The squat rack is for squats, not curls.
Speedos.
Just. Don’t Go. There.
(Unless they are your shoes)
I don’t use equipment others use. I don’t want to be subjected to their stuff, and I don’t want to subject them to my stuff.
No one wants to see your gonads guys. Wear long pants.
0. PUT THE WEIGHTS BACK!!!
Very glad I have my own gym in what was our guest room now; Gold’s doesn’t even open until 5 AM and I’ve got my 5K run and half my one hour workout done by then.
skip the gym.
Never thought I’d be caught dead doing this but I’ve been doing this for 8 months. The only exercise I’ve even been able to stick to and see real results
start at any age. Build strength, flexibility, endurance plus cardio and it’s fun.
If your a guy with really long hair who bends over and spends 30 minutes drying it after you take your shower, put some clothing on first. At least some underwear.
(Based on a story from a good friend of mine.)
But there are so many characters with peculiar habits...gives the wife and I something to laugh about!
1). If there’s a serious lifter (you know who they are) working a station and you’re just doing 10-pound benches or sitting at the station ogling women, let the hulk work through. He’s serious about his regimen; you’re just there to fool yourself (and you know who you are).
2). Don’t vocalize. It’s okay to grunt and groan a little, but unless you’re pumping for Mr. O, nobody is impressed with a lot of ninja shouting.
3). Clean up after yourself. That means wiping down the equipment and reracking the weights. Nobody there is your maid.
My biggest gym petpeeve!
I've begun pushing them to the other end of the bench so the culprit begins to get the message.
If there is a lap pool outside the steam room, REFRAIN from using it as a nice, refreshing plunge to rinse away all your sweat before you head for the shower. Nothing like dumping all your sweat directly into someone else’s workout area (the folks swimming laps).
This is what I don’t get: I get a good amount of exercise through my job. I have always said I get paid to “work out” However at 56 it seems to be wearing me down rather than building me up. I haul a 150 pound sandblast tank around, I lift it onto and off of the truck up to 20 times a day. I pull out up to 450 feet of air hose and coil it back by hand. I do an immense amount of fast walking locating jobs (up to 20 mins a shot)Etc...
On Saturday you don’t believe the pain I’m in. Seriously. By Mon. morning I’m feeling bullet proof again.
The most important rule for men. NO naked Calisthenics in the steam room. seriously no one wants to see or hear that.
#1 - Don’t fart in the shower
This is news?
If you're on the machines, don't drop them at the end of your cycle. If you can't control them, see above.......
If you're doing dead lifts, don't drop them just to make the rest of the gym think you're a strong guy. You ease them down to get the most out of the exercise...........
If you are so self absorbed in your workout that you don't give a rat's ass about those around you, drop your weights at the back of the gym, not directly behind some person working out in front of you.......
I'm hoping for the day where I witness some muscle head doing bench presses after totally pissing off the rest of the gym with his dropping of the weights, and seeing some guy step up and add his body weight to the bar as the muscle head is doing his final rep............
Didn’t get down to the gym this morning.
That makes five years in a row.