Okay I'm sorry that this is going to be a cranky post, but if I don't get this out of me I'm going to explode!

I think my gym is offering discount memberships to jerks. Since the beginning of the year there are a bunch of new members who think nothing of monopolizing equipment in the free weight area. They fall into two categories:

- workout buddies who spend all night using the same equipment, like doing endless sets on the one and only smith rack with long breaks in between where they slooooooowly walk all the way across the gym to the water fountain and then sloooooowly walk back with a break to watch the tv for a few minutes.

- guys who think it's perfectly fine to set up three pieces of equipment at once and go from one to the other in an endless loop.

Invariably these people are using really heavy weights or otherwise have the equipment set up in way that it's not feasible to try to work in with them because it would take too long to change the setup between what they use and what I want. So those of us who actually grasp concepts like "sharing" and "taking turns" wind up having to rearrange our workouts and stand around doing nothing while we wait for Selfish Guy/s to finish up and move on.

It's just rude.

Thank you for letting me vent.