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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Can someone explain how signups are bad or prevent you from getting your workout? Doesn't a total free for all erupt if, for example, two or more people are waiting for a treadmill, perhaps unbeknownst to each other? Without a signup, who wins? My gym is signup only and it is fair and reasonable and generally avoids confrontation. I go to the gym to work out, not to do some sick power play or to wait around until someone decides to let me workout. I show up, I sign up, the machine I sign up for is mine for the time I am signed up on it, end of story, no argument. I will not let you finish up "just five minutes" if it cuts into my time, and I am not rude for saying "I signed up. NOW." A person who refuses to follow signup rules and asks me to forfeit my time is rude.
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Dissent. I don't keep a regimented schedule. I make time to go to the gym, and use whatever machine is open when I get there. I don't ask anyone to forfeit anything. I just go to the next open machine. Sometimes, if they're all full, I lift weights instead.
I don't mind the guy who has only so much time and comes running in and wants to use a machine. But the prick who comes in and signs up to use a then empty machine 20 minutes later - so he can do his lifting and stretches first - then throws a person who's gotten on the machine in the meantime off the machine is just a douche. Cardio stuff is the most used in the gym. It should never sit idle while some prima donna twit waits for his alloted time. He has an obligation to use it as soon as he sees it open.
