posted Fri, 08/11/2017 - 16:56
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Gym etiquette (me bitching)
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Whats up with these young kids at the gym. I had to move 4 towels 3 water bottles and a yeti tumbler off a bench so I could get a set in. What happened to the days when people put their weights up and cleaned up behind theirselves. People are turning my gym into a social gathering I saw one group put in 1 set in 45 min while tying up the squat rack.
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AnonI was talking to this older but jacked guy in the gym yesterday about the non existance of gym etiquette cause he was bent about some idiot girl who held up the leg press for a good 45min. He said his new thing was to asks these kids "how many texts do you have left on this" instead of sets. I believe im going to start using it also haha
The only reason to have a phone in the gym is to listen to your music off of it.
This is probably the main reason why the gym I own doesn't make me rich - I just boot these guys out and tell them to train elsewhere.
To bad more gym owners aren't like you usually it's the other way around and the guys like us get booted for causing a scene or speaking are mind !!! Or creating a hostile enviroment
I used to go to a big time major gym chain. So many college kids juiced to the gills lounging around between a few sets of back and bis talking about "how fucked up" they got the night before. Add all the women dressed to the nines complete with perfume just to do cardio and work "glutes" for 2 hours. While I'm certainly No Homo, but this is a gym not The Club. Couple that with all the towel less sweat machines that could care less about other and the I don't rack my weight crew. No thanks. Took some time to find a small dungeon style gym with lots of free weights, minimal machines, and heavy dumbbells. Choosing your gym is as important as choosing the right like minded training partner. Both are essential to success.
Couldn't have said that any better myself. I just bought a cage with some plates, db set from 20s to 80s with rack, dip station, bench and acouple bars off of cl for next to nothing. Tuesday I am going to buy a storage container and make my own gym, im to old for the club scene anymore.
I have the same problem in my gym. Cleaning up after people. Clowns sitting at a machine on the phone for 20 minutes. The place has turned into high school. And ...well... Im old and have have lost my patiences and filter long ago.
AnonIve never had a problem getting on equipment, I do see the yoloers and selfie, snap chat, bookface people "especially the ones who wear that damn hoodie cutoff shirt thing with the hood up" like what is it, your head is cold but your arms are hot? Anyways, the guys that bother me are the ones that stand next to me and stare while im lifting and then do the international remove your headphones sighn to ask me "how many sets do you have?" First off, why are you so close to me? Why do you need this specific bench at this specific moment? And I dont know how many sets I have left thats why I look like this and you look like that, spend more time eating and less time watching me workout.
-full homo
I think I am going to have a shirt made that says these headphones mean I dont want to hear you, never had them ask how many sets are left but I get tired of them asking about supplements I just tell them muscle milk and creatine
AnonThats a good idea, but I have a Disgruntled veterans shirt that says "Disgruntled Veteran. FUCK OFF" and they see right past it.
Disrespectful little fucks is what they are !!!
Seems like this is an international problem. The young guys/girls here are the same. One set then a 20 minute break to txt and take selfies of themselves 'working out'. When I ask some punk if he has finished with a machine (that he has been sitting on and txting for 10 minutes) and he says "no" - I simply tell him that I'm going to work in with him...I load up the machine and leave the weights on after my set....they get the message. I never take my cell phone into the workout area - and I reckon that they should be banned unless the person is a doctor or some professional on call....let's face it, we can all live without a phone for a couple of hours. My other way of avoiding these fools is training at lunchtime - people here love their food, most businesses close for lunch between 12-1pm, people literally stop for lunch - there is even less traffic on the roads...and the gym is completely empty...nirvana :-)
More like a generational problem... We know we can live without a cell phone, we did without for most of our lives.
They were born with a cell phone in their mouth.. Whilst I was born with a silver plated spoon in mine.
A silver plated spoon? Luxury!
And you haven't stabbed anyone yet because.........
Call your self a roid head?! Slap that shit off the bench, start loading up the squat rack while they're all in there and let them know this is a place of workout not some kind of social club.
This is your time to meditate, last thing you need is some moherfuckers ruining shit. Stand your ground.
I might be getting banned from the gym. This morning young kid put some plates on the bench put in a set then made his way to squat rack as I was finishing my set. He grabbed a plate and put it on the bar I grabbed it and put it back. He said old man what are you doing I gave him a death stare and said your weights are still on the bar on that bench use them. He told me I dont run the gym and I nicely told him I said your weights are over there and wipe your sweat off of it. Im twice his age but in twice the shape of him you could tell he wanted to swing but was scared. I imagine I will get a call from the gym tomorrow.
Taking plates from your rig while your in the middle of a set? That's not allowed, that gets them a slap if I've been at the tren
backonroidsI doubt your getting banned unless you've done it in a school gym ...
No not a school gym, but its one of these new franchise, everyone welcome, yoga in the back gyms. Sadly this gym put my old gym out of business. At my old gym these kids would be banned
Thats how I was brother I got tired of all the one set sit and yack in the squat rack cunts so one day I cleaned all the guys shit outa my way and started setting up the cage ta squat and the little bitch went and whined to management and they fuckin booted me out the damn gym said i was creating a hostile enviroment so I started just buying my own equipment and have been doing my own thing in my own spot gyms are full of little cunts nowadays it sucks
Whenever a group is using what I want I'll ask nicely if they're almost done. Usually they respond with "I'm on it" then do a set and fuck around for 30 minutes. Then I'll just go over and move their shit and when they say they were using it I tell them not anymore.
That's the truth.
No doubts mate. Lads do it at my gym and I'm the first (and probably only) person to tell them to get their shot off the bench so someone can use it.
backonroidsI pictured you walking over like Debo on Next Friday (with ice cube ) "This is my bench fool"
More crazy in my eyes and you got it mate!
That's why I lift in the basement and garage. When the Wellness Center was closed I bought quite a bit of the equipment.
That would be nice I bet you got it a hell of discounted price
I have a lot of equipment and it's weird. The stuff I use the least I paid the most for. Check out govdeals I've gotten some great deals on that site.
They do the very same thing here daylight. Sit on the calf machine texting on their phones or on various equipment. Its not only rude but what did they even come there for?
Anymore I ask if theyre done if it something I want to use and the gym owner has posted signs about not tying up equipment for rest periods.
I thought in order to call a space of time a rest period.. That would denote that there was some work effort preceding it ! Lol but thats not the case.
I guess maybe its a place to find your next date now ... Idk. Irritating for sure
With a blank stare I told one kid "dude your thumbs are fucking huge can I get a few reps in mine are weak. "
Gen Y/Z!
Complete muppetry!
I like your badge
Enjoy his badge now because it's going to be homo in a couple of weeks!
Ps. You should have followed the compliment of his badge with a no homo. Unless of course you are homo, the. It was ok.
How did I miss this?! LOL
a no homo was DEFINITELY needed 333! There are several badges, including the rusty sheriff's badge which is only available to my lady, when she is giving a rusty trumpet to me!
Ed;oh yes, the bet is Onnnnnnnnnnnnn! Not long to go now!! Best get your rainbow gear ready!!!
whoa... Why is your wife playing with Rusty's "trumpet"? And you don't think there' a no homo requirement before passing it on to you? I didn't know rusty played on both teams.
LOL
Touché sir!
Yeah I've been stuck in an apartment for a year. Finally got a house with a 2 car carport and a one car garage. I've had a squat rack and bench press and about 400 pounds of iron. All of which was in my living room with a 125 gallon fish tank and large leather sectional. Very tight squeeze. Now plenty of room on the carport. Been hitting it pretty hard in between moving trips to the house. Might not go back to the gym.
backonroidsI used to train in my back garden home made squat racks and that looked like a scrap yard my mrs made me get rid of it all used to love it and it was always fucking raining
Ive been thinking real hard here lately about buying a shipping container and converting it into a home gym, just have to get my wife on board with it
Yup I hate the new kid crowd there is only one there I like cause he's respectful. One guy I'm about to beat the shit out of grown ass man and he just goes to each station does 1 set and then on to the next leaving people thinking if he's using it and leaves rags everywhere and never re racks he's been the same size for 5 years and walks around like he's a monster he's a fat little fuck basically trains to eat tacos 24/7 I hate his fucking guts I'm like days away of snapping on him and shiw him what respect is
I would wait until he gets on the bench then throw his used rags in his face and tell him to clean up his shit. Just left the gym normally on weekends I will work out from 230 to 330 or 4 because there isnt a crowd but it looks like there was a party last night. After working out it took me at least 15 min to pick up towels and rack weights so the woman who is there on weedends wouldnt have to do it. You think I will get banned if I just snap on these kids.
I wouldn't know, I do all my training at home. The gym just doesn't provide that harsh, dank, hellish, dungeon-like vibe that I need. They're too clean. Too glamorous. Training should be neither IMO.
That's where I'm at brother I have a good size corner in my shop that's my personal gym nice and dark n dank it's actually starting to over flow into the rest of my shop now ha ha no distractions just me my weights and my tunes
Mine is finally fully set up as of the last few months, and I'm having a hard time making it back into the gym. I have people texting giving me shit, but right now, I've been cruising since xmas, haven't gone beyond trt levels, and I'm right at my peak.
I won't lie, I'm missing the yoga pant motivation, and my daughter tags along with when I go to the gym half time, that's motivation for her. I'm just struggling to leave The fortress when I can unplug here, use all the chalk I want, and not have to scour for plates.
You say yoga pant motivation. I say yoga pant distraction. I can't train with women around. Cannot do it. Impossible to focus.
My lady cooks for me and cleans . I get in trouble for being in the kitchen unless we are slow dancing. I doubt any of those little skinny girls at the gym can even spell meatloaf let alone cook one.
backonroidsBut they can spell - lip fillers
And we can spell s-t-e-r-o-i-d-s. Are we really much better?