![]() ![]() Overdoing it when you have no clue what you’re doing. I have zero problems with you trying to learn how to lift or how to lift correctly, but I don’t have time to watch you do it, okay? It’s as easy as taking 20 minutes to plan and look up your workout before you get to the gym, in the locker room, or while you warm up on the treadmill. I’m not trying to spend 2.5 hours of the meager amount of free time I have during the work week waiting on you to watch some Instagram hoe do a donkey kick over and over trying to figure out how it works. I go for 45 minutes to an hour, that’s it. When I (and when most post-grads go to the gym) I’m going either before or after work and I have about a bajillion and two things to do outside of said gym. It’s not unlike the rule about hogging the weights though at the base of the problem, you’re wasting someone else’s time. Okay, maybe I lied, maybe this is actually my biggest pet peeve. Standing in the way or hogging a machine, bench, or just a heavily trafficked area to be on your phone. Wait until they’re obviously done with their workout, headed out, or in the locker room (but not when they’re naked, you creep). No matter what, it won’t make you any gym buddies. Or, at the very least, be passive-aggressively nodded at. I’m sure some people enjoy conversation in between sets or if they’re doing something low-key like stretching, but if someone is literally mid-deadlift and you’re trying to talk to them about how you just tried pre-workout for the first time and your face is vibrating, you’re probably going to be told to fuck-off. The only way I want anyone to come say hi or talk to me during a workout is if I actually know (and like) them in real life, outside of the gym. That’s a sure-fire way to get your head bit off like a black widow spider. The only thing worse than this is if you’re hitting on someone. Striking up a conversation with someone in the middle of a workout. There’s nothing more frustrating than having a plan and having it completely derailed because the weights you need have been taken and aren’t even actually being used. If they’re just going to be sitting next to your bench or exercise ball for the next 726 minutes, please just leave them racked until you actually need them. There are so many people in the gym at this time of year that it’s hard to get the weights you need at the time you need them as it is. Personally, this is one of my biggest pet-peeves. “Claiming” free weights when you don’t need them until the very end of your workout - in 45 minutes. Here are five tips to remedy common mistakes I’ve seen in the gym over the years. That being said, with the influx of human bodies in the gym (and with so many of them being new to said gym), it can cause a lot of easily-avoided problems. And that’s something that should be commended and supported. The resolutioners are going into this with the best of intentions: to improve themselves. I’m not one of those people that’s going to sit here and bitch about it, and you shouldn’t either. With that, I have seen a lot of New Year’s Resolutioners rotate through the gym doors throughout the years. The keeping fit and my weight in check aspect is more of an added bonus. Now that I’m post-grad and very much retired from playing at a competitive level, going to the gym is my stress reliever and one of the few places I can relax and be at home. ![]() In high school, it was with the goal of playing in college, in college it was a goal of not wanting to get knocked on my ass on the field. I went to the gym so that I could be a better and stronger soccer player. It wasn’t even an “I need to lose weight because I’m a chubby kid” type of thing. I wasn’t some health freak or ahead of the #instafitness game or anything like that. Not to flex or anything but I’ve been going to the gym since the age of 14. ![]()
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