What annoying things do people do at the gym that drive you insane?

The "bros" who seem to think the gym is their personal space. They're usually in packs of 5 or 6 (like wolves) and takeover a piece of equipment for endless periods of time. Each guy does a set, then they high five, then they have long winded, bullshit conversations about all the women they're fucking, then the next guy does a set and the process is repeated.

Homophobia, homophobic guys that follow you around, they even follow you to your changed times. I hate that. I usually just find another gym when that stuff happens. Members that stand over you waiting to use the machine, they don’t talk to you, they just stand there waiting for the machine. Members who leave huge sweat or grease marks on machines.

People who leave their water bottle on the machine like that means they can claim it for 30 mins. Get the fuck out of here with that. I love your gif btw OP laughed out loud

Great gif!

Once I went into the dry sauna and this fat guy was wringing the sweat off his body and throwing it on the hot rocks. Needless to say the sauna smelled like hot booty. I told him to stop - that it smelled like ass in here. I poured water from my water bottle on them and he got all huffy.

The trolls that endlessly shower and lurk the saunas, leering at other gym members.

In my gym, the only equipment that is used is their cell phone, of course while sitting on bench or machine

I left a gym because a guy got angry with me for taking up his "mirror space."

^^^ roid rage

It’s probably the people having loud cell phone conversations that annoy me the most. At my gym, cell phone use is banned from the gym floor, but try telling that to any young woman these days.

Yeah they have to be telling someone about their workout. What’s the point of working out if you aren’t telling someone how #grateful4thegains you are? Pure gymspiration! 🙄

Shaving naked at the mirror with your junk resting on the front of the sink. This is never anyone attractive, of course. 🤢

Oh god, where do I start... LA fitness in a Midwest city

People who talk (always loudly!) on their cell while on a treadmill. They are oblivious. I’m trying to work out/decompress/focus and it’s cringe-inducing. There’s even a couple regular older folks who *sing out loud* while on a treadmill or elliptical. I’ve complained but nothing is done.

A million broken pieces of equipment during winter months.

Lurkers who wait for me to finish using a machine, looking directly at me. Move on and do something else...

Guys who stare for any reason (I’m not interested)

Women who take up an entire locker room bench with their stuff

Cell phone sitters, resting on a machine doing nothing but texting

Weight droppers, speaker users, cell phone talkers.

What about screamers?

[quote]Lurkers who wait for me to finish using a machine, looking directly at me. Move on and do something else...

I do things in order. If you're on the machine I need next, I'm going to "lurk." Sorry, cuntessa. Buy your own gym.

People who stand 5 machines away from you out of your eyeline and expect you to realize they want to use your machine.

I understand waiting, but standing over someone and acting exasperated when I just got on the machine is passive aggressive asshole behavior.

Texters hogging machines.

Women standing in the aisles gossiping.

People who don’t wipe the machines down.

[quote]People who don’t wipe

People who ask to work in between your sets. And change the seat position, the weights, and the angle of the machine.

And don't change them back to what you were using.

Totally agree with the "leave a towel/cup/sock" on the mchine mens it's mine for the next half hour while I disappear.

40-50 year old “bros”.

[quote] Guys who stare for any reason (I’m not interested)

Do you hear that, trolls? SHE'S NOT INTERESTED!

Drop their water bottle at a machine.

Ugh!

1) 100 year old trolls doing their exercises in the steam room, with bad form.

2) Creepy guy spending an hour on his "Body Routine" IE: 20 minutes putting on jams, jellies and preserves, straightening his hair, putting different athletes foot creams on EACH AND EVERY toe.

3) Creepy guys walking around naked, like a peacock.

4) Shaving their genitalia with the shower door open.

My gym has a guy I call "the clapper." I've never seen him do anything but ride a stationary bike. While doing so, he keeps up an almost nonstop patter with some imaginary other person, punctuated by frequent swearing. But the main thing that drives me nuts is that periodically he breaks into several seconds of sort of rhythmic, very loud clapping. He pedals really hard and for a very long time, dripping sweat on the bike and the floor around it. He used to do all this in a separate room where the spin bikes are and the clapping was less noticeable, but lately he's been pedaling in the main room.

Guys who use two machines at the same time, going from one to the other.

Or, they use a machine, then lie on the floor doing push-ups, fully expecting no one to usurp “their” machine.

Guys, mostly black per my experience, who get very skittish at seeing another man strip to go take a shower. I mean, what did they expect to find in a men’s locker room?

Guys in the locker room who spread their stuff all over the bench, then get huffy at having to share it.

That peculiar Murphy’s Law, whereby, if you are the only guy in your area of the locker room, inevitably, the next man to enter will have to get into the locker immediately below/above/next to yours. I’ve experienced this dozens of times, from both sides. Go figure...

All the usual pain in the ass stuff, like has been mentioned but I have to offer kudos to OP for his fabulous pic!

People talking, Texting on their phones in the hot tub.

I worked out a a big city Y. I liked it until the number of mental cases, homeless, and at risk youth outnumbered the regulars. Then they got rid of half the gym space to have more social work programs. I liked that the Y was a charity and that they did good work. But the number of people who couldn't behave became overwhelming. A few examples:

Old guys stretching in the sauna. One spectrum guy who would do leg lifts on the bench, showing his asshole and hangy balls over and over.

Shaving in a public shower. Worse in the sauna.

Weird straight kids wearing their filthy underwear in the jacuzzi because they're shy. Gross, bring a suit.

Some guys who couldn't look without excessively leering. Hey I like hot naked guys too. A quick glance is one thing. Staring or worse starting to masturbate is not.

People not swimming in the swim lanes. People with open sores in the pool.

The violent bouncing of the medicine balls? What does this serve? It's loud and obnoxious. Oh, and the thick ropes on the workout floor? I don't get what it does. Gimmick.

People that bring a towel to mop up themselves but don't wipe down the machines.

r10 I thought I was the only one annoyed by that. Why are you on the phone if you're at the gym? There was one obnoxious guy on one of the elliptical machines who would have loud conversations as he worked out.

Women wearing cheap nasty perfume and then working out at the gym and the perfume scent is spread around.

Asshole bros who place their sweaty towels on equipment to mark their territory to ensure nobody else uses it.

Asshole bros who conjugate like wolf packs and talk about fucking women like r1 said and who laugh and talk loudly without any regard for other people working out.

People on treadmills having loud conversations with each other.

For R32

Using machines instead of free weights or body weight like buff god intended.

People who get on the stair climber, set it at the highest level, then lean on the damn side rails while their legs go a million miles an hour, thinking they're actually getting a cardio workout.

^ That's known as The Flintstones move.

R37 LOL! Yes! Exactly!

Grunters and groaners and people who slam their weights on the ground when they're finished.

^ Dis.

R40 Yes! Yabba dabba do!

One gym I went to had a sign in the weights room saying No Grunting.

I never want to go to a gym again as long as I live.

Women who wear labia and ass cheek form-fitting yoga pants and workout clothes, while nervously staring down every man in the room at all times, since they must be taking the bait and checking out her attention-seeking self.

The ones who insist on having their large bags with them on the floor, rather than depositing them in lockers. I understand the fear of having things stolen from a locker, and I use a fanny pouch for my phone and wallet, but unless you're also carrying gold bullion or government secret papers, a bag can get in the way of others.

The ones who sit there on a machine for 30 minutes, using it for only 3 of those 30 minutes. Other than that people are well-behaved in the gym. Texting or any cell phone use is banned on the gym floor.

People who arrive 15 minutes late for the yoga class. After we've already done the warmup stuff and are into the main part. If you can't make it on time, just forget it. Don't interrupt the class.

The groups of kids who believe that you are required to shout and yell in the locker room. They are unbelievably noisy. Sometimes they fight. One time they even had a stun gun sort of buzzing device and were laughing about it. I reported that to the staff.

There's a cool little spin dryer in the locker room for getting the majority of the water out of your swimsuit before leaving. There's a sign above it saying it's for swimsuits only. Yet I always see teenagers put their sweaty shirts in it after playing basketball. Gross.

A group of 7 or 8 black teenagers; I think all from Somalia, are always there in the evenings, causing a ruckus in the locker room and the pool. They'll sit there half in the large jacuzzi yelling across at each other and splashing each other. I've stood right in the middle of them to see if they would tone it down, but it made no difference. They are totally out pf control and the staff seems resigned to it. This is a YMCA, by the way, where the vast majority of members are well-behaved. I have to say that 99% of the people are pleasant and considerate.

People who have crushing b.o. or even heavy sweat smell. Take a shower before you arrive or put on some smell pretties.

LOL, R41, I think you mean “Yabba dabba don’t”!

A lot of guys go fully dressed into the sauna and fixate on the oracle of wisdom emanating from their cell phones. But when one goes into the steam room with their phone fully dressed, it's hilarious to see how quickly they realize that they can't see their screens, and wiping their security blanket furiously until they walk out. Such fucking idiots.

The ancientgays at World Gym Palm Springs who parade around in cock rings and spandex.

There used to be a guy at my gym who was the epitome of the gum narcissist--he was a mirror hog and grunter and had been told told to turn down the volume after several complaints by other patrons. The shenanigans continued in the locker room where he'd parade around naked and engage in lengthy, National Geographic Wild Kingdom-type grooming episodes, flossing, shaving (not his pubes, at least), sinus-clearing, all of it butt naked. He also sat his sweaty bare ass down on the bench by his locker a few times and clipped his toenails, till one good old boy from Georgia said something like, "you know, before I came in I was doing a mess of yard work, shoveling chicken shit and fertilizing my vegetable garden and when was changing I had my manure-covered boots up on that bench right about where you got your nutsack parked, FYI." Don't know If that cured him, but I didn't see him after that, though he might just be working different hours. If I see him again and he does his little display routine again, I'm going to play this good and loud :

Members who go on and on about the number of f-ggots that work out at the gym and then proceed to follow gay members all over the gym, obsessively. Men are just fucking disgusting and disturbed. These are men doing this, mot teenagers.

The weight droppers drive me crazy, too. It's not the noise that's annoying, so much as the attitude. Why do they think that we're all impressed that they've hoisted such a massive weight? ... and that somehow dropping it suddenly, with that little puffed up walk-away, somehow makes them so damn macho? It's quite pathetic, actually.

The towel dance.

I just want to yell, "Get over yourself!"

Yeah - I don’t mind nudity, but there is such a thing as modesty that many older gym patrons seem to forget. It’s one thing to sit discreetly on your towel in the sauna, it’s another to sit spread eagle with junk like everyone wants to see.

I’m not one of the younger male “towel dancers” that practically fall over and kill themselves trying to avoid being naked for even a second because 😮 someone might see their wee wee😵, When I get out of the shower I dry myself and keep myself covered unless I am dressing. Running around naked like you at home alone or doing certain personal grooming that no one wants to see is just rude and offensive behavior. I’ve frequented nice beaches over the years and it’s the same thing. There’s are ways to sit, bend over and behave so that you are respectful of others despite being nude. Being respectful isn’t a difficult concept.

nice - nude

I'm sure they were also nice, R56.

A friend of mine hates this dude that sets up numerous electronic devices while he works out - laptop, cellphone etc - his own little mission control. We nicknamed him “Major Tom” and my friend hates it when he constantly interacting with people amid everyone via these devices—chatting, taking on the phone, texting, etc. In the locker room he has the same setup on the counter or a bench. Really annoying and pretentious.

People who leave a yoga class early (when the workout ends, and shavasana begins). As I'm trying to wind down and relax after a hard workout, these folks are scurrying around the room putting their props away and gathering their stuff, thinking that they're silent. Stay for the last 5 minutes. We all have places to be, but it's valuable to finish your practice properly. Plus, leaving early is rude.

People who leave their used towels on the floor, in a locker, or on the bench. Throw them in the bin, you lazy ass.

Guys who play hip hop from their phones from the speaker without wearing headphones, even in the locker room. They need a personal soundtrack and attempt to dominate their environment at all times.

The towel dance.

I just want to yell, "Get over yourself!"

LMAO and it’s usually either one of two extremes — gross dudes who deludedly think every gay dude wants them....or guys that look amazing that should be proud of their bodies.

Ditto, R59 - both the late arrivers and the early departers from the yoga class are disrespectful and it disturbs the mood. The teachers regularly mention this, but people still do it - and what can you do about it? Nothing.

The towel dance is silly. Even if you don't do it, you're naked for only about 3 seconds until you get the underwear on. So silly to go through a ritual to avoid those 3 seconds. But there are some guys who take it even further and go into a toilet stall to change in total privacy.

[quote]We nicknamed him “Major Tom”

LMFAO

Serbia must be pretty open and relaxed about nudity in the locker room. There were 2 pretty hot guys from Serbia at the Y recently, in the locker room at the same time I was changing, and they both stripped nude and were posing in front of the mirrors, with everything on display. (Uncut.) They were quite loud and boisterous. It was pretty funny but also amazing, to see them hanging out with everything on display. I asked them if they were speaking Russian, and they said no, they were from Serbia. Then they went to take showers, still laughing and talking loudly all the way. I felt like taking a shower with them, but by that point I was already dressed and ready to leave.

I have seen how annoyed the straight ones get when I enter "These Boots Are Made for Walking" on the song requester.

I had a buddy do the change his pants in the stall thing before working out. Young dude, amazing physique. I don’t understand that level of self consciousness. How do they have sex?

I'm assuming the towel dancers have small dicks, so they're doing us a favor by hiding it.

Indeed R67.

I see some guys who do this at the gym on a regular basis who aren't bad looking, and actually don't have small dicks. But what is most unnerving is when they will stare down everyone in the immediate area as they're putting their pants on, doing exactly what they're hoping no one is doing to them.

The guys that freeball in the gym.

R70. Well that's not so bad.

People, millennials in particular, claim that someone will take a picture of them nude?. No, it's just that you are ashamed of your body. what do they think will happen? Some guy will suck your dick? Dream on. One of the pleasures of the men's lockerrom is being able to be free and naked. Young men have missed this.

[quote]Young men have missed this.

Who cares. Their loss.

R72 they don't miss it if they're straight. A lot of straight guys never shower at the gym or anywhere they can be seen.

Who cares R74?

I've seen this s a few gyms I've gone to, let's see if you all have seen a guy of a certain age, a certain race always wearing gray, 1950's era sweat pants and proceeds to step on the treadmill to stretch, first, facing backwards, stretch in weird poses not taught in any American school. This goes on for a short time before the start jogging on the treadmill backwards! What is the point of all this? I don't know why it bothers me but it does.

Then the guys who take forever in the shower and constantly looking over their shoulder. Really?

R75 that's all you got?

What? ^

R59 Ive only seen people leave early in yoga class in NYC. Only place where I've seen skinny women paint on makeup in the ladies room befire hopping on a treadmill.

R78. Huh?

And how about the women who show up, wearing a tiny sports bra, bare midriff, and what appears to be hotpants, often of garish colors?

If any man dressed like that, he’d be thrown out.

If men walked around wearing tight tank tops and Daisy Dukes, not just at the gym, but at formal events like women do, they would be mercilessly mocked and considered insecure, attention-seeking cheese balls.

When there are a half dozen empty treadmills on both sides of me, and a person has to use the one RIGHT NEXT TO ME.

And, of course, they smell.

Yes, R81, I’ve seen that as well at my gym, and I always think #metoo.

Body Powder freaks - powder spume everywhere, you're still partially wet because you're too fat to reach all that so some of it is caking and you look like a fucking toddler and now the locker room looks disgusting.

Instagrammers - I'm hustling out of the shower, but don't want to get caught in the middle of your photo shoot. You're letting your buddy photograph you wearing those shoes?

Culottes over tights - you look like a smurf who skips leg day.

Men should just accept their bodies>

I always think it’s funny how many of these heterosexual guys think they’re the “real” men and gay men aren’t—yet so many of them are too scared to change in the locker room because someone might see their cocks - or flit around like a bunch of teenage girls taking pictures of themselves and cosumed with how they look.

I have a Prince Albert and don’t care who sees it in the locker room. You should see some of the scared rabbit looks I get when getting out of the shower. Bunch of silly bitches.

Most humans run screaming from a Prince Albert

Looks like I struck a nerve, silly bitch. Have fun on Instagram LOL

R89. Prince Albert is a definite deal-breaker. That's why men are repelled by you. Disgusting.

I have to agree, Prince Alberts are ugly. I definitely am not checking it out. Same for the guys with the weird giant saline balls.

I belonged to one gym for three years and when I travel I find a nearby gym for my workout. So I've seen quite a variety of places. Thankfully, nothing as gross as some of the people described in the above postings. In most gyms, cell phones are banned and most people follow the rules - but there are those who don't realize (or maybe they do and don't care) that they are distracting. I find that almost everyone in the gym is respectful and finding time on particular machine or weights is not difficult if everyone is patient. Though it seems that all gyms have the old man trolls who walk around naked in the locker room, people who do not wipe down the equipment after their workout, large women who wear spandex, and various men who grunt while working out. And dropping weights too. My favorite was a guy in Edinburgh who, while on the treadmill, sounds like the Scottish guy from the Simpsons when he is near the end of his workout and you can hear him all over the gym as he yells in Scots Gaelic to give him that last bit of oomph to complete is workout.

As long as he doesn’t start screaming, FREEEEDOM!

Men who, not only give a fuck that they can't get to see a young stranger's penis, but later go online to cry furiously about how all the young men are "towel dancing" these days.

Yes because clearly we said all young men do it - and only mention it because we’re desperately trying to see their dicks because there is nowhere in the modern world to see cock or porn whenever we want to. 🙄

Lazy slobs who don't rack their weights infuriate me. The same goes for guys who do their dumbbell reps mere inches away from the rack, effectively blocking access to all the weights in that area. I've been in a few gyms that actually had marked the floor with tape, creating a NO LIFT ZONE to combat this, but the offenders just ignored it.

I go to a 24-Hour Fitness and surprised by the guys who have no qualms about posing for their selfies in any of the locker room mirrors. In my day this was something you did in the privacy of one's bathroom. One day I'm going to install Grindr. I wonder if it'll light up like a Christmas tree.

Straight older guys who were high school star athletes in 1975 and are chatting up the younger guys as if they are their peers. They’re harmless but they’re loud.

Gym gatekeepers who target gay men and harrass/imitate them so bad, they leave the gym. And, management does nothing.

*Intimidate

People who wear jeans in the workout area.

When I was young in suburban Northern Virginia, I went to World Gym, where guys couldn’t lift weights without going AAAAARRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHGHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAHHHHH and then drop the weights on the floor. With every set.

Now that I live in the DC gayborhood, what bothers me is VIDA Fitness, the gym whose membership I think starts at $100/month and goes up from there, which has a salon and a poolside bar in it, and which is really more of an intentional meat market than a gym. If you are gay in DC, everyone assumes that you belong to VIDA. I’ve known terribly paid (mid-$30s) young Hill staffers who thought nothing of the exorbitant membership fees at VIDA because they just felt if you’re gay, that’s where you go.

I don’t go there. I am offended at the notion that because I am gay, I want a bar and a salon and sex in my gym.

[quote]If you are gay in DC, everyone assumes

Wow...you better get put then. You sound miserable! How about Trumpville?

*out

When an individual goes back and forth to the same machines you want to use, and have to wait till they are done. I hate when they do that, and that is a stupid work out....just stick to one machine at a time!

When straight boys rub one out in the shower after workout. What a waste

I work out at the local JCC, so often it’s just some older guys who look like Bernie Sanders - and some older women who look like Bernie Sanders! - and I. Generally everyone is polite and practices good gym etiquette. But occasionally there’s one creep who works out in street clothes and stares at everyone as he moves around the gym. Weird and seems to be there under false pretenses.

[quote]The "bros" who seem to think the gym is their personal space. They're usually in packs of 5 or 6 (like wolves) and takeover a piece of equipment for endless periods of time. Each guy does a set, then they high five, then they have long winded, bullshit conversations about all the women they're fucking, then the next guy does a set and the process is repeated.

I really hate that.

Guys who constantly pose in the mirror to check out how much they progressed. I find that embarrassing.

The guys who run to the mirror and lift their shirts up after every set.

R100 It would have been funnier with "imitates them so bad"!

Can ya'll tell me more about this homophobia? Every gym I've been to has had people stuck in their own world. Do you give a look, vibe, or mannerism that illicit this terrible response from these gym creeps?

Please note, I believe you, I'm just trying to understand how the situation arises.

Gays cause the problem R112. C’mon you know that! Stop! You’re hilarious! “Please, note, I believe you”. I love it. Gays are predators, you know that. I love how coy you are. Cute.

Maybe people find this annoying about me, but I hate when people ask me if they can work in on my bench. I just want to get in, do my workout, and leave... not change the weights, stand around, and change them back. I like to listen to my music, get into a groove, and forget about everything else for an hour or so. If I wanted to interact with someone, I would’ve taken a class (or gone to happy hour).

I only do about 5 sets per exercise, so it’s not like I’m hogging the equipment for hours.

Wait 5 minutes or change up your routine!

Guys who think they're competing for Olympic gold medal in the swimming pool, aggressively butterflying up and down the pool lanes causing tsunamis and tidal waves forcing me to choke on choppy water... I f___king hate them...

“Wow...you better get put then. You sound miserable! How about Trumpville?”

I would respond, R103, but I have no idea what what you wrote means. Get put? How about Trumpville?

R115: I do a lot of swimming as well. Let me add to your list:

1. The swimmers with the mindset of this is "my" lane. I'm not going to see you standing there, waving your arms indicating that you would like to share the lane. (After minutes of waiting for them to "notice" me, I've had to get in the lane and grab the offending swimmer by the leg and tell them "move over and share the lane").

2. After reluctantly sharing the lane, the other swimmer will resume the "aggressive butterfly/breast" stroke and not draw in when you pass. Instead they will smack you in the face or scrape your side or kick you when they pass. (I've had to push and shove such people aside.)

3. The kids who jump in and think it's fun to play "chicken" or "Tag" with you - darting out of the way at the last second.

Anyone who tells me "I'm using that!" while they are using something else.

R117,

I don’t know where you swim, but there’s no lane sharing at my gym. I’d smack you in the face, too, if you jumped in my lane. The lifeguard tells the people which lane to use where I work out

R119 you must work out at a fancy place if each swimmer gets a lane. I wanna go there (but probably don't want to pay for it)

Nysc- it’s one of the cheaper gyms in the city. I actually don’t love it, but I’m too cheap to pay for equInox

R121 I heard here on DL that if you go to Equinox you may get the privilege of watching Andy Cohen play with his dick while he stares lecherously at you in the sauna

Haha. That sounds even more disgusting than the dirty towels and overflowing shower drains at nysc!

50 something office guy at my gym, obviously high in the food chain at work and kind of fit with a face that only women would like, with floppy hair parted in the middle, you know ? Kind of guy who attends tantric yoga classes with his partner. He is constantly in the stretching section, showing off his stupid yoga poses, wearing short shorts.. And BAREFOOT. On the mattresses.SO gross. You're supposed to wear clean sport shoes in my gyms, it's in the contract, but the management never tell him anything. I am disgusted by him big time. His tacky straightness, his lame looks, his disgusting bare feet.

People that fart during yoga, Zumba or spinning classes and think it’s ok because it’s silent but deadly. Women are the worst offenders. I don’t wanna smell your ass. Hold it in or excuse yourself and go bust ass outside. 🤮

People on Big Brother usually come across as troglodytes, but even by those standards I am alarmed that these people regarded Shannon as a Machiavelli-caliber threat because she spelled “responsibilities.” How stupid is America?

R119: This was the YMCA in San Francisco.

Not only are you expected to share a lane but each lane can hold up to 6 swimmers at a time when it gets crowded (as it often does). In those cases you are expected to "circle" - all swimmers going in the same direction. Of course, you are then constrained by the expertise, speed, and stamina of the swimmer in front of or behind you.

And just to clarify - I don't just jump in to a lane and start swimming. I always contact the swimmer (by waving arms, verbally, shaking swim fins as they near the lane end) in order to indicate "share".

Now - I am in a gym where a lane is yours alone for however long you want. Heaven!

it's annoying when hot young guys wont let me suck their dick in the sauna

[quote]That peculiar Murphy’s Law, whereby, if you are the only guy in your area of the locker room, inevitably, the next man to enter will have to get into the locker immediately below/above/next to yours. I’ve experienced this dozens of times, from both sides. Go figure...

Even when they know you are there, there are guys who still take their time or spread out as if they were at home.

I don't use the hair dryers in the locker room at my gym. See too many old men using them to dry their balls and ass cracks.

Annoying things at the gym: guys towel-dancing after showering, guys not showering, shower curtains, doors and partitions, urinal dividers

See too many old men using them to dry their balls and ass cracks.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. Why don’t you call them out????

Even when they know you are there, there are guys who still take their time or spread out as if they were at home

I don’t get this. Is it just to be a dick?

Guys that blow their genitalia dry with a hair dryer

Guys that dance around the gym

Guys that bring big bags of shit and unpack it all over the locker room floor

I try to be considerate; if a guy comes in who has the locker above or below mine; I will move out of the way a little or even move my stuff out. Sadly, few men will do this and far too many men take forever to get dressed, holding up everyone else. They think it's their personal dressing and grooming room. Just get your clothes on and get out!

As far as the pool, I'm not a good enough swimmer to share a lane; I may bump the other swimmer. The Y that I swim at is crowded, so I will wait until a lane is empty. If I see people waiting for a lane, I will take a break so they can have a chance.

Also, guys who leave a razor in the shower. So gross

I was at the pool today and a woman hogged a whole lane so she could jog in the water. People are incredibly selfish

Cell phones in the steam room

People that stink up the sauna by peeing and/or hotboxing it with nasty farts

Come in sick, thinking that "a good workout" will help them feel better from their fucking flu.

People who will walk into an almost completely empty bank of treadmills and pick the one directly next to you.

I only do that if the TV is what I want to watch - it may not be about you

Stay at home and watch TV. If you’re watching TV, you cannot be focusing on exercising

Gym gatekeeper. MYOB ^^^^

I think you are missing the point but whatever

There are about four or five guys that must share a vortex with me. We're always there at the same time. Always use a locker in the same area. Same cardio machines, weights, showering, leaving, walking to the car. It's unnerving, but I've just accepted it at this point. It doesn't matter if it's before work or after work, weekdays or weekends, the same four or five guys and I are always running into each other. Anyone else have this experience?

No, you need to focus on your workout and not others. There is no point. Focus on your work out.

when my trainers befriend me, call me buddy and then dump me later with no explanation.

They want your $$$$

Anyone who is uptight and controlling ^

"Asshole bros who conjugate like wolf pack"

"Howoo!"

"Howaas!"

"Howaat!"

"Howamus!"

"Howatis!"

R147 I had a hot trainer who befriended me and then he tried to set me up with this really queeny other client of his. It was like "no I want you, fool"! neither ever talked to me again.

I hate the chatter-box type. I really don't want to talk to anyone. I don't initiate conversation. I want to zone out, listen to my music, and work out. After I like to relax in the steam room or sauna. There's always this overly friendly loud older guy that just want to talk. And talk. You can hear him in the sauna even when your done and in the shower area. Loud as fuck, at 6am. Annoying.

R152,

I generally agree with you. However, I met two really close friends by going in the steam room after working out (separate occasions). I think they were looking to hook up, but it worked out better to just be friendly. We’re the same age and have many common interests.

Similarly, my long term boyfriend and I didn’t even kiss on our first date (even though I was totally lusting over him). I think that hooking up right away may stop some really great relationships from ever taking off.

(It took some effort to convince my BF that I only talked with the steam room guys. Lol)

R26, he may have a bit of autism...or a trainer may have told him to clap to get his arms moving and burn more calories. He may have an injury that relegates him to the stationary bike.

lol r44 - I have seen these women.

I have also seen these bottoms honestly.

Some people are just lonely. I always try to be kind and chat a bit even though I may not feel like it.

R147, haven't had the 'set up with a queen because you're both GAY!' thing in a while. That's always fun.

I do tend to develop crushes on the trainers as (don't know about the rest of you) gym class in school was hell on earth. And to have a nice guy help you achieve things you were never able to or didn't before hits me like a drug.

It's horrific going out on the floor especially as you're trying to get started and it's intimidating with all the jock bros and assholes.

One trainer, recently, had the ability to help me block all that out; I think people left me alone b/c I was with him. I know a lot of this is in my head, but right or wrong it's how I feel/felt.

I'm the first to admit I get a little needy, BUT I wasn't asking to pal around outside of the gym (even when he'd suggest it).

The guy was REALLY great at his job but unfortunately, sociopath tendencies started showing up. I got too close. One day, he said to me, 'I have to get away from you because you're too nice.' It was such an odd thing to say.

But he did. he dropped me as a client and pushed me away. It was rough.

He did tell me he'd tried sex with a guy within a year or so ago. And he's supposedly straight (divorced with a daughter).

Straight to bed, I thought.

Now, I begin anew. This time, on my own.

oops I mean to reply to R151

I went the gym one day that was stinking hot. I was using one machine and it was so hot that I walked about six feet away to stand in front of a wall fan. I was only there maybe 5 seconds, and when I turned around to come back to the machine a trainer was taking my towel I had left on it off the machine. I told him I was still using the machine, which is why my towel was still there, but he said he wanted to use it (The machine that is, not my towel). I told him he had to wait. He said he HAD to use this machine. I told him I would done in a few minutes, and he proceeded to stand with his customer to watch me do the rest of my set, the both of them with their arms crossed. I had two sets to go, and after doing one, I gave in to the intimidation and moved away. Later I came back and did the last set. But I complained to the manager about the trainer and every time I passed him after that the trainer gave me the stink-eye.

Guys ( usually black) with oversized bags spreading all their shit on the benches and then taking those bags to the shower area and blocking that area too. These are not " professional suit and tie types " typically young. Makes me crazy !

R159, that happens at my gym all that time.

The owners say they can't get involved.

whatever.

I did have one trainer who whenever there was a conflict with another trainer or member at a station he'd just move us quickly to something else and then we'd head back to where we were on our way to.

I liked that b/c it wasn't about playing games and he kept the momentum going.

Yes, gyms don’t seem to get involved when there is harassment of any kind until something terribly happens.

Speaking of body odors, there are a few guys at my gym with literal eye-watering bad BO.

Thursday there was a guy who, in lieu of showering, stood at the sinks and wiped his body down with a damp towel. Apparently taking a full shower was just a few steps too far...?

r25, you sound like you spend way too much time watching other people.

guys ( usually not in shape at all ) wearing high end workout gear that matches right down to the socks. And then you see they use dollar store grooming products in the locker room , SMH

Only poor people, voyeurs and exhibitionists go to these places. You all deserve the bad experiences you have. Anyone with any sense has equipment at home and brings a trainer in when needed. Such cheapness.

let's not forget it's like 90% diet.

and 10% gym/cardio

Yes, I think you can apply that to a lot of posts in this thread, R164.

Well the thread is about watching other people at the gym...

$100 for dumbells of every weight & you never have to go to the gym again... and a few hundred on trainer sessions to learn how dumbells can work every muscle you want.

Oh and you need a bench too... which would be nice to incline - so maybe that's a little more.

R92 There are actual posted signs in all Equinox locations that basically say no cell phone usage in the locker rooms, but most of the members don't know how to read anyway, so they ignore this.

R133 In West LA, there is a gym dominated by Persian males, and in all honesty, they can be some of the hairiest mother-f'ers around. They are also 100% guilty of using the hairdryer method for drying their balls off while standing on a towel, and leaving said towel on the floor dirty with their hair. Gross.

yeeesh

I'm always tempted to pretend I'm a trainer, and say to the women who are having a loud, animated conversation on adjacent treadmills, "You know, you're not really getting any cardio benefit unless you're slightly out of breath in a way that makes talking a little difficult..."

I know it's irrational but I get annoyed at the guys who are standing doing bicep curls and they're putting their whole body into it - they're lifting that dumbbell like they're about to throw a bowling ball.

I take your point about being breathless-challenged on the treadmills, but let's face it, they are as boring AS to use, so I don't mind people chatting so much. All this talk about being "in the zone" seems pretentious for what is basically mouse running on a wheel activity.

R161 - I was half-expecting this douche trainer to offer me one of his cards, so then I could tell him to shove it up his ass.

THis is why I don’t workout

I was meticulously carving a bespoke glory hole in the main men's restroom - little by little - every day. Finally, I was starting to get light from the other side! It was only about a dime size - but eventually, good things would come - (tee hee). Anyway, the fucking staff had the panel replaced INSTANTLY. I didn't even get to finish my hole. They didn't even put up a patch like they did in the airports. They just totally took out the fucking wall and put in a new one. I am not sure if I should start over or just resort to using grindr but there is SO much hot married daddy dick in there that is begging to be sucked.

[quote]I don't use the hair dryers in the locker room at my gym. See too many old men using them to dry their balls and ass cracks.

My gym has crotch level wall-mounted blow dryers just for drying your balls/ass.

I like the guys who stand at the sink naked with one leg up on the sink, shaving, brushing their teeth, etc.

I have seen a lot of people at my gym use the same trainer for years and the trainer is on his iPad or phone, not paying attention; essentially bored with his clients.

that's a horrible thing to do to someone; I was spoiled with one great trainer; alas, I wasn't that spoiled; he was closeted and crazy.

but he's a great trainer

[quote]People that stink up the sauna by peeing and/or hotboxing it with nasty farts

OMG, that’s nasty.

Guys who shave, and don’t rinse the sink afterwards.

Nobody washes their hands after they take a dump... right back on the floor - touching all the equipment everyone else does with their feces hands.

Through my work, I belong to a very nice small college, new gym. There generally aren't too many students on the main exercise floor, and even when there is, everyone appears to be extremely polite, and I've witnessed to equipment situations as described above.

When I do my light workouts, I have noticed that most students bring their bag and coats in hallway cubbies instead of using a locker room. It makes sense if they're working in a very quick workout between classes. This also means that when I travel from home and use the locker room, that it's often vacant. When it's not and there are hot students or staff, I consider myself lucky. I don't linger (OK, maybe I SOMETIMES do linger tying my shoelaces, but not even very often) in the locker room, and even when I was younger, I didn't either because as tempting as it is to feast upon hot guys, the reputation that could be attached to me prevented me from any staring unless I was the one approached for conversation. I was always petrified of being outed when I was younger, so there was no way I was going to give anyone ammunition to humiliate or shame me (not for being gay, but by being a stalker).

Reading this thread, I also realize that as I'm older now, appearances can matter. If it's not convenient for me to use my gym, I perform light workouts at home, sometimes using youtube. Honestly, it's very convenient and alleviates unnecessary dramas or little situations. When I am on the gym floor and in the locker room, I'm cordial and am not a creeper. In and out. If I'm about to exit and notice a hot guy about to enter, I don't pretend to need to go back. I focus on myself and if nice guys materialize, I'm lucky. If not, move on with life. The stories above, especially the ones about bros terrorizing gays is unknown to me, but add to the logic of staying home more often than not. Just isn't worth it.

/ /. Well, smell her!

R184 You could've used fewer words to say what you said.

Yeah- R184 types like a slow, old person with nothing on his agenda.

R184 you can sneak looks at the goods on the gym floor without compromise unless you STARE and follow them around. In the lockeroom ideally you should always face the locker and not make eye contact with anyone 20 years plus younger than you unless they talk to you .

Older guys over 40 ( unless they are built and on roids ) are pretty much ignored at the gym

There are gym members who complain about all the f-ggots at the gym and then proceed to follow around the gay gym members (or who they assume is gay), like me. I’d MUCH prefer R184. He’s safer.

Why do gym bros automatically assume if you are either polite or friendly you must want them? Or is it they don’t want to be bothered and that’s an excuse? The whole “ugh it’s so hard to be this hot” vibe gets old. It’s like because they were weaned on “stranger danger” anyone who is innocuously friendly in passing or acknowledges them must be a pedo creeper.

I used to go a gym early in the morning, when there were only a few people working out. I went to one machine and was told by someone he was using that machine. So I went to the next machine and I was told he was using that machine as well. Third machine, same thing. Seems his routine consisted of using half a dozen weight machines, and after using one machine for several minutes he would go to the next; no one was permitted to use any of the machines while he was there whether they were being used or not.

TMPL gym looks awesome. I look at all of these gyms in gay populated areas like NYC or LA, Palm Springs and they look pleasant, clean and nice! No homophobia (or not outwardly) probably in sight.

R91, all you have do is say: "I'm almost done.". Then take your sweet time. If the come back again, say "Talk to the manager on duty, k, thanks.".

Where the hell do you all work out? In prison? I have never encountered anyone in a rude manner in a gym.

**r191

Michigan here R194. 😂 of course.

What's wrong with drying your balls and ass crack with the hair dryer? It's not like the hair dryer is touch my skin.

Someone upthread mentioned people dancing at the gym. I've been going for decades and don't ever recall seeing dancing, except in classes. My impression is people are too grim to actually want to dance to the music, perhaps fearful they will look uncool.

Dancing at the gym.

R12 the gym from hell, complete with ball sweat

DL's eldergay fantasy of what the gym should be

Caitlyn had a treasure trail ?

What cities is this happening where straight guys follow gay guys? That seems like they are horny.

At my gym, almost everyone ignores each other.

I am sure the staff has sex after they close. Sometimes the pool is funny after a bender

Some young gays are VERY uptight - or maybe they are trans

Assholes who don't re-rack their weights.

TMPL NYC has hot men

I love gay men who sidebwith straight assholes and blame gay men for the homophobia they experience. You’re worried about deplorables and Muslims? You need to worry about other gays too, like R202. He is blocked.

There's a woman at my gym who's about 30-40 pounds overweight, and records herself for a "story" to post later showing her at the gym.

Sometimes her husband will circle her recording so she can include different cameta angles.

The gif in OP is hilarious 😂😂😂

Slutty women in yoga pants that look like they cause yeast infections and skimpy tops that push out their funbags who pose and take selfies.

Leave their cum shots on the shower wall and steam room floor.

The guys who have sex in the sauna. Stop it already. Go get a room.

Stop making the health dept close the saunas!

I hate that I always see the same peopl year after year and no one's body gets any fitter

Gymbros that bust ass in the free weights area. Those protein shake farts are toxic!

Look way better than I do.

Two I saw yesterday

A man slamming a weight ball left and right on the floor like it was a basketball. It made a loud noise and scared people

A man who used an ab ball while hanging on to a rail to bounce his skinny body and legs up and down in the air. Frightening and I don’t think worked any muscle

Homophobic gym members.

when guys lift right in front of the dumbbell racks, blocking others from getting what they need

I’m always tempted to reach in front of them, but I’m either too nice or too much of a pussy.

Somebody up thread made a comment about this and it’s true. If you don’t like naked men, then change at home or find another gym. But, the homophobia is disgusting.

And, anti-white (which is actually anti-gay).

Super chatty aging gossips endlessly queening it up in the jacuzzi.

[quote] Can ya'll tell me more about this homophobia? Every gym I've been to has had people stuck in their own world. Do you give a look, vibe, or mannerism that illicit this terrible response from these gym creeps?

Years ago at Crunch..there was a crazy guy spouting off homophobic slurs one evening because apparently someone 'looked' at him. The guys changing next to me were saying that he was kind of known for it -and- for hanging out in the sauna and locker room generally. So possibly some sort of conflict situation.

The homeless people who keep all their stuff in two lockers, day after day, and walk around like zombies. I'm switching to Equinox mid-year because of this kind of stuff.

Love my new gym. Historic pet peeves: The guys on the 22 minute machine circuit who have to do 200 sets on one piece of equipment. Sometimes they let you work in. Sometimes they're just on the one machine for 30-45 minutes, texting, talking to their friends. (Most people move it if you ask.) Loud convos on the treadmills. indeed...you're not walking/running fast enough.

People who wear headphones and sing along to the music.

Hmmm. That Instagram post at R217 is interesting. Quite a few comments railing against "old ass white men" being naked in the locker room, and not all by POCs either.

I'm certain DL's beloved dudebro was among the commenters.

Couple anti-gay too, R224.

When people blow their noses into the hand towels everyone shares.

[R30], open sores in the pool is going to be up there with the Tarot-reading DLer who, a week before 9/11, saw buildings in flames and people falling out of them, as the posts that will never, NEVER erase themselves from my memory. Ewwww! I cannot even imagine!

Thankfully, I have the ability to work out in the middle of the afternoon, when there are a lot fewer folks using the gym. Nevertheless, there are still people doing the annoying things posters have already mentioned -- like sitting on a piece of equipment reading and texting on their phones -- it is just not as bothersome because the gym is mostly empty.

The guys that sing or hum with their earbuds on. For some reason it's only the guys.

Cum on steam room sitting surfaces

Gah. Too many posts to read.

People that annoy me at the gym: definitely the ones that hop into the hot tub wearing swim suits that were washed with too much detergent. The water gets all full of soap bubbles and it’s everywhere ON everyone else.

Then there’s the deplorables that blow snot onto the water to clear their nose when swimming. And who hasn’t had the pleasant experience of seeing that float by. Same with dirty band-aids.

People that bring their precious spawn into the hot tub with shitty diapers. I don’t like kids in the hot tub. It’s not good for their hearts. And I don’t like kids in the hot tub. Filthy buggers.

Finally, the people who are too cheap to put a quarter in a locker. So you hurry in to get changed, open a locker - loaded with clothes. Open door number 3, 4, and the same thing. I’m pissed. Sometimes I’ve pulled out the cheapskates clothes, thrown my own in and locked it up.

There's a guy at my gym who comes in and puts his gym bag, water bottle, phone, and keys on a flat bench, then walks away and uses other equipment. Every time he does it, I wanna take my arm, sweep it across the flat bench, and knock all his shit onto the floor.

R232, you should steal his stuff. I fucking hate that kind of behavior.

R171, is the one with all the Persians the Beverly Hills Equinox?

Guys who think you're looking at them when you're just in a daze resting between sets. Because they're just so irresistibly hot.

Have you ever encountered homophobia from that R235?

R236, it's a gay gym, so no. 90%+ of the guys are gay.

Ooh, well, at least you’re safe.

Men who tear peep holes in the vinyl shower curtains at crotch level. I've seen every curtain strategically torn like this at my LA Fitness so that the gym had to post a sign warning the person doing it they'd be banned if they were caught. I'm not sure what the person does, if they peek in while walking up the aisle between the rows of showers, or if they hide inside one of the showers and look out (maybe they're a midget?). Seems an awful lot of trouble to get a glimpse of dick.

It amazes me that the majority of people who use the gym I go to don't use towels at all - either to wipe sweat from themselves or from machines. I have been gyming for decades and have always used a towel. This gym doesn't have towel usage as one of their laws but they do have ant-bacterial hand wipe machines.