Gym Equipment Hogs

[Daron_e]

I hate all that shit. I never thought I could lift at home..but I wanted to try... a couple grand later I will never go back to a commercial gym. The convenience, having my speakers blaring, wearing whatever, and waiting for no equipment really gets u spoiled lol.

 

[Rot-Iron66]

Great gym you got there!! I started my home gym back in 1978, and have always been a home-trainer, but always seem to alternate once in a while (if the gym is a good one). The gym itself is great, most people there are fine, always gonna be a few knuckleheads... Since working at home full-time over last few years, I mainly rejoined the local one to get out of my house a few times a week (I found I wasnt leaving the house for a fully week at a time before that, can get monotonous). Still use my home gym too of course...

 

[lifter6973]

Great gym you got there!! I started my home gym back in 1978, and have always been a home-trainer, but always seem to alternate once in a while (if the gym is a good one). The gym itself is great, most people there are fine, always gonna be a few knuckleheads... Since working at home full-time over last few years, I mainly rejoined the local one to get out of my house a few times a week (I found I wasnt leaving the house for a fully week at a time before that, can get monotonous). Still use my home gym too of course...

That's a nice setup there too.
I hear you on having to get out. I work from home and if I didn't go to the gym I'd barely get out at all.

 

[Rot-Iron66]

That's a nice setup there too.
I hear you on having to get out. I work from home and if I didn't go to the gym I'd barely get out at all.

Thx Lifter!

 

[Daron_e]

Great gym you got there!! I started my home gym back in 1978, and have always been a home-trainer, but always seem to alternate once in a while (if the gym is a good one). The gym itself is great, most people there are fine, always gonna be a few knuckleheads... Since working at home full-time over last few years, I mainly rejoined the local one to get out of my house a few times a week (I found I wasnt leaving the house for a fully week at a time before that, can get monotonous). Still use my home gym too of course...

Nice!!!!

 

[Gibsonator]

Older guy in the gym (older than me) in there on weekends lately, is one of those one's who takes up 5-6 stations at once, and even uses them for things they are not made for.

Example this AM:

**This is all at the same time now...

-Bench Press 1: Sets up a 25 on each side, stands on bench doing stiff-leg deads.
- Bench Press 2: Sets up a 10 on each side, uses it for a curl-station. (There are only 3 bench-presses in the place)
(3rd one is in use, so if someone else wanted to bench, S.O.L.).
- Lying leg press: Drapes it with 4-foot pieces of paper-towel, does a set, etc. Leaves towels all over it as he used it for a few sets.
- Squat-rack 1: Setup with a dime on each side, doing lunges. (That light, use some d-bells for gods sake).
- Squat rack 2: Shrugs (There are only 2 squat racks, so if someone wanted to Squat S.O.L).
- Then had the bench-seat tied up with some d-bells for shoulder presses.

So 6 stations at once, 2 of them being bench presses and the 2 SQ racks. Very bizarre.

Around 3 weeks ago, I noticed he did a set on the Hammer-Strength high-lat pull. But then left it and 15-20 mins went by while I was using the shoulder-press.
Noticed he didnt return to it.

Right when I got on it, he comes flying over and says "I was using that"...

I just said "Yup, You WAS" and continued with my set... Odd-ball...

I would kill this person.

 

[dragon1952]

We only have 3 BP stations and 3 squat racks so yeah, it pisses me off when someone jumps on one of them and does oddball shit they could do somewhere else.
What's even more irritating to me, mostly because I'm a cell phone hater, is the younger guys taking 10 minutes between sets and poking away at their phones while they take up a machine or a bench. There's an area of about 12 machines and sometimes you'll see as many as 3 guys at once poking away endlessly it seems.

 

[Charger69]

We only have 3 BP stations and 3 squat racks so yeah, it pisses me off when someone jumps on one of them and does oddball shit they could do somewhere else.
What's even more irritating to me, mostly because I'm a cell phone hater, is the younger guys taking 10 minutes between sets and poking away at their phones while they take up a machine or a bench. There's an area of about 12 machines and sometimes you'll see as many as 3 guys at once poking away endlessly it seems.

That’s when you say, “hey, do you mind if I jump in while you text?”. You are being nice, but they get the hint.


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[Sven Northman]

We only have 3 BP stations and 3 squat racks so yeah, it pisses me off when someone jumps on one of them and does oddball shit they could do somewhere else.
What's even more irritating to me, mostly because I'm a cell phone hater, is the younger guys taking 10 minutes between sets and poking away at their phones while they take up a machine or a bench. There's an area of about 12 machines and sometimes you'll see as many as 3 guys at once poking away endlessly it seems.

I deal with this crap all the time. I can get an entire workout in (1 hour) and they are only on their second exercise. Another seemingly popular thing to do by these short short wearing incessantly texting idiots is pile on the cologne. I'm breathing hard in the middle of a set and wooffff...I have to cut it short and move on.

 

[Tinbeater36]

I'll preface this with, I'm getting crabby in my old age. I used to just say fuck it and use something else. Right now my training is programmed weeks in advanced with only the weight and/or reps changing. If someone is legit using a piece I will wait or work in if they are willing, if they are being a shit head like you're describing I just move their stuff. They rarely say anything, if they do I just kind of say "Oh, ok I'm almost done" and do my thing. The one gym closest to my house is $12/month so we tend to get the occasional odd ball who comes in wanting to do weird shit they saw online. The good thing is they never seem to last very long and the regulars are pretty good about sticking together if someone wants to get silly. I saw one guy get escorted out by a couple members before the staff even knew what was going on. The other gym I go to is more hardcore, the owner will go straight over and tell someone, hey we don't do that here, he puts up with zero shit.

 

[WeightedDips512]

Kills me
The guy who own our little gym trains a bunch of old ladies. He does total body workouts with them, circuit training. He hogs all the equipment like 4 exercises ahead. Drives me nuts.

It’s one thing when it’s an average idiot, it’s worse when it’s the owner.

I don't mean to be a dick to anyone. But that there is un-called for. And if someone is not considerate of others, you shouldn't be considerate of them.

I guess you can call me boss in the gym. Because if someone comes in running a circuit during the only two hours of the day I have to train. You can bet when they leave one machine and go to the next, I'm jumping on it.

 

[Sven Northman]

It never stops. It's like a new pandemic of fuck boys in my gym. They were never there before. Fancy clothes perfectly pressed and shiny new shoes.

Just finished my noon workout and this idiot sits down at the machine bench press and does one easy set. Then proceeds to text for, I'm not kidding, 15 fucking minutes. Just sat there and texted. I just dont know what to say to these fuckwads without sounding like a dick. So I move on to something else.

I think the gym owner needs to make a policy that's fair and just. And have someone on the floor to enforce it.

Not that I really care, but for instance my gym requires masks to be worn at all times. Half the people actually wear them. And the young girls and boys working the front counter could care less what anyone does let alone have the balls to stand up to anyone. Pathetic.

 

[shackleford]

And the young girls and boys working the front counter could care less what anyone does let alone have the balls to stand up to anyone. Pathetic.

im not justifying their inaction but people these days are so entitled, they think the rules dont apply to them, and when they're informed otherwise, they are monsters. Its tough dealing with the public. I would enforce the rules on principal, because its the job, but I get why someone working a part time minimum wage job would just say F it, i dont make enough for this. especially with the "customer is always right" mentality that is so prevelant.

side note, i worked in a store that told me if a customer was rude i could tell them to get the hell out my shop. It was so refreshing. and we kept handguns stashed under every register. thakfully the only time they came out was for atf inspection.

people these days...

 

[lifter6973]

im not justifying their inaction but people these days are so entitled, they think the rules dont apply to them, and when they're informed otherwise, they are monsters. Its tough dealing with the public. I would enforce the rules on principal, because its the job, but I get why someone working a part time minimum wage job would just say F it, i dont make enough for this. especially with the "customer is always right" mentality that is so prevelant.

side note, i worked in a store that told me if a customer was rude i could tell them to get the hell out my shop. It was so refreshing. and we kept handguns stashed under every register. thakfully the only time they came out was for atf inspection.

people these days...

youll love this story- I was working at a fast food/ice cream place when I was 15 for a few months and then my sister started working there.
She actually said 'fuck you' to customers and called one customer a stupid cunt. The manager 'scolded' her but did not fire her.
My sister quit about a week later not because of the manager but because she didn't like dealing with people and she didn't want to work.

 

[dragon1952]

youll love this story- I was working at a fast food/ice cream place when I was 15 for a few months and then my sister started working there.
She actually said 'fuck you' to customers and called one customer a stupid cunt. The manager 'scolded' her but did not fire her.
My sister quit about a week later not because of the manager but because she didn't like dealing with people and she didn't want to work.

Ha ha...my kind of girl :^ )

 

[shackleford]

youll love this story- I was working at a fast food/ice cream place when I was 15 for a few months and then my sister started working there.
She actually said 'fuck you' to customers and called one customer a stupid cunt. The manager 'scolded' her but did not fire her.
My sister quit about a week later not because of the manager but because she didn't like dealing with people and she didn't want to work.

fast food can be horrible. my wife used to work fast food until she got her rn. some people can be so rude to the those that serve them.

 

[MrBafner]

Older guy in the gym (older than me) in there on weekends lately, is one of those one's who takes up 5-6 stations at once, and even uses them for things they are not made for.

Example this AM:

**This is all at the same time now...

-Bench Press 1: Sets up a 25 on each side, stands on bench doing stiff-leg deads.
- Bench Press 2: Sets up a 10 on each side, uses it for a curl-station. (There are only 3 bench-presses in the place)
(3rd one is in use, so if someone else wanted to bench, S.O.L.).
- Lying leg press: Drapes it with 4-foot pieces of paper-towel, does a set, etc. Leaves towels all over it as he used it for a few sets.
- Squat-rack 1: Setup with a dime on each side, doing lunges. (That light, use some d-bells for gods sake).
- Squat rack 2: Shrugs (There are only 2 squat racks, so if someone wanted to Squat S.O.L).
- Then had the bench-seat tied up with some d-bells for shoulder presses.

So 6 stations at once, 2 of them being bench presses and the 2 SQ racks. Very bizarre.

Around 3 weeks ago, I noticed he did a set on the Hammer-Strength high-lat pull. But then left it and 15-20 mins went by while I was using the shoulder-press.
Noticed he didnt return to it.

Right when I got on it, he comes flying over and says "I was using that"...

I just said "Yup, You WAS" and continued with my set... Odd-ball...

I'd be telling him to f'off myself .. 2 machines, sure .. anymore he is just wasting everyone's time and efforts.
Yep, seen some funky stuff .. one guy at my old gym would do weird shit, had a talk with him and he does his training for hiking up serious looking mountains. One of those guys that travels to find that special mountain to climb. Fair enough, I know nothing of his sport.
Another guy was an arm wrestler .. thought his training was a bit weird also, but - not my thing.
The thing is, if they fk around with my training and the time I spent in the gym .. we will never be friends.
Good on you for shrugging him off like that.

 

[MrBafner]

I much prefer to train at home .. proud of my gym.

 

[Send0]

youll love this story- I was working at a fast food/ice cream place when I was 15 for a few months and then my sister started working there.
She actually said 'fuck you' to customers and called one customer a stupid cunt. The manager 'scolded' her but did not fire her.
My sister quit about a week later not because of the manager but because she didn't like dealing with people and she didn't want to work.

I approve of your sisters language and approach to serving customers. Customers are assholes... and I also don't want to work

 

[Bumpygooch]

I hate all that shit. I never thought I could lift at home..but I wanted to try... a couple grand later I will never go back to a commercial gym. The convenience, having my speakers blaring, wearing whatever, and waiting for no equipment really gets u spoiled lol.



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Noticed the powertec, are you able to do a proper, neutral grip OHP with it? Looking at them for this purpose, both flat/incline bench and OHP(shoulder health).