I prefer to workout alone. What’s the best way to break it to a buddy?

There is no reason you can't tell someone you prefer to work out alone; that's your right. And it is 100% NOT your responsibility to make sure your friend works out.

Cyclist84 wrote: »

Do you ever get blamed for someone’s lack of gym efforts? So many times my friends mom would tell him to get off his butt and workout. And then he just points the finger at me and says I never invite him to workout.

If this happens again in your presence, I'd speak up. Tell them you work out alone. Repeat it as often as necessary. And if this is a really good friend, consider using some tough love and telling him to stop blaming it on you because whether or not he works out is his choice.

I'd say my schedule was too unpredictable to make plans one way or another and leave it at that.

You ever seen Bates Motel? She’s like Norman’s mother. But always lecturing him about his diet and that he needs to go workout and lose his belly. Sometimes when she asks what I been up to and I say I went on a bike ride, she says her son should go with me and we should do it together. And he never works out. Sometimes he’ll use me as an excuse and say that I never invite him.

This sounds like a bad dynamic. I would stay far far away from these two as they are putting you in the middle instead of the son telling his Mom 1. to stop nagging him and 2. he has no interest in working out.