Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

About resetting the machine you're sharing: if I'm working in with someone, I try to inconvenience them as little as possible, so I try to remember what weight they had their's at, and what seat setting etc., and after I finish my set I set it back to their settings. But sometimes I don't remember what they had it at so I don't bother sometimes, but I usually try. If it's the other way around, it doesn't bother me if they don't reset it back to my settings, but if they're taking ages to do theirs, like longer than my rest period, I'd get pissed off. I've come across the rare occasions where I'd let someone work in, but they'd be doing IDK 50 reps or whatever (they had no concept of sets), my clock would be going over my rest period, and I'd be fuming 🤣. But that hardly ever happens.

About his towel, well if he's letting you share, he'll take his towel with him, otherwise you can just rest his towel on some part of the machine.

And if he starts saying he's only got 4 sets left (i.e. PFO till I'm finished), I'd say "well are you having a rest between sets, because I can do my set in 15 seconds" and then they've not really got an answer for that and they end up (reluctantly) having to let you in.

Well it turns out the machine hogger is just an arse.

I was trying to give him the benefit of doubt in that he wasn't fully aware of how annoying he was being. I watched someone asking to use one of his machines this morning and while he did let your man on he got super huffy about it.

That machine and chest fly machines seem to attract lazy people

Man in this photo was taken in
1946.

This guy is Ken Shimizu. He is 35 years old. He has 2 children.

Shimizu never runs. Sleeps late.
Eats whatever he wants. Even drinks beer instead of water. Eat dinner with many kinds of food every night.

What does Shimizu do to get such a body?

Shimizu doesn't have any secrets....Shimizu is the person sitting in the bottom left corner of the photo.

As for the man standing in the middle..
I'm not sure

Surely you should have jotted down the protein recipe. Clearly the secret to the bicep success…

on two machines one after another that were just disgusting in the manner users had left them. If you spill or cough whatever drink… the longest walk from any machine to the sanitizer station is about 15 seconds tops…. Respect staff, fellow clients and the equipment…. CLEAN YOUR MESS…It was some pale looking protein type almost gloopy liquid…. So I’m highly suspecting the same messy gimp, not nice.

I think that's a bit of a leap tbh.

I would think he was letting you know where he was so that if someone else was to ask to use the machine when you were finished that you could nod towards him and say that he has been waiting.

I was in the almost reverse situation this morning.
Asked someone if they had many sets left, they said they didn’t know. I said ok no problem and walked away.
I was doing another exercise and they gestured over to me when they’d finished.

I’d consider that fairly normal.