Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

MysticMonk · 06-04-2017 07:51AM

razorblunt wrote: »

Probably afraid of getting a spinning kick to the face!

Most likely ðŸ˜€

Transform · 06-04-2017 09:10AM

razorblunt wrote: »

Probably afraid of getting a spinning kick to the face!

^^^ this guy knows

Transform · 06-04-2017 09:13AM

Noveight wrote: »

As did I! But five minutes later I was thinking "Okay lady, I think they get the message" :P

likely a member there for years and feels she owns the place now

A member there longer than any staff member, ive seen lots of that over the years

Brian? · 07-04-2017 02:38PM

Isn't there an old saying about people not valuing something that's free? I have a free gym in work. It's excellently equipped: 2 squat racks, dbs up to 50kg, grid rollers, resistance bands. Savage altogether.

No one puts the weights back. It's a joke. There are plates all over the floor every time I go in. I simply don't understand it

brownej · 07-04-2017 02:49PM

The Gym I attend has started giving out about people putting chewing gum on the machines and under the benches.
I can't understand why people are so scummy with chewing gum. There are bins everywhere. They spit it into the urinals in the mens toilets aswell! Someone has to go and fish it out. scummy .......

Blacktie. · 07-04-2017 03:47PM

Brian? wrote: »

Isn't there an old saying about people not valuing something that's free? I have a free gym in work. It's excellently equipped: 2 squat racks, dbs up to 50kg, grid rollers, resistance bands. Savage altogether.

No one puts the weights back. It's a joke. There are plates all over the floor every time I go in. I simply don't understand it

Sounds like every commercial gym I've been in....

FTA69 · 07-04-2017 05:05PM

Brian? wrote: »

Isn't there an old saying about people not valuing something that's free? I have a free gym in work. It's excellently equipped: 2 squat racks, dbs up to 50kg, grid rollers, resistance bands. Savage altogether.

No one puts the weights back. It's a joke. There are plates all over the floor every time I go in. I simply don't understand it

Literally nobody puts weights back in my budget chain gym. I had one lad actually ask me what I was doing when I was stripping a bar before leaving the rack "I thought you were finished bruv?" He had absolutely no concept of it like.

Also where in the name of God do you work that has 50kg bells and two racks? An Icelandic slaughterhouse or something?

Zillah · 07-04-2017 09:29PM

Flyefit is pretty good for putting stuff back. Ben Dunne was less so.

Felexicon · 07-04-2017 09:43PM

Zillah wrote:

Flyefit is pretty good for putting stuff back. Ben Dunne was less so.

You must not be in Airside on weekday evenings. I get my cardio done hunting down dumbbells

Eoinbmw · 07-04-2017 11:18PM

Brian? wrote: »

Isn't there an old saying about people not valuing something that's free? I have a free gym in work. It's excellently equipped: 2 squat racks, dbs up to 50kg, grid rollers, resistance bands. Savage altogether.

No one puts the weights back. It's a joke. There are plates all over the floor every time I go in. I simply don't understand it

Any jobs going?

Zillah · 08-04-2017 12:16AM

Felexicon wrote: »

You must not be in Airside on weekday evenings. I get my cardio done hunting down dumbbells

Nope! George's St, Macken, or Portobello usually.

MysticMonk · 08-04-2017 09:33AM

Zillah wrote: »

Flyefit is pretty good for putting stuff back. Ben Dunne was less so.

Ah but Benne Dunne Gyms is where you find the supersetting,headphones-wearing,cap-sporting HARDCORE trainers!

Nervous Wreck · 08-04-2017 10:31AM

MysticMonk wrote: »

Ah but Benne Dunne Gyms is where you find the supersetting,headphones-wearing,cap-sporting HARDCORE trainers!

How are any of those things worthy of derision....?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 08-04-2017 11:09AM

MysticMonk wrote: »

There's a bloke in my gym( northwood) who is completely off his trolley to the extent I'm pretty sure he's dangerous.
He spends hours throwing spinning kicks into a pad he brings with him and fixes to a machine.
While he's throwing kicks he's whooping and hollering in a most alarming manner.
I've seen him kicking locker doors shut too and he eats his packed lunch in the hydro pool.

No idea why he hasn't been barred yet

I haven't seen his packed lunch box by the pool, he obviously doesn't wear those particular Speedos when I'm there

But yes I've seen the fooking idiot do the spinning kicks and hollering.

But like I said I don't bother going near the weights in Northwood these days, its a complete waste of my time, the place is an untidy, unfriendly or inviting kip. If it wasn't for the pool I wouldn't be wasting my time with it at all.

MysticMonk · 08-04-2017 12:01PM

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

How are any of those things worthy of derision....?

Because as a general rule they are the people who tend not to put weights back when they're finished.

Also "looking the part" in the gym doesn't mean they're the strongest or the most jacked.

Most of the clowns I see supersetting have gym buddies (similarly attired) doing most of the work for them.

They also spend ages looking at themselves in the mirror and hours hanging round the changing rooms.

08-04-2017 12:07PM

Nobody and i mean nobody puts their weights away at my gym. Kinda used to it now. I still put mine away though.
Hey are you finished with that barbell
Yep
...

Ok

MysticMonk · 08-04-2017 12:35PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Nobody and i mean nobody puts their weights away at my gym. Kinda used to it now. I still put mine away though.
Hey are you finished with that barbell
Yep
...

Ok

I think it's only good manners. Chucking weights around and leaving them all over the floor is the mark of a nobhead imo .

Nervous Wreck · 08-04-2017 01:09PM

MysticMonk wrote: »

Because as a general rule they are the people who tend not to put weights back when they're finished.

Also "looking the part" in the gym doesn't mean they're the strongest or the most jacked.

Most of the clowns I see supersetting have gym buddies (similarly attired) doing most of the work for them.

They also spend ages looking at themselves in the mirror and hours hanging round the changing rooms.

People who listen to music in the gym don't put their weights back?!

How is wearing a baseball cap considered to be "looking the part" or implying that one is the strongest person in the gym?

Wtf is wrong with supersetting?!

And who cares if someone looks at themselves in a mirror?!

Brian? · 08-04-2017 01:15PM

FTA69 wrote: »

Brian? wrote: »

Isn't there an old saying about people not valuing something that's free? I have a free gym in work. It's excellently equipped: 2 squat racks, dbs up to 50kg, grid rollers, resistance bands. Savage altogether.

No one puts the weights back. It's a joke. There are plates all over the floor every time I go in. I simply don't understand it

Literally nobody puts weights back in my budget chain gym. I had one lad actually ask me what I was doing when I was stripping a bar before leaving the rack "I thought you were finished bruv?" He had absolutely no concept of it like.

That's mental. I was in a few commercial gyms and everyone put the weights back. Maybe it was luck.

Also where in the name of God do you work that has 50kg bells and two racks? An Icelandic slaughterhouse or something?

I wish

. I work for Intel, we're well looked after. The gym really is excellent these days. We lost the sauna when it changed location on the site though. That's right, we used to have a sauna.

VW 1 · 08-04-2017 06:06PM

Giovanni Alive Raincoat wrote:

But like I said I don't bother going near the weights in Northwood these days, its a complete waste of my time, the place is an untidy, unfriendly or inviting kip. If it wasn't for the pool I wouldn't be wasting my time with it at all.

If you use northwood exclusively for the pool, would alsaa be worth consideration if you are in the area? Relatively cheap, and they've recently enough refitted the gym in the pool as well. Haven't used that gym but the gym in the main complex has a couple of squat racks and is very quiet the majority of the time.

Alf Veedersane · 08-04-2017 06:15PM

Brian? wrote: »

I wish . I work for Intel, we're well looked after. The gym really is excellent these days. We lost the sauna when it changed location on the site though. That's right, we used to have a sauna.

And chaises longues in the changing room for resting on post-workout, probably

Brian? · 08-04-2017 08:38PM

I don't have time to lie about after a workout. I usually just drop into the on site masseurs. Yes, that's something we have.

Alf Veedersane · 08-04-2017 08:40PM

Brian? wrote: »

I don't have time to lie about after a workout. I usually just drop into the on site masseurs. Yes, that's something we have.

If only I'd known all this before I walked around the site (in ill-fitting boots) it would have been a far more enjoyable day.

Cake Man · 09-04-2017 12:46AM

Brian? wrote: »

I wish . I work for Intel, we're well looked after. The gym really is excellent these days. We lost the sauna when it changed location on the site though. That's right, we used to have a sauna.

Is the gym still there just above the indoor court? Worked there on an internship for a year in 2009, myself and the lads would head down onto the indoor court most evenings with a football or hurleys and sliotars and arse around. The gym wasn't bad, equipment was a bit outdated at the time and mainly just a few machines and treadmills but I'm guessing from your post they've upgraded it?

Brian? · 09-04-2017 08:59AM

Cake Man wrote: »

Brian? wrote: »

I wish . I work for Intel, we're well looked after. The gym really is excellent these days. We lost the sauna when it changed location on the site though. That's right, we used to have a sauna.

Is the gym still there just above the indoor court? Worked there on an internship for a year in 2009, myself and the lads would head down onto the indoor court most evenings with a football or hurleys and sliotars and arse around. The gym wasn't bad, equipment was a bit outdated at the time and mainly just a few machines and treadmills but I'm guessing from your post they've upgraded it?

That building was knocked in 2012, to make room for something. New gym is much better, except for the loss of the sauna. The indoor courts are gone too but we can get the pitches and courts in the Leixlip amenity centre for free.

Dtp1979 · 09-04-2017 11:36AM

Brian? wrote: »

That building was knocked in 2012, to make room for something. New gym is much better, except for the loss of the sauna. The indoor courts are gone too but we can get the pitches and courts in the Leixlip amenity centre for free.

Jesus it must be depressing going to work these days knowing the sauna is gone. If I were you I'd quit

IvoryTower · 09-04-2017 12:38PM

When you miscalculate the amount of weight you put on the bar and for a brief second think you're an animal

Very annoying!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 09-04-2017 02:46PM

VW 1 wrote: »

If you use northwood exclusively for the pool, would alsaa be worth consideration if you are in the area? Relatively cheap, and they've recently enough refitted the gym in the pool as well. Haven't used that gym but the gym in the main complex has a couple of squat racks and is very quiet the majority of the time.

Well its much easier for me to travel to BD.

The traffic on the Swords road would be prohibitive for me.

MysticMonk · 10-04-2017 10:03AM

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

People who listen to music in the gym don't put their weights back?!

How is wearing a baseball cap considered to be "looking the part" or implying that one is the strongest person in the gym?

Wtf is wrong with supersetting?!

And who cares if someone looks at themselves in a mirror?!

You're one of those,eh?

:pac:

razorblunt · 10-04-2017 10:17AM

Some lads today decided not to put their weights back, it's a UK budget chain gym (FWIW), they were called on it immediately by 2 lads on the bench next to me. Hopefully it stays that way. Generally as I'm there early doors (even thought its 24hrs) it tends to be pretty tidy anyway. Would need to see what it's like at 6pm on a weeknight.

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