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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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Cake Man

On the subject of water and bottles, I woke up dehydrated Monday morning (unsurprising as I knew I hadn’t drank enough water the day before). Had about 100ml water in my 1L bottle as I got to the gym.
Of course, the water cooler was broken/empty but I just carried on. Few sets of deadlifts later combined with it being a bit warm and humid this part of the world had me p!ssing out sweat. So I said feck it I’m just going to fill my bottle from the hand washing sink near the cooler, don’t care if it’s not clean filtered.
Bottle won’t fit under the tap in the sink, it’s too big so I just carry on.

Doing sets of pulldowns I get a brainwave. There’s a vending machine in the gym that sell water bottles for $1. I never carry cash these days but remember I’ve a bunch of change in the centre console out in the car. I run out and scrape together the makings of $1 made up of 9x10c coins and 2x5c coins. Put in the 9x10c coins and as soon as I put the first 5c coin it rejects. Must be too small (which is blush!t as it’s legal tender!?). I fcuk the change to the side in disgust, still no water.

Few minutes later doing curls I’m starting to get a bit lightheaded and know I’m fairly dehydrated. So I take the final option and stick my head under the sink tap and drink away like an animal. Still not dead yet anyway!

somesoldiers

Don’t get to post much as I normally go to gym at 530am when no one is about, wasn’t up to it this morning so felt guilty all day.
Anyhow there is a lad here beside me on the rack, bench combo. He does three reps, moves the bench again. Takes breaks in betwee, watching videos full blast, yapping on phone & eating a sponge cake...crumbs everywhere...

Alf Veedersane

Triceratops Ballet wrote: »

pretty annoying if they guy is in front of you in the q for the water fountain to fill his 5L bottle

Or there's only one toilet.

Dtp1979

GreeBo wrote: »

The point of a 5L bottle is that you dont queue for water...

Ever!

IvoryTower

I bet the bastard wears a hat too

GreeBo

Triceratops Ballet wrote: »

pretty annoying if they guy is in front of you in the q for the water fountain to fill his 5L bottle

The point of a 5L bottle is that you dont queue for water...

Triceratops Ballet

Hunky Monster wrote: »

It’s hardly annoying...

pretty annoying if they guy is in front of you in the q for the water fountain to fill his 5L bottle

[Deleted User]

I think you're being precious about that water bottle. What I find irritating is having to constantly fill up my bottle from the water fountain. Usually can only fill up half of it at an angle and it takes ages. Very annoying for the person behind you. Big bottle is a net gain for everyone involved.

Mr. CooL ICE

Hunky Monster wrote: »

It’s hardly annoying...

Depends. If you're en evil villain from a movie and you want somebody to fill a large container with exactly 5l to prevent a bomb going off by only giving them a 3l and 4l bottle to start with, the last thing you want is some twat showing up and offering the use of his 5l bottle and ruining your plan.

GreeBo

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

It’s hardly annoying...

brownej

D3V!L wrote: »

Thats an incredible amount of water for anyone to consume even in an entire day !!

I see lads with 2L bottles all the time but this is the first time that I have seen a 5L bottle on the gym floor.

Dtp1979

brownej wrote: »

Not exactly annoying behavior but Is it normal to bring a 5L bottle of water to the gym with you. I don't think I've ever seen something like that before.
In fact it was this bottle

That’s called a “look at me” bottle

D3V!L

brownej wrote: »

Not exactly annoying behavior but Is it normal to bring a 5L bottle of water to the gym with you. I don't think I've ever seen something like that before.
In fact it was this bottle

Thats an incredible amount of water for anyone to consume even in an entire day !!

brownej

Not exactly annoying behavior but Is it normal to bring a 5L bottle of water to the gym with you. I don't think I've ever seen something like that before.
In fact it was this bottle

arybvtcw0eolkf

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Not a whole lot annoys me in the gym, but this morning I noticed some tool bag left a 20kg plate on the very top plate holder, nearly 7ft high. Easy for me to take down being 6’1, but a serious hazard for anyone anyway short and not capable of holding a heavy plate overhead

lol, the image is funny.. Like some little geezer being able to limbo dance under a dumbbell lol.

Dtp1979

Not a whole lot annoys me in the gym, but this morning I noticed some tool bag left a 20kg plate on the very top plate holder, nearly 7ft high. Easy for me to take down being 6’1, but a serious hazard for anyone anyway short and not capable of holding a heavy plate overhead

Triceratops Ballet

I always strip the bar when I'm done even if some toolbag left it fully loaded for me, I don't need to lower myself to that level!

I once had to unload the prowler when some pr1ck had left 150kg in 25kg bumper plates on it, he was doing his cardio on the machines beside the track and actually watched me put all the plates back. I was grand to an extentin that I was able to do it, but someone weaker wouldn't have managed and it would just have been out of commission until someone else emptied it

Alf Veedersane

bluewolf wrote: »

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

Same as that. It actually doesn't bother me because it means I've fewer plates to hunt down.

[Deleted User]

bluewolf wrote: »

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

Interesting. I'm doing something I shouldn't be and wasn't aware apparently. I never empty the bar as I don't expect to find an empty bar. I've always assumed part of getting set up is to remove the previous set up. It's never bothered me as that's what I'm used to. I'd always put fixed barbells and dumbbells back though.

IK09

ButtersSuki wrote: »

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.

Im just about to email my gym about it...

When you get on an airplane, the crew don't give a flying fùck about how many times you've been on an airplane, You're expected to sit there and shut your mouth while the cabin crew go through their "this is how you put on a seat belt" routine. There's a TV in the changing rooms in my gym. There should be a constant loop of a video outlining gym etiquette...

Full of really simple condescending stuff like...
This is how you put back a dumbbell
This is how you re-rack your plates
This is how you wipe down a bench

Just a constant loop, over and over, some of it is bound to go in subliminally.

MajorDon

DareGod wrote: »

... the staff go around constantly putting people's weights back after them, so they're clearly hyper aware of the issue....

Sounds like Westpoint. In addition to the A4 pages, there's the message over the PA from Gymix, which half the punters can't hear because they're wearing headphones to drown out the 'music'. And of course, as I've said elsewhere, the Personal Trainers seem to think it's their right to flout the re-rack stipulation, which further entrenches the practice.

arybvtcw0eolkf

DareGod wrote: »

I point blank refuse to put other people's weights away. I am militant in putting my own away, I leave everything absolutely perfect after me, ready for the next person to start using from scratch. But I'm not putting other people's away (A) because doing so will contribute to concealing the problem therefore hindering any potential rollout of a solution (however much of a fantasy that may be) and (B) I'm not wasting my workout time and energy on other people's ignorance and laziness.

Good for you

DareGod

Giovanni Alive Raincoat wrote: »

if you arrive at the bar (or whatever) and its stacked just unload it and don't spread the misery.

I point blank refuse to put other people's weights away. I am militant in putting my own away, I leave everything absolutely perfect after me, ready for the next person to start using from scratch. But I'm not putting other people's away (A) because doing so will contribute to concealing the problem therefore hindering any potential rollout of a solution (however much of a fantasy that may be) and (B) I'm not wasting my workout time and energy on other people's ignorance and laziness.

cloudatlas

This guy asked if he could work in on the back extension machine. I said yes. On my set he stood in front of the machine staring at me, so everytime I came back up he had this odd creepy smile on his face, weird, he got the hint and wandered away after that but I have to say it's not the first time I had the creepy staring or two guys looking over sneering and laughing while I lift. Really just mind your own business ffs!

arybvtcw0eolkf

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.

DareGod

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.

IvoryTower

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

caviardreams

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

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

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.