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

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

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.