Random thoughts from a gym member.....

[rigs32]

1) Cell phone ban doesn't apply to me girls (always young girls). Frankly, I don't care if you talk on your cell phone. But I sure as heck will not be undressing while your cellphone is out in the open. I'm not taking any chances of you actually using the phone to take photos in the locker room. It's one of the few things I'm paranoid about.

2) The I don't trust you young things elderly women. I always wipe off my machines when I'm done. Even if I only did 2 sets of 12. What I don't do is spray the whole thing with half the bottle of sanitizer. I sometimes get woman who stand there and watch me wipe down, glare, then proceed to do it again with generous fluid. I don't sweat a lot and I always wear deodorant.

 

[DisneyPhD]

this thread would be so much better with pictures....

Are you fishing for naked lady pictures?????????

 

[Mugg Mann]

Interesting thread;

I'm going to take the opposite view on a few issues here. Allow me to climb on my soap box...

-I'm simply amazed that some of you are complaining about people sweating at the gym. Come and join me; some days I'm on the elliptical doing about 6.5-6.9 miles an hour, I'm pacing at about 82-85 for the entire hour I'm on it and I'm sweating a ton. You'd be too at that pace. Guess what...that's exactly why I'm there. Or if you want, come join me on the days I'm on the rowing machine, where I'll do 13,000 meters in an hour. Sweating up quite a storm as well doing that. The funny thing is, that's why I'm at the gym...the way I see it, if you're not sweating bullets and totally dripping by the time you're done, you're simply not trying! Why else would one be there?!?

And yes, I wipe the machine thoroughly down after I'm done and then dry it off. Common courtesy.

-My iPod is loud. Very loud; for me, I need to get lost in the music to keep the pace that I do. If you're gossiping in a loud voice about how sweaty everyone else is at a nearby machine with someone else and I can still hear you over the Who concert playing on my iPod.....you're too damned loud!

-Don't throw your water bottle and your towel on a machine and then go gossip with your friends (known in our gym as the "hens") for 20-30 minutes while people are waiting to use the machine that you're not using. I see that happen virtually every day.

...climbing off the soap box now. Thanks for letting me get that off my sweaty chest. Now that I've finished my daily workout at the gym, I'm off the the locker room to thoroughly shower, dry off, and put on clean clothes.

 

[annegal]

Anyone else exercise at a gym regularly?\
Bag ladies, 3 Asian women who put the plastic bags provided to put your wet swim suits in over their hair and go in the steam room daily.

Then there is 1980's lady that dresses every day in an outfit right from 1983, with accessories, even leg warmers one day.




Any funny people at your gym????????

OMG....there's an 80's lady at my gymn too!!! Leg warmers, tight shiny knee length tights, with baggy short shorts on top(usually screaming yellow)...headband

My older Asian ladies wear those rubber duck shoes -bright yellow & walk aroung naked-yikes!

 

[WDWVillain]

I open a gym very early in the morning...I am there at 4am. This is just a small PT job, but yes...we have the samething there also. One that sticks out to me.....well two. when they come in they need to scan there card. there is this one lady that everytime she says, I cannot find my card. (there is a fee for a lost card) but she is to cheap to just replace it. so one day I called her on it. and told her she needed to replace it..........all of a sudden she just pulls it out of her pocketbook??!! It had been there the whole time, she was just TO lazy to pull it out!!! (this used to bug me!)

Then there is this guy that comes in smelling of cheap, smokey cologne ...with his make-up still on, and he has these longgg, fake nails. ( he is a cross-dresser) and all the "men-lly men" make fun of him....

 

[NEM]

My trainer and I pass the time naming everyone like superhero trading cards....most of which are not DIS appropriate

We have all the types you have mentioned and come up with entertaining nicknames for them all....we have been in tears from laughing more than once.....

BTW I am in Los Angeles....we have ALL KINDS in the gym!

Try it one day....your workout will go really fast and you will burn extra calories cracking yourself up....

Thanks for the giggle....

Michelle

 

[PlainJane]

At the one I used to go to, there was a woman whose chest had to be at least a DD, and she never wore a bra. She liked to jump around while she worked out; my mother and I swore that one day she was going to knock herself out with those things, they bounced so much. And we know she didn't wear a bra because her shirt would bounce up with them, but come down after they did...

As a DD myself, the first thought that comes to mind is ow. I tried jogging in normal bra(as in not a sports bra) once and will never do it again, the girls hurt for like a week. I can't even imagine doing it without a bra.

There aren't any people I see all the time, except this one lady who is probably about 50. She has a very short man like haircut. She's is extremely skinny. I've never seen her on anything but the eliptical. When she is on it, it doesn't look like she is running, it looks like she is skipping. She's is always there too, and I go in at very random times.

 

[terryX]

Anyone else exercise at a gym regularly? We belong to a life time gym and it is a great place, but you go at the same time every day and see the same people. Some are very nice, some I don't know if they are nice or not but they stand out.

Any of these guys at your place?????

1st we have foot pumis lady, who spends about 20 min every day after being in the steam room rubbing the dead skin off her feet (now I should, but I don't have time for it.)

Bag ladies, 3 Asian women who put the plastic bags provided to put your wet swim suits in over their hair and go in the steam room daily.

Then there is 1980's lady that dresses every day in an outfit right from 1983, with accessories, even leg warmers one day.

My least favorite is sweaty smelly guy. This guy is there for hours on end, always on the machines that I like (and normally only women are on.) He smells like nothing I have ever smelled before, is covered with hair and drips everywhere he walks. The machine he is one is all wet when he lives. It is disgusting. In fact I avoid him at all cost, and have moved machines just to get away from him. When chatting with other women I am not the only one. We all can't stand to be near him. I know this is a gym........ but please.

Of course there is naked lady. She is naked when I walk into the locker room, and often still is when I come back from working out........ All I need to say about her. Of course I haven't seen her lately, so either she isn't at the gym as much, or put her clothes on and she isn't standing out in the crowd anymore.

Then there is the "hair twins." 2 young women in their teens or early 20's that come in every Sunday to spend a few hours fixing their hair in the locker room. They don't work out (if they spent half the time working out instead of on their hair they would look a lot better.) They clam it is because they clean the house on Saturday and don't want to mess up the bathroom again. They spend about 2 hours in the locker room. They have very long thick hair. They bring everything with them too 3 brushs per twin. I know they don't work out, because they talk about it. Every Sunday.

Any funny people at your gym????????

I know not everyone can do this...but I bought everything I need for my own home gym. I honestly think its the best thing I have ever done. No wasted time...serious workouts...no "attitudes" to deal with!

 

[BunsenH]

I have to agree with MuggMan on one point. If you can read a novel or a textbook while on the treadmill, you may want to turn up the speed a notch. Get you money's worth. I am a "heavy sweater" and will change shirts in the middle of a two hour workout.

People at my gym:
Mullet Woman - we have one also

Pre workout primpers - Guys who shower before exercising and get every hair in place before appearing "on stage" in the gym.

Seat Sniffers - Guys (age 20-80) that are only there to socialize

Coffee Klatchers - People who carry around a cup of coffee instead of a water borttle.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Interesting thread;

I'm going to take the opposite view on a few issues here. Allow me to climb on my soap box...

-I'm simply amazed that some of you are complaining about people sweating at the gym. Come and join me; some days I'm on the elliptical doing about 6.5-6.9 miles an hour, I'm pacing at about 82-85 for the entire hour I'm on it and I'm sweating a ton. You'd be too at that pace. Guess what...that's exactly why I'm there. Or if you want, come join me on the days I'm on the rowing machine, where I'll do 13,000 meters in an hour. Sweating up quite a storm as well doing that. The funny thing is, that's why I'm at the gym...the way I see it, if you're not sweating bullets and totally dripping by the time you're done, you're simply not trying! Why else would one be there?!?

And yes, I wipe the machine thoroughly down after I'm done and then dry it off. Common courtesy.

I expect some sweat at the gym, I do understand people are working out. I myself am not a sweaty person so I barely get a little damp at the end of a 45 min work out, and I am going at a pretty good pace.

It isn't the sweat that gets to me, the smell. We can smell this gym coming from 6 or 7 machines away. It is that bad. There is a row of machines I like near the T.V.s. These are the same one's sweaty smelly hairy guy likes. I found the other day that in the back there are 8 machines like that, kind of places among the tread mills. A few weeks ago I was chatting with the women next to me who I see often. I was mentioning I was pleased I found these machines because I just couldn't bare to be up there today. She knew just what I was talking about, in fact she was pregnant and talking just thinking about it was making her gag. (I am the same way when pregnant so I thought it was pretty funny.) I had to leave to change a poopy diaper, and when I come back there is another women in my machine. No biggy, I started again on another one. In the locker room pregnant women tells me that another women using my machines said she came back there from the T.V. row just to get away from the smell. Yes, I am not the only one that this gets too. It isn't just B.O smell, something different. Musty and icky. I think he doesn't wash his clothes between work outs. When you are like me (not sweaty) this isn't a big deal. When you are like him IT IS! He is always in the same outfit.

I believe he does wipe down the machine after. I used it once after him and didn't notice it being wet that time.

How do you complain about something like this at a gym?????? It seems strange, yes excuse me that man is a bit smelly today. This really goes beyond that.

As far as working out at home, I really like being a gym member. It motivates me, I use the classes, steam room (love the steam room) the pool and my DD loves the day care. Better yet, they adore her there and I get a few hours to myself and she learns to be with someone other then me. I get my eyebrows done at the spa and when I was pregnant I even treated myself to a message every month.

 

[Mugg Mann]

I hear you if the guy has hygiene issues around odor. Personally, I couldn't imagine working out in the same clothes without them having gone through the hot/hot water cycle of the washer.

I just felt obligated to stick up for us sweaty gym guys who are in fact aware of how much we "leave behind" at the gym and who as a result do everything we can to minimize the impact on others in the name of courtesy.