Has anyone made friends at the gym?

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  • LishieFruit89
    LishieFruit89 Posts: 1,956 Member
    Please don't talk to me unless im stretching or my headphones are out.

    I dont even like talking to people walking in.
  • reggie7727
    reggie7727 Posts: 29 Member
    Every friend I have I meet at the gym. Wierd, but true.
  • Mother_Superior
    Mother_Superior Posts: 1,624 Member
    Just the one older guy who asked if he could spot me. I thought it was a little odd at first, as we were both in the sauna, but hey, you only go around once, amirite?
  • TracieJ65
    TracieJ65 Posts: 645 Member
    I became a member at my local YMCA, about 2 years into my lifestyle change, and enjoyed all the people, and teachers, that I encountered in the classes, that 6 months after I became a member I applied for a PT evening position there! I was hired the same day and am a PM shift manager of the service desk. I have met, talked to, gotten great advice from, and gotten to know so many new people that I enjoy every minute I am there weather working out or working.
  • _G4BR13L_
    _G4BR13L_ Posts: 131 Member
    No one talks to me at my gym. :angry:

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  • Kirstina88
    Kirstina88 Posts: 14 Member
    I made friends at my previous gym, and I've started to make them again now at my new gym.

    It doesn't seem to happen though unless your in group classes which is because you tend to stand in the room chatting waiting for the class to start.

    I really enjoy boxfit/boxercise/fight klub classes and they generally involve partnering with someone else which is another good way to get chatting to someone and really helps push me further.

    The people I meet at the gym are definitely the reason I go sometimes...... 'but I told so and so I'd be there tonight...'
  • Joreanasaurous
    Joreanasaurous Posts: 1,384 Member
    I have made friends in classes, but when I am doing weights then I am usually too busy dying to make friends or glaring at whoever is on the squat rack.
  • _G4BR13L_
    _G4BR13L_ Posts: 131 Member
    Just the one older guy who asked if he could spot me. I thought it was a little odd at first, as we were both in the sauna, but hey, you only go around once, amirite?

    LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUNNNNNNNNNNNNN
  • sheenarama
    sheenarama Posts: 733 Member
    No one talks to me at my gym. :angry:

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    Do you growl at people when they try to talk to you? That'd do it!
  • DannehBoyy
    DannehBoyy Posts: 546 Member
    I Talk to the trainers sometimes. There are a couple of others i say "alright mate" too...lol. But no one i could class as a true friend
  • marypatmccue
    marypatmccue Posts: 521 Member
    I didn't read all the responses, but... as an instructor myself, I think it depends WHAT you are doing at the gym. If you're going to a class in the group fitness room, that's mostly the point. Group fitness encourages accountability for a lot of people. If you're lifting on the floor, I don't think you'll make lots of friends.

    Just my humble noticings while I'm both working, and working out at the gym on a regular basis!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I have met a couple of guys at the gym but by and large we're there to work...I like to pretty much be in and out and get my workout in as efficiently as possible. The guys I have met, I have done so because they are more experienced than I am with power lifting and Olympic lifting so I've approached them at various times to ask for advice.

    When we see each other though, conversations are pretty brief and generally take place in the minute or so rest between sets, then it's back to work...and most conversations revolve around some aspect of fitness or what injury we're currently dealing with, etc.

    I've been at my gym for over a year now and really, I'm only gym acquaintances with a couple of guys...we don't hang out outside of the gym or anything like that. By and large I don't think of the gym as a very social setting, but then again, I don't take classes or anything like that so maybe that would be different. I know I've met more people doing my cyclocross practices and the like than I have one on one in the gym.

    Also, for meeting people with similar interests I highly recommend www.meetup.com I belong to both a cycling group and hiking group...it is a great way to meet people with similar interests and fitness aspirations, etc and the purpose is to actually meet up...so you're not interfering with someone's workout.

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