Pet peeves in the gym

I pay $150/month to go to a gym where you don't have to deal with any of this shite.

Using the cable cross machines for single handle exercises. 99/100 there is a single handle machine available.

There’s a lady who jumps rope in the weightlifting area which is weird and kind of dangerous.

Fatties who wear tights

really my only pet peeve is people doing supersets at the busiest time of day, especially if one of the exercises is on 1 of the 3 squat/bench racks my gym has. also if your superset involves both cables on the 1 cable machine my gym has.

My absolute biggest pet peeves are not re-racking weights and not wiping sweat off equipment.

Everything else pales in comparison.

If you leave single plates on the squat or bench bar, that's somewhat acceptable. But anything more than that isn't.

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doing bent over barbell rows in the squat rack

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My question exactly, Ive heard of everything else he mentioned but this one is new to me. Is this a thing?

I mean I do bent over barbell rows on a half rack at my gym solely because they follow squat or deadlift and I'm already there. Maybe I'm an a-hole but I don't consider it on par with curls in the squat rack or anything else he listed.

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Maybe I'm an a-hole but I don't consider it on par with curls in the squat rack or anything else he listed.

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Anything other than squats or deads in the rack is pretty much the same to me. I could give a shite about it really unless the gym is busy and you can take that somewhere else.

I don't really have a lot of pet peeves but I sure would if I was gym owner. I pretty much do my thing in peace and quiet but maybe chuckle under my breath from time to time. However in my fantasy world as a gym owner, you drop a dumbell, you get a warning. You do it again, you are gone. Period. Same principle goes for leaving db's and plates on the floor. Unless your mom is training with you, pick that shite up. Grunting is for women having babies and maybe on your max rep. Otherwise STFU. Chalk is actually ok. Just clean it up and don't leave a crime scene when you are done.

Not re-racking weights

Taking weights from your equipment without asking

People who think they are doing a full squat, but are really 1/4 to 1/2 squats. Half squats are legit, but you know the people I am talking about.

no racking weights pisses me off, but worse than that are the people who do rack but with no idea or concept of order.

walking up to a weight stand and seeing a 45 behind two 10's and a 25. its like, wtf, did this really make any sense to you? i feel like this has to be done with maliciousness in mind or they are the dumbest bastards around.

using the squat rack for other exercises other than squats and deads, but only if its busy and all racks are taken.

1/4 squats when the bar is absolutely loaded with weight too much weight and lat pull downs with the person basically jerking their entire upper body to get it down just makes me shake my head. why?

The little town I live in has one gym. It only has one squat rack and, even worse, it's a Smith Machine. Nothing used to piss me off worse than going in on leg day and somebody using it for bench press and curls.

About half the time, I used to just improvise and move a bench around and use it as a squat rack, but I always thought it was BS that I had to do that.

I also used to get annoyed when the douchey young dudes would all hang out in front of the mirror behind the DB racks. It would aggravate the piss out of me to ask somebody if I could get by them to grab or put up some DBs.

Glad I dropped the money and have my own stuff in the garage now. My wife's car is the only thing I have to deal with now.