Ready for the New Year Resolution's gym attack?

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  • nyla2120
    nyla2120 Posts: 370 Member
    How about spending some extra time there and helping some of the Resolutioners, as you call them. Then maybe they will stick with it and become regulars and next year they can complain also. We all started somewhere.

    Not a paid trainer, sorry.


    Am I the only one who sees the irony in this? It seems weekly there is a thread full of replies on how we shouldn't give out unsolicited advice at the gym, but then every year in the "gym is packed" thread you see "why don't you just give unsolicited advice"

    ROTFLMAO so true! :laugh:
  • Annie_01
    Annie_01 Posts: 3,096 Member
    Thing is if we have enough time to realise that someone is talking at the top of their voice we prob aren't working hard enough :)

    Generally someone like that is speaking for an audience. They want to be heard. You hear them.

    I wear headphones.

    I had mine on...even with the volume turned up the person drowned out what I was listening to.

    Oh, I get you, same thing happens with me. Of course I could add some commentary about how this relates to the stereotypical differences in listening between genders, but you know...

    LOL Yes...I do know...

    Here is how one doctor explains it...

    "Dr Brizendine explains that testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing - allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends."

    However...to make up for a man's "deafness"...it goes on to say...

    "But what the male brain may lack in converstation and emotion, they more than make up with in their ability to think about sex."

    :-)

    Just kidding...
  • nyla2120
    nyla2120 Posts: 370 Member
    Why are people complaining about a busy gyms in january? I'm happy for all the people trying to become healthier and I will meet them with a smile and a helping hand.

    I'm very happy for people who want to be healthier in the new year. People like that I don't consider to new year resolutioners, I consider them to be people making a real lifestyle change. There is a huge difference.

    And how can you tell them appart? Everyone new in the gym today will be resolutioners trying to make a lifestyle change. Some will suceed and others will struggle and quit. They are still trying so be nice.

    By the people who are trying & the people who are just sitting on the machines playing on their phones for 15 mins. Nobody becomes an expert overnight. I respect people who put in the effort 100%.

    Those new people are not the only ones on their phones. Sometimes it is those that have been going for a long time. In the apt gym that I went to for a while there was a guy that went every day...usually for 1 1/2 half. Of that 1 1/2 hours he was on the phone...sometimes sitting on the equipment...leaving his things laying on a treadmill...etc...etc. There was one trainer...she spent most of her time talking at the top of her lungs...not about fitness...or working with a client...but about her personal life.

    It works both ways...new or not...some people are just inconsiderate of others.

    I agree with you there. Sometimes I think people are napping on them lol!
  • Belinda658
    Belinda658 Posts: 181 Member
    I go to an expensive gym in a working class town. Pretty much never see people wasting time and never seems to be a huge influx of newbies. Not when I'm there snyeay

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