If I Could Write The Locker Room Rules...

[dex]

Interesting. I guess nekkidness doesn't really bother me. I mean, I see naked women in the locker room all the time, I just don't pay any attention to it because it seems normal in the context of a locker room--I'm sure I'd have a hard time not noticing if someone was naked in, say, the weight room. I always assumed no one really paid much attention to my brief naked locker room times either. *shrug*

Maybe I just spent too much time at summer camp as a kid, where the girls who were most conspicuous were the ones getting dressed inside of their sleeping bags or carefully covering themselves while trying to negotiate the communal showers.

My locker room pet peeve is the person who insists on using every available square inch of bench or counter space.

My weight room pet peeve is the guy who has to have five sets of dumbbells out of the racks and spread out around three different benches, while he mostly takes breaks to talk to random people about their training plans and what supplements they're taking...and then glares and acts put out if you ask to work in on one of the benches or sets of dumbbells. *That* guy is a tool.

And my pool pet peeve is the group of 50-something year old men who insist on sitting on the steps into/out of the pool while talking to each other and watching people swim.

[carpaltunnel]

Or the guy who uses the free weights right in front of the rack so you can't get to it...or the guy who grunts and screams while he's lifting...or the guy who walks off leaving massive weights on the squat frame....

[Dogmama]

Or the guy who uses the free weights right in front of the rack so you can't get to it...or the guy who grunts and screams while he's lifting...or the guy who walks off leaving massive weights on the squat frame....

The screamers & grunters - sounds like a delivery room. I especially like the skinny kids doing bicep curls with 15 pound weights yelling their heads off. At Ballys, I figure it's a mating call.

[Pax]

The screamers & grunters - sounds like a delivery room. I especially like the skinny kids doing bicep curls with 15 pound weights yelling their heads off. At Ballys, I figure it's a mating call.

BWAAAAHAAAAAAA!!!

[mimitabby]

The screamers & grunters - sounds like a delivery room. I especially like the skinny kids doing bicep curls with 15 pound weights yelling their heads off. At Ballys, I figure it's a mating call.

yes, yes, yes!

[sundial]

Kindly remove the 800 lbs of weight from the leg press when you're through. Or from any machine for that matter. And don't hover over me when I'm benchpressing. Go flex those biceps and make a smoothie.

[BlueVet11]

Or the guy who uses the free weights right in front of the rack so you can't get to it...or the guy who grunts and screams while he's lifting...or the guy who walks off leaving massive weights on the squat frame....

Or the skinny little nippet at the university gym standing in front of the weight rack gossiping "omg no he didn't!" for 20 min and when you go to pick up the last set of weights her friend slaps her in the arm and tells her to "grab the weights quick!" glare at you and then continue on with the "yeah, he totally did" conversation for another 15 min before putting the weights down (without using them) and stand by the elliptical machines.

[Pax]

Or the skinny little nippet at the university gym standing in front of the weight rack gossiping "omg no he didn't!" for 20 min and when you go to pick up the last set of weights her friend slaps her in the arm and tells her to "grab the weights quick!" glare at you and then continue on with the "yeah, he totally did" conversation for another 15 min before putting the weights down (without using them) and stand by the elliptical machines.

Yet another reason I dropped my membership to the campus gym.

[lph]

And my pool pet peeve is the group of 50-something year old men who insist on sitting on the steps into/out of the pool while talking to each other and watching people swim.

Oh lord yes. I'm hardly a dedicated swimmer, but when I get into the pool on the "swimmer side" of the rope, and put on goggles and a nose clip, I'm there to swim, darn it. Not to stop every time I get to the shallow end because Joe and his buddies are standing there chatting 3 in a row so I can't turn.

If you want to chat - get OUT of the water, or go to the kiddie side.

And what's with the beefy weightlifter guy at work who lifts weights heavier than me in the gym room, and then leaves them all over the floor? Does he really think the tiny little woman who washes the floor is capable of even budging them?

[Bron]

This is Germany, so I think walking round in the nude is compulsory, or at least that's how it sometimes seems

However, I really think that people shaving their legs in the communal shower is icky. Really, can't that be done at home?