Pet peeves in the gym
I’ve got a few pet peeves in the gym that I need to get off my chest here. Afterwards, I’d like to hear some of your views on things that really irk you when you’re at the gym trying to get a good workout. Maybe if you vent, like I’m about to, you’ll feel better. "You’re welcome" in advance! 
1. "Monday warriors". You know, the people who you see Monday through Wednesday (or sometimes Thursday) who take the rest of the week off, junk out and booze up, then swarm the gym on Monday to try and undo the damage…only to repeat the cycle every week. So why does that bother me? Because come Monday, I won’t be able to get to the machine, bench, or rack that I need to due to these part-timers!
2. "Aimless zombies". These are the people (usually doubling as "Monday warriors") who have no workout plan whatsoever. They just wander aimlessly from one machine or rack to the next, and Murphy’s law says it will always be the machine or rack that I need and when I need it.
3. A dead iPod, after the workout’s been started. If you don’t workout to music, this doesn’t apply to you, obviously. But man, it sucks when you’re dialed in and then…….silence. Charge that thing when you get home, but try and stay focused for the duration of your workout…in spite of the music that the gym is blaring through their speakers!
4. Realizing that I left my pre-workout or post-workout drink at home. D’oh!
5. The old guy in the locker room that at the very moment you’re in there, he drops his towel, stands there nekkid as a jaybird, and just so happens to need to get in the locker right beside where you’re standing! I mean, 300 lockers in the locker room, and Naked Old Dude needs to get into locker #3 at the instant that you’re getting your stuff out of locker #1! Come on!
OK, I’ll admit it: I probably obsess a bit much! 
Anywho, any of you guys have any pet peeves at the gym?
Jonathan
July 14, 2009 at 12:32 pm
You forgot about the people that go there to socialize. When they start talking to you while you are in the middle of a set with your headphones blaring….when you give them the shut the hell up and get away from me look and they keep talking…and you can’t hear a word.
July 14, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Guys or gals who sit on a piece of equipment as though they own it and won’t let anyone else work in.
Guys who drip sweat all over the bench and neglect to clean up after themselves. (Seriously, who raised you?)
People who refuse to unload their bar after piling on 6,000 plates for a half rep effort.
July 14, 2009 at 12:33 pm
you listed a couple of my pet peeves, but i’ve got a couple to add.
1. the guys who walk past every mirror and check themselves out.
2. the "fan boys". these are the guys who turn the fan on to HIGH whenever they walk into the room. And it always happens to be blowing right on me, as i’m trying to lift.
those are a couple of mine, i have a lot more, but i wanna let other people list theres, before i put more on here.
July 14, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I work out in a small gym with only one squat rack. There’s this dude who comes in now and then, and does his entire 1 hour workout, on that squat rack. Heaven help you if you ask to work in with him too.
I get it that people need to use it to do squats and stuff, but can’t you find somewhere else to do those behind the back wrist curls?
July 14, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Jothan,
Amen to what you have said, LOL! You need to check out my post today, it so funny that we were on the same page as far as irratation.
Jeremy
July 14, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Yes, BullDogz, the socialization thing is annoying. Look, I am by far THE most approachable guy around…when I’m NOT working out! Before or after, I will talk your ear off if you let me. But for the love of Pete, lemme get my workout done after I’ve started!
The rest of you: OUTSTANDING comments and observations! Keep ‘em coming!
July 15, 2009 at 12:08 am
Heres a twist on the "grunter." I was in the gym one day and there were these 2 guys over on a cable machine. As one was lifting and coming into his last few reps, his boy was screaming that he needed to lift it for all his dead homies.
July 15, 2009 at 4:01 am
"his boy was screaming that he needed to lift it for all his dead homies. "
LOL! Dude, I may have just officially heard it all!
July 15, 2009 at 4:53 am
Last night some little young s**t comes into the gym with two friends and gets on a piece of equipment I had just lifted on and tried to the weight I was doing, it probably weighed more than he did. They did a couple exercises and left, don’t over do it kids. LOL