- He found out very quickly that when you put 135 pounds
over your head, your shoulder goes out
when you're 60 years old,
and that was a pretty rough time for him.
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- Hi, I'm Troy.
- I'm Shiquita.
- HI, I'm Dewayne.
- I'm Jeremy.
- We're gym employees and we're here
to answer your questions.
- All of them.
- Yep, so let's do it.
- [Shiquita] What's the biggest complaint you get?
- The biggest complaint I get is that
the locker room is dirty.
- Yeah, that's probably like a big one
that I get, too.
- Yeah, you gotta empty out the towels.
- Yeah, empty out the towels,
there's (beep) in the toilet.
- I'd say the biggest complaints we get are
we have a specific program,
like people program their workouts,
and there's always gonna be somebody
who doesn't like what we're programming.
Too many squats, too many this,
not enough that. - Too many squats?
- Yeah, yeah.
Right, the nerve of them.
So, yeah, that's the biggest complaint.
- There's a man running around naked,
there's a guy flossing in between himself,
drying himself at the counter.
Mostly it has to do with the locker room
and the cleanliness.
That's like, the biggest
complaint I get. - And a good one is,
this guy, he's singing loud with his headphones in.
Can you tell him to calm down?
Can you tell him to be quiet?
No.
- Yeah, the biggest complaint I get is the bathrooms.
They come up to me, especially on weekends
when we're lower staffed,
they come up to me like they expect me
to go clean the women's restroom
but that's not what I'm here for.
(chuckles)
- [Jeremy] How often is the equipment cleaned?
- When I work, I work twice a week,
so I can say at least twice a week.
I wipe down everything at the end of the night
so I make sure that everything's clean.
- To my knowledge, every night.
- Every night we do this.
- It's definitely dependent on the staff at that location
for the gym that I work at.
One location I worked weekdays
so I saw the people who took pride
in maintaining our building and facilities,
now where I work,
because I mostly work weekends,
I don't really see the cleaning crew as often,
so it just really depends on your location, honestly.
- [Troy] What do you think of people
taking selfies on machines?
- Look, don't hate me or nothing like that
but I think it's super lame.
But I understand you gotta get your likes up.
If you have no pictures, you wasn't there.
I understand it but it's lame though.
- I hate it.
I hate it so much.
Whenever I do go to the chain gyms
and you'll see the guys that are like,
at the machine and they're taking their pictures.
Or they're like, hey, get a picture of me real quick
doin' this machine, tryin' to flex.
I hate it so much.
- It's my favorite walkin' into the men's locker room
and you see all these guys standing in front of the mirror
taking pictures and then as soon as they see you
they wanna act like they were doing something else
and it's like, you just catch them
and it's like, it's okay, just keep doin' it.
You know, you're centristic, narcissistic ways,
that's totally fine,
but you just go ahead with it.
- Put your damn phone in your locker
and just work out.
Or get off the machine 'cause somebody else
needs to use it.
- Troy hates me.
I endorse it, I understand it.
I mean, 'cause eventually I'm getting my
training certificate so I need to post about my workout.
- If you get a movement or something like that,
like a heavy clean and you wanna be like,
oh, record this.
Something like that, you know?
Oh, record,
you know, 'cause you just got a new personal best,
that's fine, post that.
- I don't have a problem with the pictures
but I do notice
and I'll be like-- - Don't do it.
- That person over there. - I hate it.
You see me, don't do that.
- [Dewayne] All right, favorite part of working at the gym
and least favorite part?
- My favorite part of working at the gym is
we have a really good community at my gym
and a lot of us all hang out together.
After classes people will just hang out, talk,
we'll go grab food a lot of times.
I'd say my least favorite part would be
I hate cleaning the floors at the end.
- Favorite part of working at the gym is
free membership.
- Easy.
Easy, easy, easy. - You get a free membership,
that's the win
that you get. - That's definitely
the best part.
- I agree.
The bond between the members
and even some of the other employees
became more family like.
Here are my least favorite part,
are the complainers and the people with the LA attitudes
and they don't talk much.
- And then I would say my least favorite thing
is seeing everybody every single day
and that fake, how you doin'?
How's it goin'?
- Or working out at that gym
'cause when you work at a gym
and then you work out there,
it doesn't matter if you have headphones on,
it doesn't matter if you're in the middle of your set,
it doesn't matter if you're on a stair master,
they will come up to you,
hey, can you take care of this,
or hey, can you talk to me about my account.
That's annoying so if you are out there,
don't annoy the people that work at a gym
that are working out because then we just charge you fees
that you don't really see.
(laughs)
- Is this a question?
It just says getting freaky in the sauna, question mark?
- Well, we don't have a sauna at my gym
so that's an easy one for me.
- Yes.
Yes. - I can't.
Nah. - Yes.
I've had to kick those people out.
And usually it's from another member,
they'll come up to you and they'll tell you like,
hey, I just wanna let you know
that there's some things that I thought were inappropriate
and they won't directly say what's going on,
but they'll elude to it by either motion.
And then of course you gotta go break the news to them
and kick them out.
- I have not known people or caught people or anything.
I think it's very dangerous if you were to try that.
You're gonna pass out.
- [Dewayne] Have you ever hooked up
with someone while working?
- I'm gonna say no, I have not.
- You're gonna say no?
That sounds like you're unsure.
- I'm sure I have not, yes.
- No.
(chuckles)
- No. - Nah.
- I don't think I have.
- Nah, man, I haven't either.
I try to keep everything separate.
- [Shiquita] Do you work out more or less frequently
since you started working?
- More.
- Less.
It's annoying when people come to the gym
and you wanna work out and then they see
that you work there and they wanna ask you all the questions
so you don't really get a good workout in
when that happens.
And then you just get sick of going to the same place.
- I'd say I work out more since I've started working there
because now I have the keys to the gym,
so if I miss class or something like that
I can just go open up.
And I live maybe a five minute walk away from my gym.
So, I could just walk over there
and go work out.
- The reason why I work out more
now that I got a membership is because,
first off, I ain't gotta pay for it,
second off, I gotta stay in shape.
I got a fear of gettin' knocked out
and I don't ever wanna get knocked out
so I gotta make sure I'm straight
so I don't get knocked out.
- I would say I work out a lot more
since I work at the gym.
It's a perk having free membership,
I can go to any location, any state.
- [Jeremy] How many injuries do you see on a given day?
- I've hurt myself a few times
and I know in crossfit we get a bad rep
and people get hurt
but that's just people who come in there
trying to be the Hulk or whatever
and don't listen to their bodies or to themselves.
But I get nicked up every now and again
but that's 'cause I'm the Hulk, too.
- Not very many.
Most people that I guess work out consistently
know what they're doing.
And if you do see injuries,
it might be like, I need a bandaid
or can you stretch me out
'cause I'm worried about my ham strings
but they might not necessarily be an injury.
- I've never seen anybody get injured
at the gym that I work at.
I have gotten several requests for bandaids.
They accidentally scratch up against something
or there's a basketball court,
people have nails.
Never any major injuries.
- One of my friends maybe a couple months ago now,
we were doing burpees and she was trying to go too fast
and her foot got caught in the ground
so she fractured her foot.
So, that was probably the last injury I saw.
- And me, I see none.
I see no injuries at all.
I close my eyes every time.
I hear about them, I hear people screaming from injuries,
but my eyes never lay sight on injuries, at all.
- [Shiquita] What's the worst injury
you've ever seen at work?
Same thing, just the cut.
- Separated shoulder.
Had a guy who was 60 years old, maybe around there,
and he thought he could step into a crossfit class
and do the same things that he did when he was 20.
He found out very quickly that when you put
135 pounds over your head,
your shoulder goes out when you're 60 years old
and that was a pretty rough time for him.
- Doing box jumps I've seen,
well, also myself,
you slip and get a nice little scrape on your shin.
- I've never had it before, I've never seen an injury before
because if I found out somebody get hurt,
I instantly go lock myself in a room
and I'm not lookin'.
Until the ambulance got them out of there.
I don't look at injuries at all.
None.
What is the strangest thing
someone has left at the gym locker room?
- Usually it just be like people leave their wrist wraps
or jump rope, so nothing crazy.
- My members are weirdos then
because they be leavin' keys, wallets, debit cards,
water bottles, swimsuits, they be leavin' everything.
- For me I would say, cocaine.
Co-co.
- For me I'd say dildos.
That's interesting but you wonder what they were
doing with it while they were there.
That's kind of just my idea naturally.
How did this work?
Was it a leg day?
- On my end I would say syringes.
I live in Hollywood, I work in Hollywood,
so it's a lot goin' on.
Syringes, man.
Keep them clean, please.
- I don't know if that's strange to me.
I feel like that's like an occupational hazard
to have at a gym.
It's just like, you're gonna see needles too.
- I'm disappointed.
I thought the questions would be harder.
They didn't make me think.
No, I'm just kidding.
(chuckles)
- Damn.
I had a lot of fun answering y'all's questions.
- Give us some more, we'll come back
and answer them again.
- These were some cool, interesting questions.
Definitely eye opening that y'all wanted
to know these things.
I hope I answered them,
I hope we answered them. - Yeah, hopefully we
answered all of them.
And if you have more,
drop them into the comments.
- Right under here.
Right under here. - Yeah, we'll be able
to get it taken care of for you, answer it.
Best way we can.
- Yep.
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