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Originally Posted by shuamort  1)The grunters. This is 99% in the free weight area. If I can hear you screaming over my in-ear headphones, you should be working out in the comfort of your own at-home padded cell. We all occassionally make an unintentional loud grunt, heavy sigh, big breath, whatever. It's the person that does this after every rep that deserves a Nautilus to the head. |
There's a dude at my gym that grunts "OOOH YEAHHHH!" every single rep, it's sounds like a pro wrestler doing smack talk, it's annoying as hell, but dangerous because my group has actually dropped weights laughing at this guy, you can hear him clear across the bottom floor.
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| 2)The inappropriately clad. The gym is not a fashion show, just get in, get your **** done and get out. We don't need the T&A parade in spandex. I don't see a pole and a DJ to match the pasties and G-string some are wearing to the gym. As for the men, wearing something that is going to cover your nasty ass when you sit down. A puddle of sweat is unacceptable, a puddle of brown sweat is unforgivable.
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Nothing worse than trying to get back in your street clothes and having someone bare assing right next to you in the locker room, worst part is they are usually the same people who linger around the area having conversations in the buff.
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| 3)The "helpers". Unless you work at the gym, the gym that we're at specifically, your assistance is not needed. No, the technique you read in a magazine doesn't interest me and no, I'm not doing it wrong. I've been working out for 15 years and there's one thing I know for a fact. Not all exercises work for everybody.
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It never hurts to hear a new exercise, it's the people who are insistant that you try it that get on my nerves.
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| 4)The friendless. I'm an a--hole. Fine. I've made peace with that. So, to mitigate my behavior on the rest of society I decided to put headphones in my ears and do my own thing. If I'm on the stair machine, I don't want to take my one earplug out of my ear to ask you to repeat "did you see that on the TV right there?". Shut up. It's not that I dislike the gym, I just don't want to spend a lot of time there which includes being social. Which includes the "spot-me" folks. Sorry, I'm a jerk, I want to be at the gym to focus on my fitness goals not to see you to yours. Get a friend to spot you. Don't have a friend? Then get a machine to do it.
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Simple rule, if you are not acknowledged after the first attempt at conversation, move on.
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| 5)The "mine-mine-mine" seagulls from Finding Nemo. Here's the deal, we all pay our membership dues so we all get access to the same gym. And guess what, my little 2 year old, you have to share. This means that when you're walking from one machine to another and starting working out on machine 2, you no longer get to call "dibs" on machine 1. You can have your little routine when the place is dead and no one else wants to use the machine that you're not using. Until then: No, not yours.
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I.....hate.....those....people.
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| 6)The freaks. The gym can be such a mixed bag of humanity some days. We had one guy at our gym that would build "forts" as I called them. He took 10 steps that are used in step class and put 5 on the floor at both ends of a weight bench. He put the weight bench on top to make a capital "I" formation. He then got up on his pedestal and did flies. Now, his flies weren't all that big and even if the bench were on the floor, his hands wouldn't have touched bottom. WTF.
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Never ran across that one, thankfully.
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| 7)The music. I used to work out at the gym at work. The main reason I left, the music. It was bad, bad, bad. And what made it intolerable is that it was uncomfortably loud too. So, unless I cranked my headphones up all the way, I couldn't drown out "She's my cherry piiiiiiiieeeee" or "It seems to me, you lived your life like a candle in the wind". Seriously horrible. I've got my own set of crappy music that gets me motivated and I'll quickly admit that any gym that would play that music I listed to would lose customers as well. So, a compromise. We admit our musical tastes differ and the gym keeps the decibals off of 11.
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Cardio rooms are the worst offenders for that.....which is why I try to stick to power lifting.