Gym etiquette

[YSK]

I finally signed up for an actual gym, before this i always worked out at my school gym which was packed with people doing curls for girls or just standing around doing nothing and "chillin". Anyways i was wondering, the rules on the gym board says do not drop weights, does that mean if im DB pressing i cant let them drop from my hands once im done a set? My second question is, i sweat a lot but not so much from the body, rather just my head, if i place my own towel under my head so that all the sweat is absorbed into the towl is that considered bad or what?

These are probably stupid questions but its only because i havent been to an actual gym gym.

 

[TheCurse]

heres my suggestions:

1) dont stand in front of the dumbell rack when your doing exercises. for me theres nothing more irritating than that skinny idiot who walks up to the dumbells, picks up a pair, then proceeds to do his curls or front raises right there thus blocking access to a good range of dumbells. i hate that guy.

2) dont use the squat cage for curling. we will kill you for that on a first offense.

3) dont stand around the locker room naked watching the tv's for more than 5 seconds. if its a good game or something, for gods sake keep your towel handy and secured around your waist.

4) when there is a lot of people at the gym dont gather 3-4 pairs of dumbells around yourself for your 'burns' descending weight curling program. one pair at a time is all you get. burns suck anyways.

5) dont wear those loose tank tops where you can see your nipples. i hate that shit get something that fits.

6) dont stand there flexing in the mirror making kissy faces at yourself between every set. you dont have any muscle anyways so dont embarrass yourself. discreet side glances in the mirror at your twig like arms is all you are allowed.

7) yes use a towel on the bench you lay on. i dont want to lay down in your sweat after you are done and i certainly dont want to use my towel to wipe it up. a quick wipe on the bench off after your done is usually good.

8) dont ask me for a spot when im in the middle of a set. fucks with the concentration.

9) use good form on your shit. theres nothing more pathetic than those guys always trying to lift all this weight and doing 1/4 rom squat reps or lifting their ass as high off the bench as they can when benching. trust me, all the experienced guys are laughing at you inside even if they dont show it.

10) dont use an empty bench for a towel stand, or to rest your weights on that you are curling. we need to use that thing for real exercises.

11) i cant believe i forgot this one: always re rack your weights. i almost got into a fight over this once. yea it was bad judgement on my part but some jerkoff left 14 plates on the leg press after he was done when i was standing right next to it waiting for him to finish.

im tired right now and will have more later i am sure.

 

[Andy_Massaro]

lmao funny tips, pretty helpful though

 

[hp192003]

Good stuff Curse. That was pretty comprehensive.

 

[largepkg]

heres my suggestions:

5) dont wear those loose tank tops where you can see your nipples. i hate that shit get something that fits.

 

[Pirate!]

heres my suggestions:

1) dont stand in front of the dumbell rack when your doing exercises. for me theres nothing more irritating than that skinny idiot who walks up to the dumbells, picks up a pair, then proceeds to do his curls or front raises right there thus blocking access to a good range of dumbells. i hate that guy.

2) dont use the squat cage for curling. we will kill you for that on a first offense.

3) dont stand around the locker room naked watching the tv's for more than 5 seconds. if its a good game or something, for gods sake keep your towel handy and secured around your waist.

4) when there is a lot of people at the gym dont gather 3-4 pairs of dumbells around yourself for your 'burns' descending weight curling program. one pair at a time is all you get. burns suck anyways.

5) dont wear those loose tank tops where you can see your nipples. i hate that shit get something that fits.

6) dont stand there flexing in the mirror making kissy faces at yourself between every set. you dont have any muscle anyways so dont embarrass yourself. discreet side glances in the mirror at your twig like arms is all you are allowed.

7) yes use a towel on the bench you lay on. i dont want to lay down in your sweat after you are done and i certainly dont want to use my towel to wipe it up. a quick wipe on the bench off after your done is usually good.

8) dont ask me for a spot when im in the middle of a set. fucks with the concentration.

9) use good form on your shit. theres nothing more pathetic than those guys always trying to lift all this weight and doing 1/4 rom squat reps or lifting their ass as high off the bench as they can when benching. trust me, all the experienced guys are laughing at you inside even if they dont show it.

10) dont use an empty bench for a towel stand, or to rest your weights on that you are curling. we need to use that thing for real exercises.

im tired right now and will have more later i am sure.

Sticky!

 

[Pylon]

You forgot a very important one:

RACK YOUR WEIGHTS!!!!

When you are done, put them back. It's part of the deal.

Also, don't bring your cell phone in the gym. It's just wrong.

 

[Yanick]

top three things that annoy me in the gym:

1. curling in the squat rack
2. not racking weights
3. taking up more that one piece of equipment when the place is crowded (db's, benches, machines w/e)

i wear a bandana to the gym when i know i'm gonna have to put my head down somewhere, because there are a lot of dirty fucks there who think we are all dirty because we wear ripped shirts and such to the gym (i'm not there to impress anyone so i don't fuckin care what i wear).

something that is annoying but not really a hinderance to my workout is guys who come there to hit on all the girls. its funny seeing them get shot down all the time, but they are wasting my precious oxygen which i'm desperately trying to breath in as i'm laying on the floor between sets of squats.

 

[P-funk]

top three things that annoy me in the gym:

1. curling in the squat rack
2. not racking weights
3. taking up more that one piece of equipment when the place is crowded (db's, benches, machines w/e)

i wear a bandana to the gym when i know i'm gonna have to put my head down somewhere, because there are a lot of dirty fucks there who think we are all dirty because we wear ripped shirts and such to the gym (i'm not there to impress anyone so i don't fuckin care what i wear).

something that is annoying but not really a hinderance to my workout is guys who come there to hit on all the girls. its funny seeing them get shot down all the time, but they are wasting my precious oxygen which i'm desperately trying to breath in as i'm laying on the floor between sets of squats.

you workout?



things that annoy me:

1) curls in the squat rack
2) taking up the squat rack to do quarter squats when I want to squat.
3) using the squat rack to do RDL or SLDL....put that shit on the floor and pick it up you bitch.
4) people who leave their fucking sweat on the bench. wipe it up! that is why i too wear a bandana.
5) people who stand right next to the olympic platform when I am trying to do cleans or snatches.....get the hell out of the way!
6) people that don't rack the weights.
7) people on their cell phones in the workout area.....jesus that is rude.

 

[Yanick]

you workout?

yea i dabble here and there

 

[kicka19]

notn wrong with hittn on girls at the gym in between sets, fuck your O2

 

[shiznit2169]

notn wrong with hittn on girls at the gym in between sets, fuck your O2

they are there to workout

If you were a girl and wanted to get your workout done and out of the way, would you want all these guys coming up and hitting on you in between sets? Go to the club or a bar and compete with all the horny guys for a particular chick you are after for your one night stands. Chances are .. you'll get rejcted anyways.

Things that annoy me

1. People who don't rack the weights
2. Guys who pose in the mirror after every set with this kissy smirk on their face
3. Guys who have an impressive upper body and chicken legs. When they start posing i want to tell them to start doing some squats!
4. People who do a set .. watch the tv for 5 minutes .. do another set .. watch the tv .. it pisses me off when im waiting for them to finish.
5. Guys who grunt, groan, yell when they are doing weight that's not even heavy enough or doing 1/4 squats.
6. Whenever i ask someone how many sets they have left when im waiting for them and they'll tell me with a cocky look on their face and as i wait for them .. they proceed to chat with their buddies about something else until they complete another set. Seriously, if i was bigger and older i would tell them to hurry the fuck up.
7. Guys who walk in .. go straight to the squat rack and do curls. Then do tricep pressdowns and then do combinations of cable curls, preacher curls, tri extension and so forth.
8. People who dont break a sweat at all. I'll get to the gym at the same time as a few other guys and throughout the workout, they are not working out hard enough and dont even break a sweat. Just a waste of their time.
9. Guys who read a magazine/newspaper in between sets
10. Most of all, guys who bring their girlfriends and just kiss around with them. I dont mind couples if they are actually working out. But if the guy just shows off and slaps her ass and tease around with her showing her off to other guys .. get a life.

I could just go on but mostly i just go to the gym and lift without any distractions. I block them all out but i always chuckle whenever these things happen.

 

[emunah]

1) People who use the squat rack for bicep curls or some other lame arm exercise
2) People who hog equipment I want to use and just sit there reading a magazine or chatting
3) people who super-set but are pissy when i want to work in
4) People who drop their weights...if you can't lower it right don't do it
5) Loud grunts are annoying
6) men who hit on me are annoying
7) people who try to give me bad advice bug me
8) Clean up after yourself: wipe down the bench and rack your weights
9) anyone who uses the smith machine is annoying
10) Cell phones
11) Hogging the free weights. Pick a weight and let me use what i need to use
12) groups of really annoying college boys who do 1/4 reps and think they're all that and hog the bench

 

[Squaggleboggin]

1) I work out in my basement and no one can really annoy me since I'm the only one who works out there.
2) The guy before me always leaves the weights around and never puts them back when he's done.

 

[BruiseKnee]

1) People who use the squat rack for bicep curls or some other lame arm exercise
2) People who hog equipment I want to use and just sit there reading a magazine or chatting
3) people who super-set but are pissy when i want to work in

dont forget the people who interrupt me if/when im doing my superset and ask me in the middle of my set to work in

 

[kicka19]

they are there to workout

If you were a girl and wanted to get your workout done and out of the way, would you want all these guys coming up and hitting on you in between sets? Go to the club or a bar and compete with all the horny guys for a particular chick you are after for your one night stands. Chances are .. you'll get rejcted anyways.

.

are you gay?

 

[footballmaniac]

1)I workout at my high school and the thing that bugs me the most is when people are in there just to be in there because they wanna be on the team and don't want to put any effort in it. And I laugh at them when they're riding the bench during the season

2)Prolly have to be when people from above try telling me how to lift

Thats pretty much it

At my gym:

Nothing in the workout area since not many people use free weights at my gym

1)If you're gonna go into the steam room and there are already people in there ask if they want the button pushed again. I hate it when I'm trying to get a good sweat going and this idiot comes in and pushes the button 3 times(which makes it almost unbearable in my steam room), sit in there for a minute and then leaves and then asks "hey, do you want me to push the button"

 

[FenderBender]

heres my suggestions:

1) dont stand in front of the dumbell rack when your doing exercises. for me theres nothing more irritating than that skinny idiot who walks up to the dumbells, picks up a pair, then proceeds to do his curls or front raises right there thus blocking access to a good range of dumbells. i hate that guy.

2) dont use the squat cage for curling. we will kill you for that on a first offense.

3) dont stand around the locker room naked watching the tv's for more than 5 seconds. if its a good game or something, for gods sake keep your towel handy and secured around your waist.

4) when there is a lot of people at the gym dont gather 3-4 pairs of dumbells around yourself for your 'burns' descending weight curling program. one pair at a time is all you get. burns suck anyways.

5) dont wear those loose tank tops where you can see your nipples. i hate that shit get something that fits.

6) dont stand there flexing in the mirror making kissy faces at yourself between every set. you dont have any muscle anyways so dont embarrass yourself. discreet side glances in the mirror at your twig like arms is all you are allowed.

7) yes use a towel on the bench you lay on. i dont want to lay down in your sweat after you are done and i certainly dont want to use my towel to wipe it up. a quick wipe on the bench off after your done is usually good.

8) dont ask me for a spot when im in the middle of a set. fucks with the concentration.

9) use good form on your shit. theres nothing more pathetic than those guys always trying to lift all this weight and doing 1/4 rom squat reps or lifting their ass as high off the bench as they can when benching. trust me, all the experienced guys are laughing at you inside even if they dont show it.

10) dont use an empty bench for a towel stand, or to rest your weights on that you are curling. we need to use that thing for real exercises.

im tired right now and will have more later i am sure.

Pure Gold!!!!! I'm Having this printed up as a poster and hanging it in my gym!!!!!!!

 

[fufu]

There is this one guy in my gym, I swear, he walks in - sits on the bench - and reads a news paper. He'll sit there for about 5 - 10 minutes and read. His facial features are painfully concentrated. He'll get up and do a set of bb curls and then find a new spot to sit down and flip open his paper. Repeat.

 

[CowPimp]

The thing I hate the most is people who don't re-rack their weights. I think that is because I work at a gym and I have to pick up after them. Even so, it is obnoxious where I get to the only open squat rack and some fuckbag before me was doing quarter squats with 4 plates on each side. Now I have to unrack that crap to get in a decent warmup.

The other thing I hate is unwarranted usage of squats racks. I am liberal too. I don't even mind someone doing some heavy rowing, SLDLs, or even overhead pressing in the rack. Don't do curls though; I will kill you.

Oh yeah, and don't talk to me in the middle of a set. If I hear "What is that working?" one more time while doing Turkish getups there will be blood. In fact, don't talk to me at all. I'm there to workout, not socialize. I'm busy timing my rest intervals and focusing on the set to come. Shut the fuck up.

 

[Thermal2]

In fact, don't talk to me at all. I'm there to workout, not socialize. Shut the fuck up.

Cowpimp for President!!

all of the above posts are great!

 

[shiznit2169]

are you gay?

no, but thanks for asking

 

[Incognegro]

1. People that do the one legged squats w/ one leg on the big ball w/ the smith and bounce to get the weight back up. Let me get in and do my pussy squats since there is no rack.
2. No re racking weights. esp on the one smith we have.
3. Calf raises on leg press lol. Just moving the feet I mean. WTF is th epoint.
4. People that stand right in front of the db rack and the mirror. get your skinny ass out the way.
5. People who leave the grips for the cable machine all over the place and you cant find the one you need.
6. Put the dam lat bar back on the pulldown station if youre done doing pressdowns, take the rope off.

 

[fufu]

I'm there to workout, not socialize. I'm busy timing my rest intervals and focusing on the set to come. Shut the fuck up.

I feel you there.
Once this guy was like "why are you always in such a good mood" being sarcastic - usually because I am looking down counting my second till my next set and I'm usually just in the "zone". When I talk to someone I can end up talking for like 2-3 minutes extra between sets. Not good.

 

[NEW_IN_THE_GAME]

I do not really care about the sweaty equipement. I am not there to not get sweaty. plus if you wanna pose in the mirror thats cool, just dont make me laugh and break my mind set when i am in a set.

No bringing in your kewl little lap top and talking to your buddies between sets, i hate this, i may accidently drop a 70 pound dumbell on it.

plus never i mean never come over a bullshit with me, i am not there to talk i lift there, and then i eat there. what is worst when you interupt my meal. hell no . just let me be, when i am dont lifting then done eating. maybe we can chat.

come to workout not make buddies. do not ask me for advice, then not listen to what i say and want more advice. and never leave your fucking weights on the rack.

 

[Pylon]

3. Calf raises on leg press lol. Just moving the feet I mean. WTF is th epoint.

I've done these. They make for a nice superset with leg presses. Believe me, when you put 700+ pounds on the sled, you can work you calves with it. (Not saying it should be the only calf work in your routine, but it's not a waste of time.)

 

[Pylon]

I do not really care about the sweaty equipement. I am not there to not get sweaty.

Yeah, but laying in a pool of someone else's sweat?

 

[Pylon]

The thing I hate the most is people who don't re-rack their weights. I think that is because I work at a gym and I have to pick up after them. Even so, it is obnoxious where I get to the only open squat rack and some fuckbag before me was doing quarter squats with 4 plates on each side. Now I have to unrack that crap to get in a decent warmup.

The other thing I hate is unwarranted usage of squats racks. I am liberal too. I don't even mind someone doing some heavy rowing, SLDLs, or even overhead pressing in the rack. Don't do curls though; I will kill you.

Oh yeah, and don't talk to me in the middle of a set. If I hear "What is that working?" one more time while doing Turkish getups there will be blood. In fact, don't talk to me at all. I'm there to workout, not socialize. I'm busy timing my rest intervals and focusing on the set to come. Shut the fuck up.

 

[Steele20]

I hate people who always think they are right.

 

[noahfor]

I hate people who always think they are right.

Who thinks that they are wrong?