People who sit on machines in the gym and spend 10 mins on their phone!

[Leafy74]

Take a piss or get off the pot!

YANBU, it drives me potty, how can they not even go an hour without looking at their phone, and not even consider someone else might like the machine? People do it in the middle of my body pump class as well. And don't get me started on the 'swim one length and chat for 20 minutes' people. I always think they must wonder why they don't get any fitter when they've been swimming for an hour.

It’s best not to have a word with them in person.

They drive me insane. Brain dead staring at their phones, oblivious to everyone else. I stood right beside one of these and he didn’t even notice me. 15 mins to do 2 sets of rather lame weights - phone being used 13 of those minutes.

In their defence, my weight training programme requires 2/3 minute rests between sets, I tend to record what have done in that rest period so a phone is useful. It's a lot of effort to share certain equipment with someone, ie reloading free weights., but 10 minutes is unacceptable!

I use an app that lets me know what I'm doing on the erg in real time and monitors my heart rate. I might be doing intervals that have a 2" rest or need to stop to keep my heart rate within certain limits. I'm also listening to an audio book or music and do that with other workouts too.

Now if someone is just sitting on a machine for a long time, ask them if they're done because you're waiting.

I don’t use the gym but my partner does and this drives him up the wall. There’s a group of men who use the gym he goes to as a place to just sit on the equipment and chat of a morning, too, but I think the gym have put a stop to that now. It’s bloody selfish.

I do 30 minutes on a bike when I go to the gym. I like the bike with a chair-like seat as it supports my back better. I find the time goes much more quickly when I am on my phone!

I also use it when using the various machines, but only to record what I have done.

I get the impression that OP is talking about people who don’t actually use the machines, but just sit on them playing with their phones. Nothing wrong with using your phone while you use the machine. Everything wrong with blocking the machine for others because you’re checking the Gram.