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To get annoyed at this fitness class?

55 replies

AntFarm · 07/08/2020 15:37

I've name changed as this is potentially identifying.

Each Tuesday evening I go to a pilates class at a fitness centre. I enjoy the class, and the teacher is nice and a good teacher, however there is one thing that really annoys me.

There is a woman who attends the class who basically takes over the whole class all the time. She talks in a loud voice, but in a very girly, squeaky baby voice, almost as if she puts on a voice. She talks the whole time throughout the class, and it's always just very childish, loud, sometimes rude and attention seeking comments. Such as if she needs a wee, she'll say it loudly and keep repeating it and giggling whilst she does moves about needing a wee and having to do a move. One week she had a sore toe and talked about it loudly throughout the whole lesson 'Ouchie! Poor toe'. That kind of thing.

She also makes rude comments about people. For example the instructor said to look at a lady at the front of the class who was doing a move perfectly and the rude woman said in her girly squeaky voice 'Noooo, it's wubbish' and then did the move herself.

She goes to lots of classes at the centre and is well known to the instructor. Sometimes midway through a class she will say she can't do a move properly and be all giggly and the teacher will spend 5 or 10 minutes out of the class helping her, wondering why she can't do it and fussing all over her, whilst the rest of us sit there. Basically, it all always has to be about her, and if it is not, then she makes sure it becomes about her.

Most people laugh politely at her behaviour but it's really starting to annoy me even more each week. It's £15 per class, which is not cheap. I have learnt, through listening to this woman's chatter, that she does a very capable, professional job, where she has to deal with people constantly, so I cannot imagine for the life of me that she would be able to behave like this in her job, therefore I get the feeling that she does the behaviour on purpose rather than it being something she cannot help but do.

I'd move to another gym to classes but I'm in quite a rural area and the next nearest pilates class is over 20 minutes drive away whilst this one is very local.

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Dozer · 08/08/2020 22:20

If not dealt with would quit, especially at that price. Lots of good pilates online for much less money!

ISawNessie · 08/08/2020 22:30

That would annoy me too. The way I see it is you have 2 choices. You carry on attending the class (I would be tempted to speak to the instructor) or try another class/gym?
Life is too short hun xxx

SingToTheSky · 08/08/2020 23:08

I am terrible at assertiveness and confrontation so I’d probably have a quiet word with the centre manager instead of the teacher. £15 is an awful lot to waste on a bad class - and it is a bad class if this behaviour impacts the rest of you, however good the teacher is at the actual instruction. Part of group teaching is managing the group, it’s why I very quickly realised I could only handle teaching individuals 😳

I have a sort of friend who pulls shit like that in classes and is like that in other situations. Everything about her. I don’t tend to do much with her these days and lockdown was a relief TBH.

TheYellowOfTheEgg · 08/08/2020 23:39

I did a fitness class years ago and one woman used to completely do her own moves in a really big way. Why go to a class if you're going to do different moves?

Anyway I was thinking of complaining to the teacher and then found out that the annoying woman was the daughter of the teacher.

tectonicplates · 09/08/2020 11:20

If you go to "trendy" gyms or yoga studios in Central London, then it's not at all unusual for some classes to charge £15.

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