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 Photo via Splash I wish someone would print out this article on gym etiquette for muscleheads and post it at the gym, because seriously, the sweat? The smell? The obvious franks and beans situation peeking out of the Spandex bike shorts? No wonder I avoid the gym (um, yeah, THAT'S the reason). My biggest gripe is cell phones on the Stairmaster. Isn't the ability to hold a comfortable casual conversation a sign that you're not working out hard enough? Actually gyms are not the only place this bothers me. Someone almost took out Esteban with a loaded shopping cart in the produce department because she was too busy gabbing about her kid's T-ball schedule than being aware of the rest of the world. However, reading through these tales of gym etiquette horror stories, I would happily take a gabbing neighbor over spotting an abandoned used maxi pad in the shower. It's well within your rights to confront annoying people and ask them to wipe up their bodily fluids or stop hogging the machines. Here are some strategies:
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Where should we start? There are so many.
-Guys leaving their 100lb weights on the leg press. I can't lift those without hurting my back. If he can't, he shouldn't have been doing the leg press with them.
-Screaming children in the locker room. It's a tile room, people, and voices carry. I don't want to hear precious Cindy shrieking at the top of her lungs, even if she does this all day long at your house.
-What's more, boys older than toddlers in the ladies' locker room. My gym has a big activity pool for kids, so there are tons of kids there. They have rules about not having opposite sex children over age 5 (I think this is generous) in the locker rooms. They have family changing rooms for this situation: if you are a woman there alone with your older son, use that changing room, not the women's locker room, where it creeps out all the naked women there. But moms seem to think it's okay for their kids to hang out with them naked, so they can hang out with the rest of us naked too. Um, no.
My biggest problem I've had in gyms is not the other gym-goers, but the music and TV that is played, and played so loud that I can hear it over the loudest setting on my mp3 player. I don't want to have to get a player that goes up so loud I will injure my eardrums just so I don't have to listen to the radio station the people at the gym choose. Even if I liked the music, they play so many commercials - who wants to work out to commercials? It just seems to me that with mp3 players and personal radios so cheap anyone who wants to listen to music with their workout can just pick their own.
Now I go to a gym that doesn't play music and has tvs with closed captioning - so much better. It's more expensive and further away than the other gym I was using but I'm much more motivated to go there because it's not aggravating.