I train alone because if I have an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction at the bottom of a squat, I know nobody is gonna see my Peppa Pig underwear! 
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Gyms have become an increasingly popular “third space” for young people.
It can be annoying (couples and groups 
), but I think it’s overall a positive development that young people are choosing physical activity as their choice of social activity
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That’s a really good point. I hadn’t actually thought of it from that perspective.
Yeah. My wife was aghast when we started dating and went to an eat-n-park after a movie and there was a ton of kids hanging out.
Me- “Well, they aren’t out in the woods getting drunk and doing drugs.”.
Her- " 
".
Gym is fine by me.
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Ohh, childhood.
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For the record- I like lifting with people that lift similarly to me. Not super intense, but not all casual. Talk a little, laugh a little, but when its time to grip & rip or what ever- its done with intensity.
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Tragically so… just phone zombies and emaciated teenagers in sandals with necks bent at 90 degrees
That “physical activity” is just scrolling through their phone mostly.
So just finished up a deadlift session. Some singles and some deficit pulls. Got me thinking, not only do I lift alone, but for the most part its always at night after everyone in my house has gone to sleep. Sometimes ill have a mid-day workout on the weekends but its rare. I literally wait until theres no one to possibly interrupt what im doing. Lol.
I’ll be 40yrs old in a few days. Shins have been bleeding for 20 years. Lord willing, they’ll keep bleeding 20 more.
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I do the same thing, but it’s usually in the morning so I’m back before they wake up. Working out usually leaves me very mentally awake, so nights would be a bad idea, but the principle is the same.
I much prefer a late morning workout, around 10 am. The kids are off to school, my wife is working, and the gym is sparsely populated.
Psychologically I don’t do it so I’m not interrupted, it’s more about how I can’t get to that gym happy solo time unless I know everyone else in the family is taken care of and won’t need or miss me.
Also, happy birthday. Being in your 40’s is great. It’s the first time you can be an adult in adult years with adult money.
Your 20’s are spent acting like a kid with adult resources, your 30’s are anxious teenager 2.0 in a job that is basically high-school all over again, but being 40 is fun.
And then at 50 you have nothing else to do but be irresponsible, starting the cycle all over again.
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Dont agree with part of this.