially around the bench/deadlift areas advising not to do it, and I'm not rude or ignorant!