What grinds your gears?

[kingtut]

Asking to "work in" is good gym ettiquette. Just need to be up front with the guy and tell him you are on a regimented rest cycle. Though if you go to a crossfit, gym, you will rarely, if ever, encounter this....

I see what you're saying and would normally agree that this is good ettiquette. However, these guys are complete chodes. No tact. Rude if anything. They aren't looking to get a workout, but rather cause as much disruptance as possible. They're merely working out in a linear fashion-- linear, as in going down the line of machines. Rather than skipping the machine and doing their next senseless, out of control set... they choose to interrupt you and expect you to stand aside while they lube up (read: sweat all over) your equipment.

Working out at 24hr was always a great experience. You had people that were actually fit and sweating because they were working hard. Not because they were craving a congratulatory donut or smoke when they were through. If/when someone asked to work in, it was either because they knew you'd be on there for awhile or you were doing a similar weight-- in which case they knew you wouldn't have to re-rack everthing. Either way, I never had an issue with anyone working in over there.

[kingtut]

(I just noticed, a lot of things grind my gears...)

People who continually call your phone, thinking its a fax number. But its obviously not.

[erod550]

Haha, and every time you pick up the phone, you just get the ear piercing fax tones. Argh.

I've never had anyone ask to work in, nor have I ever bothered anyone who is obviously still using a machine and just resting between sets. Usually, if the person is polite and notices you looking at the machine, they'll just say something like "2 more sets" and then you know they'll be done soon. But to ask someone to give up the machine when they are obviously still using it just seems rude to me, even if you only plan on doing one set and moving on.

It does grind my gears though when people sweat all over a machine and then don't wipe it down afterward.

[tsx_guy]

Asking to "work in" is good gym ettiquette. Just need to be up front with the guy and tell him you are on a regimented rest cycle. Though if you go to a crossfit, gym, you will rarely, if ever, encounter this....

there is no "rest" with crossfit. i'm doing the po boi version now.....no well i might add.

[kingtut]

there is no "rest" with crossfit.

You've finally found your perfect workout!:lol:

[GR-8]

It does grind my gears though when people sweat all over a machine and then don't wipe it down afterward.

Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode.

[speedjunkie]

Haha, and every time you pick up the phone, you just get the ear piercing fax tones. Argh.

Actually this reminded me of a Seinfeld episode. When Kramer had all his year's subscription of restaurant recipes faxed to Elaine's because he thought she had a fax machine LOL.

[eliminster]

the two honda's that tailgated my wife and got a neat little hole in there radiators when she stopped.
the ricer that pulls up to my 7 and has the fart can exhaust and keeps reving it and gunning it from light to light, till i give him a 3 car lead then blow his doors off by 6 and he still thinks his car is fast.
The @hole at the car show with a eclipse riced out that thought his car was a better representation of a true street car than my clean built rx7.

and to many other things to list but that is the top ones for today.

[Shadowden]

there is no "rest" with crossfit. i'm doing the po boi version now.....no well i might add.

Whats the Po Boi version? In your garage?

IF you ever want to do the real thing, come by Method Crossfit. I coach the Oly lifts there and some crossfit. Compete in them both.

Also, there is rest in Crossfit. Strength days (5x5, 7x1, etc. and in certain WODs like "Lynne", 2-minute defense, 400 repeats, etc.)

[christi]

People who call in and expect a full months adj of thier bill because hurricane Irene disabled cellular service for a few days...or when they call in for drop calls and request the samething so when giving them a days worth of voice (~1.32$) or depending on plan ...and they say losing 5000$.

People who only have cell phones for their business ....

And doctors. Why contunally give me new pills when either a) they don't work or b) only work for two weeks and dont prescribed what originally worked? I've been on six different allergy pills two of which I was allergic to, one worked and the others didn't. Going back Thursday to get a signed note to get refer for allergies at the ENT. Ugh

[speedjunkie]

^You were allergic to allergy pills? How ironic is that? lol

[kingtut]

Going back Thursday to get a signed note to get refer for allergies at the ENT. Ugh

Copays? I don't know about you, but everytime I go to the doc I pay a copay when I go...then I get a bill in the mail a week or two later (usually ~$100)...then I get another bill (for good measure it seems) about a week after that.

[GR-8]

Cell phone manufacturers. It seems like every month a new set of phones is coming out from LG, HTC, Samsung, Moto, ect. and each carrier in the US is getting a different looking phone than the other so that makes at least 12 different phones every month. They all look similar to phones that they've released a few months ago with the same specs.

Why don't they just go back to releasing phones every six months. Even every 4 months would be better than this. They all need to start working on quality more. They have all almost gone the plastic route. I need better style especially from HTC. What happened to them. The touch Diamond and HD series of Windows phones were the last nice phones they made. Now they all look like my used, old, beat up Nexus One. Same silver/grey color with nearly the same lines and that crappy rubberized covering on the whole phone. Give me a slightly larger battery. I don't care if it's not the thinnest phone out there. Just give me a few more hours of life.

[erod550]

I don't know, I think more options are a good thing. But it does suck when you buy something and it's outdated a couple months later.

As for looks I love the way my HTC Evo looks. And my battery life was horrible until I installed the latest Gingerbread Fresh ROM. Now it's great and I don't have to leave the phone on a charger all day long. It's 4:30 and my phone has been off the charger since 6:30 this morning and I'm still at 80%. So I would suggest looking into rooting your phone and loading a custom rom and it might fix your battery issues. Mine turned out to be a software problem, not hardware.

[tsx_guy]

Whats the Po Boi version? In your garage?

IF you ever want to do the real thing, come by Method Crossfit. I coach the Oly lifts there and some crossfit. Compete in them both.

Also, there is rest in Crossfit. Strength days (5x5, 7x1, etc. and in certain WODs like "Lynne", 2-minute defense, 400 repeats, etc.)

i...uh am doing the 6 week beginner program from an old issue of "competitor".
I've added it to my non run days routine. I have yet to graduated to the tire toss and they don't have a rope i can climb at the rec center. My program is really just a bunch of push ups, sit ups, pull ups, curls, repeat until dead....