Obviously there are rules at gym, written or unwritten that are important to follow by anyone and keep it as comfortable as possible.
Yes the etiquette which is important factors where you don't want to attend certain gym if the place is too noisy or dirty as example.
After all gym is a public place thus you can't treat it like your home obviously, and you don't want to ruin someone's experience at gym either.
So beside your focus to train at gym, following the unwritten rules at gym is your "contribution" personally in order to make the gym ideal place for exercise.
When the users don't respect each other, it's harder to create decent environment and they don't want to stay with such place longer. Plus you can avoid unnecessary conflict with others.
Therefore, the main activity which is exercise can be practice without any issue at all.
First let's start with the gym equipment and see that you don't want to train with the tool for too long.
Obviously other people want to use the "popular" equipment like barbells.
Especially when the gym is too crowded, then consider it so others are not gonna wait for it.
Keeping the gym tool clean is totally important for your convenient and others.
Certainly you don't want to eat snacks and leave the trash on the floor.
After using certain equipment, you can take it back to the shelf or where they belong. With this you can make the place look clean enough to see.
Moreover, cutting the queue must be avoided as well getting too close with others.
All gym users need enough space to use the tool and of course they also need privacy and freedom to do exercise.
Even though it's not "forbidden" to socialize with others, you still need to keep the tone of voice low.
Thus you are not gonna distract and ruin the focus of others while they're practicing.
The same thing can be treated with music you play, and you can use earphone so your music don't disrupt others while doing the exercise.
In some case you want to take pictures or video of your training at gym.
Maybe it's just for the memory or you want to see the progress and compare the result.
Certainly you must respect privacy of others by not taking their pictures, unless they are consent of course.
Moreover, you can choose the time for the gym is not too crowded so it'd be easier to document your activity.
Finally those unwritten rules at gym shouldn't be any issue to follow if you actually want to respect yourself and others, and help create ideal gym environment for body training.
There are also written rules that may different from one gym to another, basically with the same goal as above.
Yes everything that is necessary and not only training you focus on, when you need to see more factors that could contribute enough for helping you run the full program for training.
