name 2 things that drive you insane at your gym.

Heartless88 said:
that was a good one. WAKE UP call.
I am not with him because of #3.
I am not shallow
I just said I hate when pruny guys think they look big when they don't.
Just like when ugly bitchs think they look hot and they dont. LOL
#1... its not like I am ugly, the whole gym wouldnt be looking for no reason.

but still you got me thinking... :bandit:
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Hehe you take things way to personally Heartless. I was only ribbing ya. :type: Technically though you said you hate when every guy pays attention to you but him,but you love that hes not a pussy and lifts more than they do and is big I'm guessing ahah.
P.S. Is pruny meaning old or do you mean puny as in small?:laugh:
 
Zero V said:
please understand this first part is not racist....just how it is. But the black groups that come in(mostly white neighborhood) come in a group of about 10, but 2 workout, and the other 8 sit on machines/benches or waste space. And are rude if you need it. Its like they cant survive away from each other.

Also small groups of high school tools or college tools. Its like its stamped on the forhead. *hhuhu huhuhu hu hu look at my arm dude huhhuuh uh uh u i am so gona get some huhuh uh u huh u uh huh uh*
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its not racist if its true...remember that lol. they think they deserve everything. you dont deserve something until you earn it.

those high school kids and such...they only work out their arms..cuz they are ****ing stupid
 
sooo yesterday im doing biceps! which i always do with cardio or legs just cuz they recover quick and i can get them done pretty fast with good results...

3 black kids and one white kid walk in drinking a gatorade.. walks in and starts yelling watch me throw up 280 brah 280 and then he goes right for 205 and its on his chest and then he struggles for 2 reps on 185 and hes out.... man wat a time efficent workout.

i had to stop curling and laugh i couldnt help it.
 
Most guys workouts are a lot different than a females, so he prolly wouldn't stay around u long. Maybe he wants to but ur at the gym for work not play? Dunno

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I know when I am at the gym with my wife we don't really talk much at all she knows I am gettin my workout in and she is doing her thing. Also he is probably checking you out from across the gym thats what I do. ;)
 
1)I can't stand the guys that shower and then walk 2/3 of the way back down the row of lockers dripping wet so that when I take off my jeans to put on my workout pants I have to get wet ****ing socks. Dry off by the showers before you walk across the locker area...

2)Dudes who scream when doing light weight. Yesterday there was this tall dude, probably weighed 260(mostly fat), screaming while doing 30lb barbell curls.

3)Dudes who talk to themselves to psych themselves up. THere is a dude at my gym who yells "get tough" to himself before each set. If he looked like ronnie coleman I wouldn't question him, but lets be realistic... the only thing he needs to get tough about is the ****ing herniated disc he's gonna get from those curved-backed deadlifts.
 
^^^ helll yea dude i feel u i always take 2 towels and hang them on the racks outside the shower and dry of with the curtain closed.. not showing my sack/**** to anyone there ya know? thats not wat im there for dry up and try to change fast not see my naked self in the mirror. i put clothes on quickly..
 
I hate
  • People that leave the Phukkin dumbells scattered all arund the gym
  • People hanging out on machines like its a bar, social lounge
  • People leaving sweat all over a machine.
  • The guys talking **** about you pushing weight because its not close to what they are lifiting.
  • People walking around the locker room all dripping wet and leaving there crap all over the place.
 
Jessep76 said:
1. When someone comes over and asks how many sets you have left and then just stand there really close starring at you. One ******* actually commented a second time asking how long I was gonna take when I was obviously resting in between.

Oh, I got out of my contract at Spectrum for that. Even on video, they sided w/this harrassing idiot. Some dude at the gym the minute my gf and i got on to do abs stood there and said "How long you gonna be on that" In the middle of her reps. She stopped and said, "I have 4 more sets." Then he pouted and stood there, then kept asking the samething and then said "Well I need that now and I need the rope." and she was like at that point "F OFF" and then he pouted and stood like 1 foot away from us and crossed and uncrossed his arms and acted like a big whiny baby and kept coming back and back. It was SO unreal. I couldn't believe it. Then he reported me for later telling him to F OFF also and when we all went to management, they sided w/him because he said he was sorry and he didn't know that he shouldn't be asking people to get off the machines. That rat$$%%## I got my money back. They told me they couldn't ensure my saftey so if he came back again or met me in the parking lot, they weren't liable. YEAH RIGHT !!! In all my years of bodybuilding, that's never happened to me. He wasn't asking duded that were benching 300 when they were getting off the machine. Fricking bully. Ted Bundy.

Sorry, that didn't really answer the thread question.

Everyone. Everyone at the gym now bothers me. Even the people in the parking lot.
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Well two things that annoy me are 1) when I go in the cardio room area I see people reading a magazine or a book on the bikes and going no more than maybe .2 mph. Second is readding mags while working out bc it takes longer when someone needs to use a machine/bench etc and they would be doing something stupid like sudoku lol. If thats the case gyms need to just have a room with nothing but mags and books and call it the The lazy lounge room or some crap.
 
Zero V said:
please understand this first part is not racist....just how it is. But the black groups that come in(mostly white neighborhood) come in a group of about 10, but 2 workout, and the other 8 sit on machines/benches or waste space. And are rude if you need it. Its like they cant survive away from each other.

Also small groups of high school tools or college tools. Its like its stamped on the forhead. *hhuhu huhuhu hu hu look at my arm dude huhhuuh uh uh u i am so gona get some huhuh uh u huh u uh huh uh*
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Dude if I was black going to mostly white hood dam right I am bring the gang, You are two kind Cazy if I did not.. Cheers Think about this would you go to all black hood by your self I think not bro By the why I am Black Japanese Irish... So I been in both White hood and black hood I would not go to one or the other with out my freind with me. Now if you live where I live blakc white brown yello green orange hood you can come by your self it is safe!
 
My list will be very different because it is the female perspective:

1. Women that make orgasm sounds when they lift. I understand the pink 2 lbs dumbbells can get really heavy after 20 reps, but really? I guess the attention from the men is the main reason they come to the gym, so whatever works!

2. The fat girls that take my class that just had a baby (that were fat before they had their baby) telling me that they can't wait for me to get pregnant because I won't work out and I'll get really fat (I'm not exaggerating). I have to say, I'm storing that in my arsenal so when I do get pregnant I'll still work out more in my 9 months than they have in their lifetime. I also have the understanding that you are not exactly eating for 2 people, those hogs missed that message from their doctor.
 
zachwienandt said:
1. People who talk on their cellphones while doing abs(although that is an impressive skill, they should try it while squatting)

2. The guy who brings his 17 year old kids and their friends with him and then acts like he's their personal trainer for 2 hours. I watched him load up a 45 degree leg press with 16 plates and almost sh1t my pants when the kids legs slipped off the platform and the sled smashed into the safety stops, nearly folding the kid in half. I wish i could do this image better justice.
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You just described my gym.

Old geezer comes in with a crew of 3-5 others of all ages and proceeds to ccritique their form on every movement; whilst performing his reps with the worst technique ive ever seen.

3 inch leg presses, 90% pull ups, seated press where the bar doesnt even go down further than his forehead, lat pull down behind the head smashing into his spine...it goes on.
 
SamuraiSid said:
1) Oh man, i really hate it when all these young kids come into the gym and watch me lift a ton of weight, and see how big and massive i am, and start asking me questions. Im always sayng in the gym how I have to stay in the zone so that I can mantain my rock hard super coolness.

2) When all the hot girls are constantly checking me out, and accidentally bumping into me, sothat they can feel my rock hardness (not like that!). Its hard to keep focused when Im lifting such heavy heavy weight!
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vain.
 
1) people siting on the weight benches talking for 5 min not working out when other people need to use them.

2) smaller people lifting more than they know they can and just making an ass out of them selves.
 
When I fart accidentaly, and it is echoed off the pad of the bench, which makes it louder. It usually happens on the decline bench, while doing abs. Uffff!
 
When I fart accidentaly, and it is echoed off the pad of the bench, which makes it louder. It usually happens on the decline bench, while doing abs. Uffff!
 
People who always lift the same way at the same speeds..

People who do lateral raises with a sh*t load of weight, using a huuuuge amount of momentum to get it up.. and then dropping it without any effort to resist gravity..

Trying to squat wearing swimming trunks with the lining in them.. did that once.. such a difficult experience.. haha
 
As much as the people in my college gym bug the heck outta me, I try my best to not be so critical concerned to actual people and how they work out... at least they make the effort. However; there are somethings that are unexcusable like:

1) Giving people dirty or strange looks because they do compound movements that don't have the word press in them.

2) Trying to lecture form when they have no clue what they are talking about. My form isn't perfect, and its always something that needs strict attention paid to it, but I usually like to take advice from people who have knowledge and experience instead of brotelligence.

3) Improper gym etiquette... I think there should be a national law that you have to pass a gym etiquette course before even being able to enter a weight room. Interrupting people during a set can be downright dangerous, stealing equipment from someone when they are clearly not finished is dickish, and creeping on girls can sometimes be known as sexual harassment.

Oh... and curls in the squat rack
 
One more thing to add. I work out at Life time and they constantly have songs like "love shack" playing, I cant fathom why anyone would play that song in a gym? They also have commercials play through the loud speakers? wtf is up with that?
 
People that walk around the entire time on their cell phone, and people who use the squat rack for bicep curls. The latter wouldn't be so bad if it was people putting 45s on each side and repping it, but its people putting 5s on either side and having trouble doing it.
 
the young skinny guys in the gym staring at all the big guys, and wanting to be that big.... yet they take 20 minute breaks, and watch the LCD tv's in between their sets.
 
brk_nemesis said:
the young skinny guys in the gym staring at all the big guys, and wanting to be that big.... yet they take 20 minute breaks, and watch the LCD tv's in between their sets.
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Lifting wouldn't be that fun if you didn't have people that idolized you, now would it? Just so happens that the people that idolize you don't have it in them to be you.

That should make you feel good.
 
littlejeni said:
Lifting wouldn't be that fun if you didn't have people that idolized you, now would it? Just so happens that the people that idolize you don't have it in them to be you.

That should make you feel good.
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true... but it's the irony of the situation that makes it annoying sometimes... you have the devotion or you don't... and no " magic pill" will ever substitute total devotion and determination.

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got a new one today and its probably been said.

people giving lift offs or breaks on hammer strength's. don't get me wrong a few extra reps and the end of a set is nice sometimes, but help from the beginning....give me an f'ing break!
 
smshannon001 said:
ok first off i am your age have lifted in a wife beater and swim trunks (but i had regular shoes) but i was at a buddys house over night and didnt have my normal attire

1. the great deadlifters that ego lift and end up trying to sway the bar up with hunched backs and throw off their center of gravity and fall forward tripping over the bar and falling on their face

2. the guy with his girlfriend that hug and smile and kiss and giggle at each other, especially when he is wearin an ed hardy shirt with his fitted hat tilted to the side
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Do you workout at la fitness? cause i swear i seen the mother ****er up there. This dude has a mohawk too
 
I don't know if this is all military gyms or just mine, but I love it there. No pet peeves at all to speak of. Everyone is curteous and uses proper "gym protocall" so to speak. From the older officer type guys trying to stay in good health playing raquetball and lifting on the nautilus machines, to the HUGE powerlifter and bodybuilder type guys lifting weights that are humbling to say the least, to the teenagers just starting out, no one has ever got on my nerves or rubbed me the wrong way there. The bigger guys are the nicest ones too, and I've learned so much over the years as I got started lifting. On top of all that...it's FREE. No complaints over here. The only bad part is when the gym is absolutely over-filled with airmen in blue shorts and grey t-shirts having some sort of fitness class. Any military guys know what I'm talking about?
 
Oh and I almost always do my barbell curls in the squat rack, but if I see someone come in the leg room while I'm doing it I always ask them if they need it for squats if all the racks are taken. Carrying a barbell around where all the benches are is just akward to set down right in front of the mirror and it's usually already crowded in the bench area where all the other barbells are. The squat rack is the best option for heavy curls IMO.
 
indianballer said:
Oh and I almost always do my barbell curls in the squat rack, but if I see someone come in the leg room while I'm doing it I always ask them if they need it for squats if all the racks are taken. Carrying a barbell around where all the benches are is just akward to set down right in front of the mirror and it's usually already crowded in the bench area where all the other barbells are. The squat rack is the best option for heavy curls IMO.
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Totally ok with people doing curls in the squat rack if they are going heavy. Its the people that have trouble curling the bar, and sitting in the rack for 20 min that pisses me off.
 
Loki003 said:
Totally ok with people doing curls in the squat rack if they are going heavy. Its the people that have trouble curling the bar, and sitting in the rack for 20 min that pisses me off.
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I have to admit to doing curls in the squat rack. All this talk about chumbs doing curls in the rack, and I just sit back and hope they aren't talking about me. At least at my gym, the squat racks aren't used that much...just me and a few other guys. Plus my last set is 145 x 8...so at least I am curling as much as some of the others are squatting...they could work in if they wanted.
 
Yeah definatly not talking about you at all haha. Your curling what most of the people weigh that im talking about. Don't get me wrong, all for people doing their thing and lifting, but if its not a high amount of weight then use the barbell rack.
 
smshannon001 said:
ok first off i am your age have lifted in a wife beater and swim trunks (but i had regular shoes) but i was at a buddys house over night and didnt have my normal attire

1. the great deadlifters that ego lift and end up trying to sway the bar up with hunched backs and throw off their center of gravity and fall forward tripping over the bar and falling on their face

2. the guy with his girlfriend that hug and smile and kiss and giggle at each other, especially when he is wearin an ed hardy shirt with his fitted hat tilted to the side
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omg the second one..i cant stand the people who wear like polo shirts and ed hardy shirts at the gym..especially the ones that go ahead and wear ed hardy hats now come the **** on your going to sweat at the gym
 
I curl in the squat rack... So shoot me. (But I go heavy).

1.- The guy with aweful form with a **** ton of weight grunting and yelling. Then gets done with his set and acts like he's the man.

2.- People that walk right infront of me when I'm strapping up/getting my head right for a set of deads.
 
I workout at 24hrs in L.A. The place is like the United Nations and everybody is packed like sardines at 6:00 PM. Once I witnessed every single machine and bench being occupied. The place seems pretty civil considering all the craziness. Some of the things I see:

Annoying fun at the gym:

- The guy who wears Calvin Kline long underwear as sweats.
- The girl who follows her boyfriend around. He drinks a 24 oz Redbull while sitting in the incline bench and talking on his cell phone with another phone in his lap. He is wearing jeans, a dress shirt and dress shoes and does a couple of reps here and there. She has a workout outfit on and never excercised once.


Disappointments at the gym:

1. hot chicks with sweatshirts wrapped around their asses.
2. Machines that have been broken for months!
3. long ass lines!

Things I hate at the gym!!!

Ipods: Lemmings! First of all, Ipods do not own the mp3 market like their maker has convinced you! Their sound is sub par to others like sansa and their headsets suck balls!

Bryant jerseys: I think I'll wear my Coby jersey again for the 100th workout in a row. Hey maybe they will think I'm in with the Lakers or trying out for the team.:burnout:

Unracked weights: This burnout with pot leaf tattoos comes regularly and doesn't rerack. I watched him once spend 30 minutes loading 6 empty machines with plates.
 
lol the worst one i have is the kids that fukin put the weight on the bar for benching do their set and then ****ing leave the weight on the bar. the same with the kid who brings dumbells weight from 15 lbs to 60 lbs for his shoulder workout and then leaves them all over the floor near the bench .
my last one is the fat people that stand around and sit at a bench that you need to use but they won't move cause they're still in the middle of their stupid conversation about where the closest krispy kreme is lol
 
wow, it seems like a lot of people have this issue with weights being in the wrong place...

lol, don't ever come to my gym then (24 hr), every dumbell is pretty much in the wrong place, same with the fixed weight barbells, complete disaster, but on one hand it is not a bad thing - its like a clean bedroom analogy, if everything is in strict order you are going to have less of a tendency to mess it up, but if it is already in complete chaos, why bother? even so, there are multiple sets of every weight, so chances are you can find what you need (if you look in a couple spots).

i am a pretty chill dude, but these things are things i wish i didn't have to see (a lot have been mentioned):

- a 300 lb azn dude exiting the steam room, taking an immediate 90 degree turn, then entering the pool. no shower. absolutely disgusting, glad i don't swim.

- a 60 year old dude drying off his nut sack with a hand drying machine...

- people who bring study material with them at the gym... i would like to knpw exactly how much they get accomplished, and why they can't make time elsewhere.
 
Well I am a old f****r and as stated above I do not harass young girls I think they are stupied and should stay home, 18 yr old high school kids have no gym manners at all and it really pi***s me off when they take over a bench with out asking if it is in use, oh I love to fart when lifting so stay away lol
 
dennis25271 said:
Well I am a old f****r and as stated above I do not harass young girls I think they are stupied and should stay home, 18 yr old high school kids have no gym manners at all and it really pi***s me off when they take over a bench with out asking if it is in use, oh I love to fart when lifting so stay away lol
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i dig what your saying..i especially love when your squatting and theres still plates on the bar, on the top rack, and you walk away to get water and come back and theres some kid taking the weights off and putting on 10 pounds to do BB curls..:ugh1:
 
spres444 said:
i dig what your saying..i especially love when your squatting and theres still plates on the bar, on the top rack, and you walk away to get water and come back and theres some kid taking the weights off and putting on 10 pounds to do BB curls..:ugh1:
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That's why you have a towel or something to mark that your still on there. Just saying...
 
it also drives me insane at golds how we have the 5-35 dumbells on the left rack and going all the way down to the right are the heaviest dumbells which are 125s and there benches infront of them for all sorts of incline db press, decline, flat, etc.. and off course someone will be doing 40 pound dumbell bench by the 125s so i have to carry the 90s and 100s to the other end and then carry them all the way back. damn if ur gonna use light ass weight use the benches right by them
 
I hate the really fat guy at my gym who does partial movements on every exercise and then struts out of the gym leaving all the 40lb plates loaded on the equipment.
" Hey fatty let me help you unload that machine , I can see your to tired to do it " . :angryfire:
 
eggnog631 said:
one thing that really bothers me is,

i see my older cousin in the gym all the time (im 19 hes 21). he was someone i looked up to when i was older so it kind of bothers me when i see this.
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your name isn't by chance Benjamin Button, is it...if so I'm so frickin' jealous:laugh:
 
As far as my two:

1) This is a universal complaint and not reserved just for the gym; the "too cool for school" f***ers who just can't be bothered to be friendly or friendly without being snarky sh*ts. I don't spend my time trying to be everyone's friend, I'm there to do my workout and get out but we might as well be friendly and civil to each other when possible in the meantime. This goes for the gym elitists as well; just because your muscles are bigger than mine you are not better than me...I am not jealous of your muscles but mainly am always respectful of the effort I know it took to get there.

2) Texting or talking on the phone at the gym. As far as I'm concerned, leave your f***ing phone in the locker or at home! I don't want to watch anyone talking on the phone in the weightroom and I certainly don't want to see any crackberrys there either. I consider this right up there with pissing on someone's grave as far as disrespect. Go outside in the parking lot or I will shove your damn phone where it might require surgery to remove.

The gym is like a place of worship, and if you don't get it you don't belong there. Certain rules apply and if adhered to the sanctity of the temple is not soiled.
 
Like last nite,...guys who load up way too many plates on the leg press but dont even go half way down, then need their buddy to "spot" them,... omfg,... use the correct weight,.. and go all the way down. Same thing with squats. Whats the point of loading 8 plates on each side, only to go 2 inches down?
 
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