I like #1 for the girls, but this goes for everywhere, not just the gym.

Don't complain about getting stared at when you're barely wearing anything to begin with! Don't roll your eyes at how the guys walk into walls over your rack because you decided the gym was a perfect place to try out your new bikini collection. It's lame, and you're giving other women a really bad name.

DON'T DROP THE WEIGHTS. It's awesome that you can butterfly with the 120s. I'm impressed, and I wish I could do it. However, when those weights come crashing to the floor from two feet of height, it creates a loud noise that startles a lot of people. If you can't bring your weights down in a controlled manner, you either need a spotter or you need lighter weights.

Sybarite: 11. Don't sing along with your walkman

I'll be sure to let everyone in 1983 know that.

Could be because this is a recycled Fark story every year since then?

Gym? What's a gym?

Using the squat rack to do curls ...

The gym was HUGELY crowded yesterday, probably double what it usually is.

11. Don't sing along with your Walkman.

Nobody in the gym these days knows what a Walkman is, you old fogey.

I would try lifting weights but they are so heavy.

sweetmelissa31: I once saw a girl using the elliptical machine wearing Ugg boots. I'd recommend not doing that.

Just reading that makes my feet sweat. Blech.

I do step aerobics Tuesdays and Thursdays. A typical class has me and, rarely, one other guy, and sometimes as many as a dozen women, including the instructor. In order for me NOT to watch the women, I'd have to pluck out my eyes.

/later, off to class

Using dip/pullup stand to stretch for 15 minutes ... you can stretch anywhere, you don't need to tie up the only dip/pullup stand in the gym

Man I hate this time of year when the machines and lanes at the pool are clogged with people who made a resolution and just plain won't be coming back in February.

Petit_Merdeux: I'd read it, but I only have 26 minutes.

I've been looking for an appropriate place to ask, and this thread is as good as any:
What is the origin of the "26 minutes" meme?

coco ebert: Came to snark but that's... actually pretty good advice.

It was.

My gym is more dead than ever this week. I've been going to the same gym since 2007 now, so I've seen several New Years come and pass. I have never seen the gym so dead this New Year as compared to ones in the past. Virtually no new faces the couple of times I've went. Yesterday evening it was even less busy than it is on a normal week. For instance, about four years ago, you could barely even use shiat sometimes. And this is a big gym. If you were there at the wrong hours, EVERYTHING was full. Every freeweight bench, every treadmill, every machine, you name it. Complete pain in the ass. I finally shifted my gym time to the evenings to avoid it. Now even the busy times are half as busy. Not sure if it's the economy or what.

Godscrack: Then use the ladies locker room Mary. If the sight of a naked man turns you off so much, why are you looking at him? Real heterosexual men aren't paying attention to other men while they are changing, showering ect. Or they just don't care.

But you just have to look don't you? get a real eye full of 'those ugly guys".

Dude, no one wants to see your cock. It has nothing to do with one's sexuality.

Also, its a personal thing, but I skip going to the gym almost entirely for the month of January. It is by far the most crowded month of the year as all the New Years' Resolutioners take over the place.

/They're all gone by Feb. Every. Single. One.