I don't know if I'd mind if someone was blow drying their public hair on a stationary dryer. LoL. I would be embarrassed for their lack of awareness or care, but I would probably laugh hysterically and wonder off.

This is what drives me crazy:

People who turn fans in your area without checking with others first. I hate fans and it is a huge killer for me.

The dude who works on the elliptical and yaps on his cell phone for the entire time about a TV show him and the other person on the phone are watching at the same time. -_-...Which is "I love money."

People who don't clean their equipment after use.

People who stare. I hope my *ss bounces them into a concussion.

Did I mention people who sing out loud with their IPODS while listening to the song you hate the most?

I have a new one! The steam room says you must be 16 years old or older to use it. Some woman brought her 4 or 5 year old in there and of course she did what all kids do at that age...climb all over the place! The room is small and the floors and steps where you sit are slippery from the water and the mother didn't even bother to tell her kid to sit down at least. I hate ratting people out but the steam room is not a safe place for a young kid to be running around so I let management know and walked out.

I used the steam room for my first (and last time). There was a woman who came in wearing her panties and bra. She began using some sponge thing to exfoliate. Then she proceeded to strip naked. Walked over in front of me and held the door open (letting steam out and cold air in) yelling to another lady. Then she turned to ask me something about the temp while "exfoliating" her breasts. I said "excuse me" and bolted out of there. Ugh.

Later I saw her wearing regular clothing in the pool.

yuck, nakedness is an overall pet peeve in locker rooms.

I HAD to laugh at all the swimmer comments, takes me back to my youth in the Y locker room..... having soap fights in the showers! :o

I hate the meatheads that look at you like you are crazy for entering their scared free weight room. I wish my gym had a women's free weight section.

Probably already mentioned since I haven't read through the posts yet...

-people talking on their cell phones for 30mins while walking 1.0 speed on the treadmill. After they are done, without breaking a drop of sweat, leave.
-not putting weights away after they are done with the machine

Edit: I agree about the perfume thing!

Here's one from my boyfriend:
-they have a hot tub in the men's changeroom. And a few times, he has seen other men put there *uh-hmm* against the jets... while he's sitting in the tub next to them no less!

:rofl: :rofl: :fr: .... THAT beats the hairdryer :lol:

I don't go to a gym, but I have been running at the park lately, and have a peeve there I have nowhere else to share...

The outer track I run on is 16 feet wide, to allow for bikes and roller blades and such. You are supposed to yield to people passing, as long as the person makes audible notice that they are approaching to pass. I hate hate hate groups of folks who walk together side by side spread out along the entire width of the path and fail to move over to let people pass. I often have to pass on the dirt to the outside, which is uneven and rocky in places. Some of them will even make snarky comments to me about passing... I've turned three groups into the park police...

Good for you! That is so annoying. I hate when people do that in general as I am always rushing to one place or another. You can't have the ENTIRE sidewalk!!!! Riiiiiight????

This bugs me to no end. I notice this with people who insist on going against the traffic on a track, too. First, you're going the wrong way. Second, I'm going to stand my ground and keep my path, so unless you want my shoulder, you should probably move.

Stand up straight, look straight ahead, and keep your path. They'll learn :)

(I know that sounds a little aggro, but it's a very clear signal that I'm not moving. And it works really well! I promise I don't go around shoulder slamming strangers ;))

Thighsbegone....OMG UGHHHHH that is the nastiest thing I have ever heard. I can NOT believe people actually do that. UGH, I'm going to go puke now.

Im not a member of my local gym, apparently the personal trainers there like to make fun of heavy people :/

That story about the guy in the spin class is hilarious. There is a guy in my spin class that does the same thing. Every time the instructor tells us to "gear it up," he's repeats her and he yells out other things that I guess are supposed to be encouraging but are mainly annoying. It's particularly annoying because I doubt he is putting any resistance at all on his bike (based on how fast his legs are moving and the fact that he can even yell these things out--when I'm spinning, yelling usually isn't an alternative).

One of my favorite bloggers just wrote today about locker room ettiquette. Fifth "don't" on the list is "[don't] dry your privates with the public hairdryer." Who knew this was such a problem?

I also hate the folks at the pool that don't know proper swim ettiquette. If there are three of us in the lane, you and your five-year old can't swim side by side. Also, if we're circle swimming and I'm about to pass you as we come into the wall, take two seconds out of your workout to move to the side of the lane and let me pass you. Seriously, two seconds is all it will take; it's not going to ruin your workout. And I'm going to pass you anyway, this just makes the process easier and more pleasant for everyone.

When I lived in Italy, I used to do lap swims at the local pool. They never had any dividers for lanes. So you'd make your own lane and go back and forth. Until a guy who wanted to do lengths would just jump in and swim (ALWAYS the men; NEVER the women). To heck with anyone in his way. So you'd see buddy coming, you'd stop swimming, put your forearms up, turn your head, and let him crash into you. You'd then yell at him that "I was here FIRST" "FIND ANOTHER LANE". Whereupon he'd move. If you moved, you'd never get another space in the pool. I recall one guy banging into me, then the woman beside me, and the woman beside HER, and so on down the line of 15 people before eking out a lane right next to the pool edge. I hated every minute of it.
That and the men changing in the bleachers instead of the locker room. And standing around in their tighty whities (and sadly some in their frowny brownies) chatting and smoking away. Seriously...
Kira

:lol3::rofl::lol3::rofl::lol3::rofl::lol3::rofl::l ol3::rofl::lol3::rofl::lol3::rofl:

OMG I'm dying over that one!

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I think I laughed myself into a asthma attack. Too funny ladies. I'm surprised the dryer thing is brand new to so many. I was swim team through HS, I have seen every don't more than once. As a grown up who is back in the pool for training, it's especially bad in there. I will sit on your wet towel all day if I never have to see you stretch naked again. For reals.

I'm totally going to work "frownie brownies" into a conversation somehow

I am DYING at frownie brownies.:lol:

On drying one's pubic area with a hair dryer:

Ok, you will probably all think that I am weird but I don't think this would bother me. I havent seen anyone to do that but why not? I assume they don't stick the hair dryer INTO the pubic and that there is no contact, so what's the difference between hair on the head and hair in the pubic area?

Regarding the locker room:
I consider myself very lucky to have a membership at a gym with spotless locker rooms. The showers are clean, there are shampoo (or maybe shower gel?) containers in each shower (i bring my own) and no matter what time of the year, there are ALWAYS fresh flowers. Actually three bouquets because in the middle of the room is is a counter with a big mirror (think a hairdresser's workstation). Each side has a hair dryer, a container with cotton and another one with Q-tips. Fresh flowers in a vase on each side and anotehr bouquet of flowers on the counter with the sinks. And it smells reasonably ok.
I love my gym!

We have a beautiful trail that is miles long and winds down along the river here. I tried biking on it a few times--no go. People would be strolling along, 4 abreast, and they would not yeild or move when I biked up behind them and made myself known. Since I'm not a drive-my-bike-into-a-strolling-crowd kind of gal, I would have to bike off into the grass or dirt along the trail. Grrrr. It eventually got to be too much of a hassle and I didn't try to bike there any longer.

Windchime -- you might try a little goofy horn. (My son likes the kind shaped like a shark.) Eventually, the walkers will learn.

Or not.

Be strong,
Kim

My number one pet peeve is when people use the lockers in the locker room and don't LOCK them! Not because I care whether or not their stuff gets stolen, but because I have to open about 50 lockers to find an available locker. The lock not only protects your stuff, but it signals to everyone that that locker is in use. Some days I contemplate taking stuff just to teach people a lesson :devil:

My other pet peeve is the conversations (whether on the cell phone or to the person next to them). If I can hear you through my mp3 player on max volume, then you are too frickin loud! And how can you talk comfortably and get a good workout anyway??

This reminds me of a germophobic woman at my gym who spends at least 75% of her workout wiping, spraying, and disinfrecting. She got on the treadmill in front of me and I literally watched her wrap the whole surface of the machine in paper towels so that no part of her body or any of her belongings would touch the actual machine. Cuckoo! :dizzy:

one of mine is when you are on a treadmil and getting into the show that happens to be on in front of you and someone comes along beside you and changes it without asking. Rude!

Also, I used to work at a gym and this one lady kept spitting in the showers. Gross! We eventually had her membership suspended. for spitting. hahaha

Oh one other thing, but this may just be bathroom annoyances, but people that don't flush! It takes two seconds. (I have to admit that I'm a foot flusher to avoid touching the handle) :)

id say something.... "hey, excuse me, i was watching that!":dizzy:

OMG yes. I work in a public library and the staff has to share a bathroom with the actual public :lol: and it makes me crazy when people don't flush - or worse, when they leave the seat wet! Use the paper covers people, don't hover! Grrrrrr. (and i'm with you foot flushing)

Last night I opened a locker & inside was an unused feminine pad stuck to the back of the locker.

I left my last gym because the times for the classes were either during the day or at 5 or 5:30 p.m....unless you happened to be a spinner, for which there is an extra charge, or other super-challenging class which I was not yet ready to take. Apparently if you are newer to fitness you'd better be retired or a housewife; no working folks need apply. I spoke to the staff on numerous occasions about putting beginners' or less challenging classes in the schedule say at 6 or 6:30 p.m. or Saturday morning, but no one seemed to care, so I left and moved my business to the new gym across the street, at less than 1/3 the cost.

I had a laugh at all these! I'm glad others have pet peeves, too... I work out at the exercise room at our apartment complex. It's not bad - one slightly slippy treadmill, bike, stairstepper and several weight machines. But more than two people you are probably going to have some conflict. Usually when we go around 7-7:30 no one else is in there (I suspect knowing the culture of our complex they've gone on to lifting beers ;-), but several times now we've overlapped with others and OMG I can't believe how rude some people are. The cell phone thing is unreal - who wants to know if you are going to "plead guilty" tomorrow and have to spend five minutes convincing your girlfriend you really are working out? And then there's those that turn on the TV so LOUD. And it's never anything interesting - (at least what I would be interested in). But the worst? Is the little imbeciles that BANG THE WEIGHTS after their set. Like do they think that this is going to make them seem more impressive like they were lifting a huge amount? OMG - I've gone to wait outside at a table by the pool and you can still hear them dropping them! And of course I am a newbie but even I know they are doing it wrong (I know - how can you do it wrong!) just sort of flailing about. Course their tattoos and bandannas and attitude do NOT cover up their stick thin legs and flabby beer guts :-) So, I just roll my eyes and in another year, who knows? Maybe I'll walk over to them with my buff arms and say, hey - did anyone ever teach you how to do this - you want results - let me show you how? Of course I might get knifed for doing that...maybe I'll just imagine that GRIN.

This is why I eventually quit going to the gym. I took a class called "Bodyflow" that I really liked. It was a mixture of yoga and pilates set to music and I loved it. Getting to the gym, finding parking, and getting to the classroom by 5 5:30 was nearly impossible for me. They also offered it some days at noon, but I hate going back to work hot and sweaty and there isn't time to shower and re-do makeup and hair in an hour when 50 minutes of that hour is a class!

A few months ago I went back to the gym to pick up a schedule and now they've cut the class back more, to where it is only offered a couple times a week, and only during the day. So people who work a traditional work schedule can't attend. Boo.

I live in a small town in a very rural area, so there are only a couple of gyms. Two are Gold's, and they're nice gyms but you'd better be prepared to circle the lot many times and hope someone leaves if you want a parking spot. Then you need to be prepared to wait.....and wait.......and wait.......if you want a treadmill. My mom is a member of the gym at the "Y" and she likes it, but she can go at 10 in the morning because she's retired. People who go at lunchtime or after work have the same problems; lack of parking, lack of enough equipment, etc.

Oh, and while ranting - let me do one more. We have a wonderful greenbelt with walking trails right next to us. I'm a walker - go with my dog - and I'm very conscientious. I always keep us to the right, dog is on a short leash, I step off to the side when stopping and I bag the poop. But the bikers!!!!!!!! THEY ARE SO RUDE AND ARROGANT. Some are nice and have bells but others wait until they are right behind you and YELL (scares me to DEATH) "LEFFFFFT". First few times I jumped left thinking they were yelling at me to go left. I've had them go just past and turn and scream at the dog to get a reaction. Those that aren't sneaky quiet are LOUD - you can hear them yelling their conversation to their buddy half a mile down the path (so much for my nature walk). And then okay, so some days it's grand central station with all the bikes flying by (no, they aren't going by the posted speed limit for bikes) so I take to the trails - and those are worse because you have the wanna be mountain bikers that come flying through forcing you off the path into weeds and briars. And they are supposed to yield to you. Bikes here take over everything - the road, the paved paths and the trails - and they sure act like the world belongs to them. I remember one almost knocking me over one day and the back of his shirt had this big graphic about cars being considerate to bikers - HAH!!!!!! Sorry, I used to bike and I know none of th lovely people are THOSE cyclists, but there are days I wish they'd have an open season on the arrogant ones (and they are always the skinniest ones with the most amount of advertising on their clothes I've noticed).

Okay. Done. I have wanted to get that off my chest for a very long time now. Thanks for listening!!! I really don't think it's more than 50% of the cyclists out there (and honestly I think it's a Colorado attitude - never found it in other states). So hats off to all the NICE cyclists! I know who you are and smile at you when I see you ;-)

Course their tattoos and bandannas and attitude do NOT cover up their stick thin legs and flabby beer guts :-)

LOL! At my previous gym there were a couple of 40ish guys who hung around together, and they really thought they were God's gift to women, let me tell you. They had big buff arms and chests, and huge beer guts and toothpick legs...and the sad thing was they had their groupies who batted their eyelashes at every witty remark that burst forth from these guys' golden throats. Only instead of the bandannas and tattoos, they had bleached blonde spiky hair like wannabe surfer dudes.

Oh, yeah, forgot the lack of parking...
 

Cracks me up too how the guy who will go in and run 100 miles an hour on the treadmill will circle and circle around trying to get the parking spot closest to the door.

Oh man I could list pages of these LOL. I go to the drill hall on the military base and get the whole range of weirdness.

I've seen an old lady using the wall attached dryer to dry her naked body after getting out of the pool. It was not a sight I would EVER like to see again. This is why we have towels right? The naked ladies also like to sit around in the locker room chatting. I always shower and change in the shower. I'm just not at a place where I want to parade around in the buff. I probably never will be. They always stare at me when I walk by like I'm the weird one!

The guys that run so hard on the treadmill they're practically barking instead of breathing. It's super distracting. It always ends up being the guy directly next to me doing it to!

There is a wall of mirrors at the front of the cardio room that I HATE because I always catch people glancing at me and each other. It's creepy to me. Nobody should have to see what my thighs are doing on the stair climber.

The guys playing basketball that have no regard for people walking by. I've almost been hit in the face with a ball about 20 times. There is no other way to get from the cardio room to the locker room!

The guys who wear the shorts that are slit up the side to the waist band. I don't care how buff or hot you are... not attractive.

The women who stand in front of the mirrors "stretching" errr showing off. I'm so happy that you have abs of steel... please step aside so I can use the weight bench... thanks!

I'm such a cranky gym goer!

At the gym I went to, you would circle and circle to find ANY spot. There were times that I actually had to just leave because there was noplace to park. There is no street parking and the only nearby business has conspicuous signs telling you that you WILL be towed if you park there and go to the gym. So if the gym parking lot is too full, too bad--maybe next time!

People are disgusting! Reading this makes me glad I canceled my membership! I hated when people didn't wipe down the equipment. And the stinky people and the snickers from the skinny b!tches! I don't think I'll ever join a gym again! I'm perfectly content to use my at-home treadmill, my free weights, my pilates videos, the nice nature trails around my area to walk and bike ride!

Ugh, I'm just relieved I don't have to deal with any of that crap at the gym. My gym wasn't so bad, but still to have to deal with any negative experiences like that just isn't worth it. And now just thinking about how nasty people probably are makes me want to puke! I work retail and always have my bottle of hand sanitizer with me. The gym-germs always kinda freaked me out. I never use a hand dryer anyway in public after seeing on tv how it is the biggest germ/bacteria trap ever, and then when u turn it on it blows all the germs around! Those ladies drying themselves down there better watch out! Lol! They're just blowing a whole bunch of bugs on their privates! But if they are that nasty to begin with they deserve it! Yuck!

Speaking of running on the treadmill, at my last gym the floor under the treadmills was so unstable that when someone was running on the treadmill next to mine, my treadmill would be shaking all over the place. Thank goodness that doesn't happen at my new gym. I was always waiting for the floor to collapse under me.

:rofl: GREAT OBSERVATION!

My gym used to be a Gold's gym but now is called signature fitness. The place gets so packed right after work but they expanded the gym so there's plenty of equipment to go around. The funny thing is that since it gets so packed I see the people circleing and waiting around the parking lot all the time too. We have 3 parking lots and some parking along the back of the building. People always circle the lots closest to the building but finding a spot there could take you 15-20 minutes. So when I go there I go straight to the lot farthest away which is a whole 1/2 a block away woohoo (note the sarcasm), it's completely empty and I'm in the gym in 2 minutes. I laugh at all the people to lazy to walk a few extra feet it's ridiculous!

So you could just throw their things in the floor and take their locker, and lock it so they can't get you back :o Mean as it is....;)

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My wife is often having me come over to remove the 100s and 45s from the machine. I too notice how many of the younger men have no idea about gym manners. Also many of them are performing the exercises incorrectly. The navy base gym we work out at has a nifty thing for sanitation. A 3 foot tall cylinder dispenses sanitary wipes. Just tear off the one you want, wipe off the bench or machine and dispose of the spent wipe in the handy basket at the bottom. To avoid the crowd I go as early as possible. One time I had my knees wrapped and was ready to squat something like 500, when some jerk stepped up to the squat rack and started doing chinups. Since there are only a few women that work out there, I haven't noticed the perfume issue, but I can imagine that being a real problem.