Gym Grunters

So we all know there are gym etiquette rules such as use a sweat towel, put your weights back etc etc, but I'm wondering whether there should be a new one made about excessive noise during workouts.



I know some noise is appropriate/required for effort and often unintended. When I have my weekly kickboxing personal training session, my trainer tells me to make noise when I kick, as it encourages you to breathe (something which I don't do enough of, which is quite obvious after i've done four kicks in a row and realise I'm holding my breath and am consequently buggered). I giggle at the other (actual) kickboxers in that gym who make noise when they kick and sometimes when they punch, then I realise they have gone for the full three minute round and are not ratshit.



i also know some people make noise for attention, my other half J says there are constantly hilarious noises coming from the weights section of the gym. When you actually look at the offender, they are more worried about who is looking at them than the actual exercise they are 'doing'.



so it made me laugh today when I was stretching after an RPM class and amongst the fellow gym goers there was a guy wearing sunglasses inside doing exercises very noisily. I understand the heavy breathing, a whoosh breath, even the odd sound effect, but I don't see how making sound effects like you are doing a particularly difficult poo is going to help your work out.



He wasn't doing particularly heavy weights, just some cable exercises and I was tempted to ask if he would like some laxatives for what sounds like a painful problem. Instead I had a shower, as I reeked and decided personal hygiene is more important than telling a random stranger to STFU.