Put Away Your Weights...

[myosin]

To those who like to leave the barbell or Hammer machines loaded with 3-5 plates, no one will "psychically" know who was using such a large amount of weight and be impressed by you. If you're that strong to load it, you're strong enough to unload it. If you're too tired after your set and all your energy is now drained, I'm sorry, really- maybe your cardiovascular system is so shot from all your drugs or crappy diet that you should start attending a cardiac rehab class.

To those who like to leave the 100 dumb-bells in area's designated for the other amounts, I'm sorry if you have problems with math, it can be challenging. Let's try something, like counting by fives.... 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.... good for you!

Now, in all fairness to you- hey, maybe you were "psychically" thinking of that 50 year-old woman who wanted to use that machine and you just wanted her to get just a little more exercise trying to take off all those 45lb plates... that was very nice of you, really.

And hey, in fairness, maybe you're just a big 'ol prankster and you like to see people walk around trying to figure out where the other dumb-bells are at. You funny guy you.

 

[maldorf]

Putting your weights away

If you're that strong to load it, you're strong enough to unload it. If you're too tired after your set and all your energy is now drained, I'm sorry, really- maybe your cardiovascular system is so shot from all your drugs or crappy diet that you should start attending a cardiac rehab class.

#uck yeah! I used to get so tired of that at my gym.Now im lucky enough that I just lift in my basement.

the night i had my heart attack I was squating with 455 lbs. I had my heart attack after my third set. I racked the weight after finsinhing that last set and then the sickness hit me hard. I sat down and rested for about 15 minutes. What do you think I did next? I racked all of those weights, put everyone of them back an rearranged the plates so that the 45 were on the top rung. Looking back at it now I guess I was being dumb, but damn it I once told myself I would never leave weights on a bar or machine and so far ive lived up to that , heart attack or not!

 

[e6er]

Personally putting away the weights is part of the workout.

 

[Bolan]

Im with Maldorf... I spent the Dinero that I really dident have,, and opened my own gym in the basement. I have my training partner and all the weight i can lift.
I hated going to the Gym and people asking me if I had gear to sell....That use to piss me off the most.

 

[maldorf]

I hated going to the Gym and people asking me if I had gear to sell....That use to piss me off the most.

Another reason not to go to a gym! I must say though that I didnt get it too much. WHat I mostly got was guys asking me what I was doing to look the way I did and to push that kind of weight. Of course I never mentioned AAS, but just talked about the basics. When youre trying to lift hard though, the last thing you want to do is give someone a 1 on 1 seminar. A couple of times I brought in Arnold's Encyclopedia and let them read that for 1 month.

 

[Bolan]

Another reason not to go to a gym! I must say though that I didnt get it too much. WHat I mostly got was guys asking me what I was doing to look the way I did and to push that kind of weight. Of course I never mentioned AAS, but just talked about the basics. When youre trying to lift hard though, the last thing you want to do is give someone a 1 on 1 seminar. A couple of times I brought in Arnold's Encyclopedia and let them read that for 1 month.

How much can you bench, how much can you bench.....LOL!!!!

I ended up wearing ear plugs from work to the gym, yeah its kind of a dickhead thing to do.....But I'll talk when im done training!!

 

[MAINEVENT]

So true.....this is my biggest pet peeve in the gym.

Rack your f**king weights and put the db's where they belong!!!!

 

[blackhulk]

quit complaining you skrawny sissy and put up my weights...lol. it might help you grow

 

[Trainwreck80]

People in my gym never put anything away. Not bars, weights, nothing. You never know if anyone is using something or not. You trip over shit. When they do rack the weights they rack them all fucked up. 45s on top, etc. What pisses me off the most is that the folks that work there don't make anyone do it nor do they say anything. I called them out on this and they don't seem to care. This is the only place I've ever experienced this too. No gym etiquette whatsoever. I'm seriously considering changing gyms because of this reason alone. It's also the most expensive place in town. Go figure.

 

[Bolan]

People in my gym never put anything away. Not bars, weights, nothing. You never know if anyone is using something or not. You trip over shit. When they do rack the weights they rack them all fucked up. 45s on top, etc. What pisses me off the most is that the folks that work there don't make anyone do it nor do they say anything. I called them out on this and they don't seem to care. This is the only place I've ever experienced this too. No gym etiquette whatsoever. I'm seriously considering changing gyms because of this reason alone. It's also the most expensive place in town. Go figure.

Change gyms bro...thats no way to train....Injury waiting to happen IMO.

 

[chrisrivers]

Pisses me off aswell!!! Feels good to rant, but those sissy-pretty-boys-that-weigh-165lb wont listen to reason.

 

[Bolan]

Pisses me off aswell!!! Feels good to rant, but those sissy-pretty-boys-that-weigh-165lb wont listen to reason.

LMAO!!!!!! Bark like a pitbull, They'll listen.

 

[PlateStacker45]

Meh... I workout in a REAL gym. There are no little old ladies and no little pussies. It's an old dirty rat gym where every member is jacked and huge. So a good amount of the time, weight will be left on the machines, but that ok because EVERYONE is lifting massive amounts of weight. It's MUCH easier to simply take a plate off or add one on to the legpress, rather than add 20 of them on and then take them all back off again.

 

[BigChef]

What pisses me off the most is when you go to the Dumbbell Rack the heaviest end like 50kg etc, they are usually not there. Sometimes I see the 5-10kg dumbbells in the heaviest rack area and thought wtf lazy pricks leaving light weights in the heavy dumbbell rack area.

 

[marilyn]

So true.....this is my biggest pet peeve in the gym.

Rack your f**king weights and put the db's where they belong!!!!

Chris, it wont stop...theres always a new idiot that will do it

I train very early in the morning, and I probably can pick out the ones that leave them from the night before.....sucks having to remove them..especially if I'm still tired

 

[myosin]

Good one

What pisses me off the most is when you go to the Dumbbell Rack the heaviest end like 50kg etc, they are usually not there. Sometimes I see the 5-10kg dumbbells in the heaviest rack area and thought wtf lazy pricks leaving light weights in the heavy dumbbell rack area.

Hahaha

 

[hotttsauce]

Messy Gyms ..... Mr. Yuck Stickers!

Your not alone ...... I hate searching for that missing dumbbell ( kinda came unglued during a prep one time, just once ) or trying to find plates that match, or the guy that does one set, walks away for 10 minutes and comes back and says I wasn't done when you take it over ..... Too Flipping Bad, It's Mine Now!

I will never forget the day when I lived in Atlanta and was training at Mainevent Fitness and the owner Lex Luger was training and kicked a guy out because he left the d'bells a mess. Hilarious!

 

[Huuuge]

What about the fockers that that think it's a good thing to nick the carrabina, that really pisses me off...!!

 

[Ulamalop]

really- maybe your cardiovascular system is so shot from all your drugs or crappy diet that you should start attending a cardiac rehab class.

Now that is funny.

 

[brineal]

psychically is not a word, stop using it lol