Re: Gym Etiquette
There are a ton at my gym!! I was working on a shoulder machine about a month ago. An older man, probably 70 or so, was working on a machine (actually he was just sitting there) right beside me and he was there when I began on the shoulder machine. So I did my first set and moved the weight to where I wanted it for my second set. I get up grab my water bottle and while I am taking a drink, he gets up and sits at the shoulder machine, changes the weight, and does about 3 reps...then he procedes to sit there. Now I respect my elders so I didn't get smart, but I just walked back up and said "do you mind if i jump in there for my second set?" He immediately got up and went to the next machine.
Story 2: There is a high school kid that comes in while we are working out. I don't know what his deal is but he tries to get as close to you as possible while you are doing something. I mean, I'll be there doing work in front of the mirror (right in front of it) and he will actually get in front of me. He does this to everyone. Of course we have said something to him by now and he doesn't do it anymore.
And this is probably my biggest problem of all of this stuff. At our gym, there are signs EVERYWHERE that ask you to please put the weights you use back up. The high school kids have no respect for this at all! They will load up the leg press and leave it. They will put so much weight on the military press that they can't even come down to their forehead, and leave it on the bar. It's ridiculous. First off, if you can't do the exercise the correct way, you probably have too much weight on the bar. I swear, it seems like my group is the only group that does a full motion of any exercise. I am not bragging either because we don't do a crap load of weight.....but we do it correctly.
Anyway, sorry. I can rant about this all day!
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