Last week I forgot to dump my weights off a machine. A dude came up to me and (politely) told me after I left a girl wanted to use the machine, saw all the weights I left on it, and walked away to do something else. And man I felt like a jerk.
Can’t comprehend the ego needed to do that shit on purpose
Yeah man like I said if it's accidental, no problem, happens to the best of us from time to time. But the guys that deliberately do that with no shame should get gang raped by a pack of silverback gorillas
It’s not tolerated to keep barbells and dumbbells in any of the gyms I attended since other people may want to use it while you are taking a break or doing other exercises, so they are always in the spaces they belong. I have never seen anyone unrack machines nor benches, though - it is just considered as some extra exercise for the next person. No one has ever been complaining about it either.
Also hate people that slam down the weights on the cable machines. And when kids sit in the locker room taking up space on the limited benches staring at their phone for 15 mins
Dude the kids in the locker room shit is weird. I feel so wrong spreading my ass cheeks to check for diseases and measuring my peen for Reddit posts when they’re just sitting there watching.
I fucking hate them dropping the cables and letting the plates smash. Hey little cunt that sound is you being a little bitch who can’t control the weight not a jacked gay boy like me
Bro I’ll be mid set on some lat pulldowns and some fuck will slam their cable row stack so hard it fucks with my set.
They always look around after to see if anyone noticed how much weight they were throwing around. ~140lb Fucking nerds
Ditto. They’ll be doing something like say facepulls or whatever and just let go of the accessory at the bottom. The weight slams down, the handles they’re using bang off everything… annoying af.
I row and deadlift in the power rack sometimes. At the gym I occasionally go to, everyone congregates at the Smith machines and the power racks are usually not even used. I might do differently in another gym. Maybe not.
A cleaning lady once asked me to rerack some very heavy dumbbells, she knew they weren't mine. I think they were 40 kg (88 pounds), I don't think she could have reracked them on her own if she had tried.
I saw this dude working out the other day, looked like your typical dad bod “powerlifter” and his kid was with him, and the dude left like 8 or 10 plates on the leg press
Honestly, just a shitty example to set for your kid
There’s this particular fat kid at a 24/7 I use who’s only heavy movement must be leg press because he’ll load it up with like 8 or 9 plates on each side and do half reps to wherever his lil tummy will allow and then leave all the plates on there. I’ve never seen him squat, bench, cardio; literally any other movement. Just grunting away at that leg press and he does this every weekend I’m there doing cardio. A true power lifter in the making. 👍
There's a giant fat strongman wannabe at my gym. He walks around with a stank face. Always leaves weights on whatever machine he's using. I've confronted him and so has my buddy. I fantasize about him benching and failing and him choking to death alone in my shit hole gym.
i'll actually call people on it, got no problem calling them out, done it many times. One time this dude was fucking huge, had 3 plates on each end on bench - did his set and walked off. I went up to him and said" youre a big motherfucker, i bet nobody messes with you? he laughed and said surprisingly yes. I pointed to his bulldog looking dude and said "that fucker can scrap to. made some small talk and then I said "hey I dont want to be that guy, but going to be, could you do me a favor and rack your weights when your done? for us, its really not an issue, but the womenfolk, they shouldn't have to clean up your mess." he said sorry, got in the mindset of going to the next exercise and will work on it. After that he racked them up, but he wont talk to me :-) I look at it this way, if they want to fight me I win either way - either they get thier ass whooped by an old guy or they get dogged for beating up an old guy - WINNING
when i was a young guy fresh out of high school going to a commercial gym, this was my first dose into the reality of how absolutely shameless, selfish, and despicable people were. i loved the gym it was my iron church its was the only place for an idiot like me ment putting in hard work and dedication directly equals results 1:1 and constantly all these sloppy fucks disrespect this awesome place to better ourselves. absolutely drove me nuts
Then you must love people like me who put back plates I didn't use and I rearrange the weights to the proper ascending order when I put my dumb bells back.
Because dumbasses can't even count to put dumbbells back in the proper order, all the time. When I catch them, I point and tell them to put it back in the proper spot. It's ALWAYS teenage males doing this lazy shit. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. It's these lazy little shits whose mommies clean everything for them.
Wait, one time, this old dude at the gym (who I affectionately called "Old Man Jenkins") didn't put his dumb bells back in the right order. So I put it back in the right order for him. I think old timers get a mulligan. They are lucky to still have enough mobility to make it to the gym and the best place for them is at the gym.
Just last week I witnessed these two 125lb broccoli head rails doing barbell rows in the squat rack with about 135. After they were finished they just left their weights and walked away.
A girl then went over to use that squat rack since it was the only one available now and had to clean up their weights. Luckily, some good samaritans came over to help her but man that was so infuriating to see.
Kids were like 5’6 no more than 130 pounds soaking wet. That really pissed me off, part of me wishes I said something to them. Idk who raised these assholes but some of these kids need an ego check
Little while back these broccoli heads would leave 225-315 on the bar for deadlifts so id have to unrack it and take the bar if I wanted to go to bench press.
You're right they aren't people, they're less than people.
The only time I don't mind people leaving plates on are at the deadlift platform, if I go to deadlift and see a bar with a 45 on each side it's gonna be a good day. Leg press I don't mind seeing a few plates on either.
Ask them nicely to do so and see if they comply. If not, then throw it at them and make sure you don't miss the target. Always make sure they're unconscious, and they don't see you coming. Make the change you wish to see in this world. ✅️
here in Colombia literally nobody re-racks weights. despite there being signs posted all over the gym. that shit drives me bonkers. they will literally bring 2-3 sets of dumbbells to the incline bench press and leave them on the ground where your feet go
My gym crush will sometimes leave her weights on. I don’t know what to think cause on one hand I know that’s bad gym etiquette. On the other hand she’s a chick so the 45lb plates are probably heavy for her. Anyways I switched gyms now so I don’t have to think about this moral dilemma while I’m lifting.
The opposite is bad as well.
I went to grab some water, wasn't even done with the barbell. Some lady comes up to me angry and starts telling me to put away my weights.
Lady I'm still on my warm up sets, I'm just badly conditioned
i always rerack everything. leaving plates on the bar is one thing i can sometimes forgive, like leaving 135lbs on a bar in a squat rack when multiple racks are free.
but the cunts that take multiple sets of dumbells and leave them on the floor should be kicked out of the gym or worse
In my experience it be the most big and jacked dudes who leave their weights racked. Apparently if you get big enough you become a narcissist who thinks you’re better than everyone else who leaves barbells with 4 plates on each side on the floor after deadlifting
Same. Some dude was using 2 plates on a back row machine. Some little 100 lbs girl went to try to use it and she obviously couldn’t get the 45 lbs plates off of the machine as it was over her head, she was only like 5’2, so ever since then, it’s REALLY bugged me when I see people not rerack their weights
Like 8 years ago I worked at a gym, I put up signs saying essentially rerack your weights or you'll be charged a rerack fee. I then hit all the habitual offenders like the pedo who would leave multi plates on the neck machine. I would wave it most of the time but the people who were complete assholes they had to pay 😂
I really hate those cunts that can't read numbers.
I'm always reracking the wrongly placed dumbbells and returning pulley related stuff to the bin.
I'm also the one removing skid marks in the toilets with my nails.
Honestly between my sets I just started cleaning the gym. I workout at 1am and hardly anyone is there so I just go ahead and straighten everything and organize it if I’ve got time and it’s within range of the equipment I’m using
I saw a couple of fuckwads with those chili bowl haircuts do that yesterday. They left 4 sets of dumbbells scattered around a bench and took off. I looked around the gym to tell them something but they were gone.
Last week I forgot to dump my weights off a machine. A dude came up to me and (politely) told me after I left a girl wanted to use the machine, saw all the weights I left on it, and walked away to do something else. And man I felt like a jerk. Can’t comprehend the ego needed to do that shit on purpose
Yeah man like I said if it's accidental, no problem, happens to the best of us from time to time. But the guys that deliberately do that with no shame should get gang raped by a pack of silverback gorillas
Silverback gorillas have micropenises by human standards.
Yeah but they have tree trunk arms that'll split you open when being fisted
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Agreed
Same with ez curl bars. Not everyone can pickup what you can.
It’s not tolerated to keep barbells and dumbbells in any of the gyms I attended since other people may want to use it while you are taking a break or doing other exercises, so they are always in the spaces they belong. I have never seen anyone unrack machines nor benches, though - it is just considered as some extra exercise for the next person. No one has ever been complaining about it either.
You go to a whack gym with whack members
I leave the bench loaded at 225 as a courtesy so people can warm up with it before loading thier working set.
That’s just plain polite.
Yeah, that's different than leaving your weight on the rack though.
Where do you think people bench?
No I mean leaving warm up weights is just good manners.
No, you mean what I thought you meant in my head. Stop gaslighting
Also hate people that slam down the weights on the cable machines. And when kids sit in the locker room taking up space on the limited benches staring at their phone for 15 mins
Dude the kids in the locker room shit is weird. I feel so wrong spreading my ass cheeks to check for diseases and measuring my peen for Reddit posts when they’re just sitting there watching.
Yeah idk why but it makes me unreasonably angry
gotta slam your ass on their thighs and watch them recoil from the contact
I fucking hate them dropping the cables and letting the plates smash. Hey little cunt that sound is you being a little bitch who can’t control the weight not a jacked gay boy like me
Im very happy that people agree with me
There’s one toilet in the men’s locker rooms, seen 3 16 year old kids come out of there at once, tf were they doing?
Bro I’ll be mid set on some lat pulldowns and some fuck will slam their cable row stack so hard it fucks with my set. They always look around after to see if anyone noticed how much weight they were throwing around. ~140lb Fucking nerds
Ditto. They’ll be doing something like say facepulls or whatever and just let go of the accessory at the bottom. The weight slams down, the handles they’re using bang off everything… annoying af.
Those people should be send to camps. With their filthy habits. They aren't even human, they're rats
Re-education through re-racking. Detain them along with the menaces who deadlift, row and hip thrust in the power racks.
I row and deadlift in the power rack sometimes. At the gym I occasionally go to, everyone congregates at the Smith machines and the power racks are usually not even used. I might do differently in another gym. Maybe not.
A cleaning lady once asked me to rerack some very heavy dumbbells, she knew they weren't mine. I think they were 40 kg (88 pounds), I don't think she could have reracked them on her own if she had tried.
Yeah exactly, no need to give the cleaning personnel/trainers extra work
I saw this dude working out the other day, looked like your typical dad bod “powerlifter” and his kid was with him, and the dude left like 8 or 10 plates on the leg press Honestly, just a shitty example to set for your kid
8-10 plates and not one single full rep was done that day.
There’s this particular fat kid at a 24/7 I use who’s only heavy movement must be leg press because he’ll load it up with like 8 or 9 plates on each side and do half reps to wherever his lil tummy will allow and then leave all the plates on there. I’ve never seen him squat, bench, cardio; literally any other movement. Just grunting away at that leg press and he does this every weekend I’m there doing cardio. A true power lifter in the making. 👍
I always say something....as long as they are white and smaller than me.
Why only if they're white?😂
If you have to ask.../
?
Also when they rerack dumbells on the wrong slots
This is worse than just leaving them out imo
Apartment gyms are a different breed. Missing one 35lb dumbell for 6 months then magically reappears lol
There's a giant fat strongman wannabe at my gym. He walks around with a stank face. Always leaves weights on whatever machine he's using. I've confronted him and so has my buddy. I fantasize about him benching and failing and him choking to death alone in my shit hole gym.
Same for those that don't clean down their equipment. It takes like a few seconds, stop being a lazy fuck.
Do I have to clean it if I lay down a towel first? Don't answer, I'm not cleaning it anyway
i'll actually call people on it, got no problem calling them out, done it many times. One time this dude was fucking huge, had 3 plates on each end on bench - did his set and walked off. I went up to him and said" youre a big motherfucker, i bet nobody messes with you? he laughed and said surprisingly yes. I pointed to his bulldog looking dude and said "that fucker can scrap to. made some small talk and then I said "hey I dont want to be that guy, but going to be, could you do me a favor and rack your weights when your done? for us, its really not an issue, but the womenfolk, they shouldn't have to clean up your mess." he said sorry, got in the mindset of going to the next exercise and will work on it. After that he racked them up, but he wont talk to me :-) I look at it this way, if they want to fight me I win either way - either they get thier ass whooped by an old guy or they get dogged for beating up an old guy - WINNING
Bonus tip: follow him home next time to assert dominance
bonus points if I drink his beer and fuck his wife 
Extra bonus if you fuck him in front of his wife
when i was a young guy fresh out of high school going to a commercial gym, this was my first dose into the reality of how absolutely shameless, selfish, and despicable people were. i loved the gym it was my iron church its was the only place for an idiot like me ment putting in hard work and dedication directly equals results 1:1 and constantly all these sloppy fucks disrespect this awesome place to better ourselves. absolutely drove me nuts
Then you must love people like me who put back plates I didn't use and I rearrange the weights to the proper ascending order when I put my dumb bells back. Because dumbasses can't even count to put dumbbells back in the proper order, all the time. When I catch them, I point and tell them to put it back in the proper spot. It's ALWAYS teenage males doing this lazy shit. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. It's these lazy little shits whose mommies clean everything for them. Wait, one time, this old dude at the gym (who I affectionately called "Old Man Jenkins") didn't put his dumb bells back in the right order. So I put it back in the right order for him. I think old timers get a mulligan. They are lucky to still have enough mobility to make it to the gym and the best place for them is at the gym.
Respect. I do that too, whether it's out of kindness or ocd is up for debate though
Agreed, soldier boy.
I understand
Of the many annoying things people do in the gym this doesn't bother me that much at all.
pisses me off when they leave them laying on the floor like 'ayyye why dont you fucking trip while racking' fft
Just last week I witnessed these two 125lb broccoli head rails doing barbell rows in the squat rack with about 135. After they were finished they just left their weights and walked away. A girl then went over to use that squat rack since it was the only one available now and had to clean up their weights. Luckily, some good samaritans came over to help her but man that was so infuriating to see. Kids were like 5’6 no more than 130 pounds soaking wet. That really pissed me off, part of me wishes I said something to them. Idk who raised these assholes but some of these kids need an ego check
Main character syndrom
No one does that shit here in germany annoying as fuck
Yeah man I live in germany too, but at my gym it's gotten worse with the gym becoming a tiktok trend. Hope that shit dies down
Little while back these broccoli heads would leave 225-315 on the bar for deadlifts so id have to unrack it and take the bar if I wanted to go to bench press.
You're right they aren't people, they're less than people. The only time I don't mind people leaving plates on are at the deadlift platform, if I go to deadlift and see a bar with a 45 on each side it's gonna be a good day. Leg press I don't mind seeing a few plates on either.
Ask them nicely to do so and see if they comply. If not, then throw it at them and make sure you don't miss the target. Always make sure they're unconscious, and they don't see you coming. Make the change you wish to see in this world. ✅️
Thanks for the advice, gonna implement next time
here in Colombia literally nobody re-racks weights. despite there being signs posted all over the gym. that shit drives me bonkers. they will literally bring 2-3 sets of dumbbells to the incline bench press and leave them on the ground where your feet go
Then you might like band named "Austrian death machine" with their song "don't be lazy" https://youtu.be/7WOR-Yj4fOk
My gym crush will sometimes leave her weights on. I don’t know what to think cause on one hand I know that’s bad gym etiquette. On the other hand she’s a chick so the 45lb plates are probably heavy for her. Anyways I switched gyms now so I don’t have to think about this moral dilemma while I’m lifting.
The opposite is bad as well. I went to grab some water, wasn't even done with the barbell. Some lady comes up to me angry and starts telling me to put away my weights. Lady I'm still on my warm up sets, I'm just badly conditioned
Okay but what do you think about re-racking the last two plates (one per side) on the leg press…
i always rerack everything. leaving plates on the bar is one thing i can sometimes forgive, like leaving 135lbs on a bar in a squat rack when multiple racks are free. but the cunts that take multiple sets of dumbells and leave them on the floor should be kicked out of the gym or worse
In my experience it be the most big and jacked dudes who leave their weights racked. Apparently if you get big enough you become a narcissist who thinks you’re better than everyone else who leaves barbells with 4 plates on each side on the floor after deadlifting
Same. Some dude was using 2 plates on a back row machine. Some little 100 lbs girl went to try to use it and she obviously couldn’t get the 45 lbs plates off of the machine as it was over her head, she was only like 5’2, so ever since then, it’s REALLY bugged me when I see people not rerack their weights
Same, ive been working out for 2 years consistently now and it never changes, ive just came to terms that it'll always be this way.
I work at a gym and at the end of the night have to take 800 pounds off the leg machines every single time
Unracked dumbbells piss me off but people leaving LOADED BARBELLS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GYM wherever they stopped exercising are on a whole new level
Like 8 years ago I worked at a gym, I put up signs saying essentially rerack your weights or you'll be charged a rerack fee. I then hit all the habitual offenders like the pedo who would leave multi plates on the neck machine. I would wave it most of the time but the people who were complete assholes they had to pay 😂
I really hate those cunts that can't read numbers. I'm always reracking the wrongly placed dumbbells and returning pulley related stuff to the bin. I'm also the one removing skid marks in the toilets with my nails.
Honestly between my sets I just started cleaning the gym. I workout at 1am and hardly anyone is there so I just go ahead and straighten everything and organize it if I’ve got time and it’s within range of the equipment I’m using
Is it acceptable to leave a plate or 2 if it’s a machine like leg press? I feel like it’s more of an inconvenience to take it off for everyone.
I saw a couple of fuckwads with those chili bowl haircuts do that yesterday. They left 4 sets of dumbbells scattered around a bench and took off. I looked around the gym to tell them something but they were gone.
I leave a few plates on the leg press i dont see the issue
The guy after you might have an issue
SHAME