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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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  • #902
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    MysticMonk wrote: »
    You're one of those,eh?

    :pac:

    I superset when I'm told to by my coach (cos supersets make complete sense). I don't listen to music (cos my gym is class based), look in mirrors (gym has none) or wear hats (messes my beautiful hair), if that's what you mean?

    But I do ask people to logically defend bullshīt claims like the ones you've made. Which evidently, you're unable to do so case closed, I guess!


  • #903
    Felexicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    I superset when I'm told to by my coach (cos supersets make complete sense). I don't listen to music (cos my gym is class based), look in mirrors (gym has none) or wear hats (messes my beautiful hair), if that's what you mean?

    But I do ask people to logically defend bullshīt claims like the ones you've made. Which evidently, you're unable to do so case closed, I guess!

    Wow! Why so confrontational in what is clearly a thread to vent about meaningless things that irritate you for no reason


  • #904
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Felexicon wrote: »
    Wow! Why so confrontational in what is clearly a thread to vent about meaningless things that irritate you for no reason

    Cos it was a meaningless thing that irritated me for no reason...?


  • #905
    Felexicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    Cos it easy a meaningless thing that irritated me for no reason...?

    Did you mean to say it wasn't a meaningless thing that irritated you?

    Genuine question. I may just be reading your post wrong.


  • #906
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Felexicon wrote: »
    Did you mean to say it wasn't a meaningless thing that irritated you?

    Genuine question. I may just be reading your post wrong.

    Gah, autocorrect being a jerk. I was irritated (probably way too strong a word) by the OP's annoying gym behaviour ie. making weird judgments against people based on really nothing, and drawing false correlations between the way people dress etc and how they act. That kinda toxic judgement is one of the worst things about mainstream gyms; much worse than most of the stuff mentioned in this thread.


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  • #907
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    I superset when I'm told to by my coach (cos supersets make complete sense). I don't listen to music (cos my gym is class based), look in mirrors (gym has none) or wear hats (messes my beautiful hair), if that's what you mean?

    But I do ask people to logically defend bullshīt claims like the ones you've made. Which evidently, you're unable to do so case closed, I guess!

    How do you want me to "defend" my claims?

    I happen to think the hat-and-headphone-wearing types are less likely to put the equipment back after them because they have an image issue that means they have to try and look "hardcore" at all times...and posing around the gym doesnt extend to putting weights or dumbells back on racks.

    Thats my observation..you seem to be in some sort of Aerobics class so you wouldnt be seeing these sorts as much as i would..they infest the weights room.


  • #908
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Looool


  • #909
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,766 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    The amount of people who seem to care about what everyone else in the gym is doing or wearing is mental.

    Do your workout, stop being so invested in what everyone else is going and we'll all be better off.


  • #910
    brownej
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭brownej


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    The amount of people who seem to care about what everyone else in the gym is doing or wearing is mental.

    Do your workout, stop being so invested in what everyone else is going and we'll all be better off.

    Ahhh.....
    Is this not the annoying gym behaviour thread?
    I think the whole point is to give out about what annoys us about what others in the gym are doing, or wearing for that matter.
    You're not exactly silent in this thread yourself.


  • #911
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,766 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    brownej wrote: »
    Ahhh.....
    Is this not the annoying gym behaviour thread?
    I think the whole point is to give out about what annoys us about what others in the gym are doing, or wearing for that matter.
    You're not exactly silent in this thread yourself.

    It's about annoying gym behaviour. Not annoying gym attire. I don't understand how a majority of the stuff being posted about could annoy people though. Each to their own...I just don't get it


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  • #912
    RockSalto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭RockSalto


    brownej wrote: »
    Ahhh.....
    Is this not the annoying gym behaviour thread?
    I think the whole point is to give out about what annoys us about what others in the gym are doing, or wearing for that matter.
    You're not exactly silent in this thread yourself.

    So, annoying gym behaviour is wearing a hat?

    I thought the thread was more along the lines of annoying things people do in the gym that effects others - not putting weights back, not letting people work in etc...


  • #913
    IvoryTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,825 ✭✭✭IvoryTower


    I can live with the hat hate it's the supersets and listening to music that gets me, is that not almost everyone :)


  • #914
    Felexicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    RockSalto wrote:
    I thought the thread was more along the lines of annoying things people do in the gym that effects others - not putting weights back, not letting people work in etc...


    It's anything. Being annoyed by people not putting weights back is just as trivial as being annoyed by someone wearing a hat when you think about it in the grand scheme of things.

    I just read/post on this thread so I get reassurance their are other people as mental as me to be irritated by these things.


  • #915
    diusmr8a504cvk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Another personal experience:

    In the gym late last week, can't remember which day. Needed dumbbells but there was a foreign guy who had the two I wanted beside the squat rack. He was with four other foreign lads and they all loved talking so when I went up to the squat rack and asked was he done with them he replied, "no", and continued on talking. That was fine so I kind of sat around for a second or two as I wanted to do tricep pulldowns followed immediately by curls. He finishes his conversation, does some squats and walks over to another leg machine where he has another full-blown conversation with his mates. The fact that he didn't need them and couldn't be bothered to let me know he was done with them annoyed me so I just walked over and took them.

    Some time later, a guy was doing leg extensions and the same foreign guy went over and told him he wasn't done. Fair enough but the fact that he walks away from the machines so often and has a fully-blown conversation with people does give the impression he's finished with it! This guy went back on the leg extensions and continued the same shtick, finished a set followed by five minute conversation. Leaving the other lad waiting the whole time.

    I just couldn't get over these guys. At times one lad would be doing an exercise and the other four guys would huddle around him and watch.

    Another thing, a lad I once went to school with was having conversations the whole time with this girl before and after sets and the whole shebang. A while later I'm sat on the shoulder press machine after a set having a glimpse at my phone and he goes, "working hard, eh?" in a totally sarcastic manner. Ticked me right off.


  • #916
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    RockSalto wrote: »
    So, annoying gym behaviour is wearing a hat?
    .

    Yes,yes it is.

    It's a gym not a MOBO ceremony


  • #917
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    Felexicon wrote: »
    It's anything. Being annoyed by people not putting weights back is just as trivial as being annoyed by someone wearing a hat when you think about

    I just read/post on this thread so I get reassurance their are other people as mental as me to be irritated by these things.

    Well I've developed the habit of muttering "Hatty ****ing Winthrop" everytime i see someone wearing a hat in the gym.


  • #918
    diusmr8a504cvk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    I won't lie hat wearers do bother me, I wouldn't mind a wooly hat if it was cold though.


  • #919
    Felexicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    MysticMonk wrote:
    It's a gym not a MOBO ceremony


    I hear you're a racist now father


  • #920
    Felexicon
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    Alonzo Weak Genius wrote:
    In the gym late last week, can't remember which day. Needed dumbbells but there was a foreign guy who had the two I wanted beside the squat rack. He was with four other foreign lads and they all loved talking so when I went up to the squat rack and asked was he done with them he replied, "no", and continued on talking. That was fine so I kind of sat around for a second or two as I wanted to do tricep pulldowns followed immediately by curls. He finishes his conversation, does some squats and walks over to another leg machine where he has another full-blown conversation with his mates. The fact that he didn't need them and couldn't be bothered to let me know he was done with them annoyed me so I just walked over and took them.

    Thank god you specified his foreignness in this post. It really made a difference for me


  • #921
    diusmr8a504cvk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Felexicon wrote: »
    Thank god you specified his foreignness in this post. It really made a difference for me
    I'm not racist it's just that all of my gym issues have involved people from outside of the country unfortunately.


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  • #922
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    brownej wrote: »
    Ahhh.....
    Is this not the annoying gym behaviour thread?
    I think the whole point is to give out about what annoys us about what others in the gym are doing, or wearing for that matter.
    You're not exactly silent in this thread yourself.
    I think the point was to list annoying behaviour, not a free pass to list anything that annoys you.

    If I'm to annoyed by fat people in my gym, Asian people, women in the weights area, old people etc. I don't really get to rant about them in this thread. Well, I can I suppose, it just makes me a dickhead.
    MysticMonk wrote: »
    Well I've developed the habit of muttering "Hatty ****ing Winthrop" everytime i see someone wearing a hat in the gym.

    If your going around the gym muttering to yourself I'm surprised you haven't been mentioned here already.


  • #923
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    Mellor wrote: »
    I think the point was to list annoying behaviour, not a free pass to list anything that annoys you.

    If I'm to annoyed by fat people in my gym, Asian people, women in the weights area, old people etc. I don't really get to rant about them in this thread. Well, I can I suppose, it just makes me a dickhead.


    If your going around the gym muttering to yourself I'm surprised you haven't been mentioned here already.

    Do you even lift bro?


  • #924
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    Felexicon wrote: »
    I hear you're a racist now father

    If i'd thought of the MOBO concept i would be,seeing it excludes white people.

    Nice try though..


  • #925
    Felexicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    MysticMonk wrote:
    If i'd thought of the MOBO concept i would be,seeing it excludes white people.


    Touche


  • #926
    Felexicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    MysticMonk wrote:
    If i'd thought of the MOBO concept i would be,seeing it excludes white people.


    Touche


  • #927
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    MysticMonk wrote: »
    [
    Do you even lift bro?
    Yes, it's actually the only reason I go to the gym. Like other normal people.


  • #928
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    Mellor wrote: »
    Yes, it's actually the only reason I go to the gym. Like other normal people.

    You rock!


  • #929
    connollys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭connollys


    More annoying behaviour, people leaving their massive gearbags, usually GAA ones, on the benches in the changing rooms. Gym Im in, changing room is quite small, why can people not place their bags on the floor or in the units provided, rather than just dumping on the benches taking up space and away they go.


  • #930
    superflyninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭superflyninja


    In a certain gym in Swords half the lockers have no lock on them. Yet imagine my surprise when I open them that they are chock full of gear. It can take ages to find an actually empty locker. FFS get a lock.


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  • #931
    livedadream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭livedadream


    i think ive posted this before but again...
    to the 'bro' who attempted to 'help' me while i was using those bastarding battle ropes last night,
    im super glad one of the men told you to **** off and leave me alone.
    shouting... whip it, go on whip it... at me across a gym is humiliating, im doing my fccking best,  those ropes are like a million pounds and i only have little arms, im 'whipping'  as much as I can.


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