Arnold’s Guide to Gym Etiquette

For those of you who asked what to do when a machine is taken in my Q and A in The Pump. thepump.app

[@eekjeep]

It's a lot easier to ask people to stop texting on a machine when you're the Terminator. LOL

[@chuletta16]

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[@mattm8018]

This video should run in every gym in a loop.

[@thatskarma4573]

I am a 71 yr old woman in Maryland starting to do some home pumps. This podcast will be great help to me. thank you.

[@sueblack5794]

They should play this on the TV screens in commercial gyms especially.

[@retrobob3802]

Love the sign at a previous gym, "If you're big and strong enough to lift the weights, you're big and strong enough to put them away.

[@Star-Destroyer]

Love this video lol. However, never ask someone if you can work in while they're in the middle of their set

[@andyr1967]

Love this Arnold. I suggest waiting until someone is done with their set before asking if you can work in. I also always ask how many sets they have left.

[@squids432]

Great stuff Arnold.😊👍 So very obvious basics, but it shows what professionals can teach us and then perhaps incorporate those ideas into our own lives. Loved ❤️ that one immensely.😎👌 Mike W.

[@BernadetteVeronicaTeresa]

Your comments about being kind and considerate ring true. It reminds me of a post it my husband kept on his desk, where he’d see it every time he sat down to work. The post it said : Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always. The work you’re doing with the positive corner of the internet is helping individual people, our country and the world. It’s just what we need now. Thank you and keep up the great work. God bless.

[@rayfultz3286]

This is an awesome vid everyone needs to see!! If you’re going to the gym, put your weights up!! Remember to leave the equipment the way you find it!! Now let’s all get big and swollen 🙏🙌💪💪💪

[@andrewm8429]

I have finally started going to.the gym for real thanks to you! I used to go.for a couple weeks.and then stop for a while...but i have been going consistently for a few months now and im seeing progress! For.once im actually excited to go! Thank you for inspiring us!

[@RobertBondFilm]

Some of these things I would not think of some of my absolutely obvious how the respect for other people.

[@Bambi60s]

You are so inspirational! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[@hansrekker6882]

Thanks for sharing Arnold. Keeping these basic rules makes gym live greater

[@bymip]

The points are so true and valid - Common sense which gym users should promote. Thanks for getting behind this,

[@tonyvalisky4856]

Brilliant Arnold. You always inspire me. I’m gonna try much better today.

[@mattm8018]

Don't just try. Do it now 😊

[@maengelexemplar1985]

Thank you for this video, Arnold ❤ I have to say that I really feel good and well at my gym. I like that I never experienced one human that was more watching the other people (or even laughing at them) than to train. Yesterday I tried some machines that I never worked out before. Maybe also why they aren't "made for girls" 🤮 and no one ever showed them to me. So, I really tried to find out by myself, but I wasn't able to get it. Then I remembered what you always tell us about the gym people and their community. And this big nice guy told me kindly what I have to do at the Bizeps machine. I was so happy about that. 😊❤ Be kind. Be useful. Thank you, Arnold.

[@jillknapp7894]

Arnold, you are always awesome. The cell phone example is great, too many people sit on the machines on their phones.

[@pi3rreluc]

🙌🏻💪🏻💢 important basics!

[@briandougherty1129]

thanks again Arnold!!

[@marketingcommando]

Much needed!

[@timothyseavey3243]

Don’t be a jerk at the gym. 😊

[@abdiver12]

The dwarf saying "fuck you guys" after being told to leave was absolutely hysterical!

[@jenl252]

💯🤣

[@michaelm7823]

Arnold's rules apply to the gym and to life. Go Arnold!

[@reel]

Every person should watch a video like this when they join a gym! 🙌

[@sunflowerfunfamily2023]

In the gym I joined people will be on the phone to take that 1 min break between sets. I thought it was weired, and everyone really stays to themselves. Good thing I have my son and his friend to talk to to make it more fun🙂 Nice video by the way!

[@louiskovach7783]

Arnold, you should come to my gym. I just started at a Crunch location in NJ and none of the dumbbells are in the right spot. If I pick up set from the wrong spot, I make sure I find where they go when I'm done. The rack is clearly labeled for where they should go.

[@terrifry4072]

Another good rule of etiquette, leave your damn phone in your car, locker or gym bag! Use your workout time to unplug and focus on YOU! ❤😊💪

[@dmm3124]

Great idea, except most of us use apps such as "Strong" to log our workouts.

[@jamesd314]

@@dmm3124or The Pump 😉

[@LambLiesDownOnBroadway]

Some people need the phone to check routine etc.

[@retrobob3802]

This sgould be in every gym induction.

[@franciscleary6544]

I go to the best gym in the world and we all share and it is a wonderful community, but when you get friendly with the other gym goers be careful not to distract your fellow workout mates when they are pushing it!

[@docharley4535]

oldschool rules I appreciate!

[@SLIva24]

Sending "Hello" to Iron Arnold from Staraya Russa, Russia!..

[@giggles2302]

Another good idea is to bring a sweat towel and clean up any sweat you might leave on the equipment cz eww, lol. Also, putting weights back is important cz you don't want anyone tripping over them. There is iron equipment everywhere, and they could trip and fall on some iron and get really hurt. Safety and courtesy. :)

[@tigergirl-tv5jt]

You inspire me to go to my gym (which is indoors - lucky you to live near Santa Monica!) and see if I can develop a community of supporting people in their work out. Right now everybody does their own thing, no one talks to anybody which is ok and respectful but it's kind of depressing.

[@cragwandering1]

Arnold: WE NEED A POSTER WITH THESE 3 RULES TO PUT UP IN THE GYM ! If I print it up; I'm an old cranky dude--if you do it--it is cool and considerate. Make it an ad for the Pump Club! Another consideration is if you are trying to do a 'circuit workout' at higher heart rate and pace; people hogging stations make these workouts very difficult to impossible. It is really just common courtesy. I actually printed out labels for all Olympic plate racks to help people understand that a 45 pound plate goes on a 45 pound rack, 10 pound plate goes on 10 pound rack, etc.

[@patricearruda]

Love it! Also, if the terminator asked me to use the machine, I would say "yes sir!"

[@BlackPantherStudios]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the greatest. Great video 📷📸

[@MsFit123]

OMG, YOU ARE SO RIGHT, ARNOLD. My gym ALLOWS people to do this, and it is SO aggravating. I am a 72 year old woman, and I'm on a TIME BUDGET. Don't have time to WAIT for equipment. LOL.

[@DehnusNorder]

I mean, we also need to get out of our comfort zones a bit and just kindly ask "Hey, can I go inbetween while you are on your phone?". By being kind to each other we both make social connections for life and help remind folks about etiquette in a way that isn't going to be confrontational or hurtful. As we all forget the rules sometimes, it happens. :) .

[@dsteins9407]

Arnold we could really use your help over in Perth, Western Australia. Fancy a holiday?

[@jenl252]

What happens to the outdoor gym when it rains. I know there isn't a lot in S. Cal, but being from the NE where it is freezing rain right now makes me wonder.

[@jonhowell5014]

"Excuse me, can I work in with you?" If Arnold showed up in person and asked me that, not only would I step aside, but I would set PRs in every other exercise that day. Not little PRs. BIG PRs.

[@djstephenb]

Great vid. Agree, people need to leave their phones in their lockers or cars. A gym is not a photoshoot studio; at a minimum stay out of the way of others who are ACTUALLY working out ;)

[@JacobAustin]

The little dude scarpered before he got terminated. 😂

[@tamigoldsmith]

Great advice, but Doug's response tho...🤣

[@DrDavelope]

So good! Arnold, you’re a double legend!!! I’m hoping to promote this video in a post at my local gym in Australia. The need for Etiquette is the same all around the world.

[@jenniferbridges3527]

We have men, usually old, come up to us in the gym and try to push us off the machines, while we are actively using them. We tell them “we are almost finished, last set”. They get so angry. There are so many other machines to choose from and we are not wasting time. Women have every right to take up space at the gym. Let the men know this please.

[@darioivan]

👍👍👍

[@cmg3001]

None of the gyms I've ever been to have felt like communities, even ones I've gone to consistently for years. There's a bit more community feeling if we do a class together, but mostly people on machines or doing free weights ignore each other and do their thing and leave

[@user-ru9ng5nw9v]

If this small gym, also is good to say for everybody hi.

[@MM-tl4xx]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣love it! specially it is so realistic when the guy says F you guys! also I can not stop smiling when Arnold says 2 moeare, 2 moeare! it makes me at gym to always do 2 more with a smile on my face remembering Arnold. love you so much Sir Arnold.

[@Preston_Smith]

At one time I was on a bench press and I had to find some more plates and some lady came and took a plate off my barbell and I didn't think anything of it and I just let it go but then right after that some other guy came and took a plate off of my barbell. I said hey I was using that. And he said he didn't know but there's like a hundred of them so it doesn't matter! And I'm thinking well if there's a hundred of them then why take the one that's on my barbell? It was a little weird to me like they were trying to get inside my head or something maybe it was just bad spirits telling them to do it. I don't know

[@RayBrennan]

This is sooooooo needed. Bunnies sitting on a machine feeling sorry for themselves after doing a set is a constant headache. 20 seconds of reps and 3 minutes of feeling sorry for themselves between the sets. One time a guy asked me "how many sets do you have left?" I said "do you wanna use the machine?" He was like "yeah after you're done", I'm like "No, you use it now while I rest." We got 3 men on this machine and it never stopped moving while the other two rested. No we need to address the use of using cameras by tiktokers to entrap males who are just looking around at nothing in particular.

[@SerPostman]

Try to not make this about women. There's plenty of blokes around who think the bench press rack is a great place for posting some ridiculous video on tiktok.

[@RayBrennan]

@@SerPostman where did I say "women"?

[@Preston_Smith]

It's okay no. I usually just ask them very nicely there almost done. And then they hurry up and finish

[@oshradio]

Cell phones drive me crazy in the gym! I leave mine in my car! Lots of days I wish the gyms collected them at the door! YOU DID NOT GET A TWO HOUR WORK OUT IF 1 1/2 HOUR OF IT WAS ON YOUR PHONE!

[@JPC33]

☯ KIAZEN 👍

[@gilessb]

Love this - except I'd be pretty p*ssed off if someone asked to work in while I'm in the middle of a set (unless it's Arnold, of course, LOL).

[@Preston_Smith]

Yeah it's kind of annoying when you're sitting there waiting for the bench and then someone sitting at texting on it just looking at their phone not doing anything. However bedtime is what I'm trying to do a super set or Progressive set or something and I have three sets of dumbbells and I have some guy comes over and throws a little fit because I have a few sets of dumbbells. But I'm only going to have them for less than 2 minutes then I'm going to put them back. And he doesn't even need to use them he's just throwing a fit. It's like mind your own business

[@austinfitness1]

Good points, but wait until the person has finished their set before you ask if you can work in with them. Otherwise you break their focus, which is very rude.

[@colintrabold6872]

If it was Arnold you probably wouldn’t mind though 😂

[@marymckay8283]

Another important reason to put your weights away…. The person behind you maybe can’t yet lift that 45lb plate off the end of the machine…

[@user-gs6lz9wl5x]

That happens to me all the time. So very rude. Instead of me getting ticked off, I just reschedule my workouts. Oh, well.

[@alekseisidorin5705]

It was basic rules of gym etiquette, of course. But it was not a good idea to ask a question when athlet was doing excercise and wait for the answer from him😄. He could lose his breath and rhythm

[@Preston_Smith]

Why did he get so mad? LOL I don't work in because I don't take many breaks when I'm doing something. I usually them typically doing 15 then 12 then 8 reps it's like a 60-second break then I'll go back to 8 reps and then 12 reps and then 15 reps. So I'll tell them I'll be done in like a minute or two

[@Preston_Smith]

I'm usually not on it long enough for someone to ask if they can work in

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[@crisrobles3425]

And of course make sure to get out of the cleaning maid’s way 😉

[@Mike-ki7zt]

Yo Everyone bitching about cell phone use - I need my phone for The Pump app!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sometimes the app says to rest TWO minutes between the sets. So I'm sitting at the machine for two minutes WITH MY PHONE entering the REPS and WEIGHT into the THE PUMP APP while I am resting. DUH. And like someone said below, after the rest, you need to go right back into the next set. No time to wait for someone to rotate in and change the weight. They'd have to be good friends with you to know how it works and make it work, kinda like how everyone knows Ahnold and kisses his butt.

[@Preston_Smith]

How many for anger. It's okay. It's okay positive remember? Positive Be positive

[@Preston_Smith]

Love your neighbor and love your enemies

[@pistolpete7723]

Dont agree with the last tip...NEVER talk to someone in the middle of their set. Wait till they complete it before asking to work in.

[@pallviggosson2144]

Should be obvious, but the world is full of obvious assholes. The other day one dude used two adjustable benches and I kid you not, sat on one and had his laptop on the other one, then just sat there looking at his laptop and phone for close to 15 minutes.

[@Normirga]

I always took my phone on the machines because I was resting. So you recommend to leave the machine? While I am in rest? And then a other guy came to use my machine, alter the weights, use it longer than my rest time is, and my rest time is messed up… I feel not comfortable with leaving the machine while resting..

[@stanislavcherebatov794]

How much do you rest? Do you really need a phone for 2 minutes rest between sets?

[@nohj1955]

It’s fun being clueless

[@noahhurley-abelew6536]

You're not using the machine if you're resting, get off and let other people use it. Stand by it and let them know you are using it, but don't occupy it when you aren't using it. Using a phone for anything but music or work out videos isn't good

[@Buellxb9cityx]

ja, so gehört sich das .scheiss handy spielerei im gym

[@juggalogamer8541]

Problem is Arnold no one's ever going to listen

[@manuelagrossler1956]

I think there are still a few points missing...💪🦚🥈