Saw this topic on T-Nation forums and realised we dont have one here. i'll edit this post and compile your contributions into a list so everyone can learn not to be a d*** at the gym without realising it.

mine are:
1. occupying more than one bench/station at any given time, but if you're willing to share and wait for your turn, then its fine.

2. throwing down <70lbs db's with force at an obvious attempt to get attention on how awesome you are

3. talking shop while sitting on benches and taking up space in the free weight area. its already crowded as it is.

4. resting between sets for more than 5 mins sitting down at the HS machines, staring into space/on the phone/watching everyone else and when asked how many more sets, says x amount and immediately starts the set. were you actually waiting for me to start you off?

5. resting the short barbells on the benches instead of the floor. do the bars really need cushioning, and are you that lazy to lift it bar off the floor instead?

i'll think of more later.

The gym I go to is pretty much empty all the time.

The only issue(s) I have, when there are people, are

1. Guys who use the benches and don't wipe the bloody flood of sweat they leave behind. I have my own sweat, thank you very much, I don't need yours.

2. People who scream at the top of their lungs for every rep of their 10-rep set. I can understand a grunt or forced breathing or a shout on the last few reps, but not the first.

3. People who come in and just take up benches and chat when there's quite a few people at the weights. I mean, seriously, if you're going to chat, go outside.

The guys above have some of my "faves" but I think I can add a few:

1. Guys who don't put back the weights.
This irks me to no end. I get that you're tired and all but so am I yet I still put back the weights. Therefore, why can't you put back the weights? This happens a lot with the leg press machines.

2. Guys who must do their sets in front of the mirrors.
It's fine if it's just you and the mirror but if you're blocking the way, by jove, get the heck away. This also applies to the dingbats who do shoulder presses right in front of the dumbbells. Push the chair back, you doink. Is it that difficult?

3. Guys who loiter in the locker room.
Specifically, guys who sit on the benches and do the yakkity yak for ages. They'll just sit there in their towels and talk forever. Dude, get out. Let people put their stuff so that they can, get ready and get out.

This post has been edited by mcbarney666: Jan 12 2011, 03:29 PM

this. although i must say in my gym its the norm for everyone to leave the db's around. i still put my db's back though, as futile as it seems. its not unusual for me when occupying a bench to rack up the db's littered in front of the bench before starting my sets. wouldnt want to get up the bench and trip on them and injuring myself

Encouter all those before. The worse is taking few pairs of dumbells and placed them at their place and only used one at a time.

Second would be leaving the dumbell everywhere instead of placing them back.

There's this uncle at my gym who is bigger than me, saying that you don't need squats and deadlifts ! 'all you gotta do is bench press like me, do 10 sets for decline, 10 sets for incline', and drink mass gainers !

1. guys with singlets who maybe has 3-4 mths of training resulting in tiny weeny muscle definition, but put on a massive ego face in the gym flexing in the mirrors. These guys have nth but think taht they have something --____--

2. Skinny guys who look in the mirrors appreciating themselves more than they train.

3. lala guys fixing their spicky hair and fringe in the gym mirror for more than 5 min. You're in a gym, not a freagin fashion show in sungai wang..$$%^

4. doesnt rack the barbell and dumbell after use.





This post has been edited by TrutHatHand: Jan 12 2011, 10:26 PM

Hogging an equipment while talking to some other frens. DUDE SAVE UR DRAMA AFT WORKOUT, WE WORKOUT NOT TALKOUT.

Theres once, i was using the bench for my set, and when i hit my second set, i put back my dumbell and try to get a heavier one, and guess wat, some dude sit on my bench and start their exercise, my bottle and towel are still beside the bench T.T.

Guys who gives the "I go to the gym not to make friends" kind-of-look.

Hahaha, I don't mind people not putting back the weights after usage because the ghetto gyms I go to are usually like that. I don't bother putting back the weights after I leg press too because 220kg will take forever to unrack plus I train alone.

I can't stand the skinny vain guys though, they are usually the college students who come in a group with their basketball singlets and pants with their tiny twig arms hogging the bench or doing bicep curls. Then doing a 50kg bench for 5 reps and grunting throughout while their friends stand by and cheer him on and one guy spots him (with one arm). These guys only fuel my rage to lift harder though lol.

As for the vain part, I think most of us have been like that when we just started out, newbies always want good and fast results. =) I still flex facing the mirror every couple of sets.

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Added on January 12, 2011, 10:46 pmI think I give out that look very often. I don't like people disturbing me and asking me about diet and "what exercise should I do to get big" kind of stuff, most of the time its the same generic question and it makes me lose my pump. I just on my ipod and blast away, unless I go there with my training partners then its a different story.

This post has been edited by John91: Jan 12 2011, 10:46 PM

LOL..hit the nail on the head there..guess we both are irritated by the same thing because of our age..

one almost consistent trend is the group of 5 will slowly dwindle down until theres none left in about 3months..

I think I know who you're talking about.


I wear singlets to the gym. Cause, really, the gym I go to is so hot pretty much all the time, and I'd turn into a human waterfall if I wore regular shirts.

I don't do the ego face, though.

This post has been edited by -Dan: Jan 13 2011, 01:04 AM

its not tat i'm against wearing singlets to gym.. but dun la oredi kurus kering and still wanna flex in the mirror putting on the "hey-look-at-my-darn-good-body" face

from the look of ur pic, u've got the goods to wear singlets man. nice bod, wide back..

This post has been edited by TrutHatHand: Jan 13 2011, 01:39 AM

+1
apparently i am the only one who brings a towel to wipe my sweat and i get the "wtf you doing stares" from everyone else at my company gym..

This post has been edited by VinluV: Jan 13 2011, 02:02 AM

hey hey hey! i wear my bball gear to gym too! but at least i fill up my jersey . i agree with dan, if i wear anything other than sleeveless shirts and moisture absorbing material even my towel would be too wet to wipe away the sweat. once i wore a cotton shirt during leg day and the gym ran out of small towels i ended my routine TOTALLY drenched in sweat. i might as well have not worn a shirt that day =.="

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Added on January 13, 2011, 2:57 amGVT training. 10x10 with a minute rest in between. im about to start on the program so i'll tell you how it goes in a few weeks . i'll still do my squats and RDL's though..

This post has been edited by mikehuan: Jan 13 2011, 02:57 AM

yeah i know about GVT, but all he does is bench presses and shoulder presses

One pet peeve is folks hogging an equipment - especially for the wrong purpose. Sitting at the bench press equipment and doing seated curls. Just one of the reasons why I train at home.

i was wondering... how much does it cost to buy a complete set of home gym euipments?

For me, really want to bloody kill those idiots who..

1. Do not put the weights back. I mean, really. You are here to lift weights, right. So, do you know by carrying the weight back and put it back the rack, you still doing some muscle flexing and building. No reason to say, lazy. Then what the hell are you lifting weight for. IDIOTS.

2. At peak hour, the locker are jam pack. I really don't mind people standing around the steam room and all. What really boil me is those IDIOTS that sit on the bench, playing with their phone and god knows what...sitting there while everybody is trying to get dress up around him and wanted more space. Sorry, this people are not IDIOTS....they are DUMB!!

3.What is the thing with all these throwing weights? Really, what? I don't get it. They think they draw attention to them that they are great lifting such heavy weights. To me, they are ***** and weak. How i see it, that you can't even have the strength to put the weights on the floor and have to let it go. So, you are bloody weak FOOL for lifting such heavy weights.

4.How many dumb bell do one need? They are people who has few dumb bell around his bench. I mean, how many hands do you have. This is not a bloody race of how many weight you can lift at one seating. You lift one weight, put it down, carry it back, take another weight back to the bench. How bloody difficult it is. By doing this, you may even get some cardio done in your bloody body instead of sitting on the bench surrounded with dumb bells, admiring it, thinking other are impress with it. Dumb bells are not girls....more dumb bells you have, the dumber you get.

YES EXACTLY!

Those group usually only c them once or twice, probably on trial membership. But still, they are annoying

i got a lot here in mantin town/nilai area. came in groups and just fooling around inside the gym, making noise

Feels like throwing them dumbell sometimes =.=

huhuh. dont la sampai macam it. here in mantin i got to bare with lotsa of foreigner and i tell you the smell is sometimes cannot tahan one. most of them x bawak towel to wipe their sweat. adoiyaiii

I don't have numbers, but it's definitely costly to buy new.
For home training, you need to consider space too, so "more is not necessarily better". I say keep it simple and stick to the basic: squat racks with safety bars, a bench, adjustable dumbbells, several bars and plenty of weight plates. Add maybe a chinning bar. You could do many exercises that target all muscle groups with those.
If you're handy with DIY projects, you could even build your own equipment.
Try to find and buy used weight plates. Even the heavily rusted plates can be cleaned and refinished easily.

Oh you stay in mantin? I think my uni is quite near your place, I study at Nottingham. I thought mantin is like some small town with a lot of orchards.

i dont like people staring me down. if you''ve just finished your set next to me, you're just sitting up looking around catching a breather its fine... or maybe ur just staring blankly but not really seeing due to post-set brainfuzz... i understand. but dont deliberately stand next to me watching me soooo obviously (especially certain girls who tend to give me that disgusted look), whispering behind ur hands with ur friends and pointing/gesturing at me.


not putting back weights.... its tolerable. i generally dont mind the loading and unloading, or picking up a 30lb here n there..... UNLESS you leave 400lbs for me to get rid off. shame on you, needing a girl to help you put it back!

wah john where u stay? i work here in legenda college

+1

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This post has been edited by LadyVanity: Jan 13 2011, 02:27 PM

why do people get annoyed with young, skinny guys? besides the hogging of equipment I see nothing wrong with youngsters hanging around. No one was born in a athletic body, no one is born a gym expert. They are just learning, we were all like that once.

Nothing really bothers me at the gym. Maybe when I see people on the treadmill going no faster than a snails pace. I always wonder, whats the point?

Gym near schools/colleges/universities have these type of problems I guess.

I stay in Cheras but I'm in Semenyih half of the time.

nothing wrong with skinny dude or buff dude inside the gym. its what they did when they in it, etiquette. gym is a place to workout and yes you can mix around but there's some who just went to gym and playing around. i'm damn skinny when i 1st enter gym btw

izzit. damn baru nak join ur training

worse when the gym is full with black ppl

This post has been edited by zaxxshoxx: Jan 13 2011, 02:34 PM

Today I had the funniest and quite bizarre training session, ever.

There was this rather portly chap warming up. With his leg on the EZ/straight bars stack. He was wearing a pair of gaudy Oakley knockoffs, the ones with the rainbow-tinged lenses, whilst wearing the dreadful Crocs. He then proceeded to jump up and down like a little bunny rabbit while performing boxing moves that would make Manny Pacquio convulse in fear. He goes right into heavy dumbbell curls where the first and last rep he would squeak. And he would do the squeaking on the first and last rep for every exercise he did.

He was the most oblivious, most vainglorious and most comedic person I've seen in the gym. All the posturing after completing a set was comedy gold. He even tried to copy my method of pushing up the weights by using the legs. It was hilarious because he couldn't do it. His entire regime was amazingly thoughtless; bicep curls, shoulder presses, one-arm rows, leg press, t-bar rows. In that order. Now, before you call me a busybody, I am an observant fellow yet this time I wish I wasn't. It was just unfortunate that he and I were at the right place, right time.

Yet, he put back the weights. Didn't drop them excessively. Heck, he even had good form on the one-arm rows. The only gripe? He kept shadow boxing right next to me!

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Added on January 13, 2011, 3:17 pmPost-set brainfuzz gives me a short license to check out other people.

It's about courtesy, really. Leaving heavy weights on the floor or machines is just plain insensitive. It affects us all.

On a side note, there was this white girl doing Crossfit-like exercises in the gym. Judging from her body, they are pretty effective. Tee hee.

Damn, I sound like some perverted geriatric.

This post has been edited by mcbarney666: Jan 13 2011, 03:17 PM

Lol. Don't mad at those skinny looking at mirrors for more than 5mins. They may just trying to motivate themselves.

tbh, the lighting and mirrors makes it easiest to see any new muscle definitions improvements at the gym versus at home more so when you just work out that part of the muscle. or don't tell me only buffs people has the privilege? but abs flashing when there are no girls around is just gay...srsly.

Kinda negative topic dontcha think?
complaining so much. Lol
i'd prefer a "What should be done in the gym" instead of what shdnt be done.

1) People helping each other. Seeing others attempting heavy sets, another fella who isnt his friend offers to spot.

2) Notice people actually putting weights back.

actually, too many stuffs that are done right just that I seldom notice. only once in a while there are some inconsiderate fellas. but those stuff happens only like... once out of 30 times.

I'll be more than glad to spot anyone who needs a hand in the gym. But sometimes, people might get offended, believe me some of them actually do. The reason why I would help is because I ask for alot of help too, especially to spot squats. Most of the time the spotter is just back there standing counting my reps which helps me get rid my psychological fears.

This post has been edited by shanecross: Jan 13 2011, 06:57 PM

shane, any tips on telling people how to spot correctly? most of the time when i ask random people to spot me, they do half the work. i tell them less support, and they reduce their help by a fraction. bleh, totally lost my focus by then. the bigger the weights, the more force they put in!

No 1 pissess me off no end.. i'm not your maid.. you don't have a maid following you around and cleanining after you.. put the weights back where it belongs.. on the racks.. Fitness first puts this poster right above the rack "Strong enough to carry the weight, Strong enough to put it back" unfortunately most people who go there are illiterate i think.. still leaving weights all over the place.. and as usually train without my spectacles.. i can never see where it is grr...

No 3 grates on me the most.. i think what you say has just said all... just to add i work out at FF empire and the weights area is on a platform.. already they had to do some thing to the weights area a few weeks back.. i wish one day the platform will collapse when one of these idiots throw down their weights and we'll see what happens..

No 4 is basically like no 1. it shows no respect to you fellow gym goers... this is not your private gym assholes...

and the worse thing? all the the above being done by some of the PT working in the gym...

must share2 knowledge together..

Now I am doing supersets + dropsets, so I usually grab a lot of dumbbell and barbell for my own usage, of course the gym got less ppl at that time =P

I know right , especially for shoulder presses and benchpress. Lol, can't be helped. Thats the perks of having training partners. Or just ask the biggest guy in the gym. He "should" know how to spot properly.

that... understandable.
ive seen this pt hog a whole range of dbs.... from 5lb - 20lb. i needed to use the 10s. =.= so had to wait.

another tak tahan moment.... this was at my old gym....
i was supersetting pecdec flyes with db flyes. i just completed my 2nd set. this fella was standing nearby watching me. the moment i got off the pec dec to the bench behind it where my dbs were.... this fella hopped onto it, did one set...... and then sat there for a good period of time yakking on his handphone. =.= and you'd think he'd get the gist that i was doing two exercises back to back after watching me do the 2 sets and would need BOTH stations.... bye bye superset.

same.i finished my db row immediately go for machine row,that was 1 fella waiting after i finished my set,he sat down ,and keep rowing like no tomorrow,then he rest and breathing on the rowing machine,bye bye my superset

LOL, luckily gym members at Ultimate Gym is friendly enough, I might just tell them, mind letting me continue or finish off? I left X sets with a smiling face


Stand there and ask him how many sets left? Hint him LOL!

irritates me to no end. i usually take a lighter weight nowadays and do it myself. at least my last set doesnt feel like a warm up set. but usually if someone occupies some bench/machine that you need why not ask if they could share? usually people do give in. i know i would.

for me its weird individuals, they are:

1)this guy who brings his macbook pro into the free weights area
2)this guy on his mp3 singing like he's in the shower
3)this over promoting PT trying to sell his service while backstabbing/degrading other PTs
4)this guy who chats up every girl in the gym
5)this guy who jumps in between your set to prove he's stronger than you
6)this aunty who wears 'close to nothing' at the gym

the 6 "KINGS & QUEENS " at my gym

lol actually this thread turned into some rant thread

but good also, it reminds us what NOT TO DO in gym

ah..about the supersetting thing..

i was doing close grip bench presses on the bench with preacher curls(tris-bis)

after im done with my bench press i moved to my preachers..2 reps in and this guy hops onto the bench and starts using it(fine can share)

after my set i politely told him im actually using the bench as well so do im fine with sharing it..hes reply.."NOBODY needs 2 equipments to work out at the same time"

ME:

since i was halfway through my routine i was like f it..took the weights from his bar and moved it to the smith machine..sigh..

every member should be understandable enough to not to doing some superset or multiple equipment dropsets on peak hours.

and there was funny dude who can do 1.5 bodyweight squat for 1.30 hours (rest 5mins or so every set) in my gym and do it for like 3 times a week. Funny things is he tried to explain how good is the squat workout to every persons who pass by. lol.

This reminds me of something. I have a friend who came to the gym once (literally just once), did some warm ups, stretching, etc. At first I thought he was serious and would start training. Instead, he sat down and took out a PSP from his bag, and stared playing. By the time I finished my workout, he was still there, still playing.

Strange you mention FF Empire. I only went there twice and it really piss me off. You're right, the weight section is on a platform and there are time, some ******* throw the weight, it shakes the platform. Really damn inconsiderate. Once, I shouted at them, "come on"...then only they realize what they are doing is causing irritation rather than admiration.

And no joke to you, the whole weight section is filled with dumb bells on the floor. It was impossible to navigate around and finding the weight you want is a damn chore. I once told a PT there, what is all these. 60% of the floor was filled with dumb bells and he just look at me, pretending not to understand what i say.

Go to FF axis or MBF...these two clubs has more professional people and they are more considerate.

i heard hanging around weight plates and db's makes you buffed

People talking to you when you're in the middle of a set.

I had a guy come up to me in the middle of cable crossovers and extend his hand to shake mine, then when I didn't respond, he waited and watched me, like really stared me in the face until I finished. He spoke to me for a good 15 mins, by this time I was totally out of the zone.

Now I'm reminded about a story my mate told me. Some idiot who while doing bench press would scream 'yes, I'm an animal' then his friends/cheerleaders would say back to him 'you're an animal'. After his set he would stomp around the weights area saying to random people 'I'm an animal'. Ridiculous! serious issues. f***, you couldn't make it up.

This post has been edited by CargoCult: Jan 14 2011, 01:23 PM

Err, when it comes to bench, I'll just tell them when I say spot only spot. .or else just stand behind. Its actually a risk doing that but it kinda works. Squats, I ask them to grab my hips (sounds homo but thats how to do it) when I say spot. You should be able to know actually when you are about to get crushed. Hope that helps

seriously.....
i was taught/told by a bber friend to flex after i completed my set...
n yes, i am skinny...las time i was skinny, then fatty, now skinny again....LoL

i've seen people doing that for squats, looks really uncomfortable + homo. I thought you can just drop it on the safety bars ?

This post has been edited by shiloong7081: Jan 14 2011, 03:27 PM

Well yeah you could drop it on the safety bar, but I still prefer to complete that rep rather than just racking it on the SB.

Yeah budday! Everyone should get into this new technique!

where to find no 6??

what annoys me?
1)some noobs(fat+skinny) lepaking at the benchpress lifting 5lbs grunting and flex in front of the mirror for nobody knows why.
2)Some frens that are too lazy to workout but keep bothering you the whole time. Shouldnt have introduced them to gym!
3)the bench is movable but make sure to put it back to its place!
4)tapau all the dbs just to check which one suits them better but the rest of the dbs left un-used.
5)i dont mind advice and tips but..dont nag me all day long . I need privacy too!
6)Guys..please dont wear short tights! i have a couple of "those" too!

i'll give this a try, thanks man.

good one , hahahahaha

not even on leg day??
awww....

lol, compared to those basketball uniform dude, i think those shorts are ok just dun keep staring at it XD

I'd rather go with the basketball jerseys. Better to have something big and loose that doesn't bring attention to any part, than something tight that only accentuates certain bumps.

lol, most of the big fella in my gym did tat XD, but ofcoz if those two doesnt exist is still the best XD

those 2? lol... popular indeed arent they? lol,


to add on:

Stop staring when I'm only getting started with 1 set... ask if u want to share.. dont wait for me to ask... because i wont!

This post has been edited by kaspersky-fan: Jan 16 2011, 11:52 PM

This always happen in gym toilet, a lot fat aunties walking around half naked, not sure what they want to show.

well its changing room dear wat u expect ??

Tell me about it bro lol.

ya true... its culture shock at first but when u really think about it there r only 4-6 curtained cubicles in the changing room... and at peak hour possibly 50+ women in the gym. especially my gym where there r no hooks or rails in the showers to hang ur clothes and stuff. so instead of waiting long queues... be a lil thick skinned and just take it off all over the place. all the same anyways, i got u also got.... nothing to see~

well msian still abit conservative on dis ..but after a while theyll get use to it..

But some are more pleasing to the eys.. LOL.. *perf alert*

u mean menz ??

my gym now has a rubber like platform not unlike the one in FF Empire. Its great, very stable. but now every now and then when i reach for db's i get a static shock zzz. almost everyone in my gym gets that now lol. really makes your workout interesting.

That'll wake you up for a heavy set.

Reading on some of the posts here, can definitely relate them to those in my gym. I think it's safe to say that every gym has a few guys here and there that comes in to put on a show rather than to do anything more useful. I know I'm still a long way from achieving anything but just because you boys are thin as a stick, doesn't mean taking off your shirt , holding on to weights that you can barely stand still with will make you any more macho. Can never quite get them.

Dont keep pressing when you feel uncomfortable....
Last time attend the rpm class a guy vormit on the halfway and make the class canceled...

wow ROFL! truly hardcore haha

Maybe he didn't know ma. Perhaps he was pushing to his best and suddenly he ate too much for that day and too short duration before he started gymming. Hence the nausea. Once i got dizzy after finish pushing for cycling class. Almost fell off the seat but maintained until everyone's off the class. Remember to eat something 1.5 - 2 hours before gym.

ditto. had to cut short my leg day today, didnt allow enough time for food to digest, got nauseous after halfway in the routine.

Haha, can't relate much here as I work out at home.. but every now and then, I go back to Penang and hit the condo's gym there.

These two guys in there were using 20 dumbbells, and left every thing lying on the floor. Using whatever dumbbells they felt like for whatever exercise they were doing. Best part of all? They brought their own huge a$$ radio player in the gym, listening to Celine Dion's Power Of Love.

hye guy or adult, noob at gym or stuff bout gym
orait here the question
i wanted to focus on SHAPE , STRENGTHEN , make it bigger of my TRICEP, 4 arm , shoulder , harmstring
what exercise in gym that has it?

This post has been edited by jasoc: Feb 8 2011, 10:21 PM

hye guy or adult, i `m 14 yrs old & noob at gym or stuff bout gym
orait here the question
i wanted to focus on SHAPE , STRENGTHEN , make it bigger of my TRICEP, 4 arm , shoulder , harmstring
the shape & make it muscular is MY CHEST THAT HAS MAN BOOB , my ass (glutes)
so another question what is the exercise in the gym that help me get rid of my man boob or flatted it ?
& what kind of exercise that i shud not perform or even perform (bout man boob problem)
p/s all kind of the exercise can be found in gym kah?

Jaya 33?
i think i took the class aftr that incident.... damn smelly. delay 30 mins cos they were wiping up puke... the entire class was pretty much hell due to the lingering puke smell.

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Added on February 9, 2011, 2:14 amwrong thread guys
try reading the stickies on the top of the page, and post in the bodybuilding v8 thread.

This post has been edited by LadyVanity: Feb 9 2011, 02:14 AM

tnx

Power of Love!? u got to record a video of this.i got to see it.

I hate it when some fellas book different sets of dumbbells with different weights when they aren't using all of them at the same time

There's bloody perv at Fitness First, Menara Axis. He touched not once but twice last Saturday. He came at me after a set of deadlifts and a set of shrugs. He's a short, fat, Chinese man who I think is retarded. Be careful, lads.

worse some dumbos didnt even put it back to the rack after using/ never use em'
thought they are damn cool leaving that weight area just like that.

it has been mentioned b4, but i realise tat it annoys me a lot when some1 did it in the gym yesterday...

dun throw the dumbbells down and dun slam the weights down on the machine!!!

Sometimes it is unavoidable you know...

if its unavoidable we would know it. some of the guys purposely throw em down with force. ive seen it done with 10kg db's. really?

ya...i know sometimes it's unavoidable...especially since my office gym is mainly for guys not in shape...
but, to do the slammin followed by flex in the mirror to c the bump...sigh...
like telling ppl to "LOOK HERE"