I had my tricep kickback corrected by a trainer who was brand new to the gym and pretty much trawling for clients. It was very helpful.
I haven't seen her around lately. I don't know what happened there. Either it didn't work with the clients or someone didn't like her approaching individuals. I don't know.
A few of the things that I see all too often: runners holding on to the treadmill handles, and people on the stair climber hunched over the machine, letting it hold them up. Ugh! The trainers just walk past because people really don't want to be corrected. They think they are doing everything right. Not that people should feel self conscious working out, but if you aren't sure how to do something correctly, ask! Most trainers will welcome the interaction, as long as they aren't working with a client at the time.
Pam
Lol I used to that. But in my defense, the stair climber is HARD. I would put it on the fat burn mode and when it got really fast, I did that so I could complete the workout.
Good going for at least doing the stair climber, Norcal. I shouldn't be critical. Everyone is doing their best and deserve props for getting into the gym. BTW, when I'm on the stair master, I think of all the fire fighters trudging up the twin towers carrying all of their gear on 9/11. I think given what they went through, the least I can do is make it a few more flights...
I worry less about cardio form (after all, how someone gets their heart rate up is up to them - if they're working at the heart rate they want to, who whether they are doing so with a high incline and handrails or a low incline and no handrails is sort of irrelevant, you know? Unless they have a trainer forcing them to increase pace and they cheat that prescribed pace, who cares?) than weights form, since it's a LOT easier to hurt yourself with weights.
I worry less about cardio form (after all, how someone gets their heart rate up is up to them - if they're working at the heart rate they want to, who whether they are doing so with a high incline and handrails or a low incline and no handrails is sort of irrelevant, you know? Unless they have a trainer forcing them to increase pace and they cheat that prescribed pace, who cares?) than weights form, since it's a LOT easier to hurt yourself with weights.
True. I think it was the combo of 15% grade and totally bored non working expression that got me.
And your earlier post made me giggle because of course my "put your back into it" guy grunts like he needs to take some metamucil you cant NOT notice him.
At the time of day I go to the gym there are a lot of teenage boys trying to impress, they use wayyyy too heavy weights with no form whatsoever... it's very hard to watch...
Does anyone else have a Cardio Wave machine at their gym? This thing get the worst form users ever at our place. People get on it going fast, like they're running (with no resistance), and it kills me. I'm usually on it on level 2 like i'm skating through thick grass and up comes ms. incorrect & hops on the one beside me like she's doing the 100 meter dash!
I also see trainers on a daily basis showing people how to use kettlebells incorrectly too.
This is one of the reasons I hate going to the gym and have been going down to the local track instead. Although you'd be surprised, there are people everywhere that don't know what they're doing. I'm always seeing people stretch by bouncing their muscles and it always makes me wince.
When I was a regular at the gym I used to see a girl work on her love handles. She would place a long broomstick over her shoulders and the twist side to side... for 30 minutes.... every day. LOL.
It would be nice if there was an attendant on the gym floor. To calmly walk over to someone "putting their back into it" and explaining how it should be done. It should be in the gym contract "if you sign up to this gym you will be monitored by an attendant while you exercise." Also it would be nice because more often than not I see a lot of people walk up to machines totally confused, not knowing how to operate them or for how long. I think a gym really needs to be responsible for showing people how to do these things correctly lest there be some injuries.
I have the ultimate "doing it wrong" story for you all this morning.
A woman, 70-ish, works out faithfully at our gym. She hunches badly over the stair climber, but she's there, and I'm impressed. Today, after hunching badly over said stair climber, she got off the machine and wiped her face with the hem of her shirt...at which point it was rather obvious she was wearing no bra!! Full exposure to the entire gym. And a lengthy exposure too. She either had no idea or was just at the age where she doesn't care. I can't imagine working out with no support, personally.
BWAHAHAH Eliana! That is hilarious. There is a woman at my gym (about the same age) who wears a swimsuit & track pants to workout in. Swimsuits do not provide support.
Wannabeskinny - I actually went to a gym where they would NOT let you work out until they had taken you around to show you how to work all the equipment. That had its problems as well. 1) if you were a newbie getting 900 pieces of equipment thrown at you in one day is pretty useless. 2) the employees werent always right
I like the thought of trained employees actually stopping people who were going to injure themselves.
There's this one guy at the gym who makes me wince and freaks me out. When he's on the treadmill, he looks hard to the right and downward the whole time! It's almost like he's looking down at the right side of his body. At first I thought maybe it was a physical handicap of some kind, but when he gets off the treadmill he walks normally. So I don't know what that's all about.
Another thing that makes me wince (and kind of amused) is the people who put the treadmill incline so high or the speed so fast that they HAVE to hold on to the handrails. It's like, "come on, do you hold on to something when you're walking around anywhere else?"
There is a lady in our running club who wears running tights commando. Not at all unusual, many runners run commando. However I think she must have been much younger and thinner when she bought these tights. They are ok when she is running. Not so ok when she ties her shoes.
I've got your braless lady beat...older gentleman w/no underwear under his short shorts while on the bike. Stuff falling out...and dude is either too overheated to notice, or thinks the underwear in his running shorts are holding him in.
Either way, it wasn't nice! Someone told the staff, but nobody wanted to go up to the old dude and say "excuse me mr., one of your buddies keeps flopping out when your leg goes round and round".
But how do you not notice that??!!
Just like braless ladies...don't you feel that flopping? the rest of us arent just wearing bras for OUR benefit, they are to be kind to others as well
@ braless lady, every gym must have one... We have an older hippie looking lady who wears no bra to do aerobics 
I swear they must slap her in the face 
