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Tolerance, understanding, loyalty and respect for individual characteristics are great, but if someone behaves like this, the hatred of others is practically guaranteed!
Rules of conduct in the gym
So, we all dream that it would be strictly forbidden …
1. Sit on simulators while resting
Okay, you've finished another set and you have a minute to recover. So step back! By sitting on the machine, you deprive others of the opportunity to use it while you have a break.
2. Being late for group classes
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How to behave in the gym? It’s not so difficult to time the time so as not to distract others by setting up a place for yourself, bringing the necessary accessories, setting up a step platform or flirting with “pancakes” for the barbell, making it difficult for everyone who came on time to follow the coach and his instructions. If you feel that you are more than 3-5 minutes late, you better skip the lesson. By the way, for your own benefit: skipping a warm-up can get you injured.
3. Give advice
Even if you are a fitness guru, ate a pack of dogs in free weights training and developed an author's method for working out the deltoid back muscle, keep your knowledge with you. Nobody likes it when strangers begin to teach life. In addition, a person can perform exercises in a certain way due to the characteristics of the body or for health reasons, and then your intervention will already become offensive.
4. Take endless selfies
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Yes, most gyms have good lighting and lots of mirrors. But people come here to study, not to be photographed. Firstly, people who did not plan to end up on your Instagram at all can get into the frame. Secondly, mirrors are needed to control your movements during exercise. Third, it just looks silly.
5. Swearing with instructors
Remember: coaches are coaches, and administration is administration. If at the appointed time the hall is occupied by other people, the schedule suddenly changed, the simulator broke down, and while you were doing the leg press, someone “stole” your towel, you have every right to write a complaint to the reception, call the administrator on duty and resolve issues with him … But expressing all complaints to the coach is useless, ineffective, undeserved and creates discomfort not only for an innocent person, but also for everyone who is present at the same time.
6. Forget about deodorant
Sorry to be frank, but there are no people who don't smell like sweat. And if there are several of them in the gym, training turns from pleasure into torture. Shower before workout, wear deodorant, and be sure to wear freshly washed clothes every time you train. Stinkers are hell.
7. Don't clean up after yourself
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How to work out in the gym according to the rules? Took free weights - put them back in place. I changed the weight on the simulator - return it to its original position. The rug, the expander, whatever of the equipment that you needed during the class should be returned at the end of the process. Respect others, you probably don't like looking for the things you need while visiting a fitness club. Besides, how else will the others understand that the bar is free if pancakes continue to hang on it?
8. Take boys over 5 years old to the women's locker room
There is NO reason why your grown-up son, nephew or little brother could end up in a locker room with several naked adult women. This creates discomfort for everyone, and first of all for the child himself. Not to mention the fact that in the women's locker room everyone wants to calmly change clothes and go to the shower, and not hide behind a towel from prying eyes.
9. Talking loudly on the phone
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If the call is really very important, go to the vestibule, to the stairs or to the reception, talk there. In the hall, people are focused on their studies, and they are not at all interested in being distracted by your “Well, what is he? And you to him, what?"
10. Climb on "other people's" simulators without demand
Here you squat, for example, with a barbell. She did her 15 times, just unloaded her from her shoulders, took a step to the side - and then a man rushed to her and began to hang pancakes. "Wait, I'm doing the exercise!" - you say with bewilderment. “Nothing, nothing,” he replies. - I'll take it off for you, girl, don't worry!"
Yes, you are not alone in the audience, and you have to share. But good form suggests asking if the person who first took the machine would mind. These are the requirements of gym etiquette, and those who neglect them simply do not respect the rest!
11. Screaming during exercise
Some men who work with serious weights love to yell at the whole hall as if they are not pressing from their chest, but at least giving birth. Well, you can understand them: according to research, screaming helps to perform better. Scientists disagree about why this happens: some say that adrenaline is released, others that active exhalation causes the muscles around the chest to contract, and this helps to better stabilize the spine and core.
But sound effects are appropriate if they don't bother anyone, and not acceptable when there are a lot of people around. At the end of the day, you are also not cool and are working to the limit. And from an unexpected scream under your ear, you can even drop a dumbbell on your forehead or on someone's leg. By the way, in some American halls there is a special alarm that turns on if a visitor to the hall begins to exceed the decibel norm.
12. Arrange a SPA in the shower
A sports club is not a place for hair removal, coffee scrub, aromatic oils, essences and other cosmetics that smell or stain the room. People can have allergies, the mixing of smells turns the locker room into a perfumery and cosmetic hell, and using the booths after such lovers of grooming is simply disgusting.
