 Yeah, you will never see me leave a single weight out mainly because I managed gyms for Solana What a big pain the asses is where people for some reason here's a real common one They'll take all the weights off except for one plate It's like why leave the one like take them all off right or even worse They leave it completely on like you go to the leg press and there's 10 plates on each side And then some lady wants to use it. You're like really, you know She's got to take all these weights off now just to do her exercise like put your stuff away or dumbbells That are all over the place or Mitch matched. Oh my god. This is such a pain in the ass You can tell a good gym from a bad gym by how bad this is All right, check this out I know the gym that you go to has rules on the contract But there are unwritten rules that are true for every single gym and today we're gonna teach you all of those rules You're welcome. We need to remind everybody get out of the gyms are packed again Yeah, you know, it's funny because you don't see a lot of these rules written anywhere But if you work out in gyms long enough or you manage gyms like we did these are real rules It's like what do you call it Jim etiquette etiquette or Unsaid unspoken rules. Yeah agreements. I mean you have to teach common sense common sense is God It's the thing of the past. Yes. You literally have to like explain why now Yes And a lot of these I've had to actually talk to members about in the gym It's not all of them some of them you really want to approach someone talk to about yeah, but a lot of them So let's start with the first one which sounds obvious, but which you would think oh, this is super obvious But apparently it's not because this always happens. Mm-hmm. Don't be smelly. Yeah, don't be smelly when you go to the gym So my first one of my first clients that I ever inherited Was this guy who didn't wear deodorant and it was part of his his culture or not to mm-hmm and he was adamant about it now He smelt so bad that when I would come in for our session like to walk in the front This was capital McKee days when I'd walk into the gym. I would know he was there Whoa, yeah, I know like this brand. No, it was that it was so but like we and so many members complained about it, too It was like we would we and I had to train him so I'm like spotting him and right on anything It was so did you say anything? No, I was so young, dude. I was only this is like you know We're gonna train outside from now on. It's really good for you No, I didn't even have access to do that where what I did do is that if you've been to Calvin McKee Right before you get to back to the bathrooms all the way in the back There's this long hallway and we would go in there and just I would train by myself there So I'd suffer for the entire hour. Did you try to hug you when you say bye? No No, we had we had this one member You guys probably know him because we all worked in the same gym not at the same time But this guy was a longtime member and he would he would get on the stair master It's all he ever did and he put towels on the floor all around him And he would sweat and he wore the same workout clothes every time and I know he didn't wash them Because he would smell so bad and he'd go in there and he'd do his cardio and I actually had to talk to him I actually took him aside and I said hey, man I'm not gonna say his name because I knew his name, but I'm say hey listen Yeah, I love that you're consistent. We value you quite a bit you come in you work out all time You know your great guy and everything but I said this is really embarrassing for me to you say to you But you're you smell offensive and yeah, so you know, it's a hard conversation really hard conversation Yeah, I avoided that a few times as working with clients and at the gym, but I Remember taking this guy aside and telling him when I was just a member of a gym Which this guy was always wearing tank top and would always do pull-ups I'm like could you not pick a worse exercise and the worst outfit Highlight your body odor and offend everybody in here And like I actually like because it happened multiple times like first two I let it slide and then I actually had deodorant in in my bag in the locker room So I went and grabbed that and I handed it to him. I didn't say anything and the guy was like confused I'm like, please use this. Oh, wow. We we Spray deodorant under a guy's arms and shoulder press one time. Yeah, cuz he was it was really bad Bad management on my part. I was young I was 19 years old as a kid and we told him and didn't matter He's it and so I had my trainer go up to him. I said just when he does a press just underneath. Oh my god And yeah, yeah, don't do that. No, don't do that. But anyway, I'll be aware. Yeah, be aware And here's one of the common ones that I think even Somebody who has good hygiene doesn't realize this happens is gloves get stinky. Yeah Really bad. So if you're a glove wearer when you when you go to the gym Be be careful because that'll creep up on you You know, we won't even have them that long But if you had enough intense workouts wearing gloves that sweat and leather is an awful combination And we'll stink like you stink. Yeah, pay attention to that if you wear there's nothing more embarrassing than wearing gloves We're gonna work out except that the glove smell More All right, so here's the next one and this one is Interesting and I don't know if this happens in the women's locker room because I've never been in the women's locker room But this happens men's locker room a lot especially when I used to manage gyms Members would come up to me on the workout floor sometimes But never would members come up to me and talk to me more than when they were in the locker room naked I don't know what it was I'd be in there just doing my walk-through and dude comes up and by the way old men do this It's an old man thing and this is what they do old men will put their shirt on put their socks on Everything except for the bottom half of there's whatever and so they walk up to me And I mean it's it's a t-shirt so it's kind of barely covering things just you know stuff hanging out like hey cells going on Hey, so what about the pools? Is that gonna get fixed soon or what's going on with that machine or you know Woods the other day and it's just like you know just wafted in front of me super uncomfortable I don't think it's appropriate to walk up to anybody and talk to him while you're naked, but don't do it at the gym I'm convinced that's it. It's an it's an alpha thing It's like It's always the old guy not young teenage boys do that like it's like our young guys even do that It's like an old man thing. It's like yeah, I'm on the I'm the old gorilla in here Totally that what an album even even do like the stances even put like one leg up on the yeah So how you doing Sal? Yeah, and you just like I showed him. Yeah Wow, I didn't think I'm convinced that's what I don't know if I'm old enough to pull that yet I'm gonna try that Dude, I had a old guy one time trying to ask me all this like training advice He's like butt naked and he was just like yeah, so I go third your clients and can you show me this? I'm like, I'll show you another time. Yeah, I'll show you out there on the floor I think like he was like trying to get me to to break it down in there I had a member one time and I just I told him like don't what are you doing? Don't do that he always try to talk to me when he was in the locker room and He he tried to give me the high-five hug, you know guys like this and then do the hug, but he had nothing on No And I went like this the fist bump and I'm like I'm not hugging you you're naked. Oh my bad It's this this same guy by the way to the same guy Drizes junk off in the air dryer. Yeah, or the air blower. What do you call it? That this is like international I don't know. Yeah, the air is now circulating in the air. That's now been blown off. Yeah your balls Yeah, that's not that's not cool. And I mean granted. They're probably clean because they just came out of the shower But it's still weird. I don't care. It's still weird You know, I've seen so I have walked in and seen like you know Bending over spreading their ass cheeks and drying off there, you know We had signs we had signs in in two of the clubs I ran and I had to put signs up We did too and I literally put on their hand dryers are for hands only I had to put that up there Just cuz I was like what do you guys and in their position for hands? So they have to get weird positions to drive themselves anyway. Yeah, so it's kind of weird all right this next one this one's a little bit more important and a lot of people don't realize this unwritten rule and there's a Couple parts to it. So we'll start with the first part, which is if you're working on a gym, especially if it's busy Let people work in okay? So if you're on a machine or you're doing squats or bench press or whatever and somebody's like waiting or wants to whatever Allow them to work in so while you're resting they do a set now. Here's the kick Here's the the key to it Whoever's working in if you started the set and you're the first one to use that machine or that that piece of equipment The person working in is responsible for taking the weight off and putting it back on or changing the weight or the adjustment and putting it back On that's their responsibility. So that's the other part of it, but let people work in I think it's so It's such bad etiquette to do five sets on a machine have someone wait and to not allow them to do a set while you rest And do nothing because you see these guys now, especially with cell phones people are texting in between sets And it's like dude. I want to use that machine. Let me let me come in. Yeah, you're wasting everybody's time I mean, it's that's just the thing. I think not a lot of people know about that. They don't and most people don't know Yeah, it's even asked for that. And I think that's something that needs to be expressed You know to new members, especially like hey it because it is frustrating Especially go and peak hours all of your plans for like machines a lot of times that gets interrupted because you know people will Be like that they'll be on their phone in between every set They'll be doing five six, you know seven sets of the same thing and you're like What is this person never gonna stop it? But you can ask politely like hey, man. Can I can I work in? Well, I feel bad for the beginner that Duck one doesn't know that or two is relatively new and then had a bad experience asking somebody the first time So then they just assume some people are dicks about it Yeah, I know there's people and that's the point of this like episode right is to tell this really does be speaking to The dicks more than it is to be talking to the people that should know like, you know By the way, you should be able to do this. Yes That does doesn't mean though that you might run into somebody who is a dick that thinks that they have the right to that machine And they're gonna use it for the night. I got ego checked hard with this once like hard I was maybe 15 or six probably 16 And I'm doing squats and a woman came up to me and said do you mind if I work in and I said yeah Absolutely, and I go to take the weight off because no no leave it on and she does more reps than me I remember being I was such an ego check as a teenage boy that this woman could you know And she was built she'd been working out for a long time But still you know your guy and your ego is sensitive right especially at that age But it was but I let her work in or whatever she ended up becoming cool And we end up you know being friends or whatever So I do think there's a little bit of a gray area here or I think an area where we can elaborate I think for a certain like if you I Even though it's okay. I still think that you should be mindful of something like that Yeah, I mean that ended up working out in the opposite change the way Yeah, but like so if you are a 17 year old kid and you squat 135 and the powerlifter in the gym is moving 450 and you want to come in and you want to work in with him You better move the weights fat you better take the weights off and put them on fast It's not very realistic right to move 450 pounds off a bar and I'm not right So be mindful of who you go working and then how much you plan to change what like if you get into a Fixed hoist shoulder-press machine that has literally like you know like a pin and like a seat adjustment That's not a big deal But if you get into like maybe even like a free motion machine that moves arms all different directions and you're you're changing all the settings Or you use a cable machine and someone's pulling it from the bottom And now you want to move it up and change weight like be mindful of like you what you're doing and like how the time in Between rest periods that someone's rest periods may only be one minute long Maybe even a little less and now you're working in and you're completely changing the way down I'm glad you said that it's the responsibility of the person working in to match the rest periods of the person that they jump into Yeah number one number two It's your responsibility to put the weight back and the adjustments back to where they were before and if it's not feasible Like if I'm doing a 500 pound deadlift and someone wants to jump in and put 135 on right probably not feasible unless you can Hustle your ass wait you cannot you cannot think about that Strip and put on back. Okay, they're gonna break it down. Ask me to help you by the way No, I usually will yeah, I'm cool, but that's when you work in you're assuming that responsibility And to my point I think that there's there's an etiquette point there on that person's right right so so good Gym etiquette is that you should allow people to work in well the person who's asking to work in should also be mindful of What you are about to go use of theirs like you shouldn't or like taking like it Someone's using a easy curl bar and they're doing school questions You want to strip it all down and use it for something else like, you know Be mindful of what if you're if someone's doing the exact exercise you want to do and they're relatively close I don't have to be that close but relatively close to the weight and how you're gonna use it like okay That's fine But if you're gonna take the equipment or take the machine and completely manipulated or change it and your eyes His weight discrepancy is huge. You gotta be mindful of that. Yeah flick Yeah, if there's a guy there like in sort of what do you call those like onesie like Powerlifter uniform, you know, he's like smacking chalk and he's got a ton of weight And you're just trying to come in there like you got to know like the the seriousness of Somebody like really getting after it and like, you know, you can obviously see that you know It's gonna interrupt nine out of ten times though It's a machine that's being used and there is only one of that machine in your regular commercial setting You're not gonna run into a lot of those. Exactly. Exactly. I mean squat racks are common too though because there's there's minimal squat Starting to become you're right. Yeah, it wasn't like you should not be that way before That's why I wanted to bring up the squatting and deadlifting thing because it has become popular that I mean at least my last years of Being in the gym Many times if I came in there at a popular time I'd and this was back at Gold's that had five platforms and five squat racks And I know that I'm deadlifting or squatting is my first thing and I walk in and they're all taken So I would have to you know, and what I would always do is I would look and see Who's doing what and who is probably gonna be moving similar weight to me? And that would be the person or so who I think is maybe on maybe their last set I might walk up and be like hey How many more sets do you have left and if they only got one or two more sets? Maybe I'll wait and then you know Maybe I'll go warm up a little bit and then I'll go jump over right now Here's a here's one that is often written on the wall of a gym And it's this is more of a known rule and yet people still don't do it Yo, what's up everybody? Do you want to get strong? 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You're like really, you know She's got to take all these weights off now Just to do her exercise like put your stuff away or dumbbells that are all over the place or mitch match Oh my god, this is such a pain in the ass and you can tell a good gym from a bad gym by how bad this is This is such a headache and gyms and and it's uh a consistent problem It blows my mind too because most of us are in there are super to get in to get in better shape And carrying your way back is only going to burn more calories and build more strength So freaking do the work. Yeah do the work and and put it back. I remember, uh, I'll never forget doing this This was this was pretty epic. It was in my early years It wasn't my idea was actually uh one of the front desk guys It was a big like one of those old powerlifter guys and he worked front desk Just so he'd get a free membership and he'd been in there forever And so it and he worked the night shift and I also worked late a lot of times And he would get pissed when he'd come in there like 10 11 o'clock and no not a single dumbbell was on the rack And it was just a mess And we would announce it over the loudspeaker rewrite your weights Rewrite your weights and then finally one time he says, you know what? Fuck this we have to we have to teach these guys to teach each other To do it because we can't manage every single person here So his prime hours is like six seven o'clock at night, right? He takes the caution tape and he cautions off the entire weight room and gets on the loudspeaker and clear Everybody clear out of the weight room. Please right now ever get any clears and stops everyone working out And then makes everybody watch us re-rack the weights and then tells everybody going forward Yeah, I come in this weight room at this time of the hour and if weights like this we're gonna stop Everybody's work out every fucking time until you guys learn to re-rack your way. I was like, oh I tell you what but made a huge difference because then you started to see the other members Managing the members they would watch somebody else. Yo We're before our members be like, oh, whatever not say anything. They'd leave it for the staff It's a culture because some k here's and by the way part of this problem And part of the reason why that's good to do this episode is that Some of some members actually think that's the job of the people that work there Their job is to re-rack the weights because they see trainers and people in uniform I've never been to a gym where that's the job of the staff It isn't the job of staff and but k remember We just you just recently talked in an episode about a guy who was increasing the weight on the Gravitron thinking that he was getting stronger because it was helping him more, right? People are that clueless That they assume. Oh these people are on the clock. They have their uniforms are they're floating right? They see them re-racking weights and so some of these idiots actually think that like, oh, that's their job I just go lift weights I can just leave them wherever and then someone's paid to come pick it up and it's like No, those are people that are going out of their way to one of the things I look at in a gym When I'm when I'm looking to because I see it through the lens of Gym manager gym owner And I'm sure whatever profession you're in if you walk into that a profession as a consumer You just see it differently, right? So if you're a police officer you get pulled over you can see things differently You know if you're a doctor and you go to the doctors you see things differently Well, when I'd walk into gyms, I could judge pretty quickly if it's got a good culture One of them is a front desk. That's a whole different conversation But another one is how much of the weights are put away when I walk in and I see You know plates on on you know machines and dumbbells off or whatever I know the culture of that gym sucks. Yeah, because a good gym culture which by the way this can exist in a hardcore gym You can have a good culture in a commercial gym It's all about the way the staff creates the culture and what they enforce and then and the members themselves If I walk in and I see equipment all over the place I know it's a crappy culture and I probably am not going to like working out there And that's one really easy sign is how much of the members respect the gym That they're working out. That's a really good point because it is it's a sign of reader It's a lot a sign of leadership in there Somebody has built that culture that is taught not only the staff That they all help and pick up and then that's bled into the members that are in there It's a really good sign of a good gym. Yeah, you'll see trainers leave equipment out in gyms like that Yeah, you know, which is oh my god. If you were a trainer you work for me. You left equipment out You're fired right away. All right. So here's another one which sounds obvious But I remember at one point when I was managing gyms for 24 fitness way back in the day So we're looking at I don't know 1999 maybe 2000 This became it's such an issue That we actually developed a rule around it. Um, and and this is the rule that is uh, you need to wipe up your sweat After you're done using a piece of equipment sounds obvious Okay, but it got so bad at one point that 24 our fitness at back then Passed a rule and they said you must have a workout towel with you when you work out If you do not have a workout towel, you're not allowed to work out So either you have one or you buy one at the front desk now. I remember when this rule took place We actually got a lot of conflict from members where people would walk in. Where's your towel, sir I don't have one. Well, you have to buy one and they just ignore the front desk person walk by or be a jerk or whatever This became confrontational for like a few months and one of the gyms that I managed because the culture before was Leave sweat everywhere. It took like two or three months before this became regular And I remember that two or three month period There were like two or three in your face confrontations with members, which I thought was silly Like why would you think to leave your filth on a piece of equipment that you're using with other people? I I actually was a part of the transition of the the before and after also. I was there early years in fact um One of the things like signature like looks that I had was I wore a towel like almost like a quarterback did over and and I started doing that because I had clients and that would became it like even my own clients were being paid and I'm telling would forget Because I was during the time of before and after like when nobody was told to do that And then all of a sudden we're telling the people that so I began to carry the towel myself So in case they forgot I would wipe it up and that's how that started But that was a hard transition to get people to remember that. Yeah. Oh, yeah because people again The culture was one way she was going to get cleaned up behind that and members assume that if you wanted that done Then you provide a towel service But what you don't realize is you're paying such a low membership fee for a gym like a 24 fitness This is not a spa you go to a spa like you were going to club one They provide the time and they have a laundry service and that's expensive to maintain that extremely Yeah, you're not you're not getting a 19 to 19 dollar a month membership and getting a towel you'll pay 10 times as much Yeah for that Yeah, so you're not so you got to understand that if you're paying that low in a gym because that's the other thing too You get asshole members who expect that they think that like oh, I have this membership I pay for this membership. You should provide that stuff It's like that's why you pay 19 dollars and you don't pay 120 dollars to go to like a club You know a club whatever club or a club sport that is like a you know a spa where they do that Now I do think that this has become much more of an issue after the after covet I think now all gyms are like really big about it and members are too I see people now more than ever Well, most spraying equipment down and cleaning after the dumb so most gyms now how and most your commercial gyms Have if you don't provide a towel service You've now put the towels and a spray bottle in stations all over the or dispensers of like Those wipes or whatever. I've seen that too. Yeah, so that's now so that's that's pretty prevalent in most gyms now that I mean I mean, obviously If I'm the member or I'm talking to my audience, I'm bring a towel bring a small, you know, you know Hand towel and carry it with you and then you just wipe your you know Your own thing also you don't have to go over to the spray machine and do that all the time. All right, so here's another one that Isn't 100 across the border rule. There are exceptions, but we'll explain them here in a second Which is don't drop your weights on the floor when you don't working out with them And I I would always tease members who did this and say if you're you're not strong enough to lower the weight properly Then you shouldn't be lifting that much Throwing weights on the floor is not only dangerous. It's also lazy Um, and it's also not respecting the equipment like I wouldn't throw Uh, you know, lots of pieces of equipment down on the floor for potentially damaging the equipment now Here's the exceptions. You're working out on a, you know, a weightlifting platform platform That's the only place that's the only that's where you're supposed to drop the platform. Yeah, that's it That's it. I mean to me. That's that's it's an easy thing to know where you can and you can't If you're on a weightlifting platform, it's designed for take that, you know, I saw somebody actually, uh, Yeah, breakages the floor somebody actually broke someone else's foot and one of the gyms I managed Yeah, dropping like 120 pound dumbbells, you know, flips and rolls. It's common on the bench press. You see this all time You see guys max dumbbell pressing and then they and they can't get the last rep of the 120s And they just they drop them off. There's a way by the way because I get this if you're handling really heavy weights It's like it's really hard to lower them super slow But there's a way to let them fall Where it's still under your control and then there's the way where people literally guided at least Yes, but they literally drop them and they end up flipping and rolling a couple times, which you hurt somebody that way Yeah, and I also think that if you if you're Lifting dumbbells so heavy that you can't you can't get it back up to get on your knees and then roll out of it Like you don't you don't belong lifting that weight yet, dude. Yeah. Well, the only time is acceptable really is at your home You know, you do what the hell you want You can you can walk around naked and leave your sweat everywhere Roll weights destroy your own house, you know go for it But like when you're sharing a community in a community and you're trying to you know Maintain the culture of everybody else around you. You got to be considerate of everybody else That's just I mean, I've seen I've actually seen dumbbells break from people dropping them from dumbbell pressing Yeah, like a heavy 120s like that and it just it hit just right and wrong and that's so much weight It's snap that snap I remember back in the day when I used to deadlift back when deadlifts were not popular So this is when I was the only one ever deadlifting in the gym and the plates that we had Were those stupid hexagonals Which I that's the worst place to deadlift with because you put it down the floor and it shifts the weight And then you got to readjust or whatever and um, I mean I you know now I use bumper plates so I can drop the weight if I need to but I would put them down carefully Because especially if I drop one of those because of the shape of the plates It would shift or twist and I would hurt myself if I wasn't careful Well, yeah, I mean even like to your point with the dumbbells like slam and down I remember it loosened it up to where the next member use it and like it came apart while they're lifting the weight So you just set somebody else up. Yeah for potential injury. Oh crap. All right. Here's another one. I Hate this one. Sometimes it still happens to me Don't talk to people mid-set If they're in the middle of an exercise Don't approach them and start they're con you need to concentrate and focus on what you're doing And I've had people Do this to me where I'm in the middle of a set and someone starts talking to me and I've literally said shut up Like just look straight in shut up because it's it's distracting and to me. It's strange What makes you think it's a good idea to talk to someone when they're working while they're in the middle of work This is a tough one because it's it's uh, it's less of a gym etiquette thing And it's more of a self and social awareness thing This is like the same person who's like the close talker or the same person Doesn't get the sign that you're not wanted to be here right now Like it's that it's that same person like pick up on it Because yeah, because I feel like before you even say something like shut up or you become an asshole Like your body language is already telling you. You're not interested in talking to me. I'm talking to you You're not even looking at me anymore. You're starting your curls or whatever you're doing It's like I would pick up on that signal like oh, he he wants to get his workout in and be like Oh, hey, I'll talk to you later, bro. But some people are so oblivious and so Unsocially aware that they don't pick up on that so it's to me It's less of an etiquette thing and they don't even that's more of a this person needs to work on their self awareness, you know, you know, it reminds me of you know, you got the dentist and that Dentist has your mouth open. Oh, yeah Like hey, so how's your weekend? I just had dental work done not that long ago And I it's so funny you bring that up because I was thinking the same thing too Why are you asking me questions and and then two like you'll ask me a question And then like two seconds later be hold on hold on and then she'll be doing something I'm like you just asked me something. It has to be all rhetorical questions. Yes. You just answer your own I just answer like hey, hey I though I love it. All right. Here's another one. Uh, we just talked. I mean the first one was don't be smelly This is part of it. Don't wear a lot of perfume or cologne When you're working out. This is super annoying. It gives people headaches. It makes me nauseous. Um, so I'm gonna I'm gonna add to that that's like I don't know if this falls under genetic it or it's just like and So I think there's like Getting ready like and this happens a lot like you see girls guys do too though guys and girls both do but girls So you see Obnoxious cologne when you're when you or when you put on makeup to go to the gym Like you put on like a bunch of makeup. I understand you if you came straight from work That's totally different right coming from work and you worked all day Oh, you could tell people get ready for the gym. Oh, yeah, you could definitely tell and or and you intentionally You don't well wear a hair tie and you wear your hair down and stuff like that It's like there's things where you can see where somebody and they and it's repeated like it's like, oh every I'm sure every woman has forgot a hair tie. I'm sure she's come straight from work before But then there's like the the girl who consistently comes and who is completely made up as there is the guy Who does the same thing who gets his hair all done like all nice and he's got his outfit that matches And it's perfect and stuff like that and I get you feel good. You look good I get that whole that whole thing But there's a point to that where I think it's a little ridiculous when you're putting on Cologne and perfume and you think you're going to the nightclub versus one of the I would rather I'm going to say a controversial statement I would rather work out next someone next to someone with like moderate BO than strong cologne or perfume the cologne or perfume makes me nauseous Well, I would agree with that because I'm really dizzy and nauseous. Yeah, I'd agree with that And so yeah, don't do that Don't spray like these strong smells on you and then work out because it messes people up to kind of add to that There's also been issues for me as like Some people like bring their lunch In the weight room like the eating in the you get always disgusting. That's like a bodybuilder thing Dude salami and rice. What are you doing bro doing dude get out of here I'm going to call my bodybuilder. He's out for that one. I want to slap people Because they don't want to miss the anabolic window. I got my food. Oh, I just finished Let's see my no food in there. Do you get out of here with that? Oh, there was a guy that would when I I worked out for a short period of time at golds the same one you went to adam And there was a dude that tilapia and broccoli. Yeah, I have two worst foods No, I had for I 100 percent my I have some friends that are super guilty of this like because they And they would be in the gym for two and a half three hours. That's why and they eat every two hours They eat every two hours and they because they're eating so many calories And so they would absolutely have one or two meals prepared in their gym bag And they would stop might as well just sleep in the locker room Yeah, 100 House house their house. All right. So this next one, you know, it was always kind of an issue But not a huge issue that crossfit happened. Yes And and all and all of a sudden the bad thing they came for we give them the credit for the squats in the dead List making a popular gift But don't hoard a bunch of equipment and dumbbells and I mean crossfit happened all of a sudden you'd see members with like Six different pieces of equipment and exercise strung together like these are mine I'm doing my giant Handstand walking in your way like dude get out of here. No, don't hoard crap if you're going to use a bunch of stuff So I'll sometimes I've done giant sets But I also accept that if somebody grabs something that I'm not going to hoard it somebody grabs it I'm going to figure out an alternative. I'm not going to go be like that's mine Okay, so where this happens and I'm just Okay, this and crossfit is really guilty for a lot of people do this It's not doesn't mean that other people don't too, but they are following a wad And let's say like that wad requires 80 for their strength 80 pound dumbbells and they also have to do pull-ups and deadlifts and some other in a Rower or something like that. They bring it all over to that area So then but now they've got the 90 pound dumbbells for the next 22 minutes or wherever it takes to get this And then they go out on like a couple mile run And leaving all that shit there for nobody like to use and they come back Do you know what I used to do so I'm an asshole like this go join a crossfit club. No what I used to do What I always what I used to do is I would see this happen And it was like super sets fine to exercise an open deal and then again If you're going to use multiple machines or exercises leave them where they're at you travel to go get it Yeah, you travel go get it and if someone's using it then you figure it out That's the way I would so that's my point, but the reason why they don't it's because you know crossfits for time That's okay. So you're not they're trying to improve their time And that's how that's why that happened was because it's a time thing and that's wasted time to walk over to the dumbbell So they would want to put it that's okay. You're sharing a gym with a bunch of other people This is not a crossfit gym. No, I think that's why you should be talked about because it's not okay Go to a fucking crossfit box if you want to do that Yes, so what I used to do when people would do that is I would purposefully purposefully Yeah, we wrecked their shit. I would go and use whatever you yeah, I'd wait I'd wait Oh, he's about to use it and I go over there and start doing some shrugs Or I'd bring a client over there. We're gonna use this machine today and just wait for them to just get annoyed and be like I please I hate that But that wasn't a thing crossfit happened then it became a big thing for a little while Not so much of a thing and that so under the hoarding equipment is the same category too And the same it's a different type of person, but it's also guilty of like sitting on the machine for, you know 25 30 minutes you've seen that before dude before this again. This was back in the newspaper. Yes Right, this is before like a guy like that before smartphones were a thing There were dudes that used to literally bring newspaper to the gym They would do a set and then they'd read the newspaper in between for like, I mean 10 minutes I had a I had a lady one time that I had us check that used to read romance novels on the lake press That's a real thing I swear to god, dude, she she'd get the leg press She was her fire and we only had like two leg press machines. You know what I'm saying? Of course leg presses is a popular machine It wasn't the one with your picture on it This is before this is before my romance novel days, right? So she would sit there and she would read her romance novel Do a set of leg pressing go back to read a chapter and then go The worst the worst the worst is I would see sometimes people read while doing the exercise I've seen that. I don't understand. The same lady's done that. Yeah, like, how are you able to set work? Yeah, how are you doing leg extensions while you're reading? Are you sure that's enough weight? You might have to add a little weight. You might want to focus a little bit So this last one's kind of funny. It's kind of a joke, but uh, and this may be a personal one I don't think anyone in this room likes this. I don't think it's a joke. Yeah This might be this pretty it's serious for us But you know, there's a thing where guys will wear really tight Spandex workout pants and I'll wear them too because I like the way they feel when I work out my legs However, I always either wear shorts shorts over or pants over them If you're gonna wear tight ass Spandex pants and you're a dude and you're a dude wear something over it Nobody wants to see, you know, we don't want to determine your Vaining at balls I've seen bro. I've seen that before I've had it and I've had members complain like like come to me Moose knuckle and everything. Yeah, it's that it was so fitted and so tight that they're like You have to get this guy out of the gym like this isn't so inappropriate. I can see the vein in his balls Yes, that's exactly how I approached him. I don't want to be able to I don't want to be able to know your religion by looking at your pants Oh my god. Yes, you're circumcised. Yeah Please cover that up. Yeah, and that and that is a hundred percent guy thing It's a guilty guy thing that does that the guy there's a handful of dudes that you'll find in a gym That absolutely do that that will rock those spandex and they're super super tight It's performance enhancement Dude, there was a guy there was a guy that worked that used to work out one of my gyms used to wear a wrestling singlet That's it. So it's like really tight, but just a wrestling singlet. He's just walking like what's going on here, dude? Are you just wrestling? I hate to try to throw that guy out. Yeah He's cool Anyway, there you have it. Look if you like this show head over to mind pump free.com and check out our guides We have guides that can help you with almost any health or fitness goal You can also find all of us on social media So you can find Justin on instagram at mind pump Justin add him on instagram at mind pump adam And you can find me on twitter at mind pump cell How do I Incorporate cardio and not lose muscle seeing people do this before where they'll start to lose the sharpness of their muscles Or they'll start to lose the sculpt a little bit and that's disheartening But if you do it right then you minimize that muscle loss or that metabolism slowdown In fact, if you're right You can actually speed up your metabolism at the same time that you build stamina and endurance You just have to be able to kind of program it Properly and the way to program it improperly is just to go do it as much cardio as you can for as long as you can right