Reason #856 that I dont workout in gyms – annoying trainers who think they own the gym.
So Im on vacation now so had the occasion to workout in a gym and it reminded me of why I love working out at home. Walk in, looks like a nice small, homy gym. About a minute later this rail thin 60+ year old woman walks in, mouth blazing, and proceeds to talk to the guy at the front desk for 10 minutes without every stoping to breathe – pretty dang impressive. Her voice is loud, high, and nasal. How is that BIG screech coming out of that little body? Lo and behold, she is a “trainer”! I find this out when her client comes in and the fun begins. The client warms up on the bike and her mouth is still going at full bore, you’d think she would have to pause now and then to let it cool off but she is a miracle of modern science. Then she starts ‘training’ him. Its definitely not an interactive process as the machine gun stream of words flow one way – from her to him. “Training” seems to mean counting out reps, LOTS of them. ONE, come on you can do it! TWO, good job! THREE, excellent! … TWENTY SIX, keep it going! TWENTY SEVEN! lets do three more! And she spots him on every single rep! AAARGH!! Guess that makes the client think he is getting his money’s worth. I curse myself for not bringing my over-the-ear headphones to drown this kind of thing out, bad scooby. Bad, bad, Scooby. I try desperately to be in the opposite corner of the gym from them but they seem to follow me around like lost puppy dogs. Anyway, there are only 4 of us in the gym now and she is so busy talking she is completely and totally oblivious to anything going on in the gym. Since it was so empty I was moving back and forth between two pieces of back equipment, a T-bar row and a hammer strength lat pulldown. I always leave a personal article on the equipment when I do this so people know the equipment was not abandoned with weights left on. So anyway, I’m doing the T-bar and she waltzes over to the lat pulldown, doesnt notice my hat on it and obviously didnt notice me using it for the last 10 minutes either. With her ear-drum shattering screech she complains to the whole gym about people who dont strip the weights off as she starts to take them off. “Excuse me” I say, “I’m still using that but you can work in if you want”. Flustered she says – “thats … thats too much weight” and walks away. Good grief!
Reason #856 that I dont workout in gyms – annoying trainers who think they own the gym.