How to deal with *kitten* at the gym...

What do you do? Focus on what you're there to do. That may gain you some respect, that's been my experience, but if not who cares. You're not there to make friends.

But honestly, a woman nosing about the weights room, who obviously isn't a member or dressed for a workout probably isn't going to be welcomed by the guys using it.

You'll probably find their attitude changes a lot once you start turning up regularly and being serious about your workouts.

Yeeeaahhh screw them!! Ur there to do what u want to do not what other think u should be doing! xxxx

Although I no longer weight train, I spent a decade or so lifting in all types of different gyms, from spit and sawdust hardcore gyms where you'd never think about taking a shower and half the guys were working out still wearing their builders boots, to large fancy chains where most of the ladies are wearing full make up and designer gym wear (ok I exaggerate on the make up).

Without exception it's the men in the fancy gyms that are the bigger idiots - and typically they don't know what the hell they are doing and look like crap, spending more time chatting with their popped-collar buddies and slamming down their dumbells with twice the force they lift them up with.

Put your headphones on, escape into your own world, focus on what you are there for and ignore those fools. They're struggling with some deep-seeded insecurities (probably man-boobs and erectile disfunction) and are now revelling in their new domain where they can look down on a lady because she isn't as strong as they are. Pitiful.

You could also have fun coming on here each week describing their latest stupid antics :-)

Well if you lift after doing cardio I understand them!!

Kidding. I say just fake it until you feel it and go there as if you have done it all your life. You will see it is very fun to lift with the big boys

Get a pair of these (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CXBJ6A/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00) they're worth it...but set your ipod's max volume to about 1/3 it's normal max. They are high isolation. You can be talking to me standing right in front of me and rather I'm listening to a cello solo or Hatebreed...I will not hear you. When I go to the gym I am in my own little world. F everybody else. I focus on having as close to perfect form as possible and measure myself against previous workouts.

In life there are always going to be people who laugh at you...that's just the way it is. You're either strong enough to know who you are and do your thing or you're not.

Your diet is slightly more important that what you do in the gym...the two of them combined are a potent combination for transformation.

You are (believe it or not) not any different that tons of other people who have turned their lives around and now live healthy lifestyles.

“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Master your thoughts...that is the first step to mastering your life. If you want to do it, you will.

I realize the irony in pairing a Gandhi quote with a pair of relatively high end audio gear.....//irony.

Or ask why they were laughing, that might shut them up.

Without exception it's the men in the fancy gyms that are the bigger idiots - and typically they don't know what the hell they are doing and look like crap, spending more time chatting with their popped-collar buddies and slamming down their dumbells with twice the force they lift them up with.

This made me laugh so much! My gym is the same, and I would never dream of entering the free weights section, or c*ck corner as my friends and I call it. They either look down their nose at you for being in there, or stare at your bum without even attenmpting to hide it. It's such an intimidating place. It's definitely a no-go zone for women!

But honestly, a woman nosing about the weights room, who obviously isn't a member or dressed for a workout probably isn't going to be welcomed by the guys using it.

I go in after a 40-45 minute cardio warm up...no make up, sweaty, face all flustered and hair a mess

Sorry, I thought you meant you went in there when you were checking the place out. Honestly just don't give them a second thought. Treat random people who happen to be in the weights room as irrelevant to you and they instantly become irrelevant.

Or ask why they were laughing, that might shut them up.

Yes, but challenge just one of them. Put a couple of men together and they can egg each other on, but catch a guy on his own and challenge his behaviour and he'll be incredibly embarrassed.

I always say if someone is watching. Give them something to watch.

Just keep in your head that you are there for you.

Screw em.

If that doesn't work, spork them in the underballs.

Best advice EVAH! :bigsmile: