1. People putting equipment and weights away.
2. People encouraging and complementing each other: especially when they do not know each other.
3. When people that do not know each other offer to spot one another.4. When people offer to help add or remove weights on equipment.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Bugging Gym Behavior
1. Those individuals that think the gym belong to only those that do similar workouts as they do (see 10/14 – 10/21 under 'gym behavior').
2. Those that do not replace the equipment when they are finished; mainly because of the time spent searching for it when I want to use it.
3. Those that stare at you as if to suggest that you have preconceived opinions of them, when they probably believe they know what type of person you are by looking at you.
4. Those that do not understand that gym equipment is there to be workout with and not just used lightly.
5. Those that confuse a gym with a nightclub.
6. Those that get upset over other individuals' grunting--grunting is a natural response.
7. When people who are relatively new to the sport give advise to those that are experienced and trained. Think about about: should somebody try to be given advise when that person can only press 40 lbs and the other person can press more than his or her body weight.
8. Attitude to the person that just saved you from having a weight on your chest. First of all do not feel insecure of the weights that you lift. If someone lifts much more than you it is probably because they have been working out much longer than you. Second, do not get angry at that person for being stronger than you because this only indicates that you are actually mad at yourself for being less strong than that person: see 'first of all' and remember it is not a competition--while we have all probably thought it was at some point. You only have yourself to blame if you try lift more weights than you should at the moment. For any instructors that are reading this, please explain this point (#8) to your clients that are just beginning weight training.
9. Instructors whom invent training exercises that do not have the proper credentials to do so. I hope no one will get so mad at this that they will not realize the importance of #8.
2. Those that do not replace the equipment when they are finished; mainly because of the time spent searching for it when I want to use it.
3. Those that stare at you as if to suggest that you have preconceived opinions of them, when they probably believe they know what type of person you are by looking at you.
4. Those that do not understand that gym equipment is there to be workout with and not just used lightly.
5. Those that confuse a gym with a nightclub.
6. Those that get upset over other individuals' grunting--grunting is a natural response.
7. When people who are relatively new to the sport give advise to those that are experienced and trained. Think about about: should somebody try to be given advise when that person can only press 40 lbs and the other person can press more than his or her body weight.
8. Attitude to the person that just saved you from having a weight on your chest. First of all do not feel insecure of the weights that you lift. If someone lifts much more than you it is probably because they have been working out much longer than you. Second, do not get angry at that person for being stronger than you because this only indicates that you are actually mad at yourself for being less strong than that person: see 'first of all' and remember it is not a competition--while we have all probably thought it was at some point. You only have yourself to blame if you try lift more weights than you should at the moment. For any instructors that are reading this, please explain this point (#8) to your clients that are just beginning weight training.
9. Instructors whom invent training exercises that do not have the proper credentials to do so. I hope no one will get so mad at this that they will not realize the importance of #8.
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