Where do guys get these bad gym habits?

[robin]

Observed at a middle-tier gym this morning in downtown Seattle:

* Grunting like a rhinoceros in a Discovery Channel mating special.
* Moaning like an actor in a bad porno flick.
* Banging/slamming weights after every rep.
* Dropping weights to the floor after every set.
* Spitting wads of flem into the drinking fountain.
* Not cleaning up your sweat.
* Not cleaning up your food and other trash in the locker room.
* Not reracking your weights after you're done.
* Leaving a treadmill running for 10 minutes while you leave to do other things.
* Typing out emails on your blackberry while taking up equipment.
* Walking around barefoot and doing exercises in the gym (that was a new one).

Where do guys get these bad habits?

 

[Hard2Fit]

Find another gym.

 

[robin]

Originally Posted by Hard2Fit

Find another gym.

I'm grandfathered into my gym's old old pricing plan so I don't really mind some of the creepiness. Do the expensive clubs not have this sort of behavior in their membership?

 

[Hard2Fit]

I can't say but your post reminded me of my short-lived Bally's membership.
I had to fight tooth and nail to free myself from that mess.

 

[Metlin]

Originally Posted by robin

Observed at a middle-tier gym this morning in downtown Seattle:

* Grunting like a rhinoceros in a Discovery Channel mating special.
* Moaning like an actor in a bad porno flick.
* Banging/slamming weights after every rep.
* Dropping weights to the floor after every set.
* Spitting wads of flem into the drinking fountain.
* Not cleaning up your sweat.
* Not cleaning up your food and other trash in the locker room.
* Not reracking your weights after you're done.
* Leaving a treadmill running for 10 minutes while you leave to do other things.
* Typing out emails on your blackberry while taking up equipment.
* Walking around barefoot and doing exercises in the gym (that was a new one).

Where do guys get these bad habits?

The grunting and moaning I can understand because sometimes, people do push themselves and that's fine - but the rest? Scary, to say the least. You should take a printout of this list and put it up in your gym for others to see.

People become very self conscious if they know that others are looking out for specific, stupid things that you do.

 

[bearlydavid]

Ah the barefoot thing, back when I was squatting heavy I would squat in my socks only.... So I guess I don't mind that

The treadmill thing is pretty funny, I have never seen anyone do that.

But one thing that bothers me is
- People doing curls in the squat rack

 

[Hard2Fit]

Originally Posted by bearlydavid

But one thing that bothers me is
- People doing curls in the squat rack

Guilty.
I'll stop.

 

[mikej77]

Originally Posted by robin

Observed at a middle-tier gym this morning in downtown Seattle:

* Grunting like a rhinoceros in a Discovery Channel mating special.
* Moaning like an actor in a bad porno flick.
* Banging/slamming weights after every rep.
* Dropping weights to the floor after every set.
* Spitting wads of flem into the drinking fountain.
* Not cleaning up your sweat.
* Not cleaning up your food and other trash in the locker room.
* Not reracking your weights after you're done.
* Leaving a treadmill running for 10 minutes while you leave to do other things.
* Typing out emails on your blackberry while taking up equipment.
* Walking around barefoot and doing exercises in the gym (that was a new one).

Where do guys get these bad habits?

You should just get a membership at Curves.

 

[erdawe]

Think how much less they could charge per year on upkeep for people doing this ****. Constant weight dropping on anything more than your true max reps is truly uncalled for, I think people that do this are clamorring for attention.

 

[KBW]

Grunting helps sometimes for everyone so that should be gone and a LOT of exercises call for you to drop the weight unless you are a ***** using 20 pounds. If you are deadlifting the weight slams or you aren't doing it right, benching dumbbells (that are remotely heavy) it is safer to drop them than tear a rotator cuff flipping over your shoulders to lay them down. DB militaries...safer to drop the weights. Just because you work out like a little girl with no noise doesn't mean you should complain.

 

[JLibourel]

Originally Posted by robin

Observed at a middle-tier gym this morning in downtown Seattle:

* Grunting like a rhinoceros in a Discovery Channel mating special.
* Moaning like an actor in a bad porno flick.
* Banging/slamming weights after every rep.
* Dropping weights to the floor after every set.
* Spitting wads of flem into the drinking fountain.
* Not cleaning up your sweat.
* Not cleaning up your food and other trash in the locker room.
* Not reracking your weights after you're done.
* Leaving a treadmill running for 10 minutes while you leave to do other things.
* Typing out emails on your blackberry while taking up equipment.
* Walking around barefoot and doing exercises in the gym (that was a new one).

Where do guys get these bad habits?

Reasons why I always preferred to train alone with my own equipment!

 

[Jumbie]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

Reasons why I always preferred to train alone with my own equipment!

I hope that's not a euphemism.

 

[beasty]

Originally Posted by KBW

Grunting helps sometimes for everyone so that should be gone and a LOT of exercises call for you to drop the weight unless you are a ***** using 20 pounds. If you are deadlifting the weight slams or you aren't doing it right, benching dumbbells (that are remotely heavy) it is safer to drop them than tear a rotator cuff flipping over your shoulders to lay them down. DB militaries...safer to drop the weights. Just because you work out like a little girl with no noise doesn't mean you should complain.

Oh please!

Deadlifts: You can drop the weight by dropping it heavily when you finished your set (ie. when your legs are at 90 degrees) but you dont drop it when you are standing ramrod straight and letting go of your wrists.

As for dumbbell bench, you start with them badboys on your thighs, lie down and simulatenously push (using your thighs and arms) the badboys to chest position. When finish, use body momentum to push badboys to thighs again. The same goes for DB military although that can be a bit tricky when pushing them up. But there is no excuse to drop DBs from your shoulders to the floor even when tired. If you love doing that, I hope it bounces and crushes your feet. Yah! Light weight!

I do them without wearing a belt and I dont feel any back pain and I dont lift light weight DBs btw.

As for grunting, Yah I grunt but I have seen morons grunting even during warm up sets that I felt like calling an ambulance so they dont deliver a baby in the gym.

Grunting all the time is moronic. In fact if you are pushing the last set, grunting takes away focus, I would rather take multiple deep breaths to help me push the last rep.

 

[beasty]

Originally Posted by bearlydavid

Ah the barefoot thing, back when I was squatting heavy I would squat in my socks only.... So I guess I don't mind that

The treadmill thing is pretty funny, I have never seen anyone do that.

But one thing that bothers me is
- People doing curls in the squat rack

I am only barefoot when deadlifting. In between sets, I slip on my shoes.
With all the weight dropping in the gym, walking barefooted is like walking blindfolded in an uncleared landmine field in Cambodia.

 

[beasty]

Originally Posted by robin

Observed at a middle-tier gym this morning in downtown Seattle:

* Grunting like a rhinoceros in a Discovery Channel mating special.
* Moaning like an actor in a bad porno flick.
* Banging/slamming weights after every rep.
* Dropping weights to the floor after every set.
* Spitting wads of flem into the drinking fountain.
* Not cleaning up your sweat.
* Not cleaning up your food and other trash in the locker room.
* Not reracking your weights after you're done.
* Leaving a treadmill running for 10 minutes while you leave to do other things.
* Typing out emails on your blackberry while taking up equipment.
* Walking around barefoot and doing exercises in the gym (that was a new one).

Where do guys get these bad habits?

Wherever you go, you would face behavioural problems.

Even if you go to a posh high class gym, the CEOs and their wives will do something similar like hogging the bench not doing anything but closing a major deal, hogging a preacher machine while busy squeezing her zits (not ****) in the mirror and so on.

The best thing is train at home. If not, you have to put up with it.