Ugh, I had one of my pet peeves happen to me this morning. I had been running on the track on the innermost lane for about half an hour. Our track has six lanes, and I was the only person on it. These two girls come in and start running in the opposite direction from me, in the innermost lane and the one next to it. Okay, I can believe maybe that they didn't notice me at first. So you'd think that when they saw me they might move over to lanes 2 and 3 instead of 1 and 2, considering there was NOBODY else there. But no, when we are running towards each other, this girl in my lane gives me a dirty look and I have to get out of her way! Excuse me, but I have been in this lane for half an hour and there are 5 empty lanes! Don't give ME a dirty look! Geez. And to top it off, they left after like four laps. Would it really have been so bad for them to use the next two lanes over?
You're WAY nicer than me - I would have plowed right into the b*tch!! But then again, I am getting nastier as I get older...
That's not true. I sweat every bit as much now as I did at 210 pounds, and after 2 1/2 years of hitting it hard at the gym, I'd like to believe I'm pretty physically fit. Some people just sweat more than others.
I hate the creepy guy who comes to the gym in street clothes and stands at the edge of the aerobics floor dancing to the music and ogling the women. {{{shudder}}}
I hate the 2 jerky muscle beach guys who monopolize a machine for the entire 90 minutes I'm there, never giving a thought that there may be someone else there who wants to use it. They talk about the other people working out and laugh at the guys who aren't in as good of shape as them. Oh, and did I mention that they grease up to come there? Yuck! Leave the baby oil at home please.
"the better shape you get in the less you sweat" . Okay it was me that made that statement. I got hung for it too. Anyhow when I was at 216 I use to really sweat when I did my cardio. As I lost weight I noticed that I was sweating alot less. I workout alot and that is pretty much how it happend for me, I don't sweat near as much as I do now (at 165) as I did at 216, and the workout is the same pace or maybe harder...
I guess it doesn't work that way for everyone - sorry, I met no offense...
Star: You have lost FIFTY POUNDS!! I've lost a little over 20 and the other day I went to pick up a 20lb bag of dog food and thought...I've lost THIS much weight? No wonder I can sprint up the stairs with much more bounce than I used to.
Now...you've lost 50...imagine picking up a fifty pound...anything! I don't even know if I could LIFT that much without throwing out my back! You've lost that much weight and your body was exercising with that added poundage, it makes sense that you sweat more then than you do now. And Lord knows all of our bodies are different and react to things in their own individual ways. If you happened to make a comment that may or may not have been scientifically proven, don't 'sweat it'. You know the comment you made was true to you at the very least. We all love you and think you're doing great!!
Techwife, believe me, I wish losing weight would make me stop sweating! For a while I blamed it on perimenopause, but since it hasn't gone away... Now I don't even need to exercise to sweat! I think some of us are a little jealous of you.
When I reach goal, I may find that you're right and I'm less damp than I am now... I hope.
On a funnier note, there is this woman who works out at my gym who is (or looks like) a stripper. She has a tiny little body, and giant implants . Anyway, she comes into our gym dressed in these extremely skimpy outfits and does pretty much nothing. But she works out in the main part of the gym (not the ladie's section) and as soon as she catches some guy looking at her, she rolls her eyes and gets this disgusting look on her face like "how dare they look". It's quite hilarious!! Cracks me up like crazy!
wow, maybe we go to the same gym! i saw a girl just like this in the locker room the other day. she was wearing platform spike heels (like 6 in heels at least!), a hot pink skimpy halter, and a skirt i might have worn as a headband (not kidding about that either!) i know some strippers, and i know they don't go out of the club looking like that, so i assumed she was a hooker. it was really weird.
other than that, the ladies who never put on their clothes in the locker room are a little unnerving. get dressed!!
OMG I don't have much to add because everyone has nailed all of my pet peeves.
I work out on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday and on Tuesday and Thursday there is a man that works out on the machines at the same time I do. I can literally do FIVE machines around this man. He sits there for probably 5 minutes before each rep. DRIVES ME NUTS!! It isn't so bad when the machines are all free, I can just jump around, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way. People just don't understand that there are people that are trying to work out that have only so much time carved out of the day for working out.
I really can't stand the people who keep damp gym clothes in their lockers and wear them all week. There are a few men in my gym who sweat a lot during their workouts, and they smell so musty and moldy b/c their clothes have not been washed. I am not talking about normal sweaty odor, or even a mild bit of B.O. Their smell just takes my breath away.
Oh, I have another one (although this is unique to my gym). My gym is in a hotel, and is next to the restaurant. there are two problems with this.
Firstly, I exercise before work. Right at breakfast time. Sometimes its not too bad, but other times the smell is just SO GOOD!
Secondly, between the ladies changing rooms and the pool there is a corridor with windows on one side. Guess what's the other side of the windows? Yes, the restaurant, and tables. So people can stare at you in your swimming costume as they're eating their breakfast.
But better than this, the hotel is sometimes used by sports teams who are playing or training in Leeds. On one occasion I got out of the pool and wandered past the windows, only to notice the majority of an international rugby team looking straight at my rather sizeable swimming costume clad body...
Excuse me, but I have been in this lane for half an hour and there are 5 empty lanes! Don't give ME a dirty look! Geez. And to top it off, they left after like four laps. Would it really have been so bad for them to use the next two lanes over?
But then again, I am getting nastier as I get older... 
I've lost a little over 20 and the other day I went to pick up a 20lb bag of dog food and thought...I've lost THIS much weight? No wonder I can sprint up the stairs with much more bounce than I used to. 
I aim to please...most of the time. 
