I prefer to go to the gym alone. Anyone else?

Alone...otherwise I get too distracted to get a good workout in...plus I look weird and feel mean when I am lifting, so I wouldn't make a good partner!

Hey there, fellow introvert! Always nice to me another of our kind. :laugh:

I would seriously copy and paste what you just wrote to her in a message. Or read it real natural-like when you call her to decline.

I cannot work out with a partner, for all of the reasons you just stated. I work out at home now because I got tired of people trying to chat me up at the gym (I guess I have a friendly face that screams "TALK TO ME, PLEASE!") I don't understand why others would want to do it, really.

Explain it honestly, and I think she will understand.

I'm typically a loner. Most people at the gym think I'm a snob since I don't talk to anyone. Once I'm on the floor, I focus on working out. I don't hear anything around me as my headphones block out most noise & what's left is blocked out by the blaring music from my iPhone directly into my ears.

I have one friend who I workout with 2 or 3 times a week, she's like me tho: we go in, decide what we're working & we work hard - we do chat a little, but we don't just stop & chat - it's always constant motion with us. Workout time is my "me-time", I can think, I can plan, I can organize. I pay enough attention to not walk into someone or disrupt someones workout, but I keep to myself otherwise.

For you friend, go ahead, workout with them once - let them know usually you workout alone, but maybe you can workout once a week: you may learn something from each other (new moves, better form & posture, etc.). You may also inspire them more or vice versa. Take chance, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. You're an adult, you can speak up.

Me too!! Though If I workout with someone who has no problem keeping up with me and doesn't mind being not so chatty then I am fine with it.

unless the person i'm working out with is on the same exact page as me, i absolutely must work out alone. fortunatly my gym buddy is pretty much on the same mindset as i am. we may lift different sized weights, but we do enjoy our work outs together. but we don't hit the gym every time together.

i find that talking about what you want to do the day before may be a good way to prepare the person to be working at your intensity. it may also discourage the person from coming, which is what you might want.

I would rather go to the gym by myself too. It's my "me" time... I don't need/want any distractions.

i feel the same way. when i go with most people i have to change my routine for them because the dont want to do some of the things that i do and they want to talk the whole time we are there

well im just the opposite i find doing it with others more fun. Maybe if u dont want to hurt her feelings you could just explain how u feel and offer to go with her once a week and do the other days by yourself. Just a thought. gl

I like to run with others, but definitely like hitting the gym alone. Extra people = extra time

I find it a whole lot easier- and less stressful to work out alone. I tried working out with a friend of mine... I finally had to fire her as a workout buddy. She pestered me constantly about wanting to work out with me, so I'd call her those days when I was getting ready to leave- I have a 1/2 hr. drive while hers was 15 min if she hit every red light. I mostly got excuses why she couldn't go. The best was the day she couldn't work out because it was too cold and the zipper on her jacket broke- it was in the 50's outside; sweatshirt weather in WI. On the majority of the days she did show she was late- as much as 45 min. That was when I finally put my foot down. We're still friends, so her firing was just a little bump in the road.

I do not go to the gym with other people, and I purposefully keep my headphones on at all times to let people at the gym know I do not want to talk to them :laugh:

I think it depends who you work out with. I only really ever had one person I could do so with. We would run outside during the summer and do circuit training and such. Gym time.. we went together but didn't stick together. We had the same kind of motivation. But OMG!! I get so annoyed seeing 2 girls chit chatting while they tie up 2 machines that they are just using as a stool. I really don't care if you wanna chat... do it off the equipment. For that reason, I go alone.

YES!! Most people I know say that when they make a plan a to workout with others, it keeps them accountable to show up because they don't want to disappoint the others. I find that when I've agreed to workout with friends - I'm doing it for them, not for me. When I go to the gym/workout alone, I'm doing it for me (as it should be).

I prefer to workout alone the majority of the time but I'm not opposed to it. Either way, I'm going to get my workout in. So if someone is joining me at the gym, I let them know beforehand that we will put in some work. That weeds them out quickly...

Def. Get less done.