Hey I resemble that remark!

I'm 53, and I can unload all those plates, I've done it a few times (D3 Gold).

However, I resent cleaning up behind some sweaty grown man or woman. It's not that I can't, but I acutally have a time frame in which I need to complete my workout so I can be somewhere else on on schedule.

I don't want to spend my time cleaning up behind someone else. If you don't want to re-rack your plates, bring your mom to the gym with you, maybe she doesn't mind cleaning up behind you. She can pick up your sweaty towel off the gym floor while she's at it and wipe down the bench after you too.

People leave the 45 pounds plates on the floor sometimes too and I've picked those up two at a time to put them away.

It's not that this 53 year old lady can't, it's that I don't want to.

I agree, I shouldn't have to. The trainers are forever cleaning up behind people, but sometimes there is so much mess -- plates left on the floor, stacks left on the machines, towels left on the floor, that they can't keep up with everything no matter who much they try -- they'd turn into the maintanance crew instead of trainers (D3 Gold).

I do resent having to tidy up behind someone if I want to use a specific machine, or simply not trip on the weights left on the floor, but I do feel good that I CAN do it, I'm not helpless.