I'm "impressive"?!

rand486 wrote: »

inchwormbyinchworm wrote: »

Awesome. I actually prefer deadlifts to squats. I once had a guy who was showing the gym to his girlfriend. They watched me deadlift and he said I can lift more than him. I was hoping for his sake that she was his sister

Or perhaps he's a secure human being who doesn't need to peacock around the gym and/or decided to say something nice to a stranger?

Consider the flip side - some douchey meathead that walks by and laughs at you, then tells the other girl how much he can lift.

There's just no pleasing some people...

I find the secure human beings far outnumber the douchey meatheads in my gym, at least insofar as people actually say anything to me. But maybe it's a gender/age thing -- maybe it's easier for a guy to say something encouraging or complimentary to an older woman (past 50), because there's no sense of competing with me, like there might be with another guy, and no need to impress me, like there might be with a young woman.

I've even had sensible, polite, two-way (non-lecture) conversations with young (to me, anyway!) guys in the weight section on things like the most effective way to get to be able to do "real" push-ups (rather than from-the-knee push-ups) and whether it's OK to suggest to people to remove the plates from a bar when they're done (not something either of us had done -- it just came up in conversation when I was trying to determine if somebody was between sets on the loaded squat rack, when nobody seemed to be in the vicinity, and when I located him I remarked that I was pretty sure somebody was using it, because people in our gym don't generally leave the bar loaded when they're done).