It’s that time of year where everyone is making their New Year’s Resolutions..only to break them a week later.  The number one is typically health and fitness, meaning that the gym is packed with new members.

Yesterday was my first day back into the gym after the New Year, upon entering the gym I was smacked in the face with the amount of noise.  It was like high school social hour with the amount of talking and the very thought of taking a step forward made me want to turn right back around and march my happy ass back out, but I didn’t.  I put my big girl panties on and forged foward with full intentions of getting some semblance of a workout.

Listen …I am not there to make friends at the gym.  I am like that girl on the bachelor that has her eye on the prize.  My time that I have is limited to 30-60 minutes to squeeze in after work.  I wish that I could spend hours at the gym but like most I work a 40 hour a week job along with I enjoy food and sleep.

I feel that a lot of people do not follow simple gym etiquette.  We are all there for the same reason to be healthier versions of ourselves.  These are just a few of the things that I take notice of at the gym:

People who do not wipe down the equipment.  Listen you could have gone to the bathroom and didn’t wash your hands, pick your nose or sweated all over that machine like a French whore in church.  Now I am going to go use that machine and come in contact with several of your bodily fluids…that’s gross.  I feel like in those times  I need to be like a stewardess on an airplane directing people that they can find the paper towel and cleaning solutions..here..here and here!!

Then you have the people who hog multiple machines.  I think this is fine if you allow someone else to come in and do a set while you are on another machine, but I can’t tell you how many times I have seen these people tell someone that they are using that machine…no bro you were on the otherside of the gym working those traps, so the least you could do is allow someone to sneak in their sets in between yours.

I commend anyone that goes to the gym, no matter the age.  But there is always those select few that have to make it weird…like the older guys that are eye fucking you from across the room, that are clearly old enough to be your father if not grandfather.  You know the ones..sitting on a machine, barely working up a sweat and grunting out their mating call to anyone who will listen. I turn my headphones up at this point because they clearly were not up loud enough and I may be single but I am not that desparate.

Needless to say none of these nuisances will deter me from going to the gym…because this girls has goals.  Honestly speaking though I will be wiping down all the equipment prior to using it because I really don’t want to take any chances that there is a possibilty that I can get pregnant touching the railing on the stairmaster.