What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

[popeyewhite]

RTB said:

So many people leave plates and dumbells everywhere and just walk away. Part of the work out is tidying up after yourself!

At this time of year two of the gyms I use most consistently fill up with teenage boys and girls from the local schools. Although the girls seen much tidier than the boys the flotsam left as they move through the gym is appalling. I have asked some of the lads a couple of times to put the weights away (blank look) and when they've shrugged their shoulders and looked surly in the way they must when their mothers tell them to clean their room I refer them to the gym rules, clearly postered only yards away. Popular amongst gym staff at the moment is a CCTV clip of me asking a group of three lads to take plates off a sled and rack them and when asked why I reply because they won't jump from the sled to the rack themselves, will they. Eyes cast down, shoulders slump, on the verge of tears, phones put in pockets, all conversation halts as they extremely reluctantly go about tidying up a bit. Much mirth in the staff room.

[lemmingjames]

you should, if you know their routine, overload the machines they intend to use and then watch them as it does not compute

[V8mate]

Signs don't work.

Since my gym applied a week's ban for people who don't tidy their stuff away, the situation has markedly improved, but a few still refuse to comply.

[J4CKO]

popeyewhite said:

RTB said:

So many people leave plates and dumbells everywhere and just walk away. Part of the work out is tidying up after yourself!

At this time of year two of the gyms I use most consistently fill up with teenage boys and girls from the local schools. Although the girls seen much tidier than the boys the flotsam left as they move through the gym is appalling. I have asked some of the lads a couple of times to put the weights away (blank look) and when they've shrugged their shoulders and looked surly in the way they must when their mothers tell them to clean their room I refer them to the gym rules, clearly postered only yards away. Popular amongst gym staff at the moment is a CCTV clip of me asking a group of three lads to take plates off a sled and rack them and when asked why I reply because they won't jump from the sled to the rack themselves, will they. Eyes cast down, shoulders slump, on the verge of tears, phones put in pockets, all conversation halts as they extremely reluctantly go about tidying up a bit. Much mirth in the staff room.

There was a kid of about 14 the other day and he just dropped his empty water bottle on the floor as he walked off, I gave him a dirty look and he jumped when he spotted me glaring at him and the water bottle, he sheepishly went and picked it up, making out like it was a mistake. Amazing that the parents havent managed to train them in 14 years that it isnt acceptable.

The car park is a midden as well, apparently if your car is full of crap its perfectly acceptable to just throw it all out onto the gym car park.

[TheJimi]

Some people are just s.

Most of the time I manage to bite my tongue, but every so often I end up not being able to bite and have (polite) words.

Ditto the selfish fks parking in the disabled spaces.

Utter, utter s.

[Halb]

V8mate said:

Signs don't work.

Since my gym applied a week's ban for people who don't tidy their stuff away, the situation has markedly improved, but a few still refuse to comply.

Such an excellent rule. If I owned a gym it'd be three strikes and lifetime ban, in the contract all fees paid up front and non-refundable.

[Halb]

As an opposing force to a moan, I chatted to a young lad in the gym last night, he is trying to get into powerlifting and managed to get a PB of 250, and put all his plates away. Nice to see that.

[popeyewhite]

Halb said:

As an opposing force to a moan, I chatted to a young lad in the gym last night, he is trying to get into powerlifting and managed to get a PB of 250, and put all his plates away. Nice to see that.

Yeah there's the odd one. One in twenty unfortunately!

[Ed/L152]

1) One of the nice slightly narrower barbells at my local gym has recently got bent well out of shape. No one cares if you bang down a deadlift hard but why would you do it with rack-pulls?

2) Gym owner would leave a bottle of chalk about for general use. 10 bottles have been lifted over the last 3 months.

Edited by Ed/L152 on Monday 3rd February 11:46

[Regiment]

Ed/L152 said:

1) One of the nice slightly narrower barbells at my local gym has recently got bent well out of shape. No one cares if you bang down a deadlift hard but why would you do it with rack-pulls?

2) Gym owner would leave a bottle of chalk about for general use. 10 bottles have been lifted over the last 3 months.

Edited by Ed/L152 on Monday 3rd February 11:46

My gym bought 3 nice weightlifting bars, one got bent by someone doing rack pulls. The nice bars are now locked away so you need to ask for them and given out to people who will look after them, plenty of standard gym bars though as well.

Halb said:

As an opposing force to a moan, I chatted to a young lad in the gym last night, he is trying to get into powerlifting and managed to get a PB of 250, and put all his plates away. Nice to see that.

Oh, the pains of being monstrously strong lol. Leg press is a pain in the arse.

[lemmingjames]

Gyms that buy cheap barbells that stay bent after a heavy load

[V8mate]

lemmingjames said:

Gyms that buy cheap barbells that stay bent after a heavy load

[BigMon]

TheJimi said:

Some people are just s.

Most of the time I manage to bite my tongue, but every so often I end up not being able to bite and have (polite) words.

Ditto the selfish fks parking in the disabled spaces.

Utter, utter s.

As part of the January rush we've had peabrains parking in the one disabled spot.

It boils my piss and I've been grassing them up to the gym staff for them to deal with (which they should be doing anyway). They're regulars too, so I recognised two of the cars and was able to tell the staff who it was.

One was one of the 'look at me twins' who wear fak all and seem to just work out their arses in every session. To their credit they went over and confronted her and she did (rightly) look ashamed.

[ShampooEfficient]

The person who parked an immaculate looking E34 M5 in my gym car park. It made me sad because I can't afford to buy one...

[mko9]

You are going to the gym to exercise ffs, can you not walk an extra 100' from the car park to the front door??

[stargazer30]

My local David Lloyd has been jammed. I train mornings so it’s not so bad but on the evening when I train number 2 son it’s just comical. Can’t get on the machines, running out of plates, stuff just everywhere and carparkageddon!

Still it’s February now so hopefully it’ll calm down.

[Pvapour]

I dislike the cleaner colliding with my training time, she has all day to clean ffs! 2 people in the gym is just too much in my opinion

Also, she doesnt put my weights back on the rack in the correct order! must have a word..

Seriously though, when i train at our local public gym, people are very courteous and very tidy, no steroid users either and very few knuckle draggers, a recent increase in a certain ethnic group has seen a little rise in volume but still perfectly acceptable..

[BenjiS]

mko9 said:

You are going to the gym to exercise ffs, can you not walk an extra 100' from the car park to the front door??

Gym I used to go to had the exercise floor on the first floor, and pool on the ground. I remember watching someone use the lift to get to the first floor, and then when I came out of the changing room, they were on a running machine.

[ORD]

Walking up stairs without warming up and foam rolling and stretching? Injury waiting to happen.

[JagBox]

People who come out the pool back into the changing rooms to get their towel for showering, leaving a trail of water around the lockers, take the towel with you!!!!!!!

People who sit naked on the seats when getting changed :-(