So I joined World Gym in Taipei about 2 weeks ago, but I’m strongly considering cancelling and finding a different gym.
On Thursday I went in there to do my normal workout and was going to do some squats.
I noticed there was a guy deadlifting in front of a squat rack, but not using it.
It’s one of those racks that has two poles in front of it and fixed safety bars, so he couldn’t move into the squatting area.
For some reason he had the bar almost touching the poles, but he was resting between sets, so I thought, no problem I’ll just set up my squats and he can keep deadlifting.
The guy starts getting very aggressive and irate with me for squeezing past the bar so I could set up my squats.
I asked staff to come over and tell the guy to stop harassing me, but instead they started blaming me for “not asking him first”, rather than him for actively trying to stop me using equipment he himself was not using and refusing to move his bar back a bit if he needed more space.
I’m just wondering if anyone knows any other gyms I can try where the staff are reasonable and supportive ?
Dude is inconsiderate for his behavior, but you’re also in the wrong if you had to squeeze by him and staff is right you should have asked. Gym etiquette everywhere.
Why didn’t you just ask him if you could use the squat rack…?
Seems like an easily avoided problem tbh.
This is Taiwan, people do whatever at the best of times and yea the non thinking behaviour crosses over to gyms.
The biggesr problem is they are always crowded AF. They need to open up some more gyms.
I go in the day time to avoid the crowding as best as I can. But i would much prefer going at night.
And yea don’t expect the staff to be useful, in the one i go to they basically sit on their fat arses and eat bian dangs. I asked one of them once if there is anywhere to do dips, she said no. Actually there is you just gotta fold up the seat. Useless fatty.
No, we can’t, as we can’t actually see where anyone was or how anyone was set up. Might as well say you shoulda used the power rack since the photo shows no one there.
You started out by saying no problem, you’d set up and he’d keep deadlifting? So what rule was he breaking and why would he need to move?
