Re: I have a bone to pick with you people at the gym...
- From: Curt James <cwj111@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:38:05 -0400
henree21@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Okay I need to vent about nasty a$$ people
You got the a$$ part right. The dollar signs at least. These people
pay their membership fee and, yes, some common courtesy would be nice,
but they probably think being able to actually sweat and run as well
as not shower before jumping in the hot tub is part and parcel of
their dues. (I'm not disagreeing that some venting isn't necessary, of
course.)
and their habits that piss me off.
1) People need to wipe up their own damn sweat off of the equipment.
Why should I clean up your bodily fluids. Now some people don't mind
sitting on top of some ones elses sweat puddles. But for me I flat out
won't use that piece of equipment.
How's that working out for you? Gold's in Carlisle has spray bottles
(I suspect they're filled with human sweat) as well as paper towel
dispensers arranged throughout the gym. I have taken a towel to the
gym to place on the benches before using them, but tired of that
fairly quickly. So far I haven't gotten cooties.
2) Why can't people follow the sauna rules. It says no tennis shoes in
the sauna. Not only does it stink up the sauna. But people track dirt
in and what ever else they stepped in on their way from the streets.
Who has time for a sauna? My one friend and his wife have a sauna in
their home. You need a better job, pal. Then you can afford your own
sauna and not have to worry about someone's shoes. (And, really, how
much worse is dirt tracked in from the streets versus that same
person's foot fungus? D'OH!)
3) For those that like to relax in the hot tub. How do I approach a
sweaty beast that tries to enter the hot tub with out a shower? I have
never said anything. Who knows how someone will react. But it is nasty
to me. In the pool it is nasty. But especially in such in a small
container as a hot tub.
Likewise the hot tub. Buy your own, you piss and moaner. I can just
imagine the reaction to, "HEY, YOU! YES, YOU! SWEATY BEAST! SHOWER
NOW, BEEYOTCH!"
4) I love kids but they shouldn't be allowed to come into a gym until
the age of 18. It is not fair that they get to run around and play with
all the equipment, improperly and not have to pay for it. They need to
charge parents to bring their kids. Maybe that would discourage them
from bringing them in. I don't like to have to wait for some 11 or 13
year old to get off of a machine that they shouldn't be using in the
1st place. I pay the monthly dues. So I should be able to kick these
kids off of the equipment.
Your gym has only two machine and one Olympic bar? Tell me you can't
adjust for other gym members or work around their sets. What would you
do if it was an adult instead of a child? Next time, just ask the kid
if you can work in. Be polite. They'll either get freaked out and run
or let you actually share the equipment.
(THEN you can just sit there and not let them back on the machine.
HAW! Uh, wait... )
Anything I missed..
Nah, you covered the big ones.
Well, there is this one, but it doesn't really have any impact on my
workouts. It bugs me when people do crappy curls. These little
fraction-of-full-range-of-motion curls that don't exercise anything.
That goes for any gym movement, actually. Saw a guy doing leg
extensions and it was just pathetic. Swinging the weight up and
letting it fall - not holding it at all at the top of the movement. No
real flexing involved.
--
Curt
http://curtjames.com/
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