If your fitness/yoga class is packed...

[Anonymous]

and a latecomer arrives 10-15 minutes after class has begun and you are already well into your workout/practice is it your obligation to move your set-up (mat/weights/step) to make room for the latecomer? Does it make a difference if the person is a chronic latecomer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and a latecomer arrives 10-15 minutes after class has begun and you are already well into your workout/practice is it your obligation to move your set-up (mat/weights/step) to make room for the latecomer? Does it make a difference if the person is a chronic latecomer?

They should close off class after it starts.

[Anonymous]

That’s a failure on the instructor or studios part. They can’t safely let a student into class part way through.

[Anonymous]

This happens all the time at Gold's gym, and it's often the same damn people. If they'd just come a few minutes earlier, we could all figure out the spacing at the same time and make room for everyone. But when you're already in downward dog and someone comes in, c'mon. I don't want to have to get out of a pose to move my mat over for you. The class starts at X time every week, and you have been coming for years. In a less crowded class, no biggie. But there are a couple of classes that if I'm running late, I just don't come.

[Anonymous]

nope. if someone arrived late i would not move to make room. They can figure it out or leave.

[Anonymous]

Wow. What a crotchety bunch of cows you all are. God forbid you have to move your mat over for someone!

[Anonymous]

LOL, yoga does not seem to improve the general disposition of a lot of people here Breathe in and out people!

[Anonymous]

If it's a person who's regularly late, nope. No moving. These are the same selfish people who always hold others up, and are chronically late.

If it's someone you see regularly and they are generally early/on time, then I'd absolutely move. Occasionally, stuff happens.

[Anonymous]

OP here. So this post was prompted by a chronically late person who arrived and told another person to move her stuff to make room well after class was underway. When that person refused she made a scene, started cursing, shouted for help from the instructor. Instructor helped her to get situated but declined to get involved in the dispute she had started. The whole class was silent. It was ugly. Gym mgmt does not do much to manage class flow because classes at this gym are rarely full.

[Anonymous]

14:48 - if someone came into a movie theater 10 minutes into a movie and asked you to move over so they could sit in your seat, would you do it? What if you'd gotten there 20 minutes early to choose just the right seat? I'm guessing you'd say no, and tell them to find another seat.

Sorry if I think people should be on time to things and not inconvenience others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So this post was prompted by a chronically late person who arrived and told another person to move her stuff to make room well after class was underway. When that person refused she made a scene, started cursing, shouted for help from the instructor. Instructor helped her to get situated but declined to get involved in the dispute she had started. The whole class was silent. It was ugly. Gym mgmt does not do much to manage class flow because classes at this gym are rarely full.

Shame on the other people for sitting by silently and not standing up for those who arrived on time. When they're getting cursed at next week, I hope they remember how they sat by and did nothing when it happened to someone else. People who do nothing are the worst.

[Anonymous]

The studio should alert all members that arriving more than x minutes late will mean they're not allowed in class. That's the professional way to deal with the issue, without singling anyone out.

I suggest you make that policy request, OP, since they appear to be lacking in that department.

[Anonymous]

The doors should be shut when it starts. Class closed.