My Biggest Gym Pet Peeve - People Who Get On The Treadmill Right Next To Me

[Yavin4]

WHEN THERE ARE TWO WHOLE FRIGGIN ROWS OF EMPTY TREADMILLS!!!!! I WAS THE ONLY ONE ON THE TREADMILLS AT THE TIME AND NUMB NUTS HAS TO GET ON THE ONE RIGHT NEXT TO ME!!!!!!

DO YOU NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF PERSONAL SPACE!!!!!!!!

[w8liftinglady]

1. get a good cd-zone out

some people need a competitor...that would be you:)

[Yavin4]

2. Yeah, Well, Some People Need To Get A Life

We're on treadmills. We're not racing.

[w8liftinglady]

3. lol..right...maybe they dig you?

[matcom]

4. christ dude. it isn't like he picked the next URINAL

:shrug:

[LynneSin]

5. I hate when people do that with toilet stalls

there are 3 stalls in the damn bathroom. If I'm on one end and the other 2 are empty - don't take the one right next to me

:grr:

[Shakespeare]

8. ME TOO!!!

Why the need to pee right next to me, hmmm? When you could skip a stall or two? x(

[racaulk]

6. Maybe he was cruising you.

:evilgrin:




:hide:

[Dangerously Amused]

7. Eh, people are like cows that way.

Always going to the same machines, like cows always return to the same stalls.


I say, you had some nerve getting on the treadmill next to his!


Seriously dude, channel that anger into a better workout, and then laugh it off. Better yet, give him a grin and say "race ya!" and then forget about it.


BTW, your caps lock key is stuck on.


Moo.

[Yavin4]

14. I Was On It First

I don't need to smell you next to me.

[Dangerously Amused]

20. Well, my point is

...that he didn't take the machine next to you for the sole, or even the secondary purpose of irritating you.

He probably got on that machine because that's the machine he always gets on. It's like when, given the choice of say five bathroom stalls in a bathroom they frequent, most people will always use the same stall, even if all the other stalls are empty. Or like how people will have "their" spot at a coffee shop, or "their" booth at a restaurant, or "their" seat in church, or "their" parking spot at work, or "their" locker at the gym, or whatever. It's just the one they routinely use, whenever it is available. People are like that. You know? This guy is just some poor schlep who went to his usual machine, not realizing that it might bother you. To get mad at something like that seems to be a not real effective use of anger.

Anyway. I'm not sure why your personal space in the gym would include the machines next to you. Seems to me that they are fair game for anyone who wants to use them.

Eh, whatever.

[Yavin4]

25. You Don't Live In NY City Do You?

Personal space is a premium here. It's very, very difficult to find it, and when you do, you want to cherish it. I understand if the other treadmills were taken, but they were all free. It's a chance to workout without anyone around. I don't have to smell him, and he doesn't have to smell me.

[Seashell Eyes]

9. I also hate that.

People don't sit next to someone in an otherwise empty movie theater, why the treadmill thing?

[redqueen]

10. bet they were calmer than you

dude

[xchrom]

11. i hate it too -- cause i know i'm gonna be

on there for like an hour and a half -- DRIPPING, and FLINGING sweat everywhere -- and it's like ok -- there are other treadmills open -- but what ever.

[Writer]

12. You also leave a space between you and your pal at the movie theater, don't you?

[evlbstrd]

13. Can you tolerate your foods touching?

[Yavin4]

15. Maybe It's A NY Thing

You see, every where you go in NYC, you feel crowded. Subways, sidewalks, restaurants, movie theaters, etc. So, when there's a chance to grab a little personal space for a little while, you cherish it.

There were 15 other treadmills sitting empty. Just take an empty one and we can both workout with a little personal space. That's all I'm saying.

[Dangerously Amused]

28. And you couldn't move over to one of those other 15 treadmills because...

...why, exactly?

[Norwood]

16. I agree that crap pisses me off

A couple weeks back I was on a treadmill at the gym and this guy did the same thing. I need my space at the gym! Still it normally just irritates me and I continue my run. This guy smelled like he shat in his pants and I couldn't handle it. :puke:

When I exercise I try to go all out and I'm sucking air the whole time I'm working out, the aroma of feces makes that quite impossible. :mad:

[lost-in-nj]

17. I will take that one step further

THEN THEY TALK ON THEIR CELL PHONES!!!!!111

ugh


lost

[Yavin4]

23. A Woman Did That To Me And She Was Talking About A Just Released Movie

She was on the phone and giving away the plot. Now, if I had punched her in the face, then I would be the one in trouble.

[grace0418]

18. Even worse, there's a woman who always does that to me *AND* she gets visited

constantly by different people. I think she must work there during the day or something because she knows everybody there, but it drives me nuts. I'm trying to concentrate, listen to my music, get into a groove so I don't keep checking the clock. And not only do I have the woman on the very next treadmill when all the others are empty, but I also have someone standing *between* her treadmill and mine laughing and gesticulating. GRRR! And of course, it always happens when my favorite treadmill is open. You know the one with the smoothest action, no slipping or wobbling, no weird noises, accurate read-out. So I don't really feel like stopping my workout and moving, but sometimes I just can't take it anymore.

[rockymountaindem]

19. Maybe there's something on the TV in front of you that they want to watch

That could be it.

[Yavin4]

21. Each Treadmill Has Its Own TV Screen

So, no that wasn't the reason.

[rockymountaindem]

24. Fancy pants

At *my* gym some people can't see any of the six TVs at all! Punk.

:)

[Yavin4]

27. It's My One Splurge

I need a nice gym in order to motivate me to work out. I need it clean, neat, with towels, nice equipment, and nice showers. I don't even really want TV monitors on the treadmills, although it's nice to watch Keith and workout.

[rockymountaindem]

29. Whatever gets you there, that's the most important thing

My gym is actually pretty nice, it's just not big on multimedia. I understand what you're talking about, though.

[SPKrazy]

22. mebbe he just wanted to be

close to you :P

[Alexander]

26. It's like class, when strangers sit right next to me even though there are many empty seats.

I must give off "I have the right answer" vibes, because they sure don't sit near me to chat.

[rug]

30. This is a corollary to the urinal rule.

[janx]

31. My biggest gym pet peeve is when people lounge around

on equipment that I need to use. I'm a get-in-and-get-out sort of person, and for years I've seen people just lounging around on benches or machines. I hate to say it, but this has been true of women more often than men. I swear, some of them are practically napping.

Another thing I don't like is when guys leave those gargantuan weights on the leg press. It's not as if I can't lift them, but can't the guys put them back so that the next person can load appropriate weights without having to lug the big ones off to storage first?

[Yavin4]

33. The Person Who Puts 15,000 Pounds of Weights on The Leg Press Machine

and then walks away, should be banned from the gym.

I hate the loungers as well. Working out for me is not a pleasurable thing. I want to get in and go.

[JVS]

32. I get lonesome. I'll give you personal space in the shower, but we should chat while walking