re: Pet peeves in the gym

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Question, a pet peeve of mine is when someone tries to offer unwanted advice or explain things to other people. i dont ever do it even if i see bad or incorrect form. im not there to teach you. the only time i have ever said anything to someone is if i actually thought hey could hurt themselves, that's acceptable right?

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It is. And if they act like an ahole then you just need to shrug it off because they are foing to hurt themselves sion enough.

Blasting music in the sauna

People (usually women) who try to circuit train at 7PM on a monday. You cant tie up 4 machines KAren.

I had a guy doing Goblet Squats in front of a power rack the other day at like 6pm, the weight room was full as hell too.

Plates left everywhere.

Whatever you put on you take off.

Douchebags who hike their shorts up to show off their quads, especially when they aren't big.

Guys who wear cut sleeve shirts when its cut all the way down the side except for like the bottom inch or so.

Guys who hold the muscle they are working when its a unilateral exercise, i.e. cable side bends and holding your oblique with your opposite hand like its helping them focus.

Typically these are all done by the same type of person at my gym. Young college age frat queers, typically lean with good definition weighing a bill fifty, who think, or at least give off the vibe that they think, that they are swole.

Get the frick out of my way so I can lift some fricking real weight you pussies.


Okay, that last line was a little much. Its just been bad since college has let out for the summer. But you know what I don't hate, 20 something year old chicks keeping it in summer shape. There has also been an abundance of those at my gym since college let out, too. I guess you gotta take the good with the bad.

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I don't think one needs to ask your permission to get any weights within your vicinity

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That's why its called "etiquette". They don't HAVE to, but its respectful and polite to ask. And if the guy you ask says no, then hes the a-hole instead of you.

There was this semi-overweight guy on the preacher curl bench on Monday morning. He was directly behind me and my gf while we did incline flies, bench, and flat dumbbell bench. We did 9 sets total, each, and he was still on that bench doing preacher curls with the 30 lb dumbbell, using his other arm as a spotter, grunting like a wild hog. We walked away to the cable flies, did 6 sets of exercises there and back to the benches where the curl and straight bars were to finish up with some standing curls and reverse curls. Dude was still there preacher curling that 30. We did an hour and 10 min workout and that guy just stayed there curling and grunting the entire time. It was strange and a little embarrassing. Not so much a pet peeve as it was weird af.

Gym bully who enforces made up rules