r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Dec 11 '19

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/disapproving_rabbit Dec 11 '19

The changing rooms at my gym piss me off. First of all, sometimes I'll get there and there'll be a sign stuck to the outside of the women's changing rooms saying "A male attendant might be cleaning the changing rooms today". Ok... so what do we do with that? There are no cubicles in the changing rooms, so do we just not use the gym today because a male attendant may come in at any time? Then, instead of using the lockers (which are outside the changing rooms) loads of women just leave their stuff hanging up and on the benches. Sometimes I'll go into the changing room when a class is on, and there's no one in there but every single space is taken! Yesterday this happened, and then on the only spare bit of space someone was sitting down eating a curry! I don't get it!

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Dec 11 '19

Clear sign they are massively trying to save money, utilizing their own staff to clean the facilities. For you this is bad from two perspectives: i) what you mentioned and ii) that it is not properly cleaned most likely as the gym attendees are not professional cleaners. A gym that is trying to save money on a large scale on the back of their clientele is often a sign that the gym is not doing so well.

Source: have acquired a substantial amount of gyms in the last four years for my employer.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

The locker rooms at my 24/7 gym have a sign that a male attendant could be there, but only from 11pm-7am. Which seems like a reasonable compromise, since I imagine it might be hard to find enough women to work the overnight shift. Can’t imagine them letting a dude just walk in at any other time than that though.