Gym etiquette refresher for New Years Resolutioners and everyone

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Anonymous wrote:Wipe everything down when you’re done

Honest question here: I've read this wipe down etiquette in many difference threads/articles. What exactly does it mean? There are bleach wipes at LA Fitness. Do we use bleach wipes after every machine? Seems wasteful and majority of gym goers don't do it. Or do we use a towel to wipe off sweat? I don't sweat that much, so there is no sweat to wipe. If no sweat to wipe, is wiping still a requirement? Thank you for input. Really curious what the answers are.

Everyone is supposed to use the wipes. People don’t do it because they’re gross and lazy. No one wants to lay in any of your sweat, even if it’s just a little bit. Ewww

This. I don't want to sit in or touch anyone else's bodily fluids. Wiping down the things you sweat on is a courtesy to others. Apparently this is just one more thing where someone's "rights" are more important than being courteous towards others. If you are worried about the waste, just take a small towel and use a spray and then wash the towel at home.

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Anonymous wrote:STOP GRUNTING!

If you don’t need to grunt, you’re not lifting heavy enough.

Don't drop your weights!

+1000

If you have to drop your weights, they're too heavy for you. Strong people do it with control.

Yeah. It’s weird that the people who are doing that don’t look around and see people lifting much more weight without dropping it and change their behavior. At my gym, it’s the young guys doing light deadlifts who seem to love to drop the bar.

At my gym, it’s always the same 30-something woman doing this. We seem to have the same schedule and it’s super annoying… The bar’s too damn heavy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Re-rack your weights.

+1

I hate the people who leave weights on the bar and can't put the free weights back in the right, labeled spots.
There is a woman at my gym who never re-racks her weights. She is someone who is not new to lifting so knows the etiquette, just chooses to be an *ss .

Bet she’s pretty and snobby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wipe everything down when you’re done

Honest question here: I've read this wipe down etiquette in many difference threads/articles. What exactly does it mean? There are bleach wipes at LA Fitness. Do we use bleach wipes after every machine? Seems wasteful and majority of gym goers don't do it. Or do we use a towel to wipe off sweat? I don't sweat that much, so there is no sweat to wipe. If no sweat to wipe, is wiping still a requirement? Thank you for input. Really curious what the answers are.

It’s not wasteful. We have been in a pandemic for almost three years.

JFC that's not why people wipe things down. People were doing this WAY before Covid.

Not to the same extend. At least two gyms went from spray bottle stations with industrial type of paper towels to bleach wipes because of covid. JFC yourself

[Anonymous]

ONE MACHINE AT A TIME. The newbies at my gym seem to think it’s perfectly fine to put personal belongings on five machines so that they can use them as a circuit, while preventing anyone else from using the claimed equipment. It is infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ONE MACHINE AT A TIME. The newbies at my gym seem to think it’s perfectly fine to put personal belongings on five machines so that they can use them as a circuit, while preventing anyone else from using the claimed equipment. It is infuriating.

I look around, if no one is there, I move it.

[Anonymous]

Don’t post videos to social media that show gym patrons working out. I’m there to get my run in and leave, not to end up looking a sweaty mess in the background of some random person’s “day in the life” tik tok.

[Anonymous]

It's July, but apparently people need to be reminded:

DON'T COME LATE TO CLASSES.

ESPECIALLY DON'T COME LATE TO CLASSES IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

AND ESPECIALLY SPECIALLY DON'T COME LATE TO CLASSES IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND THEN SET UP RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE ELSE.

Don't just dilly dally on you phone, or totally do your own thing. I'm talking to you, woman in Bodypump who set up in front of others, late, spent half the time on her phone and the other half doing totally different things. Like tricep kickbacks with poor form (swinging) in the middle of chest, or crunches in the middle of triceps.

How do people lack such situational awareness???

[Anonymous]

For the love of god, gtfo out of the squat rack if you’re not doing squats. Anyone doing arm curls in a squat/power rack should immediately be banned for life from the gym.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STOP GRUNTING!

Omg shut up. Trying leg pressing 700 lbs without grunting. You don’t take lifting seriously. Grunting/hissing lowers interabdominal pressure when lifting heavy. What’s annoying are idiots like you who complain about a gym not being like a library and getting angry it is loud when there are people in a gym who are in much better shape than you are.