I ask to work in. Never fails
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Do the less-strong go away when you do? Like, scurry off, embarrassed?
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Sometimes theyāll abandon the whole rig, yeah. But I wonder if itās about being less strong or more about just not wanting to have a social interaction in general.
I generally manage to share gym space and equipment successfully. I confess this might be because I am not as inspirational/intimidating (delete as appropriate) as some.
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I spend a fair bit of time scurrying and whatnot. No one would ever mistake me for someone who lifts.
But when I did lift with a few other people we would do round robin style squat days. Round Robin was fat and despicable btw. So starting with the bar everybody would hit 3 fast reps. Then we add a plate. Then 3 fast reps, add a 25 lb. Next set, remove the 25, replace with 45, and continue with that progression until everybody hit their widely varying numbers.
Like one guy would stop at 225, but the best squatter of the bunch hit like 685 regularly.
Everybody else would do accessory work as the weight progressed beyond their ability.
I would usualy be out by the bird feeder fighting chipmunks and sputzies for sunflower seeds.
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This new format is a bit of a pain on desktop 
definitely will need some getting used to
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FINALLY. The amount of scrolling I had to do.
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Confessions:
I confess I nearly broke my damn foot yesterday after watching some guy unload two plates at once from the bar, and thinking I should try that. In my defenseā¦ I have none.
I confess that I have started taking a big swig of pickle juice before my workouts. I donāt actually know if it helps with hydration, but I do know my football coach made us drink pickle juice before practice, and the placebo effect is real.
I confess I had a meticulous diet all November leading into thanksgiving because I knew I was going to do some damage, and that damage has not stopped since thanksgiving
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When I was a personal trainer, I had any guys who were all about the curls stick 5 lb plates in their armpits to make them concentrate on form. One guy did break a toe when he flared his elbows. Which was kind of the point. But he switched trainers after.
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When I was a doctor Iād sometimes prescribe my patients a shot of whiskey and a punch in the nose, but then some fancy lawyers used a lot of big words to say I canāt practice medicine anymore. Not even if I go to college.
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At least these patients were awarded a life changing experience at the doctorās office! 
Call me lyle because I loveitt.
When I was working at Golds Gym in Orlando, my apartment complex had a gym available, and since I was friends with two other trainers who lived in the same complex and both worked at Golds, we would work out in the gym, but not try to train clients there - that was the off time gym.
A trainer named Max (donāt remember last name), had a binder he had displaying his services on the front desk so people could see it. Max was probably a nice guy. I got irritated because I would wake up at 5 am and jump between the complexes hot tub and swimming pool as contrast therapy, and one morning he was there in the hot tub and reading a star wars novel. Canāt be in the tub with someone else. This is why I do it at 5 am.
I could have chosen to be friendly, since Iām a huge Star Wars fan. But I chose evil.
So me and this other trainer (names redacted to protect the guilty,) printed this photo, with the logo āTake it to the Max!ā And made that the front picture of the binder. We started working out since we wanted to see his reaction.
A husband and wife come in and the husband does a double take, and starts laughing. When his wife asks him what was so funny, he says āHe in da pornos!ā
Anyway, we finished our work out, didnāt get to see Maxās reaction. I took a rest day, then went to the gym again. The photo on the front of the binder had been replaced with professional one. But, with one crucial change. Before it was just a picture with personal trainer, NPTI, generic thing, as the lettering.
The new one had āTake it to the Max!ā
Even though Iām 99.99% sure itās a scam, Iām tempted to buy this.
Universal Studio Orlando is 1000x better than Disney.
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I confess I went to the best birthday ever today. It was my nephews 7th birthday and it was at some parkour gym type thing. It was great because for an hour I could shoot random kids with nerf guns and not get in trouble. Also, watching kids execute kids with nerf guns and then sprint only to face plant was pretty amazing
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I confess that I regret not trying to learn Russian in undergrad.
Iāve been working on learning it this quarter as a distraction and turns out translating rants and complaints is a great way to pick up grammar 
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Do Russians complain as much as we do in the USA?
They complain. but about very different things.
I just use the rants as a jumping off point.
For example
āI am going to dieā ā learn future tense
āI have too much workā ā learn possession and ātoo much/ too littleā
āWhy am I doing thisā ā learn questions
General complaints ā learn curse words
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Iāve heard their dialects and slang terms can be mind-boggling to translate.