Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

This lad doesn't approve of annoying gym behaviour…

But the plates don't belong to the rack; they just happen to be stored there because that's where the available storage is. It's absurd to think otherwise. That's my whole point: the absurdity that people think the plates belong to the rack.

Tbf, I think these videos go viral because they’re so rare and because people are outraged at the vloggers behaviour. Not many people in the lifting community would think it’s reasonable to get pissed at someone walking past your camera in a public gym.

Few years back I had some lad literally brush off me while deadlifting on a platform I lost my shite!

Whether it's for an online coach (i.e. a "valid" reason) or for Instagram (an "invalid" reason), you've no right to video and share footage with other people.

I've had so many **** run ins with morons at my 3 year old daughter's swimming classes in Spain taking videos of their kids in the pool. When I give out to them about it and point out that it's both against the rules and illegal, they look at me as if I've three heads. The normalisation of simply recording other people, especially children, accidentally or otherwise, is a huge issue these days.

But people often do have a right. None of the gyms i have been a member of have banned video recording on the gym floor.

Is there some sort of law against it as you are on private property? I think the gym owner where I go mentioned something like that.

For me, it’s not about other people seeing me on the video. It’s that I’m at the gym working out, I don’t want to be recorded.

I’d absolutely have an issue with you if you whipped out your camera and I was appearing in your shot.

Well to be honest, I don't care. I know I'm right and that's all that matters to me really. This thread is a kind of rant-thread to post about things or behaviour in gyms that annoy you, and that's a great idea for a thread.

Being asked/bothered/interrupted by people that absurdly ask for permission to use equipment when there's absolutely no need to do so is kind of annoying to me, bordering on the amusing. So I'm well within my rights to post it here in this thread.

In my gym, I'd say 5% will ask for permission to take a plate off a rack, so that means that maybe 95% know it's absurd and unnecessary.

Also, while I acknowledge that a moderator above has asked us to move on from this line of discussion, in light of the pile-on, I reckon I've earned the right to reply and stand up for myself, hence this final post.

Kindly asked a guy if he was using the 15kg hanging up at the rack he was working off. You'd swear I pissed in his cornflakes judging by the look he gave me.

if you’ve the energy to unload the bar then you didn’t lift heavy enough 😜

Why do you record yourself for social media whats the point?

Fair if your coaching but your analogy does not hold up you can be sure a person playing a guitar is more than likely playing in a private space and not potentially bothering anyone.

Maybe it is age relative Me being 45 but social media is overrun by wannabe coaches telling people how not to lift or what exercise not to do etc when the advice they are publishing is absolutly poor!