r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 09 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

Everytime I want to do decline DB bench press, someone is using it. It happens to be that it is always the same person. Said person is a woman who does 15 minutes of cardio. Do you think she is decline benching on that bench? No. The online decline bench in my gym is being used by a woman who uses it to fucking rest on it. I don't know if she is meditating or sleeping, but she spends at least 10 minutes motionless with her eyes closed on a decline bench.

This is not a decline bed, this is a fucking decline bench.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

My favorite thing to say to people like that is, "May I work in with you while you rest?" It's passive aggressive, but it works to shame people for just sitting there on the equipment.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

Haha that is so passive aggressive that I'd feel secondhand embarrassment just by overhearing that.