A spoof of the movie theater thread.
1. People who hog a certain machine.
2. People who don't wipe down equipment after they finish using it.
3. People who don't put away weights. This one is especially annoying.
4. People on their cellphones talking aloud when others are around.
5. I can't think of a 5th one.
--Michael D. Clarke
Too many fully naked guys, walking around the locker room, like nothing is hanging out.
share1. The Moaners.**(people who moan suggestively while lifting weights)
2. People using phone at a machine instead of using the machine (most people in the gym are doing this).
3. Someone wiping down the seat with disinfectant wipe and having to wait 5 minutes for it to evaporate before I can sit there
4. I want to do an hour of elliptical at least. Why oh why do I feel like getting off so strongly in the first 10-20 minutes?
5. Crap, I ate a bagel or something stupid in 5 seconds flat on an impulse, there just went an entire hour of working out in terms of calories
Also, there would be this guy who'd pick the elliptical next to me, smelled like baby powder, had headphones in blaring political propaganda podcasts, would practice boxing sort of while ellipticalling instead of using the handbars, and couldn't hear himself making these sneering snorting sounds. It felt like the matrix spawned him next to me for the sole purpose of trying to psyche me out and make me get off the machine early. He'd also spit some drops of his beverage out after taking snorting sounding sips off his water bottle
Ick! Sounds like you need to find a different elliptical machine.
share1. Dropping weights
2. Hogging machine or space
3. Not putting back weights/equipment
1. The fees: the annual cost of some Gyms would be enough to build your own gym
2. People: I hate seeing people workout and I hate working out in front of people
3. Gym bro's: they hog the cable machines and flex too much.
4. Social media: don't record yourself or others in a Gym. It's a stench and sweat factory.
5. The Gym scam: 70% of all members never use the gym for more than 10 days but continue to pay membership fees. It's too easy to keep a gym open with this type of customer.
Well, agreed on the first three.
No cellphones in my day - I mean the days when I actually went to a gym and had a gym membership (Bally's).
A 5. for me, and no offense to anyone, I couldn't take gay men sneaking peaks anymore. That and coming onto me. Not saying I'm so great, but at that time, I was young and in my prime. I got so sick of that, plus the OP's 1-3, I started working from home. Been doing it that way ever since. All you really need is some free weights, a barbell and some dumb bells. You can do the cardio thru stretching and road work. After awhile, you can come up with a terrific program you can do right in your own home office. And of course the ancillary benefit - no membership fees.
I think you just about covered it, though I have a 24 hour pass, so I go overnight when no one is there to avoid this
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