Am I the only one who does this?

The only way I'd ever think anything remotely bad of someone else is if they were truly dirty/smelly (and NOT just from sweating during the workout), or wearing dingy yellowed formerly white bras and panties that were visible. Period.

Im eternally grateful I havent seen this.. 0.o

lol I've seen it at the supermarket, unfortunately.

Sadly, you are just going to a crap gym. Ages ago, I went to a gym that was actually a pick up joint in disguise. I say, if you go to your gym to exercise, ignore the others and exercise. I'm currently going to a gym that is awesome. Everyone is there to exercise. There are no girls showing up as you described, busily posing in front of the mirrors, pretending to lift weights at my former gym. There are wonderful gyms out there. I love mine and I hope you find one like it some day. Meanwhile, ignore the divas and build yourself a body the others will secretly envy. Best of luck to you!

Hey everyone! Hope your day is going well!

So here is my thing,I do a lot of home work outs, so when I actually go to the gym, I go there to Get.Stuff. Done. I don't go there to flirt or hang out, I go there to sweat. And a lot. The thing is, I go to the gym at my university and it's filled with girls with their hair done all nice and cute, make up on, and some cute matching outfit (Once I saw a girl on the bike in heels. No lie) and they glare at me for having the audacity to show up in a baggy shirt and shorts with my hair pulled back out of my way and either in a messy ponytail or braid.

So my question is, am I the only one who does this? Should I start dressing up? Are the days of showing up at the gym to work out over? I could really use some feedback that Im not alone in this lol Do you guys get this too?

Thanks!!
-Rachael

My question is what's wrong with looking nice at the gym? as many of you seem to have asked already from my short glance through this thread. Being the minority in this situation doesn't somehow make it okay for you to judge these other girls.
Do your own thing. Worry about yourself.

Other than the perfume comment :sick: I don't really care what other people are doing.

There's one young woman who goes to my gym who has lovely curly hair pinned up, matching ensemble (and she's rarely wearing the same outfit twice) and generally looks better presented than me (admittedly this is not difficult), but she's extremely fit. She's quite heavily pregnant now and still working out and doing it better than most of us in there.

I also see no problem with people going there to meet someone, I get dressed up to pick up weirdos in bars, why should the gym be any different? At least you'll be guaranteed someone fit and into beefcaking, if that's what you're into too.

I used to go to a flashier gym and the only thing that really bothered me there was the fake tan marks in the steam room :sick:

I hate looking at myself in the mirror generally, but I do look to see what I'm doing when I'm lifiting weights. I laugh at the stupid expressions I'm pulling, and make sure I'm not stooping or wonky, rather than checking out my hot bod.

People chill she was just asking a question. I really hate how these forums can get so biased and people call the OP out like they're a bad person for even posting it, such as "we'll you're on here judging them for what they do, aren't you in the wrong too?" or "if you're so busy why can you see them making glares at you?"

Shut the hell up. Everyone of us sees what others are doing in the gym anyway because there are mirrors all around us. If you dress cute, cool. No one is hating, and she wasn't either. We all go to the gym enough to know who is there to work and who isn't. That's who she was describing, the girls that put on make up just to go to the gym, not the ones coming in with old make up on from work or school.

Maybe she felt insecure about herself and came on here to ask what others thought since she did say, "Should I start dressing up?" So who are any of you to say she's in the wrong for judging people and making a forum about it?

i put on make up just to go to the gym.

i do what i want.

Who cares what anyone else there is wearing or doing? Wear what you want and do what you went there to do... Seems like you just started this post to trash those other girls...

People chill she was just asking a question. I really hate how these forums can get so biased and people call the OP out like they're a bad person for even posting it, such as "we'll you're on here judging them for what they do, aren't you in the wrong too?" or "if you're so busy why can you see them making glares at you?"

Shut the hell up. Everyone of us sees what others are doing in the gym anyway because there are mirrors all around us. If you dress cute, cool. No one is hating, and she wasn't either. We all go to the gym enough to know who is there to work and who isn't. That's who she was describing, the girls that put on make up just to go to the gym, not the ones coming in with old make up on from work or school.

Maybe she felt insecure about herself and came on here to ask what others thought since she did say, "Should I start dressing up?" So who are any of you to say she's in the wrong for judging people and making a forum about it?

i put on make up just to go to the gym.

i do what i want.

Me too!

LOLOL

Well, it took me a crap load of guts to walk into a gym a few weeks ago....I'm 150 pounds overweight and if it wasn't for my cute outfit, I probably wouldn't have been able to go in lol. Vanity? Yep.

OH girl I so get this.

When I was at my heaviest with about the same amount to lose, the iPod and cute matchy size 22/24 workout clothes bought from Lane Bryant (coordinating sneakers of course) were the only way I managed to get out there on the streets of my neighborhood walking every night. I could seriously credit this with my first 20 lb lost.