{"id":266,"date":"2001-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/fitness-behavior-in-the-gym-how-loud-is-too-loud\/"},"modified":"2001-09-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-09T00:00:00","slug":"fitness-behavior-in-the-gym-how-loud-is-too-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/fitness-behavior-in-the-gym-how-loud-is-too-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavior in the Gym: How Loud Is Too Loud?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Since running my first real half marathon<\/a>, Ive taken a hiatus from blogging while deciding on my next fitness goal. But this morning I read something in the paper that I just had to share.<\/p>\n In high school I worked part-time at a gym. As all fitness club employees do, Im sure, our staff had nicknames for some of the more animated characters that frequented our establishment.<\/p>\n There was the Sweat Sprayer—a woman who flung her sweat-drenched ponytail in every direction while on the StairMaster, bathing those around her in perspiration. There was Casanova, the annoying guy who sidled up to girls lifting weights and tried to pick them up. We named one girl Phoebe, because of her similarity to the Friends<\/em> stars bizarre running style<\/a>. And, of course, there was The Grunter.<\/p>\n When The Grunter bench-pressed or lifted barbells, his noises echoed throughout the gyms entire first floor. We all got a good chuckle out of the ruckus, but no one really minded; he even joked about it himself with other members.<\/p>\n There are bound to be some unusual or annoying—and sometimes “inappropriate,” as this popular YouTube satire<\/a> brings to light—people at the gym, but Ive never heard of people actually getting violent over such behavior. Until this morning, when the New York Times<\/em> reported<\/a> on an ongoing trial involving one Christopher Carter.<\/p>\n “The Manhattan district attorneys office says that Mr. Carter, a stockbroker in a spinning class at an Equinox gym on the Upper East Side, had had it with Stuart Sugarman one morning last summer. Mr. Sugarman was pedaling a couple of bikes away\u0097and grunting, groaning and shouting.<\/p>\n “Mr. Carter walked over and upended Mr. Sugarmans exercise bicycle, with him still on it, Mr. Sugarman said. He spent two weeks in a hospital and said he has had chronic neck and back pain ever since. Mr. Sugarman, 49, has said that he can no longer go golfing or hiking\u0097or spinning.<\/p>\n “Mr. Carter, 45, is now on trial in Manhattan Criminal Court. He could face up to a year in prison if convicted on an assault charge, a misdemeanor.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n Though we don't know what really<\/em> happened—or just how obnoxious Mr. Sugarman actually was—the whole story seems quite ridiculous. I did a quick poll around the Health.com office, and asked staffers what kind of gym behavior might send them over the edge. Here are a few of our biggest complaints.<\/p>\n\n