This is to all the dumbasses at the gym who don’t understand the concept of the sign-up sheet for equipment. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? Just because no one is on a machine when you happen to glance at it doesn’t mean that it’s free for you to use for however long you want. This is the point of the sign-up sheet. I’ve had to ask people to get off machines countless times lately, each time almost always resulting in a dirty look and reluctance to get off. It’s not my fault you didn’t bother reserving the machine! I’m so tired of feeling like an asshole when I’m simply going on the machine I’d signed up for in advance! I know, it’s not the end of the world blah blah blah, but it’s really fucking annoying!
—Just give up on your new years’ resolutions already so I can have my peaceful gym time back
This article appears in Feb 4-10, 2010.
I have this picture in my head of me running on a treadmill, without having signed up for that treadmill. I have glanced at the clipboard to ensure someone is not slated to use it at the very instant I decide to hop on. You come up while I’m on and sign the clipboard in front of me and try to kick me off the machine that wasn’t being used/signed up for previously because you just signed a stupid piece of paper.
Also, if the gym you go to doesn’t have enough cardio equipment, get a membership to a better gym that can accommodate your needs. If you go at a time when everyone on the planet decides they wish to do their cardio, go at a different time. It seems as though in theory, you could sign up for allllll of the cardio machines at say 4pm and only get on one. In which case you would expect other people with busy schedules like yours (I’m sure) to wait until the 20 or 30 minutes you have signed the machine out for elapse? Riiiiight.
Grow a set, please.
barmp, sign the sheet before you get on. Problem solved.
You, OP, are the reason it took me so long to start going to the gym. You and your effin gym rules! I’m new to the gym and even though I’ve been going religiously for 4 months I still get weird looks from the regulars when I smile or say hello, what a strange place the gym is.
I’ve given up on friendly and just get in, get it done and get out now, but maybe you “hardcore” fitness nuts should take some time to be nice and encouraging to newbies, it may just releive your stress and help you lose that last 5lbs or at the very least it should help with the ugly anger wrinkles! Did you ever think, that instead of trying to kick someone off the machine you booked, in the middle of their workout, that maybe approaching them after they’re done and explaining the rules in a nice “I-know-you’re-new-here, so-you-probably-didn’t-know-this” kind of way you may educate some people, make some new friends, and in the future possibly not have this problem?
aren’t they posted or written somewhere? like perhaps on the sheet or something?
Sign it while they are on it, and then take the list to the Gym staff showing the person got on the machine even though it’s your scheduled time. Works every time.
Get a life people… Boo hoo hoo, I signed up in advance (hilarious) and someone is on it, blah blah blah…
My recomendation, sign up when your ready to use it… otherwise, take a life lesson that a gym sign up sheet means squat to most… you could either get all worked up, complain to staff etc… or, do another set,wait for them to get off and worry about real issues…
Or you could save all the money, and instead of going to the gym for cardio, go for a walk/jog/run….
In the words of Denis Leary “What’s the point of a stair master? You pay money to walk up invisible steps for an hour!”
They don’t feel invisible.
Go to the nearest unsecure apartment building, and walk up and down those stairs for an hour and a half… Same result
not everyone wants to bore themself to death with cardio.
I don’t know about you but my place is WAY too small to have a squat rack, smith machine, full set of dumbells from 20-100 lbs, press bench, barbell with weights…
hell, I can’t even spare the room for a bowflex as is.
when i go to the gym i walk in, flex my left sack muscle and scare everybody away.
i’m a testicle curling coaster.
tbcr
How much can your balls lift?
Do you snatch or jerk?
I love your tagline, OP. And rest assured: they’ll be dropping out like flies within the next 2-3 weeks. Happens every year.
I love the “old school ” weights . Olympic bar loaded for presses . Some dumbells for every possible workout . Besides legs – you don’t need any machine .Thou them newer curl machines are pretty good . I’d take the old school weights anytime . And theres never a line up for those .
The most recent sign up date on the clipboards at my gym is March 7th 2004…
Seriously no one uses that shit, first come first serve, the unspoken gym rule.
lol at “Mind Snap” if you are at all serious, you are a fucking retard.
I agree with Mind Snap.
A lot of gym equipment is there for those who’ve forgotten how to walk down a sidewalk or pathway, or up a set of steps. Basicly morons.
While I see a use for gyms for those involved for weight training, sport training etc.
You want to go for a walk or a run…go to P.P.P & get some good ole fresh air (its not that polluted around here) You say the weathers too foul out…then go to a large mall & walk through it, use the stairs.
You know why treadmills are motorized ?
So the morons won’t stand on them and sleep !
Pretty damn lame , you gotta waste electricity to spin a tread mill AKA walking surface ,so you can use your leg muscles. How pathetic you’ve become !
I have a medium-sized apartment, and I have my basic weight bench in the living room. You don’t need a treadmill, in fact, I got rid of mine long ago, when I bought my trusty sneakers and *gasp* headed outside. I got rid of my stair climber and went to climb actual stairs.
duly noted