What are your biggest pet peeves at the gym?

Question

I can rattle off quite a few things, like creepy, old men who gawk at the women and young girls doing their workouts; people hovering around the machines when you're clearly not done using them in a gym big enough for them to find something else to do; people who need to sanitize the entire machine after using it to the point where solution is dripping between the crevices; people deliberately walking around naked in the lockeroom doing things that can be done whilst clothed (ie. brushing their hair, talking, etc.) ; chicks who wear a Saturday night's amount of makeup while working out - their pores definitely thank them each time; similarly, chicks who wear tight clothes during a workout - exercising entails sweating, so how can that be comfortable? ; people dropping heavy weights; people who don't know what deodorant is for; people who look over at what level/weight/time you're pulling; etcetcetc.

How about you?

Answer 1

I worked at a gym for years.
And boy do I have some stories.

What is most irritating to me is Know it alls, When someone is using a machine wrong and tries to tell other people how to use it the wrong way. UGH! And yes I hate watching ladies/girls in the dressing room putting on their make-up bare a$$ naked.

People can be pretty nasty.
Like I caught a teen girl- poop in the shower.
Seen a Older woman using the hot-tub as her LOVER!
The jets, ya know!
A guy was wearing short shorts and his wiener was hanging out, that is how short the shorts was. YUCK!

Answer 2

Yip, all of the above i was going to say. My biggest peeve is the people who don't wipe down they machines when they are done.
also:
1) people who take 20 minutes to do 3 sets
2) people who ask if your almost done on a piece of equipment when they saw you just start an exercise.
3) muscle heads who come in the gm area and don't even work out
4)people having conversations while sitting on equipment and not using it
5) the worst is the old guys who fart in the sauna. that really grinds my gears

Answer 3

Know it alls who have no idea what they're talking about, muscleheads who do a few reps of military presses in the middle of the weight room to show off for the hot chicks, people who ask "are you still using this" if you're resting for a second, people who steal your pen in the weightroom (we have to record weight for track) and then get sweat all over it, people who steal your bench while you're putting more weight on the bar, people who spot for you and try to teabag you, when long-distance runners come in and use the equipment when they don't need to and we sprinters do (and the weightroom closes in like five minutes), the people that look like they're going to step on you while your doing crunches, people who drink their water unnecessarily loud and gurgly right by your face, and people who don't reset the machines when they're done.

Answer 4

when men are "claim" they are using a machine, stop, leave it, go do something on another machine, then come back to the 1st machine as if they have the privilege to be using TWO machines at once, as if they're in their own personal gym!! Or the women who walk around looking as if they're at the mall or the club and NEVER break a SWEAT!!!!

Answer 5

Most of those irritate me too, but the biggest offender is, people sitting on the machines chatting and not using them, when the gym is busy.

Answer 6

I don't really have one but I hate when the gym is packed and all the equipment is being hogged.

Answer 7

My number one is people who leave their sweat on the machine or bench after they are through.

Answer 8

Dropping weights, Grunting loudly.

Answer 9

people who run on the treadmills then go work out and leave their sweat everywhere uhhh grosss

Answer 10

when high school girls wear a sports bra and spandex. that bugs the crap out of me.