Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

He was asking you to give him a shot when he finished. Not really uncommon, and not particularly recent. Kinda goes hand in hand with asking how many left, can I work in and other polite queries/requests/

You don't have to give him a heads up, but given he asked politely, most people would. Obviously not expected to go searching for the guy high and low, but with the presumption he is nearby and takes a few seconds to say "I'm all done", it's kind of rude not to imo.

I think that's a bit of a leap tbh.

I agree. A bit entitled. A millennial perhaps? 🤣 But seriously, if I was in a good mood I might consider letting him know when I'm finished, otherwise I'd be thinking that it's up to him to find out.

I would think he was letting you know where he was so that if someone else was to ask to use the machine when you were finished that you could nod towards him and say that he has been waiting.

Exactly 👍️

Might seem a bit greedy, but I know of an Intercounty Hurler whos knee blew out last year. I'd often see him in the gym now sitting for 30-40 mins straight doing the leg extensions with his bad leg while using a small pressure machine too attached to him. That's probably all he can do to get the strength back up.

Might be something similar with the guy you mention.

Leg Extension machine and chest fly machine attract the lazy people

In a busy gym you shouldn't expect to have a piece of equipment to yourself for an extended period of time.

Gyms are shared spaces, asking to work in is a solution but some people refuse this.

I see people pulling cables with 12kg on them then taking 4-5 minute breaks to look at their phones between sets, when I want to use that equipment I've no issues asking how long they're going to to be and if needs be asking what their logic is if they're not being reasonable about it.

Gyms could do with giving their staff better training/instructions around dealing with members behaviour in general, a lot of younger people seem to never had heard of the concept of gym etiquette.

I would never hog a machine between 6 and 8pm , sometimes I can do multiple exercises on a Smith machine but if I did it would be 9 or 10pm or mid morning at the weekend, but and it doesnt happen often but a bunch of teenagers surrounding the single Bench press is a bit much

I used to do a routine I found with those cable arms and it could take 40min but there were 2 stations plus normal cable machines so didnt feel I was putting anyone out.

I do find the odd time that people hog the Smith machine too much (and there is generally only one) with long gaps between the odd set they do lol, in such situations its safer going for an off peak time anyway

Ill find the routine, I dont do it anymore , the guy is a bit of a douche but I think it looked sound and it was easy to play if I needed a reminder but it would keep me at the same station for over 30min

from general "twitter advice" it seems like taking longer breaks between sets for big heavy movement is better for performance than rushing things , intuitively seems sensible

The onus is on the person working-in to inconvenience the other as little as possible, so I'd advise saying that due to different rest periods, the person working-in needs to wait/rest till the other person has done two sets.

Why do people find it necessary to bring bags into the gym? For heavens sake there is even a gym rule about not bringing in bags in case somebody trips over them. Brainless!

Since we’ve moved back to the more trivial stuff.
Lads going around with their hoods up working out.
Dragging your bag around with you is a strange one too.

There's a couple of smellies in my gym too. One is the smell of underarm BO infused into his polyester top. I don't think he washes it much. The other guy is a different smell, just general stale body smell, mixed I think with tobacco. Something like that.

Then the other thing that annoys me is this girl who supersets different exercises. Today she had the squat rack, and was flat BB benching with it. Fair enough. But she also had a BB setup in front of the bench, doing deadlifts or bent-over rowing, not sure. Point is, she'd do a set of benching, then do the DLs, then back to benching. Two BBs used up. Now, there's only a certain number of BBs in the gym, and when it gets busy all the good ones can be used up. In fairness to her, she'd grand about letting you share. If you asked to share the bench for chest say, I reckon she'd let you work in; same with the DLs. But it annoys me kind of. Even when the gym is empty it annoys me 🤣. I just have a thing about people doing supersets, or a load of different exercises in rotation, if you get me. I think I mentioned before on here about this guy who had two squat racks, side by side, on the go at the same time, doing different exercises in each: like in one, maybe incline bench, and in the other, squatting. Something like that. More amusing than annoying (probably only because the gym was empty; if it was packed and I needed one of the racks I wouldn't be shy about letting him know).

Another one was dopes unloading BBs on squatting racks: low IQ person removes all the plates from one side, bar flips violently and hits the deck with huge force, anyone passing by could be seriously injured or killed, happened umpteen times. My gym had to put up signs telling people to alternate sides when removing weights.

Would you not wear them instead? Go back to locker/ bag area for stuff you need or to put back what you're done with.

This is a fine example of " the rules don't apply to me" attitude that is the main reason for this thread.

Lockers are for your belongings while you work out. A bag on the gym floor would be for things that you use during the workout.

Depending on what I'm doing. I might have some micro-plates, chalk, wrist wraps and my notebook. It's far easier to keep that tidy in a small bag.
Leaving a bag behind a treadmill where somebody might step off and trip is careless. But weights areas typically have equipment around the place that people could trip on if they were not careful. People should stay aware.

You might wear the belt for squats only. Straps for deadlifts, etc. You certainly see people where all the bells and whistles for every exercise and set. But that's not somebody who knows what they are doing.
Walking back to the locker room to chalk between sets would be ridiculous.

Not sure how that's a "rules don't apply to me attitude". Different places have different rules.

technique “analysis” isn’t standard.

It is for people that lift enough for it to matter

haha nice! I guess my 500kg bicep curls don’t matter 🙂

It’s probably a generational thing. I’d find it weird to see someone with a camera set up to record their workout in my gym.
I’d probably understand it more in a more private setting.

I assume you meant 50kg not 500kg. 😉 I'd consider that pretty high.

But yes, 50kg curls don't matter, at least in that context. Bicep curls are not a competitive lift in weight lifting or power lifting. I don't think I've ever seen any videos of technical analysis of bicep curls (could be filmed for other reasons though).

For competitive lifts like squats, deadlifts, cleans, snatches, etc. To get the most out of your potential, it's almost a prerequisite that you record and do at least some analysis. For a competitor, or any person/gym taking strength training seriously. Recording is totally standard in those instances and has been for a long time.

That's not to say every video ever in the gym as analysis btw. But that was the context specifically mentioned above.

People also used to lift without bars and weight plates. Amazing how as technology advances, people who want to progress optimally use it to their advantage 😛