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re: Things I have noticed after getting back to the gym after 10 years.

Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:10 am to
Posted by oldtrucker
Marianna, Fl
Member since Apr 2013
2432 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:10 am to
Don't get me started about the people sitting at a machine looking at the phone
Posted by MRTigerFan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
5279 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:16 am to
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People sit on machines and look at their phones more than they used to. They don't seem to be taking a break during reps. Just staring at their phones.


It's infuriating
Posted by Cuthbert13
Member since Apr 2024
520 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:22 am to
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One day I’m going to snap and end up in jail.


"Im out here 300 fricking days a year in da gym"
Posted by Armymann50
Playing with my
Member since Sep 2011
20345 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:23 am to
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Yoga pants
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
113861 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:26 am to
Ok dumbass, what about the people who will sit for 20-30 minutes, sometimes watching tv with no earbuds?

People actually using the equipment are fine. I say camp out because I mean they just park there like they are sitting on furniture.
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
34736 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:29 am to
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Ok dumbass, what about the people who will sit for 20-30 minutes, sometimes watching tv with no earbuds?

People actually using the equipment are fine. I say camp out because I mean they just park there like they are sitting on furniture.


ask them to move and let you work out with them

not that hard. if they refuse...thats different but aint many going to
Posted by Dissident Aggressor
Member since Aug 2011
4682 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:51 am to
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Arab dudes and hispanics have discovered the benefits of physical fitness [/quote
this

[quote]People sit on machines and look at their phones

and this absolutely grinds my gears

quote:

Yoga pants

and this
the 200 pound chicks need to abandon this with the quickness…


Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
113861 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 9:59 am to
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. More often than not they don’t and I get a shitty comment back. And I’m very nice when I ask. Generally these are older people as I go at lunch. A lot of times they are husbands who appear to have been drug there by their wives. They are mad about being there so they want to make everyone else miserable.

This is why I said I will probably one day end up in jail.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
39760 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 10:06 am to
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and man I dont understand why it is so hard for many of yall to just ask to work in on a machine if someone is taking a while


My German isn’t that good yet and the folks at my gym aren’t very good with English.
Posted by TexasTiger89
Houston, TX
Member since Feb 2005
25634 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 12:39 pm to
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We could tell.


Posted by SOLA
There
Member since Mar 2014
3564 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 12:55 pm to
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3. People sit on machines and look at their phones more than they used to. They don't seem to be taking a break during reps. Just staring at their phones.

Pisses me off so bad
Posted by Ihatethiscity
Garden District
Member since May 2022
105 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:28 pm to
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kids love the tall socks, it looks stupid


tall socks for dead lift and leg days. doing leg curls depending on the machine will pinch the shite out of your skin.
Posted by Ihatethiscity
Garden District
Member since May 2022
105 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:35 pm to
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sitting at a machine looking at the phone


I'm usually covered in sweat and logging my reps in my app and then texting your mom back. But feel free to ask me how many more sets I've got left lil bro
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
9952 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:38 pm to
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ask them to move and let you work out with them


Machines are a different animal completely than a platform or a rack. If the pec deck is occupied by a camper, you can do cable flyes instead, etc.

I forgot about one of my other peeves: short people (generally chicks) that take 20kg bumper plates and stash them underneath the lat pull to compensate for their height, etc.
Posted by southpawcock
Member since Oct 2015
16052 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:55 pm to
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If anyone lives in DFW, LA Fitness Uptown from 4 pm till about 7 pm. All fitness competitors and college chicks. Best gym ever. Thank me later.



But now all you've done is potentially infest it with more dudes.
Posted by prplhze2000
Parts Unknown
Member since Jan 2007
54694 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:57 pm to
I don't mind asking if I can work in
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
9952 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 2:04 pm to
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I don't mind asking if I can work in


Adding or subtracting100kg+ between sets?
Posted by rileytiger
Surfing The Gulf of America
Member since Feb 2007
3151 posts
Posted on 4/10/25 at 2:16 pm to
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3. People sit on machines and look at their phones more than they used to. They don't seem to be taking a break during reps. Just staring at their phones.


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