Universal Gym Rules - It's about Time

[OceanDude]

Yeah, I really don't know what gets in some people's heads where they think they need to dress wild to "get attention". Or if its not dressing "loud" it's talking or laughing loudly so that everyone in the whole building has to know that "they are sombody". I personally have no time for the childish insecure bs and try so hard to ignore it all. It's just so weak ...

 

[RnRGirl]

Okay, how about the guy that is constantly pulling up his shirt so he can check out his not so fab abs in the mirror. Or the guy who has to flex his bicep after every set of curls to see if his biceps are any bigger..... in a mirror of course.

 

[ponyboy]

Or the guys with ILS (Invisible Lat Syndrome) who walk around with little chicken legs.

I am the ONLY male that works for my company (of 30 employees...all group fitness people). I find anyone that is serious about fitness wears clothing that is comfortable...but not revealing normally. And of course, if you're wearing makeup? Dead giveaway that the person isn't actually there to exercise.

That being said, I love taking (or teaching) classes when the sports bras and shorts come into play. There is nothing sexier than a sweaty girl with abs in a sports bra and a ponytail!

 

[ZECH]

My grip is the guys that use certain equipment for the wrong exercise.(in the squat rack doing curls) (or using a bench to do situps). The gym is usually crowded so don't waste the equipment~ And cell phones in the weight room burn my ass~ If you want to talk, go HOME!!

 

[OceanDude]

Originally posted by RnRGirl
Okay, how about the guy that is constantly pulling up his shirt so he can check out his not so fab abs in the mirror. Or the guy who has to flex his bicep after every set of curls to see if his biceps are any bigger..... in a mirror of course.

Good point runner girl. The guys are just as guilty as the ladies.

I think it's legitimate to check out your bicep pump in the mirror though since flexing and posing is considered a bonafide body building movement and tecnnique. I do this one myself sometimes to make sure I am getting good symmetry in arm development and to see if I have a full pump yet or to check out the peak of my flex.

 

[OceanDude]

Originally posted by ponyboy
...That being said, I love taking (or teaching) classes when the sports bras and shorts come into play. There is nothing sexier than a sweaty girl with abs in a sports bra and a ponytail!

I am with you there pony - I love an athletic woman wearing a halter or sports bra and sporting a high pony tail - totally the correct image for me.

 

[OceanDude]

Well just about when I thought I have seen it all I find a new thing to add the rules list.

DO NOT EAT FOOD IN THE GYM!!

Jeezus! I saw a trainer today come up to the cardio room with her spicy chicken breast all cooked up in her microwave proof container and start stinking up the room with pepper smells and other things. Here I am coming off of very intense HIIT and cardio and gasping for breath and this fool is telling all her friends of her new recipe. I about wanted to puke from the smell . Food is the last thing on my mind during a workout and it makes me nauseous to smell this stuff when I am close to passing out from the intensity. So now this trainer is apparently meeting her friends/co-workers after her classes and they sit on the recumbent exercise bikes and stuff their faces while they are doing cardio! This one is going to management or to the health department to shut them down.

 

[ArduousMeister]

You would think that you could expect a little more from a trainer, especially one that worked at that gym.

But really gets under my skin is after a workout walking out the main entrance and through a cloud of smoke from the trainers that are outside smoking.

 

[ponyboy]

Trainers that are smoking!? Holy cow! I would not even let someone WORK for me as a trainer who would have enough audacity to smoke right outside the door.

Bye bye job for you. Can't preach good health and then walk outside and smoke IMO.

The food thing is always an issue as well...eggs are the worst smell in the world.

 

[perfecto]

rodrugg: who punches ppl in the throat while deadlifting or squatting? are you serious? thats assult brother!

I have to say that yer the most distracting thing at the gym are the women. Just the other day i was shoulder pressing pretty heavy weights which required concentration from me. Then when im on my final few reps, my face burning with redness, my muscles shaking, this totally hot chic walks right infront of me, bends over to pikup a dumbell and as she bends over her tite little pink g string pops right out of her tite little ass - man u shuda seen my weights drop i thought that was it. I mean that shit just cannot happen like fuck. I mean sweetheart outside the gym thats fine you can bend over as much as you like but not when im in a position to seriously injure my head!!

 

[OceanDude]

Perfecto, I hear you. And you can pretty much bet your life that she has done this before and knew better (as well as precisely how far she could bend over to perform this stunt). But if you were to confront her on it she would start yelling at you and calling you a pervert for bringing to her attention she popped her G-string.

That???s why a lot of guys just laugh and look away when they get the attention of people like this to use embarrassment as a way to force the issue of "inappropriateness" with them. But some people just like the attention any way they can get it.

 

[perfecto]

thats totally right i never thought of it that way

 

[oaktownboy]

Originally posted by RnRGirl
Okay, how about the guy that is constantly pulling up his shirt so he can check out his not so fab abs in the mirror. Or the guy who has to flex his bicep after every set of curls to see if his biceps are any bigger..... in a mirror of course.

In this scenario it's a bit different.After a set of bi, i flex them to increase the pump and flexing the muscle also lengthens their fibers.

 

[OceanDude]

Son of a GUN it happened today AGAIN !Triceps day seems to be the day to give me grief. Once again on the high pulley doing heavy triceps push downs and the INSTANT I leave to refill my bottle a fat chick pulls my rope off the pulley, changes all the weights around (10 lbs) and starts working at my station with the other 3 stations being vacant. I say ???EXCUSE ME BUT I AM ON TIMED INTERVALS AND I AM WORKING THERE??? . She say???s ???Oh, I thought your towel and gear here meant someone was here???.

I so want to just smack the hell out of someone.

Then I am working out biceps and doing declining pyramids running the rack as I exhaust when low and behold - the 25 pounder dumbells that were just there are suddenly GONE. I look around and I can't find them. I go to management and am now whining since its been a bad day. They track them down to the aerobics room where some guy dragged them and used them 2 minutes and threw them in the corner.

 

[Mudge]

Originally posted by perfecto
I have to say that yer the most distracting thing at the gym are the women.

I purposely go later at night to avoid people, women included. My gym happens to have alot of lookers and you are right, I dont need the distraction!

 

[oaktownboy]

I think for a lot of people, going to the gym is not a time to work, but to socialize, especially the ones i see around 5, right after work.They just stand around and jabber, while taking up the equipment.

 

[ghandi]

i wish to endose RCfootball87's comment about people yelling stuff like.....
"Cmon! LIFT IT! YOU CAN DO IT!" and how it messes up your concentration. I have first hand experience with people yelling this kind of drivel and it makes me cringe. i feel embarrassed for them, and the worst thing is if you ask one of these jokers to spot for you people my think you are friends.

 

[Terok`Nor]

I don't like it when the herd of moms crowd in front of the aerobics room a few minutes before their class and start yakking like in a bar. and the gym has the brains to put the benches right next to the entrance of the room

 

[firestorm]

Originally posted by P-funk
this is a good rule except when doing squats. I always squat with my shoes off in order to increase my tactile senses and get on the flatest surface as possible. I find that because of the arches in most shoes when squating my feet tend to role a bit becuase it is not a flat surface. I do almost my entire leg workout shoeless, stiff leg deads, squats, calf raises etc.

one word: Otomix foot wear.

 

[firestorm]

Originally posted by Mudge
I purposely go later at night to avoid people, women included. My gym happens to have alot of lookers and you are right, I dont need the distraction!

I purposely quit all gym memberships and bought all my own equipment to avoid people, women included. My gym happens NOT to have alot of lookers or any humans of any kind and your right I don't need the distraction either.

 

[gr81]

I am jealous man, I have to deal with some CLOWNS in my gym, my god

 

[wraith]

what about people that sit on a bench and tell stories while all the other benches are being used ,good way to get your ass kicked in the parking lot if someone isnt having a good day lol it also pisses me off when someone leaves the gym ,goes outside and smokes then comes back in and expect you not to be in their station ,i mean theres a difference in 5 min and 30

 

[DuhFee]

How about this one:

We know that towels are the marker that something is in use. But I can't stand when people leave half empty water bottles laying next to something because it makes me think someone is going to come back and use it, and they never do, theyre just ditching their trash.

 

[OceanDude]

My latest pet peeve is what I call the ???basketball boob club???. There are 2 women in their latte 40???s or early 50???s who must have had boob implants way back when they first started doing them years ago and had not perfected the technology. I mean they are HUGE and round and look exactly like basketballs or soccer balls ??? that big no kidding. For the life of me I can???t figure out why they would want to show them off I mean they look absolutely hideous and sick. These women must be ex exotic dancers or porn star types that are now shall we say ???over the hill???. They still have slim petite bodies (which further exaggerates the ridiculously large boob jobs) but their faces are definitely going down hill now ??? which is all natural and fine. What is hard to deal with though is their attitudes. They love to come into the gym first thing in the morning and wear these super tight ass riding skimpy outfits with those HUGE basketballs popping out of their tops and sticking out like helium balloons that can defy gravity. It???s hard enough to wake up in the morning and get really up for a good workout but when these 2 come into the gym I just want to toss my cookies all over the floor and go home. Some of you ladies need to tell these old girls and those like them that the huge fake boob look is absolutely ridiculous and people DO NOT think it is attractive.

 

[y2gt]

-One thing I can't understand is personal trainers who are fat!!??! Who the hell would pay for training from someone like that??

-Another thing i hate is multiple workout partners. (more than 2 people). Every so often I can't do a certain exercise because there is five guys in a group taking turns on the machine. Give someone else a chance you dick!!

-I HATE when guys bounce the stack off the bump stops on those machine presses and grunt!!!

-This was mentioned already, but i HATE when guys tell you your doing it wrong, yet they don't know shit! I have been doing Go-Pro's workouts for a while and when i do power week (low reps) this guy always says "4 reps...that aint gonna do shit. You gotta do like 15-20 reps." LEAVE ME THE F ALONE!!!

-I sometimes do dropset single arm dumbell curls. This same guy is watching me (dickhead). I'm curling the 35lb, then 25, then 15, then go to the other arm and start with the 35. So he sees me curling the 15 in my right arm. Then i do the 35 in the left arm. He comes up to me in the middle of this and says "dude, you really should use the same weight for each arm. thats not right what your doing." Everyone around is looking now...i feel like a retard. I lose concentration, f'd up the whole set. I got really pissed and yelled dick, I'm doing dropsets!! Don't worry about me! Mind your business!!! He didn't understand !!!! Because i waited a second and then started the sets over, and he started saying it again!!! FU#K OFF MAN

 

[Tha Don]

Originally posted by y2gt
-I sometimes do dropset single arm dumbell curls. This same guy is watching me (dickhead). I'm curling the 35lb, then 25, then 15, then go to the other arm and start with the 35. So he sees me curling the 15 in my right arm. Then i do the 35 in the left arm. He comes up to me in the middle of this and says "dude, you really should use the same weight for each arm. thats not right what your doing." Everyone around is looking now...i feel like a retard. I lose concentration, f'd up the whole set. I got really pissed and yelled dick, I'm doing dropsets!! Don't worry about me! Mind your business!!! He didn't understand !!!! Because i waited a second and then started the sets over, and he started saying it again!!!

LMAO

that 1 was funny!

 

[Mindless]

I hate people who take a piece of equipment, strap so much wait on it they have trouble getting it on, and then cheat so badly that its almost funny.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Wipe off your disgusting sweat off the machines.

If you're sick, train at home, I don't like walking into your snot mist.

If you're a furball leave your shirt on or shave, donkeykong.

And shut your damn Cum Dumpster, I'm not here to talk.

 

[Terok`Nor]

lol y2gt

 

[ponyboy]

Originally posted by y2gt

-This was mentioned already, but i HATE when guys tell you your doing it wrong, yet they don't know shit! I have been doing Go-Pro's workouts for a while and when i do power week (low reps) this guy always says "4 reps...that aint gonna do shit. You gotta do like 15-20 reps." LEAVE ME THE F ALONE!!!

-I sometimes do dropset single arm dumbell curls. This same guy is watching me (dickhead). I'm curling the 35lb, then 25, then 15, then go to the other arm and start with the 35. So he sees me curling the 15 in my right arm. Then i do the 35 in the left arm. He comes up to me in the middle of this and says "dude, you really should use the same weight for each arm. thats not right what your doing." Everyone around is looking now...i feel like a retard. I lose concentration, f'd up the whole set. I got really pissed and yelled dick, I'm doing dropsets!! Don't worry about me! Mind your business!!! He didn't understand !!!! Because i waited a second and then started the sets over, and he started saying it again!!! FU#K OFF MAN

As a trainer it is always difficult to approach people to let them know that what they are doing might not be the best idea. When I'm seeing somebody doing something different I usually ask them what technique they are using and as long as they have good form I never say anything. It's also a good excuse to introduce myself in case they have any questions. However, I feel like it's my responsibility because I work there.

There's a right way and a wrong way to approach people without interrupting their flow and making them feel stupid.