I hate it when people walk in and just switch the TV channel while I'm on the treadmill. Also, it's really disappointing to go to the gym and find someone already watching CNN or some sporting event. I need a distraction. And seeing bloodshed or some other disaster doesn't cut it. Luckily, at our in-house gym, people have been nice enough to indulge me.

I HATE WHEN PEOPLE MAKE COMMENTS ABOUT YOU WHEN THEY DONT EVEN KNOW YOU ?..AS YOUR WALKING IN.. AND I AM IN BETWEEN SKINNY AND THERE? INSTEAD OF JUST SMILING AND MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS. OR JUST BEING CHRISTIAN AND MOTIVATE, PLEASE GIRLS LETS LEARN NOT TO HATE!! WE ARE ALL THERE FOR A REASON.. HEALTH & LOOKS!!! AMEN!!
I LOVE MUSIC.. BUT IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE MTV AND CRIBS. WHO CARES HOW MUCH THIER HOUSE COST!!
I AM THERE TO LOOSE WEIGHT. (CAN I GET AN AMEN)

Well, I don't have a problem with someone commenting on my form (it may save me an injury). I do have a problem with people wearing too much cologne/perfume. There is a man in my gym who bathes in cologne - I couldn't breath (and was 6 machines away). Whenever I see "stinkyboy" I always go to the other side of the club.

My pet peeve is people who stand around and chat on the jogging track, forcing the joggers/walkers to maneuver around them. If you want to socialize, go to the lounge and get out of our way.

Let's see. There are a few for me but the most annoying is when I'm waiting for a cardio machine and the previous occupant (dripping sweat) leaves without spraying and wiping it down. Same with weights and nautilus machines. I've seen people cross the room and begin using another machine and when I've wiped the vacated one down they come back and say they aren't finished. I find that so annoying and I've become reluctant to let people work in because of this habit.

This is a new one I experienced this week. A girl hopped on the eliptical machine next to me and was TALKING ON HER CELL PHONE! What?! Are you there to chit chat on the phone or work out? There is no place for that at the gym!

1) When the gym becomes a meatmarket. I know I shouldn't judge -- but the little Mighty Mouse guys and $50-sports-bra girls primping in the mirror and trying to flirt is just silly. Work out people! Flirt on the way in or out -- but not standing in front of my machine.

2) Machine hogs -- definitely.

3) When other sweaty people bump into you.

I have a few as well:

I despise when people use the exercise machines as socializing waystations! If you want to talk, go someplace else, not the machines!!!

Another pet peeve - why come to the gym on a Sunday morning, bathed in cologne/perfume? Are you working out? You're going to sweat, but my gosh, the odor created from cologne/perfume & sweat is incredibly nauseating!!! UGH!!!!

Last, but not least, I cannot stand to be at the gym w/someone who's using their cellphone. Why? Why bring your cellphone into an aerobics/ spinning class where you clearly have no place to put/hold it. Who needs to get hold of you that badly? Or rather, why is your need to contact or be contacted that out of control?

Valid Comments :
-Standing in the way on the track
-People commenting on your workout aside from advice on form
-Machine Hogs

Invalid Comments :
-Cologne wearers - This is everywhere, your office, the mall, everywhere, get used to it
-Primping/preening/flirting - A place where you go to make yourself look and feel better is naturally a place where you find like minded people. Get over it.
-CNN/Sports on the TV. The most people find these particular types of TV acceptable. You must appeal to a wide cross section.
-Cell phones - Get used to it. as they get smaller and smaller and more easy to wear they will become more ubiquitous. You sound like the people 7-8 years ago who wondered how you would ever want to use your phone in the car.

It's a gym, it's a smelly, sweaty, hormone covered place. If you don't want to deal with any of that stuff, equip your home. For the price of one year's gym membership you can certainly equip your house with EVERYTHING you need to get fit.

wow! you all have really made me appreciate my gym. I have no pet peeves at all -- and I'm a really cranky person. If pressed I'd say I find it disappointing how many women at my gym only use the cardio equipment -- and how many of those who do lift/pump do not seem to push themselves. Of course the same is true of the cardio equipment -- if you can read a novel on the treadmill you're not working hard enough!! It just seems like they set themselves up for disappointment and failure -- and have wasted a lot of time.

Right on from those people who posted here about
the stinky-ones, the phone yappers, the preeners,
the road-blockers.

How about those who use the cardios on the lowest
setting and pump their legs like they're a jack-rabbit running from a prarie fire AND reading at the same time? Whew! I'm waiting for one of the cardios to take off across the gym. This always makes me laugh, especially you short skinny in shape people doing this.

And here's one from the guys' locker room:

Yo, don't walk your ugly, fat/flat, pimly butt all over the locker room, just take your shower as quickly as possible, get dressed and get out.

Or....take a shower at home!

Pick up your used/smelly sweat towel and throw it
in the bin designated for it.

This is NOT your home, it's a common area, don't be common.

My pet peeve is when a class doesn't start on time because the instructor is busy chatting it up with a friend or another instructor. I've lost as much as 8-10 minutes of the class and she doesn't make it up at the end. Complaints to management don't help; so when my membership is up at Lucille Roberts/Deptford, that's it for me. I'll find a different one.

I've got one! People, especially men, who insist on talking to me when I'm clearly not in the mood to talk. Hello-headphones, not making eye contact! If I have to take my headphones off to tell you to go away, you're lucky you don't get a 20lb db upside your head! Sorry for the hostility. It really irritates me. I feel better now.Also women who watch their men work out, but never lift a weight. What's up with that?

All the peeves that have been mentioned are legitimate. But surprised noone has spoke about the one that really peeves this brutha' off. And I'm speaking of the gay guys stalking me all over the gym with this come-hither look in their eyes. What's up with that? And I've noticed at this particular gym that their always stationed in the locker room where they can easily see the shower area. Needless to say, that I shower at home without the "Jerome" eyes following me around. Now I know how women feel (sorry ladies..:)