Lifting Your Weights Was Not in My Exercise Plan
Time to get on my soap box.
I really hate when people do not re rack their weights. Sometimes I try to look at the glass half full and think of it as a few extra reps that I’m getting in transporting the weight from the bar back to its proper home. Most of the time its a pain in my derriere.
While lifting in the gym the other day I went to do the inclined leg pressed and noticed someone had left their 45lb plates on the machine. I grabbed the weight, pulled it off the bar and did everything in my power to not tip over. My 1st thought was “Why the hell can I not move with 45lbs in my hand? Am I that weak?” I tried lifting it back to the bar but nothing. I was stuck and was about to go down fast. With any effort I had left I screeched Steve’s name. It took about 3 times before he heard me and started my way. Then I said “hurry!” (He couldn’t see that I was in distress.) He came to my rescue and removed the plate from my grasp.
A second look at it and I realized it was a 45kg weight which is 100lbs or not much less than I weigh. No wonder I was about to collapse.
My point is Put Your Weights Back! If you can lift it up to put on go the extra mile and lift it up to put back. I had a near death experience because of some meat head’s laziness. Ok- perhaps I’m a bit dramatic. The gym is not the place to be lazy.
Proper gym etiquette people.
What is your biggest pet peeve from the gym?
