Originally Posted by Star:
the better shape you get in the less you sweat.

Really? I always thought that the better shape you were in, the more you sweated, because your body has become more efficient at cooling you down. I don't remember where I heard that though.

Originally Posted by :
the better shape you get in the less you sweat

I really and truly don't think that's true.

I don't mind people who over-dress for the gym, it just gives me a good laugh. If I ever saw someone in a skirt working out I think I'd fall on the ground laughing. As for people who wear make-up while they work out, as far as I know this is a BAD IDEA. I always wash my face before I work out because I've heard make up clogs the pores.

Haha, I did think the girl working out in her skirt was pretty funny. But still, she could damage the gym floor or the machine with those clogs!

You always used to be able to tell when the girl I used to share an office with at work was going to the gym in the evening. 5.01pm, out come the hair straighteners and makeup. Whereas I barely even look in the mirror before the gym, I just roll out of bed into my workout clothes and then the car...

There's this really annoying family at the gym, mum, dad and their 18 year old son, they usually go in the morning too. There are three cross trainers at the gym, and both the parents do 40 minute stretches at the same time, leaving one for everyone else to use. Then the son always does weights and basically uses one machine a day, for about an hour.

A person who annoyed me the other day was doing weights, but instead of putting his towel somewhere out of the way draped it over a machine he wasn't even using, he wasn't a regular and I didn't pluck up the courage to pick it up and dump it on the floor...

When I'm swimming, people who get in your way in a relatively empty pool. Particularly one guy who when I'm doing lengths up and down, as are other people, decides to do circuits round the pool, cutting across me all the time and generally getting in my way.

People who go and use the pool at the weekend so they can stand in huge groups at the end chatting. Get out of my way!

Valentines day - lots of people kissing in the pool (my gym is in a hotel, so there were lots of people there for romantic weekends away).

I agree with the not shutting the locker door thing, also people who can't be bothered to take their towels back to reception to put them in the towel bin and leave them strewn around the changing room.

One woman who always puts her towel, shampoo etc in one of the showers before going out for a swim so that they're there when she gets back.

Whoever turns the volume up on one of the tvs before I get there in the morning. There is a reason the tv sound comes through the little radio thingies, and that's so we don't all have to listen to it if we're trying to listen to something else.

It's true - the better shape your in the less you sweat - your in better physical shape and your body doesn't have as much weight to move around......I have been working out for many many years - it's true..... Remeber, I said you sweat less - I didn't say you don't sweat..

Originally Posted by paperclippy:
Really? I always thought that the better shape you were in, the more you sweated, because your body has become more efficient at cooling you down. I don't remember where I heard that though.

If your body is more efficient at cooling you down, then you wouldn't sweat as much.......

Great thread for all the home gym equipment supply companies out there....:)

Mighty interesting read. Seems like my gym rocks :lol: - no such problems (or is it because I go at wrong times)? And the surprising thing is that people at my gym don't pay for it themselves, the fee is included in tuition, so you don't really feel you're spending the money on the gym (I go to the gym at my school). I'd think that if people join a gym where they have to pay a monthly or yearly membership, they'd be serious about working out, but seems like a lot aren't?

Sushi, my gym is a university gym too (I don't pay)! Some people are just inconsiderate I guess. They used to have this one janitor who would shove the vacuum into your feet until you moved out of her way (instead of just asking), that drove me crazy! Not that that has anything to do with anything, except that she was inconsiderate too.

Free gym - nice...
 

Well, I would have to say going to the gym at 6 a.m. 99% are regulars and actually get in a good workout before the day starts. Matter of fact, at 6 a.m. there are only 'regulars' there...... :strong: :ebike: :wl: :tread:

"How much you sweat depends on how many sweat glands you have. A person is born with about two to four million sweat glands. The glands start to become fully active during puberty. Women actually have more sweat glands then men -- the men's glands are just more active.

Because sweating is the body's natural way of regulating temperature, people sweat more in when it's hot outside. People also sweat more when they exercise, or in response to situations that make them nervous, angry, embarrassed, or afraid. "

Taken from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/003218.htm

Just to clear the whole sweating issue up. It isn't dependent on any one single thing, but in theory, if you are working out you should be sweating at least a little.

Yep, I am a marathon coach. Some in our group sweat buckets and others hardly sweat. They are all in fantastic shape.

I don't belong to a gym right now (yet) but the one I used to go to got numerous complaints lodged by myself for grossness:

Women leaving their razors in the shower, and filthy showers in general. I mean YUCK! Those things need to be cleaned! There would be used soaps in there, and the drains would get clogged and hair and yuckiness would float past you. EEEEEEW!

The pool also suffered lack of maintenance. I stopped using it when I found bandaids floating in the water and no one seemed excited when I complained.

And my biggest complaint...
the hot tub was by the pool and there was a couple who would go to the hot tub regularly and well, I'm pretty sure they were actually having sex. Making out woman on top of the guy... EEEEEEWWW! I mean, how disgustingly nasty can you get?!! Really! Gross! Get a room! People take their kids to that pool for crying out loud!

The sauna also seemed to be a popular make out room, but I didn't even venture in there after a friend told me.

Another gem was the guy who would work out there who had swastika tattooes and a shaved head. That always made me feel warm and fuzzy. Tell you what, I'd get off those machines right quick when he stood by!

Needless to say, I was glad to leave this gym when I moved. :lol:

I have another one: :) I work out once a week with a personal trainer, the daughter of the gym owner ... she used to train the gym clientele as an employee but now works for herself ... I've trained with her for two, maybe three years ... I contract with her separately, not through the gym. I have a gym membership and obviously she's allowed to do whatever she wants there ... she's loads of help to me and this isn't her fault but often during my workouts, which I pay for, people come up to her with questions or ask how to use a machine or stop and engage her in conversations about their fitness ... it seems petty of me but for every minute they take the focus away from me on time I pay for, I feel they owe me money ... this is so RUDE (she does cut them off and steer them to the gym personnel, but it's disruptive when it happens more than once) ... a week or so ago a member of the gym STAFF brought a woman in and interruped, saying this woman had a question she couldn't answer ... my trainer said she would be happy to speak with the woman when she was done with MY session and the woman just stood there and gave reasons why she couldn't come back later, holding her ground for her question, I guess ... we moved to a different machine and my trainer ignored her, but this bugs me ... I wouldn't dream of doing that to someone else who was there with a trainer ...

Hmmm. Glad to vent that to someone! Thanks.