People who try and take over your spot in zumba

[Anonymous]

Good for you! Next time, drop the ‘sorry’. You have nothing to be sorry about. I cannot fathom coming late and then asking someone to move!

[Anonymous]

I have a Zumba spot too and I get there early to get it. If someone gets there before me, I would go somewhere else. I can’t stand when people are late to a class like Zumba and people are moving around. I know one day there’s going to be a crash.

[Anonymous]

So what are the popular spots in Zumba? I want to try a class but don’t want to take someone’s place. I think I would prefer to be in the back towards the door in case I need to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what are the popular spots in Zumba? I want to try a class but don’t want to take someone’s place. I think I would prefer to be in the back towards the door in case I need to leave.

Usually the back spots. I do that because I live Zumba, but I really am the most uncoordinated. If anyone had to stand behind me and watch they’d go nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chronic latecomers at the gym are my number one pet peeve for classes and I refuse to move. I was once called a bitch in class for refusing to move over (not sufficient space) and inconvenience myself. I particularly hate it during yoga class when the room is quiet and you have to move your body and your mat--not just scooting over a few feet. Stick to your guns OP. Latecomers demonstrate they are not serious about their workout when they are consistently late. I am serious about my workout and I get to the gym on time or even early to set myself up how I like. I refuse to accommodate dilettantes.

I'm a consistent latecomer, but I don't expect anyone to move for me. I get in where I fit in.

OP, if this is consistent, I'd make the studio aware. The instructor can guide her elsewhere. You handled it really well, by the way. The friggin' audacity of her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what are the popular spots in Zumba? I want to try a class but don’t want to take someone’s place. I think I would prefer to be in the back towards the door in case I need to leave.

I would say around the room perimeter. The diehards will be in the front. Others in the back. People like walls.

But honestly, if you get there early, you're welcome to go wherever you like. While everyone likes their spots, most people also know "first come, first serve" is understood. The more important thing is to maintain a good sense of space since you move around a lot in zumba.

[Anonymous]

Great job, op!! Good for you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha! You handled it well, OP. I work in a yoga studio and we have a few people who are obsessed with getting “their spot”. They call the studio and ask me to put a mat down for them if they are running late. I get it. I have preferred spots. But you don’t ask someone to move.

Please tell me you say, 'NO, FIRST COME'.

I’ll do it for regulars who are usually early. But only if the class isn’t full/nearly full.

[Anonymous]

This is crazy. Just stand wherever there is space. I don't understand having a "spot" you need to be in. And to the poor yoga instructor who has people calling to put a mat down in their "spot" HA. I could never be a yoga/Pilates instructor. Too many high strung entitled UMC/UC women

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what are the popular spots in Zumba? I want to try a class but don’t want to take someone’s place. I think I would prefer to be in the back towards the door in case I need to leave.

I would say around the room perimeter. The diehards will be in the front. Others in the back. People like walls.

But honestly, if you get there early, you're welcome to go wherever you like. While everyone likes their spots, most people also know "first come, first serve" is understood. The more important thing is to maintain a good sense of space since you move around a lot in zumba.

Yeah. Don't worry about taking someone's "spot". I have spots and bikes I like but if they're taken I just find another. Most sane people will. I would laugh out loud at OP's um friend. I had someone in Zumba for awhile that would run in late and try to park herself basically in my spot. She gave up when are realized I wasn't going to somehow magically make nonexistent space for her.

[Anonymous]

I could have written this. Except she would come late and not follow any of the instructions. She was dancing around right next to the instructor- so distracting. People who behave that way have bigger issues.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes, if someone is standing too close behind me, I turn around and do part of the combination backwards (like the teacher) and say, “you are so close, I really don’t want to accidentally run into you!” Or I say “would you like me to move? Is that why you are so close to me?”

But, I use these phrases very. Very. Rarely. Most of the time, it’s an old lady who can’t see, or dance, very well and I feel sorry for them.

I am a very good dancer, only in terms of Zumba, I failed out of the professional scene, and so I stand behind the pole, in the back, over on the far side of the room for most classes. I don’t need to see the teacher to follow the combination and The people struggling do t need to see how good I am.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love the response, OP!
So what did she do?

She stayed inches behind me. I made it clear this time I was not moving. I resigned myself to "well if I hit her, I hit her, but she's behind me so that's on her." [I did not end up hitting her]

On one hand, I don't want to be a b*tch. On the other hand, I'm so tired of her doing this (probably the 5th or 6th time) and so tired of entitled people who expect the world to cater to them.

I admit that I like "my spot" - but if someone's there first, it's not a big deal, I go someplace else that's open. I could never fathom forcing someone out of where they are, or telling them to go someplace else when I'm late.

Good for you, OP. I have spots I like too and get their early for them.

Good for you OP. I have my favorite spots in various classes too, for different reasons, and it would make me insane if someone outright told me to move if I got there early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for you! Next time, drop the ‘sorry’. You have nothing to be sorry about. I cannot fathom coming late and then asking someone to move!

This. And talk to the gym. No one should even be allowed to join in 45 min late. This must drive the instructor nuts too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love the response, OP!
So what did she do?

She stayed inches behind me. I made it clear this time I was not moving. I resigned myself to "well if I hit her, I hit her, but she's behind me so that's on her." [I did not end up hitting her]

On one hand, I don't want to be a b*tch. On the other hand, I'm so tired of her doing this (probably the 5th or 6th time) and so tired of entitled people who expect the world to cater to them.

I admit that I like "my spot" - but if someone's there first, it's not a big deal, I go someplace else that's open. I could never fathom forcing someone out of where they are, or telling them to go someplace else when I'm late.

This seems like such obnoxious behavior that I wonder if you should discuss with the instructor.

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Just have the instructor remind everyone to spread out. Have her glance at the room and tell close late dancer to step off.