Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Top Ten Gym Pet Peeves

Besides the usual stuff such as those don't utilize cleaning products for equipment or their body:
  1. Guys who come in the locker room with muddy boots.  They dismounted from the bulldozer in the parking lot and then apparently came directly in the locker room.
  2. Phone campers.  They come into the locker room and just spend their time looking at their phone and not working out.  The majority seem to be teenagers without data plans.
  3. The people that are oblivious anyone would want to work in on the same equipment. Watching TV, playing with their phone.
  4. Guys that spend an inordinate amount of time naked in the locker room.  Blow drying their junk on the hand dryers, baby powdering their crotch, having a conversation on peace in the Middle East while in the buff.
  5. Guys that want to have a 30 minute conversation about sports in the locker room at 7am.  I want to take a shower in peace in the morning.
  6. Seeing Post Malone videos every half hour on TV.  We get it; you're a young, hip gym trying to drive out retirees that come there every day for two hours
  7. Bad water fountains:  Low water pressure, room temperature water.  This is something that is cheap to provide.  This only makes me think you're trying to nickel and dime me for cold, bottled water or you have planned for no maintenance of the facility.
  8. People who use the cable crossover machine to do tricep pushdowns.  That's what the tricep pushdown station two feet away is for!!
  9. Any rule that is based on what you're wearing/fashion.  You seriously risk having employees enforcing these rules arbitrarily and then coming off as targeting one group or another.
  10. People who bring big gym bags along on their workout:  Besides mixing shakes like a traveling special forces barista, they use their bag to lay claim to some piece of equipment and then mysteriously disappear. 
And this, keeping, or at least inhibiting, anyone from giving form tips:

So that the lady hyperextending her legs on the press doesn't permanently turn into one of the backwards knee aliens from "The Arrival." No not "Arrival." "The Arrival."



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