Gym members who fail to understand or follow gym etiquette can turn your focused, intense workout into an unproductive session. From a distance, poor gym etiquette can be a big joke. Read more about how people at the gym behave selfishly and inappropriately, with no clue and bad manners.
I am a subscriber to a free newsletter about advice for introverts. The emails are often funny, but not because the author is trying to make a joke. Rather, it’s the bullseye observations that make me laugh. For example, one post described things that are most irritating to introverts: phone calls after 6 pm, talkative…
Even though the schedule on my gym’s door says it opens at 5 am, I appreciate that the staff member with the key always arrives early and lets us in. An extra five or ten minutes on a busy workday makes a difference, and I get some additional gym time before the 6 am crowd…
On the social media platform Reddit, there is a subreddit called “AITA.” Posters tell their stories, and then ask the Internet for feedback: “Am I The Asshole?” While Redditors do post gym stories on the AITA subreddit, the site is missing out on a separate category for just gyms, something like: r/AmItheAsshole-gyms. Gyms accommodate a…
I’m a fan of basic, compound movements that work large muscle groups. Beyond building bulk, power movements like squats and deadlifts cause the body to release a flood of growth hormones, stimulating further gains. However, sometimes due to choice, but mostly due to necessity, gym members spend a great deal of time focusing on smaller…
When it comes to gym etiquette, the absolute minimum is wiping your sweat off your bench and re-racking your weights. Most gyms have signs posted to this effect. When I walked into my gym’s aerobics room this morning, the pigsty stopped me in my tracks: This mess is well beyond some slob not following the…