I wasn’t talking about all steroid users. I was pointing out @Andrewgen_Receptors lack of balls concerning the opinions he expressed here, in his safe space. Maybe the presence of artificial balls explains the absence of metaphorical balls.
Plenty of steroid users have the latter.
Was this a gym or someone’s closet?
Nope. Not at all.
Its more the false superiority and lack of empathy.
I really enjoyed my job. But I never mixed work with pleasure.
Maybe I just have a short attention span, but when I am in the gym I am 100% engaged. If I had worked there it would have been a mental sap for me. I could never just hangout at the gym. So, no. I never worked at a gym or even gave it any consideration.
I do have some experience with OP’s question. In the late 1970’s we had a powerlifting team. Our Super Heavyweight was about 5’10’ (or so) and weighed in the low 300’s (lbs.) He had plenty of belly and most would consider him fat. I know I did. BUT, he was a near guaranteed 1st place. He had the State Record in the Bench Press at 550lbs (no bench shirts in those days.) He might have been “fat”, but there was plenty of functional mass there.
As I said previously here, I don’t care if someone is fat or not. The fatter they are the better I looked.
I worked in one. And this thread actually has me reminiscing about my times in two gyms I worked out in throughout the 90’s and 2000’s. It was such a different world. People, young and old, men, women, teenagers to 70-somethings, resident gym eccentrics, people who knew each other from outside or inside or from the town were there. People got their stuff done and there were some very impressive people, but they actually spoke to each other and helped each other out. Many friendships were formed and if one were to go out in Queens nightlife or to Jones Beach, he or she was bound to see people from the gym. These days I usually go very early in the morning. If I go after work, I am in and out with minimal talk, but I can tell it’s not the same. Maybe some places are still like that, but not near me.
You know how what’s often pushed and was pushed in fitness media, “Gotta get laser-like bro! Not there to make friends.” I think to myself, “I should have socialized more back then.” Lol.
I might just be a middle aged guy being nostalgic. 
The gym was my “local bar.”
As a guy in my mid 30s, being in shape sets me apart from most other guys. I believe there is assumed competence in a fit individual when 90% of other guys looks sloppy. The majority of the remainder just aren’t fat. Very few have a decent amount of muscle and are lean.
He was misquoted from the beginning and you ran with it, even after he clarified.
You’re doing it again.
I felt it was a good lesson that you don’t need to make a hobby into a job. And that I hate sales. It was a great lesson to interact with people though. I met a few celebrities there.
Tiger Woods looked like a human martini glass, and everyone left him alone. He did a ton of biking and was always focused.
Shaq came in with a group of (8?) guys and the would goof around in the free-weight area. That man could probably pick me up by the head with one hand.
Justin Timberlake was my favorite. He came in, we had a circut training machine area, and he went to do bicep curls on a hamstring machine. When a trainer went to ask if he had any questions, he got mad at her, went to an empty yoga room and did dance moves for half an hour.
Anyway, to get back to the main point, I seek out gyms with 24-hour access, no cardio theaters, the more hole-in-the-wall the better. But gyms do feel very comfortable mentally
I mean from my experience steroids make your balls pretty much non-existent with heavier use.
Balls are overrated anyways. They get in the way and they are a weakness. Weak ass balls.
If you have room for balls, your legs are small.
I used to run around with him as a small kid. My uncle and aunt are best friends with his mom and step-father.
I got to meet have dinner with him and Brittany when they were dating - backstage passes to their shows etc.
That is where it pretty much ends… lol.
No shit? Small world.
Yep, his stepfather and my uncle worked at First Tennessee Bank (now First Horizon) together for years.
This was well before his famous days.
I ask how many sets they have left. If it’s one or two, i usually just say that I’m going to hang out while they wrap up.
If they say more than 2, i ask to work in - which they usually agree to. It’s quite often that they dont complete the number of sets they originally said they had left. Maybe they lied in the first place, or just didnt want to be out-lifted… i couldn’t care which it is. FWIW, some people are so cool with working in, that i offer them to work in on anything they see me doing.
Both have made friends, and both have garnished dirty looks. It is what it is.
The number of folks in this thread who judge me for doing this - who havent been in a commercial gym in years, is ridiculous. Gym etiquette has been terrible since they opened back up post-covid.
The germaphobes went crazy. There were people that would not consider allowing you to work in with them. They would literally say an unconditional “NO.” Once again, I am glad that I am not trying to compete in this gym etiquette environment.
Dude. You DO know that all of this is written down here, right? Like, you get that we can all look and see? Also, do you happen to know that I have difficult conversations for a living, and am expected to track what people say over weeks and months? Today I had two weekly patients, two every-other, and one monthly. Don’t put words in my mouth or pretend I misunderstood what was said. It’s childish, and should be beneath you. Pulling out that I think I am being victimized…lol! I’m perfectly aware that the victim here is you both because that is the way you present yourself…not just a would-be bully, but a petulant one as well…and because I know that you will not be able to make this conversation go the way you want it to, which would be to have me bested by your cool logic. It’s just not going to happen. You’ll finally make one more victim statement and then refuse to engage with me. Because I know, it’s hard and frustrating. It happened earlier with @mnben87, but I think he offered to “agree to disagree” rather than to continue using clear, concise, consistent argument to politely explain his point. Concerning which he was correct, but you seemingly couldn’t follow. Here are the things you’ve had trouble keeping track of with me, because what I posted WAS the clarification. You know, FYI. And now will offer the same face-saving deal as mnben87. Let’s agree to disagree.
Okay, and THEN
And, then
Then I reference this exact post ^^^ here
Because the story has shifted to people who are there not working out at all rather than just “clogging up the equipment doing meaningless sets.”
But again, this is probably enough. I’m glad you’re out there helping people!
@EmilyQ Maybe if you’d been doing my marriage “counseling” back in the day, I’d still be hitched.
Guess I got lucky… ;-0
Not to brag, but I am a John Gottman trained couples therapist, and he’s like the John Lennon/William Shakespeare/Thomas Jefferson/Taylor Swift of relationship work. AND I saw him and Mrs/Dr. Gottman in person! 
There’s no way I wouldn’t have saved your marriage, haha.