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.
All this talk of barbells sailing through actual gym windows got me thinking about sociologists’ theory of Broken Windows. Some researchers believe that municipalities can prevent serious crime by addressing problems when they are small: Repair broken windows quickly and vandals are much less likely to break more windows or do further damage. New York…
My sister thinks that the commotion surrounding a gym water fountain is just knee-slapping hilarious, and that this blog would be incomplete without a more thorough analysis. Ok, Elana, here you go: Top 10 Things Not To Do At A Gym Water Fountain 10. Take a big gulp of water, turn around, and cough into…
Nick Nilsson’s Unwritten Code of the Gym: 19) Don’t wear excessive cologne or perfume in the gym. It can be very unpleasant for others who are breathing heavily. Well, there’s the understatement of the year. To this gem, I would add only a distiction between the cardio and the free weight areas of the gym….
At this point, I’m pretty certain it’s not just me. From a thread at Bodybuilding.com: I was training the other day doing a set of lying triceps extensions on a flat bench. I was just sitting on one end resting between sets when all of a sudden my bench starts moving. I look behind me…
I learned a great line out on the golf course recently. To the incredibly slow foursome ahead of us, a guy in my group yelled out “Save us some brie!” Get it? The foursome was moving at such a snail’s pace it was like they were having a picnic out on the fairway. At the…