Crowded gyms (Page 4)

My husband feels traumatized by American locker rooms.  He can't understand the nudity.   He is appalled and goes into this whole spheel about " they have these big bellies that hang down and hair on their butts  - all I can think is "good god, make it stop" and I get out of there as fast as I can"   It is pretty funny.

My husband feels traumatized by American locker rooms.  He can't understand the nudity.   He is appalled and goes into this whole spheel about " they have these big bellies that hang down and hair on their butts  - all I can think is "good god, make it stop" and I get out of there as fast as I can"   It is pretty funny.

Wow.  Sounds like a really scary gym. I'm not wild about 24 Hour Fitness, but I have to say that the gym near my office is nearly spotless.  There's always at least one cleaning person in the locker room, cleaning, and sometimes two.  There are three or four cleaning staff people that I see so often, I know them by sight.  And they're always sweeping, mopping, cleaning, picking up discarded newspapers, replacing mats, etc.

At the gym near my home, things are quite so pristine, but I rarely see trash sitting around.  My only cleanliness complaint at that facility is the floor of the locker room.  The type of tile they used isn't smooth, so dirt and lint and stuff tends to collect and it just doesn't 'feel' as clean.

I absolutely love my gym because it's on campus, so almost everyone there is my age except for faculty. Yeah it's 80 cents for a half hour of parking, but that's why I go after 6pm to park free. Cheap rates, free classes, free pool. Gotta love it.

I think the one problem I have is when people don't wipe the equipment off with the blatantly obvious sheets that are RIGHT next to the equipment. And of course during new year's when it just gets insane.

 My gym is two floors, and the top one (treadmills, "girl weights", ellipitcals looks onto the bottom one (weight machines). The one thing I am guilty of is definitely getting an ellipitcal near the edge so I can look over and watch the guys lifting weights, haha. My favorite is when a guy walks in trying to be all badass, with the weight gloves too, and just walks around, not lifting anything..

I log that as "sports walking".  The gloves are aero...

This is a little off the original topic of crowded gyms, but since this thread has become a "gym rant" thread here's my addition:

Today while I was taking a shower, some a$$hole broke into my locker (which was locked) and stole cash out of my wallet as well as one of my credit cards!    Thankfully, by the time I called the bank, the thief had only charged about $30 to the card, which the bank said they would refund.

How's that for holiday spirit?

That sucks--glad it was only $30, but replacing everything at this time of the year will be no fun.  I'm sure the locker room so-called-attendant was too busy on his cell phone to overhear someone jimmying a locker door. 

Actually I just double-checked with the bank, and it looks like it's around $175 total.  I'll know for sure tomorrow once the transactions have posted.  What gets me is that I often find lockers with no locks on them, so why break into mine?  I also realized that I've been hanging my jacket up in the entry to the locker room (no room in the locker) - but not anymore!  I'll take up as many lockers as I need to secure everything!