Entitled gym patron clashes with trainer over gym's video recording policy, patron needs to be escorted out of the building: 'I am six inches taller than you! You will not tell me what to do!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 8, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Nobody likes that one person in the gym who treats the entire space as if it were an extension of their own apartment.

If you're that territorial about equipment and whatnot, then maybe you should consider exercising within the confines of your own living room. Otherwise, you are going to have to embrace the reality that not everything belongs to you. To that end, the world does not revolve around your workout.

In this instance, we have a deeply annoying patron who was already causing trouble for drawing too much attention to his own weightlifting. We're talking someone who grunted like a gorilla every time he did anything in the gym. This kind of performative exercising has unfortunately become all too common among people who seem to have nothing better to do than flaunt their muscle gains.

This patron, in particular, attended a gym where there were strict rules about no recording. It was well-known among every other patron, and yet of course, this was the kind of person who didn't think the rules applied to him. That would eventually change when a trainer finally called him out on this nonsense!

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  • A senior man watches as a young male trainer demonstrates a strength workout exercise in a gym.
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  • We cannot help but appreciate the determination of this trainer not to let this guy get away with breaking the rules. At this point, he was disturbing other patrons during their respective workouts, and if confronting him meant potentially losing a member of the gym, then so be it! It turned out not to be a big loss at all in the grand scheme of things. In fact, it only made the other patrons all the more loyal.

  • "Gym patron loses his temper when I remind him of gym's strict no recording policy"

    Yesterday afternoon after I finished my final training session at gym I work for a gym patron approached me saying another patron was standing near another patron with what looked like their phone pointed at them. I was shown the two and I walked over.
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  • The guy lifting was making the weirdest grunts as he lifted he sounded like a gorilla. I looked at the guy who was holding the phone and I asked him to stop recording when I saw the screen was recording.
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  • The guy jumps like I startled him and he stops recording but the lifting guy finishes his reps and says, "Did you get all that?" He
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  • drops the weights and sees me standing where his friend was and says, "Do you mind?! We're trying to record a fitness video?!"
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  • I say, "I actually do mind, do you remember the first paragraph in your gym membership that you signed upon joining?"
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  • First paragraph states all signed members will follow the gyms rules and lists all the rules including no recording of any kind of workouts is permitted.
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  • The guy who is the same height as my brothers 6 ft. 5 inches tall storms over to me and says, "I am six inches taller than you! You will not tell me what to do!" I told
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  • him as I use my walkie talkie behind my back pressing a coded message, "You are the same height as my brothers so you don't intimidate me and as the lead fitness trainer I am here to remind you of the rule of the gym you just violated."
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  • Guy says he didn't violate anything and his friend shows the video footage of him lifting and the guy says, "Trainer or not what are you going to do?!" My boss shows up and tells the guy to wipe down the equipment, gather
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  • his stuff out of the locker room and leave. Guy grudgingly does as he's asked and leaves. My boss watches as he and his friend go to locker room and then
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  • leave the building. Luckily the guys wife takes my morning cycling class so I plan to talk to her today about her husbands behavior.
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  • sgwaba 2h ago . Telling the wife! That's worse than a note home from the teacher!
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  • Top_Emu_1486 • 2h ago Can't wait for the wife convo she's gonna humble him faster than any leg day ever could.
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  • Nervous-Rooster... • 19m ago So glad to see a gym not only have but enforce a no recording policy.
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  • Adorable-Article-7... 2h ago lol. Height doesn't make you right, my dude. Gym etiquette over ego every time.
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  • Parkour82 · 2h ago . Do not talk to the wife. The issue is between the patron and the gym. the spouse should not be pulled into it.
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  • the gym can suspend or ban him, but his wife has nothing to do with it just like a random stranger has nothing to do with it (only exception would be if a shared membership and she could get banned too).
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