| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/6/2008 3:06:59 PM | I have been going to the gym since I was in High School. I am not super hard core but I have put on some serious muscle compared to my teen years. No matter how many times I go to the gym I feel like super man being confronted with the strength sucking kyptonite if an attractive spandex clad woman works out next to me. Never fail. I have only once or twice felt like pushing harder when confronted by a beautiful woman.
So my question is, what make syou run out of gas at the gym? Women, Men, bad smells, talkative people, cell phones. Am I the only one? | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/6/2008 3:26:20 PM | I got one....I went to the gym Saturday, and the heat was at like 85 degrees. I am sure it wasn't working properly, but that'll make you want to go sit down before you even start. Once you're sweating and your heart rate's over 160 it's all the same but for me the 1st 15 minutes and the cool down and stretch were unbearable. Ick. Praying that never happens again.
Bad smells are 2nd, it's bad enough you're sweating in a room with a bunch of people, having someone near you who's got chronic BO just doesn't work well when you're short of breath. I can't stand when I stink so I can't imagine working out for a half hour or more while standing in it.
Cell phones bug me too. How important are you that you can't work out for an hour or two? To me, workout time is "me" time, and the phone's either in the car or in the locker room taking messages. I feel if you can talk easily on a cell phone while working out, you're not really doing much.
Lastly, machines that don't work properly, and the gym being so crowded you have to wait to use everything. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/6/2008 3:26:29 PM | | Once the ipod goes on, my purpose in the gym is to make my body pay. Too many people in the gym can disrupt the flow of a good workout but generally I can maintain high energy throughout an entire workout. But, with that said, once exhaustion starts to sneak in, my ability to maintain focus and ignore distractions dwindles. So, exhaustion is my kryptonite. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/7/2008 2:00:35 PM | | ^^^Yes, I find hot men to be quite the motivation - I actually once got another 15 mins of cardio from watching a hot guy in front of me on a treadmill - sort of like the rabbit and carrot thing. lol | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/7/2008 4:33:50 PM | People that camp gym equipment... especially when you are on it.
It happens almost every time... Next muscle group in your routine, you spot an empty machine... set the weights, have a seat (or whatever), and a minute into your first set, here comes some idiot who drops a dufflebag by your feet waiting for your machine.
Stop acting impatient, go find another machine to work on. It's not going to make me go any faster.... infact... I do believe I take extra pleasure in going slower at that point. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/7/2008 8:20:20 PM | Slammers. It's usually guys doing the whole "look at what I can do..."
Some will argue that when you get so exhausted and to the point of failure that it's impossible to be gentle with the weights. I'm really not talking about people who are otherwise courteous about it... and it's easy to tell the difference. I saw a guy on the seated cable row actually let go of the weight while during the contraction side... the weight stack (around 16 plates) fell about 2 and a half feet. Fricken ignorant.
Screamers. Usually the same group as above. Some will argue that when you exert yourself, it creeps out. I'm not talking about the "creeper screamers" that let out the occasional suppressed grunt. I mean the guys that belly out with the stupid whiny moans with spit and snot garnishing every breath. I think some of these guys might have benefitted from having a bit more sex as a teenager in a bedroom next to their parents. They'd be a bit more familiar with "stealth mode."
Try as I might, those two groups never fail to really turn me off of being there. I can only turn up my own music so loud. Half the time you're in the middle of your own set and hear something crashing to the ground somewhere you think someone just had a heart attack or popped a shoulder. Makes it hard to concentrate when it sounds like artillery dropping around you.
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/7/2008 10:22:05 PM | The ones that do me in are really mean pushy people. I've had older very snobby women literally **** me right off a machine because they decided they feel like using it right at that moment despite that I put my time down for it as are the rules at the gym.
I just completely lose motivation to do anything and go home. It's pretty pathetic.
Talkative people make me want to leave too. The gym is for workouts, not chit chats. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/10/2008 11:14:03 PM | MP3 players help with the talkative people. I guess I've never had the problem with people pushing me off, Im not the nicest looking person when working out. Burning 2lbs of water each time and all  | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/11/2008 5:34:58 AM | | I work out at home by myself, so I don't really have any of those distractions, but I do occasionally check my phone while I'm lifting, which is something I wouldn't do at a gym. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/11/2008 5:37:33 AM | | Absolutely nada, no distractions, even naked women with carmen electra bodies can take a hike who cares , I am in the metroflex dungeon, this is sacrifice, this is animal thing haha. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/12/2008 8:13:09 PM | The biggest turn off for me about going to the gym is number one
Body odor, i personally cannot focus when i just want to pass out.
I am not sure why but i also have a serious issue with men and woman alike with excessive armpit hair popping out everytime there arm stretches up, lol and pieces of deodorant in it, one good point u know they use it!!!
Lol well anyway thats my gym beef!!!! | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/15/2008 11:47:35 PM | | Disclaimer: I am not proud that I flipped out- but I think I did what many people would LOVE to do at the gym. I was in the last phase of training for a Biathlon race; killing myself, working on a treadmill at 10%/7mph. I have a heart rate monitor and O2 meter on, and am sweating like Secretariat at Churchill Downs. Next to me is a spandex Barbie loudly on her phone: "Well I was all like... and he like... oh well she was like....and then he was all like.....well then I was like.....well like she shouldn't have like ...." After 10 minutes of this, something in my brain snapped; SNAPPED I TELL YOU, SNAPPED !! I jumped off my machine, hit the panic stop button on hers, and 2 inches from her face whispered in my best Bella Lugosi voice: "Unless that is your heart transplant call, lose the phone!" She left wide eyed and terrified to applause from everyone in the room....... | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/16/2008 1:27:40 PM | I don't bother working out. I can't even run without taking a 15 minute breather I pass out from not being able to breath.  | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/17/2008 8:59:24 AM | | i can't stand people who wont put the weights back after they use it, or in the proper place after using it. it bothers me so much that i just end up putting the weights back myself just so i have a clean area to work out in. i mean is it really so hard to put the weights back after using them? do these people like looking all over just to find a pair of weights to use? i dont get it. wow i'm actually getting angry writing about this haha i guess that's how much it pisses me off. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/17/2008 9:52:54 AM | | I second that, Brooklyn- Dumbbells not returned to the rack by Dumb Bells always results in one of the pair getting lost; unfortunately it is the wrong type that dissapear..... | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/30/2008 12:33:40 PM | I'm with you, Mary Jane! lol I can walk the treadmill for 45 minutes, but try to make me run and I'll get right off and go find me a Brew.... lol  My ex-husband used to get mad at me for merely walking, saying "No Pain, No Gain".... Well, I proved him wrong when I got rid of him (the "Pain") and "Gained" a whole new wonderful life! hehehe  Other than that, I suppose the only thing that bugs me when I go to the gym (which isn't often at all these days) is when the "fashion girls" come in with the most sexy work-out attire ever invented and show off their store-bought cleavage, and tight little buns.... ya... lol.... maybe that's why I don't go to the gym anymore, lol. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/31/2008 1:28:47 PM | | Crappy muzic. Anytime i'm in a gym and start hearing loud music about ghetto booties and smoking crack, how how this sh** is bananas ect..... it really annoys me and kills my concentration and I leave early or don't get a good workout. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/31/2008 6:59:26 PM | People are pretty polite at the YMCA in the cardio room where I go.. mind you it's mid afternoon and full of retirees, I mostly have to dodge questions about my redness and sweaty disheveled look when they constantly ask "are you ok dear?"
The Gym however is a different story. I find a lot of guys (mostly) have a real attitude about "people like me" being on the machines. I know everyone there was new at one time.. so why can't they have some patience & understanding for gods sakes!!
I understand how they could get frustrated with some of the jerks I've read about in some of the threads on here and in other places.. but I"m just there to do my thing (correctly I might add) and get out. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 1/31/2008 7:49:28 PM | | the facilities where i live are my kryptonite. the machines arent wiped down regularly after usuage. sorry, that whole idea of everyone elses germs crawling around just puts me off the idea of going to the gyms here. i spent my holidays sick because of other people's germs and their lack of consideration when it came to covering their mouths when they coughed or sneezed and not washing their hands for prevention. i was working the cash register one nite where a woman, barely able to stand on her own because of the flu, came to my store to shop anyway, and proceeded to put her full weight on the counter, lean over the full 2 feet of counter width, and sneeze on me. i spent my holidays sick because of her...so no thanks. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 2/1/2008 5:25:19 PM | | People who smell, don't wipe down their equipment, people who use cardio machines for stretching, men who groan loudly, people who sing out loudly and people who talk loudly on their cell phones. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 2/3/2008 8:49:58 PM | | I hate it when there's like a dozen of the same piece of cardio equipment available, but someone decides to use the one that has an irritating squeal or clank to it and doesn't get off. That.....and when someone uses more equipment than they really need when the gym is busy....like doing standing bicep curls with dumbbells but insisting to use a bench to set their water bottle on and put their weights there in between sets. | |
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| What is your kyptonite at the gym?
Posted: 2/5/2008 4:49:58 AM | Hey!...Don't underestimate Groaning Loudly @ the gym!...I want the entire WORLD..the entire WORLD...to hear my squats!...I'm proud of my but-pinching Squats Dagnabbit and everyone should know!
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