Gym Etiquette

Posted by: Christie

So I'd like to think I've been going to the gym enough lately to finally judge the judgment free zone.

Let's start with something I noticed in the parking lot while walking out tonight.

Now, while I have no problem with the handicapped folks getting their fitness on, I was slightly confused as to how you could possess a handicap sticker and still be attending the gym regularly enough to not be able to walk to it from regular parking spots, just sayin'.

Next is mostly directed at the girls. If you're wearing jewelry, makeup, or don't have a hair tie in, you can't possibly be working out hard enough to actually burn enough calories to even bother being at the gym.  The gym is there so you can sweat out the three extra cookies you ate at lunchtime, not to meet your future date for friday night.  Besides, anyone that you don't want seeing you without your makeup/jewelry on/hair down is probably not someone you want to be waking up next to for the rest of your life anyways.

Moving along.

 Leave these at home.  I was lifting weights the other day and literally watched a lady walk around the gym talking on her cell phone the entire time.  If you feel awkward walking around the gym without a friend to constantly be gabbing with, get an ipod, or get a friend.

In closing, the last thing I highly recommend not doing is bringing your girlfriend/boyfriend to the gym with you.  I literally watched two highschoolers in love twirling around the center of the gym touching and kissing the entire time. Really?  Nobody wants to see that. We've come to the gym to work on our bodies so we can feel good about ourselves when we do things like that in the dark, (and maybe if we burn enough cals that week to leave the light on).  But PDAing all over everyone's faces is just unacceptable.

Please, heed my advice.  Because although they say it's a judgment free zone, in actuality, we're judging the shit out of you.