I'm far too shy to talk to anyone in the gym other than "are you using that" or "sorry I just puked on your shoes", or "sorry I was just staring at your ass" - so I'm a bad person to ask for this.
but I would like to point out that I still haven't seen any sort of pics of miss shags.
I'll probably be posting pics in the next month or so since my abs are starting to show nicely now (bf around 10% I'd say - I'll be willing to show it when I'm at 6%).
so lock up your farm animals when that day comes.
Just point to the biggest guy in the gym and tell Mr. Annoying that he's your boyfriend and he get's VERY jealous if you talk to other men! This, of course, won't work if Mr. Annoying is the biggest one in the gym at the time.
On a side note I have noticed that woman are just as bad if not worse for approaching people and yapping in the gym. I tend to have small talk with anyone between sets man or woman when working on the same equipment, don't see any harm at that> unless the yapping gives you rest periods of 5 -10 mins between sets.
Or just wear a walkman that way you can ignore everyone.
it was the cool thing to do for a bit on the streets of Manhatten - you wear your headphones but don't connect them to anything and just let the cord hang out so it is obvious that you are ignoring the person and not listening to music, but it also visually makes it explicit that you don't want anyone talking to you.
I do the same thing but in a different way - I usually wear a shirt that says "you are dumb" but it is the ascii codes for that and in binary... so this pretty much ensures that everyone in the gym thinks I'm a loser dork and leaves me alone.
and they are pretty much right.
Tell him you'd love to get together outside the gym as soon as your herpes clear up. No, wait, that's not a good idea. Tell them, "I don't blame you for talking to me, I used to be a man myself." SHIT, wait, I'm not good at this. Um, lemme see.......Oh yeah, the headphones thing and a baseball cap you can pull over your eyes so no one can see you make eye contact.