Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

Didn’t realise I was so out of order wearing tracksuit pants!

The problem in my gym is that young lads arrive in and aren't inducted properly.

I saw one group of young lads a couple of years ago using a trap bar, one of them overloaded it and ended up somehow breaking his ankle, his mother arrived to take him to hospital. I thought that would be a wake up call to the gym management but seemingly not.

Young people using the gym should be a positive thing, but you can't expect them to magically understand how everything in a gym works without instruction and things like etiquette need to be explained as well.

That's what most complaints people will have about young fellas in gyms and it's easily addressed but gyms aren't bothered once they have your money it would seem.

I understand your angle here but to be honest people have a right to expect that whoever uses the gym they're paying for and struggling to squeeze into their schedule should be engaging in using the facility in the correct manner and that's down to the management to oversee.

With respect I think that's a somewhat reductive take.

You already mentioned "old. Man yells at cloud" earlier and while plenty of people of all ages do things incorrectly in gyms that's not really the point.

I can only speak about my own experiences, but if I have seen something that's required intervention from staff in my gym it's always someone in the youngest cohort of members involved, be it people injuring themselves, lads deciding to take their tops off to admire themselves in the mirrors on the gym floor, other lads mistreating and damaging equipment, running around the gym messing like little kids in a playground, shouting and roaring and generally being a nuisance.

All of those issues could be avoided if the gym took the time to walk these lads around when they join and explain how they are expected to behave and how to use and treat the equipment. These things aren't really comparable to someone having bad form.

They're only kids after all, and if you let them loose in any environment they'll get giddy and act like kids, because that's what they are and kids need guidance.

The whole "the kids are alright" argument is missing the point, the kids will be alright, but they need guidance, without it they'll likely not be.

I've been saying this years, men are pigs

Jayzus...

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Didn't expect my rant **shakes fist at cloud ** about my new gym to get quite the reaction it got there but I enjoyed reading some of the follow up.

I think my timing didn't help - its been a quite a long time since I've been in any gym (new or my old one) with he post work/5pm crowd and there's definitely a more mellow vibe in both places in the mornings. I've been settling in nicely since my laat post (rant) and shock horror- I even seen two blokes carrying around a sweat towel the other day. Hurrah for progress.

… but my new found optimism for the place was almost diminished only a few short minutes later when I turned around to witness some lad performing chip ups with his top off, naked from the waist up. He wasn't some dude flexing an impressive gym built body either. Think more along the lines of those lads you see walking around your local streets, roads and parks with their tops off every springtime the minute the temperature gauge hits double digits figures and you'll know the sort.

.. someone went over and had a word with him and he put his long sleeve under armour coat back on for the remainder of his workout.

Following lads in and out the dressing room as they take photos must eat into a fair bit of time too.

Not anything behaviour related but I joined a new gym recently, in the toilets the cubicle walls and doors are that frosted glass type material. So when you go in there you can clearly see someone just sitting down on the throne emptying their bowels. It's really weird. Could be because it's a 24 hour gym so maybe a quick way of staff being able to check to ensure nobody is camping out in there.