Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 14:04 and I've asked in the past, and it hasn't always gotten a good response. People who are machine hogs don't always respond well to being asked. In most cases, I just do other stuff until they are done. I just thought this guy's behavior was obnoxious - blocking a machine (when there are a ton of other places to lift) for that long when it's the only one of its kind.

A couple weeks ago, some kid came up to me and asked if he could work in. I had literally been on the machine for one minute and planned to be on for one minute more. The machine had been unoccupied before I got on, and the person before that had been on for over 5 minutes. So I said "no, I'll be done in about a minute." He tried to get me to reconsider, and I wanted to say, "why didn't you use it when it was unoccupied?" It really annoyed me. In the time it took for him to ask me and for me to say "Just a minute", I could have been halfway done.

I don't think you understand what "working in" means. It means that when you are done with your set, you get up during your rest time and he uses the machine for one set, then you switch back and forth until one of you is done. If you are only using a maching for 2 minutes than you probably aren't doing it correctly.

Also, with the guy blocking the maching I would have asked "are you using this right now?" If he's not, I'm not sure how someone can save a machine. If he says yes, then just say, "okay, I'll wait" and stand there. He should then feel obliged to either use it himself or let you use it.

Exactly. Was the PP resting when the kid asked to work in? She must have been if he came up and talked to her!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't really "bad behavior" necessarily, but I'm forever confused by women that go to the gym with makeup, or workout with their (longish) hair completely down. I just don't get it. What's the point?

If you're going to workout, you should break a sweat. But maybe they're there just for appearances?

I don't get leaving the hair down, but I don't judge people that have on makeup. If I'm coming from work, I'm not going to take off my makeup before I workout knowing that I'm going to have to shower afterwards.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 14:04 and I've asked in the past, and it hasn't always gotten a good response. People who are machine hogs don't always respond well to being asked. In most cases, I just do other stuff until they are done. I just thought this guy's behavior was obnoxious - blocking a machine (when there are a ton of other places to lift) for that long when it's the only one of its kind.

A couple weeks ago, some kid came up to me and asked if he could work in. I had literally been on the machine for one minute and planned to be on for one minute more. The machine had been unoccupied before I got on, and the person before that had been on for over 5 minutes. So I said "no, I'll be done in about a minute." He tried to get me to reconsider, and I wanted to say, "why didn't you use it when it was unoccupied?" It really annoyed me. In the time it took for him to ask me and for me to say "Just a minute", I could have been halfway done.

Anonymous wrote:This isn't really "bad behavior" necessarily, but I'm forever confused by women that go to the gym with makeup, or workout with their (longish) hair completely down. I just don't get it. What's the point?

If you're going to workout, you should break a sweat. But maybe they're there just for appearances?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, those things bug me too. The other day I went to the gym and wanted to do some ab work on that captain's chair thing. (the only one.) This guy was standing RIGHT in front of it, lifting weights, blocking it. So I figured I'd work out at other stations and wait for him to finish. He stopped lifting a couple minutes later, but "saved" the machine by rolling the weights in front of it. He walked around the gym for awhile.

After I had literally lifted at 12 other circuit stations, he came back to the ab thing and stood in front of it for another 5 minutes without doing anything. Then he did about a minute of abs, then stood around again. While I did another 5 stations.

He and his stuff finally moved away from the machine - literally 20 minutes after he'd taken it over, and with him doing about 1 minute on the actual machine. I've never seen such ridiculous machine-hogging with so little actual workout involved.

I hate it when the grunters sound like they're having sex. It makes me feel like I'm intruding on something private - really uncomfortable.

Excuse me, may I use that while you're lift/walking around/not using it? Done.

Anonymous wrote:OP, those things bug me too. The other day I went to the gym and wanted to do some ab work on that captain's chair thing. (the only one.) This guy was standing RIGHT in front of it, lifting weights, blocking it. So I figured I'd work out at other stations and wait for him to finish. He stopped lifting a couple minutes later, but "saved" the machine by rolling the weights in front of it. He walked around the gym for awhile.

After I had literally lifted at 12 other circuit stations, he came back to the ab thing and stood in front of it for another 5 minutes without doing anything. Then he did about a minute of abs, then stood around again. While I did another 5 stations.

He and his stuff finally moved away from the machine - literally 20 minutes after he'd taken it over, and with him doing about 1 minute on the actual machine. I've never seen such ridiculous machine-hogging with so little actual workout involved.

I hate it when the grunters sound like they're having sex. It makes me feel like I'm intruding on something private - really uncomfortable.

Anonymous wrote:People that look at the machine next to them, and try and secretly "compete" with them. Dudette, you may be going faster than me on the elliptical, but that's because you have the resistance set to 4. Try bumping it up to 14.

Keep your eyes on your own machine, and do your own workout.

I also hate grunters. There's one older man that sounds like he's constantly orgasming, and it grosses me out. Even with my headphone volume set all the way up, you can hear him.