What’re your biggest gym pet peeve?

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1. How heavy the weights are.

2. When the local highschool football team takes over all three squat racks w multiple people at each one

3. I have earbuds for a reason. Stop trying to talk to me.

4. People who sing or take calls while on a treadmill, elliptical, etc. there’s an older guy at my gym who will do both every day. Annoys the hell out of me.

5. Put your weights back!

6. Leaving the weights lying around. I might be too conscious of it but it really bugs me, and if it was because “whoops, I forgot” then my previous faint annoyance reaches new levels.

7. Don’t facetime in the locker room.

8. Haha all these answers make me so glad I work out at home, for how much I would like the extra equipment a gym offers, I would hate having people around or using a machine that I need. I go into a workout with a specific order written out ahead of time so having to adjust around people would drive me up the wall.

9. You nasty mfs need to be wearing shower shoes. For your health!

10. People curling in the squat rack. Yes I saw that THIS MONTH. C’mon people.

    Also, picking up dumbbells and proceeding to use them RIGHT AT THE WEIGHT RACK. Like bro, people need to get to the other weights

11. if I want to use a machine and this guy is on twitter debating for more than 5 minutes between each set.

12. The guys who complain that me and the fellas are all washing each other off in the showers. I’m like bruh my muscles are too big to be reaching back there.

13. When I wanna do pullups but there’s a bunch of fuckers doing cable exercises right there

14. People on the phone or just wasting time on a piece of equipment. If you’re taking a long rest to prep for a 4 plate squat, then cool you do you. But if you’re still warming up or not even started but you’re having a video call with your folks while sitting inside the squat rack then….. Not to mention all the girls taking booty pics and trying to find all the right instahoe angles while doing it in the squat to try to make it seem like they’re hardcore lifters, urgh.

15. When it is crowded.

16. I have lots. My standouts are:

    – recording/taking pics of other people in the gym who are minding their own business. It happens with surprising regularity.

    – gathering up a ton of equipment and setting up your own little gym and getting pissy when ppl are annoyed

    – not wiping off equipment when you’re done

    – not reracking weights

    – not putting a towel down on benches or not wiping sweat off when you get up. No one wants to sit where your swamp ass has been

17. Having sweat that stinks so bad it lingers on the machine when I go use it

18. Some mfs be collecting the dumbbells as if they were infinity stones

19. put your plates back on the fucking rack. I had to dead lift 90 fucking pounds every goddamn fucking night when I worked at a gym it was fucking ridiculous. dude I had two jobs. Sometimes You have to mentally prepare the fucking lift a lot of weight man. You can’t just casually go in and do it for half an hour as you pick up shit off the floor. they cut your hours if you don’t have the gym cleaned up and everyone doesn’t leave at the exact fucking time that it closes. They cut your fucking hours.

    these fucking mog looking dudes would just leave that shit all over the floor and fine it’s 45 fucking pounds I could grab two and be cool whatever but what the fuck is this 2.5 pound bullshit you leave on the floor? did Stuart Little come by to fucking dead lift?!?

    and why is there a confetti of white paper towels crumpled up all over the floor like that we just had an HRT wedding?!?

20. Leave chicks alone at the gym.

21. When people slam weights. Drives me bonkers. One of the reasons I like planet fitness

22. People who want to tie up multiple pieces of equipment when it’s busy. Bitch, you don’t need a bench/squat/curl/pullup circuit. Pick one and do it, then move on to the next

23. An addition to what’s already been said: Dudes that curl or do any other dumbbell lift right in front of the dumbbell rack.

    There’s a guy that goes the same time in the mornings as me and goddamn it’s annoying. He’ll pick up dumbbells and stand directly where he picked them up and start going to town. I do a lot of dumbbell work and I have to snake around him to get my weights and he’s the one that has the balls to look annoyed.

24. People not putting their weights away when they’re done. I never know when people are finished using anything and there are people who can’t lift some of those plates but would still like to squat.

25. My gym has basketball courts with pickup basketball: don’t be an asshole on the court. We all fucking hate when you refuse to pass the ball because you have to stroke your ego

26. Exercise

27. I don’t mind grunting to get that last rep up, but it’s pretty obvious and annoying when you’re grunting every rep to get attention.

28. The gross little fucker that trash the locker room. No paper towels and not towels to dry off with after a shower and ffs don’t just throw your used wet towels on the floor like you do at home, pick that shit up and throw it away.

    And while we’re at it, quit flexing and taking pictures of yourself.

29. People sitting on a machine just on their phone. Drives me INSANE!

30. If people are taking pictures of others in gym without their permission is it illegal?

31. Guys saying “dude” to each other ever fifth word.

32. I don’t enjoy it when people don’t have respect for other people. Don’t wipe the machine, crowding you when you’re doing sets, not racking their weights, taking up multiple machines at once. Like fuck we all pay memberships dawg, get some level of etiquette would you?