JJ4Short

I can't stand the gym when it is crowded, if I don't make it to the gym by 10 AM I don't go at all. Do you guys mind a crowded gym?

Whiskers

My gym doesn't get too bad when I go (lunch hour). However, I have favorite machines (elipical, weight areas, etc.) that are sometime in use and I need to wait or find something else to do.

Now I do hate when the locker room is crowded. I don't like moving around naked men trying to get to the shower or my locker.

CGTSX2004

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Crowded gyms are the worst...especially when it's crowded because a bunch of little high school kiddies are in there trying to look tough lifting itty bitty weights and getting the face of the gym-rat that looks like he could eat the entire group for lunch and still have room for dessert.

ccannizz11

I try to avoid it. But the gym I currently go to is extremely large and very open, so even when it's so busy that every single treadmill (I think there's about 60 of them) is occupied, it still doesn't feel cramped. So it's no big deal.

At an old gym where they only had limited space and enough room for a few bikes, and 4 treadmills, and everything was close together. Then I hated going when it was crowded. I would avoid it at all costs.

Doc.Booty

So long as nobody is in the power rack i'm alright.

Mizouse

yea it was sooooooo packed last night i couldnt even find a parking spot

Nicky Pass

I don't go on Mondays...thats when everyone thinks "I ate and drank too much...I'll work it off"...come Tuesday...its all of the regulars!

phipark

I hate it. I hate it when you get a bench, walk around to find 1 5lb plate, come back and your bench has been stolen.

We also seem to have a high school night. These damn kids must exercise for 5 min out of an hour. The rest of the time they are running around and gossiping.

ric

Work out in the mediocre "exercise room" of my apartment building in preference to a club membership because all of the sports centers in CC philly are thronged, and the decent ones are expensive as hell. Half the folks are there to see and be seen, not to work out, and you find equipment held up by folks who are reading, talking, catching up on CNN, whatever.......

Reddly9007

no place like my home gym, I used to hate the crowds at the local gyms!

GIBSON6594

I have a gym in my office, it's free and basically all to myself

virtualbong

I get off work at 4:30 and I'm at the gym by 5-5:15. Its not as crowded then, but wait 20-30 minutes later and its damn crowded. I don't mind it if its all ladies since they usually don't use the free weights and they're good eye candy

95gt

I skip the weights if I walk in and it is jammed and just do cardio. End up wasting so much time waiting for people to get off things or put weights back it is a waste of my time.

BEETROOT

I've been doing this for months now. I plan on lifting but after 5 minutes I can't stand the crowd and I just go do cardio. I need to start waking up early and going before work to beat the crowds.

I'd love to put together a home gym but I don't plan on staying here that long and moving that stuff would be a pain in the ass.

rise

That's why I pay the extra money to work out at an expensive gym. Nicer facilities, less crowded, and the old people motivate me to work out harder.

Mizouse

i like going to the school gym, chicks there are all about my age and there arnt any douche bags walking around the locker area butt naked with their schlong just slapping around

HQuakers

Hate a crowded gym. 10 degrees hotter = makes me feel sick. People bump into you or get in your way with the free weights, claim they are using a bench when they're not, dont wipe down equipment, makes the smell worse...I could go on and on.

cM3go

I go to Lifetime Fitness, place is so huge, there's always stuff available.

Nicky Pass

But that place is a rip-off. I go to X-Sport and the problem is the groups of 10 or more high school kids congesting the place. By the time all 10 of them do one set each..i could have been done!!!! Another thing that sucks is when middle aged people go there to socialize and stand around the machine or bench I want. Ballys is for that!

FastAcura

I used to go to X-Sport. I hated it because it was crowded, even at 11 at night.

Nicky Pass

Which one...I go to the one on Dundee Road...its like 1 minute from my place!
The one on Golf and Arlington is too small!

FastAcura

I used to go to the one on Roosevelt, near Finley.

Mike 350Z

Mine is crowed around rush hour (5-7 pm) So usually I go home and chill a bit and hit the gym at 7:30-8 and it's usually empty.

Newplay1

I hate it when you can't get that long big locker!!! grrr!!

Whiskers

F'in

Time For Sleeep

I go to the gym on campus here @ ucla. The gym is crowded 247... I'm just used to it now... =/ But membership is still only like $30 a year

Mike 350Z

Yeah that's whats good about big Div 1 school gyms. PSU's main gym was enormous (even though some kids said it was small compared to other Big 10 schools') and it was like $55 for the year. And people still complained about that

They would keep count and cap it and only allow 210 people at a time in the gym, so there would always be a line during January and the week before spring break but other than that it was fine overall.

ReflexRacing_com

UC Irvine is pretty good in the morning. My ass is up at 8am for upper-div writing so by the time it's over (920am), i just head over to the gym aka "ARC" and the upper level indoor track is completely empty and all three indoor basketball courts are empty, so i get to run, play some basketball, and lift with no hassle. ....

Caddy©

Prefer an "uncrowded" Gym myself, but I would not let it stop me. I go right after work: Between 4:20--4:30. Nice time, uncrowded. Crowded times where I am at is 5:30-8:00

RaptorCLS

OH DAMN...here it comes folks...the NYE's things...get fit.....damn gyms are gonna be packed for about 3-4 months.....damn people....

Whiskers

^^ My spinning teacher calls them 8 weekers...

knight rider

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I get to the gym at 6am. Nothing but regulars

So, yeah, I hate crowded gyms.

esCarbonie

same at my gym... I give them about 2-3 months