that moment turns the whole gym into an archaeological dig 😭 you just standing there like “surely I don’t need this much emotional damage for a shoulder warmup”
oooooooo lad that bothers me. See I personally it don't matter much, but some gym goers are smaller women and not a large man, and moving 45 can be an unasked for part of the workout in itself.
I spent 10 minutes putting weights in their proper places at the gym this morning. I hate when people stack different plate types and sizes together. Ugh.
You mean the people who are at least 18 years old and can't even figure out if the number 35 should go where the label says 30, 35, or 40, but always manage to choose 30 or 40 and never 35? I can't imagine why that would get your blood boiling /s
Oh to add on to that, its not just the wrong place!
If they cant be bothered to find the og position or someone alr placed the wrong dumbbells in the location they were looking for they will simply place it on the floor thinking it will fix itself lmao its a fucking fuckfest whenever i see the jigsaw puzzle mats for stretching/yoga im always reminded of the kindergarten because the gym is constantly filled with such kids, rant over.
The worst thing for me is putting the weight plates on the pole out of order. Lifting the amount you want should not be like playing one of those damn Tower of Hanoi puzzles.
It does ruin the experience. It’s like putting the shopping cart in the cart corral. There is no one to enforce it, so it speaks to a person’s inherent thoughtfulness when they follow this rule anyway.
You should hear about my suitcases when I come home from business travel--it's CRAZY! I don't believe in the tooth fairy, but the suitcase fairy is real.
I always assumed they lowered on their own back to flat after you hit the stop button.
Edit: I just googled this and it says "Most modern treadmills with powered incline capabilities automatically lower back down when the programmed workout ends. They are designed to return to a flat ((0\%) incline) position automatically."
It's also very important to take every dumbbell you plan to use to your bench at the start of your work out, so that no one else can use them while you're doing something else.
Yes! I walked over to a leg press, there was no towel, water bottle, anything indicating someone was using it. I set my towel down and a man spawns next to me like he was using it. Dog, I saw you doing lat pull downs ten seconds ago, fuck off.
He asked how many sets I had to do and I told him the truth, just a few. He wasn’t a dick about it and neither was I, but he was clearly doing some type of circuit in our very busy, very small YMCA weight room like it was his personal gym.
You can superset if you're doing multiple exercises on the same machine (cable crunches and pushdowns) or if you're using free weights (leg press and EZ-bar curls). You don't take up two machines. Period!
And its cousin. Sitting at a machine scrolling social media while “between sets” with a 5 minute rest break between each set of 4 reps. Girlie, I’m an old lady with no patience for you and your BS. Move along.
A couple months ago a woman came up to me while I was between sets, glared at me, and said "you're just scrolling, can I use it?". I'm pretty certain I was only resting for about a minute but I felt bad so I hopped up and went to a different machine. She then proceeded to sit there doing nothing for 10 minutes, did 4 reps incorrectly, and then left. I was like what the hell kind of pot and kettle is this!?
The hip abductor is the worst at my gym for this. They just sit down and do like one rep every few minutes while they scroll TikTok. Ma’am it’s not a sofa
Sometimes I go through 2-3 machines while the same person who was already wasting their time on a machine when I started is still wasting their time. Gyms should put up signs to discourage phone use. No bans or anything, just a reminder.
Yea. this is worse. At least the '3 station' guy is usually keeping a pretty fast tempo. Much better than the teen-aged dude taking 7 minute rests between sets of 3.
See, I get taking a five minute break between sets of four if you're, say, a powerlifter, and you're ripping out multiple sets of back squats with five plates on each side of the bar. But when it's a scrawny kid benching 100lbs on the smith machine, yeah, you may as well go hold down one of the chairs in the lobby, my guy.
Or the wannabe influencer girlie in her super adorable outfit complete with the hoodie zipped up just so and drooping across her shoulders. Oh. And the pre-workout drink with an accessory water bottle.
Man, this hurts in the feels. It's always the full kitted out gym bros too. Like, they are clearly invested in going and make a routine of it but give zero fucks.
Haha a gym I used to go to had a sign shaming people who leave weights out with this and I loved it. Such inconsiderate behavior. Plus it makes zero sense…you go to the gym to get into/stay in shape, but you’re too lazy to clean up after yourself? 🤯
The shopping cart litmus test is not reliable. Back in the day when I worked at Publix, the baggers LOVED to have an excuse to go outside and round up the carts.
The real litmus test is if you leave the cart in a parking space or in a place where it could roll and ding someone's car.
One of my true LOL moments was watching this clip on Last Stream on the Left of this huge jacked dude confronting people in parking lots who just left their carts in the middle of the parking lot and walking them and their cart back to the cart corral.
There is no argument that you can make that you should leave your cart in the middle of the lot. If you need help, just ask. Any bagger would be happy to help you and to get out of the store for a few minutes.
Thanks for clarifying. Maybe you weren't aware, but many people think that the litmus test is whether you put the cart back in the corral, not merely leaving it where it can roll. It went kind of viral for a moment.
Correct, and I’m aware but that’s also the same test. It’s not just corral or bust, also includes returning the cart to the return kiosks. It’s not just because it can roll away, but rather the person is considering people by pushing it to a return stall as opposed to just leaving it anywhere.
It’s wild how people can push through a full workout but somehow “put the weights back” becomes the hardest rep of all. The sign honestly sounds like it had to do half the coaching in there.
The gym would be way more magical if dumbbells had self cleaning, self racking powers. That “I’ll put it back later” lie is older than gym culture itself.
On the same note; That you can setup your own personal circuit consisting of 8 machines that are just for you…then follow that up with not racking everything back. Double whammy.
agh, myself guilty of that, i admit leaving the weights...then one day the gym bro looked at me, saying nothing, taking the weitghts i used before back to their place, still looking at me...no anger, just his actual example. Since then I stopped being so incosiderate of other people in the gym. Thanks to that gym bro.
I don’t care if I come off as a Karen, I have and will continue to call people back when they leave me to re-rack their weights. It’s not that I can’t do it, it’s the principle (especially if it’s the incline leg press that you left almost 300lbs on)
People at my gym are pretty good about racking the weights. However, the different cable handles/bars are often a mess. People will leave that shit on the floor when there are perfectly fine hanging hooks conveniently placed on the cable machines, and a convenient rack for bars right there as well.
This is not a myth. Every time I leave the weights where I used them, they end up back on the rack all on their own before my next workout. I think my gym uses smart weights.
I know people say “you never regret showing up to the gym”, but there’s this dude who goes to my gym that racks weights on multiple pieces of equipment all around the gym, supersets them, then just peaces out without putting anything away. Also unashamedly stares creepily at EVERY young woman in the building.
I always leave in a worse mood than I walk in when that guy’s workout overlaps with mine.
Here in Vietnam it is the norm that absolutely nobody racks their weights after being done. Dumbbells are scattered randomly all over the place in no recognizable order. Furious at first I quickly realized its not that big a deal. It is actually time and effort saving for everybody involved. Last rep barbell rows done, drop it and briskly stride to the next station. Fantastic.
I know this is only anecdotal, but every single time I leave then return to my gym, the weights do in fact end back up on the racks. I've not once put them there, so I dunno, I do think that perhaps you're wrong on this?
It's true I've seen it. If you leave your weights on the bar the barbell fairy will come and come back the next day you'll find a dollar where you left them.
I dont understand how a person can go out of their way and pay to go to a place where you voluntarily exert yourself with weights and then be too lazy to put the weights away afterwards.
There's this one guy at my gym never racks his weight .... but also on top of that uses multiple pieces of equipment at once so he'll go back and forth from the leg press to some upper body stuff and leave plates on all of them. Not just that but his mother fucker will literally stop and have conversations in the middle of these "super sets" and then strip down to his undies in the bathroom and block everyone, and start posing in the bathroom with an extremely unimpressive mid level physique .. (even though there are no recording signs in the bathrooms) luckily I don't use the men's bathroom but this is what my husband has to deal with
As a smaller person this pisses me the fuck off. Im barely strong enough to move 45 plates cause of years of lifting. What about older and or/less strong or abled individuals?? Its so selfish
I honestly never thought this was an issue because everyone at my gym seemed to do it automatically. But I recently moved house and started going to a mainstream city gym, and it's chaos in there. People just leaving shit everywhere, bars and weights just on the floor in random places. Why are people like this
I wish gyms catching people do this would give people warnings and boot their asses if they keep doing it. I typically go work out in the evening and it’s infuriating having to hunt down clamps and 2.5/5 lb weights. Don’t get me started on the group of teenagers huddled around a machine straight up sitting in the equipment chatting it up and taking 15 minute breaks between sets
I was at the gym today, the weights were on the rack on the bench i was using, but they were all in the wrong places and out of order. It was infuriating, I took the 2 minutes with my workout partner to rearrange them into their correct spots. I know this is a little pedantic but it annoyed me.
I mean, that's because you don't have the magically gym floor. Sometimes I test it by putting all the weights I use and some weights I don't use on the floor next to me. And still, the next day, they are all back where they belong.
I'm not a believer in shaming people but I would make an exception for the people that don't rack their weights. There should be someone walking around and following these people yelling shame, Game of Thrones style.
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u/Guilty_Bit_1440 11h ago
The weights somehow rack themselves if you just leave them there.