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Anyone who looks down on someone who is trying their best on a treadmill, or lifting weights, is a complete tool. Also, nakedness in a changing room is to be expected, naked men don't bother me as I am a naked man for quite a lot of my life.

 

My gym annoyances

 

1) People using mobile phones in the gym, this is dangerous. If your phone goes off at the wrong time it could put someone lifting a heavy weight above their head in danger. The ban on them should be enforced by the employees at the gym.

 

2) Groaners. People shouting and straining like a tennis player when lifting weights. You don't need to shout, you just need to breathe out.

 

3) People who socialise in the gym to the detriment of other users. Groups of friends chatting whilst hogging a bench is an example.

 

4) Girls who wear inappropriate clothing to the gym. I was shoulder pressing about a week ago when an attractive girl came into view in my mirror. Her clothes were so tight that I could see nipple and vagina. Obviously, this put me off and I almost dropped a dumbbell.

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Pure Gym Millhouses was a good gym from Oct 13 to Jan 14 then I saved the subs by buying some good heavy cast iron Kettlebells and a very large gym Matt.

 

I worked hard in the gym but my god, the Kettlebell stuff is evil! It's good for conditioning if your body is buggered too. Read up on them, Read up on Pavel, Strong First, SFG, Dragon Door, RKC and never need a gym again....

 

having said that, if you meet up with folk in there the gym is a good place to meet and I suppose if you are in there having a chin wag for 2 hours you are going to be able to vary the intensity. Anyone who goes to a gym to go flat out can be done in 30 to 45 minutes easy, so perhaps you can say the ladies chin wagging have done that in a less intense elongated 2 hour session.... :D

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To the op, you're everything I hate in a gym.everyone is there for their own reasons . Not to please you. They're not their to be judged , rated or frowned on. If you see a fat person in a gym, don't mock. They're actively trying to get the weight off. if someone is walking slow they may have an injury. The industry needs to encourage new members, of they found out they were being judged and mocked then no new members ultimately leads to no gyms.

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To the op, you're everything I hate in a gym.everyone is there for their own reasons . Not to please you. They're not their to be judged , rated or frowned on. If you see a fat person in a gym, don't mock. They're actively trying to get the weight off. if someone is walking slow they may have an injury. The industry needs to encourage new members, of they found out they were being judged and mocked then no new members ultimately leads to no gyms.

 

My thoughts exactly. If people use the equipment for only 10 minutes it's still better than not using it at all. The worst kinds of people who use the gym - the gym fascists, you might say, are those who look down on everyone else.

 

 

Folks exercising and using their mobile. Folks coming in, staying for 10 mins and then leaving.

Folks just sat on equipment and not using it. Folks on the treadmill walking at snails pace, what's the point !

I enjoy my session, plenty of effort, pulse rate up and a smile at what's going on about me.

 

There's more than a touch of narcissism here: why doesn't everyone work out like me? It's a little tragic really.

 

I sometimes use a mobile phone in Pure Gym, to listen to music, because the guff they pump out of the speakers is so awful. I don't swing weights around while changing tracks, I don't dangle the headphones around, and don't use it near any equipment where it might cause a problem.

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Folks exercising and using their mobile. Folks coming in, staying for 10 mins and then leaving.

Folks driving up and parking in the disabled bays, they aren't disabled i.e. no badge.

Folks just sat on equipment and not using it. Folks on the treadmill walking at snails pace, what's the point !

I enjoy my session, plenty of effort, pulse rate up and a smile at what's going on about me.

 

When I am able to exercise (which isn't at the moment, for injury and disability reasons) I walk on the treadmill because I can't run. My back and hips don't cope with me running and whatever I do I can only do for a few minutes at a time before my feet go dead and I have to sit and wait for the feeling to come back between exercises.

 

Walking slowly up a big hill on a treadmill can burn just as many calories and work out the heart just as much as running on the flat you know, but with less joint pressure.

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Anyone who looks down on someone who is trying their best on a treadmill, or lifting weights, is a complete tool. Also, nakedness in a changing room is to be expected, naked men don't bother me as I am a naked man for quite a lot of my life.

 

My gym annoyances

 

1) People using mobile phones in the gym, this is dangerous. If your phone goes off at the wrong time it could put someone lifting a heavy weight above their head in danger. The ban on them should be enforced by the employees at the gym.

 

2) Groaners. People shouting and straining like a tennis player when lifting weights. You don't need to shout, you just need to breathe out.

 

3) People who socialise in the gym to the detriment of other users. Groups of friends chatting whilst hogging a bench is an example.

 

4) Girls who wear inappropriate clothing to the gym. I was shoulder pressing about a week ago when an attractive girl came into view in my mirror. Her clothes were so tight that I could see nipple and vagina. Obviously, this put me off and I almost dropped a dumbbell.

 

 

 

DISGUSTING !!!!!

 

Which gym was this at?

 

So I know which gym not to join

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That's ridiculous, the treadmill has walking speed for a reason.

Yeah, it's the speed between stop and run, the laws of physics sort of demand it.

Anybody should be able to use the gym for whatever use the gym allows. If it's too busy, regardless of who is doing what exercise then go at a different time.

 

The point of a gym is to improve fitness, and if someone can only walk on a treadmill and it is improving their fitness then it is good for them. There is nothing stopping them walking outside no, but there is nothing stopping you running outside.

 

And for the record, I'd often use my phone while running on the treadmill...changing songs, doing whatever...it's not affecting anybody else if I'm using the machine and my phone at the same time, I could be operating a fitness app, a heart rate app, anything...it's nobody else's business.

Didn't say anything about that. I've used my phone to track the run, although at the end it said I hadn't moved :suspect:

 

As I say, if somebody else getting fit in a way that they feel comfortable with is affecting your schedule, do what everybody else does...go when it's less busy. If they've paid their money they have just as much right to be there and use the machines as anybody else.

 

I don't go to the gym anymore, there's never a queue for the pavement and the scenery is better.

 

---------- Post added 09-03-2014 at 09:31 ----------

 

Really?

 

What about people who have conditions making it difficult for them to run or are seriously overweight and trying to do something about it.

 

Unfair comment imo.

 

I'd bet that they've driven to the gym... They could have saved a monthly membership by just walking to the gym and home again.

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Yeah, it's the speed between stop and run, the laws of physics sort of demand it.

Didn't say anything about that. I've used my phone to track the run, although at the end it said I hadn't moved :suspect:

 

I don't go to the gym anymore, there's never a queue for the pavement and the scenery is better.

 

The laws of physics don't demand that the manufacturer programs a setting to allow people to continue at this pace though does it? Whilst it would need to reach (and pass) walking speed, it doesn't need to stay there. If treadmills were only for running then the bottom setting would be say 5 mph.

 

A case in point would be an airliner. These are obviously not designed to travel at walking speed and have pre-set "cruising" speeds built in. So, whilst the plane would need to travel past walking speed (the laws of physics demand it) to reach a pre-set speed, you can't pre-set a plane to travel at 1 mph.

 

I can probably, based on the law of averages run better than you. I am a well above average, though not an excellent, runner. Should I look down and sneer at the speeds or distance you run? Or, if you are better than me, can we band together and sneer at average runners. Relativity is important.

 

Recently I have taken to running at the steepest incline at a slow pace, instead of pounding along at a high speed for half hour. I find this much harder as it is training that my body hasn't adapted to and particularly taxes my legs and lower back. Would you judge me for "being slow"?

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Anyone using a mobile in any gym should have their membership cancelled.

 

I go to Nuffield Health and there's a swimming pool. Three lanes, slow, medium, fast. You'd be STAGGERED as to the number of members (literally) who either can't read or consider themselves above such regulations. There's an elderly chap - good for him! - who walks in any lane he chooses! Then there are the ladies who decide the deep end (hardly deep but never mind) is the best place to have a little natter between themselves totally oblivious to anyone who actually wants to swim.

 

I also use this pool and I agree with everything you have said.

There are also women who decide to do an excruciatingly slow backstroke in the middle lane. Which I find almost offensive, especially when it is busy. It is just an extremely selfish way of stopping a lane working and preventing everyone else from maintaining their speed.

 

I get annoyed by people who are in front of me, then as they approach the end of the lane they veer off to the other side as if they are the only one in the pool and are getting ready to return. You should keep dead straight until you reach the wall. As a fast swimmer may want to overtake you in the turn.

 

There are also a few women who never get their hair or face wet.

And several men who have such an inefficient breast stroke that they are cutting their speed by half by ducking their heads under water and spreading their hands as wide as they will go in the lane. This causes them to get tired very quickly and a massive bow wave like a ship is coming.

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I also use this pool and I agree with everything you have said.

There are also women who decide to do an excruciatingly slow backstroke in the middle lane. Which I find almost offensive, especially when it is busy. It is just an extremely selfish way of stopping a lane working and preventing everyone else from maintaining their speed.

 

I get annoyed by people who are in front of me, then as they approach the end of the lane they veer off to the other side as if they are the only one in the pool and are getting ready to return. You should keep dead straight until you reach the wall. As a fast swimmer may want to overtake you in the turn.

 

There are also a few women who never get their hair or face wet.

And several men who have such an inefficient breast stroke that they are cutting their speed by half by ducking their heads under water and spreading their hands as wide as they will go in the lane. This causes them to get tired very quickly and a massive bow wave like a ship is coming.

 

 

Simple solution to that one, put your hand on their face and shove it underwater

 

When they get back up to vent off steam (after they stopped choking on the water) just say you were doing front crawl and never saw them

 

Its then 6 of one of half dozen of the other

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Anyone who looks down on someone who is trying their best on a treadmill, or lifting weights, is a complete tool. Also, nakedness in a changing room is to be expected, naked men don't bother me as I am a naked man for quite a lot of my life.

 

My gym annoyances

 

1) People using mobile phones in the gym, this is dangerous. If your phone goes off at the wrong time it could put someone lifting a heavy weight above their head in danger. The ban on them should be enforced by the employees at the gym.

 

2) Groaners. People shouting and straining like a tennis player when lifting weights. You don't need to shout, you just need to breathe out.

 

3) People who socialise in the gym to the detriment of other users. Groups of friends chatting whilst hogging a bench is an example.

 

4) Girls who wear inappropriate clothing to the gym. I was shoulder pressing about a week ago when an attractive girl came into view in my mirror. Her clothes were so tight that I could see nipple and vagina. Obviously, this put me off and I almost dropped a dumbbell.

 

i agree with 1-3 BUT 4:)) THATS WHAT MOTIVATES ME TO GO:hihi:

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My gym pet hate: people using the weights I want with a 3 inch ROM. No one's impressed by a guy lifting weights far too heavy for him, bringing them about a mile from their chest and calling it a rep. Also, people loading a bar and getting a poor spotter to do bent over rows on their chest because they can't even lift half of what they've loaded.

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