People you hate at your gym

[Anonymous]

We have a couple skeletors at our gym. Chest bones sticking out.

[Anonymous]

The guy who uses the locker room blow dryer to dry his balls.

[Anonymous]

I can't say "hate," but I once saw a couple of dudes come in wearing red, white and blue tights, like they were some sort of performing group. Looked like a father and son. They bounced into the middle of the gym. The older one got out one of those wheels you use for ab work and did several intricate lat exercises while the younger one stood over him and watched. He finally finished and bounced up again, looking around like he was expecting applause.

Again, I can't say "hate" -- it was so strange that it helped pass the time while I was on the elliptical.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like DC area gyms are full of crazies. And the most grumpy people in town go to gym.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ditto here. One of the most obnoxious is not a general manager of the gym. They've recently hired a few women, one of whom looks and acts like she's 12. She was calling across the floor in one section of the gym to make fun of me to another trainer. There is no one to complain to.

[Anonymous]

It's always an old fat guy, too, and he feels like he needs to get real close to his short hairs to make sure they get really dry. Seinfeldian choice, if you want to use the blow dryer yourself after that.

Anonymous wrote:The guy who uses the locker room blow dryer to dry his balls.

[Anonymous]

women who don't let me grab their asses in their tight yoga pants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once I was in a yoga class that tends to be very packed every week. A woman came in about 10 minutes late and tried to squeeze in between some people in front of me. The girl who was asked to move - maybe 23 years old - said, "No, I'm not moving. I got here on time. Perhaps you should leave and come back on time next week." The whole class could hear her. I almost applauded. I've always wished I could be the person to put a stop to the people who come in late and disrupt everything in a full or over-full class.

My pet peeve is people who camp out on machines and rest more than they're actually working out, and play on their phones while they rest. I just want to get in, move quickly between stations, do my 25 reps and get out. If someone is hogging one machine (the only one of its kind) for 15-20 minutes, I can't use it and that just annoys me. If you need a single circuit weight station for that long, you are doing it wrong. And yes, I'll ask to work in, but the same people who hog machines are typically the ones who aren't very nice if you ask to work in.

So hateful, so rude - a yoga class? How humiliating! This makes my stomach turn. I have no idea why you find this admirable (or even acceptable!).

For all anyone knows, the woman could have been having the day from hell and was stuck in traffic that made her late to the class. Big deal. Have some compassion!

Hateful, rude, humiliating, making your stomach turn - could you be more melodramatic? It is refreshing to hear folks do the right thing and not be a doormat. There's nothing stopping the person who was late from doing yoga on their own. Master time and space - be there on time!

[Anonymous]

I do a group exercise class combining cardio, rowing and strength training. Half of the class is spent on the treadmill doing interval training. There is a guy I see periodically that presents himself working out so hard that he has to jump off the treadmill without stopping it to go get water, catch his breath, maybe use the bathroom. This guy comes across as so intense he has to sit out the stretching at the end and rest. The handful of times I have worked out with him at the same time, it's always the same thing -- he ends up huffing and puffing on the rowers, head hung in exhaustion while the rest of the class stretches.

I don't hate him, I find him very peculiar.

[Anonymous]

I sorta hate the people that feel compelled to walk around naked in the locker room. I don't understand why it is so difficult to cover yourself with a towel.

[Anonymous]

People who talk on their cellphone. Do people not have manners anymore? You call is not that important If it is, take it completely outside. Not in the locker room, not in the lounge, and definitely not while using any machines.

[Anonymous]

In Bodypump, the jerks that take their entire bar loaded with weights over to the racks, and remove their weights right there.

No, you do not clog up the rack area while you unload your bar. You disassemble wherever you were situated, and then bring your stuff over as you can carry it.

Worse, the people who leave their bars there.

ANIMALS.

[Anonymous]

OMG. There is this woman who likes to chit chat when you are on a machine or using weights. Just stands there, bottle of water in hand and shoots the breeze.

She makes me crazy but I am stupidly too polite to say "Um do you not see me trying to sweat and work out here, I don't care what your yorkie did at the dog park."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 23 year olds who prance about in yoga pants with no underwear. Yes, your body is hot, yes, we ALL can see you have a brazilian.

Disgusting, I just threw up my breakfast.

How can you possibly tell this? Are their pants so thin they're see through? Serious question, I wear the think black pants commando all the time and can't imagine how you could see anything either way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do a group exercise class combining cardio, rowing and strength training. Half of the class is spent on the treadmill doing interval training. There is a guy I see periodically that presents himself working out so hard that he has to jump off the treadmill without stopping it to go get water, catch his breath, maybe use the bathroom. This guy comes across as so intense he has to sit out the stretching at the end and rest. The handful of times I have worked out with him at the same time, it's always the same thing -- he ends up huffing and puffing on the rowers, head hung in exhaustion while the rest of the class stretches.

I don't hate him, I find him very peculiar.

Orangetheory? The people I can't stand are the ones who can't figure out that people want to stay at the same weight station for the different rounds even though you go on the rowers in between rounds. They flit between weight stations and take weights from multiple racks. I don't know why it bothers me that much but it does. It stresses me out.