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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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Mr. CooL ICE

Regarding the bar slamming... For deadlifts and barbell rows, I tend to not lower it down slowly and it is kinda loud. I never let it fall out of my hands and always drop with it. Is that frowned upon? If I lower slowly, I tend to get lower back ache.

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I prefer going in the evenings so I have a bit less clock watching on my own part but people could have all sorts of things to rush off to, so whatever works

Wanderer78

Dwarf.Shortage wrote: »

To be fair I tend to go at lunchtime and want to burst through a session in 45 mins. It's a fairly common thing, could be 10 or 15 suits hanging up in the changing room at 12:30. If I couldn't get it done in an hour I'd have to question my intensity.

thats fair enough i guess but i do know others that do something similar to you. i guess its just not for me. exercise time is where you should slow the world down and connect with yourself. people really are running around too much. i have intense periods in my routine but mainly its nice and slow and relaxing.

Dwarf.Shortage

Wanderer78 wrote: »

fairly annoying alright but i do think people are rushing around too much. i spend a couple of hours in the gym at a time taking my time. yes that means you ll be waiting for me to finish with a piece of equipment. slow down and enjoy your work out. it isnt a race

To be fair I tend to go at lunchtime and want to burst through a session in 45 mins. It's a fairly common thing, could be 10 or 15 suits hanging up in the changing room at 12:30. If I couldn't get it done in an hour I'd have to question my intensity.

Wanderer78

El Horseboxo wrote: »

I like to get in and out. Only things that annoy me is any behavior that unnecessarily impedes that. Like taking 10 mins between Squats due to talking. Suppose any piece of equipment. Basically if you use something without any consideration of others. You're a dick.

fairly annoying alright but i do think people are rushing around too much. i spend a couple of hours in the gym at a time taking my time. yes that means you ll be waiting for me to finish with a piece of equipment. slow down and enjoy your work out. it isnt a race

play it again

Jon Stark wrote: »

Don't you know that they have to do that #clangingandbanging bro.

I actually experienced such a fool in my gym on Thursday. Everytime he slammed the bar down he just postured and looked around to see if anyone was looking at him.

Type of bloke to be laughed at.

Nothing wrecks my head more than dropping weights , I can stand just about anything but cunce dropping weights , I was in a gym in London that had a sign at the weights rack saying " if you can't put them down quitely , don't pick them up "

El Horseboxo

I like to get in and out. Only things that annoy me is any behavior that unnecessarily impedes that. Like taking 10 mins between Squats due to talking. Suppose any piece of equipment. Basically if you use something without any consideration of others. You're a dick.

Nervous Wreck

There's a PT in Flyefit Macken St who puts a 24inch plyo box in a power cage and then has his client stand in front of it and do anything from deadlifts to curls. They never once use the cage or the box but take the use of both away from anyone else who may want to use them. They spend a good 45 mins with that set up but will often walk away to do other things and leave all the stuff set up so no one else can move it. He's also a shîte PT from everything I've seen him do with his clients. Infuriating.

Jon Stark

drdeadlift wrote: »

Making more noise than needed,dropping weights slamming bars back needlessly.Very annoying stuff

Don't you know that they have to do that #clangingandbanging bro.

I actually experienced such a fool in my gym on Thursday. Everytime he slammed the bar down he just postured and looked around to see if anyone was looking at him.

Type of bloke to be laughed at.

mezzanine08

_davidsmith_ wrote: »

Dont know whos taking the p*ss now.........

GAA shorts and socks (everyone gets it you play GAA well done)

It's funny I bought a pair of GAA shorts at Elverys when they were on sale and I've held a hurley about 5 times total my whole life

deadlybuzzman

power pants wrote: »

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

....... oh you SAY you don't want to look but......

drdeadlift

Making more noise than needed,dropping weights slamming bars back needlessly.Very annoying stuff

discus

power pants wrote: »

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

I'm going to be feeling very self concious this sunday :eek:

MightyMandarin

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I arrived at a gym in England last year to find a squad car outside. The police were inside escorting a guy from the weights section to the front door. No idea what it was about. That episode summed up the gym. It was a pile of ****e.

Probably some guy caught with his wheyroids and creabols stash. Poor guy was only trying to make some gains.

power pants

men wearing the black lycra bottoms.

stop making me look down there.I dont want to but my eyes sometimes have a mind of their own

discus

Was it in Plymouth by any chance? The one I'm at now has some right characters.

edit: story removed incase the world is small!

Jimmy Iovine

I arrived at a gym in England last year to find a squad car outside. The police were inside escorting a guy from the weights section to the front door. No idea what it was about. That episode summed up the gym. It was a pile of ****e.

deadlybuzzman

It's strange, my current gym has only normal nice people, I still can't get used to it.
In my old gym however I turned my back on the bar while warming up on Deadlift and when I turned back I noticed that my chalk bag was quite flat and had a footprint on it.
There was only one other guy in the gym and he was walking away with an invisible telly under each arm (the big man walk).
I'm not particularly big so I presume this was him trying to make himself feel better about some insecurity or another by figuratively kicking sand in my face.
I just kept throwing on the plates and smiling at him..... one of the 2 things made him uncomfortable anyway because he lost the 2 invisible telly's and shuffled off into a corner out of the way

Zillah

lbj666 wrote: »

Doing rehab from an injury in a gym well known for its overcrowding, have an excersise moving from a reserve lunge to a step up takes a little bit of space. The amount of idiots walking right behind me i have hit into mid excersise is rediculous.

This sounds a bit like someone reversing out onto a road complaining about all the cars hitting them.

(People don't expect other people to suddenly lunge backwards, it's your responsibility to make sure it's clear)

heroics

will56 wrote: »

Skipping Rope ! People taking up walkways etc skipping, that give you the evils when you ask them to move out of the effing way.

In the gym I was in there was 1 guy who used to skip right in front of dumbell rack. Basically stopping everyone else from getting to the weights.

lbj666

Doing rehab from an injury in a gym well known for its overcrowding, have an excersise moving from a reserve lunge to a step up takes a little bit of space. The amount of idiots walking right behind me i have hit into mid excersise is rediculous.

Alf Veedersane

Tell me how wrote: »

Before going in to the shower he used to wrap his boxers around the head of the hair dryer and turn it on. He would leave that running while in the shower.

20 minutes later he'd be out the door with a toasty ball sack

Logged under 'pro tip'.

Tell me how

During the winter a few years ago a well known intercounty hurler used to come in to the gym at about half nine or so, gym closed at ten. He would ask the receptionist to sign him in "log him on the county team gym record sheet" and then just go in for a shower.

That wasn't really what annoyed me though.

Before going in to the shower he used to wrap his boxers around the head of the hair dryer and turn it on. He would leave that running while in the shower.

20 minutes later he'd be out the door with a toasty ball sack and the county manager feeling the lads are putting in the effort.

pinkypinky

There's a cohort of guys at my gym who on seeing each other, shake hands and hug, then they proceed to shout at each other across the gym while they work out separately.

will56

Skipping Rope ! People taking up walkways etc skipping, that give you the evils when you ask them to move out of the effing way.

Instructors who insist on using 3/4/5 pieces of equipment to put a client through a circuit, but refuse to let you work in on one piece.

Failure to re-rack weights, even though it has led to weights being removed from the floor so you have to spend ages looking for the one pair of matching dumbbells for your set

Jon Stark

Lads in the nip trying to have a conversation with you in the dressing room.

Lads and women who spend more time congregating for the chats at the desk than actually doing a bit. Extra knob marks if you holler at me with a smirk "leaving so soon haw haw?"

Gym staff that look at you peplexingly when you point out equipment is broken. The treadmill has been busted for over a month, sort it out!

Other than that I can take most behaviour in my stride.

Yer Aul One

Reps4jesus wrote: »

a lad in the changing room the other day decided he would spend about 30 seconds drying his feet with the hair dryer while standing stark naked in front of the mirrors basically pointing his hoop at the door to give everyone a good view while they walked in......

Haha I saw this before too. A sign then went up "hair dryers are for drying the hair on your head, only"

Reps4jesus

a lad in the changing room the other day decided he would spend about 30 seconds drying his feet with the hair dryer while standing stark naked in front of the mirrors basically pointing his hoop at the door to give everyone a good view while they walked in......

deadlybuzzman

COH wrote: »

People with testicles
AND tits

.... these are the worst
...... especially if they've also got on too much make up

_davidsmith_

bucketybuck wrote: »

But thats the gear they have, why would they go out and buy more gear when they have perfectly good socks, shorts, tops already? Bit pretentious to think they should go buy the "proper" gear for fashion reasons, no?

ha wow didnt see this causing such a stir, lads this GAA attire thing its one idiots opinion, chill