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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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The way the signup works, the machines do not sit idle. At my gym, you sign up for halfhour increments. When I arrive, I sign up for two half hour increments on an elliptical. If it is not yet to my time, but there is a machine open, I take it. We have a five minute grace perliod. I can throw someone off the machine I signed up for for the first five minutes of my time - then I have claimed the machine. If I fail to show, whoever is on the machine stays, until the next time slot. If I grab a machine I did not sign up for and someone claims it as their signup within the first five minutes, I get off - no question. After five minutes, the machine is mine - whoever signed up forfeited. The machines at my gym rarely sit idle...but neither do the workerouters because no one sits around waiting for anyone else to end their workout. We plan our workouts and follow the rules. I gym without signups is likely to have a lot of disputes. Mine has few, and all disputes are easily resolved with a review of the rules.
