Give me my gym back
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Anonymous
| Or at least remove the tags from your new fitness outfit. I’ll be glad when February comes around. |
Anonymous
| Cheer up. Those "resolutioners" subsidize our gym memberships all year long. The gym would be a lot more expensive if only the people who actually used it had to pay for all of it. |
Anonymous
+1. It's also not "your" gym unless it's your private gym in your basement. |
Anonymous
| You can tell whose sporting their new work-out gear they received for Christmas. |
Anonymous
Yes. I have a private gym in my basement, and I opened this thread because I thought that's what this was about. |
Anonymous
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I used to work in a gym, trust me the people we made fun of were not the new years people it was the people like you.
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Anonymous
| If you own the gym, I'm sure you have a better place to workout than a public space where tons of others walk around in their sweaty workout clothes. |
Anonymous
+1 my best friend in my early 20s was the aerobics director at our local gym. She couldn't STAND the Bs that thought they owned the gym and looked down on the folks coming to the gym for the first time. January and February were her least favorite months of the year at work because of all the kvetching she had to deal with from the nasty "I can't stand resolutioners" women. It's also extra pathetic seeing women trying to recreate the cool kid clubs in adulthood. Newsflash, no one cares that you've been going to the 6:30 PM Wednesday Turbokick class every week for the last 5 years. It doesn't make you special and it doesn't make the instructor your bestie who cares more about you than Susan who just started this week. Anyone trying to make an improvement to their health and well being should be applauded. Yes, most will be gone by March but some of them won't, some of them will stick around and keep working out and hopefully improve their health and/or physical fitness. And the people that don't stay this year might make it stick next year. So take your "OMG I can't wait until my favorite spin class is just us regs again" crap and stick it in your cellulite free buttocks. |
Anonymous
I thought OP was venting that her DH turned her basement gym into an office or her kid overtook the basement with all their Christmas toys. |
Anonymous
| Stop it! You should be encouraging these new people, not grumping about them. Yeah, it's busy, I get it. People are typically healthier and happier when they work out, so the more people who do, the better, IMO. |
Anonymous
Lol |
Anonymous
| Foresight is everything. Knowing some creeps like OPs are there, lots of people never have any interests of going there. |
Anonymous
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I was a gym newbie 5 years ago and stuck with it, so I empathize (but I didn't start at the beginning of the year).
But I wish that if they'd hog the equipment, they would at least use it correctly. DON'T HOLD ON to the treadmill on an incline. Go hands free. You're not getting as good of a workout as you think you are, and are also putting yourself at risk for injury with awful form. STOP LEANING on the stair climber railings. You're really not working yourself that hard, with an added dose of awful posture. If newbies are going to suddenly use up all the equipment, then dammit, use the machine correctly to work out. Otherwise you're wasting space. And the weight machines in front of the TVs? They're not for watching TV. They're for using. Not sitting on for 10 minutes or more to check the score on a game. |
Anonymous
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And also? DON'T GO TO THE GYM SICK. Sorry it sucks that your cold or flu lined up with your New Year's resolutions to get in shape, but go home, rest. Come back when you're 100% healthy.
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Anonymous
| I go to the gym regularly but I got new gym clothes for Christmas too. Sorry that offends you. |