Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1862: How NOT to Be an Idiot in the Gym

Episode Date: July 21, 2022

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin cover ten things one must NOT do in a gym. There are unwritten rules that are true for EVERY single gym! (1:27)   Ten Ways How NOT to Be an Idiot in the Gym.    #1 - Don’t be smelly. (2:16) #2 - Don’t start a conversation in the locker while you’re naked (or dry your balls). (5:59) #3 - Let people “work in.” (8:59) #4 - Put weights away. (15:18) #5 - Wipe up your sweat. (19:37) #6 - Don’t drop weights. (22:59) #7 - Don’t talk to people mid-set. (25:50) #8 - Don’t wear perfume/cologne. (27:37) #9 - Don’t hoard equipment. (30:17) #10 - No moose knuckle. (33:59) Related Links/Products Mentioned July Promotion: RGB Bundle or MAPS Suspension 50% off! **Promo code JULY50 at checkout** Mind Pump #1080: 21 Commandments Of Gym Etiquette My HONEST Thoughts On Crossfit – Mind Pump Blog Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources

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July 50 for the 50% off discount. All right, here comes the show. All right, check this out. I know the gym that you go to has rules on the contract, but there are unwritten rules that are true for every single gym. And today we're gonna teach you all of those rules. You're welcome.

We need to remind everybody. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. Have a gyms or a pact again. Yeah, you know, it's funny because you don't see a lot of these rules written anywhere, but if you work out in Gems long enough or you manage Gems like we did, these are real rules.

It's like what do you call it, gym etiquette or unspoken rules. These are agreements. I mean, you have to teach common sense. Common sense is God, it's the thing of the past. Yes, you literally have to like explain why now. Yes, and a lot of these I've had to actually talk to members about in the gym.

It's not all of them. Some of them really want to approach someone and talk to them about. But a lot of them. So let's start with the first one, which sounds obvious, but what you would think, oh, this is super obvious, but apparently it's not because this always happens.

Don't be smelly. Don't be smelly when you go to the gym. So my first one of my first clients that I ever inherited was this guy who didn't wear a deodorant and it was part of his his culture or not too. And he was adamant about it. Now he smelled so bad that when I would come in for our session, like the walk in the front, this was Captain McKee days when I'd walk into the gym,

I would know he was there. Whoa. Yeah, no, no. I didn't know this brand. No, it was that it was so, like we, I'm so many members complained about it too. It was like we would, and I had to train him. So I'm like spotting him and riding anything

all day it was so rough. Did you say anything to him? No, I was so young dude. I was only, this is my, you weren't like, you know, we're gonna train outside from now was so real. Did you say anything? No, I was so young dude, I was only, this is my, you weren't like, you know, we're gonna train outside from now on. It's really good for you. No, I didn't even have access to do that.

Where what I did do is that if you've been to Calvin McKee right before you get to back to the bathrooms all the way in the back there's this long hallway and we would go in there and just I would train by myself. I'd suffer for the entire hour. Did you try to hug you when you say bye? No, definitely not like that. No, we had this one member.

You guys probably know him because we all worked in the same gym, not the same time, but this guy was a long time member. And he would get on the stairmaster, it's all he ever did. And he put towels on the floor all around him. And he would sweat. And he wore the same workout clothes every time

and I know he didn't wash them because he would smell so bad and he'd go in there and he'd do his cardio and I actually had to talk to him. I actually took him aside and I said, hey man, I'm not gonna say his name because I need his name, I'm saying, hey listen, I love that you're consistent.

We value you quite a bit. You come in, you work out all time. You're a great guy and everything but I said this is really embarrassing for me to you quite a bit, you come in, you work out all time, you know, you're a great guy and everything, but as I said, this is really embarrassing for me, to you say to you, but you smell offensive. And yeah, so you know. It's a hard conversation. It's a really hard conversation.

Yeah, I avoided that a few times as working with clients and at the gym, but I remember taking the sky aside and telling him when I was just a member of a gym, which the sky was always wearing tank top and would always do pull ups. I'm like, could you not pick a worse exercise and a worse outfit?

It's a high light your body odor and offend everybody in here. And like, actually, like, because it happened multiple times, like, first two, I let it slide. And then I actually had yoder in my bag in the locker room room so I went and grabbed that and I handed it to him and didn't say anything and the guy was like confused I'm like please use this. Wow. We we sprayed the odorant under a guy's arms and a shoulder press one time.

Yeah because he was it was really bad. It's like a lawsuit. Oh it totally is. This is bad management on my part. I was young. I was 19 years old as a kid and we told him and did it matter. And so I had my trainer go up to him and I said, just when he does a press, just underneath.

Oh my God. And yeah, don't do that. No, don't do that. But anyway, be aware. Be aware. Yeah, be aware. And here's one of the common ones that I think even somebody who has good hygiene doesn't realize this happens is gloves get stinky

Yeah, really bad. So if you're a glove wear when you when you go to the gym be be careful because that'll creep up on you You won't even have them that long but if you had enough intense workouts wearing gloves That sweat and leather is an awful combination and we'll stink like you stink. So pay attention to that if you wear gloves. There's nothing more embarrassing than wearing gloves we're gonna work out except that the gloves smell. It's only more embarrassing than double whammy right there. Don't wear gloves. It's already bad where you go.

You go as if they smell and tell you. All right, so here's the next one. And this one is interesting. And I don't know if this happens in the women's locker room because I never been in the women's locker room, but this happens in men's locker room a lot, especially when I used to manage gyms. Members would come up to me on the workout floor sometimes,

but never would members come up to me and talk to me more than when they were in the locker room naked. I don't know what it was. I'd be in there just doing my walkthrough and dude comes up and by the way, old men do this. It's an old man thing. And this is what they do. Old men put their shirt on, put their socks on,

everything except for the bottom half of their, whatever. And so they walk up to me, and I mean, it's a t-shirt, so it's kind of barely covering things. Just, you know, stuff hanging out. I was like, hey, Sal's going on, hey, so, what about the pools? Is that gonna get fixed soon? Or what's going on with that machine?

Or, you know, it looks like you see Tiger Woods the other day. And it's just like, you know, just walked in the front of me. Super uncomfortable. I don't think it's appropriate to walk up to anybody and talk to them while you're naked. But don't do it at the gym. I'm convinced that it's an alpha thing. It's like, it's like, it's like,

I think it's a zero point thing. It's always the old guy, and that young teenage boys do that. Like, it's like, or young guys even do that. It's like an's like it's always the old guy not young teenage boys do that like it's like our young guys Even do that. It's like an old man thing. It's like young on the I'm the old gorilla in here You didn't know Totally that what an else even do like the stances even put like one leg up on the So how you doing? Yeah, and just I think. So how you doing, Sal? Yeah. Yeah. And you're just like, oh, he's like, I showed him.

Yeah. It's, wow. I didn't even think I could convince that's what it is. I don't know if I'm old enough to pull that yet. I'm gonna try that next time. The guy out there is me. Dude, I had an old guy one time trying to ask me all this training advice.

He was like, butt naked. And he was just like, yeah, I saw you out there with your clients. And can you show me this to, like, I'll show you another time. Yeah. I'll show you out there in the floor. I think he was like trying to get me to break it down in there. I had a member one time and I told him, like, what are you doing?

Don't do that. He always tried to talk to me when he was in a locker room and he tried to give me the high five hug. You know guys go like this and then do the hug. But he had nothing on. No, he does one of these. And I went like this the fist bump and I'm like, I'm not hugging you. You're making all my bad, my bad.

It's this this same guy by the way, too. This same guy dries his junk off in the air dryer. Yeah, or the air blow away. Call it that. This is like international. I don't know. The air is now circulating in the air, that's now been blown off.

Yeah, your balls. Yeah, that's not cool. And I mean granted, they're probably clean because they just came out of the shower, but it's still weird. I don't care. It's still weird, you know what I've seen. So I have walked in and seen like,

dude's bending over, spreading their ass cheeks and drying off their asses. You know we had signs, we had signs in two of the clubs I ran, and I had to put signs up. We did too. And I literally put on their hand dryers are for hands only. I had to put that up there just because I was like, what do you guys, and they're positioned for hands, so they have to get weird positions to dry themselves anyway.

So it's kind of weird. All right, this next one, this one's a little bit more important. And a lot of people don't realize this unwritten rule. And there's a couple parts to it. So we'll start with the first part, which is, if you're working on a gym, especially if it's busy, let people work in, okay? So if you're on a machine, or you're doing squats, or bench press, or whatever,

and somebody's like waiting, or wants to whatever, allow them to work in. So while you're resting, they do a set. Now here's the key to it. Whoever's working in, while you're resting they do a set now. Here's the kick Here's the key to it whoever's working in if you started the set and you're the first one to use that machine or that That piece of equipment the person working in is responsible for taking the weight off and putting it back on or changing the weight or the adjustment and putting it back on That's their responsibility. That's the other part of it But let people work in I think it's so It's such bad etiquette to do five sets on a machine,

have someone wait and to not allow them to do a set while you rest and do nothing because you see these guys now, especially with cell phones, people are texting in between sets and it's like, dude, I want to use that machine. Let me come in. Yeah, you're wasting everybody's time. I mean, that's just the thing. I think not a lot of people know about that.

They don't. Most people don't know. Yeah, it's even asked for that. I think that a lot of people know about that. They don't. Most people don't know. Yeah, it's even asked for that. I think that's something that needs to be expressed to new members, especially. Okay, because it is frustrating, especially going peak hours, all of your plans for machines, a lot of times that gets interrupted

because people will be like that. They'll be on their phone. In between every set, they'll be doing five, six, seven sets of the same thing. And you're set, they'll be doing five, six, seven sets of the same thing. And you're like, what is this person ever going to stop? But you can ask politely, like, hey, man, can I work in? Can I get a set?

I feel bad for the beginner that, one, doesn't know that, or two, is relatively new and then had a bad experience asking somebody the first time. So then they just assume like, oh, some people are dicks about it. Yeah, I know. And that's the point of this episode, right? It's the tell is really, does be some people are dicks about it. Yeah, no, there's, and that's the point of this like episode, right?

It's the tell is really does be speaking to the dicks more than it is to be talking to the people that should know, like, you know, by the way, you should be able to do this. Yes, that does, doesn't mean though that you might run into somebody who is a dick that thinks that they have the right to that machine and they're gonna use it for the next two, 20 minutes.

I got to e-go checked hard with this once. Like hard. I was maybe 15 or so, it was probably 16, and I'm doing squats, and a woman came up to me and said, do you mind if I work in? And I said, yeah, absolutely. And I go to take the weight off. She goes, no, no, leave it on.

And she does more reps than me. And I remember being, I was such an ego check as a teenage boy that this woman could, and she was built, she'd been working out for a long time, but still, you're a guy and and you go sensitive, right? Especially at that age. But it was, but I let her work in or whatever. She ended up becoming cool and we ended up, you know, being friends or whatever. So I do think there's a little bit of a gray area here, or I think an area where we

can elaborate, I think, for a certain, like if you, I, even though it's okay, I still think that you should be mindful of something like that. I mean, that ended up working out in the out. Yeah, because they're gonna have to change the weight. Yeah, but like, so if you are a 17 year old kid and you squat 135 and the powerlifter in the gym is moving 450 and you want to come in and you want to work in with him, you better move the weights fat, you better take the weights off and put them on fast. And it's not very realistic. Right.

Right. And move 450 pounds off a bar and out. Right. So be mindful of who you go work in and then how much you plan to change. Like if you go to do a fixed hoist shoulder press machine that has literally like a pen and like a seat adjustment, that's not a big deal. But if you get into like maybe even like a free motion machine that moves arms all different directions and you're changing all the settings or you use a cable machine

and someone's pulling it from the bottom and now you want to move it up and change weight. Like be mindful of like you what you're doing and like how the time in between rest periods that someone's rest periods may only be one minute long maybe even a little less. And now you're working in and you're completely changing the way now. I'm glad you said that. It's the responsibility of the person working in to match the rest periods of the person that they jump into. It's number one.

Number two, it's your responsibility to put the weight back and the adjustments back to where they were before. And if it's not feasible, like if I'm doing a 500 pound deadlift and someone wants to jump in and put 135 on, probably not feasible, unless you can hustle your ass. No way. You cannot, you cannot, you jump in and put 135 on. Right. Probably not feasible unless you can hustle your ass. No way. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot strip and put on back. Right. Because they got to break it down.

Don't ask me to help you by the way. No, I usually will because I'm cool, but that's when you work in, you're assuming that responsibility. And to my point, I think that there's, there's an etiquette point there on that person's right. So, so good gym etiquette is that you should allow people to work in. Well well the person who's asking to work in should also be mindful of what you're about to go use of There's like you shouldn't or like taking like it someone's using a easy curl bar And they're doing school questions and you want to strip it all down and use it for something else like you know be mindful of what if you're if someone's doing the exact

Exercise you want to do and they're relatively close, they don't have to be that close, but relatively close to the weight and how you're gonna use it, like, okay, that's fine. But if you're gonna take the equipment or take the machine and completely manipulate it or change it and your eyes is weight discrepancy, it's huge, you gotta be mindful of that.

Yeah, if there's a guy there, like in sort of what do you call those, like, one Z, like, like like in a powerlifter uniform you know he's like smack and chalk and he's got a ton of weight and you're just trying to come in there like you got to know like the the seriousness of of somebody like really getting after it and like you know you can obviously see that you know it's going to interrupt 9 out of 10 times though it's a machine that's being used and there is only one of that machine in your regular commercial setting and you're not going to run into a lot of those exactly I mean squat

racks are common to though because there's a there's minimal squat starting to become your right yeah it wasn't like that you should not be that way before but back in the day that's why I wanted to bring up the squatting and deadlifting thing because it is become popular that I mean at least my my you know last years of being in the gym, many times if I came in there at a popular time, and this was back at golds that had five platforms and five squat racks, and I know that I'm dead lifting or squatting

as my first thing, and I walk in and they're all taken. So I would have to, and what I would always do is I would look and see who's doing what and who is probably gonna be moving similar weight to me, and that would be the person or so who I think is maybe on maybe their last set and I might walk up and be like, hey, how many more sets do you have left? And if they only got one or two more sets,

maybe I'll wait and then, you know, maybe I'll go warm up a little bit and then I'll go jump over and get up. Now here's one that is often written on the wall of a gym and it's, this is more of a known rule and yet people still don't do it, it's to put your weights away. You will never see me leave a single weight out,

mainly because I manage gyms for Solana, what a big pain the ass is, where people, for some reason, here's a real common one. They'll take all the weights off except for one plate. It's like, why leave the one? Like, take them all off, right? Or even worse, they leave it completely on.

Like, you go to the leg press and there's 10 plates on each side. And then some lady wants to use it. And you're like, really, you know, she's got to take all these weights off now, just to do her exercise. Like, put your stuff away or dumbbells that are all over the place for Mitch match. Oh my God, this is such a pain in the ass.

You could tell a good gym from a bad gym by how bad this is. This is such a headache in gyms and it's a consistent problem. It blows my mind too, because most of us are in there already. It's super. To get in better shape and carrying your way back is only going to burn more calories and build more strength. So if we can do the work, do the work and put it back.

I remember, I'll never forget doing this. This was pretty epic. It was in my early years. It was my idea was actually one of the front desk guys. It was like one of those old power lifter guys and he worked front desk just so he could get a free membership and he'd been in there forever. And so in he worked the night shift

and I also worked late a lot of times and he would get pissed when he'd come in there at like 10, 11 o'clock and not a single dumbbell was on the rack and it was just a mess. And we would announce it over the loudspeaker, re-wack your weights, re-wack your weights. And then finally one time he says, you know what, fuck this, we have to teach these guys

to teach each other to do it because we can't manage every single person here. So it's prime hours, it's like six, seven o'clock at night, right? He takes caution tape and he cautions off the entire weight room and gets on the loudspeaker and clear, everybody clear out of the weight room, please right now, and he clears stops everyone working out and then makes everybody watch us re-rack the weights

and then tells everybody, going forward. I come in this weight room at this time of the hour and if weights like this, we're gonna stop everybody's workout every fucking time until you guys learn to re-rack your weights like, oh shit. I tell you what, but it made a huge difference because then you started to see the other members managing the members.

They would watch somebody else, yo, we're before our members would be like, oh, whatever, not say anything, they the other members managing the members. They would watch somebody else. Yo, we're before members, we'd be like, oh, whatever, not say anything. They didn't leave it for the staff because culture because some, okay, here's, and by the way, part of this problem and part of the reason why it's good to do this episode is that some of some members actually think that's the job of the people that work there. Their job is to re-wrap the weights, because they see trainers and people in uniform. I've never been to a gym where that's the job of the staff. It isn't the job of the staff.

But, Kate, remember, you just recently talked in an episode about a guy who was increasing the weight on the Gravitron thinking that he was getting stronger because it was helping him more, right? People are that clueless that they assume, oh, these people are on the clock, they have their uniforms on, they're floating around, they see them re-wrapping weights, and so some of these idiots actually think that like the clock, they have their uniforms on, they're fully right, they see them re-racking weights.

And so some of these idiots actually think that like, oh, that's their job, I just go lift weights, I can just leave them wherever, and then someone's paid to come pick it up. And it's like, no, those are people that are going out of their way. One of the things I look at in a gym, when I'm looking to,

because I see it through the lens of gym manager, gym owner. And I'm sure, whatever profession you're in, if you walk into a profession as a consumer, you just see it through the lens of gym manager, gym owner. And I'm sure, whatever profession you're in, if you walk into a profession as a consumer, you just see it differently, right? So if you're a police officer, you get pulled over, you can see things differently. If you're a doctor and you go to the doctors, you see things differently.

Well, when I'd walk into gyms, I could judge pretty quickly if it's got a good culture. One of them's a front desk, that's a whole different conversation. But another one is how much of the weights are put away. When I walk in and I see plates on machines and dumbbells off or whatever, I know the culture of that gym sucks.

Because a good gym culture, which by the way, this can exist in a hardcore gym, you can have a good culture in a commercial gym. It's all about the way the staff creates the culture and what they enforce and then the members themselves. If I walk in and I see equipment all over the place, I know it's a crappy culture and I probably am not gonna like working out there.

And that's one really easy sign is how much of the members respect the gym that they're working out at. That's a really good point because it is, it's a sign of leadership in there. Somebody has built that culture that is taught not only the staff, that they all help and pick up, and then that's bled into the members that are in there.

It's a really good sign of a good gym that you watch. Yeah, you'll see trainers leave equipment out and gyms like that. Yeah, which is, oh my God, if you were a trainer, you were for me, you left equipment out. You're fired, by the way.

All right, so here's another one which sounds obvious, but I remember at one point when I was managing gyms for 24-feet in this way back in the day, so we're looking at, I don't know, 99, maybe 2000. This became such an issue that we actually developed a rule around it. And this is the rule that is you need to wipe up your sweat after you're done using a piece of equipment. Sounds obvious, okay. But it got so bad at one point that 24-of-fitness back then passed a rule. And they said, you must have a workout towel with you when you work out.

If you do not have a workout towel, you're not allowed to work out. So either you have one or you buy one at the front desk. Now, I remember when this rule took place, we actually got a lot of conflict from members where people would walk in, where's your towel, sir? I don't have one, well, you got to have to buy one. And they just ignore the front desk person walk by

or be a jerk or whatever. This became confrontational for like a few months and one of the gyms that I managed because the culture before was, leaves sweat everywhere. It took like two or three months before this became regular. And I remember that two or three month period, there were like two or three

in your face confrontations with members, which I thought was silly. Like why would you think to leave your filth on a piece of equipment that you're using with other people? I actually was a part of the transition of the before and after also. I was there early years. In fact, one of the things like signature looks that I had was I wore a towel, almost

like a quarter back then over and I started doing that because I had clients and that would become, like even my own clients who were being paid and I'm telling would forget because I was during the time of before and after like when nobody was told to do that and then also when we're telling the people that. So I began to carry the towel myself. So in case they forgot, I would wipe it up and that's how that started.

But that was a hard transition to get people to do that. Yeah, oh yeah, people, again, the culture was one way to get clean. Well, that and members assume that if you wanted that done, then you provide a towel service. But what you don't realize is you're paying such a low membership fee for a gym like a 24-off fitness. It's not a spa.

You go to a spa, like you were going to club one, they provide the test. And they have a laundry service and it's expensive to maintain that. Yeah, you're not getting a $19 a month membership and getting a talisman. I pay 10 times as much for that. Yeah, so you gotta understand that if you're paying that low in a gym, because that's the other thing too, you get to ask whole members who expect that.

They think that, oh, I have this membership I pay for this membership, you should provide that stuff. It's like, that's why you pay $19 and you don't pay a hundred and twenty dollars to go to like a club You know club whatever club or club sport that is like a you know a spa where they do that now I do think that this has become much more of an issue after after covid I think now all gyms are like really big about it and members are two I see people now more than ever. Well most most spraying equipment down and cleaning after the dumb. So most gyms now have, and most your commercial gyms,

have, if you don't provide a talcer as you've now put the talz in a spray bottle in stations all over the day. Or dispensers of like those wipes or whatever. I've seen that too. Yeah, so that's now, so that's pretty prevalent in most gyms now. I mean, obviously, if I'm the member or I'm talking to my audience, I'm bring a towel, bring a small, you know, you know, a hand towel and carry it with you. And then you just wipe your, you know, your own thing off.

So you don't have to go over this spray machine and do that all the time. All right. So here's another one that isn't 100% across the border rule. There are exceptions, but we'll explain them here in a second, which is don't drop your weights on the floor when you don't work in out with them. And I would always tease members who did this and say, if you're not strong enough to lower the weight properly,

then you shouldn't be lifting that much. Throwing weights on the floor is not only dangerous, it's also lazy. And it's also not respecting the equipment. Like I wouldn't throw lots of pieces of equipment down on the floor for potentially damaging the equipment. Now here's the exceptions. You're working out on a weightlifting platform.

That's the only place. That's the only place. That's where you're supposed to drop. That's the only place in Plap. That's it. That's it. I mean to me, that's an easy thing to know where you can and you can't.

If you're on a weightlifting platform, it's designed for take that, you know? I saw somebody actually break, it's the floor. Somebody actually broke someone else's foot and one of the gyms I managed, because it was like, Yeah, dropping like 120 pound dumbbells.

And you know the flips and rolls. It's common on the bench press. You see this all the time, you see guys max dumbbell pressing and then they can't get the last rep of the 120s and then they just, they drop them off the time. There's a way, by the way, because I get this if you're handling really heavy weights,

it's like, it's really hard to lower them super slow, but there's a way to let them fall where it's still under your control. And then there's the way where people literally- It's guided, at least, they can fire up. Where they literally drop them and they end up flipping and rolling a couple times,

which you hurt somebody that way. Yeah, and I also think that if you, if you're lifting dumbbells so heavy that you can't, you can't get it back up to get on your knees and then roll out of it. Like you don't belong, lift in that weight yet, dude. The only time is acceptable really is that you're home. You know, you're home.

You do it to the hell you want. You can do it, you can walk around naked, leave your sweat everywhere. The whole way. Destroy your own house, you know, go for it. But like when you're sharing a community, in a community, and you're trying to, crowd naked and leave your sweat everywhere. Roll weights. Destroy your own house, you know, go for it. But like when you're sharing a community, in a community and you're trying to,

you know, maintain the culture of everybody else around you, you gotta be considerate of everybody else. That's just, I mean, I've actually seen dumbbells break from people dropping them from dumbbell pressing. You know, heavy 120s like that. And it just hit just right and wrong. And that's so much weight. It's snapped at still. I remember back in the day when I used to deadlift back when dead lifts were not popular.

So I was the only one never deadlifting in the gym and the plates that we had were those stupid hexagons which I, that's the worst place to deadlift with because you put it down the floor and it shifts the weight and then you got to readjust it or whatever. And I mean, I, you know, now I use bumper plates, so I can drop the weight if I need to, but I would put them down carefully because especially if I drop one of those because of the shape of the plates, it would shift or twist, and I would hurt myself

if I wasn't careful. Well, yeah, I mean, even like to your point of the dumbbells slam and down, I remember it loosened it up to where the next member used it and like, it came apart while they're lifting the weights. So you just set somebody else up for potential injury. Oh crap.

All right, here's another one. I hate this one. Sometimes it still happens to me. Don't talk to people mid-set. If they're in the middle of an exercise, don't approach them. You need to concentrate and focus on what you're doing. And I've had people do this to me where I'm in the middle of a set

and someone starts talking to me and I've literally said shut up, like just look straight in and shut up because it's distracting. And to me it's strange. What makes you think it's a good idea to talk to someone while they're in the middle of work? This is a tough one because it's less of a gym etiquette thing

and it's more of a self and social awareness thing. This is like the same person who's like the close talker or the same person who doesn't get the sign that you're not wanted to be here right now. It's that same person. It'll pick up on it. Because I feel like before you even say something like shut up or you become an asshole,

your body language is already told you. They're not interested in talking to me. I'm talking to you. You're not even looking at me anymore. You're starting your curls or whatever you're doing. It's like, I would pick up on that signal like, oh, he wants to get his workout in and be like, oh, hey, I'll talk to you later, bro.

But some people are so oblivious and so unsocially aware that they don't pick up on that. So it's, to me, it's less of an etiquette thing and they don't even, that's more of a, this person needs to work on their self-awareness. You know, you know what reminds me of, you know what I mean? You person needs to work on their self-awareness. You know what it reminds me of? You know what you got the dentist? And the dentist has your mouth open.

Oh yeah. And they're putting stuff in there and asking you to get it. Like, hey, so how's your weekend? I just had dental work done not that long ago and I, so funny you bring that up because I was thinking the same thing to you. Like, why are you asking me questions and then, and then too, like you'll ask me a question and then like two you'll ask me a question, and then two seconds later,

I'll be, hold on, hold on, and then she'll be doing something. I'm like, you just asked me something. It has to be all rhetorical questions. Yes, you just answer your own. I just answer like, hang, hang, I thought I said, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, hang, This is part of it. Don't wear a lot of perfume or cologne. When you're working out, this is super annoying. It gives people headaches. It makes me nauseous.

So I'm going to add to that. That's like, I don't know if this falls under genetic kit or it's just like, and so I think there's like, getting ready, like, and this happens a lot. Like, you see girls do, guys do it too though. Guys and girls both do and this happens a lot like you see girls guys do to the guys and girls both do but girls you see when obnoxious clone when you're when you are when you put on Makeup to go to the gym like you put on like a bunch of make I got to understand you became straight from work There's totally different right coming from work and you worked all day

Oh, you could tell people get ready for the gym. Oh, yeah, you could definitely tell and or and you intentionally You don't wear a hair tie and you wear your hair down and stuff like that It's like there's things where you can see where somebody and they and it's repeated like it's like oh every every I'm sure every woman Has forgot a hair tie. I'm sure she's come straight from work before but then there's like the girl who consistently comes and who Is completely made up as there is the guy who does the same thing who gets his hair all done like all nice. And he's got his outfit that matches and it's perfect. And it's the like that. And I get you feel good. You look good. I get that whole that whole thing. But there's a point to that where I think it's a little ridiculous when you're putting on Cologne and perfume and you think you're going to the nightclub versus I would rather

I'm going to say controversial statement. I would rather work out next to someone next to someone with moderate, BO, than strong, calone or perfume. The calone or perfume makes me nauseous while I'm out. I would agree with that, because I'm in these situations. Dizzy and nauseous with that.

Yeah, I agree with that. And so yeah, don't do that. Don't spray these strong smells on you and then work out, because it messes people up. To add to that, there's also been issues for me as some, some people like bring their lunch in the weight room. Like eating and you get all these disgusted.

That's like a bodybuilder thing. Food, salapient rice. What are you doing, bro? Doing, dude, get outta here. You're gonna call my bodybuilder, he's off of that one, I'm like, slap people at the end. Because they don't want to miss the anabolic window.

I got my food. Oh, I just finished. Let's see my food in there. Do you get outta no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no That's why. And they eat every two hours. They eat every two hours, and because they're eating so many calories, and so they would absolutely have one or two meals prepared in their gym bag, and they would stop. You might as well just sleep in the locker room, one or four houses.

And they'd go, and they'd go, all right, so this next one, you know, it was always kind of an issue, but not a huge issue. They'd crossfit happen. Yes. And all of a sudden,

this is the bad thing they came for. We give them the credit for the squats and the dead lives making their popular good. But don't hoard a bunch of equipment and dumbbells. And I mean, crossfit happen, and all of a sudden, you'd see members with like six different pieces of equipment and exercise strung together.

Like these are mine. I'm doing my giant circuit with this. If you're in handstand walking in your way, like, dude, get outta here. No, don't hoard crap. If you're gonna use a bunch of stuff, so sometimes I've done giant sets, but I also accept that if somebody grabs something,

then I'm not gonna hoard it. Somebody grabs it, I'm gonna figure out an alternative. I'm not gonna go with, like, that's mine. Okay, so where this happens, then I'm just, okay, this, and CrossFit is really guilty for a lot of people do this. It's not, this doesn't mean that other people don't too, but they are following a wad.

And let's say like that wad requires 80, for their strength, 80 pound dumbbells, and they also have to do pull-ups and deadlifts and some of that in a rower or something like that. They bring it all over to that area. So they're like, but now they've got the 90 pound dumbbells for the next 22 minutes or wherever it takes

to get this one out. And then they go out on like a couple mile run. And leaving all that shit there for nobody like to use and they come back, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you know what I used to do? So I'm an asshole like, go join a CrossFit club.

No, what I used to do, what I used to do is I would see this happen. And it was like super sets fine, two exercises, no, but deal. And then again, if you're going to use multiple machines or exercises, leave them where they're at, you travel to go get it. Yeah, you travel to go get it. And if someone's using it, then you figure it out. That's the way I would do it.

So that's my point. But the reason why they don't is because you know CrossFit's for time. That's okay. So you're not, they're trying to improve their time. And that's how that's why that happened was because it's a time thing And that's wasted time to walk over the dumbbells so they would want to put it That's okay. You're sharing a gym with a bunch of other people. This is not a crossfit gym No, I go that's why you should be talked about because it's not okay

I begin since so fucking crossfit box if you want to do that Yes, so what I used to do when people would do that is I would purposefully, purposefully, yeah, rewact or shit. I would go and reuse it. I'd wait, I'd wait, oh, he's about to use it and I go over there and start doing some shrugs. I just can't do it. And I'd be, or I'd bring a client over there. We're going to use this machine today and just wait for them to just get annoyed and be like, I'd please say something to you.

I needed it. Yeah. I needed it. I hate that. But that wasn't a thing. CrossFit happened. Then it became a big thing for a little while. Not so much of a thing.

And so under the hoarding equipment is the same category too, and it's a different type of person, but it's also guilty of like sitting on the machine for 25, 30 minutes. You've seen that before. Dude, before, this, again, this was back in the newspaper. Yes, right? This is before,

there's a guy like that. Before smartphones were a thing, there were dudes that used to literally bring newspaper to the gym. They would do a set and then they'd read the newspaper in between, for like, I mean, 10 minutes. I had a lady one time that I had just checked

that used to read romance novels on the leg press. That's a real thing. I was swear to God, dude, she'd get the leg press. She was her fire. We only had like two leg press machines. You know what I'm saying? Of course leg presses is a real thing. I was swear to God, dude, she'd get the leg press. She was her fire. And we only had like two leg press machines. You know what I'm saying? Of course leg presses is a popular machine.

It wasn't the one with your picture on it. It was just before my romance novel days, right? So she would sit there and she would read her romance novel, do a set of leg pressing, go back to read a chapter and then go get a bit of a... The worst, the worst, the worst is I would see sometimes people read while doing the exercise. I see that I don't understand I'm not ladies done that. Yeah, like we how are you able to say it?

Yeah, how are you doing leg extensions while you're reading? You sure that's enough weight? Yeah, you might add the little way focus a little bit. So this last one's kind of funny. It's kind of a joke But and this may be a personal one. I don't think anyone in this room likes this. I don't think it's a joke Yeah, it's this might be be, it's pretty, it's serious for us. But, you know, there's a thing where guys will wear really tight, spandex, workout pants, and I'll wear them too because I like the way they feel when I work out my legs.

However, I always be the wear shorts, shorts over them, or pants over them. If you're gonna wear tight ass, spandex pants, and you're a dude, but you're a dude, wear something over it? Nobody wants to see, you know, we don't want to determine you're gonna see a vein in your balls.

No. I've seen that before. I've had members complain. Like, like, Moose Knuckle and everything. Yeah, it was so fitted and so tight that they're like, you have to get this guy out of the gym. Like, this is so in a program,

I can see the vein in his balls. No, no, yes. It's exactly how I approached it. I don't want to be able to know your religion by looking at the pants. Yes, yes, yes. Oh my God. Yes, your circumcised.

Yes. Please cover that up. Yeah. And that is a 100% guy thing. It's a guilty guy thing. But there's a guy, there's a handful of dudes that you'll find in a gym that absolutely do that that will rock those spandex and they're super, super tight.

It's performance enhancement. Dude, there was a guy guy that worked that you still work out one of my jeans You so we're a wrestling singlet. That's it. So it's like really tight, but just a wrestling singlet We just walk it like what's going on here? Dude, we did the wrestling I hate to try to throw that guy out. Yeah He's cool Anyway, there you have it look if you like this show this show, head over to MindPumpFree.com and check out our guides. We have guides that can help you with almost any health

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