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What annoys you with other people’s behaviour at the gym??
It always winds me up when guys leave their dirty, sweaty kit lieing in front of my locker! And then they give you a funny look when they come back from the shower as they have realised you have moved it!! |
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The new “film everything you do” trend
No one wants to see you do a bicep curl on your insta 3 times a week
And I don’t like having to try to dodge your camera in the gym |
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Not wiping down equipment after using it....
Not putting weights away...
Throwing weights down after using them as if youre some hard man... |
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People going to the gym and posting about it and making me feel like a right lazy bugger  |
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Oh and excessive grunting.
If its that heavy, go lighter...
Honestly, I spend a lot of time at the gym so Ive seen so much that winds me up... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m lucky in that i choose to train at 5:30-6:00am when the place is empty.
When I used the gym in the evenings, the posing peacocks and preening princesses pissed me off. Taking up space in the few squat racks to take 1075628 selfies. My other big bugbear is that space is premium at the gym I use, and I get seriously wound up at the people who stand/sit chatting socially while not using equipment. Just get in, train, leave. Want a social get together, go to the f’kin coffee shop! |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
Not been for years, but not wiping down equipment used to get on my tits. |
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People texting and setting video up
Not putting weights back
Dropping them
Guys training in large groups taking over machines or benches forever!
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Gym rules.
Leave people alone.
Tidy up.
Don't hog equipment.
Leave your phone in your locker.
Don't be a dickwad.
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"Oh and excessive grunting.
If its that heavy, go lighter...
Honestly, I spend a lot of time at the gym so Ive seen so much that winds me up..."
Agree with everything you have said so far !! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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hate gyms not used one since i left the army |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
"Not wiping down equipment after using it....
Not putting weights away...
Throwing weights down after using them as if youre some hard man..."
Saw a huge steroid monster doing incline press with heavy dumbbells. He let them hit the floor. One bounced back and smashed his phone.
Also hate:
Taking one of each pair of dumbbells for drop sets.
Setting up multiple stations
Not wiping down
Screaming
Sitting on a bench/machine scrolling SM (longest I have seen was 26 minutes)
Not grouping weight correctly when re-racking them.
Filming other people
Slamming weights down.
Having a mother's meeting around a piece of piece of equipment.
Bugging others.
Trying to jump on equipment when you have just gone for a water refill especially if you have left your bag/towel on it. |
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People smirking or sniggering when they see a larger person in there giving it a go. We all started somewhere  |
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By *lexV16Man
over a year ago
Welling |
The gym I go provides towels. Really can’t understand why people leave them everywhere in the changing room instead of putting them into bins provided exactly for used towels  |
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By *L9269Couple
over a year ago
Newport |
Ive noticed online now people secretly recording other people then posting it online thats fucking disgraceful whether there technique is wrong or whatever everyone should help each other out all there for the same reason but yeah the usual
Taking 20mins inbetween sets being on there phone or whatever they do |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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People not taking their plates off
People not putting the dumbbells back in the correct order
People taking 5 pairs of dumbbells that they're apparently all using
People who do curls in the squat rack
PTs who are overly social with the women
That one bellend who literally jogged past me as I was walking towards a machine to get there ahead of me  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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People doing stacked/super sets that use a ton of equipment and then get pissed if you start using something that’s unattended. Like don’t be a dick…if I see a piece of equipment that is not being used and it’s next on my list to do I’m not checking with you if you’re on the other side of the gym doing something else. |
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Bicep curls in the squat rack
Guys who give me unsolicited advice!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Ive noticed online now people secretly recording other people then posting it online thats fucking disgraceful whether there technique is wrong or whatever everyone should help each other out all there for the same reason but yeah the usual
Taking 20mins inbetween sets being on there phone or whatever they do "
That’s so bad!!! And sneaky |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not paying there bill.... its killing me, gyms are not free drop in centres |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh and excessive grunting.
If its that heavy, go lighter...
Honestly, I spend a lot of time at the gym so Ive seen so much that winds me up..."
I don't think you train hard enough ((grunt)) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I’m lucky in that i choose to train at 5:30-6:00am when the place is empty.
When I used the gym in the evenings, the posing peacocks and preening princesses pissed me off. Taking up space in the few squat racks to take 1075628 selfies. My other big bugbear is that space is premium at the gym I use, and I get seriously wound up at the people who stand/sit chatting socially while not using equipment. Just get in, train, leave. Want a social get together, go to the f’kin coffee shop!"
All of this.
And also, people who don't put their plates/weights away after use. Purely anecdotal, but in my gym it's usually the women and the runts who don't tidy their shit up. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think people moaning about grunting is excessive, sometimes they just come out like an unexpected fart. |
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By *L9269Couple
over a year ago
Newport |
"Ive noticed online now people secretly recording other people then posting it online thats fucking disgraceful whether there technique is wrong or whatever everyone should help each other out all there for the same reason but yeah the usual
Taking 20mins inbetween sets being on there phone or whatever they do
That’s so bad!!! And sneaky "
Yeah like i haven't seen it personally done at my gym but ive seen vids doing rounds and tbf there is people calling them out for it aswell its pathetic really x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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For me its people who hog the equipment. Whether they're chatting to their mates, looking at their phone or just taking their sweet time, hurry the fuck up already!! I don't want to jump in with you inbetween sets, I want you to do what the fuck you came to the gym for and that's move your fucking ass!!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I could be here all day listing the things I hate about fellow gym goers.
I hate people that take all the dumbbells rather than just the ones they are using for that particular set.
I hate people who leave sweat patches on benches.
I hate personal trainers that are just doing it to be pervs. Also the clueless ones.
I hate supersetters when the gym is extremely busy.
I could go on.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I dont let other people effect me at the gym |
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Not cleaning up after yourself mostly. So leaving equipment wherever you used it, leaving your sweat or chalk all over everything, taking up workout space with jackets, etc.
Also trying to use two or more bits of equipment/machines at once when it's busy.
Unsolicited advise that is usually terrible or even dangerous.
Staring. Be subtle and considerate of people's comfort if you want to watch people and if someone clearly catches you looking, don't continue to stare at them. It's uncomfortable. |
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By *tooveMan
over a year ago
belfast |
"Gym rules.
Leave people alone.
Tidy up.
Don't hog equipment.
Leave your phone in your locker.
Don't be a dickwad.
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Yeah agree. |
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By *ionaWoman
over a year ago
outskirts |
"People going to the gym and posting about it and making me feel like a right lazy bugger "
This |
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I haven't got time for people who don't put the equipment away after they use it or chit chatting when I'm waiting to use the equipment.
I have to tell them straight, clear up or move on. |
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"People going to the gym and posting about it and making me feel like a right lazy bugger "
The Blazing Squad |
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The ones who sit on equipment on their phone for ages
The grunting and groaning  if only you guys could hear yourself 
The little group that hogs the corner by a big mirror pretending to do a kettlebell class. My PT laughs like hell at them |
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Good question, OP.
It winds me up when people go to the gym. I'm like, "Dude! Why you trying to make me look bad?!" |
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"Gym rules.
Leave people alone.
Tidy up.
Don't hog equipment.
Leave your phone in your locker.
Don't be a dickwad.
Yeah agree."
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sat on the equipment texting on their phones
People who film themselves
Not cleaning down the equipment
People who stare
The groups of knuckle draggers who goad and egg each other on, just no
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sat on the equipment texting on their phones
People who film themselves
Not cleaning down the equipment
People who stare
The groups of knuckle draggers who goad and egg each other on, just no
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High 5’s bro’ |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bicep curls in squat rack!
The instagram gym couple!
The teenage hyena pack: group of 5-6 “bros” hanging around 1 machine and chatting
People who don’t rack there weights |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Phones
Tripods
Texting
Posing for selfies
Taking ages on kit
Not re racking weights
Not wiping down
Shadow boxing in mirror in non boxing gym
People not training hard |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not putting kit away after using it.
Dropping weights on the floor, if you aren't strong enough to put them down, don't pick them up. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Don't throw bathbombs in the hydro pool. I got a right telling off about this today. |
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I don't think I could go to a commercial gym now after watching all the tiktok videos lol
I like my small gym where everyone is respectful of everyone else. We all put our kit away (and make sure the dumbbells are all in weight order and facing the right way!) And we all let people know if we're videoing so they can get out of the background if they want to. |
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"People going to the gym and posting about it and making me feel like a right lazy bugger "
What's a gym? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Curling in the squat rack.
People coming up to me a critiquing my form on a 300kg deadlift, yet the can barely pull 120kg, fuck off.
People speaking to me while I'm in the middle if a lift, let me fucking finish.
People asking for my advice and then completely ignoring it, usually leading to an injury, I wont help again.
17 people sharing 1 bit of kit
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I own a set of gyms and had to post up a code of etiquette, including no phones in the gym area, lost a few members because of it...
Vanity..... hate it!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I own a set of gyms and had to post up a code of etiquette, including no phones in the gym area, lost a few members because of it...
Vanity..... hate it!!!"
I use my phone for a few things though. I use an app to track my sets and reps. I also video myself on deadlifts and squats from the side to ensure I'm not rounding my back and getting my thighs parallel to ground on my squat. Not everyone videoing themselves are doing it for the 'Gram |
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"Not been for years, but not wiping down equipment used to get on my tits."
I would always wipe your equipment down.  |
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1 set, ten minutes on the phone sitting on the equipment while you wait to use it.
Fuck wits. |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
Let's not forget that guy that sets his bag on a bench while using other kit then gets pissy when you move it.
Also when someone sits on a bench to write down every rep/set after they have done. Dude.. go sit in a corner and do it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In struggling to get back there, doing cycling in the sunshine at the minute, it's a start! |
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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago
Burnleyish (She/They) |
"Not wiping down equipment after using it....
Not putting weights away...
Throwing weights down after using them as if youre some hard man..."
While grunting as if you have just shat yourself. |
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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago
Burnleyish (She/They) |
PTs/gym staff who on induction come out with lines like
"That's the free weights area, but I won't show you that cause these cardio machines will be what you want" |
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People who hog the dumbbells, they run the rack but keep all the dumbbells around them.
One person keeping 6 sets of dumbbells around them.
People who drop the dumbbells/bar after their final rep. If you can't place it gently on the ground, you're not strong enough for that weight.
The funny excuses you get when you ask them about dropping the weight "it gets me psyched up for the next rep" "that's what they do in the strong man competitions"
Re-racking dumbbells in the wrong order! |
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Today, someone stretching and groaning in the sauna! Omg F off and do it somewhere else already !! |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
"Today, someone stretching and groaning in the sauna! Omg F off and do it somewhere else already !!"
How about someone shaving their legs in the sauna and losing their shit when it's suggested tustsca but fucking grim for the rest of us! |
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I find it funny in a way but the guys who shout and slam the weights down due to incorrectly lifting more than they can handle is laughable.
People who overhog the running machines too. Yeah it's one of the best cardio machines but there's more to the gym. If you want to walk and chat with your mate on the slowest setting you may as well be going for a stroll outside in the fresh air. |
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"Today, someone stretching and groaning in the sauna! Omg F off and do it somewhere else already !!
How about someone shaving their legs in the sauna and losing their shit when it's suggested tustsca but fucking grim for the rest of us!"
Awful, bring back torture I say!! |
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"The new “film everything you do” trend
No one wants to see you do a bicep curl on your insta 3 times a week
And I don’t like having to try to dodge your camera in the gym "
This and the hovering people that wait next to you to finish using a machine |
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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
Women in the men's area. You have a ladies only area so use it and get out of the men's part.
C |
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It annoys the shit out of me when somebody sits at a piece of equipment just using their phone. Get the fuck off it, mate. Other people want to use it too. Machine-hoggers should be rounded up and deported. |
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By *untogetherCouple
over a year ago
Malaga, Spain, Not in U. K. |
Now that school is out here... teenagers just sitting on different machines chatting to each other not working out in any capacity.
When the gym is packed and people hogging multiple machines doing their circuit.
Not cleaning after themselves.
Creepy men staring while I'm working out. Nah man... I'm going to skip the squat machine today, thanks! |
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By *untogetherCouple
over a year ago
Malaga, Spain, Not in U. K. |
"It annoys the shit out of me when somebody sits at a piece of equipment just using their phone. Get the fuck off it, mate. Other people want to use it too. Machine-hoggers should be rounded up and deported. "
Yes!!!! |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
"People who hog the dumbbells, they run the rack but keep all the dumbbells around them.
One person keeping 6 sets of dumbbells around them.
People who drop the dumbbells/bar after their final rep. If you can't place it gently on the ground, you're not strong enough for that weight.
The funny excuses you get when you ask them about dropping the weight "it gets me psyched up for the next rep" "that's what they do in the strong man competitions"
Re-racking dumbbells in the wrong order!"
Not forgetting the dicks who take 1 dumbbell out of each of 6 sets to a station.
People who get in the way if others because they are looking for the best lighting for their gym selfie.
PTs/gym staff who stand around when there are beginners with no idea what they are doing and have shit technique.
Arseholes who just randomly rerack plates in weird order rather than in the correct place. |
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"Women in the men's area. You have a ladies only area so use it and get out of the men's part.
C"
There's areas?! |
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Take only 1 of the dumbbells you have just set down. Like if you need them then ask and why only 1. Lol |
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Now you have opened the flood gate, shavers who leave the sink full of shit, athletes' foot arsholes who leave a powder foot print on the floor after powdering their rancid feet.
Then the people who do a set,then sit for 10 reading their phone as you want to get on the kit. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What annoys you with other people’s behaviour at the gym??
It always winds me up when guys leave their dirty, sweaty kit lieing in front of my locker! And then they give you a funny look when they come back from the shower as they have realised you have moved it!!"
People sitting on a bench, on their phone, delaying their workout... I am there to workout not text and WhatsApp... |
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Nearly forgot, you go to an empty machine, and they come over and say they have not finished, they have just 10 minutes left on the the machine they are on and they are coming back to finish. |
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Unqualified personal trainers ripping off newbies for £20 a time |
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Then they stand in front if the mirror in the changing room for ten minutes, your fat or flabby min 1 your just the same 10 minutes later. |
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To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong. |
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong."
I have a heart condition and I get so anxious I'm annoying people by resting too long  |
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
I have a heart condition and I get so anxious I'm annoying people by resting too long "
We all supposed to be out here getting our 30seconds! People need to acquire a smidgen of patience. If the gym is so small you're stood waiting for 1 piece of kit join a bigger gym lol |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong."
There are limits.
Entering your sets in - no problem
Sitting having an entire text conversation on WhatsApp or scrolling tinder/insta for 5-10 mons between sets? Fuck off.
Once saw a woman sit for 26 minutes on a leg press machine on social media. Not one rep done. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The ones who drop the weights on floors which are not meant for them.
The ones who would leave lots of weights on the bar after finishing workout.
The ones who do workout right in front of dumbbell rack, blocking others' access to dumbbells on the rack.
The ones who hog the machine while using phone. I understand that some people need longer to rest. But it's usually easy to distinguish the ones genuinely resting to the ones just passing time. |
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
There are limits.
I'm with ya there tbh.
Entering your sets in - no problem
Sitting having an entire text conversation on WhatsApp or scrolling tinder/insta for 5-10 mons between sets? Fuck off.
Once saw a woman sit for 26 minutes on a leg press machine on social media. Not one rep done."
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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago
Burnleyish (She/They) |
"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
There are limits.
Entering your sets in - no problem
Sitting having an entire text conversation on WhatsApp or scrolling tinder/insta for 5-10 mons between sets? Fuck off.
Once saw a woman sit for 26 minutes on a leg press machine on social media. Not one rep done."
It's not even like it's comfortable to sit on!
I scroll insta/tiktok on my rests but ADHD brain needs occupying somehow or I'll end up wandering off mid set.
I also have a timer for my rests as I have zero natural concept of time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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People who'll leave a towel or hoodie on a machine then go to another machine and work between the two |
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The people who rock up at the pool, have 2 different floats, hand paddles, a 5 litre water bottle, goggles, ear plugs and a swim hat. Then hog the only lane, spending 5 minutes trying to sync their fitbit before thrashing up and down 5 lengths and then get out.
Ditch all the nonsense and triple your workout maybe? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Gym rules.
Leave people alone.
Tidy up.
Don't hog equipment.
Leave your phone in your locker.
Don't be a dickwad.
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Kinda the same for swinging clubs |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not putting weights back (or putting them in the wrong place)
My biggest one is when I've left my stuff by my bench (phone, towel etc) to go and fill up my bottle and someone comes and moves it so they can use the bench when clearly its already in use. Grinds my gears big time! |
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"Oh and excessive grunting.
If its that heavy, go lighter...
Honestly, I spend a lot of time at the gym so Ive seen so much that winds me up...
I don't think you train hard enough ((grunt)) "
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong."
Gym etiquette suggests you let someone do a set while you rest, sitting is not resting its sitting. |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
Gym etiquette suggests you let someone do a set while you rest, sitting is not resting its sitting."
To be honest, and maybe it's just my gym but people jumping in like that rarely happens since Covid |
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
Gym etiquette suggests you let someone do a set while you rest, sitting is not resting its sitting."
Lemme just hop in there lil buddy and adjust the machine up to my settings so I can do one set and hop right off again! Proper efficient that. |
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
Gym etiquette suggests you let someone do a set while you rest, sitting is not resting its sitting.
To be honest, and maybe it's just my gym but people jumping in like that rarely happens since Covid "
End of sets middle makes no difference if you carry a disinfectant wipe, I assume people wipe before they move on. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Guys showering with the cubicle door open.
Or cubicle door open while their getting changed |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
Gym etiquette suggests you let someone do a set while you rest, sitting is not resting its sitting.
To be honest, and maybe it's just my gym but people jumping in like that rarely happens since Covid
End of sets middle makes no difference if you carry a disinfectant wipe, I assume people wipe before they move on. "
Wipe down between each set to swap with a stranger? Nah, ill just wait till they've finished... |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
Gym etiquette suggests you let someone do a set while you rest, sitting is not resting its sitting."
This maybe used to be a thing, but now everyone is more conscious of wiping everything down before others use kit. Also depends if you need to strip/add weights to the bar. |
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong.
Gym etiquette suggests you let someone do a set while you rest, sitting is not resting its sitting.
Lemme just hop in there lil buddy and adjust the machine up to my settings so I can do one set and hop right off again! Proper efficient that. "
Definitely not very easy for me as a woman when not not only am I often lifting quite a different weight but I'm also usually quite a different height! |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
Reading this thread makes me even more convinced that gyms are not for me.
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over a year ago
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Not wiping equipment after use.
Leaving bottles and any type of rubbish in the changing rooms. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No intetest in gyms, love to see women in tight gym leggings, very slutty |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My gym has a really small stretching area but people do kettlebells etc there. And I hate when the area is clearly cramped amd someone decides to squeeze in to an already cramped Matt and sprawls out to do stretches. There are other places they can be done by the way. But people often think of themselves. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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One I’ve discovered recently, I use PureGym, which I know is cheaper and does attract the wrong type at times, but recently the amount of 16 year olds that are using it as a meeting area to then stand and chat at every single machine or bench is doing my head in  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The guys at the blaze class who look at your heart rate on screen and offer advice saying you will get better as you go. My heart rate is in the red cos I'm aiming for it . And yes I do know about pacing as I run Ironmans..wankers |
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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago
Terra Firma |
I think every gym has the person who uses the cable machine with far to much weight on it, the form goes out the window and then the inevitable crash of the weights smashing together as they simply let go.
That noise, goes right through me. |
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People who excessively look at their phone in between reps.Groups of teenagers who spend more time talking than training.People who walk out of spa or shower without drying themselves and wet the floor In changing room |
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"My gym has a really small stretching area but people do kettlebells etc there. And I hate when the area is clearly cramped amd someone decides to squeeze in to an already cramped Matt and sprawls out to do stretches. There are other places they can be done by the way. But people often think of themselves."
So it's a stretching area but the person who wants to use it for stretching needs to move? Not sure I get that logic lol |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
"My gym has a really small stretching area but people do kettlebells etc there. And I hate when the area is clearly cramped amd someone decides to squeeze in to an already cramped Matt and sprawls out to do stretches. There are other places they can be done by the way. But people often think of themselves.
So it's a stretching area but the person who wants to use it for stretching needs to move? Not sure I get that logic lol "
Nor me!
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People sitting on equipment whilst using their phone for 10mins between sets …Grrr |
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If I ever open a gym I'm gonna build a phone area judging by most of the comments here |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Those wannabe insta influencers who doves more time posing for pics that try do training |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I dont understand why so many people go to the gym asa lot go for the wrong reasons. Men go just to say look at me with my unatural looking body and women go just to take pics in tight outfits. Why not just be happy with who you are and not feel the need to impress anyone else. |
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By *sxCplCouple
over a year ago
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I’m tolerant to most things, but I am getting the hump with the influx of 16yr olds coming into the gym and leaving the changing room like it’s PE time. Bags, tops etc left over every square inch of the bench’s. So there is no room for anyone else to change.
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"I think every gym has the person who uses the cable machine with far to much weight on it, the form goes out the window and then the inevitable crash of the weights smashing together as they simply let go.
That noise, goes right through me. "
I hate that too. Especially when they're right next to you and think the amount of noise they're making is actually impressive. It's also makes me sad because it's such a waste of the eccentric  |
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The guy who takes up as much space as possible with the barbell and his bags so that he can deadlift with zero form or control. Then makes a big deal of walking up and down the weights bay with imaginary carpets in between his weight slamming...
LvM |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I’m tolerant to most things, but I am getting the hump with the influx of 16yr olds coming into the gym and leaving the changing room like it’s PE time. Bags, tops etc left over every square inch of the bench’s. So there is no room for anyone else to change.
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This is annoying... but I literally don't give a fuck if the floors soaking. If you're leaving your shit everywhere and there's no space, I'm chucking it on the floor and making space. Lockers are there for a reason, use them |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
"I’m tolerant to most things, but I am getting the hump with the influx of 16yr olds coming into the gym and leaving the changing room like it’s PE time. Bags, tops etc left over every square inch of the bench’s. So there is no room for anyone else to change.
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The ones in our gym also bring their e-scooters in and plug them in in the changing room too!
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Today I seen a guy in the gym with gardening gloves..the green heavy duty plastic ones..wtf ..get some proper gloves.
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"Oh and excessive grunting.
If its that heavy, go lighter...
Honestly, I spend a lot of time at the gym so Ive seen so much that winds me up..."
Sorry, I'm a grunter and I don't even lift! It happens on the rower and ski erg... I just can't help it when I'm putting in significant effort |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh and excessive grunting.
If its that heavy, go lighter...
Honestly, I spend a lot of time at the gym so Ive seen so much that winds me up...
Sorry, I'm a grunter and I don't even lift! It happens on the rower and ski erg... I just can't help it when I'm putting in significant effort "
Nothing wrong with a bit of noise when you get physical |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I just get on with what I need to do and ignore everything else...letting petty gym bad habits get to you is pointless. |
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"Oh and excessive grunting.
If its that heavy, go lighter...
Honestly, I spend a lot of time at the gym so Ive seen so much that winds me up...
Sorry, I'm a grunter and I don't even lift! It happens on the rower and ski erg... I just can't help it when I'm putting in significant effort
Nothing wrong with a bit of noise when you get physical "
That's exactly the attitude I subscribe to |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Shit gym playlists!
Nuff said. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I own a set of gyms and had to post up a code of etiquette, including no phones in the gym area, lost a few members because of it...
Vanity..... hate it!!!"
Sounds like something a CrossFiter would say  |
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By *xydadbodMan
over a year ago
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I always get annoyed at the guy eyeballing me from the other side, then realised I'm staring at the mirror
Nah, I don't have that issue as I only do home workouts. I can workout to my own leisure then |
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"Today I seen a guy in the gym with gardening gloves..the green heavy duty plastic ones..wtf ..get some proper gloves.
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That really tickled me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hate when people use the main sink as a make over area - start exfoliating, face mask, spot squeezing, beard shape up, brushing teeth etc in the middle of the changing room.
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Hoarding machines whilst ducking around one phones. Ok we rest slight between sets but some take forever, more so at peak times. |
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There’s also a guy who brings his whole bag and motorcycle helmet, boots etc into the gym plonks it on the Matt and works out, this despite two changing rooms abs row upon row of lockers they don’t cost anything
Put your shit admin away pal, no one cares you’re a biker….! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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And I forgot the most important one. The people who wouldn't put the dumbbells back on the rack after workout. They just lay it around on the floors. |
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"What annoys you with other people’s behaviour at the gym??
It always winds me up when guys leave their dirty, sweaty kit lieing in front of my locker! And then they give you a funny look when they come back from the shower as they have realised you have moved it!!"
I know lot's of people want to film their stuff
Maybe to check their form
Maybe to send to an online coach
Maybe for your Instagram page
Whatever
But it is a public gym, and if people walk in front of the shot then tough, and I've seen people get real pissy that someone's walked in front of their phone they set up 10vdoot away to get a good view |
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By *ymster10Man
over a year ago
Ellesmere Port |
This one I really don’t get for loads of reasons .
Guys who sit on the benches in the changing area , using their mobile phones .. While a multitude of sweating arses and cock pass them by . Love it to be a video call . If that happened anywhere else there’d be a fight .. |
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"And I forgot the most important one. The people who wouldn't put the dumbbells back on the rack after workout. They just lay it around on the floors."
People who don't put dumbbells back in pairs, in weight order.... |
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over a year ago
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"And I forgot the most important one. The people who wouldn't put the dumbbells back on the rack after workout. They just lay it around on the floors.
People who don't put dumbbells back in pairs, in weight order...."
If you are strong enough to lift the waits you are strong enough to put them away |
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"And I forgot the most important one. The people who wouldn't put the dumbbells back on the rack after workout. They just lay it around on the floors.
People who don't put dumbbells back in pairs, in weight order....
If you are strong enough to lift the waits you are strong enough to put them away "
My PT gets mine for me (reasons) but we get pretty irritated when we can only find one 12kg and another one is miles away, nestled between 32kg and something else! Same for weight plates. Put back in size order people! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"And I forgot the most important one. The people who wouldn't put the dumbbells back on the rack after workout. They just lay it around on the floors.
People who don't put dumbbells back in pairs, in weight order....
If you are strong enough to lift the waits you are strong enough to put them away
My PT gets mine for me (reasons) but we get pretty irritated when we can only find one 12kg and another one is miles away, nestled between 32kg and something else! Same for weight plates. Put back in size order people! "
I definitely dont put plates back in weight order. Maybe I should start. Do you put the lighter ones on ladt? Seems inconvinient though as i load up the heavy ones first for deadlift and squats. |
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"And I forgot the most important one. The people who wouldn't put the dumbbells back on the rack after workout. They just lay it around on the floors.
People who don't put dumbbells back in pairs, in weight order....
If you are strong enough to lift the waits you are strong enough to put them away
My PT gets mine for me (reasons) but we get pretty irritated when we can only find one 12kg and another one is miles away, nestled between 32kg and something else! Same for weight plates. Put back in size order people!
I definitely dont put plates back in weight order. Maybe I should start. Do you put the lighter ones on ladt? Seems inconvinient though as i load up the heavy ones first for deadlift and squats."
Our gym has different pegs for the various plates but where varied weights need to go on one peg, it's biggest on first. People who only use lighter plates shouldn't have to try and shift massively heavy ones out of the way but those who use heavier can easily move the lighter ones. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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That does make sense. Oh how i wish for my own personal gym. Wouldn't have to worry about etiquette. Would be fun to go on the treadmill naked too lol |
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over a year ago
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"And I forgot the most important one. The people who wouldn't put the dumbbells back on the rack after workout. They just lay it around on the floors."
I assume they don't have the strength to put them back so I use my muscles to help out |
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"To all the anti-phone people. Some of us track workouts on there.
Also. If you're miffed at someone resting at a machine in-between sets you're doing the gym wrong."
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You’re in a Spin class and someone comes in 10 mins late, then they leave 10 mins early and leave the door open!!! What the fuxk is all that about !!!!!! |
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RE-RACK THE FUCKING WEIGHTS WHEN YOUR DONE!!! |
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Training in groups - cheers guys that's the squat rack occupied for the next half hour |
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Chatting and making small talk - save that shit for somwhere else |
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Staff/personal trainers perving on the femaled while a newbie needs some guidance on form and how to use a machine |
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Judgy people, I am there to try to lise weight. I don't need some gym twat, thinking it is ok to take the piss out of the fat guy in front of his dickhead mates. |
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"Judgy people, I am there to try to lise weight. I don't need some gym twat, thinking it is ok to take the piss out of the fat guy in front of his dickhead mates."
You should see the looks a chubby wheelchair user gets
Twats.... |
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"Does cardio count? Haha"
What do you mean ?? |
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By *andJDubaiCouple
over a year ago
Dubai, with visits to Glasgow, Edinburgh and London |
"Not wiping down equipment after using it....
Not putting weights away...
Throwing weights down after using them as if youre some hard man..."
ALL of these ! |
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Peiple sitting on machines using their phones, insta people taking selfies etc, the shit music blasted out of the speakers and not wiping down machines. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Peiple sitting on machines using their phones, insta people taking selfies etc, the shit music blasted out of the speakers and not wiping down machines."
Some people don’t wipe their own arse properly and you expect them to wipe machines |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The bodybuilder idiots making stupid noises like ughhhh ahhhh then bangs the weights on the ground like a dope ha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Ive noticed online now people secretly recording other people then posting it online thats fucking disgraceful whether there technique is wrong or whatever everyone should help each other out all there for the same reason but yeah the usual
Taking 20mins inbetween sets being on there phone or whatever they do "
Posting videos no matter what it is, they can get paid for it. |
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"The bodybuilder idiots making stupid noises like ughhhh ahhhh then bangs the weights on the ground like a dope ha"
Maybe they're just pushing themselves
It's kind of the point
If you don't like people struggling to lift heavy weight maybe take up indoor bowling or something gentler |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Christ I've been thinking of joining a gym but was worried about literally every point raised on here but had told myself I was overthinking....seems not. |
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"Christ I've been thinking of joining a gym but was worried about literally every point raised on here but had told myself I was overthinking....seems not."
If a fat woman in a wheelchair can use a gym unhindered by anyone else, I reckon you'll have a good chance. Give it a go? |
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I can ignore most things in the gym but not the madness that is the dumbbell rack. Why is there a 2.5 beside the 45? We'll never know |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I can ignore most things in the gym but not the madness that is the dumbbell rack. Why is there a 2.5 beside the 45? We'll never know"
We do know, we just don't like the answer  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Christ I've been thinking of joining a gym but was worried about literally every point raised on here but had told myself I was overthinking....seems not.
If a fat woman in a wheelchair can use a gym unhindered by anyone else, I reckon you'll have a good chance. Give it a go? "
You mean a sexy curvy wheeled goddess!!!
True but my patience is wafer thin these days and I think I'd last 5 mins before launching some posers phone across the gym if I accidentally ruined thier shot. |
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The posers! And they seen to be everywhere. They sometimes they spill over. Some have even found themselves over here  |
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"Christ I've been thinking of joining a gym but was worried about literally every point raised on here but had told myself I was overthinking....seems not.
If a fat woman in a wheelchair can use a gym unhindered by anyone else, I reckon you'll have a good chance. Give it a go?
You mean a sexy curvy wheeled goddess!!!
True but my patience is wafer thin these days and I think I'd last 5 mins before launching some posers phone across the gym if I accidentally ruined thier shot."
I've never been bothered by a poser. Only stimulated to laugh and trying to do it quietly..... I'm more bothered by the fecking super setters who take up 4 sets of equipment |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not that I'm a regular gym goer but I am getting back into it slowly but surely
My PT is teaching me a safe and steady way to lift weights and we (she's an older lady) almost ALWAYS get funny looks from the beefed up guys in the weights area when we go in there.
I hate it so much
I always say I'm gonna do weights when I go gym alone but almost always get intimidated and just end up sticking to the tread mill  |
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Wife goes gym twice a week she always gets chatted up |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wife goes gym twice a week she always gets chatted up"
This happens to me a lot and they guys think 'I don't see you often' is a suitable chat up line
Either that or they're trying to embarrass me
I wouldn't be so fat if I was here often |
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"Not wiping down equipment after using it....
Not putting weights away...
Throwing weights down after using them as if youre some hard man...
Saw a huge steroid monster doing incline press with heavy dumbbells. He let them hit the floor. One bounced back and smashed his phone.
Also hate:
Taking one of each pair of dumbbells for drop sets.
Setting up multiple stations
Not wiping down
Screaming
Sitting on a bench/machine scrolling SM (longest I have seen was 26 minutes)
Not grouping weight correctly when re-racking them.
Filming other people
Slamming weights down.
Having a mother's meeting around a piece of piece of equipment.
Bugging others.
Trying to jump on equipment when you have just gone for a water refill especially if you have left your bag/towel on it."
I knew there was a reason I hate going to the gym Lol! best thing though is that I know how to avoid the overused things but using the under-used things so that works for me. I go to the leisure centre because I like the pool and sauna and classes. They provide wipes so even if someone sweaty had been on before me I can wipe it down. I always shower after gym anyway. It's not the cleanest of places even with Covid. |
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Groups of guys merging into a testosterone whirlwind of idiocy.
Throwing weights down, shirts off, every other move is a selfie, unnecessary grunting...
It's not big or clever |
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People smirking or sniggering when they see a larger person in there giving it a go. We all started somewhere "
this would be a ban in my gym |
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List of it:
Taking shoes off to squat
Rolling sleeves up on tshirts
Multipule equipment used at the same time
General peacocking
Thinking i need them to spot
No wiping down
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Noisy shouting lifting haha so annoying |
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"The new “film everything you do” trend
No one wants to see you do a bicep curl on your insta 3 times a week
And I don’t like having to try to dodge your camera in the gym "
this |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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All of the above, bought my own set up as I became too old n grumpy to deal with the Insta generation’s vanity |
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"The new “film everything you do” trend
No one wants to see you do a bicep curl on your insta 3 times a week
And I don’t like having to try to dodge your camera in the gym this"
See Joey swol days you don't have to dodge cameras in commercial gyms so if he says it's ok to walk in shot then it ok
Unless of course the issue is you don't want to be on the video or pic |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"List of it:
Taking shoes off to squat
Rolling sleeves up on tshirts
Multipule equipment used at the same time
General peacocking
Thinking i need them to spot
No wiping down
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I may be guilty of the first one. My shoes don't support heavy squats |
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"List of it:
Taking shoes off to squat
Rolling sleeves up on tshirts
Multipule equipment used at the same time
General peacocking
Thinking i need them to spot
No wiping down
I may be guilty of the first one. My shoes don't support heavy squats "
Should you not get some that do? I'm all the gear no idea lol knee sleeves, lifting shoes, belt.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"List of it:
Taking shoes off to squat
Rolling sleeves up on tshirts
Multipule equipment used at the same time
General peacocking
Thinking i need them to spot
No wiping down
I may be guilty of the first one. My shoes don't support heavy squats
Should you not get some that do? I'm all the gear no idea lol knee sleeves, lifting shoes, belt...."
Not with how bloody expensive they are! Don't want to spend over the odds for special shoes for 2 lifts |
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"List of it:
Taking shoes off to squat
Rolling sleeves up on tshirts
Multipule equipment used at the same time
General peacocking
Thinking i need them to spot
No wiping down
I may be guilty of the first one. My shoes don't support heavy squats
Should you not get some that do? I'm all the gear no idea lol knee sleeves, lifting shoes, belt....
Not with how bloody expensive they are! Don't want to spend over the odds for special shoes for 2 lifts"
Just get trainers with a flat sole, not the squishy "air" types. They're not supportive for the gym anyway, they're designed for running. I know people who use Vans-type skate shoes, although weight lifting shoes aren't that expensive? You can get Adidas ones on Amazon for £30. |
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"People texting and setting video up
Not putting weights back
Dropping them
Guys training in large groups taking over machines or benches forever!
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Never ending up in the same gym as you!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fuck that's a lot of grumpy people at the gym
I don't care. Headphones in and get on with my thing. |
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By *afksedMan
over a year ago
Birmingham |
Gym etiquette…
The best gym etiquette was always no etiquette because you didn’t need etiquette.
Because people weren’t dicks.
Gyms became shit when people with vacuous personalities subverted them into self-love parlours.
I don’t give a flying fuck.
I will wear my scruffy old gym gear, smile and just get in with it. Don’t hog the machine and clean it after.
The gym narcissist brigade can stand and pose and then kindly fuck off.
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"List of it:
Taking shoes off to squat
Rolling sleeves up on tshirts
Multipule equipment used at the same time
General peacocking
Thinking i need them to spot
No wiping down
I may be guilty of the first one. My shoes don't support heavy squats
Should you not get some that do? I'm all the gear no idea lol knee sleeves, lifting shoes, belt....
Not with how bloody expensive they are! Don't want to spend over the odds for special shoes for 2 lifts
Just get trainers with a flat sole, not the squishy "air" types. They're not supportive for the gym anyway, they're designed for running. I know people who use Vans-type skate shoes, although weight lifting shoes aren't that expensive? You can get Adidas ones on Amazon for £30."
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Number 1
People walking in their wet swimming shorts soaking the changing room floor.
Number 2
Not putting weights away.
Number 3
Taking kettlebells and leaving them in random places
Number 4
Total fitness new "kids swimming lessons
Screaming kids in the changing rooms
And girls too old to be in a men's changing room
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