[quote]Professor X wrote:
At the gym, unless I know you or you look like you have been lifting for a while, I usually won’t carry on jovial banter with anyone unless a comment is made on my way in or out. It is particularly irritating when it comes from someone who looks like it is their first day in the gym. It makes me think that they aren’t serious and that they are trying to interrupt how seriously I do take it.
There is one older guy at my gym who is slightly chubby (read as, beer gut, not too muscular) who seems to take it upon himself to give “advice” to every single “newbie” who comes in the gym. I swear he spends half of his time or more in the gym talking about how they should be lifting, or better yet, how some song on the radio reminds him of when he met the band. I try to turn my MP3 up louder but the image is a little distracting, simply because that is ALL he does.
I think you need to understand that many people do take weight lifting very seriously. They aren’t in the gym to play around, tell jokes, or laugh with you about random comments you make. They are there to stay focused and get the job done. It may be why they look the way they do moving the weight they move. Not only that, but what may seem like “big weight” to you may just be pissing him off because he is feeling weaker that day than usual or he missed his best performance with it.[/quote]
Excellent points! Too many people spend too much time screwing around in the gym instead of working out. It’s not a social club. If you want that go to some machine only girly-gym.