Got a mean look at the gym? Gym ettiquette?
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I have a totally miserable, upside down smile, WTF you looking at face but inside I am very happy. Most people tell me to cheer up all the time so he might be someone similar. Just has that type of face. Don't worry about it.0
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You are overthinking it.0
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DucklingPrincess wrote: »So, I went to the gym at my local YMCA for the first time earlier (I had just been doing my exercise from home before, but I felt like shaking it up). I get on the little stair stepping thing... I don't know what it's called... I turn on my audiobook, and then I start. About 20 minutes into my workout, this one older dude finished his and then went to go talk to a friend of his. While he walked past, he just shot me a really mean look. Are there some gym etiquette rules that I was unknowingly breaking? Or is he either just not very nice or I am I making something out of nothing?
Probably a combination of him having resting *kitten* face (I am a sufferer) and there just not being a whole load of places you can look at the gym.
Also, are you perhaps a bit self conscious? I know when I started at the gym I thought people were looking at me funny but I was just projecting my own insecurities.
Now I really don't care though In fact I think the opposite. I figure if I don't feel I look at least a bit ridiculous, I'm probably not working hard enough.0 -
This happened to me. There was a sign up sheet and I took someone else's slot. I didn't know about the sheet. No signs.0
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Hope this isn't too inappropriate, but maybe he had "Bitchy Resting Face Syndrome." This video explains the condition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v98CPXNiSk
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arditarose wrote: »is it only at the gym where people spend so much time trying to analyze the thoughts of random strangers or do people do the same thing at like, Subway too?
You mean the sandwich store or the public transit? I give people lots of nasty looks on the subway. I hope they know exactly what I'm thinking.
HA. I hope people know exactly what I'm thinking on the subway too, but it never seems to work.
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sparky00721 wrote: »Was the guy who gave you the dirty look Inigo Montoya? And had you killed his father? If so, that would explain it, but otherwise I got nothing.
I love Inigo Montoya! His costume (yes, the real one they used in the film) is exposed at the Seattle museum. I saw it
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Next time you go to the gym, pick out the biggest meanest looking dude. Beat him down, in front of everyone.
You win that first fight correct, there won't be any others. Law of the jungle.0 -
Next time you go to the gym, pick out the biggest meanest looking dude. Beat him down, in front of everyone.
You win that first fight correct, there won't be any others. Law of the jungle.
THIS..
OR
next time he does that get in his face and just scream "WHAT!!??" and keep staring him down until he walks off....0 -
It could just be how his face looks like, maybe he is having a bad day or maybe you were making a face that you didn't realize you were doing. Don't sweat it.0
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DucklingPrincess wrote: »I was wearing headphones, and yes, I wore deodorant. Maybe sound was bleeding out of the headphones or something?
Were you wearing perfume? Anyone wearing a strong scent in the gym deserves dirty looks all day long (not to say you were, just in general)
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DucklingPrincess wrote: »I was wearing headphones, and yes, I wore deodorant. Maybe sound was bleeding out of the headphones or something?
Were you wearing perfume? Anyone wearing a strong scent in the gym deserves dirty looks all day long (not to say you were, just in general)
I put it on that morning, before school, but this was about 6:30 at night, so I imagine that you wouldn't smell it anymore.
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I'm going to say he either (a) has bitchy rest face syndrome or (b) has never seen someone with pink hair. Assuming you still have pink hair. Seriously doubt you were doing anything wrong on a stair master. Either way, don't let it bother you.0
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MrBiggiesworth wrote: »Perhaps what you presumed was a mean look was just his post workout face.
My thoughts as well....Maybe he was just really tired. Or the pink hair could have thrown him off?
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Maybe he just needed to fart0
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Once there was a really mean faced girl staring at me the entire time I was on the treadmill. Like she wanted to kill me.
Then I realized it was the mirror across the gym.
(I'm only half-joking.)0 -
AllanMisner wrote: »Were you slinging sweat?
Were you arguing with the book author (yes, I’ve done that, and cursed during)?
Were on his elliptical (I named mine Martha)?
Were you working harder than him?
Since the answer to all of this is likely no (except for maybe the last one, and he wouldn’t care), your are probably overthinking this.
Thank you Allan, for my laugh for the day... was it Martha as in Martha Stewart = perfectionist?? lol
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