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- The forms they make you sign so that you can't sue them if you have a heart attack or otherwise drop dead.
- The humiliating tests they make you do at the start, to figure out just unfit you are.
- I stink, and everyone else stinks. It's undignified.
- The thought of grinding away ike a hamster on a treadmill for hours when I could be walking outside instead: in the fresh air, enjoying nature, being happy -- why on earth would I stay inside on a treadmill?
- Those ultra-skinny, perky pony-tailed women who are still so insecure that they compare themselves to you to make themselves feel better.
- The guys with giant muscles who can't stop looking at themselves in the mirrors as they work out.
- The machines so complicated that you have to ask a staff member how to use them.
- There's sweat everywhere. All over the people, all over the equipment, all over the walls. It flies off the guy running on the treadmill next to you and gets on your face and arms. It's disgusting and it stinks.
- When it's hot and/or stuffy in there, it's intolerable.
- You fart all the time. You just keep on farting. Everyone does it, yet people judge you and move away if you do it.
- Those women who are so petrified of getting fat that they spend hours at the gym every day, to the point where they don't do anything else in their lives.
- Judgemental people.
- Even though there are signs up everywhere, a significant number of people always 'forget' to wipe down the equipment after they use it. Ew.
- If you're single it's even worse, because you look like sweaty dogs' balls. And even though there are lots of single guys there, they all look like sweaty dogs' balls, too.
- The music that they play -- which invariably is music that I don't like -- is so loud that my only two choices are to switch my ipod off and listen to it, or play my ipod so loud that I'm half deaf.
- Reading while you're running is just weird.
- That woman who strips off, has a shower with the cubicle door open, and then walks into the change room totally starkers and slathers herself all over with body lotion in front of everyone, in a very prolonged fashion.
- The only magazines there are about fitness and celebrities. Is that what they think people who go to the gym are all into?
- People who do spinning classes. I don't know what's with them, but they have this really annoying superior attitude.
- You've been going 4 times a week for 9 months, and then you realise you've actually put on 10 kgs.
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