Things YOU DO at the gym that annoy me

[Bateluer]

+2 Offensive Points: You wear those toe-shoes They don't help you get a better grip on anything, and you look like a freaking growth-stunted frog that can't afford real gym shoes. +1 Offensive Points if your toe shoes are a freaking neon color. +2 Offensive points if the toes are a different neon color than the body of the shoe. Wear regular, normal colored sneakers like everyone else. Leave your damn individuality at home.

You can thank Christopher McDougal and his book 'Born to Run' for the barefoot fad and the cult that's spawned up around it. Fricking pretentious jacktards.

 

[ArizonaSteve]

My biggest peeve is cell phones. Fortunately my gym does not allow them.

 

[bigpimpatl]

The OP's list is full of distractions and nuisances at the Gym.

Personal attire I don't care anymore, if someone looks like a dumbass more power to them. From a moral standpoint, the women's dresses can improve but from my personal experience, there's only like one or two of those girls for every 10 that wear normal, respectful attire. It's just not professional or respectful (to yourself) if you look like you're exercising for your night job. You wouldn't go to the grocery store or work dressed provocatively, why is this any different?

Hogging machines, not racking weights, being loud and obnoxious and most of the other things in OP are the big offenses. They stop/distract me from working out. There is a poster of rules in the free weight area that clearly spell out do's and dont's. why is it so hard to follow that? I want to get my workout in while not being in someone's way. Why you can't you extend me that same courtesy? I don't want to spend time racking your weights or going on a goose hunt for the dumbbells you decided to lay everywhere. This is not YOUR gym so you need to be mindful of others as they have the same rights over you as you do over them.

 

[irishScott]

Look how ripped my feet are bro!

Because superior agility and tougher skin (calluses) are a bad thing? Besides, I trail run. Scrambling over roots and rocks in Vibrams actually leaves me less vulnerable to injury as I have a contoured surface (including use of my toes) gripping said root or rock as opposed to a flat tread that can slip.

I'm just saying there are viable benefits from VFFs. You want to be a girly man and fret about appearance while ignoring function, that's your problem.

 

[irishScott]

You can thank Christopher McDougal and his book 'Born to Run' for the barefoot fad and the cult that's spawned up around it. Fricking pretentious jacktards.

I'm honestly curious, exactly how is just wearing a pair of Vibrams as I go about my day being a pretentious jacktard? (This should be good.)

 

[TwiceOver]

I hate it when people throw down their dumbbells to the floor after a set like they are some beastly man that is so awesome. It's just fucking annoying. And then I turn to check and you know make sure they are OK and don't need help only to get the "you got a problem" stare. Go fuck yourself.

Agree with all your points. I love it when guys come in with the "Beats" headphones the size of aircraft carriers on their heads. I can hear them from across the room. They look so funny.

Not racking weights and bars is obnoxious also.

 

[irishScott]

As for my complaints, single biggest one is the douchebags who don't wipe down the equipment when they're done. I've actually seen a guy just get up and walk out leaving a fucking pool of sweat behind. Wanted to spray some cleaner in his eyes.

 

[lyssword]

joke's on you, no one here goes to gym

 

[ViviTheMage]

I'll add one, you work out in jeans .. fools!

 

[CPA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0WxyKGD7sU

started off slow, but ended good.

 

[CPA]

OP, agree with No. 1, but more as a rule of life not just gym. There should be a law against those stupid-ass shoes.

As for the boots, yeah, they look guido and silly, but they do have their uses for squats and deadlifts, especially if they have a hard sole.

 

[z1ggy]

And this is why I go to the gym inside of my workplace where it's only open to employees. Nobody here is a meathead and nobody really gives a shit about being a poser.

Only down side there is only one power rack and it seems to always be in use.

I wish I could see some labia majora every now and then though :-/

 

[SlitheryDee]

I tried to take my ipad once - they have wifi available. But in order to read anything, you can't really be working out - you have to slow down a ton on whatever cardio equipment you're on, with perhaps the exception of the elliptical.


OP forgot to add to the app person: the person whose app automatically posts what he did to Facebook. +3 points on that one. After a while, I find it annoying to see "I rode my bike 4.2 miles, want to see my route?" All I can think is "4.2 freaking miles? That's it?"

The only way I was ever successful in watching anything on the ipad was jacking the treadmill all the way up to maximum incline and walking at what I would call a "brisk" pace, maybe around 4 mph. It was slow enough to be able to focus on what was on the ipad, but the incline increased the difficulty to nearly that of running. I think I maintained a HR of around 150 bpm.

 

[Bateluer]

Because superior agility and tougher skin (calluses) are a bad thing? Besides, I trail run. Scrambling over roots and rocks in Vibrams actually leaves me less vulnerable to injury as I have a contoured surface (including use of my toes) gripping said root or rock as opposed to a flat tread that can slip.

Barefoot and vibrams do not give you superior agility or grip. Callouses and tougher feet, yes, but be fair, anyone will tougher feet by running in most shoes. I'm a trail runner as well, btw, you don't get any more grip than I do.

I'm honestly curious, exactly how is just wearing a pair of Vibrams as I go about my day being a pretentious jacktard? (This should be good.)

McDougal's book is responsible for that fad, and it was filled beginning to end with half truths and pseudo science. Its been almost entirely discredited. Which is why sales of minimalist shoes have collapsed.

Source.
http://www.runnersworld.com/running-shoes/sales-of-minimalist-shoes-plummet

The Tarahumara tribe in Mexico weren't good runners because they ran barefoot, they ran barefoot because they were dirt poor and located hundreds of miles from anything resembling civilization. They were good runners because they started young and lived of a diet of natural foods, not the processed garbage we eat in the developed world.

McDougal and his fans have built up minimalist and barefoot running into sort of a cure all, that all running related injuries are caused by running shoes. Aside from that failing the common sense test, (who would continue to buy the same shoes they kept getting injured in?) its a simple question of physics. If you take pressure off one area, such as the knees, that pressure and stress is relocated to a different part of the body, such as the ankles. Exercise science had demonstrated that you can, will, and are more likely to get injured wearing minimalist shoes for several reasons. First, the human factor. People read Born to Run, and immediately go out and drop 120 dollars on a pair of Vibrams without any phase in, or training, or base mileage, and often no prior running experience at all. Just a jump onto the bad wagon.

Second, because there is so little protection using the minimalist shoes, the bones of the foot and ankle are prone to stress fractures.

Third, I already mentioned. Stress doesn't just vanish, it simple moves from one body part to another. Knees to ankle, for example.

Source for the above.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23439417

Fourth, the attitude that so many(though not all) barefoot runners seem to have. That barefoot running is the correct way to run, because humans didn't evolve with shoes. If you're running in a traditional pair of shoes, you are wrong. Period. And like vegans, they're usually not shy about telling everyone around them. They conveniently overlook a critical detail humans. If something can be improved, we improve it. Modern running shoes are the product of nearly a century of R&D and experimentation. They are not simply, as McDougal puts it, thick slabs of rubber. These are advanced, technological marvels of synthetic materials, they offer protection to the feet from rocks, roots, and biting animals, they wick sweat away, they provide support, they provide grip, and return energy to forward momentum that would be lost into the ground if the human was barefoot.

 

[blankslate]

I'm really offended by people who go to a gym where other people are then whine about things about other people that offended them...

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Theres a reason i set this up:

I don't like the gym.

Nice cage. What is it and how much?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Agree with everything except this. I don't generally stink when I'm at the gym, so I'm not trying to defend myself. I just think it's ludicrous to complain about body odor in reference to people exercising. It's a gym. People sweat. A lot of people have some really offensive BO. That just comes with the territory. Granted, if someone only has one set of workout clothes they wash once every other month, that's disgusting and they should be ashamed. But for someone who was cursed with rancid BO, I'm not going to tell them, "Guess God didn't mean for you to exercise." Expecting the gym to smell nice is just silly.

There's bad and then there's Indian guy that just worked out bad.
Fortunately they are usually using machines so it doesn't bother me except when I have to walk by then.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

None of that bothers me at the gym. What bothers me is the whole "workout craze" everyone here in California is on now. I get to see that stupid shit on instagram with stupid ass hashtags like...

#teamnodaysoff#motivation#inspiration#traindirty#health#beastmode#fitness#nutrition#bodybuilding#fitspo#instafit#theultimatefitspo#fitfam#girlswithmuscle#ig_fitness_freak#Intermittentfasting#IIFYM#IfItFitsYourMacros#shreddedbyscience#flexibledieting#macros#aesthetics#physique#bikini#figure#stayrippednfit

That was exactly copy and pasted.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

you should worry more about your workout imho. why waste your time staring at people when you could be lifting or thinking about your next lifts.

kai greene talks about the mind muscle connection and all this time you're wasting looking at everyone else is taking away from your concentration. those people should be invisible to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1bRyhVN0Og

 

[Fritzo]

Horse shit, run 5 miles a day for a month wearing those goofy ass 5 Finger shoes and you'll be DONE. Actually you won't make it that long in them. They're great for short distances but you'll never see a distance runner with them on. Watch a marathon and report back how many runners you see in toe shoes.

They also stink to high-heaven too. Someone in my building got in the elevator wearing those things the other day and I thought he had a chunk of feta cheese in his pocket.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally Posted by QueBert View Post
Horse shit, run 5 miles a day for a month wearing those goofy ass 5 Finger shoes and you'll be DONE. Actually you won't make it that long in them. They're great for short distances but you'll never see a distance runner with them on. Watch a marathon and report back how many runners you see in toe shoes.

I see people running in vibrams in every marathon and ultra I do. Some finish, some don't.




Also wanted to comment on workout clothing and laundry. I've always worn once, then washed. I don't think I'm a heavy sweater, but like everyone else, if I'm running in humidity, I finish completely drenched. My running clothing is washed after every run, and I own enough pairs that I can run for 7 or 8 days before I needed to do a load of laundry. So it mystified and sickened me to learn that its pretty common for people to simply air dry their workout clothing or not shower after a gym workout or run. Still grosses me out when people skip the shower after a run, but several people in my defunct running club did that.

On /r/running, mostly high school and collegiate runners, it seems to be normal and common to simply toss your shorts and shirt in the bottom of the shower while you wash, wring them out, let them dry, then wear again. *gag*

 

[surfsatwerk]

+2 Offensive Points: You wear those toe-shoes They don't help you get a better grip on anything, and you look like a freaking growth-stunted frog that can't afford real gym shoes. +1 Offensive Points if your toe shoes are a freaking neon color. +2 Offensive points if the toes are a different neon color than the body of the shoe. Wear regular, normal colored sneakers like everyone else. Leave your damn individuality at home.

+5 Offensive Points: You eat while you work out: I see you every damn day at the gym, munching on everything from a Snickers Bar to cut-up pieces of fruit while you're lifting weights or doing cardio. It's not a damn cafeteria! +3 Offensive Points if you are eating some pretentious "guava nectar soybean pina juice green-colored slushy-looking thing in a jar."

+2 Offensive Points: You stink: Plain and simple, you smell like musty moose ass that's been left under a wet, plastic tarp in the sun for a month. Wear clean clothes at least every other day. +1 Offensive Point if you don't wear socks (see toe shoe comment, above).

Feel free to add your own gym pet peeves. BTW: If any of the above is YOU, please_just_stop.

No

 

[tfinch2]

I'm honestly curious, exactly how is just wearing a pair of Vibrams as I go about my day being a pretentious jacktard? (This should be good.)

You want to be a girly man and fret about appearance while ignoring function, that's your problem.

Hmm...

Don't you also ride your bike on the sidewalk?

 

[Scarpozzi]

I agree with most points, but I'm not annoyed by what other people do if it doesn't affect my workout. I don't care what shoes, headphones, or clothes others wear...I don't care if someone wants to guzzle 3 different drinks or eat as long as they don't make a mess or spill anything on the equipment.

Wiping down the equipment is always nice....but few people take the time.

I remember working out and these 3 guys came in that weren't members of the gym. They all had really bad BO...and covered it up with some spray deodorant. They sprayed it in the weight lifting area and I was running laps on the indoor track on the second floor....it gagged me every lap around. I think people with BO or strong smelling colonge or deodorants need to take a hike or shower BEFORE their workout.

 

[kalrith]

I think people with BO or strong smelling colonge or deodorants need to take a hike or shower BEFORE their workout.

How will hiking before their workout decrease their BO?