Group Fitness Class Pet Peeves

[Anonymous]

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- people who have zero sense of space. remember where you start - you move front, back, right, left, but you always return to your starting position spot. how hard is it?!
- the person who is late to class, no matter the class, no matter the day, time, etc. they are always 15 minutes late. get it together or don’t go.
- people who go in the opposite direction of everyone. if everyone’s going right, you go right. they go left, you go left. It’s fine for a new move, but you continue to go opposite for everything, all the time, the entire time.
- ditto for something like body pump where the moved are coordinated to the beat. The people who constantly to the exact reverse - wtf is wrong with you? You don’t even have to be rhythmically gifted - just follow what everyone else is doing.
- people who set up RIGHT next to you, when there’s plenty of floor space. Am I Mindy Kaling in that commercial, and totally invisible? Or are you just a jerk?
- the person who comes in 10, 20, 30, FOURTY minutes late and tries to take over your spot.

[Anonymous]

I joined orangetheory to get rid of most of these problems. Nevertheless I had a lady that kept trying to steal my floorspace during the floor time. If she had a 4 and I had 9, she would come over to work out in my space. At first I was embarrassed for her and moved over a bit to give her space. But eventually I pretended she didnt exist and would put my foot under her chest during push ups etc til she got upset and never came back to my space. Use your own space lady. That's why they assign you a number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Add your own...

- people who have zero sense of space. remember where you start - you move front, back, right, left, but you always return to your starting position spot. how hard is it?!
- the person who is late to class, no matter the class, no matter the day, time, etc. they are always 15 minutes late. get it together or don’t go.
- people who go in the opposite direction of everyone. if everyone’s going right, you go right. they go left, you go left. It’s fine for a new move, but you continue to go opposite for everything, all the time, the entire time.
- ditto for something like body pump where the moved are coordinated to the beat. The people who constantly to the exact reverse - wtf is wrong with you? You don’t even have to be rhythmically gifted - just follow what everyone else is doing.
- people who set up RIGHT next to you, when there’s plenty of floor space. Am I Mindy Kaling in that commercial, and totally invisible? Or are you just a jerk?
- the person who comes in 10, 20, 30, FOURTY minutes late and tries to take over your spot.

This. Like just look around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Add your own...

- people who have zero sense of space. remember where you start - you move front, back, right, left, but you always return to your starting position spot. how hard is it?!
- the person who is late to class, no matter the class, no matter the day, time, etc. they are always 15 minutes late. get it together or don’t go.
- people who go in the opposite direction of everyone. if everyone’s going right, you go right. they go left, you go left. It’s fine for a new move, but you continue to go opposite for everything, all the time, the entire time.
- ditto for something like body pump where the moved are coordinated to the beat. The people who constantly to the exact reverse - wtf is wrong with you? You don’t even have to be rhythmically gifted - just follow what everyone else is doing.
- people who set up RIGHT next to you, when there’s plenty of floor space. Am I Mindy Kaling in that commercial, and totally invisible? Or are you just a jerk?
- the person who comes in 10, 20, 30, FOURTY minutes late and tries to take over your spot.

Some of us just aren't that coordinated. Why do you care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Add your own...

- people who have zero sense of space. remember where you start - you move front, back, right, left, but you always return to your starting position spot. how hard is it?!
- the person who is late to class, no matter the class, no matter the day, time, etc. they are always 15 minutes late. get it together or don’t go.
- people who go in the opposite direction of everyone. if everyone’s going right, you go right. they go left, you go left. It’s fine for a new move, but you continue to go opposite for everything, all the time, the entire time.
- ditto for something like body pump where the moved are coordinated to the beat. The people who constantly to the exact reverse - wtf is wrong with you? You don’t even have to be rhythmically gifted - just follow what everyone else is doing.
- people who set up RIGHT next to you, when there’s plenty of floor space. Am I Mindy Kaling in that commercial, and totally invisible? Or are you just a jerk?
- the person who comes in 10, 20, 30, FOURTY minutes late and tries to take over your spot.

Some of us just aren't that coordinated. Why do you care?

Ha ha yes this is me! I’m not great at processing spoken instructions and I’m not very coordinated.

[Anonymous]

The people with awful form who take none of the corrections the teacher calls out.

The people who set up right next to you or move into your space (especially dangerous during kickboxing).

The ones who are always off the timing — they do everything at 1.5 speed and it’s so distracting.

[Anonymous]

Eh. Unless a person is right up in your space (which is both odd and aggressive), they’re entitled to do whatever they want with their body. Focus on your own workout/practice.

-yoga teacher and longtime practitioner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh. Unless a person is right up in your space (which is both odd and aggressive), they’re entitled to do whatever they want with their body. Focus on your own workout/practice.

-yoga teacher and longtime practitioner

+1 from a longtime athlete

The beauty of these classes is that others' performance has literally zero impact on you, unless they're touching or impeding you. This isn't a competitive team sport; it's a fitness class. I love my fitness classes, mind you, but I do them for me and I don't care what other people do there. My workout is mine, their workout is theirs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Add your own...

- people who have zero sense of space. remember where you start - you move front, back, right, left, but you always return to your starting position spot. how hard is it?!
- the person who is late to class, no matter the class, no matter the day, time, etc. they are always 15 minutes late. get it together or don’t go.
- people who go in the opposite direction of everyone. if everyone’s going right, you go right. they go left, you go left. It’s fine for a new move, but you continue to go opposite for everything, all the time, the entire time.
- ditto for something like body pump where the moved are coordinated to the beat. The people who constantly to the exact reverse - wtf is wrong with you? You don’t even have to be rhythmically gifted - just follow what everyone else is doing.
- people who set up RIGHT next to you, when there’s plenty of floor space. Am I Mindy Kaling in that commercial, and totally invisible? Or are you just a jerk?
- the person who comes in 10, 20, 30, FOURTY minutes late and tries to take over your spot.

Some of us just aren't that coordinated. Why do you care?

Ha ha yes this is me! I’m not great at processing spoken instructions and I’m not very coordinated.

Because it's dangerous. If everyone is shuffling right, you're going to bump into someone if you're shuffling left. The whole point is that when everyone moves in the same direction, no one gets hurt.

And it has nothing to do with coordination - these people are on beat, just going the totally opposite direction.

[Anonymous]

The people who stop and take a sip of water every 5 minutes. You can't do this in a class like zumba where you cross over and between people and they're moving around.

Either set yourself and your water bottle up in a place where you can access as often as you want, or work on your endurance. Crossing over and between people is a no-no. You're not going to die if you don't take a sip between every song!

[Anonymous]

Op. It seems group fitness classes are just not for you - you are getting irritated by too many things.

[Anonymous]

Today I got to body pump class 10 minutes early, some woman got there 2 minutes before it started, and loudly announced that she was hoping to get the spot near the door (where I was set up) because she wasn't feeling well and the AC was stronger there. Um, too bad.

[Anonymous]

- the person who is late to class, no matter the class, no matter the day, time, etc. they are always 15 minutes late. get it together or don’t go.

- the person who comes in 10, 20, 30, FOURTY minutes late and tries to take over your spot.

Never happens in the classes I go to. If you’re late, you have to do five burpees for each minute late and after five you aren’t allowed in. But I agree with the PP - you are irritated with a lot of things. Just do you.

[Anonymous]

People who just decide to do their own thing. The teacher is doing squats? F&ck it - they’re on the mat doing donkey kicks.

The ones who are off beat don’t bother me unless we’re in a spin class and they have set themselves up in the front row. Why do you put yourself front and center if you have no rhythm?? It’s so distracting!

[Anonymous]

To add to all the others mentioned yoga studios that pack people in small rooms like sardines. Some are worse than others but I don't want to be able to smell my neighbor and I need to be able to fully extend my arms and legs.