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Gym Peeves/Bad Etiquette

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So working at a gym I see all kinds of crazy things, and all sorts of interesting individuals.

I decided to make this thread to see what peeved you guys the most at the gym, I have a few querks of my own.

  1. Not putting weights back to its respective racks!!!!!! This really pisses me off a lot. Whenever I step into the free weight section, I see dumbells lyinig around on the floor and the racks are empty.

  2. The cross fit kids that decided they need to take up half the gym, the squat rack, the pull up bar, and a power lifting station so they can do there bodyweight exercises.

xfitternow's picture

I have been lifting/working out my entire life. Athlete in highschool and college so on.....I just started crossfit about 6 months ago and love it. However I do understand where u guys are coming from. Crossfit is made for a "crossfit gym", where everyone is doing crossfit not in a your regular gym!!!!!!! If you want to do crossfit, join crossfit and stay off the equipment in this gym. You dont swim on a baseball field....? do u? same concept. I think it isnt really "crossfitters" that erk you....they stay in their respective crossfit "boxes" and out of your gym. It is FUCKING IDIOTS, mostly still in highschool that dont know what they are doing or where they should be doing it..... sorry just my .02!! LOL

xfitternow's picture

Hope I dont get ripped a new one for putting my neck out on this on!! LOL

ac89's picture

I was about to say someone is on tren, but then you said he tried to tell you how to lift. Nothing pisses me off more than when a twig of shit tries to tell me I not doing someting right. I had some jackass try and tell me how to do shrugs a month ago. He tried to explain to me that i needed to rotate my shoulder back and forth rather than the proper shrug. I hate people

Johnmatrix's picture

People who stare at me thinking i dont notice them staring. then when i look at them they quickly look away....

Jarhead's picture

These little young punks in affliction tshirts taking up the mirror space shadow boxing. Everyone thinks they're a UFC fighter nowadays. Wrong kind of gym douche bags. Here, catch this 45lbs frisbee

roidjunky79's picture

Make sure u aim for the throat!!!!!!

roidjunky79's picture

This past week the weather has been getting very warm where i'm from. Now all of a sudden EVERYONE seems to be going to the gym. Fuck i went today early it was SO FUCKING CROWDED, nothing was available, had to wait in line for free weights and machines so i just did 4 sets of squats and said fuck it i'm out! Couldn't take it. But u wanna know the worst part? I overheard a few people saying " I gotta get in shape for the summer". U MOTHERFUCKERS THE SHIT AIN'T HAPPENING OVERNIGHT!!! ARGGGHHHH!! I wanted to grab a 10 pound iron plate and smack everyone over the head with it! Anyone going through the same shit? Rant over. Looks like that USP test is kicking in pretty hard lol

Garageth's picture

Same thing here, several nice warm spring days and they all run to the gym saying the same thing. Look at the bright side though, a couple weeks and 90% of them will get discouraged because they didn't transform overnight and they will drop off. The other 10% that stick with it are the ones you (usually) don't mind sharing a gym with anyways.

ViolentChopper's picture

People who drink protein shakes DURING their workouts. People who always seem to be doing chest/tri. People who leave a machine for 20 minutes and then happen to come back after I've set it up. Weights every where, gives me OCD and I end up tidying the whole free weights area. People who mix up all the free weights, they have their own holders and people put 20's with 10's etc.
My training parter and I bought our own training equipment and rented a garage off a friend. It's a pretty big garage as well. We don't have to put up with idiots any more, just each other lol

Cyrus the Virus's picture

tell ya the truth, i work out early in the AM (4am or so)and lost of time im fucking starving. i will put a scoop (23 grams of protein) of whey in my 20 oz bottle w/ coffee for pre-workout/warmup liquid. it tides me over till breakfast and wakes me up. but thats me. i know it doesn't act like its supposed to after the workout but its better than cramping cause i filled up before my workout. or worse.. puking... done that a few times...

Mitch22's picture

Just moved to westchester county ny and the one thing that pisses me off are the dip shit dbags that come up wanting to chat and be your new best friend!! Like that mouse who asks all the questions in Looney tunes! So not wanting to be the asshole I indulge their questions!! Fuck me for being a nice guy! The only thing that works is to constantly look down, make no eye contact and put my hoodie on. Where the fuck are the gyms where I am the smallest guy and all you hear are midevil screams! Shut the fuck up and train!! That's how I got where I am plus my little friend the magic bean!!

Garageth's picture

Maybe it's meant to be a compliment.... they could be thinkin "Holy CHit... that guy knows how to get BIG, need to ask him the questions I got!!". I gotta say that overly chatty would prob get annoying tho, specially if I don't know you. Now I have piped up a couple times to try and help someone lift better/properly ("Hey, yeah you, bit of advice, lift it straight and don't throw your back sideways unless you wanna really screw things up") and theres of us older (not OLD) farts that see each other there on a regular basis so we'll stop and say a quick "Hi" or such at times. Other day one of the regulars (older farts like me) didn't have his bud with him and was talking about it being difficult to push himself when he was by himself when he let me slip in for a quick last set on the cables. I looked at him and left the pin where I had set it (about 15lbs higher than he had it at) and handed him the handle.... "gimme a &^% set... go, go, 3 more, c'mon"... well, you get the idea, he knocked his last set out with some decent weight, so not all chat is bad LOL

ac89's picture

People reaking of cigarette smoke in the gym.

Then last week I yelled at a kid for standing on a barbell that was in the corner with one 45 on it. This d bag was bouncing up and down in the middle of it. So I'm a little pissed off and go up to him and say "what the fuck are you doing?n this is one of the few bars left that isn't bent," I then told him to use some common sense and he acted like he did nothing wrong.

ac89's picture

People reaking of cigarette smoke in the gym.

Then last week I yelled at a kid for standing on a barbell that was in the corner with one 45 on it. This d bag was bouncing up and down in the middle of it. So I'm a little pissed off and go up to him and say "what the fuck are you doing?n this is one of the few bars left that isn't bent," I then told him to use some common sense and he acted like he did nothing wrong.

BJR's picture

lol, i only have one. most of the time im to zoned out concentrating on what i am doing:

MY STALKER !!!!!!, having read these though i may come back with more, there is the guy that trys umm whats the term " Vogue" on the cross trainer i never thought that was possible good luck to him

Cyrus the Virus's picture

okay, yesterday i had this tool prop his iphone up on a machine and video himself squatting 10 plates to put on facebook. guess he needed an ego stroking.

Nitti's picture

And that little prick who spent 20 minutes on the peck deck. When I asked him if he had much left he said "nah, 6 more sets"! WHAT?? Douchebag! You need to go read a book or something or go play Wii mufuker!

Nitti's picture

New pet peeve. So yesterday was the first 70 degree day in Philly. Usually around 6pm my gym is pretty quiet. There are a few of us who train religiously and a straggler here and there. Well yesterday it was like new years all over again. Everyone sees the sun shining ,sees what they look like in a t-shirt and decide they need to get to the gym now. Wtf man, it was mobbed! And it looked like less than half of the people that crammed in knew what the fuck they were doing. Man that pisses me off! Fuckin workout all year round, don't do it because the weather is going to be nice from here on out. I hate that man! Get the fuck outta my way!! Ok, rant over!

XxTJBxX's picture

I can't stand seeing people waring sunglasses in the gym!!! WTF is this!?

IrishLifter2012's picture

The gym I go to is owned by and runned by the polish.. I've nothing against them at all but most of them are complete meatheads and take up the whole gym, their always shouting across the whole gym to the owner on the counter, talking polish the whole time which is irritating as hell when you hear gibberish in your ear while lifting. I always see people I know that goes to my school and their sticks, their always in groups of 6 or so and hog that one machine, one goes on the machine while the others look around and snigger like fucking girls and looking at their phones and pose in the mirror, I'd say not one of them heard of form. the next day or so I see them binge drinking on a street or smoking.

swolltroll's picture
  1. Guy on cell phone who stands in front of cable machine. Than when I begin to use it tells me hes not done. So I stop. Than he continues on the phone. not using it.
  2. Creepy homo-sexual guy that eye fucks me
  3. Naked dudes butt in my face while I tie my shoe. Its just violating.
  4. Creepy old spanish lady who does excersizes wherever I am. Stalker.

*5-Giant lady who who comes to the gym in jeans and a dressy white shirt with makeup on. Than after a whopping 3 situps and 4 curls with a 5 lb weight looks like mel gibson from braveheart with all the blue makeup dripping all over her face.

shotgunmike's picture

Some douche doing scissor kicks on the bench press bench.......another guy sitting on the preacher curl machine reading a book with his bottle of water sitting on the curl machine next to him......curls in the squat rack, might as well wear a shirt that says "I'm a fuckhead"......120 pound guys flexing their abs in the mirror like they are on stage at the Olympia........personal trainers who leave their clipboard on the pec deck seat, while standing 4 feet away.......and my personal favorite...some fat chick personal trainer...WTF??? how you gonna train someone else, when you can't train yourself..........

IrishLifter2012's picture

Lmao, the first one...I'd love to see that!!

Slide's picture

At my gym its young f*$king footy heads in groups, lifting to much weight for them with sh!t form and taking for ever to do it while taking sh!t about how strong they are, Or people using the bench press, cables, dip bars and lat pull downs in a circuit and trying to give me sh!t when I move there stuff out of the way or get on one of the four machines there trying to use while 2-3 other people are standing waiting for the same gear.. that grinds my gears!!!

Maxx's picture

This gym I go to. There are these three punks. They make a mess with the weigths, make bunch of noise, and lift more weights than they can lift. So one day they get on the smith machine to do squats. They put on 45's each one dose a set and the bar is barely going up and down. They put on two more 45's each one tries to do a set and the bar is barely going up and down. Now they start grunting like they are in a power lifting competition. These three stupid ass fucks put on two more 45's now they wrap a sweat jacket around the bar so the bar won't cruch into their scrawny little necks. Each one tries to do it but the bar is barely moving. Now they get in front of the mirror to do some flexing. Now my bp is up and can not stand these three f!#*ing assholes. I would love to flex a 45 off thier heads.

IrishLifter2012's picture

People that go on a machine for ages and leaves without wiping it so all you see is a big ass sweat stain, and people who might go to the cable pull overs and they would walk away for about 5 mins posing in the mirror and then comes back saying they were still using it... and finally people who shout to an extent you swear they were giving birth.

runtherabbit's picture

Here's one I hate (being on a military base)- You have your gym bag and towl at whatever station you're at, and while you're going to get a sip of water some old fuck comes by and starts using your machine.

I say old fuck because most of the time is those old fucking officers that think they're so goddamn special.

(I don't hate old people)

dboy27's picture

1.People that never seem to leave the gym.

2.During peak hours.. group of 3 people stay on the only power rack for 1h30m+... ie the length of my entire workout.

3.Getting a jacked up look when I ask someone how many sets they have left.

4.In an empty gym, selecting the cardio machine directly adjacent to mine.

5.People benching weight they can't lift without asking for a spot--how does this happen?

logan's picture

People that do a 1/2 rep on the leg press with 900+lbs then walk away for some 120lb girl to have to take that off so she can put on 2 25's. If you can put it on then have the courtesy to take it off. Also don't stand directly in front of the dumbbell rack so other can't grab what they need. Take one step back,just common courtesy. Other people in the gym might not be as big as you or want the same results but everyone even the 300lb guy who just started and wants to become healthy deserves a clean neat respectful place to make positive changes.

Garageth's picture

Clucking hen/gossip sessions just sitting on the machines.

People more interested in texting/i-phoning/etc while sitting on the benches/machines

People that are too cheap/lazy to buy a $1.99 sweat towel at wally-world and use it when done... (cmon... 2 secs to wipe it down when your done shredding it at 80lbs on a press?)

Expanding on the one above... unwashed gym clothes! Ok, you may have just finished putting in 10hrs at work and are trying to get/stay in shape, but at least wash em every couple of days and buy a can of Axe and give yourself a spray when you change so you don't smell like the south end of a north bound mule while your next to people on the cardio equip...

Not unloading a machine when done. (GF just loves it when she has to come get me to unload a machine cause its left loaded with excess plates)

Poor lifting posture and people who just ignore it and wont offer to help (hit a Sunday goof off afternoon a couple weeks ago, and watched 2 kids doing curls passing the bar back and forth. Kid A had good lift and posture, Kid B was just throwing his body to lift it. Two sets was all I could stand to watch. I offered to help and he was happy I helped correct his posture... all it took was placing a hand on his back while lifting... major peeve of mine, but I've also had 2 back injuries over the past 22 years)

I'm sure I can come up with more....

harry boals's picture

skinny young faggots that throw dumbells when they finish their set then rest 5+ mins between sets

Beachbdygrl's picture

The douche bag who basically stalks me who yells out, "Yeah! Let's get ready for spring break!" I really want to punch him in the face!

Nitti's picture

The douchebag who makes a sound like he's deficating dumb bells when a nice lookin' woman walks in then peeks to see if she looked his way,... all while he's got 135lbs on the bench.
The guy who is obsessed with the mirror. Not the one who uses it to check form and execution, no, the one who pulls his sleeve up after every set to flex. He thinks nobody sees him. I see you mfkr

TheRoyalPalm's picture

Actually this is something most people (like yourself) have fallen away from. This technique actually helps force the blood (nutrients) into the muscle to help expand the muscle for growth and repair. Two ways to make a muscle bigger, stretch, and flexing blood in creating the pump.

This was huge back in the 70's,80's by most bodybuilders to also help with posing.

I flex after every set whether its in the mirror or not, most notably the working muscle.

Maxx's picture

That the truth bro.

suzy b MRS viking's picture

Iget a mini workout shifting all the weight plates left strewn around the gym,but the worst thing is moving all the empty plastic water cups and we have about 6 bins all in clear view,some people must live like pigs.

VIKING EVOLUTION's picture

Anybody who plays with a mobile phone between sets is my pet vex, also the fucks who do stupid fucking movements like this dick the other day was doing cable bicep curls laid full length on the floor huh WTF......!!!!!!!

Panther-Labs's picture

I hate when a 100lb guy grunts and yells while lifting 40lb dumb bells... grrrrrrrr

Cyrus the Virus's picture

aww come on... i'm trying hard! this is how mom taught me!

VIKING EVOLUTION's picture

LMFAO aint that the truth Lol>)