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What bugs the crap out of me are the bimbos who hog up the ellipticals for an hour or more at a time. If they were actually exercising I could deal with it. But they put the machine on resistance level 2, read magazines, watch Friends, or gab on their phone or to the bimbo next to them (another machine thus out of commission). They get absolutely ZERO health benefits from their 'exercise', and prevent others from using equipment.
Yesterday I had two bizarre occurrences at the gym.
The first was when I was changing in the locker room some guy who seemed to revel in his nudeness walked up to some random guy who was also in the locker room and said "excuse me for pointing" and started laughing his ass off. I don't think they knew each other because the other guy looked TERRIFIED.
As I was minding my own business on the treadmill a guy gets on the treadmill next to me (despite there being MANY treadmills open without people next to them) and starts walking at about 1mph. I wouldn't have minded, except that he kept doing these idiotic stretches with his legs where he would invade my treadmill space. During the peak of one of my intervals he decided to do his idiot stretch so far that his foot touched the back of my legs and nearly sent me face first onto the treadmill. I just about lost it. I told him to either move or quit it and he said "chill bro". This man was about 50 years old.
The older guys trying to act like young men and also talking about politics. There is a little grouo of about four people at my gym who goes there probably everyday and get osn the cardio machines side by side and go real slow while having a conversation
A related thing which bothers me is when people in the sauna start debating politics.
You go in the sauna to sit in a nice quiet place and relax, and you have people involved in a loud heated argument.
I love debating politics myself ... but the sauna is not the place to do it.
A related thing which bothers me is when people in the sauna start debating politics.
You go in the sauna to sit in a nice quiet place and relax, and you have people involved in a loud heated argument.
I love debating politics myself ... but the sauna is not the place to do it.
I agree. The sauna is not the place. I use to go a gym in Mission Valley in SD in the 80's called Holiday Health Spa. It may have become Bally's in later years I don't know. I enjoyed the sauna for about a week and that was it. As you described was one of the things I did not care for when using it.
The young guys who are really not big or strong at all but act like they are and drop weights real hard and grunt real loud and then hang around the bench press, the power cage or the t bar roww maching running their mouth and joking. It is almost as if they were participating at a reality show.
-people who smoke and do the talk session on cell phones, even it is prohibited in gym specially when there are signs to tell them not to do this.
-people who just come for the fun and watch peo[le working out
-people who use treadmill or elliptical for their racing activity (I hate it)
The guys that want to use multiple pieces of equipment at the same time. I saw one guy the other day using a shoulder press machine to train his traps and then walk away to go and do shoulder presses somewhere else then about five minutes later would come back and do another set at the machine. I suppose he expected the machine to be there just waiting for him just the way he had left it. I think he held on to that machine for about 40 minutes. Bt the way this was during the peak hour
How about people that don't practice proper bench etiquette? If you are sitting on a flat bench, sit at the end where your butt usually goes, not at the head end. Nothing worse than someone getting up from a bench and leaving butt sweat where everyone puts their head. If your not sure which end that is, it's the end that raises or is farthest from the mirror.
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