I recently posted the Top 10 Fitness Clubs in Toronto to help you out in finding popular and highly rated gyms in Toronto. Gyms and fitness clubs are great but just like anywhere else where there is a gathering of different people, there are always things that annoy us. Here are the top 10 gym pet peeves:

1. Inconsiderate Sweater: Not wiping down the equipment. Yes that’s what those spray bottles and paper towels are for! It’s just plain gross and unhygienic.
2. Bad Form: Partial to using wild hip thrusts and out of control swinging. Use of strict form during their workouts prevents injuries and provides the most benefits to working out.
3. No Racking: All those free weights and dumbbells are all over the place because these people don’t put them back on the racks. Nothing worse than searching for the matching weight for your dumbbell that is nowhere to be found.
4. Cologne Guy/Girl: Never realized that Axe Body spray is so popular in the guy’s change room.
5. The Gorilla: The excessive grunter who thinks that screaming while performing his exercise is necessary. Usually the guy just likes the attention.
6. The Princess: She’ll just cruise around the gym jumping from elliptical trainer to stair climber. Every once and awhile will do a 2.5lb bench press. Most likely wears strong perfume (see #4)
7. Scary Naked Old Guy: Spends 2 hours in the change room strolling around in his sneakers with knee high black socks and nothing else on. If there is a sauna, always be sitting open legged facing the doorway. Even though he has a towel, it is never around the waste. Sometimes carries a newspaper.
8. No Room for Imagination: Guys who wear compression shorts or spandex without anything else. Likes doing squats.
9. I am Way Too Important: People who carry their cell phones while working out or worse even have a blue tooth headset. They need to make sure everyone knows that they have “important, life saving calls” to make or receive.
10. Too Cool to Wear Proper Clothing: Shows up with jeans with flip flops to workout. Probably has a cell phone too (see #9)

Did I miss anything? Feel free to add your own.

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