1. You have chosen to ignore posts from Mastermou. Show Mastermou's posts

    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 7:52 AM EST

    Biggest pet peeve is not just people not wiping down machines, but those people who wipe them down with dirty towels that were laying on the floor. Another one, more common than you would think, is when the person next to you on the treadmill, starts emitting that silent, but deadly gas - sorry guys, but it is always a guy.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 8:28 AM EST

    Racing to get a parking spot in the overly crowded, small space parking lot.
    Sneezing, coughing, MRSA-ladden people, who should be at home.
    Non-stop and loud muzak, rap-krap, oldies, classic rock, and commercials for minoxydil.
    People who invade my person space.
    Hot, smelly work out areas.
    Machine hogs.
    Broken machines.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 8:42 AM EST

    People that spray me when wiping their treadmill down next to me.  Getting on the tredmill only to find that the tv in front of me is on the food network and having to be tortured into watching Barefoot Contessa make some very unhealthy but yummy dish! 
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 8:43 AM EST

    people who think they are forever in middle school gym class and wear dirty shirts or shorts. you stink do a wash.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 9:22 AM EST

    This happened this morning. I'm a big guy and I've been lifting since my high school days and never stopped. However, at the age of 49 I have no desire or need to lift heavy any longer. In fact most of my workouts are cardio these days. But on days I do lift, I go pretty light for the most part. So while I realize it looks funny to see a big dude lifting 25 lbs dumbells doing curls it is also what I choose to do. I don't go heavy with the amount of weight, rather I go with high reps and low weight.

    So...this old guy comes up to me and stands there staring at me while I am doing my curls. After my 25th rep I tore off my earbuds and asked him if he had something to say. The idiot points to me then the 25 lbs dumbell and says "That's a light weight for a guy like you isn't it? Is that as much weight as you can do?". I asked him if he thinks I got this big by lifting 25 lbs dumbells my entire life. I then told him how I worked out when I was in my 20's and my reasons for doing so. Further I explained to this old geezer that at my age I have nothing to prove and just like to increase my muscular endurance and that low weights with high reps is the way to do that. I ended by telling him that Wal-Mart is having a sale on LIVES and that he needs to get one.

    Moral of the story...Unless you are trying to learn something in order to incorporate it into your workout then keep you mouth shut, mind your own business and let people do the workout they choose to do.

    End of rant. Thanks for reading.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 9:28 AM EST

    After reading all these comments I must say I'm glad I've never had the pleasure of a gym membership and probably never will. Thanks for reminding me of that fact. 


     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 9:55 AM EST

    People who dont put weight plates back!!! I am all for getting a great workout, but when I go to the leg press machine , and there are 8 45lb plates on it, and I have to remove 5 of them, its a pain in the you know what!


     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 10:48 AM EST

    The massive amounts of perfume/cologne people wear! I'm talking about both at the gym while working out and in the locker room after showering. If I can smell your perfume from the locker room while I am 20 ft away on the gym floor you have too much on and you don't smell good. I am very sensitive to perfume/cologne but only when people put way too much on. I hate having my lungs wide open in a very intense cardio workout and then someone with too much fragrance on comes along and I can't freaking breathe and get an instant headache. Other complaint when I arrive on time for a group exercise class and grab a good spot in the back in the corner. Someone arrives 10 minutes late and squeezes in behind me when there isn't any room!!!
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 11:18 AM EST

    My biggest pet-peeve is when people take an occurrence at the gym and turn it into a personal affront.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 12:00 PM EST

    People who sit and lounge around on weight machines. Some people take inordinately long "rests" between sets and seem oblivious to the fact that people are waiting. One man at my previous gym actually carried little balls with him from machine to machine and sat there JUGGLING in between sets. It was funny but I felt like wringing his neck.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 12:05 PM EST

    I have a Gym Arch-Nemesis, and I hope he's reading this right now. This guy looks dirty,greasy, and always wears the same clothes, which is obnoxious enough (people who reek are never o.k.) but the worst thing is that when he's on the treadmill, he leans on the handlebars when trying to sprint -- which makes his feet pound so loud and hard that the entire machine shakes as he's flailing about and every person within a 20-foot radius isstaring. It. is. so. annoying. No one wants to be on the treadmills next to him because he's spasticating so much, and I just want to bonk him on the head and say, "Dude! If you're putting all your weight on the handlebars, it doesn's matter if the speedometer reads 10 or 3. That's not running."

    I hate him.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 12:06 PM EST

    In Response to Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?:
    When people SLAM! down the weights accompanied by massive GRUNTING! in an effort to alert those around them how much they're capable of lifting. 
    Posted by ennio



    Yes Yes Yes!  Those people bother me more than anything else.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 12:22 PM EST

    Well, there was the guy who was running on the treadmill barefoot. You can't go into a restaurant barefoot, dude. What makes you think it's OK at the gym? Disgusting.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 12:22 PM EST

    -People not cleaning machines when finished
    -Using cell phones at the gym
    -People who sit at a machine for an extended time and just sit or read a magazine
    -People who do exersies in front of other equipment which prevents others from using it 

     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 12:25 PM EST

    The guy who clips his nails in the locker room letting the mini cresent moons fall all over the floor.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 12:31 PM EST

    people that smell. use some deodorant please.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 1:20 PM EST

    Guys who were shiny tight shorts and their little dingus is outlined and their guts spill over the top.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 1:21 PM EST

    I think the TV's on every single machine is a total waste.  People sit on the bike going 1 MPH and just watch TV for 60 min and call it a workout.  I think gyms should get rid of the TVs so people actually workout.  It would move people along.  Can we disconnect from the world at all anymore?

     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 1:35 PM EST

      Other members just sitting on the machines while texting.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 1:41 PM EST

    People who are unwilling to share equipment.  Like my time isn't important too.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 2:01 PM EST

    Seeing another dudes sweaty junk is by far the worse thing about going to the gym.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 3:33 PM EST

    Naked people in the sauna.  I'm not saying you have to be ashamed of your body, or have to stress about always being covered- but I honestly had someone lie down naked, on their back, towards me and then bend one knee, with the other leg flat!  folks should remember: just because you're comfortable with your naked body doesn't mean everyone else is comfortable with your naked body.
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 3:43 PM EST

    -Cell Phone policy and trainers who don't enforce it
    -loud conversations between friends while exercising, why do I have to hear about your political beliefs or how incredibly well read you are?
    -person on the next ellliptical, treadmill, or bike chewing gum loudly(usually while talking on the above mentioned cell-phone)
    -the fact that the "30 minute limit when people are waiting" is conveniently ignored by the self-important fools who think it applies to everyone, but them(again the lack of enforcement by the trainers also irritates)

    other than that I do love going to the gym
     

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    Re: What are your biggest pet-peeves when working out?

    posted at 3/11/2011 4:16 PM EST

    When there are 5 machines on either side of you and someone big, sweaty and stinky has to saddle up right next to you.