I think the biggest poll choice, had it been a choice, would have been something about crowded equipment, waiting for equipment, people who block equipment or sit on equipment while just looking at their phones or themselves in the mirror or whatever.
Honestly, I feel like people at the gyms here in California are very respectful, try to share or being conscious of others regarding equipment, and I don't see people doing a lot of flirting or approaching others while they are working out. I don't do it, and I've never been approached myself, nor have I seen anyone approach anyone that didn't already seem to be friends.
My biggest issue at gyms is when they are busy, and the weights or machine or space that I want to use is being used already. Most of the time this isn't a huge deal, as I can rotate to another area and use something else. There have been a few times where I realized it was too crowded and I was stressing out about wasting time waiting rather than working out. I changed my schedule and/or my routine based on that. I tend to use some equipment that is less preferred and that also works for me. There are lots of ways to work various muscles and some people only know how to use one or two machines or only have one way to work a specific muscle (or group). I don't mind mixing it up or using something else. There are a few that I don't really have a replacement for, or that I really prefer just because they are such great exercises, such as deadlifts.
When I belonged to a gym:
One, it was expensive (for me).
Two, it didn’t feel like I was doing much good or getting much benefit. Like I could never get friends to go with me or spot me, so I just did stuff I could handle.
Three, for a good part of the year, I had to go out in 29-30°f (or colder) weather to get there.
Four: I got screamed at for spending money and going out “all hours of the day” every day (I never did a 4am or 1am workout, so I never woke anyone up or inconvenienced them by going, but I had an irregular schedule so sometimes I’d work out at 5pm, sometimes 10am). Personally, I was trying to improve and get myself out of a bad situation and grow a little, which I think made them angry/jealous.
Five: I have chronic pain. Right now, I’m wide awake because I’m sore. Just from nerve damage. I get to go out and inflame that or try to soldier through that pain.
Six: at one time, I worked out in college. But being that everyone was working/sleeping, I’d be the only one working out most of the time. No one to spot me.
Seven: not recently, but years ago, the gym I went to always had locker rooms full of unabashed old guys walking around naked putting their junk on everything, farting, smelling all musty and gross… man boobs down to their waists, just letting it all flop and hang loose, not a care in the world. It always seemed to smell like a musty toilet because of the codgers wouldn’t flush. If you ever heard comedian Jeremy Hotz talk about his experience at the gym… yeah, that was pretty much my experience. Luckily, all the other gyms I attended, the guys were a little better behaved and classy, so that part wasn’t too bad after I left that place.
Sometimes there can be to many people at the gym and they start hogging/getting aggressive with their time on the equipment. Sometimes it can be to loud if they have music, tv, on plus the sound of people working out/talking. Another thing is seeing others who look good and you're wonder what they did to get rip and loose way, can get overwhelming. Other than that I never had a problem with being hit on and I rarely see men or women trying to pick each other up cause they are trying to work out. I think both sexes understand it's a no pick up zone.
Attention seekers in lycra outfits, showing how much weight they can lift or how long they can cycle, or whatever. Both men and women. I go to a 1-to-1 gym, just me and the trainer, so I don't have to put up with those idiots. It's so much better, just costs more.
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People being jerks at the gym. For me the biggest issue were the guys loved to point how sweaty they were after workouts.
But my biggest issue was that I started going to the gym as a newcomer to fitness and no one actually bothered to point at to me when I did a workout the wrong way. They just laughed to giggle and make fun of me but never told me what I did wrong.
So I ended hyperextenting my shoulders because no one told me that I did a workout wrong, after that I left and turned to bodyweight workouts I can do in front of a mirror or at an outdoor gym where people seemed to be more friendly.
I feel you, but I don't ever give people advice at the gym, even when I see them doing things wrong, because I feel like everyone is hypersensitive these days and I don't want to be shamed for trying to be helpful, which I see as a likely scenario. I also wouldn't be mocking them, though.
@zeitgeist057 That´s also true and I really hate that no one is about for advice these days and people all think they know it all. But to fair I´m also not always open for that so I can understand them. Back then it was mostly the staff that frustrated me hence neither were they really helpful because they showed you how to use a machine but they didn´t take a further look if you used them correctly. I left that gym shortly after that because I didn´t like their concept.
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@Lionman95 as an athlete for the last 20+ years, I've learned you can learn a lot about your own body simply by paying attention. Another great source more recently is YouTube and the internet. What I tend to do is watch 2-5 different videos about the exercise/activity I want to do, then I get a bigger picture from those experts.
For example, I bought a rowing scull a little over a year ago. Actually, backing up a bit, even before that, many years ago, I was researching best workout. After a little online research, I decided to incorporate the rowing machine into my workout. I got one for free off craigslist, but then moved and started going to a gym with rowing machines. COVID shut down the gym, so I bought an actual rowing scull.
In using the rowing machine and the actual boat, I watched no less than a dozen YouTube videos to give me a basis and direction for my movements, and to check in and see how my performance compared to the experts.
@zeitgeist057 Hey thanks for your advice. At the moment I´m not using machines because I realised for myself that bodybuilding isn´t my actual goal but instead it´s to be and look fitter than I was before. So I currently do mostly bodyweight exercises because they help establish a work routine and make me be fitter than I have been so far since I´m sitting a desk for most of the day. But it´s true for sure that Youtube is a great ressource for material to work out.
yeah no worries my brother, I much prefer functional exercise like playing a sport (soccer, surfing, martial arts, etc) to just mindlessly lifting weights. Weights and gym is better for sculpting and literal "Body Building", but real applied exercise is better for real fitness.
ps I also think bodyweight is the bomb. You can do a lot just with pushups, pull ups and planks. I would say crunches too, but they can be VERY bad for the back unless really done right. (I think >90% of people do them wrong, including fitness instructors)
This guy shows good methods for ab work: https://youtu.be/AY_kuI0U9ds
I can't stand the women in the gym who want to claim harassment when it is not true. There have been times when I have finished a hard exercise and sit up to rest between sets when a girl just walks by.
Whenever I notice movement out of my eye I look around because all of my military training has taught me not to be oblivious to my surroundings. Sometimes a girl walks into my view and I look because I notice movement, not because I am looking at her. I do not even acknowledge her yet I've been reported for "staring" before. Lucky for me the gym staff know me well, but there are guys who have been kicked out for a scenario just like mine.
As a man I can't stand other men - or I should say boys - who are sculpted to extremes or just very built and they want to dominate the weight-lifting area, break the gym rules, or giggle at you when they think you don't see it because they think you're not exercising right or as if you're wasting your time trying. Gotta be the most toxic experience and people in a gym.
But yeah, I also do get annoyed by some of the chicks who are in there looking for a boyfriend. Some of them even act like they're the ones being preyed on and are literally waiting for you to look at them so they can give you a scowl or a sneer, all the while they're watching you on the equipment! Really hate that.
Love this question by the way.
Most of the men and women who are ripped are doing roids.
google nude muscles guys and you will see huge muscles and tiny cock.
I hate everything about gyms.
1. finding a parking space
2. thieves break into vehicles at gyms
3. sweaty stinky people all around me
4. women hanging out on equipment while having girl fest sessions and talking on cell phone
5. broken equipment
6. women who dress like they aren't serious about working out
7. monthly fees
8. workout classes that require you to be there at a certain time
9. time wasted driving to and from the gym is almost as much as time it takes to workout at home
10. walking to and from work each day will have more benefits than going to the gym, cost less, be more enjoyable
11. they are always trying to sell personal trainer bullshit. i don't need that. just look at youtube and then do the work.
I can’t stand old men who don’t know what the hell they are doing in gyms. They sit on machines and do nothing, try to talk to you butt ass naked in the locker room or look ridiculous when they do try to workout.
That’s not to say I don’t support any old and/or really out of shape person in the gym. That’s where they belong. But if you don’t get in shape threw osmosis.
This also includes fat girls who work at front desks at the gym. For some reason I see a lot of these. They too have this false “osmosis” belief that they will somehow get in shape from physically being in the gym. They work at the gym but never work OUT at the gym. But again if I see them actually exercising (with purpose) I have 100% respect for that. I will never ever make fun of an overweight person who is trying to improve themselves. I’ll only encourage them.
I support the LGBTQIA community and I am bi but these guys who hang out in locker room talking to you with no clothes on are just fucking homos.
@ethanallen it’s gross
It creeps me out.
Couldn't just pick one. People in general. Waiting for machines. Rules. Putting plates around because someone else was too lazy to do it. Sweat on a machine before trying to use it. People just sitting on what you want to use while they play with their phone.
I'm not going to keep going, it should be obvious why I make the choice to by my gear for the home when I decided to make this a life choice and not just a yearly payment.
People “saving their spot” by putting their stuff down at the squat rack while they go on to do other workouts somewhere else in the gym… While there are people waiting to use ONE of the ONLY THREE squat racks in the whole gym.
If there’s a LINE waiting to use a piece of equipment, someone better be actually using the piece of equipment people are waiting for instead of going MIA and dilly dallying somewhere else in the gym.
Females who go there to pick up and thirsty simps who think that a female’s painted on costume, camel toe and bouncing tits are a signal to him to approach.
I go there to work out. I do not want to walk on eggshells because of the presence of attention seeking women.
Painted costume, camel toe, bouncing tits. Dude, you nailed it.
Courtship behavior of some guys in gyms is annoying. Amount of guys with low social competence, who don't understand f... off body language is higher than in other sport facilities.
Yep lots of guys hit on girls in the gym
I feel like sometimes there are too many people in one area. I also hate the people that are going extra extra hard for no reason on some machines. There’s nothing wrong with going hard at all but I don’t like when people go super hard just to show how strong they are and stuff.
Usually that only happens every once in a while though
This was how I feel. I never get hit on or approach anyone, but that was most of the poll options. I'm more concerned with having to wait for equipment or being in a crowded gym than any of the things listed.
Ooh yeah... read my answer and then just imagine how I felt after grinding for half a year, literally for half a year and then right after new years eve, guess what made me decide to just drop money on just doing it at home.
You have to sign a multi-year contract just to try it out and you can’t even get out of the contract without proving to them that you have a good enough reason to terminate the contract. You could literally sign up for a membership then get married and get divorced and have the divorce finalized and still have 6 months left on your gym contract.
The fact that other people are there, in general. Even if they don’t try to talk to me. I prefer privacy.
lol, same. I used to work at a gym and my favorite part was if I opened or closed, I would get there early or stay late and put on my music over the awesome sound system and work out with the whole gym to myself <3
As a gym it self, i never had a problem with it. But the members pisses me off, those who wear perfume at the gym, those who don't clean after they use the machine, the chatty ones, the show offs, and my new favorites, the idiots that can't take their eyes of the phone instead of working out. But that is just my opinion. I wear a hoodie on my head, headphones and i don't make eye contact, plus where i work it's mostly empty, barely 3 people in there, my favorite gym so far
I don't like my body, but the only time I have to work out is before work, and my gym is down the street from my job so I don't have time to go home to shower so I have shower there... I just don't like people seeing my body.
This is an annoying one that I agree with. In the men's locker room, guys stand around having conversations with each other while totally naked. What the fuck is this? Ancient Greece? Put a fucking towel you fucking homo.
@ethanallen girls do the same thing, a lot of times we might wear a towel
But we will walk around naked too
Can you explain why? I assume that men doing this are closeted fags trying to see if they can signal other men. What is the reason women walk around naked in the locker room?
@ethanallen
@ethanallen Convenience and we're secure in our sexuality... They're just asses, pussies, and titties, nothing we haven't seen before every day.
Never been to a gym but I've been to work out rooms at hotels and it's pretty good. Mainly because it's me and the eggs I had for morning. And my sexy body nice and ripped.
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People are just rude, out of the options.
That being said, people in the gym tend to be quite chilled, so in my case, it's a rare or none-existent occurrence.
Common showers are nasty in every conceivable way. Might as well bend over naked at the waist in front of a rapist to drink water directly from a used toilet.
It really does upset me when people don't clean the gym equipment, just because they think the staff members should and not them is completely selfish
Only when there's too many people and some people are rude.. That's very few though.. Most people wipe down the machines.. So I can't complain honestly..
Posers, I’m there to look red and ugly. Not face of makeup in spray on clothes taking pictures and just squad or the stepping machine
I've seen one person dominate ONE machine for a half hour. Like come on, you have to use one weight machine for that long?
It is B for me.
Sometimes I am not in the mood and other times it's just the wrong guy... lol
I don’t like sweating heavily or trying to exercise around strangers because sometimes I like to go for it and leave it on the field you know? And it’s not necessarily conducive to the social inside air conditioned aspect of a gym.
Right now I'm at a newly opened more private gym run by a couple I know. Very proffessional and luxurious settings. On the previous gym; the Instagram girls and flex guys I could live with. But the tawny prepubescent boys who walk in and occupy weights and machines doing absolutely nothing sensible and just chats while pretending to do the exercises, that's annoying. I never understood why that was allowed. There should be some level of purpose demanded to be there.
The fact that there are other people there haha I wish I could afford a home gym 🥲
I have a heavy bag an weights plus stair climber
I find this more funny than hate it, the guys that will lift something 3 times then have to look at themselves in the mirror for 5 minutes.
Chatty women or competing guys. Keep holding on or sitting on machines i want to use.
That's annoying ;/
thats hell lot of annoying
Ikr. The worst part was, if their done, others won't spray clean it or dont return the weights they used. 😤😡😠🤬
Yeah that's disgusting
The gym I used to belong to was a Jewish Community Center with a lot of Jewish Doctors. They were nasty people.
I hate that it’s often difficult to find the equipment I want to use as someone is already using it
Gym is BORING as fuck. So fuck the gym.
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I used to be harassed by this cleaner guy at the gym.
I hate a gym douche who hogs the equipment
“ hey bro I was using this I just went to take a 20 minute water break”
I hate when people try to strike a conversation with me there.
I've got headphones on, that should be a sign that i don't wanna talk.
Women going there dressed like prostitutes hoping that men will masturbate to them. I train in the wild. Fuck the gym.
I don't go to gyms, so I guess I don't hate anything
People getting in my space when they could to another spot
Hogging machine, girls walking around half naked, guys walking around half naked, brand name wear competition, rude folks, et cetera.
The smell and stale air, all the narcissists
I hate doing any workout at the gym period. Just the whole thing.
The Food Network is almost always on. First, most things on there I won't eat. Second, if there is something on there that I want to eat, working out is not high on my list of activities to take part in immediately.
the gym was ok when i went there but got annoyed with some of the people there , a lot of big ego types , guys and girls who seemed to have there own agenda
People who do not work out but only look at themselves at the mirror and make lots of selfies
People who are rude just because you like looking at babes.
Exactly people NOT my type wanting sex no thank you!
I hate it when equipment gets broken and it takes week before it is fixed.
When you take an early exit and the girls ego is hurt.
You dont bother to even look at them and then they hit pass you.
steroid freaks and the one uppers those who do 10lbs more then you maybe 15lbs more then you
not being able to find the dumbbells i need or a bench to lift on
Currently, just the viruses and bacteria that linger there.
and the "gym rats" that grunt through every set and drop their weights at the end.
all of the above.
I have no idea, I've never been to a gym.
People sits on machines and using their phones instead workout. Brooo if you want to use your phone just stay at home and dobt fucking blocking machines
Looking like a hippo.
People are just rude
I was groped once end up kneeing a guy.
Gyms are meat markets.
bad smell, rude people, sweaty machines.
Some need some deodorant
The smell of rubber floors
That there are people in gyms.
Doesn't open sooner.
The smell of all the sweaty people lol
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