My Gym Membership Pet Peeve

MY PET PEEVE WITH GYMS IS SIMPLE:

#1. If I signed up for a “Gym Membership” and I am paying the Gym “monthly”, I expect to be able to use the Gym’s Equipment.

How many times have you signed up to a Gym just to be waiting and waiting and waiting for some other member to get off the Gym Equipment so that you can use it?

Not only that but you will find that the Gym is still signing up more members even if the “Veteran Members” can’t even get to use the equipment.

Would it not make more sense to stop signing up more members if you don’t have enough Gym Equipment to accommodate them all?

RIDICULOUS

The Gym has what they call “Prime Time”, which is reserved for those members who just got out of working a 9-5. Now they head for the Gym and they come in the hundreds and you are basically waiting hours for a machine to use.

You can be standing against the wall near the treadmills, bicycles or elliptical machines for over a half hour until someone gets off and someone else gets a chance to use it.

#2. After they use it the machines are all sweaty and you have to take the time to clean them off so you can use it.

Some Gym’s have equipment cleaner at hand and paper towels so you can clean down the equipment that another Gym member just sweat up all over.

This “cleaning” still takes valuable time away from your workout.

#3. “Prime Time” also makes it hard for you to get a locker to put your handbag and other Gym equipment into the locker, you can’t find a locker.

#4. Some nut is shaving their legs in the pool or some member is doing something they shouldn’t be doing.

#5. “Protein Farts” from members while you are on the treadmill can suck.
You are trapped to endure this form of terrorism until the air clears.
There is no escape when you want to finish you workout regime, you are forced to inhale and ignore it.

WHY DID I JOIN THE GYM?

I joined specifically to use a Treadmill, Epilipical, Recumbent & Speed Bicycles, I don’t need to do that other “soft punk crap” like stretching and squats at a Gym when I already do that at home.

The membership is specifically for the Equipment that I don’t have enough room for in my house. I already do weights, yoga and toning in the home and I explained all that at the Gym before I signed up but they are only concerned with how many people they bring into the Gym and they already know they don’t have enough equipment to cover the members yet they keep signing up more members so they can make their money.

They don’t give a rats arse about your needs or mine as long as they get their monthly fee.

OTHER PET PEEVES SHARED BY ME AND OTHER ONLINE FRIENDS INCLUDE:

1. Dudes who should be using the extra machines for doing 100 reps but instead get onto the circuit. You have wait for them to finish or just pass them/that machine up and come back later. My gym has a great owner - he notices and kicks the dudes out of the circuit.

2. Moms who want to keep their elementary ages sons near them so they make them stay in the locker room while they shower. In the meantime I have to figure out how to get dressed without flashing a 10 year old boy.

3. Dudes who wear super colorful, tight fitting pants. These guys look like jesters! I am so tempted to ask where they put their pointy hats with jingle bells!

4. Women who show up in full make-up, fancy hairstyles, and padded/push up sports tops (when they are already top heavy to start with). I hate the meat-market atmosphere.

5. Aerobics instructions who do fancy, fast, high power moves when it’s a beginner’s class full of overweight and old people.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE:

1) People who stare at you when you’re getting changed.

2) People who come in and grab the biggest weight they can find, lift it three or four times and then spend the better half of an hour doing nothing else but walking up and down the gym looking at themselves in the mirror.

3) The protein farts…good god.

4) People who give themselves self love in the showers.

5) People who do naked stretches in the sauna

6) People who are too vocal when doing weights.

7) People who only wear the one pair of unwashed gym clothes the whole week.

Other men that find it acceptable to give you a tap ( or a squeeze on the bum )

9) People who wear short shorts

10) People who wear black leather lace up dress shoes with bright white tube socks, short red shorts, a black singlet that’s 2 sizes too small, gold chains and an over use of crusty headbands, wristbands and elbow bands

11) Women sitting on the benches totally naked with no clothes on.
They fail to realize that people come from the streets and put their feet up on those benches to take their shoes off or to tie their shoe lace.
They stepped on dog pooh and spit and now it’s on the benches.
These women don’t seem to care that what they are doing is not sanitary and they just sit on the bench.

12) I myself witnessed a woman shaving her legs in the gym’s pool and you can bet I quickly ended my membership that very minute.

What about you, do you work out at the gym or at home and what was your gym membership like?

Do you use a gym membership today and do you use the gym equipment?

How are you doing with your workouts, are you succeeding?
Any significant weight loss?