Another bizarre/annoying person at the gym

greenglasshero

This guy has been extra annoying this past week. We'll call him the "Train". He sucks in sharp breaths through pursed lips and then exhales with a giant "PAH!" like he's been holding his breath. And he's a machine.. he lifts faster than anyone else I've seen at the gym which means a pretty quick breath cycle too.
Ug.

raynes

Apparently that's similar to how I breathe them I'm sleeping.... well, the letting a breath out through closed lips, from what my H says though, I think it's more of a "puh", than a "PAH!".

I'd take The Train over The Grunter any day though.  At least once you're a few stations away from him, you can't hear him.  I can hear The Grunter clear across the gym. ::junk punch::

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I had a girl singing on the treadmill next to me last week.

At my gym, the fashion is normally what really gets to me. There's one guy who wears unitards (like wrestling unforms) and thinks he has the most awesome body ever. Lately he's been swimming. The pool has huge windows looking out into the cardio area and he's been wearing this black g-string like bathing suit. My trainer says he walks around naked in the locker room all. the. time.

On Monday I went to grab some water, came back to the training area and told my trainer, "there's this guy out there with the TINIEST shorts." He said, "Yeah, purple, right?" I told my friend who was doing cardio at the time about it later and she said she'd seen him too. Seriously, these shorts looked like a speedo.

msange727

my favorite was (i don't work out at a gym anymore but i did when i was in college) the guys who would make bad-ass looking faces when they ran or lifted - not your "i'm seriously doing hard work here, and i'm going to scrunch my eyebrows," but more like a "if i were in a movie about working out, this is how i think i'd demonstrate my efforts." kinda hard to explain, but it was obviously forced.

that, and the girls who'd wear a face full of makeup on the ellipticals, flipping through magazines, and going about 2mph. and the point is... ?

aimers1525

My biggest gym pet peeve are the people on the cell phones while doing cardio on the machine right next to you. Do you really have to be on your cell phone for the 30 minutes to an hour that you are working out? I don't need to hear your relationship woes while I'm huffing and puffing!

greenglasshero

Thankfully our gym banned cell phone use. The funny thing was, signs simultaneously were posted for this and for 'people caught stealing the disinfectant towels would have their memberships revoked.'
Apparently they were both big problems....

kayakrunhike

Speaking of weird.. tThere is a girl at my gym that is usually on the ellipticals when I get on the bike, which is right in front of where she is.  She makes this barking/coughing noise through the whole half hour she is on there, and she sounds a lot like a seal. I'm halfway between amused, really frickin annoyed, and wanting to suggest that maybe she check with her doc to see if she has asthma. 

And yes, we have grunters as well.  I work for a medical college, so it's 95% younger med students in the weight area.  I swear at least half of them grunt.

Goldlie11

At my old gym, there was this woman in my spinning class who would burp all the time.  They smelled horrible.  A few times I thought I was going to be sick.  I tried to stay clear of her. Unfortunately, there were times the only bike left was next to her.  Yuck!

jenb1205

I don't care about much except for the stinky ones.  And I don't mean sweat stink because I have that, I'm talking about the stink smell that can only be clothes that were left in the washing machine for too long and kind of soured.  This man was probably 5 treadmills away from me the other day and I couldn't handle it and had to leave the area it was such a strong odor.  How do you not smell that?  There is another guy that doesn't wear socks so he just has the stinkiest foot smell all the time and I'm pretty sure he lives in the weight room because I see him there every day at all different times.

quirky75

Both times I've used the gym in my apartment complex so far, people come in dressed in nice clothing like jeans or khaki shorts with nice tops. They're also wearing flip-flops or backless sandals and then go on the treadmill!!! Besides being dangerous it's SOOOO ANNOYING hearing their shoes drag on the treadmill surface each step they take.