I've been going to the gym for 4 solid months now and I've only missed 1 workout day (with the exception of my time off when my daughter was born
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UGH I cannot stand this kind of gym behaviour. That's why I favour 24hr gyms at around three in the morning. None of this assgrabbery to put up with then.
It just makes me almost physically ill to watch guys who /really/ ought to know better jerking the hell out of free weights and grunting. There isn't any need to make a giant production out of your routine, and in fact that's /really bad/ for your body and completely inefficient. But if it doesn't look/sound like a hypermacho sex act, I guess it doesn't matter.
I've been known to quietly grunt, but never the outright yell some people have.
I also tend to prefer "off hours" but my time is kinda stuck...so I got in the early morning (6 to 7am)...there's it's mostly people who are there to workout. At night, it's a meat market full of teens who are there to socialize...and I can't work out if I have to brow beat a slacker off each machine I want to use.
Ironically, and this is just my experience (and I tried to avoid generalizations in my post) almost all the behaviours above are by middle age women at the gym...with maybe a guy or two sprinkled in. They seem to be SO territorial about machines and equipment...they come in, scramble to grab everything almost muttering "mine, mine MINE!!! My preciousssss" then they start working out...problem is, they get hostile if you want to use anything they "reserve" and aren't using....ok..maybe hostile is too strong...resentful maybe.
It doesn't make for a pleasant workout.
Luckily, it's a big gym and it only becomes an issue when it's busy.
This is one of the reasons I always liked the YMCA - the staff were *really* strict about the "No reserving machines (except via the designated sign-up sheets for the cardio machines)" rule, and didn't let anyone get away with leaving their towels or water bottles on benches to reserve" equipment.
Congrats on the workouts! I'm up to 4km jogging, 4 mornings a week :)
Well in the morning the staff seems to have an attitude of "well it's not busy so it's not really bothering anyone" and when it's busy, well they're busy.
Also these people seem to be old timers who have been there a while.
And 4 km jogging? Wow!!!! I do 1 mile as my cardio at a fast walk...I'd love to work up to jogging a bit. I'm still a bit heavy...ok a lot heavy. Congrats as well!
I'm nodding alng to everything you wrote. Chuckling too because it's the same everywhere, unless the gym has a policy that the monitors enforce, which mine does.
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It just makes me almost physically ill to watch guys who /really/ ought to know better jerking the hell out of free weights and grunting. There isn't any need to make a giant production out of your routine, and in fact that's /really bad/ for your body and completely inefficient. But if it doesn't look/sound like a hypermacho sex act, I guess it doesn't matter.
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I also tend to prefer "off hours" but my time is kinda stuck...so I got in the early morning (6 to 7am)...there's it's mostly people who are there to workout. At night, it's a meat market full of teens who are there to socialize...and I can't work out if I have to brow beat a slacker off each machine I want to use.
Ironically, and this is just my experience (and I tried to avoid generalizations in my post) almost all the behaviours above are by middle age women at the gym...with maybe a guy or two sprinkled in. They seem to be SO territorial about machines and equipment...they come in, scramble to grab everything almost muttering "mine, mine MINE!!! My preciousssss" then they start working out...problem is, they get hostile if you want to use anything they "reserve" and aren't using....ok..maybe hostile is too strong...resentful maybe.
It doesn't make for a pleasant workout.
Luckily, it's a big gym and it only becomes an issue when it's busy.
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reserve" equipment.
Congrats on the workouts! I'm up to 4km jogging, 4 mornings a week :)
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Also these people seem to be old timers who have been there a while.
And 4 km jogging? Wow!!!! I do 1 mile as my cardio at a fast walk...I'd love to work up to jogging a bit. I'm still a bit heavy...ok a lot heavy. Congrats as well!
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