NFT: gym etiquette: not using lockers

You won’t have to deal with it very long. That ole “New Years Resolution” will get old real quick and the gym membership you just got will be a thing of the past. Keep your chin up, things will get better soon.

They're above what everyone else seems to abide by. I have guys at my gym who do this as well but I put the blame on management. They need to make the rounds and enforce the gym rules of that not being permitted.

I do get a kick out of the guys who put their bags on top of the lockers. I don't get that one at all. Your stuff is there for anyone to go through or take and while you're not cluttering the gym floor itself, what's the point of not just putting it in a locker?

How long does it actually take to open and close a gym locker?

That's mt pet peeve. Someone puts weights on a piece of equipment then walks away leaving it there for the next person to put their weight away before they can put on their own.

is probably the biggest faux pas at the gym. It harms everyone involved. For those not re-racking, all those mini-lifts add up to build grip and forearm strength. For others, it's annoying to try and find the appropriate weights through a muddle of plates.

In comment 14259413 BillT said:

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That's mt pet peeve. Someone puts weights on a piece of equipment then walks away leaving it there for the next person to put their weight away before they can put on their own.

Oh man there's so many we could list and that's definitely another one. Happens all the time in spite of all the "rack your weights" signs posted around the gym.

I'm sure some new comers just don't know any better but I know a lot of people just don't give a shit about anyone else.

is the guy tying up 3 machines because he is doing some circuit workout.

Maybe they don't want their stuff stolen?

things will thankfully settle down and the crowds will taper.

lock or not it’s generally a place left unattended and people get stuff stolen all the time.

In comment 14259437 ZogZerg said:

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Maybe they don't want their stuff stolen?

Then why leave them unattended on top of a locker when you're in the gym? I see this every time I go and can't figure it out.

Also, I can't speak for other gyms but mine is pretty secure, and clean. There are always employees on the gym floor and in the locker room cleaning, filling soap, towels etc and I think we only had one locker broken into and that was years ago.

Definitely a big reason why I use that one instead of any of the ones a little cheaper in town.

after using it. The gym I go to has disinfectant sprayers and wipes all over the place but 50% of the people don't bother using them. It's so common that now I've developed a habit of wiping equipment down before and after using it.

Also, people taking dumps in the bathroom. The locker rooms, showers, urinals , and toilet stalls are all in about the same area. Sometimes it gets unbearable. Can't you wait till you get home?

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after using it. The gym I go to has disinfectant sprayers and wipes all over the place but 50% of the people don't bother using them. It's so common that now I've developed a habit of wiping equipment down before and after using it. Also, people taking dumps in the bathroom. The locker rooms, showers, urinals , and toilet stalls are all in about the same area. Sometimes it gets unbearable. Can't you wait till you get home?

Spot on about not wiping down equipment. That should be a bannable offense.

As for dropping a deuce, however - that’s to be expected. Sometimes a good workout has a stimulative effect. Not uncommon that I don’t want to try and hold it until I get home.

Courtesy flushes, however, should be standard practice

In comment 14259481 mfsd said:

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In comment 14259476 Ace718 said: Quote: after using it. The gym I go to has disinfectant sprayers and wipes all over the place but 50% of the people don't bother using them. It's so common that now I've developed a habit of wiping equipment down before and after using it. Also, people taking dumps in the bathroom. The locker rooms, showers, urinals , and toilet stalls are all in about the same area. Sometimes it gets unbearable. Can't you wait till you get home? Spot on about not wiping down equipment. That should be a bannable offense. As for dropping a deuce, however - that’s to be expected. Sometimes a good workout has a stimulative effect. Not uncommon that I don’t want to try and hold it until I get home. Courtesy flushes, however, should be standard practice

Totally agree about not wiping down equipment. It should be a bannable offense or at least a suspendable one. Continue doing it and you're gone.

I'm with Ace too as I always wipe my equipment before and after.

As for taking dumps, I don't make a practice of if at the gym but when you gotta go, you gotta go. Like anywhere though, courtesy flushes are a must.

Stand people who leave their crap everywhere or claim a bench or area and disappear. Lots of selfishness on display at gyms

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Is trying to check out hot chicks without getting caught. Mirrors on all of the walls are great for viewing angles, but it's also easier for the chicks to catch you gawking.



Or maybe they are checking me out, and I am catching them?

sweatshirt around with me where ever i go in the gym. I can't leave it in a locker room in a gym with a bunch of people i don't know. Never bring a bag to the gym tho.

Can't stand people at a machine resting for 5 minutes in between sets on their phone and also putting weights back in the proper place. 50 pound dumbbells where the 40s are supposed to go

you're welcome

....well, that should tell you something.

In comment 14259556 lightemup said:

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sweatshirt around with me where ever i go in the gym. I can't leave it in a locker room in a gym with a bunch of people i don't know. Never bring a bag to the gym tho. Can't stand people at a machine resting for 5 minutes in between sets on their phone and also putting weights back in the proper place. 50 pound dumbbells where the 40s are supposed to go

yup very annoying and selfish

Or anything in the Smith Machine other than actually using the machine.

My gym has two SM's and one was down for repairs and there was a guy on Thursday doing dumbbell presses on a flat bench in the Smith Machine. Meanwhile people are waiting to actually use the Smith Machine.

He wasn't using the machine at all and the gym has a nice sized area with benches of all types with plenty of room to do whatever dumbbell lift he wanted.

Not as common as curls in the squat rack but it happens too often.

black socks become acceptable gym fashion?

ripped a huge fart just as we were transitioning into the corpse pose at the end. It was a stinker too and in the 90 degree room it lingered.

My biggest pet peeve. Fucking lazy disgusting slobs

This is a pet peeve of mine and probably stands out at the moment because it happened to me this morning. I moved on to do some other stuff, figuring that at some point the machine would be clear and I would make this the last thing I did to finish the workout instead. TWENTY minutes later, I go back and same guy is just sitting there in a deep conversation with someone. Heck, I dont even know if he ever started his set! So that, and the person doing a circuit and throwing their towel on the machine so no one will use it.

About the locker issue.....I always use a locker AND use a lock. But it seems that every other workout, I go in and look for an empty locker and in the process of doing that ill open maybe 3-4 lockers that are actually occupied but with no lock. Ive see keys, wallets, phones, you name it, just sitting there. And then these people will probably complain about the gym when their stuff gets ripped off!

people sitting on a machine for long periods of time while they play with their phone

people coughing without any awareness to cover their mouth

how many guys don't wash their hands after taking a piss

In comment 14259584 DC Gmen Fan said:

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ripped a huge fart just as we were transitioning into the corpse pose at the end. It was a stinker too and in the 90 degree room it lingered.

big thumbs?

Ive never really understood bringing a bunch of stuff into the gym with you.

Maybe a sweatshirt, but thats about all ive ever brought to the gym that I wasnt going to actively use

In comment 14259584 DC Gmen Fan said:

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ripped a huge fart just as we were transitioning into the corpse pose at the end. It was a stinker too and in the 90 degree room it lingered.

Did you hear it?

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In comment 14259584 DC Gmen Fan said: Quote: ripped a huge fart just as we were transitioning into the corpse pose at the end. It was a stinker too and in the 90 degree room it lingered. Did you hear it?

oh yup

I honestly don’t give a fuck what you wear, where you put your shit, or what you do for exercise. The not returning weights, not wiping down upon a sweaty display of exercising, and generally not following basic decency and awareness of others with the equipment is where I get annoyed. But not so much that it ruins my day

Being around stereotype meatheads who are doing stereotype meathead things...grunting loudly while dropping weights on the floor between constantly checking themselves out in the mirrors.

The weirdos who are in a machine but aren't using them or doing anything. Just sitting there creepily looking around giving everyone the stink eye or not so subtly gawking at the nearest girl's ass

When I used to work out at the YMCA, the old men in the locker room doing old men things...walking around nude, drying their nuts with the hand dryer in the bathroom, leaving shaving cream and hair all over the sink from shaving. Fucking gross.

In comment 14259742 jnoble said:

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Being around stereotype meatheads who are doing stereotype meathead things...grunting loudly while dropping weights on the floor between constantly checking themselves out in the mirrors. The weirdos who are in a machine but aren't using them or doing anything. Just sitting there creepily looking around giving everyone the stink eye or not so subtly gawking at the nearest girl's ass When I used to work out at the YMCA, the old men in the locker room doing old men things...walking around nude, drying their nuts with the hand dryer in the bathroom, leaving shaving cream and hair all over the sink from shaving. Fucking gross.

lol at the hand dryer that happens at my gym as well

Also have seen poop on the floor of the showers more than once

In comment 14259701 mattlawson said:

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I honestly don’t give a fuck what you wear, where you put your shit, or what you do for exercise. The not returning weights, not wiping down upon a sweaty display of exercising, and generally not following basic decency and awareness of others with the equipment is where I get annoyed. But not so much that it ruins my day

Agreed to all. I would just like to add the people who put their bags,keys,phones, or other personal items on a bench that they are not using. That drives me crazy. How can you be so unaware or inconsiderate? Another is the jacked douche bags that leave the weights on the olympic bar because they are either too cool to have to take it off themselves or they want others to see how much weight they lifted.

I know that deadlifts often make noise which I understand but there are these two guys that go to my gym at night who not only slam the bar down on the ground with each rep but on their final rep of each set they drop the bar standing completely upright. They don't even have the decency to lower it down. It not only makes an absurdly loud noise it also risks damaging the olympic bar.

In comment 14259799 Jay on the Island said:

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In comment 14259701 mattlawson said: Quote: I honestly don’t give a fuck what you wear, where you put your shit, or what you do for exercise. The not returning weights, not wiping down upon a sweaty display of exercising, and generally not following basic decency and awareness of others with the equipment is where I get annoyed. But not so much that it ruins my day Agreed to all. I would just like to add the people who put their bags,keys,phones, or other personal items on a bench that they are not using. That drives me crazy. How can you be so unaware or inconsiderate? Another is the jacked douche bags that leave the weights on the olympic bar because they are either too cool to have to take it off themselves or they want others to see how much weight they lifted.

Douchebags who are grunting and audibly straining so loud the whole place can hear it. If what you're lifting is THAT heavy you're going to tear a muscle or seriously injured yourself thus ending your workouts for a long time while you painfully rehab, Mr Universe

In comment 14259584 DC Gmen Fan said:

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ripped a huge fart just as we were transitioning into the corpse pose at the end. It was a stinker too and in the 90 degree room it lingered.

Yeah, but was she hot?

It’s against policy to leave gym bags on the floor. I’m sure that goes for jackets, etc too.

If it bugs you, just mention something to the front desk/manager. I’m sure some of this stuff is a liability issue.

When within reason.

If there is a serious power lifting culture at the gym, you just have to deal with it. What they are doing is extremely hard and they HAVE to do those things to make it through.

Limited resource and the trainers claim it for group sessions.

It’s typically easy enough to share equipment and I’d do it for anyone who asks. Just sucks when there is a one way street.

folks without one had to bring their stuff into whatever workout room they used. But the equipment room (the only one I ever used, there were other rooms for spinning, yoga, MA, etc.) had cubbies for your gym bag and whatever and everyone used them. Guess we had a respectful clientele. I really don't recall any "bad" behavior aside from people eclipsing they one hour time limit on individual pieces of equipment.

Occasionally all the cubbies would be full; then one just left their stuff on a shelf above one wide low rack of cubbies. No one ever stole anything, so far as I knew. But that's Israel for you as opposed to NYC I guess.

...and then spend all day on the leg machines. They think that just because they have a perfect ass and shaved off all of their pubes it's okay.

It has my stuff in it and it is used to signify the equipment is in use when I go get a drink. People leave their weights on the bars; it is worse waiting for something nobody is even using.

I'm not going to go in the locker room every time I need a change of equipment or shoes.

In comment 14259423 Ash_3 said:

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is probably the biggest faux pas at the gym. It harms everyone involved. For those not re-racking, all those mini-lifts add up to build grip and forearm strength. For others, it's annoying to try and find the appropriate weights through a muddle of plates.

people always compliment my forearms, must be all the re-rackings--it's like an alibi.

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Basil Exposition: What's the other?
Austin Powers: Excuse me?
Basil Exposition: What's the other thing that scares you?
Austin Powers: Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

In comment 14260261 Milton said:

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...and then spend all day on the leg machines. They think that just because they have a perfect ass and shaved off all of their pubes it's okay.

Wait, this has to be sarcasm right? I mean what straight man would complain about that?

In comment 14259584 DC Gmen Fan said:

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ripped a huge fart just as we were transitioning into the corpse pose at the end. It was a stinker too and in the 90 degree room it lingered.

was there laughter??

Tbh, this is one f my biggest fears in the yoga room. It’s not for nothing they have something called the “wind releasing pose”.

All that lower abdomen twisting, I’m surprised this isn’t a frequent occurrence.

Hot yoga is awesome though.

Sure, some people at my gym will park themselves on a machine for a few minutes too long, or they'll get into a conversation hogging a machine, but it's not serious enough to have a 2nd thought about it. I barely deal with meathead antics or old men doing creepy things. Maybe it's because I'm at the gym with the 5 am crowd, but my place is fairly stress free.

My only real pet peeve is my own fault because I'm such a creature of habit. I have a specific treadmill that I use, mainly because of it's positioning to the large TV and clock (I'll jump back and forth between the news and SportsCenter, so I can catch the weather report at a specific time). Because I get to the gym so early, 90% of the time I get that treadmill. The 10% I don't get it bother me, but 10 minutes into my run I'll forget about it.

The guy that does his entire workout on the Smith machine ...which means you're not using it today