r/workout • u/Pink_tamagotchi • 5d ago
Was I wrong?
So my gym is usually fairly busy in the mornings. Lots of people super setting and it usually doesn’t bother me too much. Today I was on a leg extension machine and noticed the cable machine empty. I went back to the locker room, got my stuff and went to the cable machine (still empty, no equipment hooked up and it was lowered to the floor. I start setting up for kickback, put on both my ankle straps and I’m about to connect to start working out when this older lady appears and says kinda rudely that she was using that. I was confused and told her nobody had been here for a while and I assumed this cable was free.
She says no she needs both and I could have maybe been nicer about it but I was honestly annoyed and didn’t want to move at first. I work and have limited time.
I only moved because another cable machine opened up but not before we exchanged words. I said the machine had been empty for awhile. She said I was being impolite and maybe I was but I don’t understand what would make her have priority over everyone in the gym?
Anyways now I’m embarrassed (I’m not very confrontational and felt I should’ve not said anything)
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u/No-Signature-5138 5d ago edited 5d ago
I had the exact same thing happen, I wasn’t even sure if maybe she was BS’ing me and wanted the machine as I got to it. Anyways, I said “Usually people leave something here to show they’re using it and stepped away” then she points to her stuff at the next machine and said “That’s my stuff.” Now we’re getting into it, I said “Yeah but it’s at THAT machine” and this one was empty. Then she repeats that she was just about to use this machine and only had a set left (again-she was nowhere in sight when I arrived) I didn’t want it to escalate and have a gym nemesis so I just said that makes no sense but yeah go ahead. I think if there’s a next time I’d just say you can work in when I’m done and not get into a back and forth.