People you hate at your gym

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a woman at our gym who will spend well over an hour on the stair master. Sweat flying everywhere, puddle around the machine on the floor, people waiting. She's in there every time I go in, whether during working hours or at night. Just being near her extreme intensity stresses (and grosses) me out.

There's a wait for stair masters? Those are the redheaded stepchildren of every gym I've belonged to, the equipment you don't use unless there's nothing else free and you can't wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a woman at our gym who will spend well over an hour on the stair master. Sweat flying everywhere, puddle around the machine on the floor, people waiting. She's in there every time I go in, whether during working hours or at night. Just being near her extreme intensity stresses (and grosses) me out.

There's a wait for stair masters? Those are the redheaded stepchildren of every gym I've belonged to, the equipment you don't use unless there's nothing else free and you can't wait.

Yeah, I don't really get a wait for the stairmaster.

You could just set the resistance really high on the elliptical, not use the handlebars, and it's more or less the same thing. Or set the incline high on the treadmill (also don't hold on to anything - so, so bad).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a woman at our gym who will spend well over an hour on the stair master. Sweat flying everywhere, puddle around the machine on the floor, people waiting. She's in there every time I go in, whether during working hours or at night. Just being near her extreme intensity stresses (and grosses) me out.

There's a wait for stair masters? Those are the redheaded stepchildren of every gym I've belonged to, the equipment you don't use unless there's nothing else free and you can't wait.

There are 4 of them and during the busier times, there's always a wait. I don't like them, but they are at the quieter end of the gym, so I like to head toward those treadmills. Just hate when the only one available is within her spray radius.

[Anonymous]

These are funny! I go at 6 am and it is pretty quiet at my gym. No stories to tell.

[Anonymous]

Op - you should lock the door 5 minutes after class starts and pretend not to see her when she finally shows up.

[Anonymous]

The women who get on the treadmill next to me and think we're racing or something. I keep my same pace the whole time and just laugh inside my head. I'm not interested in competing.

The staff who spend more time socializing than working.

Some people really need a shower BEFORE they come to the gym but women on their periods are the worse.

One woman in my class that thinks she owns one certain spot in the class. It's first come, first serve so try to get to class first and you will get the spot but don't come later then tell the person to move because they're working out there.

[Anonymous]

At the old gym - treadmill guy who used to intervals by running full force and then making an orgasm noise while coming to complete sudden stop - run, MOAN, stop. run, MOAN, stop. (shudder)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's like a woman who regularly comes in 10-15 minutes late to Zumba classes at my gym. She goes in, tries to find a spot in the back, but people like the safety of the back so it's usually "full." If it's possible, people try and make space for people. But this woman doesn't care, she will stand 8" from you. And she'll not only change spots every song, but 2-3x in the middle of a song. It's one thing to move into an empty spot, but she thinks it's a damn game of musical chairs or something all through class. And then sometimes she'll lie on the floor in the back of the room (where there are people, mind you - it's usually a packed class) and do stretches in the middle of zumba class.

I completely do not understand how some people have such little knack for basic social norms/etiquette.

How? Why? Poor parenting. She may be stressed, depressed, overwhelmed and just trying to cope. ADD. Another type of special need - they don't miraculously disappear as you age, people! Have some compassion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The trainers at my gym who ogle women or make fun of the older out of shape women. I want to change gyms.

Report them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's like a woman who regularly comes in 10-15 minutes late to Zumba classes at my gym. She goes in, tries to find a spot in the back, but people like the safety of the back so it's usually "full." If it's possible, people try and make space for people. But this woman doesn't care, she will stand 8" from you. And she'll not only change spots every song, but 2-3x in the middle of a song. It's one thing to move into an empty spot, but she thinks it's a damn game of musical chairs or something all through class. And then sometimes she'll lie on the floor in the back of the room (where there are people, mind you - it's usually a packed class) and do stretches in the middle of zumba class.

I completely do not understand how some people have such little knack for basic social norms/etiquette.

How? Why? Poor parenting. She may be stressed, depressed, overwhelmed and just trying to cope. ADD. Another type of special need - they don't miraculously disappear as you age, people! Have some compassion.

If that's the case, then they need to hire a personal trainer to work one on one with them. If you have some sort of issue, you've got to have compassion for the people around you and not make your issue their burden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a guy at my gym who randomly yells (at the top of his lungs) HOO-RAH while on the treadmill. Scares the shit out of me every time.

This is hysterical!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a woman at our gym who will spend well over an hour on the stair master. Sweat flying everywhere, puddle around the machine on the floor, people waiting. She's in there every time I go in, whether during working hours or at night. Just being near her extreme intensity stresses (and grosses) me out.

This made me think of the song "Lucy at the Gym" by Jill Sobule. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FxeyolDf6w8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trainers at my gym who ogle women or make fun of the older out of shape women. I want to change gyms.

Report them.

This doesn't work at my gym because some of them are management.

[Anonymous]

We have one of those perpetually 10 minutes late princesses at my gym too. Every.single.class she comes in late and expects people to make room for her. For that and not saying thank you when I have held the door for her puts her on my shit list.

[Anonymous]

I never hated her, I only had great compassion and felt helpless.

There was a 4-hour a day woman, who was clearly unhealthy. Skeletal, and was full-cardio for hours at a time. Sometimes she went so slowly and took such effort, it was painful to watch.

The managers were aware of her presence, she was there religiously. They, from my understanding, never took her aside or counseled her out. They were successful in removing someone else who was far, farrrrr worse off.