Gym Pet Peeves
 

1)First and easily my biggest:
DON'T LIFT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE [censored] RACK!!!! Jesus, you can't take 3 goddamn steps back and lift in the open area??? I'm tired of having to wait 30 seconds to grab the 25lbs b/c you HAVE to do shoulder flies directly in front of the rack and conveniently block off access to any weights in the vicinity.

2)Water bottle fill-up w/ people behind you. I don't mind if the person is almost done or the bottle is small, circa 12 oz. When you have the full bottle that only professional cyclists and/or pee-wee football centers use, let others get thier sip on. Or better yet (as is the case in my gym) go to the far less-occupied water fountain to fill up.

3)Not a big deal, but I've been annoyed from time to time. Girls (or gay men substitute generally) who are nazi's about the aerobic machine schedule. Now, granted, if the gym is packed, by all means we need to abide by the schedule . . . we're not savages. But when the gym is empty and there are 10 of 15 ellipticle machines free, don't tap me on the back and tell you've reserved this machine. Grab another machine you anal [censored]!

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1. People who do bidep curls in the squat rack (especially at my crap gym where there is only one racl).
2. People who walk around the locker room with their dick hanging out. Wrap a goddamn towel around your waist.

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Fat chicks in spandex.

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1) Random advice givers.
2) People who ask you a ton of feking questions.

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1. People who Grunt/Yell loudly.
2. People that slam weights when they can easily set them down.
3. People who step infront of the mirrors and lift right infront of your view while your midset.
4. Weights laying all over the place for no reason.

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Colt, who is that in your avatar?
btw kids sitting in the power rack texting with weight on the bar. Who walks around a weight room texting while smiling and giggling to himself?

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People who use crappy form to lift heavy weight and then act like they are badass because they can lift heavy.

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I guess I should be happy with my gym because I get none of this. I'm sure I could find some of these things if I look hard enough, but it's not enough to bother me. I suppose it helps that I go weekdays during work hours though.

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annoying ppl that come up to you in the middle of a lift and start talking to you, and [censored] up your consentration

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nth) People whining about dropping weights when deadlifting, C&Jing, etc when they have no bumper plates.
nth+1) Barring chalk.

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on the flip side...people who arent lifting all that heavy who slam weights down so people think they are that intense or were lifting that heavy

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guys that SCREAM.

slamming weights.

[censored] who think they're benching 315 when their ass flys a foot off the bench during the rep.

people who blatantly lie about how strong they are right to your face and then proceed to prove themselves wrong while asking you for a spot.

guys who act territorial in the gym.

guys who get pissed off when they ask me how many sets i have left on bench and i tell them at least 8. you can work in if you want.

TOTAL IDIOTS WHO THINK THEY SHOULD INJECT THEIR ROIDS AT THE GYM. WTF WTF WTF. AND LEAVE SYRINGES IN THE TRASH CAN. YOU [censored] IDIOTS.

guys who are naturally lean who act like they achieved something.

meh.

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I was talking about people dropping weights on machines, cables, dumbbells, tossing them off the bars to the floor b/c they are too lazy to sit them down and other excercises where it isnt that hard to ease them down. It is obvious that deadlifts, snatches, C&J's and others are slammed down and make noise with out bumper plates.

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wipe down the [censored] bench you sweat hogs

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death,

I wasn't thinking about you. I was day dreaming about these basketball players at the gym who think they're hot [censored] when they can overhead press half their BW for reps. Woohoo. I'm glad you bench a ton, too bad that is useless for you.

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I wasn't thinking about you. I was day dreaming about these basketball players at the gym who think they're hot [censored] when they can overhead press half their BW for reps. Woohoo. I'm glad you bench a ton, too bad that is useless for you.

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Useless why? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Colt,

Because they aren't left tackles?

Maybe they should be spending more time in squat rack or doing plyo's instead of talking about how studly their arms are?

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I wasn't thinking about you. I was day dreaming about these basketball players at the gym who think they're hot [censored] when they can overhead press half their BW for reps. Woohoo. I'm glad you bench a ton, too bad that is useless for you.

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Useless why? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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bench press is pretty useless in a lot of activities.

i'd rather military 400 and bench 200 than bench 500 and military 200. of course that's likely impossible, but that kind of shoulder strength would be insane. this is assuming i was just a normal guy who wasn't hung up on BP'ing a lot of weight, though.

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Colt,

Because they aren't left tackles?

Maybe they should be spending more time in squat rack or doing plyo's instead of talking about how studly their arms are?

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That's fair enough. You didn't say they were doing overhead presses at the exclusion of other movements. Personally I think upper body strength is a good thing to have in any sport.

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i'd rather military 400 and bench 200 than bench 500 and military 200. of course that's likely impossible, but that kind of shoulder strength would be insane. this is assuming i was just a normal guy who wasn't hung up on BP'ing a lot of weight, though.

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Well we agree on something then. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I think all you have to do is look at carryover. Benching a lot tends to benefit overhead pressing a lot less than vice versa. Plus it's just a much more functional movement. I mean how often are you pushing against something with a stable surface behind you. It's a pretty weird movement really.

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Colt,

Because they aren't left tackles?

Maybe they should be spending more time in squat rack or doing plyo's instead of talking about how studly their arms are?

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That's fair enough. You didn't say they were doing overhead presses at the exclusion of other movements. Personally I think upper body strength is a good thing to have in any sport.

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Meh, overhead pressing isn't terribly important in most sports in this country.

At best it is 3rd or 4th most important lift, and no athlete should be really prioritizing it year round.

Though I was confusing and obv its better to be strong than week.

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Though I was confusing and obv its better to be strong than week.

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I prefer to be month.

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Though I was confusing and obv its better to be strong than week.

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I prefer to be month.

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Engrish often?

I would use a famous quote, but it resulted in a banning. Though not the race I usually get 2p2 vacations for.

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I can't tell who's leveling who.

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People who walk past me with maybe one foot of clearance while I'm lifting.

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oh my god ive wanted to do this for some time.

1) How many sets do you have left? "A lot" [censored] you buddy how about a number?

2) If I'm lifting infront of the mirror 5 yds back from it and someone comes up in front of it.

3) Doing biceps on the cable cross. There is only 1 cable cross at my gym, and you can do a curl anywhere.

4) The Spring-Break Abs crew. You can't get abs if they are covered in fat and it definitely wont happen in two weeks so stop taking over the gym in late febuary.

5) Do not lift infront of the rack where noone else can grab weights. Don't do it. No, don't.



That was fun, I might come back with more later.

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1) Anyone using a squat rack for curls

2) Anyone being loud enough that I can hear you clearly (I use an mp3 player with good earbuds turned up very loud)

3) People I have never seen doing anything other than curls, bench presses, or situps (I work out at a college gym; there are many many regulars who never stray from those exercises)

BONUS...
THINGS I LOVE:

1) Hot women doing any sort over powerlifting or capably doing anything other than stability ball crunches and curls with brightly colored plastic weights....yesterday I saw a girl doing heavy cleans....mmmmm

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For those of you that hate grunters/screamers. When I do cleans, squats, or dls within a few pounds of my max I often yell or grunt or whatever - I don't try to to show off or anything. Does this really bother people that much? This would happen maybe twice a week.

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1- being pitched a session with the personal trainer mid set.

2- the trainers not taking the initial "no" for an answer

3- getting ads for my own gym on my car

My gym is pretty douchebag free, also it's huge so there's not often a problem wating for stuff even if somebody is being d-baggish about lingering on it or sitting there having a 15 conversation without actually doing a set.

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its fine for big lifts unless its unreasonable like BAAAAIIII LOOK AT ME AIAIAIAIAAAIIAHYCAHA

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I grunt a bit when pushing out that last set (or when negotiating a difficult rack after a hard set). I don't give a [censored] about what other's think because I think I earned the right to yell if I'm busting my ass.

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preach it!

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Fat-strong people...the one's you see who move a ton of weight but have a thick layer of fat on them. They generally think that they own the gym because they put up 3 or 4 plates on the bench. But really they are just fat which sucks for them. The only thing worse than a fat-strong person is a fat-strong person who thinks they can walk around the gym in a beater. Put on a shirt fatty.

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Guys that wear their swimsuits into the shower. If you're that insecure about being seen naked just take a shower at home.

People who flex and prance in front of the mirror. If you want to use the mirror to check your form that's fine, but flexing and smiling like you're on camera makes you look ridiculous.

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Smiley - I posted that I cant stand it when people that grunt or yell. The type you are talking about doesn't bother people at all, we all do that at times. Its the people that ROAR at the top of their lungs for attention or grunt really loud 8-10 reps in one of their sets just so the gym turns to look at them.

We used to have a kid at our gym that suffered from invisible lat syndrome (walks with arms out like his lats are massive when in fact he really had none) who would yell and scream so people would look at him. He even threw up in the middle of the gym one day after doing squats when it was obvious he could have exited the area before doing so just for attention.

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by far the worst are the dudes who put as much weight as possible on and then just have such horrendous form theyre obv doing nothing helpful for their bodies. there are a couple dudes who are always using the curl machine, they set it to the highest weight and then stand up, grab the bar and pretty much jump in the air and land on their butt to get the weights to go up. girls seem impressed by this. maybe just all humans are retarded?

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Guys that wear their swimsuits into the shower. If you're that insecure about being seen naked just take a shower at home.

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So you are mad cause you don't get to see other guys' penises? THAT is your pet peeve?

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All,

We scream for attention (we being my friends and I), this is in tribute to a legendary roid head who went to our school 2 years ago. He went from being ~150 lbs weakling to a ~190lbs balding chicken legged douchebag in ~3 months. A huge insane douchebag who could OHP 1.5x BW and bench 2x. Regardless, keep in mind grunts/screams/moans might not be for you to bring attention to them, but instead of a historical figure.

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For those of you that hate grunters/screamers. When I do cleans, squats, or dls within a few pounds of my max I often yell or grunt or whatever - I don't try to to show off or anything. Does this really bother people that much? This would happen maybe twice a week.

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No, if you're doing big weights and you have to grunt it's cool. I think we all hate the Monica Seles grunters who moan out a RAAAA for every rep of their bicep curls.

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Peeves :

1) At my last gym the worst thing was definitely all the gay old men who would hang out totally naked in the locker room. Ugh.

2) When I've got big weights on the rack and you ask to work in and take them all off. [censored] ask how many sets I have left and you can just do something else for a minute!

3) People who spot for bench and stand with their groin right in my face when I really don't even need help.

4) People who figure it's okay to come to the gym smelling like [censored] and being totally filthy because they're going to shower afterward.