Annoying People at the Gym

OMG! Can they be any more annoying!? More tales from the gym.

Honestly, do people need to make outrageous noises every time they workout? How many times have you been at the gym, you are on the treadmill and all of a sudden you hear...WHEW! (or whatever sound a high speed wind makes). It's as loud as a train whistle! And to make matters worse, in about 5 minutes the whistle goes off again and scares the crap out of you because its SO LOUD! Now, I know you need to breathe and a have a cleansing breath every so often while exercising, but really it doesn't have to be so loud that you can hear it over your headphones while in the tanning bed! We call this guy "the hurricane."

Another person at the gym, who has no filter, I affectionately call ''Tourette boy'' (and no he does not actually have Tourette Syndrome) because he will let out these incredibly loud and annoying clearing-of-the throat-cough-hack-up-a-lung sounds...quite honestly it is so loud and disgusting that if you are on the elliptical next to him you may want to go shower off afterward...it is so gross and so loud!

How about the person who has been running on the treadmill or working out on the Elliptical for an hour and is dripping...oops, I mean spraying sweat everywhere. So much, in fact, that there are actually puddles of sweat on the machine! They are dripping so much that when they breathe they are spitting sweat all over the council of the equipment! Now I applaud those people who are actually pushing themselves and really working hard....but then when they're done they just walk away and don't bother to wipe the machine off...REALLY!?!? Come on! Why don't you just pee all over it and then let the next guy clean it up! Can you be anymore disgusting? Please, wipe the machines off when you are done.

Aaahhh! Oohhhaa! Uuuhhh! You know these sounds. They come from people who are trying to tell everyone in the gym that they're lifting weights. ''Hey, look at me! I'm so strong!'' Sometimes when you are at a gym and you hear these sounds, it means someone is deadlifting an F-150 truck! But most of the time they're curling a 25lb dumbbell or benching 50lbs. These people just kill me! I want to go up to them and say, ''If you make this much noise lifting this, go lighter and shut up!" We all see you are flexing your muscles; we don't need to hear you as well. Oh yeah...and we don't need to smell you either! OMG! Wash your gym clothes once in a while. And maybe try some deodorant. Wow!

Lastly, the people I just don't understand...the weight droppers! You're doing your own thing somewhere in the gym and all of a sudden you hear....BANG!!....CLANG!!....THUD!! And all you can think of is ''Holy crap, what was that?!?!'' Is the roof falling in on us?!? And once again in some gyms, a guy just lifted a VW Bug, but in the case I am talking about, these guys are dropping weights just because they saw it on a YouTube video and it looks cool. I just want to drop a 50lb dumbbell on their foot, and say, "Oops, saw that on Ridiculousness!" LOL

So in conclusion...clean up after yourself, take the headphones off and hear how ridiculous you sound. Use your internal filter. And lift weights that allow you to control the sounds that emanate from your mouth.

--Dan