The 7 most annoying gym personalities

Back in Skinny Jeans has compiled a list of the Seven Most Annoying Gym Personalities. Love it:

1) The cell phone gabber: Having a cell with you at the treadmill or elliptical is fine if you're waiting for some important call that will take like a minute or two. I'm talking about the gossipers who have to gab on the phone the entire 30-45 minutes they are doing cardio. Turn off the cell as no one else wants to hear about your analysis of what Doris thinks about Susan.

2) The Casanova: This is the guy who just doesn't get the hint that you are just not that into him. He'll see the open treadmill next to you, and jump on it. He'll see you go into yoga class and set up his mat right next to you. He'll see you doing weights and ask you if you need a spot. Guys, if a woman really is interested in you that way she will clearly let you know at the first attempt. In the meantime, you're making her want to avoid the gym instead of enjoying it.

3) The Farter: This one needs no explanation.

4) Profuse sweaty dude: I only pick on the guys because the majority of profusely sweaty people at the gym are dudes because of all that muscle mass. Now, I don't have a problem with profuse sweat, it's the ones who sweat all over the equipment and don't have the consideration to wipe up after themselves. They leave bucket loads of sweat on the cardio machines, the mats, and the weights, and who wants to exercise using something with all that bodily fluid wetness around. Icky! Please be considerate and wipe up.

5) Makeup chick: If I pick on the guys, I'll pick on the ladies to be fair. Makeup chick is the one who so obviously goes to the gym to get the attention of guys or cause mass jealousy with other women. Her M.O. She has hair as long as Beyonce and she never puts it in a ponytail, and it's perfectly coiffed as if she is going clubbing. She's always wearing something form fitting that practically shows butt cheek. She works out hard enough to create the illusion of working out yet not hard enough to sweat because it would smear her makeup. In the locker room, she will walk around fully naked as to remind all the other women how much better her body is than anyone else's.

6) The machine hog: This is the person who clearly sees that other people are waiting to use the piece of equipment he/she is using and instead of hurrying along, they take longer. It's almost as if they are doing it on purpose just to see if they can get attention. Yes, you have our attention. It's just not the positive kind.

7) The Peacock: These are the folks who like to stare at themselves in the mirror on the gym floor or in the locker room as they admire their muscles and or skinniness, in the case of women. They pose, flex, and twist to see the backside. "Yup, look at my body of perfection." They are the flaunters, and they want the rest of us to be reminded of that. There's nothing wrong with being proud of the results of all your hard work, but all the posing in front of others when it's not the Mr./Miss perfect body contest is showing off.

Got any other ones you'd like to share???

Comments

Love these! I've seen all of those types. There are a couple of others that bug me:
1) The I-have-no-idea-how-this-machine-works person. They ask everyone how to use all the equipment and are generally annoying.
2) The inappropriate clothing wearers. The people that work out in jeans (?) or other attire that makes you wonder.
3) The locker room nudists: They seem to WANT you to see them naked in the locker room and make no attempts to cover up at all.

Those are hilarious! I've got one more:
the persistent throat clearer/cougher. There was one guy who would get on the stairmaster and clear his throat every 5 seconds for the entire 45 minutes. If your sick, PLEASE stay home! If not, PLEASE try a cough drop,lol!

I loved this post! So true! How about the "chatters" who love to initiate 15 min conversations while you're trying to get into the zone of working out. They hang around the gym for hours, it seems, for socialization.

these are all soooo true. but there is another one: how about the guy/ girl that tries to beat you in your workout? like run faster than you or lift more weights than you? that is quite frustrating. and then there's the "starer" who can't keep their eyes to themselves and make you extremely uncomfortable..

The people that go to the gym, workout for maybe 10 mins then leave bug the HELL out of me...if you're gonna get dressed in workout clothes, head out the door and go to the gym...stay for more than 10 frikin mins and atleast work up some kind of sweat.

I guess 10 mins is better than nothing but still...c'mon

People that hog the good treadmills in the campus fitness center piss me off but...since I tend to be on a treadmill for an hour or more I guess I probably piss some people off too =x

I'm sure I piss lotsa people off at my gym, haha. I hog the treadmill and sweat like a 400 lb man and sometimes I like to race people on the treadmill next to me for fun.

Oh! I've got one...The Whistler... This is related to the Grunter. As they do their sets of weights, they whistle (or grunt) each time they lift. The acoustics in my gym are such that they echo around the whole place. So annoying.

Also, how about the "About to Have a Heart Attack" man. Related to the sweat-er. This person goes as fast as they possibly can on the cardio machines. They have awful form and no resistance on the machine, but since they are sweating like pigs and going so fast, they think they are doing great. Everyone else expects them to fall over dead at any minute.

These are all hilarious! I, too, hate it when people wear jeans to work out or...worse...men wearing ripped jean shorts and construction/Timberland-type boots to lift weights. What?

Also, The Stinker - bad, bad body odor. Why does nobody speak up? A wife at home, perhaps? A gym employee? Anonymous note in the locker? As I've said before here, there's a man at my gym who just REEKS of taco seasoning and it makes me want to puke. But then, even if I try to hold my breath, a litle part of me hopes 'Maybe he's fixed it" so I HAVE to take a lil whiff. And boom! Awful still. It's like an olfactory lunar eclipse.

I feel that I have to defend people with long workouts. as Annie says, I know I've been that person. though I try to do it at off peak times. I agree, I hate, hate hate cellphone users. also-the girl with shorts that have writing across her butt. Why? is it really a writing surface?

what's wrong with showing a little butt cheek? and you don't like my victoria's secret "pink" shorts? how do these free weights work, anyway? and is this class easy?

seriously, though - there is a woman at my gym who wears blue eyeshadow up to the browbone to play RACQUETBALL. you've gotta be kidding me.

i like to grunt back at the grunters and ask the exhibitionists if they would like to borrow my extra towel. it's more fun to make a joke out of the ridiculous behavior than to complain about it!

Good site! Good resources here, All the best!

There was a girl at my gym the other day wearing shorts that said "MICHIGAN" across the butt, but because of the seam going up the butt, it said MICH on the left cheek and IGAN on the right. I kept thinking, "I can't stop staring at the weird spelling - how many other people stare at her butt?" It also made me think of those BEST FRIENDS necklaces we used to wear that broke in half and the more dominant friend would get "BE FRIE."

Don't forget the thonger (the girl who's thong is clearly obvious from anyone standing behind the stair stepper)and Mr. Instruction-the guy who thinks he's everyone's personal trainer and will loudly point out every mistake you make with the equipment.

How about Mr./Ms. Reserve??? The person who thinks that rather than waiting at an occupied machine, they can just plop their gym bag or other personal paraphenalia down next to it and go use another machine, belieiving their personal belonging has secured their position on line. Then when the machine becomes available, and you, who has been standing there waiting for it, make a move toward it, you hear from a few machines away, "Hey,I was waiting for that; my bag/towel/water bottle is right there!" ...Now, I'm a pretty friendly, non-confrontational person, but believe me, I'd sooner come to blows than let someone like that go ahead of me!!!

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