Everyday gym f*ckery:- Politely tell ajjushi, who is working out near me, to wear his mask properly (it's covering his chin). He tries to ignore me so I get into his face and sternly tell him. Other people are now looking and he does so after giving me the death stare.- Like a pissed of schoolgirl, he tries to get his pathetic, passive aggressive revenge by walking in front of me, instead of going around me, while I'm racking my weights. Guess you sure showed me. Keep puffing that little chest out and standing on your toes as you walk past.- FYI, said ajjushi was doing doing bench presses on the smith machine with the smallest ROM I've ever seen (probably moved the bar about 5cm per rep)... He did do about 50 reps a set though, lol!- Had to stop multiple people from trying to take the weights off the squat rack, while I was using it. - Guy was doing deadlifts, but loaded the bar with only 5kg plates! He was taking the 5kg plates off every piece of equipment in sight despite the fact that he had 10kg and 20kg plates at his rack. Obviously, he was trying to give the impression that he was lifting a really heavy weight by having the barbell loaded with 8 X 5kg plates as opposed to just 2 X 20kgs and 2 X 10kgs.- Lady was hogging the leg press and had it loaded with.... 2 X 2.5kg plates. I know everyone has to start somewhere, but lady, if you're going to occupy a a leg press machine, loaded with no more than 5kg, you might as well stay home, save your money and just sit on a chair and stand up. You look like you're in ok shape, there are 90yr old grandmothers with arthritis who could push more than that. - Another ajjushi tires to steal the plates off my machine, in the middle of my set. I had a pair of 10kg plates and some 20s. I couldn't see properly (in the middle of a rep) and I thought he was taking the 20s, so I told him "No". After I was done, I saw that he was trying to take one of the 10s. Still a dick move, but I wasn't planning on using the 10s and since I'm not trying to make enemies, I try to call him over and offer the 10s to him. You know, just trying to bury the hatchet. He sees me and just ignores me in the same way as the other old guy and I just know he's pouting behind that mask. I just laughed, it was amusing to witness the immediate transformations of 50yr old men into sulking, 6th grade schoolgirls. Anyway, session done and feel great.
The gym I tried out a month or 2 ago, was good but 2 small. The problem was: it was a pain for me to go there and back. My town doesn't have a gym, so I had to go to the town over, and because of the corona, the bus timetable has been neutered. That means, there was only a 2 hour window for me to go and exercise mon - fri. A group of guys would always beat me to the gym by 5 minutes and would hog the machines. I saw a guy do 90 minutes of nothing but bench presses, cause the group of guys weren't friends, just a big influx of random people that would arrive at the same time. Once they got equipment, my guess is they didn't want to do part of their workout and wait for the next thing they need, so all of them would just use the same thing for 90+ minutes.The only things I could ever get on were: treadmills, exercycles, leg press machine, and one I forget the name of - some kind of back exercise machine; I've slowly been buying my own gym equipment to exercise at home. This payday, I'm planning to buy a bit more weight for my bar/dum-bells, and a 2nd exercise bike. I bought an exercise bike about 2 weeks ago, but the seat is like, a pro cyclist style, and it's very, very uncomfortable for me, and it only has 1 difficulty which isn't challenging at all.
Really sucks, I've seen what you're describing countless times. The only solution is that you've got to be a bit aggressive otherwise they'll be on the benchpress till next Chuseok. I don't like having to start drama at the gym, but I'm going to finish my workout in a reasonable timeframe so I'm going to tell people to bugger off or do their curls away from the squat rack etc. Worst case, you'll have to endure someone sulking as they walk away.Still, I'm incredibly lucky. My gym is 30 steps from my apartment. Gotta love how close everything is in Korea.Check out http://frogfitness.co.kr/.I bought all my plates, barbell and a decent enough squat rack from them. Prices are pretty reasonable.
Ordered a new exercise bike, only the seat arrived, and they marked it as delivered. D:Working on contacting them to see if the rest will arrive later or what. :o
Kayos: Where is my bike? What is going on? Company Rep: Sir, please calm down. We have---Kayos: I want an explanation!CR: Sir, we have an explanation, please, just............... ........ take a seat.
The rest of the bike ended up arriving yesterday, and the seat that arrived first was like a free gift, so a spare seat, or can change to it for more comfort or whatever.The new exercise bike is really comfortable :D so can start using it today
Nice. I hope you get a lot of use out of it. I bought one a while ago because I wanted to be able to do cardio in my apartment without disturbing my lower neighbors, but I ended up selling it off later because I didn't like how much space it took up in my little one-room, haha. Took me over an hour to get the pedals attached, too. I should probably start looking for a bigger place. But moving in Korea is such a chore.
Lucky! Now you can have your bike and seat it too!
I got told off by a parkie today for letting my 5 year old throw a small stone onto the surface of a frozen pond. What's next? You're not allowed to pick up a stick or kick through a pile of leaves?
A guy from Parkiestan??
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