What are the positives (in the gym)?

brentrhodes
brentrhodes Posts: 139
edited December 18 in Chit-Chat
Totally a time consuming random type thread, but I've seen several threads and posts about the things that bother people when they're at the gym.

What are the things you like or LOVE about being in the gym?

I'll go...I love lifting to fatigue, watching the cal counter go up when doing cardio....and yoga pants :love: . I know that's very creeper like, but yoga pants are part of the reason I'm in good shape! lol!
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  • Jeff92se
    Jeff92se Posts: 3,369 Member
    Yoga pants and sports bras
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    that moment when i pack up my stuff and walk out the door and away from that awful torture chamber of fitness and doom
  • FitBlitz
    FitBlitz Posts: 146
    This is a little rude on my end, but...


    I love it when the little highschool girls come creep on my machine and try to out-do the fat girl. They go a million RPM a minute and leave pissed off and out of breath within five minutes-- and I'm still going strong at level 17-20.

    It's called the resistance button-- use it, chikas.
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    Knowing that after I sweat my life out on the treadmill/stairmaster/weights/yoga studio I get to lay down in the wonderful amazingness that is the steam room.
  • TriciaZ944
    TriciaZ944 Posts: 317 Member
    Seeing other motivated people work out.
    The feeling I have when I've completed a hard workout
    If I have a question there is usually someone there I can ask.
  • brentrhodes
    brentrhodes Posts: 139
    Seeing other motivated people work out.

    This should be on my list too. There are several people at my gym that have made life changing transformations since I've known them. Really really cool seeing people working towards their goals.
  • bugsymalone521
    bugsymalone521 Posts: 57
    1. The time I'm taking for myself.
    2. Learning a new workout or a way to improve.
    3. Breaking a personal best record.

    I can't wait to go tonight. Been off for a week trying to rest an injury.
  • brentrhodes
    brentrhodes Posts: 139
    that moment when i pack up my stuff and walk out the door and away from that awful torture chamber of fitness and doom

    LOL!

    Some days I can completely agree
  • SexyCook
    SexyCook Posts: 2,249 Member
    1. The energy because you know everyone there has beat the odds just by getting up and going...
    2. The sweat that pours off me knowing that I have kicked some Cardio butt
    3. Seeing hands-on progress of people that faithfully come
    4. When I do an exercise I promise in the mirror I feel smaller....lol
    5. Since being on the wall of progress....Love when people come up and ask is that me...It gets me all bubbly inside to talk about it and pass on the excitement for this lifestyle to encourage someone else hands on......

    I LOVE THE GYM!
  • myfitnessnmhoy
    myfitnessnmhoy Posts: 2,105 Member
    Watching them calories burn and planning/dreaming how I'm going to eat them. :)

    I love bicycle rides. I did 41 miles in the cold rain yesterday, mostly to train for the Trek Across Maine, but also because I knew the three hours it took would buy me 3,000 delicious calories. I never did manage to eat all of them.

    Earned exercise calories taste the BEST!!!!
  • dannytheman
    dannytheman Posts: 63
    I've never been in one. Guess I miss out.
  • mznisaelaine
    mznisaelaine Posts: 2,262 Member
    1. I love seeing people really focus and workout
    2. I love seeing how the women are lifting heavier than then men sometimes
    3. and I love seeing muscles lol...Yea but I am not a creeper at all, I am sure of that :flowerforyou:
  • FitBlitz
    FitBlitz Posts: 146
    I've never been in one. Guess I miss out.

    Yeah... maybe, but you have a sweet bike to make up for it. lol *Jealous*
  • MsQt
    MsQt Posts: 793 Member
    When I'm in the gym, I am stress free! As I'm lifting and pressing, I think to myself, " IT'S ME AGAINST MYSELF"

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  • aj_31
    aj_31 Posts: 994 Member
    I love watching all the other guys weight lifting. It motivates me to do more and to want to lift heavier.

    Spending time with my hubs at the gym and having him there to spot me. We are completely focused when we are there but sometimes its nice to look across the weight room and smile at each other. :blushing:

    Seeing women that are super fit and cut from lifting. They motivate me to want to work harder.
  • FitBlitz
    FitBlitz Posts: 146
    When I'm in the gym, I am stress free! As I'm lifting and pressing, I think to myself, " IT'S ME AGAINST MYSELF"


    Weeeeelp, just found my new inspiration for lifting. <3
  • MsQt
    MsQt Posts: 793 Member
    1. I love seeing people really focus and workout
    2. I love seeing how the women are lifting heavier than then men sometimes
    3. and I love seeing muscles lol...Yea but I am not a creeper at all, I am sure of that :flowerforyou:


    Me too! Watching other people lift more makes my weights no so heavy :laugh:
  • MsQt
    MsQt Posts: 793 Member
    When I'm in the gym, I am stress free! As I'm lifting and pressing, I think to myself, " IT'S ME AGAINST MYSELF"


    Weeeeelp, just found my new inspiration for lifting. <3


    Awesome:happy: :wink:
  • MostlyWater
    MostlyWater Posts: 4,294 Member
    the clothes, for sure. and sneakers to match, and a bandana. and a cool water bottle. and a gym bag ...

    it's all good !!!
  • Koshkaxo
    Koshkaxo Posts: 332 Member
    Im a lady with a bf and straight, but im going to have to say yoga pants too! When a really fit girl is confidently wearing them and a cuts shirt, i think to myself: Damn she looks good, someday that will be me!

    I also love that the gym gets me out of the house and that if i drive all the way there, now I have to work out... No escape! Lol
  • rmdaly
    rmdaly Posts: 250 Member
    I am a bit of an introvert so I love taking classes at the gym. That is where I have met some of my longest friendships. Then it makes it easier to get there knowing I am going to see friends.
  • gigishiree
    gigishiree Posts: 62 Member
    most def having every piece of equip at your fingertips. i have weight bench at home thats collecting dust bc i hate changing the weights. i like to zip thru my workout - get done - and get in the steam room. #bliss
  • La_Amazona
    La_Amazona Posts: 4,855 Member
    nice sweaty arm muscles (although my new bf has the most delicious ones and love perving him while he's playing flag football... mmmmmmmmmm)

    the classes i attend (zumba and step)

    being the only chick in the weight room :smokin:
  • UponThisRock
    UponThisRock Posts: 4,519 Member
    Cardio bunnies. They look good and are not in my way.
  • Maryaly40
    Maryaly40 Posts: 551 Member
    arm muscles on my fav eye candies :love:

    The gym is "my" time, whether I bust my butt or not, depending on my mood, it's my definite me time! And did I mention the eye candy? :tongue:
  • cardbucfan
    cardbucfan Posts: 10,571 Member
    I love the gym-it is truly my happy time from lifting to spinning to zumba and I love watching myself lift weights and seeing how strong I am (how narcissitic does THAT sound?!?!) but lately it's watching the little old lady who is no bigger than my pinky lift these incredible weights-geez! Seriously, she's 85 years old! I want to be her when I grow up and I told her that. She did say she prefers her aerobic classes but knows she needs to do weights. Dang. (also, incredibly fit guys don't hurt either!)
  • docktorfokse
    docktorfokse Posts: 473 Member
    i love those cut-away shirts, lol. also when guys squat or deadlift.
  • albinogorilla
    albinogorilla Posts: 1,056 Member
    i often go to a work gym alone, but i also go to a planet fitness, and when I am there, I like when i catch people trying to look without getting caught. And then, later on, watch them copy what I am doing. I don't correct people in the gym, It's not my job, but I will on occasion be near somone, and properly execute whatever it is they are trying to do. So when that sideways suggestion takes hold, It is a good feeling. And at PF, there are tons of people doing god know's what in that weight area...............
  • Testosterone
    Testosterone Posts: 236 Member
    people kind enough to accept that i was on that equipment first instead of arguing as though they are entitled to it because i went to get some water.
  • Changing__Christina
    Changing__Christina Posts: 245 Member
    Cardio bunnies. They look good and are not in my way.

    Us cardio bunnies really enjoy the guys who are picking stuff up and putting it back down! You look great and aren't taking up an elliptical or treadmill that I want! :)
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