Can’t you just take turns?

I understand the frustration of someone taking way, way too long on the machine. It’s an unfortunate reality of going to the gym: every once in a while, you’re going to get someone who insists on doing numerous sets with several minute-long breaks in between, effectively knocking the machine out of use for the foreseeable future.

The great thing about a gym is, however, that you can always just do a different exercise. These women apparently did not know that and, after one of them was judged to be taking too long on a machine, the situation devolved into an all-out brawl.