Here, we collate a list of the wrost no-no's we've seen and also share stories.

My no-no's are:
>curls in the squat rack
>circuit across multiple machines
>music without headphones
>masterbating in the showers/sauna
>not wiping down your bench
>being a manlet
>being stronger than me at my gym

Some things i've witnessed in the few months i've gone back to my gym

>one-legged leg press while laying on your side
>Doing leg press in the calf machine
>Doing ohp in the only squat rack in the whole gym
>writing your workout on a piece of paper
>Using a bench to do sitting curls without any back support
>Using a bench to do lunges
>Dropping the bar to the floor with a deadlift with 1 plate on it


Kinda wild how much i've already seen since i mostly just focus on my own workout

>>76478164 (OP)
>exact same size
>left is just ugly

>>76478164 (OP)
Arm windmills in the t pose area

>>76478238
>Dropping the bar to the floor with a deadlift with 1 plate on it
I don't even drop the bar on my deadlifts when I do 3.5 pl8 (almost at 4) but I see people do similar in my gym.

They will be seated, shoulder pressing 15kgs (with gloves and a weight belt), and throw the weights down on the ground like they've just hit a 1rm.

i get angery when i see some fag playing with his phone on a bench or machine. I don’t care if you sit on it in between sets, but at least make it look like you’re recovering

>>76478279
I disagree on this one.
I use an app to track my lifts
>pic related
and I have to input weights, sets etc. So I'm recovering and writing at the same time.

>>76478164 (OP)
>>masterbating in the showers
fuck you

>>76478238
I have to focus on an object on the wall to not see obnoxious or absurd gym behaviors. Tell me why is using a pelvic thust with your back on a bench sidways necessary and the muscles are different than leg curl, squwat, deadlift? I find this woman attractive.

>>76478279
None of your freaking business

>>76478279
>make it look like you’re recovering
>gets mad when sees someone relaxing between sets

>>76478305
You get turned on by the other guys in the locker room and can't not rub one out fa9? Here's your shower...(note:there were no actual gas chambers for people in NSDAP Germany)

>>76478238
>one-legged leg press while laying on your side
How does one even do this?

I fart during deep leg presses and cannot do anything about ir

>>76478298
write in a book and stop giving your data away to the jews

>>76478164 (OP)
I have a boomer who tries supersetting 3 or 4 exercises at peak traffic, with one of them being 55lb barbell curls in the power rack. When I finished my current exercise and needed to do squats, I just took over the rack when he was 10ft away doing something else. Not a fucking word from him.

There are people who stand right next to or lean on the dumbbell rack. I will walk right through you to rerack my shit, I won't even acknowledge you.

On some exercises like the bench and leg press, the 45lb plates should always be racked above the lighter plates. It makes it easier, yet most retards like making things difficult.

Recording yourself doing exercises discreetly is fine, but my gym also allows selfies and seems to be fine with guys going shirtless for them. It's extremely annoying and faggy. Dressing and acting like a whore in the gym is bad for both men and women.

>>76478279
Manlet melty

>>76478514
>On some exercises like the bench and leg press, the 45lb plates should always be racked above the lighter plates. It makes it easier
How much of a retarded bitch are you that you can't squat down and pick up 45lbs? The higher weights always go on the bottom. You sound like a dyel who's been lifting for 2 months.
Also by your own logic the lighter weights should be at the top to make it easier for dyels and old people to pick them up.

>>76478164 (OP)
Shadowboxing in the gym like you can't do that shit at home. I box and do muay thai. I get it. There's no super secret training nuance you've got that's going over my head. You just want people to see you be Mr. Fighty guy.

>>76478552
Way to out yourself as a brainlet who's been doing it wrong the entire time. 45s go on the bottom either for stability reasons or because of floor exercises. Neither is the case for bench or leg press, so they go on top to minimize how far they have to be moved. Who cares if bitchass weights have to be moved a little more. On leg press it's especially annoying when people clog up the racked weights with 25s and 10s, when I am trying to get 7pl8 onto the fucking thing.

>>76478569
>leg press
Can't do squats retard? Sounds like it.
Enjoy that napoleon complex you weak moron.

>>76478571
Leg presses are after squats, although I've been doing more front squats instead lately. You keep dodging the argument trying to call me new, small, weak, whatever cope you can come up with just to avoid the fact that you've been doing it wrong.

>>76478574
You are doing it wrong and making the equipment more dangerous to be around, retard. Objects that are top heavy are easier to tip over. You want the heaviest weights at the bottom for stability.
And you want to encourage people to only go for weights they can handle. If person can only handle 25 pound plates, you want them towards the top so they aren't tempted to go for the heavier ones (without realizing they can't handle them). For someone who is stronger, the heavier weights feel relatively light. It's easy to rack them lower down. Besides for you, because you are too much of a bitch to do a little bit of 45lbs squats. Like a bitch.

>>76478569
>>76478574
Having a heavy weight fall can easily injure people. By having the heaviest stuff the lowest, they have the shortest distance to fall and therefore will keep the risk of injury the lowest. Just imagine for a moment what would happen if a 45lbs plate slipped off the rack from 5 ft in the air and landed on someone's foot. That is a hospital trip for sure. I would go so far as to call this a crucial safety measure and would insist on it in any gym that I'm in. You don't have to reinvent the wheel because you are too lazy to pick up a pl8 off the bottom of the rack.

>>76478598
Where are you getting this fantasy scenario from? 5 feet in the air? I'm talking about the bench press and leg press you fucking moron. It's like 3 feet max, right at hip height, right where grabbing a weight would be the easiest and most stable. You're either illiterate or you have some problem imagining the red apple.

>>76478602
Just don't rerack at all if you're too stupid to do simple math and put the lightest plates on top and the heaviest on the bottom. You're a liability. Gym safety is not the time to be a hipster.

In the provided discussion, the posters arguing for placing heavier weights, like 45lb plates, on the bottom of a weight rack are more correct from a safety and logistical standpoint. Storing heavier plates lower to the ground increases the stability of the storage rack and minimizes the risk of injury from a falling plate. While it may be slightly more convenient to grab heavier plates from waist or chest height, this convenience does not outweigh the potential safety hazards. For those using heavy weights on machines like the leg press, it is recommended to have the 45lb plates on the top pegs of the machine's built-in storage for easier loading onto the machine itself. However, for general free weight storage on a weight tree, the standard and safer practice is to place the heaviest plates on the bottom pegs. This ensures the rack is not top-heavy and accommodates all gym-goers, including those who may have difficulty lifting heavy plates from a higher position.

>>76478602
keyed
>>76478646
locked

>>76478646
based chatgpt

>>76478164 (OP)
I embarrass the Roiders at my gym with my natural power. They end up switching gyms when I show them who the true KING is.

>>76478602
sybau

>>76478508
What are they going to do with my dyle lift stats?
>pic unrelated

>>76478279
I'd prefer to go smoke and drink for 2hrs using a few machines and shit but teenagers are intimidated by anyone benching 1pl8 and think they're gonna ruin your workout. You're a grown ass man ask to work in.

>>76478164 (OP)
>>masterbating in the showers/sauna
>a no-no
oh grow up, prude.

>>76479052
predatory advertisement
especially now AI will be dissecting all those notes and creating a mental map of your emotions to sell
and it all gets done near instantaneously through the data selling corridors that advertisers and new agencies use
>oh you're unhappy today and feeling like you didnt get the weight you wanted on a certain lift
prepare for doomer clickbait yt videos and news articles to keep your scrolling and an increase in useless supplements to predate your weaker mental state
even if you truly believe yourself to be and are immune to these its creepy as fuck

>>76478514
>I have a boomer who tries supersetting 3 or 4 exercises at peak traffic, with one of them being 55lb barbell curls in the power rack.
Death.
>There are people who stand right next to or lean on the dumbbell rack.
Resting by leaning on the rack? Death.
>On some exercises like the bench and leg press, the 45lb plates should always be racked above the lighter plates.
Your autism is showing.
>my gym also allows selfies and seems to be fine with guys going shirtless for them. It's extremely annoying and faggy.
Agreed, death.
>>76478564
Agreed, death.

>>76479187
>I'm a retard who falls for this
Please... you think i care what comes up on my feed?

>>76479179
Tom of Finland. Actually like his art. Does that make me gay?

>>76478164 (OP)
Posting 7kb pics for one, kys
How about...people who take 2 machines at once. Fucking assholes.
>>Has gym in garage

>>76479675
>7kb
Biggest known image of those two specimens combined.

For me it's girls doing Bulgarian split squats in the only 2 available barbell bench press stations at my gym, or the dumb free right hip thrust when the gym has a hip thrust machine

>>76479352
You're browsing this board, the gayest board on 4chan, so yes. You are extremely gay. Welcome to the club. No women allowed.

>>76478238
Where the fuck else could you barbell ohp besides the power rack dum dum?

>>76479930
On the deadlift platform. First you clean and jerk the barbell overhead. Then you proceed to do your OHP reps.

>>76479964
I have done that multiple times with warm up weight while waiting for a rack to open up, but I refuse to do that for working set weight because it fucking sucks. Ohp is already draining enough.

>>76478164 (OP)
Doing strange crossfit bullshit on the treadmills like running backwards or skipping or walking sideways
Farmers carry with weights smaller than a shopping basket or god help me lighter than my lunch
sit on bench for 20 minutes for "thumb day" aka playing on their phone
ignoring the numerous posted signs that say no camera or video recording allowed
This seems to be a racial thing but a certain race likes to make loud multi-hour speakerphone calls and just walk around with the phone blasting. Kind of like the 1980s "boombox" meme, same people doing it, equally annoying.
The people who never shower or wash their gym clothes trying to smell like they're homeless. If I wanted to smell homeless people I'd move to a blue state city. If you can afford my semi-expensive gym you can afford laundry detergent.

>>76479817
Kek!!!! I hope this becomes a meme.

>>76478646
What did you tell chat gpt to write this?

>>76479348
i think you're too arrogant and stupid to realise you aren't immune to it and even if you say you are, you're still okay with jews profiting off your data just so you can put down little emotive notes about how your session went on social media so you're almost certainly not because in and of itself that is NPC bugman behaviour

>>76478164 (OP)
>>being stronger than me at my gym
The cardinal sin

>>76478298
That app is really good. I just wish it had more funny graphs. 'Line goes up' is the best motivation.

>>76480192
ntg, but i should've been more specific. we have area's where you can ohp/squat/rdl etc. but it doesn't have safeties. there's only one power rack that has safeties and the dude uses it for ohp

>>76478238
The problem is your gym does not have more squat racks. Multiple exercises benefit from it. You could even bench there if there were no bench press benches

>>76478305
What did you just say bud? Fuck me? No no no no no. FUCK. YOU.

>have turf for strongman stuff like yoke and farmers carries
>whole other half of gym with stretching area/yoga shit
>powerlifters always stretch in the middle of the turf

Then they get all pissy when I tell them I'm doing carries or runs and need the turf. Zero awareness that they're needlessly using space others have to use.

The biggest sin:

>NOT RERACKING THE DUMBBELLS BETWEEN SETS

My gym has one collection of dumbbells, so only two of each weight. When a guy takes the one set of anything between 20lbs to 50lbs (i.e. the ones that get used the most) and just sets them by his feet while he plays on his phone between sets instead of racking them so that someone else can use them while he checks tiktok, it makes me want to strangle him.
Even worse, when someone gets adjacent sizes like 30,35, and 40 and just surrounds himself at the bench with "his" dumbbells no one else can use.

>>76478164 (OP)
Didn't even include the worst offenders:

>doing an exercise right in front of the dumbell rack so no one else can grab or put back their weights
>doing more than 3 sets like an obsessive compulsive retard who doesn't understand weights are used to avoid having to do high volume

>>76482268
fuck you i fuck you bloody you bloody fuck

>>76478298
What app is that? I'm using Jefit, but it's missing some exercises I do and the ads for Premium annoy me.

>>76482533
HHaving a pair of dumbbells while you rest is like any other exercise. I'm not reracking and unracking dumbbells every single set, get over it retard.

>>76479930
Clean it off the ground

>>76478238
>Using a bench to do lunges
are you talking about bulgarian split squat?

>>76482533
this has to be excellent bait, are you retarded?

>>76478238
>writing your workout on a piece of paper
as opposed to a pocket notebook? what's wrong with this?

>>76478164 (OP)
>Hogs all the big plates in the gym to load the leg press
>proceeds to do 1/4 rom reps

>>76478164 (OP)
>taking every fucking 45lb weight to do 1/4 rep leg presses

>>76482660
>>76482831
I was beaten to the punch
A fellow planet fitness visitor?

>being Indian
>being short
>being a short Indian
>being over 30bmi
>wearing collared shirts
>chit-chatting in the squat rack
>abusing steroids
>using the treadmill

>>76482604
Might help you be less of a cunt if you got more walking in, re racking between sets might be good for you

>>76482597
It's called Hevy. Don't pay for pro unless you feel you need it. Pretty good app.

>practices hand stand walks between the machines, being a pest
Actually happened to me today... have some fucking sense lad.

>being the cuck that wipes down every equipment

>>76482660
>>76482831
>>76482837
Nah, but seems like every gym gets a designated leg press ego lifter lmao

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/DZOAj4PwKEQ

>>76481338
very angry at someone simply not caring about shit that doesnt matter, its just a screen, look away nigga

>>76478164 (OP)
>not re-racking your weights after your done with your sets
>disorganized mess of plates on the racks
>dumbbells out of order

>>76478164 (OP)
>doing circuits
>hogging equipment
>not re-racking weights
>listening to anything without headphones

>>76478164 (OP)

>being a woman

I hate when I have one lift left to do, it's on a machine that my gym only has one of, and there is an attractive woman doing split raise kegel curls or some shit right next to it.

You just know that there is a greater than zero chance that she is going to film you and be like "I was just trying to get a workout in and this ick-giving CREEP started using this machine that was only six feet away from my vagina."

Winding up on her instagram isn't even the worst part. Appearing on some gym thots instagram is forgettable, no one will care. The video that everyone sees will be the one with Joey Swoll defending your ass.

Filming in the gym.
It’s so common for people to bring fucking tripods and record everything/live stream their whole gym session, I fucking hate it.
>>76485168
This shit is especially annoying when the skank filming says something to you because someone they’re talking to/watching on their phone said something. Leave me alone.

>>76486328
>>76485168
Take it easy