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Gym Etiquette - what do people do that annoys you?

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WalkingThePlank · 20/01/2015 10:40

I'm wondering what people do in gyms or pools that annoys you.

I managed to seriously annoy a man yesterday because I was unwilling to stop my use of a resistance machine so he could just 'pop on'. I was off a minute later and in the remaining 10 minutes that I was around, he didn't go near said machine so I have no idea what that was about.

On the flip side, I get annoyed when groups of men hover around resistance machines for half an hour at a time but don't actually use them and I'm too much of a coward to ask them to hey off

What annoys you?

OP posts:
chipsandpeas · 06/03/2015 20:53

hogging the machines when they are finished with them.....go and relax somewhere else and let those waiting get on them

Datahub · 06/03/2015 20:54

we have a grunter/whooper in ours whose capris dont quite cover her arse, a mate of mine told her kindly once, but it made NO DIFF

higherhill · 06/03/2015 21:02

A particularly tall and hefty woman always turns up late and comes and stands right in front of me so I can't see the mirror or the instructor properly, I call her big bird, no awareness whatsoever.

Mummyinamask · 06/03/2015 21:11

The woman who sat next to me in spin last week and stank. You might want to avoid deodorant for whatever reason - but wash regularly - if only as a courtesy to others.

DrHarleenFrancesQuinzel · 06/03/2015 21:17

People who choose the treadmill next to me even though there are a billion others they can use.

People who sit on a machine and not using it because their friend is using the one next to them.

People who use my locker (OK so I know IABU here, but I like to use that locker and if its used I will happily use a different one, but Im still annoyed - Of course I would never make it known that its my locker)

People who put the kettlebells back before the cool-down stretches in my kettlebell class. It means that the instructor has to wait and makes us even more late.

Datahub · 06/03/2015 21:17

i am TERRIFIED Of farting when we hover over the seat

I clench

pootlebug · 06/03/2015 21:22

People who use the fucking power plate machine. It is a con, it does nothing except make the whole gym shake. But when I am pushing bike intervals really hard the hmmmmmmmm of the power plate makes me want to spew.

People who join me in the 'front crawl only' lane in the pool, to swim breast stroke (slowly), when the slow lane is empty.

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