Pet hates in gyms

[Joker's Wild]

So then why arnt you focused at the non-female only gym?

 

[Pokemon80]

Because it's full of mostly meat heads who STARE not just look, it bothers me.

 

[Joker's Wild]

Stick a pair of socks down the front of your Lorna Jane tights. I gaurantee none of them will stare at you again after the 1st day

 

[Pokemon80]

Lol!

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Good read this thread, i'm just back into a normal gym again after 6 months working in a town that doesn't have one (don't recommend Ingham to anyone) and survived with a Tower 200, a skipping rope and a big ass tractor tyre and a sledgehammer.

Currently 6'3 and 119kg of mainly muscle (fat has gone up since heading up north) so am usually in the top 5 biggest guys in most of the gyms i go too but mainly train to tone and burn fat so the big lifts aren't very common. I am also the token guy wearing gloves but have a good reason too. I blocked a bar with my hand that has heading to my face a few years ago after the guy i was training with took all the weight off one side of the bench press, sliced my palm pretty good so always worn gloves since. But for the standed glove wearing person it is usually somone who is in pretty ordinary shape but is wearing 3 or 4 other bits of gear on him as well serving no purpose.

I can't stand commercial gyms, music is shit, air con is blasted as cold as possible and luckily in the fitness first in the brisbane cbd the cardio machine are on a different level so you don't have to watch the book readers and half assers. I actually get strange looks when i do 400m circuits or gradual hill intervals increasing the speed every two minutes because i can barely run at the end and pretty much fall off it when im finished and lay on the ground tryign to breathe. But its ok you just keep going the same comfortable speed for 40 minutes and go home.

I'm also the skinny leg guy as well, first reason is ive never been able to make them bigger thent he second is i got knee problems that leave me pretty limited. I would love to be able to get into the heavy squats but i just can't.

Other pet hates
- Always seems to be "that guy" who follows me around. I get up and go refill my drink bottle, he's infront of me. I get up with a bar in my hand and nearly hit him and i swing around. I walk around the corner of the machine and nearly run into him. Drives me mental
- Because its a cbd gym i fortunately haven't seen the teenage heroes in it but have dealt with lots of them before. 5 sitting around a bench press doing very little but still proud of their physiques only that abs on a skinny person are like big tits on a fat bitch, they don't count.

- The awkward eye contacters, always seem to be one. I do alot of olympic type lifting so i usually do it infront of a mirror to make sure nothings out of the oridnary. Whenever i'm seated or standign in the barbell area i do my best to be otu of the way but inbetween sets it's hard not to look straight at yourself with a massive mirror infrotn of u. I usually just start at the floor and count the 30 seconds before the next set. Either that or just get straight up and swap dumbells to heavier and by the time i get back its time for the next set.

There is always the token hot chick, stays away fromt he cardio machines, doesn't do the classes jsut wants to be smack bang in the middle of it all and usually does her overly revealing stretching in the most public spot int he gym. Also on top fo that there is also the token guy in the classes that is always right at the back just being a creep.

- Top 40 pop music, can not be trained too and do not know how people do. Hearing Rihanna doesn't give me any extra motivation, it just works to kill the time while your half assing it on an exercise bike.


Many more that have already been mentioned

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[aqua_duck]

- Because its a cbd gym i fortunately haven't seen the teenage heroes in it but have dealt with lots of them before. 5 sitting around a bench press doing very little but still proud of their physiques only that abs on a skinny person are like big tits on a fat bitch, they don't count.

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:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Thomas]

Also on top fo that there is also the token guy in the classes that is always right at the back just being a creep.

I'll say hi next time.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Good read this thread, i'm just back into a normal gym again after 6 months working in a town that doesn't have one (don't recommend Ingham to anyone) and survived with a Tower 200, a skipping rope and a big ass tractor tyre and a sledgehammer.

Currently 6'3 and 119kg of mainly muscle (fat has gone up since heading up north) so am usually in the top 5 biggest guys in most of the gyms i go too but mainly train to tone and burn fat so the big lifts aren't very common. I am also the token guy wearing gloves but have a good reason too. I blocked a bar with my hand that has heading to my face a few years ago after the guy i was training with took all the weight off one side of the bench press, sliced my palm pretty good so always worn gloves since. But for the standed glove wearing person it is usually somone who is in pretty ordinary shape but is wearing 3 or 4 other bits of gear on him as well serving no purpose.

I can't stand commercial gyms, music is shit, air con is blasted as cold as possible and luckily in the fitness first in the brisbane cbd the cardio machine are on a different level so you don't have to watch the book readers and half assers. I actually get strange looks when i do 400m circuits or gradual hill intervals increasing the speed every two minutes because i can barely run at the end and pretty much fall off it when im finished and lay on the ground tryign to breathe. But its ok you just keep going the same comfortable speed for 40 minutes and go home.

I'm also the skinny leg guy as well, first reason is ive never been able to make them bigger thent he second is i got knee problems that leave me pretty limited. I would love to be able to get into the heavy squats but i just can't.

Other pet hates
- Always seems to be "that guy" who follows me around. I get up and go refill my drink bottle, he's infront of me. I get up with a bar in my hand and nearly hit him and i swing around. I walk around the corner of the machine and nearly run into him. Drives me mental
- Because its a cbd gym i fortunately haven't seen the teenage heroes in it but have dealt with lots of them before. 5 sitting around a bench press doing very little but still proud of their physiques only that abs on a skinny person are like big tits on a fat bitch, they don't count.

- The awkward eye contacters, always seem to be one. I do alot of olympic type lifting so i usually do it infront of a mirror to make sure nothings out of the oridnary. Whenever i'm seated or standign in the barbell area i do my best to be otu of the way but inbetween sets it's hard not to look straight at yourself with a massive mirror infrotn of u. I usually just start at the floor and count the 30 seconds before the next set. Either that or just get straight up and swap dumbells to heavier and by the time i get back its time for the next set.

There is always the token hot chick, stays away fromt he cardio machines, doesn't do the classes jsut wants to be smack bang in the middle of it all and usually does her overly revealing stretching in the most public spot int he gym. Also on top fo that there is also the token guy in the classes that is always right at the back just being a creep.

- Top 40 pop music, can not be trained too and do not know how people do. Hearing Rihanna doesn't give me any extra motivation, it just works to kill the time while your half assing it on an exercise bike.


Many more that have already been mentioned

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You have put much thought into this. Can't say I have experienced most of these though..

I haven't been to a civvie gym in 8 years so thankfully there are no annoying teens where I work out.

Agree with the music, hence my iPod is full of everything metal.

I can't complain about the token hot chick doing stretches.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

I'll say hi next time.

Never actually tried the pump classes and stuff (did boxercise a few years ago that was about half and half and the guy that ran them is a pretty high grade martial artist who went and opened up a dojo and took me along and i ended up doing MMA for awhile) but whenever i walk past and have a glance through the glass there is always the one guy at the back.

Went this morning and a bloke sat on the only lat pulldown machine in the place (which makes no sense considering there is 4 leg press machines) and talked on his phone for about 15 minutes. Considering i did back today was incredibly annoying. Luckily i've been doing it for awhile now and been on many different types of programs and gyms so i always have a plan b,c,d in terms of exercises but not everyone does.

Had another big guy in there as well tha had the choice of 4 free benches but picked the one directly next to me while i was standing off to the side doing bent over rows, actually had to move over and give him room. Like having somone piss at the urinal right next to you when the whole wall of hem a free. Don't understand

 

[Thomas]

There's a massive bloke in my gym who's always pestering me. He has pecs the size of a f**king mantelpiece. Yesterday he came up to me, pointed at the TV screen which was showing a film clip of some horrible Top 40 song and said "D'ya know tha name of tha chick what sings this song?"

My reply of "Sorry mate, I don't really listen to that music" didn't put him off. He then told me how he was dancing to that song on the weekend and he had such a great time on Saturday night and he was so wasted and people were really cool and then commented on my shoulders.

 

[Joker's Wild]

You're in Thomas

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Should have got his digits.....and his number after it

I don't get alot of people talking to me which is good. Probably i never look very happy when im in there cuz i'm in a different zone and look pretty intimidating. Was a guy in the uni gym when i was doing my degree that would do probably 3 or 4 sets in a workout and spend the rest of the time socailising, was naturally skinny so he didnt have to do much but just drove your mental when he did it to you.

Remember one bloke use to wear sunnies in the gym, thought he was the man event hough he had no physique at all and pretty much revolved his workout (or lack thereof) to the power rack cuz it was infront of the mirror. We would have to grab a key for a locker off the girls at the front desk and while i was filling up my water bottle watched him walk past sunnies still on and flicked the keys back to the girl (missing completely) and giving here the wink (with sunnies on) and did the thing when you make a clicking sound and shoot your hand like its a pistol.

One of the lamest and funniest things ive ever seen.

 

[adamkungl]

:lol:

 

[ceagle]

People who use the farkin Bench for 30 minutes and do about 10 sets, no joke

People who farkin do barbell curls in the squat rack

People who walk round with their cawks out in the locker rooms

People who sweat and don't use a towel to wipe their farkin sweat of the equipment

People who use the farkin treadmill right next to you when there are 8 free ones across

f**k

/rant

 

[Rhino_NQ]

people who wear tapout gear (not just int he gym but in general)

 

[Cliffhanger]

^WORD!

People who've been climbing for longer than you who don't even climb better than you, telling you that someone your height needs to be annorexically thin to get become a top climber, not only is it bullshit, but none of the short elite female climbers were that thin.

Those same people constantly making excuses about why they don't climb harder, like that their too short, or didn't start young enough

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Grunter this morning took the cake. Sounded like to grizzly bears were mating in the power rack.

 

[Patorick]

Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this, but I've got a family member who's locked into a 12 month deal with a gym (and who almost never goes).

Four months to go I think.

Any ideas how to get them out of it? (Or transfer it to another family member?)

 

[ceagle]

Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this, but I've got a family member who's locked into a 12 month deal with a gym (and who almost never goes).

Four months to go I think.

Any ideas how to get them out of it? (Or transfer it to another family member?)

They lock you in tight, almost impossible to get out of it, you may be able to freeze it so you only pay half of it for the remaining 4 months.

 

[dogslife]

I think I need to find a new gym. Same bloke that was pestering me for a spot last night kept talking to me in the middle of my sets tonight which shits me to no end. But what really shits me is f**kheads who don't know proper gym etiquette. I actually arrived at to the gym at the same time as a mate of mine and one of his mates by coincidence, I was going to do squats, but there were no benches free for him so I said he and his mate could use the squat rack while I did other things. They were about half an hour which I had no problem with. As I was racking the plates from doing deadlifts I watch some f**kwit literally walk straight in the front door, and over to the squat rack and start loading up plates as my mate was removing them. My mate said I was about to use the rack, and then I went over and said very politely I might add, that I'd been waiting half an hour. The poor bloke seemed very put out by this, and said well are you going to be doing bench press, I said no I'll be doing squats, he seemed even more put out. And despite the fact it would shit me to tears, I said I'm happy for you to go in between my sets if you like, he let out a big huff and said don't f**kin worry about. I almost lost my shit, and I said well jog on then champ, and he walked straight back out the front door. merkin