Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

Alf Veedersane · 12-11-2018 12:05PM

GreeBo wrote: »

I'd rarely (cant think of a single occasion in fact) have my hands on the supermarket floor....in the gym, it would happen a lot, pushups for example.

I'd prefer to do my pushups without my hands or more importantly my face in someone's dog-sh1t footprint, but I'm probably a snowflake or something.

You probably have your hands where someone's pìss-soaked còck-hand has been and well, i don't think you need to put your face in the floor anyway.

But if you see dog shìt on the ground, don't put your hands on it.

No, you're not a snowflake but your hands won't be clean and germ-free if you use any of the equipment and no more so if someone has walked to the gym in their runners from outside and walked in the area you to your push ups in.

JayRoc · 12-11-2018 12:58PM

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Visually impaired member still need a dog, but I would agree with you if the member has no impairments.

I was talking about the gym owners allowing their own dog on the premises. Seen it a couple of times in person myself. Not a fan

MajorDon · 12-11-2018 01:11PM

In a no-outdoor-footwear gym are you allowed wear your trainers to the toilet?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 12-11-2018 01:33PM

Gyms and footwear.

I was stopped by a staff member in Northwood because I was wearing sandals and told it was a health and safety issue "if you dropped a dumbell on your foot you'd hurt yourself".. So I asked were running shoes ok "yes they're fine".. 'Do they need to have steel toe caps?'.. 'No, regular are good'.

"Ok so if I wear regular running shoes and drop a weight on my foot you're telling me I'll be fine?", "yes" [idiot].. The same gym who are so concerned about my foot safety won't employ a life guard for the swimming pool where there's a real drowning hazard lol.

Eoinbmw · 12-11-2018 01:48PM

Giovanni Alive Raincoat wrote: »

Gyms and footwear.

I was stopped by a staff member in Northwood because I was wearing sandals and told it was a health and safety issue "if you dropped a dumbell on your foot you'd hurt yourself".. So I asked were running shoes ok "yes they're fine".. 'Do they need to have steel toe caps?'.. 'No, regular are good'.

"Ok so if I wear regular running shoes and drop a weight on my foot you're telling me I'll be fine?", "yes" [idiot].. The same gym who are so concerned about my foot safety won't employ a life guard for the swimming pool where there's a real drowning hazard lol.

Sandals? Id have barred you there and then!!!

:P

MajorDon · 12-11-2018 01:50PM

Giovanni Alive Raincoat wrote: »

I was stopped by a staff member in Northwood because I was wearing sandals and told it was a health and safety issue....

He was probably just trying to be nice. It's actually a style issue.

GreeBo · 12-11-2018 01:58PM

Giovanni Alive Raincoat wrote: »

Gyms and footwear.

I was stopped by a staff member in Northwood because I was wearing sandals and told it was a health and safety issue "if you dropped a dumbell on your foot you'd hurt yourself".. So I asked were running shoes ok "yes they're fine".. 'Do they need to have steel toe caps?'.. 'No, regular are good'.

"Ok so if I wear regular running shoes and drop a weight on my foot you're telling me I'll be fine?", "yes" [idiot].. The same gym who are so concerned about my foot safety won't employ a life guard for the swimming pool where there's a real drowning hazard lol.

You should have just put some socks on...problem solved.
Your toes cant get hurt if the dumbell cant see them, any child knows that!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 12-11-2018 02:02PM

Eoinbmw wrote: »

Sandals? Id have barred you there and then!!!

:P

I'd come from Judo practice, I'd have thrown you over my shoulder into the pool with no guard and you'd have drowned :P

Mellor · 12-11-2018 02:32PM

GreeBo wrote: »

I'd rarely (cant think of a single occasion in fact) have my hands on the supermarket floor....in the gym, it would happen a lot, pushups for example.

I'd prefer to do my pushups without my hands or more importantly my face in someone's dog-sh1t footprint, but I'm probably a snowflake or something.

I understand what the logic behind it. I train in jiu jitsu and wrestling. There are no outdoor shoes allowed on the mats, and no going to the toilets barefoot. That's something I'd insist on, but it's a very different environment.

Random door handles, weights, your keyboard, and many things you touch more often than the gym floor are far flithier than the gym imo. And you don't shower after using any of those either.
Besides, the main source of filth on the gym floor isn't going to be dogshït. It's going to be the piss people are walking out of the toilets - on the soles of their gym wear only runners.

whippet · 12-11-2018 02:43PM

if you are worried about germs just wash your hands before putting them in your mouth ... that just not gym advise ... practical lifestyle advise

MajorDon · 12-11-2018 03:02PM

This is also practical lifestyle advice, not just verb/noun advice.:D

IvoryTower · 12-11-2018 03:08PM

embrace the germs, keeps the immune system on its toes, that's why we're all invincible

whippet · 12-11-2018 04:09PM

As for dogs in gyms ... dogs are better than most humans .. so more dogs please and less idiots.

brownej · 12-11-2018 04:15PM

whippet wrote: »

As for dogs in gyms ... dogs are better than most humans .. so more dogs please and less idiots.

This!!!
I know I am only a little alergic to dogs but I am super alergic to people!

D'Agger · 12-11-2018 04:42PM

Sure didn't the Romans and Greeks themselves do squats in sandals

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 12-11-2018 04:48PM

Dogs in gyms was a big thing in NZ. A lot of the bigger fellas would have a German Shepard or a mastiff lying around somewhere. I haven’t seen it here yet.

D'Agger · 12-11-2018 04:52PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Dogs in gyms was a big thing in NZ. A lot of the bigger fellas would have a German Shepard or a mastiff lying around somewhere. I haven’t seen it here yet.

I'd pay extra for that kind of action, Cotton

Whatsisname · 12-11-2018 05:37PM

Quite new to the gym, joined a few months ago after never being in one before.

I can't believe people don't put weights back, like literally nobody. Can't wrap my head around why people wouldn't do it and my gym never enforces the rule. Pisses me right off.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 12-11-2018 06:29PM

Whatsisname wrote: »

Quite new to the gym, joined a few months ago after never being in one before.

I can't believe people don't put weights back, like literally nobody. Can't wrap my head around why people wouldn't do it and my gym never enforces the rule. Pisses me right off.

On this.

What do ye do if ye arrive onto a piece of equipment and theres already weights on it? I generally use it and leave it as I found it. If I've to stack my own weights on it I'll always take them off.

I have to say though, the people in my gym are excellent at putting dumbbells back and ALWAYS in the right order. First gym I've experienced this in.

ButtersSuki · 12-11-2018 06:33PM

First time back in the gym this week after 2 weeks or so off with a chest infection. A guy I've never seen before and the world's sweatiest man wearing tracksuit bottoms and a vest "thing" more at home on The Only Way is Essex on holidays (i.e. barely there) doing bench presses with no towel and no wipe down afterwards leaving the bench and the floor beneath it dripping. Was going to ask/tell him to clean it but just wasn't in the mood for an argument today but it's still p*ssing me off almost 12 hours later.

And of course didn't de-rack when he was finished.

12-11-2018 07:22PM

Hunky Monster wrote: »

On this.

What do ye do if ye arrive onto a piece of equipment and theres already weights on it? I generally use it and leave it as I found it. If I've to stack my own weights on it I'll always take them off.

I have to say though, the people in my gym are excellent at putting dumbbells back and ALWAYS in the right order. First gym I've experienced this in.

I clean up the bar regardless of how I found it. No point spreading the misery

paw patrol · 12-11-2018 07:33PM

JayRoc wrote: »

Perhaps it's the sort of gym where people do a lot of floorwork or something? In which case it might not be as ridiculous as it sounds although obviously there's nothing can be done about it.

I am not a fan of this recent trend of crossfit-type gyms having a resident dog running around the place, as a gym owner I would be mortified if someone was doing say, Turkish Get-Ups and my floor was covered in dog hair or muck.

Not really practical to ban outside footwear though (most people I know would probably train in footwear that they only use for the gym, but I doubt that would be the case in a regular commercial gym).

this guys knows.

DareGod · 12-11-2018 09:38PM

Is there any real potential solution to gym users not putting weights back? Or is it just one of those things that simply won't improve?

EagererBeaver · 12-11-2018 09:41PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64CVhTw_92Y

ButtersSuki · 12-11-2018 09:46PM

DareGod wrote: »

Is there any real potential solution to gym users not putting weights back? Or is it just one of those things that simply won't improve?

Education and enforcement basically.

I think part of is is ignorance TBH and I suspect many are completely unaware they're doing anything wrong. When I started using weights many, many moons ago it was drilled into you to de-rack and replace weights after every exercise. You were lucky enough to be allowed into a gym back then so you just obeyed the rules. My intro to weights was from my PE Teacher who hammered home this message and it worked.

Now when I see inductions going on in the gym I don't think it's even mentioned. The worst offenders IMO are teenagers and 20something males (I'll resist the temptation to make any comment about lazy snowflake millennials.......), but they're by no means the only ones....the guy from this morning I mentioned earlier was definitely in his 30s.

If the staff just went around telling the offenders this for a few weeks it would you'd assume sort it out and users would start to police it themselves thereafter.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 12-11-2018 10:12PM

DareGod wrote: »

Is there any real potential solution to gym users not putting weights back? Or is it just one of those things that simply won't improve?

It’s got a lot to do with the way the gym approach it. In my place there’s two sets of every weight, they’re all clearly marked as to where they go. When there’s a set missing you can see it right away. Gym staff are constantly floating around the floor too which is good.

caviardreams · 12-11-2018 10:45PM

There must have been 6 plates each side on the leg press when I arrived at it yesterday. :mad: Plonked my towel, bottle etc down, and start deloading it, but ran out of space to hang the plates nearby so had to walk over 15m or so to the far side of the gym to rack a couple of plates and when I get back 30 seconds later some guy has just sat in it and just starting a set. That's the thanks you get for unracking other people's weights :pac::D

IvoryTower · 12-11-2018 11:51PM

DareGod wrote: »

Is there any real potential solution to gym users not putting weights back? Or is it just one of those things that simply won't improve?

Like I mentioned a few pages back, in our gym there's 2 strike rule. forget once and name goes on board for a month, second time and you're gone. Slate wiped after a month. After a few months nobody forgot anymore

DareGod · 13-11-2018 12:56AM

My gym does nothing to fix the issue. It's a Ben dunne gym and I think they used to have one or two A4 sized paper signs stuck on mirrors. Two. In the entire two-storey gym. And did I mention they were A4 size?

Other than that, they do nothing to rectify it. I'm not saying I know what the solution is, but I'm thinking that there has to be some further effort they could make.

What baffles me even further is the fact that the staff go around constantly putting people's weights back after them, so they're clearly hyper aware of the issue and yet the gym still does zero to prevent it. Just seems strange to me.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 13-11-2018 01:03AM

DareGod wrote: »

Is there any real potential solution to gym users not putting weights back? Or is it just one of those things that simply won't improve?

In most big gyms, no I really don't think so. Train in a hard core gym and leave that crap around and you'll have your wings clipped fairly sharpish, unfortunately those gyms are few and far between now.

My work gym is fairly busy, but you wouldn't find a thing out of place. But again you'd be hauled over the coals if you were a muck bird.

Although I do believe a lot could be done if gym staff were more pro active in asking members to re-rack their weights.

I think its a losing battle, no point in stressing too much about it and like Bluewolf said earlier, if you arrive at the bar (or whatever) and its stacked just unload it and don't spread the misery.

Believe me, after 30 plus years of lifting things have pretty much always been like this once the big commercial gyms arrived on the scene, TotalFitness (Malahide) was the first I was a member of ~ it wasn't too bad because most of us were coming from Herc's & Unique (and places like that) were that crap wouldn't go down.

But that's going back over 15 years now I think, certainly 10 anyway.

Grin and bear it I guess, or try to lead by example and tidy as you go.

Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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