The Azzholes were out in full force yesterday.

[megadave]

I'd like to believe that most people @ the gym are decent people who adhere, at least somewhat to gym etiquitte. And for the most part they do, except for noobies not putting the weights away. If I see someone looking at whatever I'm using I ask if they're waiting for it and offer to let them work in. It's just the decent thing to do, afterall it's not MY gym.

Well, yesterday must have been azzhole wednesday b/c I've never seen or experienced it to this degree.

Scenario 1
Supersetting preacher curls and tricep press downs (which happen to be 3 small rooms apart). I set up for curls and go to check the tricep pressdown stn to see if it's in use. There are two guys using it, doing some sort of underhand grip on a straight bar extension, I'm not exactly sure what for. So I return to my preacher curl and bang out set 1. Then I quickly go back to the press downs. Now the same two guys have the rope on it and are doing extensions, so they're obviously going to be on it for a while. I stand by.

When they break I ask I politely ask how many sets they have left. The guy answers "3 for me, 3 for him". Then I ask the next question "Mind if I work in". The greasy twirp looks at me and ROLLS HIS EYES and says "...I guess so". I'm in SHOCK. DID that JUST happen. Is someone that ignorant. I stood there holding a metal bar, trying desparately not to react or bash his arrogant little head in.

Scenario 2
Just finished my 2nd set on the tricep press downs. I return to bang out my last set of preacher curls when low and behold someone is sitting on there, doing 1 arm db curls. My bar is still there, my towel and water bottle beside it. I walk behind him, and crouch down to grab my water as to not block his mirror view (cause that's just rude, don't come between a man and his mirror). I sit down on teh bench beside him. He's doing sets of 20+ on the first arm. Then he switches arms. I continue to stand by. He finally raps up his set, then sits there resting on the bench. So I lean over and cheerfully say "I've only got 1 set left then it's all yours". He looks at me, ROLLS HIS EYES and tosses his head around like a 13 yr old girl would if you told her to clean her room then gets off the station. Again, disbelief on my part.

Scenario 3
I'm doing close grip bench which is in the middle of the room. Beside me is the preacher curl, which soemone is using. There's a guy standing a few feet behind the preacher curl doing standing curls. A guy on teh far side of the room walks towrards them. Instead of walking behind the guy doing standing curls he stands there. There is not enough room to pass between the guy doing curls and the guy on the preacher curl. The ass waits for the standing guy to lower the bar on the downstroke and in mid rep walks past, causing the guy to have to stop, or else hit him with the barbell. The standing curl guy just drops the barbell and yells "THANKS FOR WAITING AZZHOLE"....

Have u ever seen such ignorance.

[TRAZ]

This is why I work out at home......geez!

[woody350ep]

ridiculous, thats why i now workout at home as well

[t_dot_porkchop]

when i am bigger, i will put those losers in their place....lol

although i am already bigger than most and dont do anything....

[megadave]

Originally Posted by t_dot_porkchop

when i am bigger, i will put those losers in their place....lol

although i am already bigger than most and dont do anything....

It's never the big guys that are rude IME. These guys were ~130 lbs a piece, wearing tank tops to boot. I was probably curling more than they bench.

[TrainedMind]

sigh..Dang NOOBS!

[SalientBeing]

I tend to avoid situations like that but changing the way I superset bi's and tri's. If I'm going to do preacher curls for bi's then I wil bring some dumbells over and do kickbacks right there at the curl bench. If I want to do tricep press downs I'll do biceps on the cable machine too. That way I stay in the same area.

But even if I did it the other way I wouldn't put up with someone getting on my bench if my towel is there. If you're in my seat.....you're moving....period.

[hrpiii]

Originally Posted by t_dot_porkchop

when i am bigger, i will put those losers in their place....lol

although i am already bigger than most and dont do anything....

I am bigger, and I do put them in there place And when someone works in with me, I make them change all the weight for them, and then back to what I had it.

[gym-junkie]

the thing that really gets my goat are the guys who leave weights out when they're finished. theres 2 muppets who go to the gym on a sunday evening who think nothing of leaving 6 sets of dumbells out. usually a few loud sarcastic comments do the trick, but guys in there 30's shouldn't have to be told to put stuff away

[krenalor]

I am with Traz, just set-up my smith machine. My new smith machine allows 610 pounds of weight and user can weight 300 on the bench I have, perfect for a long time.
Have free weights, and a Sears weight machine. To bad leg press is only 248 pounds maximum on the Sears machine, I do them one legged.

[dobermaxx69]

Originally Posted by TRAZ

This is why I work out at home......geez!

right on...

[tryin2gain]

Originally Posted by megadave

Have u ever seen such ignorance.

I have, and usually do on a daily basis. You see, i dont go to a weight room, i go to a "fitness center." Sound like one in the same, but they are very different. People who go to a fitness center have no idea of "weightroom etiquette" (i use the phrase often, and was pleased to see you included it in your post).

Common weightroom etiquette is allowing someone to work in with you if they need to use the machine you are on. Its not a big deal, and it gives you a nice rest period in between sets, and saves everyone time in the long run (eventually you need to work in with someone, might as well pay it forward).

The problem is, the people at the fitness center usually have their new years resolutions and so they go on the treadmill or bike for an hour. But eventually they make their way over to the machines. They do a set, sit there for 5 minutes, do another set, etc. Its very annoying. I usually leave the machine in between sets so i can work another muscle. Im ashamed to say i have begun sitting on my machines because i know if i get up and someone else takes it, theres no hope of me getting it back, and less hope of being able to work in with them.

Just today my friend and i wanted to use the flat bench. Two guys were using it (and doing very little weight, which always makes me chuckle, cause im a small guy so its not often people lift so much less than me). We asked if we could work in with them, and they were dumbfounded by this amazing concept. I could see it on their faces that they had never been asked that question before.

Another thing that REALLY bugs me about nubs in the weightroom, they never put back their weights, and if they do, they dont put them back properly.

I cant count the number of times ive come to a curling bar with a dozen weights on it with clips on the sides, and no one is within a mile of it. I do a complete set of another workout and still nothing. Its around this time i realize no one is coming back for it. By the end of my workout its usually still there, and as a good member i put the weights away.

My friend and i also have a habit of organizing the weights for the fitness center. Not because we are picky, but because we HAVE to. Its a simple concept, each rack is labeled as to what amount of weight is supposed to go there. For example, when the number 45 appears, place the 45 pound plates there. But every other time we go to the weightroom, there are 35's buried under 45's, a bench or squat missing all of its 10's, and 25 pound plates randomly strewn across various other racks. It annoys me that so many people have total disregard for other people who want to use the weights after them that must now go on a wild goose chase to find the proper weights, all because they cant match up 2 numbers.

God ive been wanting to unleash that rant for weeks now, but my friend was the only one who could relate to it.

[Caferacer]

Originally Posted by tryin2gain

Common weightroom etiquette is allowing someone to work in with you if they need to use the machine you are on. Its not a big deal, and it gives you a nice rest period in between sets, and saves everyone time in the long run (eventually you need to work in with someone, might as well pay it forward).

The problem is, the people at the fitness center usually have their new years resolutions and so they go on the treadmill or bike for an hour. But eventually they make their way over to the machines. They do a set, sit there for 5 minutes, do another set, etc. Its very annoying. I usually leave the machine in between sets so i can work another muscle. Im ashamed to say i have begun sitting on my machines because i know if i get up and someone else takes it, theres no hope of me getting it back, and less hope of being able to work in with them.

I hear that... the fitness center I lift at on campus here there are only so many benches for free weights, so the towel-on-the-machine-means-it's-being-used rule is SACRED. You don't touch another person's towel unless you are sure they went the way of the fatty's 10 days after new years and split.

Hell letting people work in is fun. I was squatting at the same place yesterday, where there is only one rack suited to squats/push presses/ect and a guy asked if he could work in, turns out he lifted for a long while in India, until he moved over here for school and decided to take up lifting again. Twas good times. Now if only the gym bunnies would ask to work in

I have more funny stories then anything. There was this one kid who had kind of been shadowing me in the gym (God knows why, I'm not big) and asked to work in for squats. He tried the weight I was doing, and only got the reps out by going down 3-4 inches and back up. It was one of those things where you can almost hear his knees screaming in pain, but it's just too awkward to go 'dude, you suck at squats'.

There was one time, I swear 2 kids had at least 6 pairs of dumbells out, ranging from 15lbs up to 50lbs. I couldn't even tell what they were using them for, because they never lifted them! Just stood by them.

Down with fitness centers... I need to find one of those hole in the wall gyms down here where all the weights are rusted and 20 years old, and the guys that lift their eat babies for the PWO meal. Thats hardcore.

[hrpiii]

Originally Posted by Caferacer

There was one time, I swear 2 kids had at least 6 pairs of dumbells out, ranging from 15lbs up to 50lbs. I couldn't even tell what they were using them for, because they never lifted them! Just stood by them.

I had the same experience and kicked his DB's all over the gym and told him to pick them up. He looked at me like I had just killed his kitten. I told him he has two hands, so pick two DB's...else leave the rest racked for others to use. I saw a problem, addressed it, and now he's nice and speaks to others and is an okay kid. But you need to break them of bad habits early.