I have a beef. It’s a big one, and it bugs the crap out of me everytime I’m at the gym.
First of all, my current gym of choice is the YMCA. Maybe that’s where my problem lies. Secondly, the gym is beside a high school. But for the record, the time of the day that I go work out is around 8 PM… long after school is out.
Tonight, for example, two young teenage boys ran around the work out area, hopping from one machine to another, on broken ones too, and at one point went on a treadmill and put it to the fastest setting, making the largest racket and almost killing himself. Do you think anyone working there did anything about it? No. You could see all the adults in the gym giving the kids the dirty eye, but alas that’s as far as it went.
Another example. Teenage girls. More then a few times they congregate together on the machines and “work out” for about 5 minutes and then stop and chat, and then move to another area and do this again, and then go back etc, you get the picture. More then a few times these girls actually stop “working out” and just stand on the machines when the gym is FULL.
Now I’m all for young people having a place to go, and I’m not saying all teenagers just go to the gym to socialize because i’m sure there are quite a few who actually do go to get and stay healthy but those who aren’t there to get healthy, go to another area or at least get off the damn machines!
Ahh! That feels better.
i know how annoying that can be, but i have also seen adults behave that way, you know the types that go to the gym to hang out and be seen? if you want to be social, go to the mall or to the coffee shop!
AMEN!! I will probably be a night time gym goer soon and that annoys me more than anything. That is why I have loved the morning at the gym. It really is annoying! Sorry you had such a bad experience. Don’t let it get you down. Push through it. Say something…Be loud. Maybe you’ll embarass them and they will either stop coming or stay away from you when you’re there.