My Top 5 Gym Pet Peeves – Please do not do these!!!
SUMMARY: Everyone has pet peeves, in the gym there is no exception so please, if you are a workout veteran, or just beginning then read my top 5 gym pet peeves and don’t do them, or at least not at the same gym I am at.
My Top 5 Gym Pet Peeves
Re-Rack your weights…
Remember be kind and rewind in the eighties, and if you build it they will come? Well this is a version of both of those. If you put weights on a workout machine then simply remove them.
If you are strong enough to squat 4 plates on each side of a bar, the take them off, the next person may not be that strong. If you build a bar, (we dead-lifters know what this means) then be nice and break it back down.
Please watch your hygiene…
Don’t stink up the place, I mean gyms already smell like sweat but please don’t add your personal body odor to it.
At the very least put on some deodorant, and enough to make a difference and you will come out smelling like roses.
Also WASH YOUR HANDS, we all touch the same weights…
If you sweat a lot use a towel or wipe down the machine afterwards…
I remember I was walking into a gym one day and a female trainer came running out after a guy yelling at him to stop. He walked on his headphones on not hearing her.
She finally caught up to him and kindly asked that he go back in and wipe off a bench she wanted to use for her client because his sweat was all over it.
AWESOME… great teaching moment, if you sweat a lot then that’s great but at least cover up, bring a towel, or wipe off the machine. Got it! Good.
Save the curse words and save the spectacle for somewhere else…
Make loud noises if you must, grunt, and yell. But please don’t curse, its just bad manners to think everyone wants to hear your bad habit.
Its way to macho, its not cool, and its just plain bad form. I am not against those who curse, just in a public area its just not cool.
I remember taking my son to a professional basketball game and it was ruined by some fans who had to much to drink and way to much to say.
Show respect for others, and yourself.
The gym locker room is NOT your personal bathroom so please put a towel on man…
If I have to walk into one more gym locker room and see men walking around naked who shouldn’t, I am going to lose it. I dont want to see that, no one wants to see that.
Just put on a towel already and save my eyes. I would really appreciate it and others would too.
CONCLUSION
I am sure there are a few more pet peeves I could come up with but these are my top 5 gym pet peeves.
I gave you my top 5 gym pet peeves, so what are your gym pet peeves?
From Comic Strips to Constant Annoyances: The Quirky Origin of the “Pet Peeve”
If you cannot stand the sound of loud chewing or people who text while walking, you have a “pet peeve.” While these minor frustrations are common today, the phrase itself is a 20th-century American invention. It is actually a clever linguistic mashup that ironically pairs a centuries-old word for a bad mood with the concept of a beloved domestic companion.
The story begins with the word “peeve,” which is a shortened version of the Middle English word “peevish.” Dating back to the 14th century, being peevish meant you were spiteful, ill-tempered, or easily irritated. By the 1800s, people began using the word “pet” to describe anything they personally cherished or gave special attention to, like a “pet project.” According to the Merriam-Webster Word History Archive, Victorians began pairing “pet” with negative words as an ironic joke, complaining about their “pet hatreds” or “pet aversions”—essentially meaning a specific grievance they nurtured, fed, and kept close to them like a favored domestic animal.
The exact phrase finally exploded into popular culture between 1916 and 1920, thanks to the funny pages. An American cartoonist named Frank King started a wildly popular single-panel comic strip in the Chicago Tribune titled The Little Pet Peeve. The comic illustrated hyper-specific daily frustrations sent in by readers, such as back-seat drivers or theater-goers who unwrapped candy loudly. The phrase captured the public’s imagination so perfectly that it outlived the comic strip, permanently embedding itself in the English language as our favorite way to describe the little things that drive us crazy.
