Share Your Gym Pet Peeves

[S.A.M.]

My biggest pet peeve is people using the squat rack (only one at the gym) for stuff other than squats. Most things they could just grab a bar and go to an empty spot on the floor (dead lifts, curls, bent over rows, shrugs). Also people dropping weights annoys me, but is understandable at times.

What's annoys you?

 

[Demondosage]

My biggest one at the moment is this little guy who climbs the support poles to the 2nd story of the gym like a fucking monkey. Meanwhile the staff is telling people they can't deadlift in socks when you have this idiot climbing straight up and down a support beam!!! I wanna grease the fucking thing one day and watch his ass slide straight down it. He's one of these idiots craving attention. When he's not doing that he's spinning around in circles kicking the air like he's a ninja

 

[DrinkFlintWater]

Other people

 

[fldoms980]

Absolute biggest two are excessive screming and putting chalk everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for lettin out a grunt or yell when you're pushin some heavy ass weight, but theirs an older guy that'll fuckin scream at the top of his lungs doing pushups. Annoys the shit out of me. Other one is people who have no clue how to use chalk and give everyone within 10 feet an asthma attack from throwin chalk around. Oh and not wiping your oily head grease off the benches is a big one too.

 

[Sk8man101]

There's this total bitch that works at the front of my gym. She is very adamant about making me scan my card every time and then waits for the computer to think and double checks to be sure that it is me.

Literally she knows my name and everything and i see her every fucking day.

 

[Sk8man101]

Also this thread is strikingly similar to pumpingiron's.

 

[S.A.M.]

Also this thread is strikingly similar to pumpingiron's.

My bad. I originally only read the first two OP of that thread and it was about food.

 

[JJ408G]

What piss me off is fuckers the use under 30pds dumbells presss curls ect in the 100pds and up section.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

putting chalk everywhere.

You wouldn't like my gym, lol.

 

[Notadouche]

Easily the douche nozzles that do not put shit away after they use it...

And a close second goes to the dipshit at my old gym who alway loaded up a barbell with one 45 on each side and then adds every fucking single dime in the entire gym to do shrugs smh

 

[Anabolicchocoholic]

When the people at the front completely ignore you. There will be 2 front desk people and 2 or 3 trainers standing around sometimes and talking and people walk past them to leave or come in and 80% of the time at my gym they literally don't care to say anything lol. The nicest guys are usually the overnight ones, actually bother to greet? I worked front desk at a different gym and we had to say hello and good bye to EVERY SINGLE PERSON or we'd get a strike. And after 3 strikes you get fired.

When people look over onto my stairmaster/treadmill and try to outdo whatever level I'm on and keep staring. It's also weird when people are so close to you on the stairmaster you can feel them breathing on your arm lol.

Women who take up the whole area in front of the dumbbell rack to do stuff like lunges/curls/rows, blocking people from being able to use the dumbbells.

When (I assume) guys leave 4-5 plates on the incline/benches and just leave the gym, and I have try to figure out if someone is still using it AND unrack the weights.

The trx things are right next to where we deadlift/squat/hip thrust etc and a lot of times people will start doing pullups on the bar holding the barbell or trx crunches so I basically have to wait for them to finish to finish my set of whatever lift I'm doing.

Leaving tissues and empty water bottles around for no reason. Literally takes 10 seconds to pick them up and recycle or throw them away.

When people have full on conversations while sitting on the machines for no reason. 10 min rest sets.

The guy who comes at 3am and works out with his shirt off lol and spends most of his time taking selfies.

I have way more but I'll stop here lol.

 

[Leancuisine]

At my old gym before I moved there was an old guy who would stand in front of me while I was mid set and tap my shoulder until I stopped and took my headphones out, just so he could tell me some bullshit about how I need to do more or something.

My current gym is pretty great, but the one I just left.... Jesus. Never met a more money hungry gym owner.



You have to pay an extra $15/mo just to use a stairmill!? Get the fuck out of here. The guy lost his chiropractor license due to sexual assault charges. Biggest sleezeball/shitbag I've ever met.

 

[Brady113]

Can't stand when your waiting for a specific machine and the person on it dies one set every twenty minutes because they are busy either on the phone or bullshitting with someone else in the gym. There are times I can finish 80% of my workout and a person will still be sitting at the same machine. Drives me nuts

 

[Jak3d]

What piss me off is fuckers the use under 30pds dumbells presss curls ect in the 100pds and up section.

I fucken hate this more then you know, especially when the personal trainers do it with clients.

 

[Seven]

It's also weird when people are so close to you on the stairmaster you can feel them breathing on your arm lol.

Yeah that's way too fucking close! WTF! Is it bc the stairmaster's are so close together or what?

 

[Urrsher]

I have tons of pet peeves in the gym but one thing no one mentioned yet is in regards to those guys with the invisible lat syndrome. I swear to god this one guy will do a back excerise and then walk around the rest of the time in the gym taking the damn space of a H1 hummer. HE HAS NO LATS! fuck it drives me nuts lol

 

[JJ408G]

I fucken hate this more then you know, especially when the personal trainers do it with clients.

That personal trainer thing makes it worse

 

[Tren423]

Biggest pet peave for me is a young kid who tries to use half the equipment in the gym and expects people to not cut in on him until he's finished with all of them.

Had an instance at a Gold's about three years ago. Some asshole kid was pulling this bullshit so I proceeded to unload the incline bench and he has the nerve to walk up and tell me he's using the bench. My response, "you're not now". His response, "come on dude, I only have one more set". My response, "fuck off!" His response, "tucks tail between legs and slowly walks away".

Needless to say I got some strange looks from those around the situation. Oh well, fuck 'em.

 

[Urrsher]

If im already in great shape and have a more or less good idea of what I'm doing but I hire a super hot female personal trainer, would that make me look desperate? Personally I always thought it did for guys that did that. I'm curious though

 

[Nissan]

Re-rack your weights and keep the vol low on your conversations!!
I don't really give a shit what you did over the weekend!