While I was running my 3 miles on the treadmill last night, I got a show. I thought it was pretty hilarious. To set the scene, I am including a Google Image that resembles the chick on the treadmill next to me.
Add a nose ring and running clothes and that was her. 🙂 I got up to the cardio room and spotted a treadmill open; I grabbed it immediately. The chick next to me had already been on the treadmill for awhile. She was running at a pace of 6.7 on the treadmill. I am totally not judging her but it seemed to me like she was struggling at that pace.
You know how on both sides of the treadmill there is a place to stand when not running on it? So every 2 minutes she would jump off the moving track of the treadmill, doing the splits so she could stand on the steps of the treadmill and TEXT on her iPhone. She’d furiously type and then jump back on the treadmill (tripping too many times to count) and run for a few more minutes than do it again to text.
She did this the entire time I was on the treadmill (45 minutes). My first thought when I saw her was:
“She is TOTALLY going to bite it on the treadmill.”
Seriously. She was tripping over herself. She had been on the treadmill for about 40 minutes at this point, stopping to text every 2 minutes, then she got off the treadmill leaving all her crap on it, and went to the bathroom for about 5 minutes. People were coming up to use it, then turning away because she was being a Treadmill Hog.
She returned to the treadmill and resumed her running, texting, tripping routine. I’m trying not to laugh. Then she dropped her iPhone. LOL I snorted to myself a little bit but she recovered and continued running. She dropped her iPhone about 3 more times and then she turned the treadmill off and just stood there while she texted. Just hangin’ out. Hmmm….
Then she spent the next 10 minutes talking loudly on her cellphone. Luckily I had my music to almost drown out her annoying conversation.
Oh. My. God. I looked at my treadmill and saw it was almost time for me to finish THANKFULLY. I was so annoyed. She finally got off the treadmill (after over an hour) and DID NOT WIPE OFF HER SWEAT.
The moral of this story: don’t be this chick at the gym. The chick all of us regulars hate: the machine hog, the annoying cellphone talker and the “I’m too good to wipe off my sweat” attitude.
Onwards and upwards! My run was good. I did a medium pace, had zero pain and then headed down to focus on weight lifting.
My workout at home on Tuesday left me with DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) but I powered through it and was able to do my upper body machines without pain.
I did some Super sets and then went over to the “scary muscle guy” section of the weight room. I did two of the chest press machines and called it a night.
It felt really good to push myself on the weights and I LOVE how my body is changing as a result!
I had a great workout and burned a lot of calories.
Gym Stats:
Time: 1:21
Calories Burned: 675
When I got home (starving because my pre-workout banana did NOTHING) Michael had dinner almost ready. THANK YOU! I was famished. He made the Bacon Jalapeno Turkey Burgers on Sandwich Thins and baked the last sweet potato.
You know dinner is a tasty when you’re sad the food is gone and you say, “I could totally eat another turkey burger.”
And now…for the winner of my first 2011 Giveaway!
I used the Random.Org generator to pick………
VICKIE G!
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QUESTION: What is the funniest (or most annoying) thing you’ve seen at the gym?
Amber from Girl with the Red Hair
Can’t STAND people like that! One of the reasons I stopped going to the gym – people can be so inconsiderate and idiotic there!
Lisa Eirene
People like the chick last night really do make me want to take my workout home. Why be stressed and annoyed at the gym? Save money and workout at home!
Beth @ Beth's Journey to Thin
Man I got so annoyed just reading your recap of your experience at the gym! People talking on their cell phones gets me so irritated when they are using a cardio machine, but I’ve never had anything that annoying before!
Jenn
I hate those kinds of people. She needed an hour to get at least 30 minutes of collective exercising in.
I used to laugh at the women who came in drenched in perfume and covered in makeup. I thought this was a gym, not a meat market. Add to that, the men who gawk at themselves in the mirror while lifting weights. Not in a constructive way, but in a “I’m hotter than crap” way.
I wish someone would have told her to get the hell off the machine and made her feel like the idiot she is especially after not wiping the machines down.
Lisa Eirene
Jenn I was sooooo tempted to say “You are being a machine hog and a rude annoying jerk. Get OFF YOUR PHONE!” But she left before I could. Grrr…
I hate the guys with too much cologne on the treadmill next to me. UGH.
Lisa
My list of funny things I’ve seen at the gym:
The lady who sang VERY LOUDLY to the music on her Ipod. There was music coming from speakers, but she was singing the song on her headphones. She was lifting weights.
The guy who came to exercise (more than one time) with his dad and wore Flip Flops. Lucky for him they seemed to be focusing on using the nautilus machines.
The lady who uses the recumbant bike while holding her pocketbook on her shoulder the whole time. I’m kind of curious as to what is in her pocketbook.
There’s more, but I’ll stop.
Lisa Eirene
Don’t stop! That’s hilarious!! Do we go to the same gym??
The singing chick…Oh my god I’ve seen her at the gym. AND the guy on the stairmaster that would clap his hands every two minutes. Um, what?
kate
Some people just dont have appropriate gym (or life) ettiquette!
Lisa Eirene
So true!
Amanda
I cannot stand the people who finish a set or a workout and then linger around the machines a while saying “Whew!!!” loudly as they wait for applause or something. I am all about the friendly smiles and so on, but please don’t hold me up while you stand there ‘catching your breath’… ahem, move it along!
Lisa Eirene
Hahaha!!!! I wonder what would happen if one day you DID applaud??
Coco
Wow! So glad I workout at home!
Marilyn @ Lipgloss and Spandex
One day there was a young lady with tons of makeup, tons of hair product, brown velour pants, a black bra, and a sheer lace tank top. Seriously? It’s the GYM.
Lisa Eirene
I saw a girl in a dress and F Me Boots with stiletto heels on the elliptical once. 😉
lisa
She must have been working on her calf muscles, on the elliptical in high heel shoes.
Lisa Eirene
I’ll keep that in mind! 🙂
Amy
I had one of those at my gym not long ago, only she was a brunette and had a belly piercing (how do I know this? because she had no towel and was instead pulling up her singlet top every 2 seconds to wipe the imaginary sweat off her brow so we could all get a peek at her toned belly). I tried so hard not to judge but when she got out the phone and pedalled the bike at a mere 1 rep per hour while she texted for 5 minutes I couldn’t help myself! She did about 5 minutes of texting on the bike, went and sat on the rowing machine to rest, ran on the treadmill for 2 minutes, did a set of squats with a 1.25kg bar and went home :s None of that was the problem though, SHE didn’t wipe anything down either.
Lisa Eirene
Ugh!!!! What kind of workout did she get? Just wasting space.
Amy
Haha, I know! I was wondering the same! I’m guessing she’s one of those lucky naturally thin people but I did wonder why on earth she was there :s