Freeform Forum: Dropping Weights #shitIseeatthegym

While I was on the elliptical on last week and getting lost listening to my work-out mix (which is eerily similar to my-getting-ready-to-go-out mix), I heard this thunderous thump from above.  No one else on the ellipticals or treadmills near me budged but it startled me.  It continued throughout my entire run on the machine and it took me midway through my cardio routine that it was the sound of weight trainers dropping their weights on the floor. 

My usual location in my gym for cardio is the first floor room which has dramatically high ceilings about 1½ stories tall.  Though none of that buffered the heavy thump that weights make when they’re dropped.  It’s not that I haven’t heard weights dropped before; I just forgot how irritating it is.

It happened again this week, but I had changed venues in the gym and went to the third floor with a mixed cardio and weight room and this time someone in the room was dropping weights.  To top it off, he was grunting when he dropped the weights, like he was asserting his virility.  It was me and no one else; I couldn’t care less about his virility. 

"Do not drop weights, bars or dumbbells on the door" - the second to last policy
Sorry it's a little bury, the floor was shaking from the dude dropping his weights
(or that I was still on the elliptical when I took this)

This is a big pet peeve of mine.

There are two reasons that I bring this up at all:  

1) Why the hell do you, Mr. Weight Dropper, do that? And

2) Knock it the eff off! You’re annoying, Mr. Weight Dropper. I wanna just drop kick you  through the goal posts of life for that bs!

I don’t care if you are deadlifting the weight of 40 neutron stars, you’re nothing bust an ass when you drop your weight. If you can’t hold it for a few seconds longer after your full set, you shouldn’t be lifting it in the first place.

While I'm here, quit the grunting too.  It just sounds so caveman and everyone in the gym talks about you when you do it.