Asked to move at the gym

Thank heavens it was a cross trainer and not a treadmill. Being tapped on the shoulder, mid workout, when you least expect it and can't seem them coming could have ended up in a nasty accident!

YANBU OP, especially as after your latest sighting of them confirmed they don't even talk to each other!

Love the PP's treadmill/jog on response. I almost want to rejoin a gym to try and use that! 😂

To me, it all depends on how she asked you. If it was you need to get off there because I wanna work out with my friend then that is wrong. If it was, I was just wondering if you wouldn’t mind moving I like to work out next to my friend, but not a problem if not, then I probably would’ve moved. If she was rude, then you were right. If she wasn’t rude then maybe you should’ve moved out of kindness but it’s all down to personal preference .

You are absolutely not being unreasonable! Goodness the entitlement of some others! I wonder if they asked the lone guy to move?! Just utterly ridiculous behaviour! I’d be fuming to have been interrupted!

I'm amazed she had the nerve to ask, she must live in a world where she thinks every other person exists to make her life better.

Entitled weirdo's are one thing but why are the staff supporting this? I would be having a word with management, it's not their job to inconvenience members to placate entitled idiots and they shouldn't be encouraging it. The fact that the staff member asked you means the entitled idiots probably think they're right.

And the person who was glaring at you and saying things you can't hear, complain about her. It's intimidation and completely unacceptable.

I can see the benefits to having a gym buddy but I cringed when I read the woman walked out because she couldn’t use exactly the same equipment as her friend at the same time.

There weren’t pairs of cross trainers available, but surely one of them could row etc while the other cross trained. Same work out different sequence. But they had to be samesies. 🤭🙄

I’d be raging, first off unless it’s an emergency don’t interrupt my workout or wait until I’m resting if on a set and second of all, go do something else until it becomes free if you can’t workout alone.

You were not being unreasonable at all.as you were there first. Who do they think they are?

You were in the right. Some people think they own the equipment in gyms, my 16 year old wanted to use a piece of equipment, but there was a bottle that had been left on the machine for about 15 minutes so he finally decided to move it so he could start using the machine, a guy then ran over screaming at him to not touch his bottle; he had put it there as he was going to use the machine…at some point!! Being 16 my son just walked away but it’s a good job I wasn’t there because I’m intimidated by no one!

@ThursdayTomorrow

they werent being very kind to op though were they?

That is so bad. WTF?

The odd time I've offered to move to let friends exercise side by side if I am not really started my workout yet but not once I'm into it and it would always be rude to ask.

incredibly rude to be interrupting someones work out, especially when they have headphones in - its clear they are busy.

Absolutely not unreasonable!! In fact she was bang out of order and and incredibly childish. People are effin nuts 😳

Asking in a gym like that is inconsiderate. Like said previously it interrupts your flow and you have to move all your things.

They sound so entitled. I’m glad you didn’t move. I’d have felt so uncomfortable dealing with that.

There’s always one 🙄😂

pedalling

That is ridiculous for adults to have a tantrum because they can’t be right next to each other in the gym.

You were right to stand your ground.

Well done.

Don't feel bad, the 2 other women were pushing their luck.

There was zero harm in what I initially said. If nothing else, my post encouraged a bit more empathy and consideration for people at the gym.

I shared I think there are a fair few (“many people”) at the gym struggling with mental health. This, as I explained later, was based on the fact I know many people who battle to go to the gym despite how positive it is for for their mental health.

“unsubstantiated” Eh like the majority of viewpoints on here ( a discussion forum!) I hardly have to present peer reviewed research to back something like that up. But I do have my reasons for believing this, which I’ve outlined clearly.

Someone had questioned why I thought that and I replied, but there was no obvious or justifiable reason for you joining in with sneery mocking comments and you didn’t even refute my point.

And btw you have some nerve to call my post pointless when your initial contribution to the conversation was literally just a post that said this “😀” 😂

So yeah I’m glad to hear I won’t be getting any more of your unpleasant miserable responses that serve no good purpose 😀

Yes, isn't it?

This made me think of the time I went to a yoga class for the first time and innocently put my mat down next to a woman, who said 'My friend usually goes there.'
I'm older and uglier now and like to think I'd just tell her to grow up, we're not at school any more, but at the time (to my regret now) I stuttered Britishly and snatched up my mat and scuttled off somewhere else.

So no, you're not U. I don't know why grown people do this shit.

I wouldn’t have moved midway through my programme. It’s unreasonable of them to even ask and put you in an awkward position.

First come first served etc. Cheeky to ask the staff member

Utterly unreasonable of them to have even asked - & to have asked the instructor to get involved is completely ridiculous. They should’ve done something else & waited their turn like civilised adults - not acted like childish brats!!

She wasn't unreasonable to ask initially, but you also weren't unreasonable to stay put. She was the AH for being rude and making a big scene though. YANBU.