question, anyone a member of a planet fitness??
I travel to a certain area for work a few times a month and a new Planet Fitness was opening and was offering a $10 a month deal so i gladly took it so I could work out when away.
Little did I know it was a box gym, what I mean is, I was using the dumbells on bench and went a little heavy, as I wore down my first set I dropped the rubber covered dumbells onto the rubber mats. BEEEEEEEEEEEEP, a horn goes off and I look around wondering what that was for.. Thinking that wasn't directed towards me b/c why would a horn go off?? I get down for set 2 which is a replay of set one, BEEEEEP again. and a young 19 year old broad walks over to me and says you can not drop the weights in here. I was shocked. Fuck that gym! A rubber covered DB on a rubber floor, whats the problem??
There are many, but here are my top 5:
- People who act annoyed when they have to wait while I refill my 1.5 litter water bottle. If you are so damn thirsty you can’t wait a minute then you should have gotten water earlier.
- People who make faces after I sweat on the equipment. Sweat on the equipment doesn’t bother me. If it bothers you so much, you clean it up.
- People who keep looking at you while you talk on your cell phone for half an hour. Sorry, some of us have a life and can’t put it on hold for an hour and a half.
- People who make faces when you don’t rack your weights. I’m paying a gym membership. Let the people that get paid with that money pick up the weights.
- Guys who seem to stare at you while you walk around the locker room naked shaving, brushing your teeth, clipping your finger and tail nails, and trimming your pubes.
There are many, but here are my top 5:
- People who act annoyed when they have to wait while I refill my 1.5 litter water bottle. If you are so damn thirsty you can’t wait a minute then you should have gotten water earlier.
- People who make faces after I sweat on the equipment. Sweat on the equipment doesn’t bother me. If it bothers you so much, you clean it up.
- People who keep looking at you while you talk on your cell phone for half an hour. Sorry, some of us have a life and can’t put it on hold for an hour and a half.
- People who make faces when you don’t rack your weights. I’m paying a gym membership. Let the people that get paid with that money pick up the weights.
- Guys who seem to stare at you while you walk around the locker room naked shaving, brushing your teeth, clipping your finger and tail nails, and trimming your pubes.
I thought it was pretty obvious I was joking. Especially with the part about walking around the locker room naked while trimming my pubes.
my pet peeve is the scams some gyms run, shit most wont let me pay cash anymore. wtf is wrong with money!! start up fees, cancelling fees, and you dont even have all the equiptment. where am i supposed to do deadlifts? dumbells only go to 120pds?? theres no parallell bars for dips,, tons of treadmills and cycle stuff though. so your gym floor is crap, like 1 bench, hope theres no line up. i cant believe what they charge, its robbery and no one looks like theyre in shape, is there a donout shop nearby?everyone drinkin protien shakes ,they dont do magic, food is better! their personal trainer for the consultation, i was giving advice to him. most big chains are poop.
my pet peeve is the scams some gyms run, shit most wont let me pay cash anymore. wtf is wrong with money!! start up fees, cancelling fees, and you dont even have all the equiptment. where am i supposed to do deadlifts? dumbells only go to 120pds?? theres no parallell bars for dips,, tons of treadmills and cycle stuff though. so your gym floor is crap, like 1 bench, hope theres no line up. i cant believe what they charge, its robbery and no one looks like theyre in shape, is there a donout shop nearby?everyone drinkin protien shakes ,they dont do magic, food is better! their personal trainer for the consultation, i was giving advice to him. most big chains are poop.
I was at the gym the other day and there were about 5 guys lined up facing the mirror (me 2nd to the left) doing various exercises when a smoking hot 20 something walks up to the far right corner and starts doing curls with 5 pound weights. With her tight pants and tits basically hanging out of her tank top every guy at the mirror was staring at her.
Then this butt ugly 200 pound 40+ year old hag walks up to the mirror and blocks our view of the 20 something. The guy closest to them leaned back on his bench to get a better view of the 20 something and then the sasquatch looked at him and said “stop staring at me, you’re creeping me out.” 
Not really a pet peeve just something I thought was funny at the gym.
question, anyone a member of a planet fitness??
I travel to a certain area for work a few times a month and a new Planet Fitness was opening and was offering a $10 a month deal so i gladly took it so I could work out when away.
Little did I know it was a box gym, what I mean is, I was using the dumbells on bench and went a little heavy, as I wore down my first set I dropped the rubber covered dumbells onto the rubber mats. BEEEEEEEEEEEEP, a horn goes off and I look around wondering what that was for.. Thinking that wasn't directed towards me b/c why would a horn go off?? I get down for set 2 which is a replay of set one, BEEEEEP again. and a young 19 year old broad walks over to me and says you can not drop the weights in here. I was shocked. Fuck that gym! A rubber covered DB on a rubber floor, whats the problem??
Don't ever step in front of the mirror and stand there in front of somebody else. Treat the area in front of that person as if it were a putting green. Breaks visual, breaks concentration and movement.
Filling a bottle of water @ the drinking fountain? Look around b4 ya do it. We want a sip - think and look ahead and be courteous.
One cable crossover in a gym like mine, do NOT take over both lines. Somebody asks to work in, do it. You're not on the pro circuit so don't act like it.
Every piece of equipment in there is yours and mine. If you ask to work in be fast, reclip the rope or bar and remember exactly what weight they left it on after a set. Position clip accordingly. It's known as "I go you go"
Between sets on a machine, please don't literally just sit there and wait until you're ready for your next set - it appears as if the that machine is yours..it isn't. Somebody is drop setting move away and let them work in.
Locker room - Please don't shave your fucking face and leave wiskers in the sink. It's disgusting. Clean the sink as you would in your own home. That goes with all proper bathroom sanitation.
Finally:
Put a fucking towel around your waist to and from the shower. I don't want to see your ball sack or hairy ass. Shower, dry off and move to your respective area of clothing. Blow drying ball sack in the locker room is grounds for a rude comment from me personally...always. We've all seen it. Wretched.
Those are some of my peeves.
Another one I see sometimes rarely is some asshole that will leave 3 plates on the squat rack or bench and walk away. You're fuckin kidding me? I usually go out of my way to let 'em know that one plate is fine but hey, c'mon dude - strip that down...you're not special.
Don't ever step in front of the mirror and stand there in front of somebody else. Treat the area in front of that person as if it were a putting green. Breaks visual, breaks concentration and movement.
Filling a bottle of water @ the drinking fountain? Look around b4 ya do it. We want a sip - think and look ahead and be courteous.
One cable crossover in a gym like mine, do NOT take over both lines. Somebody asks to work in, do it. You're not on the pro circuit so don't act like it.
Every piece of equipment in there is yours and mine. If you ask to work in be fast, reclip the rope or bar and remember exactly what weight they left it on after a set. Position clip accordingly. It's known as "I go you go"
Between sets on a machine, please don't literally just sit there and wait until you're ready for your next set - it appears as if the that machine is yours..it isn't. Somebody is drop setting move away and let them work in.
Locker room - Please don't shave your fucking face and leave wiskers in the sink. It's disgusting. Clean the sink as you would in your own home. That goes with all proper bathroom sanitation.
Finally:
Put a fucking towel around your waist to and from the shower. I don't want to see your ball sack or hairy ass. Shower, dry off and move to your respective area of clothing. Blow drying ball sack in the locker room is grounds for a rude comment from me personally...always. We've all seen it. Wretched.
Those are some of my peeves.
Another one I see sometimes rarely is some asshole that will leave 3 plates on the squat rack or bench and walk away. You're fuckin kidding me? I usually go out of my way to let 'em know that one plate is fine but hey, c'mon dude - strip that down...you're not special.
I almost got into a fight because of this a while back.
I was finishing up squats and moved to standing calf raises. I had been watching the machine and no one had used it in over 5 minutes. Right in the middle of my 2nd set some lanky 35 year old guy wearing a tank top runs up and starts saying something to me. I have my headphones on so I don’t hear him and I’m not going to stop my set because of it. The jackass then taps me on my arm. I figure this must be something important (someone is hurt, my car is getting broken into, etc.). I take my headphones off and he says “I am using that.” I respond “you interrupted my set to tell me you’re using a machine no one has been on for over 5 minutes?” He claimed he was doing circuit training and I “should have known that.”
He started trying to give me a lecture in, what he considered to be, gym etiquette (basically everyone should put his needs ahead of their own) when I told him to piss off he condescendingly asked me how long I’d been working out and added I was lucky I was at this gym because this kind of behavior would get my ass kicked at other gyms. At the time I was 6’4” and a pretty ripped 215. He was about 6’ and had the body shape of Napoleon Dynamite if he had been working out halfass for a couple of months.
I just chuckled at the absurdity of it and turned back around to the machine to finish my set. The guy then bumps me as he attempts to reach down and change the weights. At this point I’ve had more than I can stand and tell him “either wait until I’m done, fuck off, or we are going to come to blows.” Looking like a deer in the headlights he just stares at me for about two seconds and then leaves. Not just the area, but the entire gym.
I guess everyone else there had been putting up with his bullshit and he wasn't prepaired for that.
I almost got into a fight because of this a while back.
I was finishing up squats and moved to standing calf raises. I had been watching the machine and no one had used it in over 5 minutes. Right in the middle of my 2nd set some lanky 35 year old guy wearing a tank top runs up and starts saying something to me. I have my headphones on so I don’t hear him and I’m not going to stop my set because of it. The jackass then taps me on my arm. I figure this must be something important (someone is hurt, my car is getting broken into, etc.). I take my headphones off and he says “I am using that.” I respond “you interrupted my set to tell me you’re using a machine no one has been on for over 5 minutes?” He claimed he was doing circuit training and I “should have known that.”
He started trying to give me a lecture in, what he considered to be, gym etiquette (basically everyone should put his needs ahead of their own) when I told him to piss off he condescendingly asked me how long I’d been working out and added I was lucky I was at this gym because this kind of behavior would get my ass kicked at other gyms. At the time I was 6’4” and a pretty ripped 215. He was about 6’ and had the body shape of Napoleon Dynamite if he had been working out halfass for a couple of months.
I just chuckled at the absurdity of it and turned back around to the machine to finish my set. The guy then bumps me as he attempts to reach down and change the weights. At this point I’ve had more than I can stand and tell him “either wait until I’m done, fuck off, or we are going to come to blows.” Looking like a deer in the headlights he just stares at me for about two seconds and then leaves. Not just the area, but the entire gym.
I guess everyone else there had been putting up with his bullshit and he wasn't prepaired for that.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. I am 41 and have been actively going to gyms since I was 16. Amazing the balls on some people. I won't go to meathead gyms for just that reason. I am in great shape and can handle myself physically. I avoid them because at this stage of the game, i'm not putting myself in a position to get sued by some idiot that wants to fight over what should be an easy situation to difuse. My favorite meathead story:
I was going to a different gym about 8 years ago. Two teenage guys approached a pec deck (fly) machine which was right beside the bench I was using. This guy who was 5'6, and obviously had juiced in his past, comes flying over to tell them he was using it. I had been on the bench beside that equipment for 15 minutes and i hadn't seen that clown near it. They kind of laughed him off. I'm sure they thought he was joking. He then gets red in the face and asks them if they want their asses kicked. I couldn't help but intervene. I looked at the meathead and said "Really man? You seriously want to beat up minors over this?" He must have realized that several people were now watching us at this point. He said "Whatever" and stomped off. It was such an over-the-top reaction. Completely uncalled for.
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