Gym pet peeves

Using dumbbells directly in front of the dumbbell rack.

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parking on the machines

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Men of all ages do this too. It's the under-30 crowd that goes the extra mile of equipment hogging by pulling out the cell phone between sets, while they rest, with no awareness that they share the gym with other people. Even the polite request of "you mind if do one last set on that?" does not change their behavior.

Cable crossover machine for me also. At the gym I go to it's in a corner. This past Sunday a lady built a barrier with flat benches and crossover machine acted like the back wall to her private room. She had random free weights in this room and was working out but not using the cable machine. I decided to pass on telling her anything because I think just by looking at her it would have been confrontational.

What's worse is the motherfrickers who hoard dumbbells across the gym at one bench and refuse to re-rack any of them.

People using the squat rack for everything but squats.

Barbell curls is the favorite.

I once had to wait for a couple of jabronis to finish their pushup circuit, that for some reason they felt the only squat rack in the gym was the best place to perform it.

Annoying, rude, and completely oblivious people in the gym is why we put a gym in our new office when we built it.

Now the only annoying person I have to deal with in the gym is me.

I love pet peeve threads.

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I do circuit train which I know is a no no

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Yeh, you, you are my pet peeve. Nobody should ever be 'circuiting' more than two stations at once as super sets. If you're trying to reserve 3, 4 sometimes 5 stations for your whole damn workout circuit screw you.

Was at the gym the other morning and this guy was doing a circuit using one of the coveted incline benches at the dumbbell rack and had it flat when a standard lay flat bench was available. Going over to barbell curls in a squat rack. Then BOTH smith machines. Not kidding, using one for incline bench and one for squats. For a half hour he had all this equipment used up.

Aside from that, your standard not reracking weights. Don't care if you were leg pressing 6 plates bro, even the last 2 45's, put them all away.

Blocking the dumbbell rack of course.

Bad form because you want to ego lift. I got no problem with bad form, nobody is perfect, but if you're benching quarter reps and your arse gets further off the bench than the bar cause you have to use 3 plates so people will look at you gimme a break.

Dropping dumbbells. I understand dropping weights especially when deadlifting or something, but unless your gym has 140's and you're busting out big reps on flat DB bench and your only choice is to get two spotters or drop them, you don't need to be tossing your DB's to the floor after every set. Yes, you're a big man inclining those 80's - probably big enough to put them down gently. If not, maybe do one less rep or drop to the 75's and grab the 80's again in a few weeks when you are strong enough to handle them.

Re-rack your damn weights!

Dropping the stack on cables.

Keeping 4 sets of dumbbells at your feet when you aren't doing a drop set (see first comment).

Ego lifting is just funny now. Good job on those 1/4 rep leg presses & 1/2 rep benches bud.

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I actually saw a guy actually get a full set in today because he was guarding them like a hawk and I felt like I should go over and shake his hand or something for such an incredible achievement.

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Sounds like you and he should be workout buddies. At least for this portion of your workout. Tell him you'd like to work in with him so no one else can steal half the setup to do something else.

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I'm gonna pull out my phone just about every rest period. I'm setting a timer and logging my last set. And might look at what's planned the rest of the workout or see how my last set compares to recent workouts.

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No problem with that. I don't use fitness apps, but you brought up that point and I hadn't thought about it. Carry on.

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changing the song on my playlist.

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No problem there either. Most people are doing this.

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if I'm on a machine I'll stand a few feet away to give other people a chance

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Simple, good gym etiquette.
It's the sit on the machine, phone or no phone, for 5 minutes between sets that's the pet peeve.
Do your set, get off the machine, walk around, get some water, do your phone thing, whatever, then come back for your next set. Simple. Until of course someone else is sitting there, not working out,.........
It also annoys the personal trainers in my gym, because their paying clients are there for an hour one-on-one, and although the trainer often makes quick changes in the routine based on equipment availability, prolonged hogging of equipment (for lack of a better phrase) is just unnecessary.
Some people go so far as to change gyms due to equipment unavailability, mostly due to overcrowding.