Gym Etiquette

[Catrin]

So for etiquette how about:
Minimize the impact you have on the senses of others.
Clean up after yourself.

This - I like this!

I had to chuckle reading the comments Darcy made about the signs at her Y for quiet - every fitness facility has a different environment and compared it with where I go. My own facility is a university fitness and sports research-based facility and is HUGE. Outside of a large free-weights room and a small studio, everything is in one massive room with a ceiling that is WAY up there. Lots of weight machines, cardio machines, TRX, lots of space for every type of training imaginable. This place is just huge, did I say that already?

All of the members are focused on their workout - I've never seen such focus from everyone at other places I've been a member of. Because of how this place is constructed it is very loud. The massive open space carries and amplifies all sound - which in an odd way seems to help me to focus. With the noise level it seems to be easier to focus on what I am doing than it would be if it were quiet enough for me to hear this person's over-loud iPod music or that person's conversation. No place is perfect, and that applies to this facility, but it has been a surprise to me how the noise level actually seems to become white noise and fades into the background.