name 2 things that drive you insane at your gym.

People hate cell phone users in the gym? I got one to top that. Couple years ago, I was on flat bench DB pressing with 80's or 90's, don't remember. Well there was a mom and daughter combo that just yakked the entire time they were there. They would take up space on equipment and talk non-stop, even while doing reps. So I am DB pressing and the daughter comes over and sticks a cell phone in my face, mid set, and says, "do you know my boyfriend Toby?" Turns out I used to work with the guy, but the MIDDLE of a set, not IN-BETWEEN sets, is NOT a good time to ask!

Most people do stupid stuff in the gym. But even if you aren't in great shape, but truly work hard and actually expend some energy, then all the props to you.

2-When the "smoothie bar" sells "healthy smoothies" to the fat people with 40-60 grams of sugar and has like 700 calories. That just seems like a train wreck for an obese person who has to watch total calories consumed. Not necessarily bad for someone that is building or maintaining muscle and understands what they are drinking.

just my 2 cents.

PS. I told my wife no girfriends in the gym when we first started dating. So she decided she was going to lift with me. And for years she does typical bodybuilder style workouts. Benches, deads, squats, what ever. She is one of the few women that actually lift correctly and isn't afraid to be in the weight area with the guys. She definitely works hard which is cool. All her freinds at work ask her how she looks great and what they can do to look the same. They join the gym and she says go lift weights with me, but they think they will end up like Arnold so they don't. And they stay on the cardio equip, they stay fat and out of shape, or they lose weight and get skinny but still soft and squishy looking with no muscle tone.
 
Yes, look at women who just walk or even jog on the treadmill. Aerobic and Pilates classes are a step up, but still there's usually nothing outstanding about their shapes. When they get turned onto weights, THAT'S when things begin to tightened and shape in the right places. The proof is there, if they'll just look.
 
One guy was on the treadmill bearly moving. I said to my friend " Thats not doing him much good, why bother" My friend said " maybe his TV at home is broke"
 
fightbackhxc said:
2.) People who use the same piece of equipment for their whole workout. Let me have a shot!
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yea I hate those situations. equipment hogging can be annoying but then again, some people just have their whole workout based on the one or two pieces of equipment... i think gyms should invest more on the equipment in demand.
 
brownstown89 said:
i just have to vent so i wanted to hear what just sets you off at your gym.

1. When guys my age(17-22) im 19, come to the gym in a beater and swimming trunks and flip flops. go straight to the bench and put on 225 and do ellbow bends.. you know where u unrack the bar and bend ur elbows and push up while your 110 pound spotter makes sure you dont get crushed then run over to super set it with your max chest press which u cant get but ur spotter shoves the machine to where u got it locked out. man must build up those ligaments then u do 50 sets of preacher curls with the bar and a 5 on each side and flex in the mirror for 5 hours and drink a vitamin water as your post workout...

2. Guy whos Alpha Male attitude is a bit too much this guy comes in does Standing shrugs on the seated shurg machine, makes sures he slams every weight down so u see how much he was doing. yells when he curls. makes obnoxious faces whather hes doing hamstring curls or swinging the lat pulldown bar down. O you will also hear him saying things like man i Fing hate it when ppl ask me for advice like how did u get soo big how are u moving so much weight.. when in reality i havent seen anyone ask him that. Also this guy looks like he got a severe case of gyno.
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1. My wife stomping on the floor and asking if I'm done yet.
2.My wife stomping on the floor and asking if I'm done yet.

Yea.
I need to join a gym.
 
This happen this past week.. This guy strip off his shirt in the gym now he is wearing a tank top that is way too small for fat body and then he takes off his shorts and is workling out in his boxers! Look in the mirror like he was hot!!!! Why just why and no one said a dam thing including me becuse that shi$ just mesed me up!
 
oh yeah about the scrawny guys benching too much weight. they can barely get 3 reps, doesn't matter how much weight it is, just too much for them. i see them slap on 10 or 20 more and then come ask me for a spot. i say sure, i'll teach him. and i'll tell him, i don't give freebies, so i ask how many he is shooting for and he says 3 or 4. i might give a lift off but the first rep is crap and he fights to get it up. he is obviously expecting me to pull half the load for him so he goes for #2 and he barely gets it off his chest. so of course he gets the two finger spot just to barely help keep it going, and it's obvious he can't get it. so i "motivate" him, you know, easy weight, you got it, keep pushing, that stuff. i'll let him fight until i see the bar dropping and then make sure he doesn't crush his chest and help get it racked.

so much fun giving people a reality check sometimes, especially when they ask for it!
 
people that critque your form and technique or even exercise selection.

these people don't realize that everyone is unique and respond in a completely different way to various exercises.......I also can't stand it when people grunt and growl to look like they are training so intense......I keep my noises to a minimum and find that screaming just drains me of strength.....additionally, no one is impressed with these fools.
 
when girls want to only do cardio plates sp? and yoga and ppl try to insist them to lift if they dont want to they dont have to 95% of girls who want to get in shape running pilates abs etc. is enough..

i mean my ex girl use to lift and it was sweet, she wanted to but alot dont. and they got fine bodies too.. nothings more annoying then seeing a guy yell at his gf and trying to get her to deadlift 185 and squat 2 plates on each side bench 45s on each side shits annoying
 
close grip said:
people that critque your form and technique or even exercise selection.

these people don't realize that everyone is unique and respond in a completely different way to various exercises.......I also can't stand it when people grunt and growl to look like they are training so intense......I keep my noises to a minimum and find that screaming just drains me of strength.....additionally, no one is impressed with these fools.
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yea i hate that, although when im maxing or pushing my body I tend to breathe really loud to pump myself up. Like blow in air in and out to kinda get me pumped.

Thats usually the extent of sound I make whilst lifting.
 
Fat, arrogant personal-trainers dressed like they're 6 weeks out from a contest, looking like they're 6 weeks from labour, giving unwanted diet tips to other fat people! Hey...SHUT UP!

Spandex abuse makes Jesus cry!

Half-shirts on the overweight are an offense to humanity. If it looks like your belly button swallowed your piercing...or that you rolled over on a Skittle, it's time to re-think your approach to fitness.
 
people that think just becuase you take creatine you dont have to work hard for you gains

when your spotter is not paying attention and talking so loud to the person next to him that you can hear them over you ipod
 
Things I dislike immensely:

1. People who don't clean their benches. (I've caught a bad one before and that put me out of the gym... and swimming pools for 4 weeks!)

2. The Notebook Badouches. I respect people for keeping track of their workouts while in the gym... but how hard is it for someone to keep it in THEIR area, and not on a bench on the other side of the gym. WTF?!
 
It really pisses me off when I'm trying to finish some drop sets on the bench and my GF starts tickling my balls...
 
1) when the part / newly qualified instructor comes in thinking he/she is hot S**t and starts telling experienced people their form is wrong.
I actually see this instructor who wasnt even qualified telling a big ripped dude that what he was doing was wrong.

2) the big fat eastern european guys in my gym who thing they are chizzled gods staring you down as to say, i own that, get off it. Gobshites!!!!!
 
youngandfree said:
oh yeah about the scrawny guys benching too much weight. they can barely get 3 reps, doesn't matter how much weight it is, just too much for them. i see them slap on 10 or 20 more and then come ask me for a spot. i say sure, i'll teach him. and i'll tell him, i don't give freebies, so i ask how many he is shooting for and he says 3 or 4. i might give a lift off but the first rep is crap and he fights to get it up. he is obviously expecting me to pull half the load for him so he goes for #2 and he barely gets it off his chest. so of course he gets the two finger spot just to barely help keep it going, and it's obvious he can't get it. so i "motivate" him, you know, easy weight, you got it, keep pushing, that stuff. i'll let him fight until i see the bar dropping and then make sure he doesn't crush his chest and help get it racked.

so much fun giving people a reality check sometimes, especially when they ask for it!
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yeah i had a small kid ask me for a spot at the gym..he couldnt weigh more than 150 and was trying to bench 225. i watched his previous sets...saw him struggle with like 135, 165, 185..lifting his back...squirming.....so he asks me for a spot and i said sorry dude. not until you learn proper form and use a weight u can handle. im not gonna be right there while u hurt urself.
 
Cellphones in the gym are ridiculous, that's one and two is this old lady in my gym who has bigger arms than I do. You gotta see this lady she has to be 55-60 years old and her arms are huge and it's all muscle.
 
I came to the gym and some old lady was on her cell phone sitting at the desk... I started with lat pulldowns and got a couple sets in. She came over and told me she was using the machine and that I had cut in without asking. She expected me to get off, but I made her old lazy granny ass work in with me. I even made her change her own weights on the stack... she had to adjust the leg bar each time too. Teaches that dumb b*tch to sit around talkin on her cell phone while she is in the middle of a workout.
 
Delita420 said:
I came to the gym and some old lady was on her cell phone sitting at the desk... I started with lat pulldowns and got a couple sets in. She came over and told me she was using the machine and that I had cut in without asking. She expected me to get off, but I made her old lazy granny ass work in with me. I even made her change her own weights on the stack... she had to adjust the leg bar each time too. Teaches that dumb b*tch to sit around talkin on her cell phone while she is in the middle of a workout.
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The best! Would have done the same thing.
 
...had a guy the other day working out while his girlfriend followed him around and took pictures on her/his cellphone the whole time. The funny thing is was instead of working out seriously and his girlfriend just happening to be taking random photos for her girlfriends( idk, whatever the reason), he was actually posing and such, stopping mid reps on exercises, and making intense faces for his girl to take pictures of him. It was hard for everyone in the gym to w/o because we were laughing so dam hard. -haha
 
brk_nemesis said:
...had a guy the other day working out while his girlfriend followed him around and took pictures on her/his cellphone the whole time. The funny thing is was instead of working out seriously and his girlfriend just happening to be taking random photos for her girlfriends( idk, whatever the reason), he was actually posing and such, stopping mid reps on exercises, and making intense faces for his girl to take pictures of him. It was hard for everyone in the gym to w/o because we were laughing so dam hard. -haha
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hey dude, dont be hating on a fellow man when he is throwing down Blue Steel to the ladies... :box:
 
Delita420 said:
I came to the gym and some old lady was on her cell phone sitting at the desk... I started with lat pulldowns and got a couple sets in. She came over and told me she was using the machine and that I had cut in without asking. She expected me to get off, but I made her old lazy granny ass work in with me. I even made her change her own weights on the stack... she had to adjust the leg bar each time too. Teaches that dumb b*tch to sit around talkin on her cell phone while she is in the middle of a workout.
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lol this old guy did similar thing he put his towel on the cable machine while working out on another machine so I just took it off and started using it and he said he was using it and i was like ok while im using it now ill be done in 2 more sets.
 
I had someone ask me how many more sets I had left while I was right in the middle of my first set on the seated calf machine. You'd think he would at least have the courtesy to wait till I finish the damn set.
 
p00ndawg said:
yea i hate that, although when im maxing or pushing my body I tend to breathe really loud to pump myself up. Like blow in air in and out to kinda get me pumped.

Thats usually the extent of sound I make whilst lifting.
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I dont care about people making sounds.

But I have critiqued form before. A guy was doing rope pull downs, but was like reaching up, yanking em down, and not even locking out, and flinging it up, repeating. Looked like a napoleon dynamite thing...I told him he isnt supposed to raise his arms, his elbows shouldn't move...he couldn't get the same weight like that very much, and the pressure on him was crazy.
 
There's this guy at my gym and every time I see him he always asks me how much I'm benching just so has an excuse to tell me how much he is benching. Then he'll talk about himself for another 10 minutes or until I fake that I'm getting called over by someone else LOL. It's annoying as hell, and he does that with pretty much everyone he talks to. I don't mind hearing about his workouts and all that, but when the conversation is totally centered on him... I mean come on dude get a life!
 
fenderman said:
There's this guy at my gym and every time I see him he always asks me how much I'm benching just so has an excuse to tell me how much he is benching. Then he'll talk about himself for another 10 minutes or until I fake that I'm getting called over by someone else LOL. It's annoying as hell, and he does that with pretty much everyone he talks to. I don't mind hearing about his workouts and all that, but when the conversation is totally centered on him... I mean come on dude get a life!
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Hey next times he says how much your benching try saying I don't know let's check and walk toward the bench.
 
People who do their whole db routine right at the rack so u can get to the weight then give u stupid faces when they can't figure out why your pissed.
 
the guys who comment on how fat they are so they can pull up their shirt and show off their 6 pack...

the guys u see pullin in to burger king everyday and who also tells u they get hammered 3 times a week and still seem to grow..

( I love to get drunk... but haven't touched alcohol in 6 months ...and in college... those bastards)
 
the only day i wont drink b4 is my max effort bench.. thats the only day it effects me.. i try not to b4 max effort deads if it happens o well i still pull good.
 
so out of the million things i hate about people at the gym, the 2 for today I can think of is:

1. People who hog a single piece of high demand equipment (like the squat rack).

2. People who socialize at the gym. This affects me because the bast*rds tend to get in the way a lot...

But with all that being said, I hit the gym in the mornings now. Instead of 140 noobs in the gym (which happens in the evening), the morning sessions tend to have 10 - 20 people most of whom are serious about their training.
 
the one thing that boils my blood is all these wannabe's in the gym , walking around like they are the cock of the walk. None of these pencilnecks are ever squatting or doing deads. But they will wear the hell out of a wife beater. I mean, wouldnt you think just working chest, arms, shoulders....over, over, over, over, and over again every single friggin workout WOULD GET OLD! I go to a fairly large gym, and i can count on one hand that number of guys that seriously squat and deadlift. Hell, come to think of it, i can count them on 3 fingers. Absolutely ridiculous.
 
msucurt said:
the one thing that boils my blood is all these wannabe's in the gym , walking around like they are the cock of the walk. None of these pencilnecks are ever squatting or doing deads. But they will wear the hell out of a wife beater. I mean, wouldnt you think just working chest, arms, shoulders....over, over, over, over, and over again every single friggin workout WOULD GET OLD! I go to a fairly large gym, and i can count on one hand that number of guys that seriously squat and deadlift. Hell, come to think of it, i can count them on 3 fingers. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Because you have to do dead lifts and squats all the time....... There isn't another way to train those muscle groups.....Invalid Link Removed
BTW I mostly do legs with my friends at another local gym for motivation so I imagine people think I don't train completely bc they don't see the whole picture.
 
Flyers2385 said:
Because you have to do dead lifts and squats all the time....... There isn't another way to train those muscle groups.....
BTW I mostly do legs with my friends at another local gym for motivation so I imagine people think I don't train completely bc they don't see the whole picture.
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Yea I doubt many people have the same scenario you're in.

the one thing that boils my blood is all these wannabe's in the gym , walking around like they are the cock of the walk. None of these pencilnecks are ever squatting or doing deads. But they will wear the hell out of a wife beater. I mean, wouldnt you think just working chest, arms, shoulders....over, over, over, over, and over again every single friggin workout WOULD GET OLD! I go to a fairly large gym, and i can count on one hand that number of guys that seriously squat and deadlift. Hell, come to think of it, i can count them on 3 fingers. Absolutely ridiculous.
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This is probably the only thing that bothers me in the gym... those guys that come in and do the same arm and chest work out everytime you see them :dunno:

I think aside from that it's the guys that grab too much weight and use poor form to get the job done...

The gym is for being healthy and getting in shape not for flexing your ego!
 
Grimninja117 said:
Yea I doubt many people have the same scenario you're in.
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Probably right. Imposing your lifting standards on others who you don't see dead lifting or squatting is funny to me. It's one thing if what someone else is doing is impeding your workout and directly affects you and its another when your worried about how others are working out. People should dedicate the time they waste critiquing others' routines to worrying about their own faults.
 
Flyers2385 said:
Probably right. Imposing your lifting standards on others who you don't see dead lifting or squatting is funny to me. It's one thing if what someone else is doing is impeding your workout and directly affects you and its another when your worried about how others are working out. People should dedicate the time they waste critiquing others' routines to worrying about their own faults.
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This is very true.

Honestly I let people do their own thing, but I had to post the things that drive me mad at my gym! I mean that's what the entire thread is about lol.
 
i find it very odd that so many people are complaining about grunting and making noise. ill grunt and breathe heavy all i want and no one should try and hold it back because they may get strange looks from the "tone" crowd. in fact, i like when other people do it as well. i know that at 6:30, all the serious bbers/monsters workout at my gym and theyre loud as hell. nothing gets me more pumped than people throwin heavy weights around and makin noise. i think we feed off of each others energy.
 
eggnog631 said:
i find it very odd that so many people are complaining about grunting and making noise. ill grunt and breathe heavy all i want and no one should try and hold it back because they may get strange looks from the "tone" crowd. in fact, i like when other people do it as well. i know that at 6:30, all the serious bbers/monsters workout at my gym and theyre loud as hell. nothing gets me more pumped than people throwin heavy weights around and makin noise. i think we feed off of each others energy.
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HELL YES!
 
eggnog631 said:
i find it very odd that so many people are complaining about grunting and making noise. ill grunt and breathe heavy all i want and no one should try and hold it back because they may get strange looks from the "tone" crowd. in fact, i like when other people do it as well. i know that at 6:30, all the serious bbers/monsters workout at my gym and theyre loud as hell. nothing gets me more pumped than people throwin heavy weights around and makin noise. i think we feed off of each others energy.
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Yeah, i got say i am not exactly quite when i deadlift. But that is why i don't train at a 24 hour fitness or any of those god awful gyms, i doubt they appreciate it, or the 600 plus lbs crashing to the ground from time to time. I travel 20-30 minutes and pass a half dozen gyms on the way for a reason.
 
There is a guy in my gym that wears tanning lotion for months at a time. He is a trainer there and I highly doubt he's doing a show a week to keep it on that long.
 
The banging together of the DB when doing presses and the throwing the DB to the floor when they are done. I guess it's an attention getter for some.
 
i drop the dumbells just because why try to be polite and put my shoulders at an awkward position and hurt them because ppl dont wanna hear dumbells fall..? sorry imma throw them down
 
People doing "heavy weight" with terrible form.... You know, the clean bicep curl guy....

Skull caps in the middle of summer automatically get the douche label.
 
jim623 said:
The banging together of the DB when doing presses and the throwing the DB to the floor when they are done. I guess it's an attention getter for some.
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hmmm I c. The main reason I use Dumbells over a barbel is due to the fact that I can drop it on failure... as oppose to a barbel which would break my teeth if I was to drop it while benching.
 
BoyFromAus said:
hmmm I c. The main reason I use Dumbells over a barbel is due to the fact that I can drop it on failure... as oppose to a barbel which would break my teeth if I was to drop it while benching.
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That I understand, these guys are not going to failure, in fact, they sometimes throw them forward, so they have the arm strength to set them down reasonably.
 
eggnog631 said:
i find it very odd that so many people are complaining about grunting and making noise. ill grunt and breathe heavy all i want and no one should try and hold it back because they may get strange looks from the "tone" crowd. in fact, i like when other people do it as well. i know that at 6:30, all the serious bbers/monsters workout at my gym and theyre loud as hell. nothing gets me more pumped than people throwin heavy weights around and makin noise. i think we feed off of each others energy.
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A good protein Fart usually clears them out so no one is around to hear. Works every time!
 
A reasonable amount of noise is always fine, IMO. I think where it crosses the line is when it's excessive, or really not necessary to squeeze out an extra rep. There is some douche who frequents my gym who constantly screams, "WOOO!" to his girlfriend while she is doing 5lb DB Kickbacks, and who changes in the middle of the hallway. He also happens to be the douche who crashes the plates together as hard as he can when loading a machine.

Noise the occurs in the normal course of ****ing crushing it, IMO, is more than welcome and is to be expected; going above and beyond for attention gets a plate thrown at you.
 
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