What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

[Muzzer79]

TheJimi said:

That drives me nuts, especially the f*ckwits who cart a holdall around the gym with them. Have these imbeciles ever stopped to consider what would happen if every other c*nt decided to do that?

I blame certain yank YouTube personalities who stoat about the gym with their bags, gallon jugs and in one case, his f*cking dug. Now that WOULD drive me insane!

Don't get me started on these bloody things.

Normally shaped to look like an water cooler jug you'd get in an office.

[lemmingjames]

Halb said:

Ahh those MC Hammr type pants, yeh, they are funny. And fairly inappropriate I think, just not designed for any decent movement pattern.

Or these sort with the tapered bottoms to make the legs look bigger


Some of the pt's ones have zips at the back of the calf so it helps get in/out of them.

Plus you dont need decent movement if you dont do legs or only do 1/4 range motion ;-)

[Centurion07]

Muzzer79 said:

I would like to nominate people who don't use lockers.

Every time I enter the changing room, there's coats, bags, clothes, shoes strewn all over the changing benches and hooks.

People just leave it and go to their workout.

I shove this crap along a bench and change. Go to a locker to put my bag in to find someone has put their stuff in without locking the locker.

Open another locker, same

And another, same.

1. Do these people not worry about stuff getting nicked?

2. Is it really that hard to pack your stuff in a bag and lock it in a locker?

Cretins

I nominate you to go through every full, open, locker, pull all the contents out from every single one and pile it all in the middle of the floor and take a pic.

Bonus points for mixing stuff up e.g. socks and shoes, deodarant etc etc.

[ambuletz]

I'm thankful that at my gym the lockers give you your money back, so everyone uses them. the only time someone might not use them is if they are using the sauna and they might leave clothes on a peg nearest to it. There are no lockers in the mens/womens changing rooms (where the sauna and showers are) but rather in a long hall that runs in the middle of the entire building.

[Chris77]

On a similar note, I've noticed guys leaving Keys, Wallet, Phone, membership card etc. in a little pile next to the dumbbells . Nearly stoop on a guys black iphone, lying on the black floor of the squat rack?????

[Halb]

lemmingjames said:

Or these sort with the tapered bottoms to make the legs look bigger


Some of the pt's ones have zips at the back of the calf so it helps get in/out of them.

Plus you dont need decent movement if you dont do legs or only do 1/4 range motion ;-)

Yeah, that's them, sure sign of a chicken legs guy.

Now look at these babies!
Let the hate swell!

[tankplanker]

Two from today:

Large group of guys doing some sort of crazy circuit training in the free weights room using all the benches and racks. I ended up having to use the weights in the cardio room that aren't as good, smiths machine rather than a proper rack. To make it worse they were very sweaty, shouting at each other, and grunting a lot, felt like I'd interrupted a muscle queen gang bang.

Girl who kept interrupting my workout to ask for how to do exercises. The gym employees people to do that, leave me alone please, at least when the wife is at the gym. She ended up copying my workout but badly, e.g., incline rear delt fly but with a flat bench.

[Noodle1982]

Muzzer79 said:

TheJimi said:

That drives me nuts, especially the f*ckwits who cart a holdall around the gym with them. Have these imbeciles ever stopped to consider what would happen if every other c*nt decided to do that?

I blame certain yank YouTube personalities who stoat about the gym with their bags, gallon jugs and in one case, his f*cking dug. Now that WOULD drive me insane!

Don't get me started on these bloody things.

Normally shaped to look like an water cooler jug you'd get in an office.

Or as my mate calls his....a 5litre hydration unit.

[Calza]

Muzzer79 said:

I would like to nominate people who don't use lockers.

I remember watching a BroScience video on that and his comments were "Don't assume I'm decent enough to not steal your stuff, I'm not. I will."

It's the only way they'll learn.

[V8mate]

I've had to join a second gym (mine is near work; this second one is near home and Lady V8 joined up, and wants me to pop along occasionally).

If that's not annoying enough, this new gym, whilst huge in terms of space, has very tired equipment and only one squat rack. And it's not even a proper cage! Added to that, the place seems to be in half light, so it's a real struggle to see the weight markings on the plates too.

Anyway, getting to the point, I think some of you may already have mentioned these: I'd not seen one before this morning - my first visit to this gym. As soon as I saw it, and the bearded, taper-trousered, idiot carrying it, I knew that I wouldn't be getting very good VfM from this place for the next 12 months.

[Winky151]

tankplanker said:

Girl who kept interrupting my workout to ask for how to do exercises. The gym employees people to do that, leave me alone please, at least when the wife is at the gym. She ended up copying my workout but badly, e.g., incline rear delt fly but with a flat bench.

FME the induction where I go is 'this does this, that does that' in other words are really st induction & doesn't take into account why someone is joining, how to adjust the equipment to suit their frame, what weight to use, proper form... you get the idea. The amount of people I show even how to move the seat is ridiculous & the staff are more interested in either booking PT sessions (they still don't teach proper form) or chatting to their mates/other regulars.

[Digger]

Noodle1982 said:

Or as my mate calls his....a 5litre hydration unit.

The larger their Hydration Unit, the less cardio they do. Fact.

[tankplanker]

Winky151 said:

FME the induction where I go is 'this does this, that does that' in other words are really st induction & doesn't take into account why someone is joining, how to adjust the equipment to suit their frame, what weight to use, proper form... you get the idea. The amount of people I show even how to move the seat is ridiculous & the staff are more interested in either booking PT sessions (they still don't teach proper form) or chatting to their mates/other regulars.

My gym isn't too bad, in that they will show you how to do something properly, even power lifts or Olympic lifts, but you have to know what to ask. The plans they give new joiners tend to be your standard cardio/weight machine mix unless you push for something else.

I hadn't been in the cardio room in years and we get left alone in the free weights room but I was a bit annoyed that there wasn't an instructor in the room as they were all on the front desk.

[Halb]

You didn't help her with her butt wink?

[Johnny]

I've not been at the gym as much as usual the last few weeks as I've been a bit poorly dying from man flu.

It seems to have been taken over by bro-s.

Today:

2 lads in those st skinny calf bottoms walk in as I'm finishing up. One carrying a (large) holdall.

He proceeds to dump it right behind the seat of the preacher curl, which some other had moved from its usual place to right in front of the squat rack, then moves straight to the smith machine to practice 1/4 squats with his boyfriend.

s.

[Hoofy]

Johnny said:

with his boyfriend.

[ORD]

The bros in my local gym the other day chatting to a very big guy I know fairly well. He's a really nice guy but serious about his training (he does Highland games events).

He was deadlifting 140-160kg for sets of 10 clean and smooth reps. The two bros were squatting in the rack next door (and had already annoyed me with their bullst broscience discussions).

They tell the big guy that his lifting is really good and ask what training he does. I think they expected him to explain a detailed plan involving lots of partial rep curls and quarter squats. He said (and I quote almost word for word): 'I do heavy deadlifts, squats, bench and overhead press. That's all. Sometimes I go for 10 or so reps; sometimes I do triples. Everything else takes care of itself'. Bros nod along and say 'Yeah, man. Right. That's how to do it!'.

They then went back to their quarter squats and endless sets of different types of curls. 95kg guy tells them what he does; they agree; they go back to their ego lifting bullst. Nobody wants to do any hard work. Probably explains why they were weak as st for their size and had the legs of someone 10kg lighter.

I've still not seen a single person in that gym squat (properly) more than 70kg.

[popeyewhite]

New sign in gym features this. Even the manager's getting upset with these dheads

[ambuletz]

I don't see the problem, having a chat on the phone is bad yes. But check your phone in between sets isn't. Depending on what I'm doing I use my phones timer and give myself 2-3min regardless of whatever I'm doing on it (or not doing on it).

[popeyewhite]

ambuletz said:

But check your phone in between sets isn't.

You're right I suppose, as long as you're on your own and can regulate your 'phone breaks. BTW - any reason you don't think about your next lift/s during breaks? A bit old school I know... .