Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Gym pet peeves

I have been a happy gym visitor and actively use weights and machines as I like. Yet there are certain things gyms are in need of addressing, so that its clients won't complain and get turned off.
I mean it's funny, how come there are so many good things advertised about the gym, but when you get inside and use their facilities, they fall short of expectations?
here are some of them: (my context now is with FF)
1. Questionable hygiene of showers- Get this, you are dog tired, huffing from your routine and get ready to step into the shower stall, when ...you find what....GRIME and sachets of shampoos, discarded bottles of hair and body wash all over the matting. even gym goers can be litterbugs.
2. Steam Room smells- the steam room is supposed to be sanitized and fresh smelling in a warm way, but, a different kind of fresh can turn off one's blissful reverie.
3. Wet seats and body rests- it is all too familiar, there are people who think grunting and panting on gym equipment equates to leaving their liquid imprints. Not good, and kinda icky for the next user. Maybe that's why women are so hesitant to work out with men, who tend to be the usual suspects in this neglect of gym etiquette.
4. Deadma gym trainers- Even if one is ready to collapse with his weights, and needs help, the gym instructors only help those who paid them. I think that they should know, even if the client may not be a paying one, but is after all a paying gym member, and they should step in to ask help if needed. then again, I might have looked fierce and not in need to help that's why i get ignored. I miss the feeling of getting spotted and getting help. I hesitate to ask help fearing i might get ignored.
5. Renovations are good...but- The branch i go to near my office is renovating, that's good, but it has become so cramped along the corridors.
6. lockers that are defective- i hope the branch in the GC gets its lockers fixed, because it is frustrating to have placed all your things in a locker during heavy usage days, and find out the locker you picked cannot lock properly.
7. Missing weights- I can be guilty of this at times, but it is just irritating, to look for plates, dumbbells for your routine and not see them on the weights rack! the fact leaving these iron equipment around the gym floor might cause people to trip and get injured.

Then again, I am not complaining, it's not as if not getting these amenities and services will kill me. It just feels ..deficient, for the monthly fee I am paying.

I hope to see improvements soon, otherwise, it is so inconvenient.

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