Pet hates in gyms

[The European Polynesian]

So you'd rather someone bicep curl 40kg with their back and shoulder doing most of the work, than 30kg lifted properly?

Personally, I couldn't give a f**k about what someone else is doing in the gym.

 

[macavity]

ugly chicks who think you are staring at them and get offended/think you are a creep. I am looking in your general direction, I have no interest in the cottage cheese beneath your lorna jane tights.

 

[Karl]

So you'd rather someone bicep curl 40kg with their back and shoulder doing most of the work, than 30kg lifted properly?

I didn't say that.

 

[Red&BlackBear]

I get a lot of weird looks when I'm with my personal trainer once a week but that could be because she is an absolute stunner?!?!

- untidy work areas/not putting away gear.
- fat people in bike shorts...
- young kids who work out in a group of like 4+ and takes forever for them to finish whatever they are finishing...

 

[The Major]

Obese people who walk into a gym with all their gear, massive towel, huge bottle of water... Head straight to the tready or cross trainer, punch out 3 or 4 minutes of extremely low intensity effort, the whole time slugging on whatever it is (probably Pepsi Max) in their drink bottle. Then hitting the emergency stop button, grabbing their stuff and toddling off home like the dead shit bludgers they are. No doubt updating their facebook status as "....Just went to the gym." as though walking in the door counts as a workout. Fat lazy f**ks.

And the other one is blokes with no clue, but think they're king shit, swinging like crazy whilst doing bicep curls, side and front lateral raises, or any barbell curl. The idea is to isolate the target and lever muscles and joints. Not rock your entire body back and forth to swing the things up and down because their too piss weak to do it properly.

 

[The Major]

Oh, and walking in to do a workout when theirs a school there as part of their sports program. 30 people bumming around doing sweet FA, and a teacher hiding in a corner preying for lightning to strike him dead.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

And the other one is blokes with no clue, but think they're king shit, swinging like crazy whilst doing bicep curls, side and front lateral raises, or any barbell curl. The idea is to isolate the target and lever muscles and joints. Not rock your entire body back and forth to swing the things up and down because their too piss weak to do it properly.

You would hate to see a group of 'crossfitters' then. Crossfit breeds bad form with all their 'for time' WOD's.

A personal hate of mine with crossfitters is 'kipping'. Basically a form a chin up that allows you to swing your body to do them faster and easier. A proper chin up or heave should not be done like this, it is essentially the same as swinging for a bicep curl. Slow and steady wins the race for results.

And dont get me started on crossfitters when they are doing burpees for time. It looks like they are doing a geniused version of 'the worm'.

 

[BLKOUT!]

This thread makes me want to avoid the gym like the plague lol apparently the only way to escape peoples fury is to sit in the corner until there's no one around then walk out quickly without making eye contact or touching anything. The idea that someone would sit there and get annoyed at a person for sacrificing weight to make sure their form is perfect is bizarre to me.

 

[Karl]

Ok, on this form argument - a couple comments and this comes from training with a guy who has shelves of trophies and records in dead lifting, owns his own gym etc.

You need to be able to compare what your single rep max was this week to next week to 6 months from now. That is the way you measure progress and if bigger muscles move more weight, which is a universal constant (individual variations aside), it's how you grow. If you think perfect form is god, then the slightest cheat in form will have a huge impact on the weight you move. That means your one rep max is going to be all over the place. Whether you do a perfect isolation curl or I swing to get it up, the muscle has moved through the same range of movement, the weight has been lifted. But if I do everything I can to get it to the top this week then next week I do everything I can to get it to the top etc. these results as they translate to a one rep max are comparable. There is no cheat effect as such. Now I used to argue with him on this and other points but I'm telling you, his way of training just works better than anything I have seen before or trained before. Some things demand better or more strict technique than others of course. Squat and dead lift for example. The better technique you have there, the more you'll lift. I'm just saying that for a lot of exercises, obsession with precise form perfection is counterproductive if muscle growth is what you're aiming for.

 

[Cliffhanger]

I have a home gym it's great, I don't wear gloves when I do some boxing and the blood from my knuckles is all over the punching bags and nobody says anything.

At the climbing gym though there's a few behaviours that annoy me.

People who top out when bouldering before touching the last hold
People who don't top out when bouldering
People who hold onto the the top when the clip instead of the last hold
Idiots noobs who sit right under you when you're bouldering,

 

[dogslife]

Glad there isn't a boulder in sight in my gym

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Glad there isn't a boulder in sight in my gym

I thought I saw one the other day, then I realised I'd just caught a glimpse of my torso in the mirror. 'mired it for a couple of minutes, then (naturally) finished my set. U mad bro?

 

[dogslife]

I'm mad I just wasted 6 seconds of my life reading that last comment

 

[_snafu_]

ur just jelly bra!

 

[Joker's Wild]

You would hate to see a group of 'crossfitters' then. Crossfit breeds bad form with all their 'for time' WOD's.

A personal hate of mine with crossfitters is 'kipping'. Basically a form a chin up that allows you to swing your body to do them faster and easier. A proper chin up or heave should not be done like this, it is essentially the same as swinging for a bicep curl. Slow and steady wins the race for results.

And dont get me started on crossfitters when they are doing burpees for time. It looks like they are doing a geniused version of 'the worm'.

Form is not important in those exercises if the aim is to up your metabolic rate

Not everything has to be done in a traditional way to be effective champ

 

[Thomas]

Form is not important in those exercises if the aim is to up your metabolic rate

Not everything has to be done in a traditional way to be effective champ

Very true. Kipping (if properly done) also makes the exercise almost a wjole body exercise. You need a strong core to be able to kip properly.

 

[melon....]

What pisses me off in teh gym? Heros wo take more than 10 minutes to complete 5 sets of bench press. Just do teh exercise, and move on. Stop looking at yourself in the mirror, nobody else is.

Oh and f**king Zumba!! WTF??

 

[Danish]

Reading through this thread makes me remember why I haven't bothered with gyms in years and just stick to running and basic bodyweight exercises at home.

Considering the cost of a decent weight set up at home is only a couple grand, why don't people just buy their own gear for their home on credit, then pay it off over a couple years using what you would have spent on membership fees? Seems an easy and permanent way to avoid the entire mess that is the gym.

 

[adamkungl]

Reading through this thread makes me remember why I haven't bothered with gyms in years and just stick to running and basic bodyweight exercises at home.

Considering the cost of a decent weight set up at home is only a couple grand, why don't people just buy their own gear for their home on credit, then pay it off over a couple years using what you would have spent on membership fees? Seems an easy and permanent way to avoid the entire mess that is the gym.

Space
Flexibility of the gym having a ton of different things I might want to use
No issue with the gym I go to, in fact it has a fair few good sorts....bonus.

 

[Pete Cash]

Reading through this thread makes me remember why I haven't bothered with gyms in years and just stick to running and basic bodyweight exercises at home.

Considering the cost of a decent weight set up at home is only a couple grand, why don't people just buy their own gear for their home on credit, then pay it off over a couple years using what you would have spent on membership fees? Seems an easy and permanent way to avoid the entire mess that is the gym.

Where in the name of god would I fit a power cage in my apartment.

If I ever moved out of the inner city and into the suburbs and had a decent garage I would put together a power cage but until that day I simply do not have room to have a gym in my house.