What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

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Buzz word said:

People getting too close is one of my big gym gripes. Really gets to me that people can't see moving a bit would really help everyone out especially with this kind of stupidity. If he couldn't move his bench he could at least wait until you were resting to go.

I thought that was what he was going to do too, to be fair he was young but he didn't look a stranger to weights so I assumed he was just an ignorant so and so.

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I think this counts as a moan. I've had a 1/4 of a cold all week so I went gym monday, missed tuesday as I felt so rough, went yesterday and felt ok'ish, was gonna go again today but I got stuck at work can't fit it in

So I'm gonna try and go tomorrow and sat-sun to make up. I usually go 6 days but this poxy cold has sapped the energy from me.

So the relevence to this thread is colds, they're a because they just take that bit of spark and zip out of you that you need to get a good session in.

I don't feel 100% today anyway so I've had a Lemsip and I'm gonna lay on the sofa and whimper.

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Regiment said:

Missed yesterday and tonight due to one. 5 mile run tomorrow night, hopefully it's not too much of a step down from last time.

A 5 mile run should shake the bd out of you surely?

I've suddenly got a bunged up nose now too. Shouldn't matter though as my nose is next to useless anyway, it got broke in my early twenties and one nostril is like a hypodermic(sp) needle and the other has the bore of a McDonalds straw so I do most of my breathing through my mouth.

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Raddors said:

The only positive was I used my rage to do a personal best on the rower!

Were you gritting your teeth and getting redder with each stroke?

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pilchardthecat said:

Has anyone mentioned the new-years-resolution crowd?

I fking hate this time of year, all these cretins getting in my way, leaving st lying around everywhere. 2 more weeks and 99% of them will be gone again, thank god!

We were all newbies once.

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ambuletz said:

Agreed although being new isn't an excuse. I've been only going 2months and I always place my weights back once I'm done, and wipe down the bench and cardio machines with the paper towels and APC provided in the gym. Does annoy me when people can't put things back properly.

Same here, although thats got more to do with not being a cock as opposed to being new and not knowing whats what.


The newbies are dropping like flies at my gym, but there was a really big guy (gotta be 20 stone) going at the X trainer like a man possesed, sweating like a pregnant nun, I felt like cheering him on.

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Old guy with no teeth using the last avaliable bench in the free weights area to do sit ups
There are two benches down in the swiss ball area completely un-used and there totally for that purpose you utter mong.

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Ordinary_Chap said:

Ask him if he minds changing? Thats what I would do and if he complains remind him the bench is for the bench press, you don't need to be rude or give attitude, most of us are reasonable people.

I asked someone curling out of the squat rack the other day to do it elsewhere. I just politely said if he didn't mind, its a squat rack not a curl rack. He looked at me funny and I think my crazed expression from working out hard helped change his mind, he smiled and went to curl elsewhere.

All was good in the gym and I didn't even punch him in the face!

I didn't need it at the time, I just often get annoyed on other people behalf.

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Halb said:

I stopped using clips yonks ago. If one has any balance whatsoever, one doesn't need them.


We had a 'celeb' in the gym today...was rather amusing how it affected the younger gym goers (teens/early 20s).

Gary Glitter?

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Not been to the gym today

Apparently its valentines day so going to the gym would make me an asshole.

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Couples who assume that they should be able to use treadmills/X trainers/Matts etc side by side.

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That pic is so accurate

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Seriously getting fked off with the Brosephs chucking the dumbells on the floor after each set. I can manage to put two 32kg dumbells down from a flat bench press without launching them across the room so why can't they?

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My gyms refusal to re-stock the paper towell dispensers because "they keep getting used up".

Combine that with an entrance at one end only, no AC, no extract or air change of any description and a roof with corrigated plastic sheets (magnifying glass) and its no wonder everyones pouring with sweat and dropping bars.

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pilchardthecat said:

I do this with front raises - goblet grip a single big dumbbell and swing it up, then try and stop it coming back down and smacking me in the balls.

Better with a kettlebell non?