People you hate at your gym

[Anonymous]

Today I was going to use a weight machine, and noticed a water bottle about 1.5 feet from the machine. Looked around saw no one nearby, and proceeded to use the machine, for 2 short sets - I was on it maybe 90 seconds, 2 minutes max.

As I'm gathering my own water bottle & towel to walk away, a woman comes up to me and says "can I use this now?" shaking her water bottle at me.

"uh, sure" I said.

I noticed her earlier, and she was about 50 feet away from this particular machine having a conversation with someone. People leave water bottles around all time, and they're not place savers anyway.

You don't get to "save" your machine and proceed to have conversations with people a good distance away.

[Anonymous]

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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!

Some get sick of always having to move to accommodate the person who was late.

If there is clearly no room in the class then the late woman should have gone to a later class or came back to class on time the next day.

I understand the motivation behind what the girl said, but I still think it's rude.

I think it was a bit harsh for a one time late. We all have emergencies/delays happen.

It would be more understandable if the person was making a habit of showing up late and then wanting others to stop what they were doing mid class to "make room" for her.

Agreed. I think it's horrible and almost laughably against the yoga ethos.

[Anonymous]

There's an older man who rented an overnight locker. He worked out and put his clothes in it afterwards. And put them on for his next workout session.He'd clear out the entire cardio area when folks saw him walking towards the treadmill. No kidding. Once I was in a zone on the treadmill and didn't see him walking my way. I almost vomited when I smelled him. To my knowledge, management didn't say a word to him.

[Anonymous]

Women who go to gym classes, usually dressed head to toe in Lululemon, and give you that look like "omg can you believe this is so easy?" or "lol I'm so great at this."

Of course it's easy, because you're totally doing it wrong. If you did what you're supposed to do instead of the funky chicken, your legs would be on FIRE and you'd be dripping with sweat.

But you sure do look cute! Just as cute at the end of class, as in the beginning.

[Anonymous]

A couple weeks ago I was at the gym at 6:00 a.m. and noticed a woman wearing a full face of makeup, including heavy eye makeup. At the gym. At 6:00 a.m. on a Tuesday. I can see the after-work crowd having makeup on from that day, but who wakes up early to put on makeup *before* going to the gym? My thought is that maybe she has a late-night job, like waitress or bartender, and doesn't wash off her makeup before bed. (but it looks fresh, not stale.)

I thought it might be a one-time thing, but no, I see her all the time now, always with full-on "night-time" eye makeup at the gym at 6:00 a.m. I find that so strange.

(i don't hate her, though.)

[Anonymous]

We have a gym in my office building with a utilitarian group exercise room. One day a week there's a spin class immediately followed by yoga. Invariably the yogis show up and start streaming into the room 10 minutes early, as those of us already in there are trying to wipe down our bikes, roll them back to the back of the room, and put various mats away. They're supposed to be zen but they're literally pushing us out of the way so they can unroll their mats in precisely the right spot. Drives me crazy.

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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.

At Orangetheory, when people do not return to the same rower they were on before. This bumps someone off to another one, which in turn bumps that person off, which then just causes confusion and delay and annoyance. Just stick with your same rower!! They are all the same.

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I never hated her, I only had great compassion and felt helpless.

There was a 4-hour a day woman, who was clearly unhealthy. Skeletal, and was full-cardio for hours at a time. Sometimes she went so slowly and took such effort, it was painful to watch.

The managers were aware of her presence, she was there religiously. They, from my understanding, never took her aside or counseled her out. They were successful in removing someone else who was far, farrrrr worse off.

I mean, what could they do? It would be extremely inappropriate to say anything if she never asked for help

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't hate, but he is annoying. Walks around with his chest puffed out, wearing 1980's garb, chomping gum with mouth open. He thinks he's hot. He's far from it.

Lol gotta hate those types of guys. The worst is the ones that think they're personal trainers and come up to you asking if you want their help or advice- and not out of kindness or trying to help me, clearly I know what I'm doing. They're just showing off/bad attempt to hit on me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple weeks ago I was at the gym at 6:00 a.m. and noticed a woman wearing a full face of makeup, including heavy eye makeup. At the gym. At 6:00 a.m. on a Tuesday. I can see the after-work crowd having makeup on from that day, but who wakes up early to put on makeup *before* going to the gym? My thought is that maybe she has a late-night job, like waitress or bartender, and doesn't wash off her makeup before bed. (but it looks fresh, not stale.)

I thought it might be a one-time thing, but no, I see her all the time now, always with full-on "night-time" eye makeup at the gym at 6:00 a.m. I find that so strange.

(i don't hate her, though.)

I wonder if that's my coworker. Always has the glam eyes (and she recently started working out in the mornings!).

There are people who are always made up if anyone else is going to see them. (Like you, I don't hate the made-up women at the gym; I just find them interesting.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A couple weeks ago I was at the gym at 6:00 a.m. and noticed a woman wearing a full face of makeup, including heavy eye makeup. At the gym. At 6:00 a.m. on a Tuesday. I can see the after-work crowd having makeup on from that day, but who wakes up early to put on makeup *before* going to the gym? My thought is that maybe she has a late-night job, like waitress or bartender, and doesn't wash off her makeup before bed. (but it looks fresh, not stale.)

I thought it might be a one-time thing, but no, I see her all the time now, always with full-on "night-time" eye makeup at the gym at 6:00 a.m. I find that so strange.

(i don't hate her, though.)

I wonder if that's my coworker. Always has the glam eyes (and she recently started working out in the mornings!).

There are people who are always made up if anyone else is going to see them. (Like you, I don't hate the made-up women at the gym; I just find them interesting.)

Those ladies always crack me up but they don't bother me. If I'm going to spend time at the gym, I want it to be worth the investment of my time so I work out hard and leave just enough energy for the walk home. I always end up looking like I got hit by a bus. I can't imagine how awful I'd look if I tried wearing any makeup during my workouts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This freakin kills me! They won't even apologize after they crack you with it when they spin the bar around to remove the weights from the other end without looking to see if anyone is nearby!

The people that come to group classes late kill me. I absolutely love one of the cycling instructors at my gym that will call them out and tell them they are not to disrupt class and will do what the rest of us are doing - she will have none of your bullshit in her class. Love, love, love!

[Anonymous]

This is the OP of this thread and I'm amused to see that it's still going. Also still annoyed by all the latecomers and recently I have seen a spate of people arriving 20-30 minutes late! Somebody explain this to me. At the halfway point why would you even bother to come? Instructors rarely call them out. And the lady I wrote about in the first post is still doing her thing and then once she gets set up begins a conversation with a fellow old lady. Again, explain this to me. You are late, and once you are there you are not paying attention and you are interrupting others' workouts. Just find some other activity already if you don't actually want to be at the gym.