Dude, if you want babes, you should go to a place with swimming pool.
The gym you go to might be full of posers and rude assholes, but the work out may totally depend on you. Despite all the things that annoy me at my gym, I have still managed to drop 12kg since February this year just keeping to myself and doing my workout. Really with my program, if someone is hogging the piece of equipment I want to use, I will just do an alternate exercise that works the same muscle groups. I don’t stop, I just keep moving. Go in, do my program, shower and leave. I think the price is fine, it is cheaper than the gym I used to work in 12 years ago before I came to Taiwan, and it’s a lot bigger, too.
Ha, it’s just the way of life here, I nearly get hit by scooters running red lights on the way walking to the gym, then you get idiots hogging equipment in the gym and then I go down to the MRT to have people try and cut the lines to get on the train before me… So the gym etiquette isn’t that much out of the ordinary…
It’s AOK. Let it go. You don’t have to expect everybody to behave the way you like them to. Kindly inform them if they do anything out of line. Most Chinese are very nice in nature, despite their behaviors. If you prefer not to confront them personally, let the staff know about it.
Guy was sleeping on a weight bench at this small swimming center I sometimes hit up, even as there were people around lifting. Only in Asia…
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[quote=“Jack Burton”]also, they don’t clean up after themselves, because Asia is a servant-culture, you have someone who’s going to clean up after you.
I don’t mind the people looking into mirrors etc. That will exist in any gym, any country. But in part, I will blame the management for not properly training or educating patrons to create a better environment (depending on the gym of course). If it’s a “new culture”, it can be created - just look at the MRT queuing compared to the chaos and rudeness of HK’s MTR queuing. That difference was because the Taipei government did something to educate users. It is possible.
The guys in my gym are so pathetic, they don’t bring their own towels, instead using up all the paper towels and drying their asses and feet with the hair… HAIR…dryer.[/quote]
This is very motivating. I will do the government approach to re educating my members. I won’t be able to put lines in the floor and my company won’t allow excessive signage, but I think a months worth of flyers handed to each member as they come into work out and and education sheet filled out by every new member should do the trick. The biggest support will have to be by my staff to monitor. Like the line guards at the MRT, inspecting what they expect.
I am looking to help educate (people that love fitness in this culture) and understand (from within the members frame of refrerence) and help it into a culture with better manners (li mao) in the gym. I am sure there are chinese blogs with the same complaints and it isn’t just a wai guo ren issue. I have helped ladies remove weights off of the legpress more times than I can count, so I know there has to be some frustration there. This is a great thread. Thanks! :bravo: