Someone throws in tips and advice to others in the gym?

ayson9

When I first started working out at the gym and probably several years afterwards, I used to think that those who give random pieces of tips and advices on the workout I’m doing are just obnoxious cocky and annoying individuals.

This is in regards to those people who look the part in knowing their *kitten* and having the results to prove it.

Honestly, I wish someone had stepped in and gave their tips and tricks when I first started training, it would have filled me in on a lot of stuff I used to do wrong, the injuries I didn’t need to suffer and the setbacks in weight lost that I didn’t know until I started being open about receiving advice.

The most likely cause in my first response to individuals who give unsolicited advice is most likely due to my insecurities and self consciousness about myself just trying to put up a front and assuming that every individual out there is an *kitten* telling me what to do and how to do it, when in reality, they were simply trying to help in making sure I’m doing things properly and effectively in regards to nutrition and training.

I also partly feel that it is just a social norm for anyone who has only begun their fitness journey to react to those unsolicited but most likely helpful advice.

What do you think would be a good practice or approach to be able to help beginner gym goers in offering helpful tips without making them think you’re just a cocky *kitten* thinking their hot *kitten*?

Kst76

I would probably appreciate advice as well...but it really matters how you approach ...obviously, and who you are approaching. I don't know...unless somebody is doing it in a way they can get injured right there...like what they are doing is straight up dangerous..I wouldn't say anything. But that is just me.
I had a guy come up to me once and corrected me. Then he pulled up his shirt and showed me a scar he received following a surgery he claimed to have had due to doing the exercise the way I did it...lol...maybe he was just showing off..but it worked. I changed the way I did the exercise from them then on.

concordancia

I don't see how this is different from your other thread, but I will add that I don't get bothered because of insecurities, but rather because most people who give unsolicited advice are full of *kitten*. The only kind of advice that should ever be offered in this way is if someone is about to hurt themselves.

No stranger in the gym knows my goals, my strengths, my weaknesses, my medical concerns.

AnvilHead

See your identical thread here for more discussion:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10662787/unsolicited-advice-at-the-gym