To have a moan about the gym?

[Thisnamechanger]

I'm normally a very live and let live person but my god the weights room at my gym tests my patience!

It's almost always all blokes in there and some of them are just so RUDE....shoving you out the way when you're trying to lift... aggressively lip syncing to rap music...air boxing...and mostly the bloody roaring noises and then droping their (obviously much too heavy weights) either back onto the machine with a huge crashing sound or virtually throwing them on the floor. It's like they're a caveman who's just slain a buffalo and dragged if home. It makes everyone jump out of their skin! It's so unecessarily agressive and intimidating...I feel like I'm going to have my foot broken any second by a flying dumbbell!

aggressively lip syncing to rap music

sorry but LOL wtf. what does this have to do with anything. also, can you lip read?

I have a couple of workout tops from sore today, strong tomorrow and one day I will be brave enough to wear them outside my house!

I found this at my previous two gyms - a city centre one, and a more suburban one. In the city centre, it was more the problem that showy freestyle jumpers would spend ages vaulting on and off equipment - you know, back flip on, one handed handstand on a bike seat.

Except bloody stop, because you're flipping annoying and I actually want to sit on that.

I would complain to the gym, but also see if you can find a new one. I have to say, my local gym is in the heart of my community and it gives me the warm and fuzzies to see so many people of different ages and backgrounds all being so friendly and supportive to one another. It does not feel remotely cliquey or isolationist or threatening or showy.

I have a couple of workout tops from sore today, strong tomorrow and one day I will be brave enough to wear them outside my house!

OMG - I'm buying one!

sorry but LOL wtf. what does this have to do with anything. also, can you lip read?

I'm not talking mouthing words, I mean really over the top bouncing around, doing stupid hand gestures, pointing and mining guns like he was the star of a music video. In a small busy space. Looked completely nuts.

except that one woman who admires herself in the mirrors, taking selfies and then looking around to see who's noticed her

Hehe there was a lady doing this in the changers yesterday in her underwear. She looked bloody great, I just hope she cropped my red faced sweaty self out of the reflection!

They sound like stedheads to me. One thing that really annoys me is the sex noises when lifting really heavy weights, like proper guttural grunting. It's always men, well a certain kind of men, you never see (or hear) the women making noises like that.

The most I do is a bit of breathing through teeth in the last few reps...

Ha ha. Soretodaystrongtomrrow is very funny. My son’s birthday present beckons. He’s a 15 year old power lifter who laughs at the fast up, even faster down leg day skippers with massive biceps and no triceps. I know this as he is training me up for a bit of father son bonding and fitness rolled together.

So many weight droppers it’s funny but then again right now I can’t even lift what they are dropping so who am I to talk.

I also hate the grunting. I don't know if they think it's impressive, but it just makes me think "they're just too heavy for you mate."

There's a lot at my gym that drop the weights on the machines. I always want to tell them they're doing it wrong! 😄 I like it when they follow me onto a machine and ramp the weight right up because I'm a weak and feeble woman and they have to dial it back down after the first rep (I'm really overweight but have really strong legs). There's one guy who can spend 30 minutes just posing at himself in the mirror too. 🙄

I was on a machine with my PT, and he went off to find extra weights. Some muscle vested man swept up to him, pointed at me and said (to my PT) “you done with that?”

omg yes WHY??? This happens to me regular, blokes asking my PT "are you finished with that mate?" Fucking ask me you moron I'm the one actually using it

Also laughing at the showing up some of the muscle men - I have pretty strong legs and visible quads, I can leg press heavier than most of the foghorn leghorns, silence usually ensues

Actually, looking at it they're more Henery Hawk

Frangipani the thing I most resent is the term “that” as they point at me. Not “the machine”, just “that”. Like I’m totally invisible.

I have fond memories of a man at the gym who very patronisingly asked if I would like him to take the heavy weights off the bar so I could use it. The look on his face when I very politely told him actually I needed to double what was there to do my set was priceless 😂

There's a few of these in my gym....

This is why I absolutely LOVE my women only gym. Loads of us do weights, we are all considerate, no grunting or throwing, we put the weights back, take towels off the bench when we rotate to another station - bliss!

Even my husband says men are asshats in the gym with their bench hogging and noise.

Plus there are no preening women at all - just a nice mixture of mums, overweight women, older women, lesbians and a tiny smattering of younger ones.

I go to a standard commercial gym and have never experienced this behaviour. Sometimes some men get a bit grunty and there is some weight slamming but I have headphones so these don't bother me. Mostly people are courteous and thoughtful - though it does enrage me beyond measure when men don't re-rack their weights, and I'm afraid it is always men.

That said I do go ridiculously early - that's why I'm on mumsnet right now whilst I have my pre-gym coffee.