{"id":32356,"date":"2012-04-01T23:05:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32356"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:44:22","slug":"i-hate-my-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32356","title":{"rendered":"I hate my gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-32357 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gymdbag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gymdbag.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gymdbag-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I really don\u2019t want to sound like a gym douche, but I think I have some justification for the gripes I have with my gym.\u00a0 Gym douches gripe about inconsequential matters, like whining about the influx of new members after Thanksgiving, New Years, and prior to Spring Break.\u00a0 And how they clog up all the machines and weight stations with their low-impact, laughable-to-them weight numbers.\u00a0 About how they might not be doing something properly, or their choice of gym attire is too new and fashionable to look like a serious gym-goer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">No, I don\u2019t have problems with any of that, because none of that is particularly surprising.\u00a0 All of the above happens all the time, every year, like clockwork, so that stuff doesn\u2019t really bother me that much, not to where I feel the need to gripe about it.\u00a0 My gym gripes are mostly related to the fact that my gym is staffed, or rather in this case, not adequately staffed, and that the gym\u2019s clientele is full of inconsiderate, rude, mostly meathead, assholes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I go to my gym because it\u2019s extremely convenient; it\u2019s literally right where I work, so I can go during lunch, immediately after work, or with Jen after she\u2019s off.\u00a0 The convenience of location is the sole reason why I go to this gym on a regular basis, but if there were another one say closer to my home, or en route towards my home, I would switch to there in a heartbeat\u2019s heartbeat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But convenience of location aside, this gym and the experience it provides sucks.\u00a0 Allow me to list the ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The gym itself is a good gym.\u00a0 But administratively, it\u2019s horrendous.\u00a0 They have people up front, and they have salespeople, whose jobs are to walk prospective members around and to do paperwork and administrative shit like that.\u00a0 Aside from that, the gym has pretty much nobody else \u2013 meaning nobody to monitor the gym itself; make sure nobody needs help, enforcing courtesy rules like no cell phones, bogarting machines or camping on caridio equipment.\u00a0 Instead, they have a lazy apathetic custodial staff that often lets perishable materials like paper towels and sanitizer go empty all the time, and a handful of personal trainers who don\u2019t give a shit about gym rules or helping out members, because their job is to sell themselves and the \u201cservice\u201d they provide with private training.\u00a0 I get the impression the gym thought that the personal trainers would double as floor staff, but they\u2019re either one, always in the middle of private sessions, or two, trying to sell sessions instead of monitoring house activity.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">With nobody policing any of the house rules, the inmates run rampant with abuse of them, leading to a shitty experience for mindful members like me<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The members of this gym are the worst gym goers that I\u2019ve ever seen in my entire life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been a regular member to four different gyms in my life, and this one is by far, easily the worst group of inconsiderate, oblivious, stupid and ignorant gym goers I\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0 The phrase \u201cmillion dollar bodies, ten-cent brains\u201d easily comes to mind when I think about a lot of the people who exercise here, but then again there\u2019s a whole lot of ten-cent body\/ten-cent brain types as well, which is kind of an ironic no-win for those people, seeing as I\u2019d hope they\u2019d at least be smart to make up for the fact that they\u2019re out of shape fucks.\u00a0 If there were no people at this gym, it would be the best gym on the planet.\u00a0 But since there are people, way too many of them, let me elaborate why they make this gym the worst on the planet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">There are simply too fucking many people at the gym.\u00a0 Go after work, and a 45 minute workout takes 90 minutes.\u00a0 Any time you want to do a particular exercise, that machine\/station will be in use, as will your fallbacks A, B and C.\u00a0 You will be left standing and steaming at the aggravation in how packed the place gets after work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Many people are obsessed with their iDevices, and either they\u2019re actually on the phone while leisurely strolling on a treadmill, or their tinkering with their toys leads to lots of wasted time and unnecessary and inconsiderate resting on machines or stations.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry you can\u2019t get to Benny Benassi bass-thumping song #646 from #266 easily, but you\u2019re wasting your time and more importantly, my time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Nobody wipes down a machine after they use it, this is pretty self-explanatory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Nobody re-racks free weights when they\u2019re done using them, this is also self-explanatory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">When you want two 40 lb. dumbbells, they will all be gone.\u00a0 Or worse, one of eight will be left, in an inadvertently, yet no less infuriating patronizing manner.\u00a0 Most cases, the second one will have been placed in a 10 lb. slot, because the previous user is fucking retarded, fucking lazy, illiterate, or all of the above.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The machine weights may as well be Japanese sleep capsules, because 100% of the time you want to do anything, someone is already sitting there, resting.\u00a0 Or resting while they\u2019re tinkering with their iDevice.\u00a0 When I look at someone sitting on an abs machine or back extensions looking exhausted or playing on their iPhone, I shake my head as the tune from <em>Final Fantasy 2<\/em>\u00a0when you go to an Inn plays in my head.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">You cannot walk in a straight line, anywhere.\u00a0 There will always be someone in front of you.\u00a0 Whether they\u2019re chatting with someone resting on a machine, or someone actually working out doing dumbbell lunges, but most of the time it\u2019s some wuss on their iDevice, not paying attention to how in the way they are.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Last and definitely least, are the legions of people who exist at the gym for no other reason than to pose and show off their muscles, or lack of, but think they have.\u00a0 The types that grunt and scream no matter how much the rules that cycle on electronic screens plead they don\u2019t, it happens.\u00a0 All through a workout, you\u2019ll hear the dull thuds, and if close enough, feel the slight tremor in the ground from all the weights being dropped on the ground.\u00a0 It\u2019s inevitable.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But I need to digress a bit.\u00a0 I\u2019m losing my resolve in writing about this, but the fact of the matter is that I\u2019m pretty sure I hate my gym.\u00a0 It\u2019s not so much of the fault of the gym as much as it is simply the fact that the worst people on the planet manage to populate this place.\u00a0 It\u2019s very likely due to location; my first gym was in Virginia, and I mostly went in early AM hours, by second one was in suburbia; they had a few suspect people, but overall it was fine.\u00a0 The third was private, so most people were conscious enough to be mindful of people they\u2019d see, every single day.\u00a0 But this gym, being in the heart of superficial gay Midtown Atlanta, I\u2019m finding is practically the worst pool of narcissistic, inconsiderate, yet Zoolander-stupid people on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don\u2019t want to sound like a gym douche, but I think I have some justification for the gripes I have with my gym.\u00a0 Gym douches gripe about inconsequential matters, like whining about the influx of new members after Thanksgiving, New Years, and prior to Spring Break.\u00a0 And how they clog up all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I hate my gym<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,15,105,124],"class_list":["post-32356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-gym","tag-og","tag-rage","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44253,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32356\/revisions\/44253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}