Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

ButtersSuki · 10-04-2018 12:14PM

leggo wrote: »

Yeah, look like, I do get the logic and know that for most it comes from a good place. I've seen people myself doing things wrongly and felt that jolt of concern. It's just that unless you're walking around wearing a Personal Trainer top for the gym the person has chosen to attend, they really don't know you or your knowledge from Adam. Everyone is a PT today and even this thread itself is littered with posts about PTs doing their job wrongly.

It's just that, in my experience from when I first started out in the gym and hadn't perfected my "Go 'way and don't be annoying me" face, the people who DO actually make the leap and interrupt you to give you advice tend to be the sort who just want to get across that they know all of the good gym things. It's not about helping you, it's a vanity exercise to make themselves feel like experts. So if you were to do it, you'd have to have a hell of an initial approach to instantly not seem like one of those guys to me.

Yeah, but I'm not any of those things........:(

leggo · 10-04-2018 12:16PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Yeah, but I'm not any of those things........:(

Well you are telling me your CV and I didn't ask so are you sure you're not??

:P

ButtersSuki · 10-04-2018 12:36PM

leggo wrote: »

Well you are telling me your CV and I didn't ask so are you sure you're not?? :P

I know/hope you're joking but I did that purely to show I'm not someone with a mickey mouse diploma from Bovine University and actually know what I'm talking about.......

leggo · 10-04-2018 12:37PM

I know I'm slagging.

Alf Veedersane · 10-04-2018 01:46PM

Get a room!

GreeBo · 10-04-2018 03:14PM

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Get a room!

And wipe it down afterwards. *shudder*

DM_7 · 10-04-2018 04:12PM

But leave your shoes on....

brownej · 11-04-2018 11:33AM

DM_7 wrote: »

But leave your shoes on....

And definitely no Tap-out snapback hats.

shutup · 11-04-2018 12:19PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I hear you on one level, I really do.

Having said that.....my primary degree is in Sports Science, I spent my college years working part-time in the high performance gym in the university as an instructor, and I've played sport at international level (I could say more but I'll sound like I'm boasting which is not my intention - promise). When I did it, I never, ever criticised as I understood from a very early age that delivery and tone were crucial.

I’d welcome advice from somebody in the gym as long as they looked the part. I would listen but might not actually follow the advice

Do you mind me asking what sport you played to an international level?

RTighe · 14-04-2018 05:33PM

Please bring a towel and wipe your damn sweat off the equipment!

Transform · 15-04-2018 11:59AM

shutup wrote: »

I’d welcome advice from somebody in the gym as long as they looked the part. I would listen but might not actually follow the advice

Do you mind me asking what sport you played to an international level?

funny how coaches that are fairly new to the industry piss and moan about the pressures
of having to "look the part" when its one of the big factors to building trust and adherence with potentially new clients

GreeBo · 18-04-2018 10:08AM

Sangre wrote: »

#Weddingshredding has been coming along nicely. Lost 6kg since mid-January. Only 3 weeks to go now! :eek:

Its crazy how only a few kg coming off adds to your definition.

Erm?

Sangre · 18-04-2018 10:12AM

GreeBo wrote: »

Erm?

Em, its my main gym peeve - people posting in the wrong thread...:pac:

Barna77 · 22-04-2018 03:20PM

The other day, walked into a shower to find out that some asswipe had shaved his bits there and left a huge ball of pubes on the floor. What the f... A reminder why I always wear flip flops to shower

Zillah wrote: »

In Macken St I once came around the corner in the locker room to find a lad posing in front of the mirror holding his towel open so he could see the full show. Instantly snapped it shut and even mumbled an apology when I went passed. I just laughed.

The locker rooms of Flyefit in George St have become a recurrent background in profile pics in certain "dating" apps :pac:

CastielJ · 23-04-2018 03:21PM

selfie girls are the most annoying

laoch na mona · 24-04-2018 10:43AM

CastielJ wrote: »

selfie girls are the most annoying

worse than selfie guys?

Eoinbmw · 24-04-2018 07:29PM

deadlifting today on designated platform mid rep guy decides to practically brush off me as he walked behind me across the platform!
Lost it and mouthed off at him but the look of sheer bewilderment on his face !
He had no idea what the problem was!

caviardreams · 25-04-2018 08:55AM

Gym was packed today - there was one bench with two DBs left beside it - a 40 and a 30, not even a matching pair. No towel, phone, bottle etc. so hovered for 10 or 15 seconds beside it and then put down my stuff beside it assuming that somebody had just not bothered putting back the weights as is the norm :rolleyes:.

Lugged the 30 back to the rack and went back to the bench, then seriously lugged the 40 back to the rack, then got my 20s and arrived back at the bench to find a guy standing over it saying he was using the bench. I then had to go back to the rack and lug back the weights I had put away and wait for another bench to free up. I wish people would use a towel/water bottle/phone/anything to signal they are using equipment if they wander off :mad:

Alf Veedersane · 25-04-2018 09:45AM

caviardreams wrote: »

I wish people would use a towel/water bottle/phone/anything to signal they are using equipment if they wander off :mad:

The Germans get ridiculed for doing that with the deckchairs by the pool...

Dtp1979 · 25-04-2018 12:12PM

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

The Germans get ridiculed for doing that with the deckchairs by the pool...

As long as she doesn’t go in first thing in the morning, put the towel down, go to work and arrive that evening to the gym to her free bench, then all should be ok

brianblaze · 25-04-2018 02:01PM

Dtp1979 wrote: »

As long as she doesn’t go in first thing in the morning, put the towel down, go to work and arrive that evening to the gym to her free bench, then all should be ok

I leave my 30 and 40 dumbells there instead

mygymfamily · 26-04-2018 01:48AM

[font=Roboto, Arial, sans-serif]People who film everything they do in the gym for whatever social media.[/font]

Blacktie. · 26-04-2018 08:24AM

mygymfamily wrote:

People who film everything they do in the gym for whatever social mediaï»¿.

Does it include pre max squat dumps?

diusmr8a504cvk · 28-05-2018 12:32PM

Rejoined my local gym and already have seen somebody benching with a plate sandwich: One tiny plate in-between two big ones.

Blacktie. · 28-05-2018 01:34PM

Alonzo Weak Genius wrote: »

Rejoined my local gym and already have seen somebody benching with a plate sandwich: One tiny plate in-between two big ones.

I do this when I'm warming up out of laziness occasionally

GreeBo · 28-05-2018 01:57PM

Alonzo Weak Genius wrote: »

Rejoined my local gym and already have seen somebody benching with a plate sandwich: One tiny plate in-between two big ones.

Whats annoying about that?

DMcL1971 · 28-05-2018 02:42PM

Alonzo Weak Genius wrote: »

Rejoined my local gym and already have seen somebody benching with a plate sandwich: One tiny plate in-between two big ones.

Doesn't annoy me. But I'm trying to lose weight and now it's going to make me think about sandwiches and burgers if I see it when i'm lifting.

ButtersSuki · 28-05-2018 02:58PM

This morning after I finished my session I went to shave after my shower. There was a young lad (18ish I'm guessing) in the sinks and bathroom area of the changing room with his top off taking pics of himself. He literally has no discernible muscle to photograph, he's so skinny he looks undernourished. I spent about 10minutes shaving (I butcher my face unless I'm very careful, it's a process!) and homeboy is still there posing and taking pics. I've seen him in the gym a few times, he's as skinny as a rake, one of those guys who normally spends more time on his phone than actually doing any exercise and congregates with his buddies hogging a machine for ages while the 2/3/4 of them burst out 3 sets each with 10minute intervals between sets and half talking to each other, half on the phone etc. - I'm sure you know the type.

So I finish shaving and return to my bag and he leaves the sink area to go to the locker beside mine. He then puts on a t shirt and heads into the gym. I for some reason had assumed he'd finished his session and was taking post work out pics, but no, this was before he did a thing.

Edit: I honestly don't know what he'd use these pics for. If you posted them on social media you'd be laughed at. Maybe in the way there's "feeders" who like fat lovers there's women who like the malnourished look?

ButtersSuki · 28-05-2018 03:00PM

Also from this morning, another young lad was adding liquid to his protein shake. He had a chocolate shake to which he added....wait for it....a blue Monster Energy Drink. I have no idea what flavour the blue one is, but I can't imagine that to be anything other than stomach churning.

Not annoying per se I guess, but just weird. Well to me anyway!

ButtersSuki · 28-05-2018 03:02PM

Finally, yet another young lad who was so buried in his phone he walked into the bar as I was bench pressing. Thankfully this was as I was warming up and with a light enough weight that I could control but WTAF?

Today was an "interesting" day!

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