Here is my list of 10 things that others do in the gym to get me completely crazy while I work out. Let me start by product of my friends, some of you may be entitled to certain one or two of below mentioned annoying gym features. Do not worry, it’s not just you. Several of these things happen every day and it could not annoy everyone as much as it does me. From body odor, equipment Nazis to be an idiot to feel his weight lifting belt to do the bench press, without further ado here is my top 10 list of annoying gym routine other.
Equipment Nazi’s – We’ve all seen them. The guy who uses a squat rack in the gym to perform all his workout. The first legs, the shoulders and finally biceps. You go to a gym Nazis and say “hey buddy, how many more places you got?” and he looks at you confused and angry to tell you that he just started his workout. As you really need to use the rack for standing shoulder press and bicep curls, Dummy ya?! And then he starts doing squats with a few 25’s on the side and you get even more angry. The type of gym Nazis is almost always a young kid who puts a towel on one rack, his hat over a bench across the room and a water bottle his left cable station.The kid is doing interval training, taking up three pieces of equipment and looks at you like you’re the ass when you start to use something he has not touched for 5 minutes. And when you tell him you’re working in, he looks at you in disgust.
Walking lunges for fitness – Okay, so I know I’m going to get called out great for this as many of you do, but please stop! Do you know how annoying and dangerous it is to lift heavy and take plates off barbell when someone is making the trip lunges in close proximity just in front of or next to you. Now to be fair, there are people who do this exercise usually regular who know what they are doing, but still, the free weight area. Go take weights to one of the studios or in front of the cardio machines. Stay away from people pushing heavily.
People carrying gym their bags with them while they workout – Folks, what’s the deal with your dirty, over filled, sweat ridden and stank ass bag to be left around the gym floor? Last I checked there were several hundred lockers hundred feet away. Go buy a $ 5 combination lock, or if you have a piss poor memory you can even buy a cool little ones with a key! Set crap in the closet like normal people and if you are not going to change the culture, why not leave it in your car?
Anyone who thinks the gym is kickboxing their dojo – So, this will not apply to all the gyms, but where does it stand bag and heavy bag in a regular gym, I’m sure you will know what I mean. Ever see this guy who is a little past his prime, looks like he took some Muay Thai kickboxing classes when he was younger and had aspiring dreams of becoming the next Ken or Ryu from Street Fighter? And now he wants to show a limited knowledge of how to perform the Roundhouse to anyone who will watch. This is the same guy who comes to the Good Life with a gym bag full of old and very smelly wrap his bag gloves and Thai shin guards. He will deck himself out and continue to pound away at them one by one bag in the gym for the next hour and a half leaving a trail of sweat and body odor a mile long, while making the loudest sound all the time in the hope that people will look at him and think he was once a UFC fighter. Pal, listen, there are MMA and Kick boxing gyms all over the country for the type of training. The only difference is that people will not give a rat ass about you, so there will be no one to impress. Take your hadookens else my friend. Good Life and other gyms are partly to blame, why have a large bag and stand there in the first place?
Skipper anywhere near where I am lifting weights – Where are my masters? Let me start by saying that I love to skip. I am also not referring to what 90% of people would think of as the master. Jump rope and Double Dutch do not count dropping as regards capacity. Skipper when done properly is a great cardio workout that helps with agility and speed and can make some pretty sick looking calf. With that said, go find an open area, away from free-weights and machines to do this. The master in the middle of the aisles in the business areas of the gym is not cool. It is almost as bad as traveling lunges to be honest. Perhaps worse, come to think of it. At least with lunges worst someone bangs you at a snail’s pace. You ever been hit with a skipping rope or worse yet, one of the weighted rope? I have not and I will not be so dropping off people away from me!
Guys who wear a lifting belt for no bloody reason – This really should not bug me. To be honest this has no effect on me whatsoever. Fact of the matter is a company looks like an idiot. I sometimes feel like a dick because I wonder if maybe the person has a serious back issues that I’m unaware of, and I see him lying on the bench to make a machine bench press and I know he has no idea what a weightlifting belt is. I wonder if they think if they do it up tight enough it’s working its core? Or maybe it makes feeding blow them out a little more when they go by I have something stuck up my butt posture? Who knows? Deadlifts, squats, Olympic lifts, I have no problem if you want to be in the belt. Join our belt when fastened around the waist and head over to work your chest and biceps, and yes I will be laughing at you.
Anyone using chalk for deadlifts of a couple hundred pounds – I personally chalk should be banned from all the major fashion commercial gyms. Guys who need chalk, power lifters, do not generally go to the Good Life or community center to do power lifting them. It’s just not the place. Since there is no 2000lb tested powerlifting barbells and no bumper plates, where there is a series of a dozen power rack, it should not be chalk. These every day gyms are not like elevators. Daily gym goer would not be using equipment that you were able to clean up properly, covered in chalk traces when you are done. And please it’s not like you have to chalk bench or deadlift or clean 100-200lbs. That’s what lifting straps or gloves are for. $ 10 you can get them at any fitness store. Chalk this up to common sense people! Okay, I had to throw it there.
Leaving free weights on the other side of the gym – well, here it is! NUMBER ONE MY most annoying thing you could ever do in the gym. Do not put your shit away! There are three categories in this, and I hate it so much, I will go into detail for each.
Anyone who puts his weight back in the wrong place. This person is definitely not the most hated and we are all guilty of this at some point. Some gyms have Co-op students or employees who keep on top of the ball here, others do not. It is frustrating when you are in the dumbbell section and you have to walk back and forth for the next case of death. Please just try to keep them in the general vicinity of where they should be. Do not let 100 is down from the 10 and 20’s.
Slightly more annoying is a girl or a guy (I find it is often girls the guys with this one) who decides she wants super sets, drop sets or making pyramids and 10 pairs of dumbbells all other grades so she does not have to get up and looking to land one listens top “number 1” has probably set back the wrong place to begin with. This may solve your immediate problem but you have to be ignorant and causes bigger problems now take up several sets of weights that others want to use. In addition, 9 times out of 10, there is so much work to put them all back when you’re done, you just leave them there for someone else to clean up, restore and scavenge through to find the weight that they are looking for a. You know who you are! You are bad. But there is still one person worse.
Ever been 3 or 4 set and you go looking for say a couple of 40lb dumbbells to curl. Well guess what? You know that annoying walking lunges we were talking about a little earlier? He or she finished their annoying walking lunges, and now the website of 40lb weights are somewhere next to the drinking fountain next to the girls changing room. After you spend a few minutes looking at the gym for those you might find them, to wait out of the gym, long after you’ve stopped the search and failed to lift the weight too heavy for you that you probably should not have been lifted in first place. But you can not find the weights you need so you tried your best to go bigger. No one should have to look for 10 minutes to find the weight they need to use. This also goes for handles, rope and other accessories fitness. Put things back where you get them from, please!
Tie up the equipment for the inefficient use – “Hey brother, I think it’s great that you’re working so hard on a 6 pack, but could you please get the hell off the decline bench rack, so I can work my chest!?” or “Hello Miss, I think it’s great that you like to step up and down on it, but the weight bench I could really use about a million other things and the end of the dirt from the shoes is not one of them! ” In other words, people, there is special equipment for each exercise so please pick up the equipment when you could be doing it elsewhere.
Body odor – I often find myself wondering whether some people are really oblivious to how awful they smell. Shower regularly, applying deodorant before and after exercise, eating a clean diet and wash gym clothes after each use easily fixed this problem. We’ve all got stuck on the machine next to one of these people and most of us are too polite to say anything. I mean the word alien, they stink in the kindest ways? Carry extra stick deodorant and before you evacuate conjuring a cloud of toxic people stank, put deodorant slightly out of sight, but the piece of equipment they are using. Or if they happen to be one of those annoying people who carry their gym bag everywhere, even better, slip it in their bag. Problem solved.
So there you have it, the top ten most annoying gym my habits of others. You may agree, you may disagree but at the end of the day they are there to annoy me, so they are all very wrong and you should not do it in my presence. Now I know I can be very anal and I have a little case of OCD, so some of my sound extreme to other readers, but please do not hesitate to share your own experiences and what makes you cringe, cry or go completely crazy when the gym surrounded stinky, walking lunges, wearing Weight Lifting belt for all the wrong reasons and covered in chalk, with a gym bag of left somewhere on the gym floor.