Re-racking weights..

Reeve · 17 Dec 2018 at 23:25

d_brennen said:
Why not make re-racking all the loose and misplaced weights part of your workout? Work smarter, not harder

I do this if i'm using weights in the same area. I have rest time between sets and nothing better to do and try to set an example but the next person to use the equipment will most likely just mess it up again.

Trappi$t · 17 Dec 2018 at 23:26

Well im off down the gym at 23:45, which is ludicrous, and will really upset my body clock... sigh.
This at least is one advantage of the 24hr gyms.

kaptainmarc · 18 Dec 2018 at 08:32

Bench last night

The dumbell area had 1 set of dumbells on the rack

Skidder · 18 Dec 2018 at 08:57

Jeez, that would grate.

Syla5 · 18 Dec 2018 at 09:14

Reeve said:
Are you suggesting the gym manager does not suspend people at all and instead the board behaves similar to how a fake security camera is a deterrent for thieves? That could possibly work

That's exactly what I am saying. The manager says they don't have time to individually track the troglodytes so a fake board as deterrent is the easy out for them.

adey · 18 Dec 2018 at 16:38

no one uses my little ones so its not a problem for me

danlightbulb · 19 Dec 2018 at 08:58

I used to go to a pure gym. Left a while back because equipment started to break and wasnt being replaced, and my calls to the manager to get another couple of squat racks were totally ignored (it was becoming impossible to get on them at the peak time of day that I could attend).

Problem is there are no alternatives where i live, so I just stopped lifting, which is a shame because it was beneficial.

A perfect gym would be a warehouse with a row of twenty racks each with their own bar and set of plates. We'll never see that in the UK.

Skidder · 19 Dec 2018 at 09:46

the gym I used to go to had a 25m pool, spa, saunas, probably 30 elliptical machines, a whole floor of spin bikes and treadmills, six rowers and just one rack!

kindai · 19 Dec 2018 at 11:27

Skidder said:
the gym I used to go to had a 25m pool, spa, saunas, probably 30 elliptical machines, a whole floor of spin bikes and treadmills, six rowers and just one rack!

and I bet all that cardio equipment, no more than half a dozen in use at any one time?

Defy Belief · 19 Dec 2018 at 13:44

Also a previous member at PureGym Gloucester which was bad for this.

I now train at Nuffield Health and the etiquette is MUCH better.

Skidder · 20 Dec 2018 at 09:39

kindai said:
and I bet all that cardio equipment, no more than half a dozen in use at any one time?

With the exception of the first three or four weeks of January every year for the resolution rush.

SC0TTRS · 20 Dec 2018 at 09:48

Only needed to read the title OP, war & peace was not needed... :rolleyes:

Happens everywhere, never been to a gym where stuff has 'consistently' been put back properly...

SpeedFreak · 24 Dec 2018 at 12:39

Defy Belief said:
Also a previous member at PureGym Gloucester which was bad for this.

I now train at Nuffield Health and the etiquette is MUCH better.

Never been to a Pure Gym but Nuffield has always been good in my experience.

tom_e · 24 Dec 2018 at 12:46

SpeedFreak said:
Never been to a Pure Gym but Nuffield has always been good in my experience.

Considering the price of some of the Nuffield gyms there should be someone to follow each member clearing up after them

neoboy · 24 Dec 2018 at 12:57

Yeah PureGym is a nightmare for this but I can't grumble at the price, I pay £9 for off peak membership. I just see it as an extra workout trying to find everything

Lopéz · 25 Dec 2018 at 17:02

This doesn't happen much with plates at my gym, but it happens a lot with dumbbells. People seem to gather 4 or 5 sets of dumbbells for various exercises, then just wander off and leave them in a pile.

kindai · 25 Dec 2018 at 19:04

Lopéz said:
This doesn't happen much with plates at my gym, but it happens a lot with dumbbells. People seem to gather 4 or 5 sets of dumbbells for various exercises, then just wander off and leave them in a pile.

I can live with that, the one that does my head in is when people dont put the dumbels back in the rack in pairs.

CaptainShiznit · 27 Dec 2018 at 02:09

kaptainmarc said:
Bench last night

The dumbell area had 1 set of dumbells on the rack

Looks just like my local Xercise4Less

BennyC · 29 Dec 2018 at 10:16

It is not relative to what you pay for membership? Granted you'll get degenerates in every gym and there's no direct correlation but a more affluent establishment I expect to have a higher level of etiquette.

Now paying £10pm I expect the place to look like a bomb-site and quite frankly don't care a great deal, if I find a pile of plates like that I'll leave them like that too.

£30-40-50+pm I want things organised and tidy.

neoboy · 29 Dec 2018 at 10:59

Basically, which is why it doesn't bother me at Pure.

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