Universal Gym Rules - It's about Time

[mrguy]

Yup!!

I no longer even say hi to anyone.

The minute I walk in the Gym door, the headphones go on and I go to my happy place.

All the idiots in the Gym can't take me out of my happy place even though they try.

It's hard to hear someone when you have Metallica blasting your ear drums out.

I guess people see me and say there is that anti social ahole, and you know what, I don't care...........because I'm getting bigger and more ripped and they are not.

And, I chose to torture my legs on leg day so don't f*ck*ng ask me why am I working my legs and not my arms. That's why they look so damn big and look in sync with the rest of my body!! Not like two chicken legs carring a Ronnie Coleman torso!!
Funny concept, work them and they will grow!

 

[Tha Don]

OMG last night I was doing some tricep push-downs.... it was the end of my tri workout and I really had to concentrate to sqeeze out the last few reps

now the pulldown machine is right next to the gym door, the gym is also used for a man in a alligator costume to dress up to entertain kids who have pool parties (as the complex is mainly a swimming/water park with waves and currents)

so i start on my last set, and this guy runs in through the gym door in his costume, I try not to notice him and carry on but these kids have followed him and are trying to get in through the door which is right next to me and this dude in the costume is trying to fight off the little kids (apparently they were unhappy as no member of staff was there to take a photo of them all with the alligator). So i'm trying to push out my last few reps and these kids are attacking the alligator right next to me. To make matters worse other old chaps are looking and laughing and I start to laugh and thats it, I probably lost a good 2 or 3 reps because of it

This is the worst case of distraction ever.

Oh and yes I'm changing gyms real soon

 

[nikegurl]

crazy vent/rant coming....(warning warning)

i'm a nice person, really i am. in fact, it's too hard for me to tell people off when they actually really deserve it.

last night a guy starts making "chit chat" with me. i'm trying to concentrate but i don't want to be rude since he's being pleasant enough. so i keep my answers very brief figuring he'll catch on.

nope.

now he's following me from exercise to exercise. so i realize i need to be a bit clearer. this time i tell him "i don't like to talk while i'm training b/c it distracts me. nothing personal - it's what works for me". see? even now i'm half blaming myself so as not to be rude to someone who so far hasn't said anything offense - just saying too much despite the fact that he's getting one or two syllable answers back.

so...now he doesn't speak during sets but sits and waits for me to finish....next thing i know he's telling me that his mom is a lesbian and "came out" when he was 12 so he is very open sexually and tuned in to women's needs in a way most men aren't.

HUH? WTF? Did I ask? Did I not walk away from you repeatedly and ask you not to talk to me (politely)? What POSSIBLE reason could you have to think I want to hear about your imagined sexual prowess?

He forced me to tell him to go away and leave me alone. Really he did.

Rant over. But there was a point. I don't go to they gym to hook up or meet people. Most of us here don't. But some people do and I guess it isn't a crime BUT thos people need to find other people like them and pay attention to the cues they get back. If someone isn't engaging in conversation with you or they're not looking at you or they're walking away or they tell you they don't talk to people at the gym or ALL of the above. Take the hint.

 

[gr81]

I got two words for you girl: headphones, haha it works everytime. if that doesn't work then don't be afraid to get a little mean during your WO. I have had people interrupt me at the wrong time during my training and I have exploded at them screaming very verbally to never ever talk to while while I am training, with a few expletives of course. I guarantee they will never bother you again if you did that.

 

[nikegurl]

i bet your right. i also bet it'd be fun to yell at someone who clearly needs it....you may have created a monster.


you're right on the headphones. i KNOW i can pretend not to hear someone. good tip. somehow i forgot about those!

 

[gr81]

Originally posted by nikegurl
i bet your right. i also bet it'd be fun to yell at someone who clearly needs it....you may have created a monster.

Thata girl, I am telling you it would get you all amped up and boost that intensity if you did that I bet. go get em

Off the topic, If I saw that happen at my gym, it wouldn't be me b/c I don't talk to people there, but if I saw a girl do that to someone trying to talk to her, OMG I would be in love, that would be so fuckin cool to see a girl that serious about her training

 

[nikegurl]

it would have been easier to yell at him if he had been a jerk right away but he was polite in everything he said - i just didn't want him to be saying anything at all.

so for ages i was telling myself he's probably a nice guy without a clue and SOON he'll realize i want him to go away.

then i realized he was an ass so i had to help HIM realize he was.

 

[gr81]

you should know that if you want to get something across to a guy you are better off being crystal clear with him, we don't pick up on hints very well, especially if we don't know you and we don't know how to read you yet, ya know

 

[nikegurl]

yep - it's taking me a long time to learn that. i figure if i walk away and barely speak that's obvious - but nope.

actually, i think i may have learned it before, but i keep forgetting.

lol

 

[mrguy]

Nikegirl,

A girl serious about training... To Cool!!!!

To many of the social butterflys running around at the gyms and not enough Nikegirls!!!!

Give em hell!!!

 

[nikegurl]

aw shucks. you guys are too kind.

appreciate the support

 

[ponyboy]

At the gym I used to work at I could never get a good workout in because of people asking questions but I didn't want to listen to music either because it distracted me.

Solution? Headphones, but I didn't attach them to anything and kept the lead in my pocket so it looked like I was listening to something and I could choose who I did and didn't speak to. Worked like a charm!

 

[Tha Don]

Originally posted by ponyboy
At the gym I used to work at I could never get a good workout in because of people asking questions but I didn't want to listen to music either because it distracted me.

Solution? Headphones, but I didn't attach them to anything and kept the lead in my pocket so it looked like I was listening to something and I could choose who I did and didn't speak to. Worked like a charm!

nice 1!

 

[oaktownboy]

ok yall here's one ..The other day i was at the leg press machine, taking a breather in between sets, and this old guy comes up to me and asks if i was using it. I told him i had 2 more sets to go.So I went and got a drink of water.I come back and he's on the machine, seat and pad adjusted along with the weight.I was thinking,"Motherfucker.If we were at a real gym, some bb would have kicked ur ass, old or not. Recognize the towel and the words.I'm not playing with you."

 

[ponyboy]

That's grounds for a serious put down. As soon as he was done his set I would have started removing his weight and kicked his ass off of the machine. And given him a serious lecture on gym behaviour at the top of my lungs.

If someone tells me they are using a machine I don't care who the hell you are...you don't jump in without permission, especially on a machine that needs weight adjusted like that one.

 

[OceanDude]

Here is one that happened to me not long ago from the opposite perspective and from a guy that thought he had the superior moral position:
I had just completed a few very tough ???burning??? sets of leg extensions with heavy weights and was sitting in the seat recovering for the next set. Maybe 1 minute max had elapsed since my last set. Some old man who just walked in clearly thinks I am loafing and must have an image of himself as some kind of gym stud. From his comments he clearly wants me to move. I have been on the machine maybe a total of 4 minutes so far. He remarks sarcastically ???just keep looking at those weights all day son ??? they won???t move for you unless you stop day dreaming and get to work???. It took every ounce of mental control to keep from telling him to go pull his head out of his ass. So I finished 2 more sets and go on to the next exercise. I glanced back to watch him jump on the machine shaking his head about me. He does one set of next to no weight jumps up and moves on to his next machine. He is in and out in 1 minute flat (probably just like his sex life when he was in his prime). All the time I am sure he thought he was the better man and I was some punk kid that did not know what I was doing. In fact I was probably only 10 years his junior but I looked so much younger in comparison he had no idea. It was so pathetic I couldn???t even get the satisfaction of chuckling to myself. Some people are just so shallow and clueless to make it not worth getting upset over or even laughing at???

 

[arbntmare]

i need to spend more time at the gym that only girls go to.. its all one life to live

 

[Big Smoothy]

Originally posted by gr81
-leave your cell phone in the car

How funny some people have to have to carry their cell phone to every exercise with them, leave it with their towel. Then it rings....they pick it up and babble, then wander off to bullsh*t.

 

[Hawk]

I hate it when ppl walk right next to me doin olympic lifts, don't they realize these are REAL weights. Somebodies gonna get hurt!

I hate it when the cleaning staff spray cleaner on the equipment near me when I'm working, amonia right in the face. (gag)
I went off on the last one that did this, almost fed her the cleaning stuff!
The owner is too cheap to hire a cleaning staff so the trainers (read answer the phone and sell memberships people) clean during business hours.
Pisses me off royal, only gym in town or I'd be gone!

~Hawk~

 

[camarosuper6]

One of my fav' s is defintely dont talk to me or say Hi when Im in the middle of doing 405 lb deadlifts.

I had an old "acquaintence" try that one time, and 405 is so heavy , to ME anyways, that I could barely breathe, much less TALK.

ARgh... stupidity is so damn contagious.

 

[X Ring]

well you know what they say: "Artifical Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity!" and with stupidity being so contagious we are essentially hopeless

 

[OceanDude]

Originally posted by Hawk
...I hate it when the cleaning staff spray cleaner on the equipment near me when I'm working, amonia right in the face. (gag) ...
~Hawk~

I can relate to this soooo much! We got this older female staff member at our gym who works part-time in exchange for membership. She always seems to come out of her office and start spraying silicon lubricant all over the place when I get really into the meat of my workout. There is little worse that I can think of than taking in a deep dose of aerosol propellant and silicon residuals right when you need maximum air intake to get those last few reps out. Makes me want to just go over and toss my cookies right in her lap to get her attention...


-OD

 

[stencil]

This stuff is cracking me up.

A few things that annoy me:

1) People who don't put the weights / bars away. I've almost killed myself tripping over a stray EZ bar or dumbell at least a few times.

2) People who take only ONE dumbell. Take them both so I don't get all excited only to find out that I'm missing half the set.

3) Dudes who do curls on the dual cable tower. Dudes who do curls in the squat rack / power cage with the O bar. Dudes who spend the entire night preacher curling. Dudes who curl too much in general. Dudes who never work their legs.

4) TSSSSS. I know some people can't help it, but I hate that noise people make when repping. TSSSS. TSSSS. TSSSSS. Cmon.

 

[camarosuper6]

You cannot forget the Spotter from Left Field. You know, when your doing a workout, and your starting to struggle getting in your last reps, and a mystery gentleman comes to help you out, but instead of actually spotting you, he basically lifts the weights for you the rest of the set, COMPLETELY throwing off your workoutload.

MAN I HATE THAT@@@#!!!!

 

[nmuriqi]

Son's of bitches!!!! I was doing incline dumbell presses with 80 lb DB's, i was on my last rep, and really looking forward to getting them up there...just because i was slowly getting them up and grunting, this shmuck comes over, grabs my elbows and pushes them up. I put the weight down, smiled at him and said thanks, when in reality i wanted to pull his shirt over his head and beat the shit out of him. IF I WANT A SPOT I'LL ASK!!!!!!!

 

[GSXR750]

I would've dropped the dumbell on his foot: Never had it happen although That would drive me nuts!

 

[Hawk]

What's worse is a guy who will stand there and watch you fail and do NOTHING! I got a pretty good partner, he can catch the muscle substitution patterns and know when I'm gonna fail, he'll go ahead and let ya fail though and then assist with a couple neg reps. Works for me!
Yeah I hate when folks don't rerack and I don't like being messed with either. I don't really get mad, I just don't hear em anymore, I tune em out mostly!

Yesterday I'm working out and the ladies are having an aerobics class, it's an open floor type deal and they start doing some kind of pelvic lifts and the whole weight room stops...just STOPS dead.. the only thing goin up in the air was not the weights! Problem is my WIFE is in there, and I hear some guy talking about her, now I figure I'm gonna have to hurt him...AARGH... do these ladies understand what they are doing? Ya gotta wonder!!

~Hawk~

 

[X Ring]

oh they know, they just act like then dont to drive us crazy

 

[greekblondechic]

Wear clothes that fit. A lot of people seem to think the gym is a good place to wear old clothes that fit you years ago.. before the gut..

 

[pumpchaser]

Don't hog a machine while some one's waiting by doing 5 endless, lame, half-assed drop sets in which you're obviously just going through the motions. Get on and off the damn machine, and out of my way - do you understand the term sharing? And when you do take too long, don't bother feigning indignation when i call you on it, lameass. Notice how i use the machine, one great set, and move out of the way for you.