Gym vent

shellydiane820

Okay, so I go to a 24 hour gym, so I can go whenever I want.  I prefer to go late at night when nobody is there.  Tonight I went at 10, which is a little later than normal, but not horrible.

Around 10:15 a mom comes in with her kids! Her kids! Shouldn't they be in bed?!  Not only that, but then they get on the machines and turn the tvs on really loud, and its so frustrating.  I listen to music, it keeps me focused.

So I lose my consentration, I don't get the machines I want.  I swear, when I turn into Jabba the Hutt, I am going to send Boba Fett on their asses!

nda_roxybabe

Laaaaame

shellydiane820

The sad thing is, I think I was more pissed that the kid turned on the TV instead of the bad parenting.

therickson

I have a gym vent of my own... 

I want all of the people all pumped for their New Year resolutions to give up already! I am sick of waiting for machines!

Back on the subject... I loved working out at a 24 hour gym... I worked funny hours so could go at 12am and it was usually pretty dead!

EmmaBride2B

Boo! Your gym needs a no kids policy.

shellydiane820

I hate that new year thing.  It happens every year, don't worry though, soon they will be gone.

pooh8402

that's why you do what I did: start going in November. then you've been going long enough that a) you avoid the holiday weight gain and b) you can complain about the New Year's exercisers. yea!

seriously though, I'd be extremely annoyed too. kids do not belong in the gym, especially at 10 at night. they need to be IN BED.

therickson

I do have this strange sense of entitlement to the equiptment since I have been good for a year and a half now!

I don't get bringing kids out that late... Don't they have school?

deepcovejackie

I loved the day when I was working on the weight machines right next to a woman who clearly had swine flu.  She coughed and snotted all over everything.  Hello disinfectant!!

niq24601

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[QUOTE]I have a gym vent of my own...  I want all of the people all pumped for their New Year resolutions to give up already! I am sick of waiting for machines!
Posted by therickson[/QUOTE]

This.

eastunder1

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[QUOTE]I   I want all of the people all pumped for their New Year resolutions to give up already! I am sick of waiting for machines!
Posted by therickson[/QUOTE]

Copy that.  I feel like a total a_sshole for thinking that way, but it's annoying as f*ck.  The locker rooms are packed with gym virgins who have no concept of LR ettiquette or protocol.  The machines are totally hogged.  My lap lanes are clogged up with newbies who don't grasp the concept of a circle swim.  It's so frustrating.  I wish it would thin out already down to the resolution people who are actually serious about it  (you know...all five of them) so everything can get back to normal. 

Brie2010

The Resolutioners are maddening.  At least they are amusing--I love the inappropriate gym wear (spandex, jeans, polo shirts) and the totally ridiculous things they do, like sit on some ridiculous weight machine for a half an hour doing nothing but sets of five with 10 minute breaks between sets. 

Re: kids---I've gone to the staff before and been like, "HEY, clearly unsafe and a huge liability for kids to be playing on equipment.  Get them out.  Now."  I have absolutely zero problem doing this.  Kids don't belong in the gym. 

sarabellam

That's why I am waiting until February to start going to the gym. That way I won't incur the wrath of the regulars. That, plus I'm having a really hard time readjusting to getting up at 5:45 every morning.

goheels05

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Gym vent : Copy that.  I feel like a total a_sshole for thinking that way, but it's annoying as f*ck.  The locker rooms are packed with gym virgins who have no concept of LR ettiquette or protocol.  The machines are totally hogged.  My lap lanes are clogged up with newbies who don't grasp the concept of a circle swim.  It's so frustrating.  I wish it would thin out already down to the resolution people who are actually serious about it  (you know...all five of them) so everything can get back to normal. 
Posted by eastunder1[/QUOTE]

A-freaking-men

Brie2010

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[QUOTE]Ok, I have to say, I get what you regular gym go-ers are saying about the NY Resolutioners. BUT at the same time, when do you suggest someone who is trying to get back into shape go? I personally let the gym slide in November, and am not heading back until Feb, mostly so I don't deal with the "wrath" of the regulars.  I know historically NY resolutioners end up abandoning the gym in large droves, but come on!
Posted by mag920[/QUOTE]

I don't mind new people at the gym.  Hey, good for you, congrats on working out.  I just mind the people who go to a gym and don't at least Google "gym etiquette" first.  If you show up on January 1 and are polite and get it, I have no problem with you.  I have a problem with the people who show up on January 1 and act like they own the place, skipping basic rules of courtesy like wiping down machines and not talking obnoxiously loud on your cell phone.    

Stackeye210

Brie - I ran on a treadmill in front of a guy who literally talked on his cell phone my entire run.  He was just walking on his treadmill talking.  It was SO annoying.  Then at the end he says, "yea, I'm about done walking I'll talk to you later".  So he just talked to them to make the time go by.  I was so mad I forgot my mp3 that day. 

SwedishChick2011

It drives me crazy when people talk on their cell phones at the gym too - at least when it's longer than 30 seconds.  Fortunately, I don't notice as much now since I listen to my iPod now.

shellydiane820

I think its pathetic people can't stay away from their phones for an hour a day.

Stackeye210

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[QUOTE]I think its pathetic people can't stay away from their phones for an hour a day.
Posted by shellydiane820[/QUOTE]

I think back to Zack Morris days and how I envied him for having a cell phone, and used to think only super rich people or people on tv would have cell phones and that it wouldn't be as common as a house phone.  LOL.  I guess I was wrong. 

shellydiane820

We don't have a landline, which is kind of a good thing, we save money.  However, I hate that I have to carry it around everywhere.  Usually when I get home it sits in my purse and I don't look at it until the next morning.

goheels05

I've read that anywhere from 80%-97% of New Years resolutions are abandoned.  So why kid yourself? 

For me personally, January is the absolute worst time to try to start going to the gym.  Influx of newbs aside, it's hard to get out of bed an hour early, and it's even harder to do so when it's dark and freezing cold outside.  Start going to the gym when it's a little easier--after fall daylight savings, when it starts to warm up in the spring, in the summer when you want to get swim-suit ready, etc.  I've gone from workout obsessed to pretty much never going to the gym, and I do want to get back in the habit, but even I know better than to try now.

And the gym etiquette thing.  Seriously.  The past two gyms I've gone to even have signs up explaining gym etiquette.  I realize some of those things aren't common sense, so it does help to be told, but it's not like it's some unsolvable mystery.  Some of it is common sense though.  I still don't understand why women bring eleventy billion things into the weight room with them, and then set them down on equipment they aren't using.  Hi, there are these things in the locker room called LOCKERS, you can put your stuff there, not on equipment someone may and probably does want to use, even if you don't.