Ahhh the gym and it's charm. (trainers, eating, run, weights)
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The guy that uses two different machines simultaneously during prime time.
Unlike 90% of the people at the gym that zone out and stare at the wall, or some butt, between sets, I like to bring something to read between sets. This is just incomprehensible to some guys and they have to ask me if I am done with the machine when I am sitting on it reading between sets.
Nothing wrong with reading between sets. It is incomprehensible to sit on a machine or any piece of equipment and read between sets.
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Originally Posted by Howiester
If you can read between sets, you're not working out hard enough.
Not working out hard enough for what? If you're lifting heavy and maxing out on every set, how quickly do you do your next set? I've often carried a magazine around with me, and read short (or even long) articles in the 60 to 90 seconds between sets.
I don't sit on the machine or bench between sets. I've had people work in with me on bench presses. They either use the same weight, or add or subtract plates for their sets.
There are some exercises like pullups where I need more rest between sets or my number of reps goes down significantly.
Nothing wrong with reading between sets. It is incomprehensible to sit on a machine or any piece of equipment and read between sets.
I don't sit on the machine or bench between sets. I've had people work in with me on bench presses. They either use the same weight, or add or subtract plates for their sets.
Depends on how the gym is laid out, etc.... but in many situations if you do anything other than sit on the machine you are in someone else's path.
Depends on how the gym is laid out, etc.... but in many situations if you do anything other than sit on the machine you are in someone else's path.
That must be a tiny gym! I remember a few Nautilus gyms like this around 35 years ago. They were designed strictly for circuit training, and a workout would be completed in under 20 minutes. You did one set per machine unless it had two different exercises, and then immediately moved to the next machine. Some gyms had trainers who would set you weights and seat positions.
This was actually a very effective program for many people who wanted a quick total body workout.
The people that sit on the machines/benches between sets drive me nuts. I don't mean those that rest for 60-90 seconds. I mean those that appear to be watching an entire episode of GoT or something between sets. And, they always do it on the machine that my gym only has ONE of. The leg press, the hamstring machine, etc. And when they finally look up to see you waiting there (because you can't just talk to them because they also have headphones in and music blaring), they're all like "oh, were you waiting? Sorry, I just have 3 more sets." SO ANNOYING!
Prime hours and some guy and his wife/girlfriend play "claimsies" on the very limited number of stairsteppers by putting their waterbottle on the step of two stairsteppers while they are on the treadmill. I don't really use the stairstepper, but I went ahead and moved one of the waterbottles out of my way and used one of the stairsteppers they claimed. You're either using it. Or you're not.
Oh look, yet another gripe thread about people's behavior at public gyms As if we don't have enough of those already. I don't understand it. If going to the gym is such a PITA that OP can't handle other people's obnoxious behavior, work out at home rather than start a thread about it, because they aren't going to change.
You know something I actually like you and I was hoping that you as well as many of the other members who have contributed would have seen beyond that point. My
thread isn't just about pet peevs. It is about going a little farther and maybe have a little humor along the way while bringing up some true realities about gyms that exist today and did not exist back in the day. That is why my tone was a little different and it has brought some interesting stories that I had never heard before.
I'm doing rope crunches at the end if my workout when this clown who just walked in the gym gets on the low cable row next to me. He puts it on 80lbs, does about 5 reps and let's the weight stack slam down like he's cranked out on redbull or something???
I did one more set and went upstairs for some cardio. I watched this clown do set after set glancing at arm to arm while he's pulling that girly weight and letting it slam at the end of each set.
I'm not sure who more to blame though, cause the management at my Golds gym doesn't educate idiots like this on properly using our equipment. Aside from a few signs posted here and there they just don't give a ****.
I was actually looking around to see if someone was filming another gym fails video, cause this kind of joker would be a good laugh. Slamming the weights and playing air guitar in between sets like he was on Crack or something?
Other than that, I do love my gym, it is my sanctuary!
A few years ago I saw a guy put like six plates on each side of the olympic bar on one of the bech press benches and I was shocked because I had never seen anybody bench that king of weight there before so I stood there and patiently waited for him to finish getting the bar ready and wanted to watch him do that set of bench press and then without even laying on the bench and under the bar he proceeded to rotate the bar in place a few times while standing as in how you do trying to prepare your grip and then he proceeded to remove all the plates. I was like" what the hell"?. I will never forget that.
People stay away from me because I have bytch resting face. Fine with me
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