Things that unreasonably wind you up about people at the gym

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I have a couple from my visit this morning.

Woman who always turns up to spin class in full makeup and delicately dabs at her face to avoid smudging said makeup, whilst the rest of us are literally sweating out of their eyeballs with no care for what they look like.

Man in same class who wears that weird semi topless cycling suit thing with his sweaty chest hair in full view 🤮

Tell me yours?

My DH went to use a machine, got told by a man using weights '"I'm on that one as well." I also get irritated by equipment hoggers who spend more time tapping on their phones than using the machine they are on. Once I got on a weights machine and a man came up and asked me "Can I jump on there ahead of you?" I said no so he stood next to me until I finished my (extra long) session.

@shouldistayorshouldigoorwhat I totally get that. It’s even worse if they are late and start setting setup behind you as you are 30 secs in to the warm up, so by the time you’ve finished your warm up they are practically set up on top of you!

My gym buddy is very outspoken and puts them right in their place if they try it near her. She’ll be shouting above the music and instructor to tell them to move and not set up where they are setting up. It’s a joy to watch, as they have to drag their stuff to another stop, but I’m not that bold. I’ll just shuffle all my stuff.

I always set up near my friend and hope I’m somehow in the invisible exclusion zone she has created. 🤣

two guys who were taking it in turns to use two bits of equipment, so nobody else could get on either.
one guy who had booked a private trainer session and was hogging two bits of equipment, alternating between them. He was rude when I asked if I could use one of them.

Sorry but these gripes are unreasonable @ChocolateCinderToffee

Doing a proper set of lifts with appropriate rest gaps between sets is not "hogging" the equipment. It's called "doing your work out."

The man working with his PT was probably doing a superset. Supersets are an absolutely standard way of training.

What you can do is ask to jump in on whichever bit of equipment you want to use, when the other gym member is using the second piece of equipment.

But really, just go do something else for the 15 minutes it might take todo that bit of the work out.

My gym grip is people who don't rack their weights properly. Other than that, everyone at my gym is lovely & polite and very encouraging of each other. But it's a big gym with a lot of equipment.

I've not ventured to the gym area yet, just gone back after Covid to do yoga. I love the class but what's with the clapping at the end??? It's not a theatre performance.

@TennisWithDeborah I do that, to keep a record of my progress

Skin tone coloured bum crack leggings. I would love to know the thought process that leads up to that.

A very minor peeve is the size of drink bottle some people use. The giant 2 litre looking things. How are people losing so much fluid ?

People sitting on machines staring at phones not using them

In the changing rooms, there's always people who see the mum changing with a troupe of kids and HAVE to change with them because it's next to their locker, despite there being lots of free benches in the rest of the changing rooms which they could use alone and in peace, then huffing and puffing and showing irritation at the fact they are changing next to kids. Well it was kind of your decision

People who wear extremely strong perfume that I have to inhale when out of breath.

When there are loads of empty treadmills and someone decides to use the one right next to the one I'm on.

People who make a circular motion with the rowing machine handles.

The woman at my gym who carries a Louis Vuitton handbag around with her to each machine. She then uses super light weights and has her phone texting whilst she does reps. Just put your bag in the locker and put some effort in 😂

Anyone spraying aerosol deodorant in any public building really pisses me off.

Once in the tiny cramped swimming pool changing rooms someone did this in the cubicle next to me and sprayed for a minimum of five seconds each armpit. I could barely breathe!

But if it's next to your locker, are you meant to haul all your stuff across the changing room to get ready?

Men who grunt, literally makes me cringe

People who hog one bit of equipment

I go to the Council gym so I have to contend with:
The 13 year old boys attempting 100kg deadlifts.
The young men who think they’re at CrossFit and drop the loaded barbell at the end of each set.
The other young men who don’t put the weights back because “they’re too tired” (I kid you not)
The other men that believe middle age women lifting weights are completely invisible so theycan stand literally next to them whilst working out, then get huffy whenever the middle aged women ask them to move.

I need a new gym.

Surely you have to do that anyway if there are people either side of yours? Or if someone is using the locker above yours at my gym

Secondary school age boys in the women’s changing room with their mum.

kids in general running round the lounge and changing room screaming. Parents who bring their toddlers in the gym when no kids are allowed in under 12yo and use the mats like a fucking tumble tot class

the crazy woman who marches in the gym, goes straight to the leg press machine without pausing every time and says to whoever is on it “are you done yet”. You just came in ffs, go use something else and come back.

The endless selfies !!!! When did vanity become so normalised.

Secondary school age boys in the women’s changing room with their mum.

God yes. This winds me up.

Men who try and come into the studio to do their own thing when there's a virtual class on. I don't care that there's only me in there. It's still a class. FUCK OFF MATE.

Yoga class - women who make a massive pyramid pile of puffa coats, shoes and bags at the mirror in the front of the class - so we all have to stare at it for an hour (just put it out of view down the back somewhere)

Shouty people queueing for their pilates class right outside the yoga door - while we are in the last 10 mins relax phase….and hearing their every shouty word.

Men in the pool, when the rest of the pool is completely empty, but because one lane is labelled “fast lane” , they have to get in alongside you…ditto the men that join the lane swimming, but just walk or jog up and down beside you (when there’s space in the main pool). Men who won’t get into the pool where it says “slow lane” 😂

Oh sorry, I missed the "unreasonably" part of the OP. I feel my rage is totally justified.

When 2 people (it's always women) walk slowly on adjacent treadmills and have a continuous, loud conversation for the whole time. I wear headphones and listen to music and can STILL hear them - it's massively intrusive.

You should immediately go and report this. It's WRONG.

Don’t mind functional nakedness, I think you draw more attention to yourself by huddling in a corner hiding under a towel, it’s the gratuitously naked females that baffle me and I wouldn’t say I’m particularly bothered by the site of a naked body, we’ve all got one, but why do they need to put their make up on, dry hair, paint toe nails and phone their sister in Australia naked ? Their choice I guess, but strikes me as a little bit exhibitionist and unnecessary.

Someone had once draped an expensive looking cardigan across my gym bag in the changing room.

I took it off my bag so I could, you know, get my stuff out of my own bag and hung the cardigan on a peg.

The woman next to me was apparently the owner and RIPPED it off the peg huffily as if I'd damaged her precious cargo.

Maybe bring your own bag to drape your cardigan on if the pegs aren't adequate, love.