Things that unreasonably wind you up about people at the gym

[Floofydawg]

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?

People who film themselves in the gym. I won’t go anymore. I don’t want to be in someone’s Instagram video. If there was a gym that banned filming I’d sign up in a heartbeat.

Me too, I have an audio book or my music playing in my ears and I'm completely oblivious to almost everything that's going on around me. My Husband (who generally attends with me) on the other hand, gives me a complete run down once we've left of everyone in there, what they were doing, what they were wearing etc. I find it easy to completely zone out, he's just a nosey parker 😉

Men in spin who don't use a sweat towel and instead just drip sweat onto the floor so there's an actual puddle under their bike, and then just walk away. Grim.

To paraphrase Jane Austen’s Mr Bennet: “What do we live for but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in their turn”.

People who don’t wear proper trainers like converse or vans… no, wrong!

And a particularly smelly bloke who wears grubby jogging pants and awful old trainers that are coming apart at the seams 🤮🤮🤮

Mine doesn't allow filming or photos. It's a council run one and the young cool people tend to go elsewhere.

Converse are correct for weight training because of the flatness of the soles. You shouldn't lift in running shoes.

I think I will. I've been a little anxious about doing it....but I think I'm ready now 😄

If I could run in the treadmill and have a phone conversation I feel like I would need to show this off too 😂😂😂

It’s been reported. The mums always claim special needs of an unspecified description and claim the poor 11yo /12yo/couldn’t possibly get himself changed, etc. but one such case he goes to school with my friends Dd (who was also in the changing room) and she said he manages fine at school! 😡

I go to a gym that is just cardio and weight machines. In my own world, get through my routine as fast as possible to get it done and keep myself to myself, so probably don't notice that much, but I do hate people who sit on a machine I want to use and they are just texting. What's the fucking point in going to the gym for that?! Just do it at home.

I did go in one Sunday morning and there was this pretty girl in a skimpy outfit not doing much but taking selfies. She wasn't exercising at all (and she did look great), but it seemed really odd and narcissistic. Haven't seen her since.

The woman at my spin class that wears her locker key pinned to her waistband so she jingles throughout the class. Makes me irrationally cross.

The women at any class that chat through the warm-up and cool-down. Rude!

The men who grunt like cavemen in Body Pump or when lifting on the gym floor. Twats.

I'm with you on this one.

Twenty year olds who take endless bum pics in the changing room mirrors and don't care who sees them😂

Also, there is someone in my gym who sets up their own camera on a tripod and films themselves doing Reps.
Takes up half the area doing so.
I always feel like wandering infront to perform a photobomb moonie 😈

WTF. People clap at the end of Yoga? That sounds like a bizarre thing I saw at Larmer Tree festival years ago when some guru dude was banging a gong on a stage and these pretentious London hippy types were gushing and applauding him. Very strange.

Men who ask me have I finished yet on that machine that works the fat inner bit of your thigh. 1. You'll know when I have done as I will have moved. 2. You don't need it anyway.

Men who talk to me when I'm on jacuzzi and my swimming costume is filling up with air so I look like a massive ball.

People in tbe fast lane who swim so slowly the wrong side

I hate the gym.

Well- all I can say is I hope some of you are getting these AWFUL people told and not rolling your eyes, seething in silence and moaning about them all on here!

Puts me right off joining the gym (again)! 😆

I know I'm very modest and wouldn't feel comfortable but that's my issue. If others are fine going from showers to lockers then putting body lotion etc on before getting dressed....fine. But seriously standing starkers for 45 minutes in a changing room? Do you seriously think that's not some kind of 'look at me' exhibitionist?

The exercise class cliques. Usually found in more choreographed classes. Grown women confusing a Zumba class with a West End musical audition.

My gym sometimes has weird choice in music too - screechy incel virgin death metal with shit dance music and the odd lacklustre 70's hit thrown in. It nearly put me off going at one point.

I went once to do sit ups and this girl was flailing about on the floor and doing random moves, but not in a very graceful way, just really letting her body do what it wanted to. Looked kind of like breakdancing, doing the karma sutra in quick succession and getting stung by loads of wasps fused together. Is this a new form of exercise? I had no idea what it was, but I'm old so maybe not up to dare with any new crazes.

I usually cycle but use the roads rather than a gym,

Men in yoga who deliberately take up three spaces not one so everyone else is cramped. The yoga man in my group who does performative breathing and that sounds like he's giving birth. He also snorts and grunts. The men who walk over your mat with their gross feet rather than walking around it. The ones who stare at women in sports bras.
The hypochondriac women who play the princess and monopolise the teacher's attention with a list of irrelevant ailments and consequent requests for special accommodations. Women with long hair who don't tie it up so it's swinging and flicking into your space. I actually really love yoga though :)

If they are actually running, fine. The ones who piss me off are the ones who walk, slowly, for an hour or so. Why go to the gym just to walk? You could just walk to the shops, or round the park (and yes I know you can also run to the shops and around the park, and I do, but if I’m running on the treadmill I’m usually doing speedwork or something where the ability to monitor my speed and time is useful, or just doing a quick 10min warm up before doing weights. Not hogging the treadmill for an hour to go for a walk).

Blimey I'm lucky, literally no one irritates me at my gym and never seen anyone take a selfie yet alone tripod film! Oh, maybe one thing, in Bodypump when someone new arrives as the class has just started, hadn't realised you need to set up etc. I mean I'd just bow out gracefully that week and come back 10 mins early next time not interrupt everyone trying to get equipment and a space

Maybe they don't feel safe outside for whatever reason though? Or confident?

People who try to justify any annoying behaviour by whining about made up undefined/undiagnosed special needs. Annoying everywhere, not just at the gym...