Crowded gyms (Page 5)

I go in the early AM to avoid most of the meat market thing thankfully.  However three things that I notice and HATE!!

1.  the janitor that rather than cleaning or reracking weight or doing work walks around and hits on all of the women in the gym.

2.  When a hot girls goes over by the DB, every meathead comes over and starts doing curls.  I am a big guy that can throw some weight around but it is like being taken over by a bunch of mini Arnolds.  One time I even loudly asked "do you guys think you could be any more pathetically obvious?"  They were not happy about that, but hey, the girl laughed.

3.  People that have no clue what they are doing when lifting.  This can include to people that try to use too much weight and and use every muscle in their body to perform a rep rather than lightening the load and doing the lift correctly, or the people that use extremely light weights and do a few reps.  I mean why even bother?

"Hmmmmm.  What's that intense and pungent odor coming from the spinbike area," I wondered to myself as I arrived at the YMCA this evening.

That, my friends, is what it smells like when a guy who just got off the basketball court decides to cool down by sloooooooooooowly pedaling a bike with no shoes on!

And why, you may be asking yourself, would a young man choose to pedal a spinbike in only his socks?  I wonderd the very same thing, as did one of the guy's pals, who asked him that very question.  Care to guess the answer?  (I'll give you a second.)

Answer:  So the clips and straps won't scratch his fancy basketball shoes.  The rest of the gym gets to inhale his foot-stink so he doesn't muss his LeBrons. Super.

Find another gym!

I love the gym I work out at.  Never have to wait for a machine.  The people are nice and considerate.  The dressing area is super nice, clean.  25 meter lap pool; indoor and out side. 

TJ

My first day swimming with Speedo Jammer, I was already self conscious enough about putting on Spandex, but new it was the "required uniform". As I am quickly trying to disengage from said Jammer after swim, and just as they get caught around my ankle, I am approached about the performance of jammer versus swim trunk..BY A NAKED MAN!!! Now here we are both completely naked, standing 2 feet apart talking about the quality of my speedo, which I am holding.  Who would EVER ask another man about Spandex, nevermind while you're BOTH naked!!!

Wow...I feel very fortunate to have such a great gym.  Clean, not too crowded, limited meat  heads, non-smelly locker rooms, empty pool most of the time.

A few people made comments about some of the treadmill walkers/runners that raise the incline all the way and then hang on for dear life.  I just saw this a few weeks and ago and was all WTF??!!  I just saw another lady doing it earlier this week.  What is the point behind that kind of workout, does anyone know?  I watched her for her entire workout (like 35 min. or so) thinking she'd go down any minute... 

I have one rant and one gym weirdo.  I HATE IT when people do not rack their weights.  Every Monday morning there are (light) weights on every bar and every piece of equipment.  The "Please rack your weights" sign is 5 feet tall!

A former employer had a gym in the building where 12 or so people worked out regularly in the morning.  It was very nice, with free towel service, free long-term lockers, and shampoo, soap, and lotion that was refilled nightly.  Unfortunately, one of the VPs of the company really liked to take advantage of the free lotion.  After showering, he would lather himself from his hairline to his toes!  Once you've seen a man covered in lotion it's hard to keep a straight face when you see him at work.

These and others are precisely the reasons we made sure to have a room in our office building for a "Gym" of our own.  Most of the time I S/B/R in the great FL outdoors and use the YMCA pool & Spin Class as needed.

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I probably have the least crowded gym EVER, but I have two rants....

1. Like many others have said...people who don't rerack their weights.  SPECIFICALLY, the 100 lbs plates on the leg press.  Seriously...some of us cannot LIFT 100 lbs of plate weight and set it down without damaging ourselves...there is NO need to leave it on the machine!  I have been trying for MONTHS to get the gym to straight up remove these from the floor so the inconsiderate people can't leave them on the machine.  No luck.

2. The pool is f'ing 85 degrees because the old people complain it's too cold.  I about near flipped when I got out one day with the reddest face EVER because I actually did a workout and the old lady FLOATING in the lane next to me says, "Don't you think this pool is SO COLD?"  I had to leave or I would have jumped back in and punched her.

Now, back to the crowded issue.  Sometimes when I travel I have to use other gyms and I realize how lucky I am to have a non-crowded gym.  Nothing sucks more than to have to add time to your workout because you're waiting for a machine.  I'm pretty good about jumping to a different machine...but sometimes you're out of other options and you really need THAT one and it seems like every time you go to use it...someone else has jumped in.   And I have found that much of the population seems to hate sharing lanes.  SO weird.  It isn't that big a deal.  I will admit that I hate circle swimming since none of the away pools I frequent have lane speeds set and I perpetually end up circle swimming with people of VASTLY different swim skills and THAT just gets annoying.  Anyway, now I am just thankful I don't have a crowded gym (unless you go at about a two hour block of the afternoon from 3-5).  The one pleasant thing about not living in a metroplex!

To the crowded gym peeps...it just might be time to search around for a different gym.  It sucks, but ease of use of a gym is the most important feature to me.  And "ease of use" includes both location AND how accessible the equipment is.  You might save time at the gym that is further away if you can do your workout uninterrupted...

Oh, and one last thing.  There is nothing wrong with walking around the locker room naked.  Seriously...it's a locker room.  It's for changing clothes.   You're going to be naked.  Nothing makes me laugh more than the "towel girls".  You know...the ones that so don't want anyone to see them naked that it takes them twice as long to get ready because they dance around trying to keep a towel clenched around them the whole time.  Like they have something none of us have ever seen before.