Nettletheelf Tue 05-Dec-17 23:22:24

Am I being unreasonable in being annoyed with tw@ts at the gym? Am I?



1. Bodypump.



Selfish equipment-hogging woman. Class usually full. This woman arrives half an hour early and sets up a bench for herself with two - TWO! - bars, several of every type of weight disc, a pair of every type of dumb bell and TWO mats.



Means that other class members are short of weights, because she has provided herself with every permutation she might possibly need, although she doesn’t use half of them. When they aren’t enough bars to go around, she stays quiet and waits to be asked to relinquish one of hers, at which point she pulls a face and reluctantly yields the minimum amount of equipment.



She seems unembarrassed by this. Apparently she ‘needs’ two bars so that she can swap over during one of the tracks in case she gets a bit tired. So everybody else can feck off.



2. Spinning.



Bike hogging bastards saving bikes for themselves and their friends, even when they aren’t sure that the friends will be turning up.



People arriving just before the start of the class have to run the gauntlet - you sign up for the class in advance, so there are theoretically enough bikes - trying to get on a bike with a jacket draped over it whilst somebody snaps, “my friend is on there!”.



Naturally, the friend never turns up and you end up either missing the start of the class or putting up with being scowled at for taking your booked place.



3. Body attack



Home of the show offs who try to put in extra big jumps and other athletic moves into the routine. No matter how many times the poor instructor says, “don’t put a big jump in here, the routine is designed like this for a reason. No big jumps!”, they still insist on doing them. Just so everybody knows they are really fit and the routine is too easy for them, being virtually professional athletes and all.



Is it just me? Share your stories of gym idiocy. Also your advice on dealing with the equipment hoggers.