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lifting....alone or with a partner?

Lift alone or with a partner?

  • yes

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • no

    Votes: 3 37.5%
  • doesn't matter

    Votes: 2 25.0%

  • Total voters
    8
do you like going to the gym alone or with someone else? i like going alone because it's faster, but it get boring....solo or with people? do tell
 
i like to go with someone else so they can spot my bench press especially.. i just like the company too.

however, i'll be gymming solo because my roommate (who i dare say i'm in slightly better shape than probably, not that he's fat at all...) told me he doesn't "work out with girls"... no idea why.

i do my thing, i told him, i just wanted someone on chest/back day esp. to spot me bench pressing. anyone care to explain wtf he meant?
 
smallmovesal said:
i like to go with someone else so they can spot my bench press especially.. i just like the company too.

however, i'll be gymming solo because my roommate (who i dare say i'm in slightly better shape than probably, not that he's fat at all...) told me he doesn't "work out with girls"... no idea why.

i do my thing, i told him, i just wanted someone on chest/back day esp. to spot me bench pressing. anyone care to explain wtf he meant?

i work out with girls:p

im an excellent spotter too smally. :D
 
smallmovesal said:
i like to go with someone else so they can spot my bench press especially.. i just like the company too.

however, i'll be gymming solo because my roommate (who i dare say i'm in slightly better shape than probably, not that he's fat at all...) told me he doesn't "work out with girls"... no idea why.

i do my thing, i told him, i just wanted someone on chest/back day esp. to spot me bench pressing. anyone care to explain wtf he meant?

That's probably b/c he's worried you'll kick his ass in the gym and/or he's had his ass kick in the gym plenty of times by a "girl". ;)
 
I've always worked out alone. Normally, I'm quite social...but I HATE making chit-chat in the gym.

Every so often, one of my friends gets "inspired" and decides to start working out. Natually, I have to take 'em with me when I lift and it always messes me up having to talk to 'em between sets.

It's like part of my brain shuts off or something. :)

T.
 
hell i eat lousy and i havent been to the gym in a week, due to 2 weeks of injuries u wouldnt believe


i could understand why he wouldnt work out with a girl.....you need a lot of concentratioon sometimes on lifts....i for one get very uncomfortable if i am doing a physical activity (aside from u know what) with a girl as it can involve a compiormising position...ive seen a lot of bad things so im not grossed out.embarrassed but im nervous how they will react, say if your squatting and he needs to grab you hips, or hes benching and he sees a lot of big bouncing boobies above him....its tough to keep control for some.

i was told to stretch with my sifu's girlfriends an there was one where i stretched her out akimbo with my face about a foot away from my crotch...i was sooo embarrased i couldnt look at her as i dodnt know how she or my sifu would react.

i could gym with a girl. if she benched more than me i could cope...id just need a good cry first :bawling:

u can tell what he meant by it by the tone of his voice.

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i work out alone, never found any one dedicated to gym work enough
 
it was in a "girls are yucky" tone of voice from childhood... so i read sexism into it.

it sounded much like as if women don't get anything done at the gym and are there to score dates and chat... which can be true but i stated that i do my thing and i just need to be spotted when benching.
 
bikinigirl said:
it was in a "girls are yucky" tone of voice from childhood... so i read sexism into it.

it sounded much like as if women don't get anything done at the gym and are there to score dates and chat... which can be true but i stated that i do my thing and i just need to be spotted when benching.

what gym would this be at :)

if u want to go to the gym alone, and bench is the only lift u need spotting, use dumbells....its better than flat and if u hav any trouble just let the damn things drop to the floor. valdez recommended it to me and i never looked back........

girls have cooties :p
 
i go with my friend, but only so he can spot me, only reason

im sure i can go alone and pick out another spotter
 
can't go alone all the time, especially if you want to do a real chest workout. but it all depends on your partner. if your partner is crap and doesn't like working out and doesn't push you to work out it might as well be you alone working out. a partner can either bring you up or just straight down with him. a good workout partner is hard to find
 
Alone, but I use a spotter on chest etc

half the time people get in the way, theres no-one here who has the same comitment/dedication/goals that I have so i just go alone and psyche myself up
 
I like it when there are 3 of us..Me, the bar, and the weights.

B True
 
true..nice post

MaGilicuti said:
can't go alone all the time, especially if you want to do a real chest workout. but it all depends on your partner. if your partner is crap and doesn't like working out and doesn't push you to work out it might as well be you alone working out. a partner can either bring you up or just straight down with him. a good workout partner is hard to find
you sound like you know what your talkin about, of you should your a mod. thanx bro...peace
 
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