What impresses you?

[kx250rider]

I'm mixed on this. I don't mind socializing a bit or answering legit ques. but there are people who babble on and seem to forget you're working out..

Me too. I do work out alone (I built a decent gym at home), and I do best alone without interruptions. My wife is cool about keeping conversations to a minimum, and she won't ask me a question in the middle of a set. But that doesn't preclude the door bell, telephones, or one of the cats showing up indoors with a live rat, etc. So there are interruptions anyplace, I guess.

When I do work out in a gym (hotel, invited to go with somebody else to their gym, etc), I really don't want to socialize. Maybe it's because I have high-functioning autism, which carries with it severe ADD, but once I get my mind onto a conversation, I have no idea how many reps I just did, or even how long I've rested between, etc. It's a disaster. Just to give an idea of how far off-subject I can get when I'm ambushed in conversation by someone, I've been an experienced motorcyclist (dirt and street) for nearly 35 years... A couple weeks ago, I was getting ready to go out on my R1 for a Sunday ride, and a neighbor came babbling about a problem with another neighbor over some road damage. I was listening to her, and I forgot to turn the gas on! I made it in out into the highway, and it crapped out, and you can't reach the gas on that bike when sitting on it. So I had to pull over, get off, and turn the gas on, and it's lucky it was Sunday as there's not really room to pull over on the highway I live on without getting in a muddy ditch or getting hit by a truck mirror. I've never forgotten to turn the gas on before, and this is a perfect example of why I'm not capable of chit-chatting and doing anything else at the same time.


Charles

 

[grim_reapin]

I have to go with form on this one. I'm super anal about my form and if I manage to get bad form at some point in a lift I make sure to correct it immediately. I currently have a few guys at my gym that lift heavy weight with god awful form. They tend to give everyone that cocky ass smile like they are doing something special. The best part about it the guys are pretty damn small (look like they don't even workout their legs). Just drives me nuts when they give me that cocky smile, makes me just wanna ask them to compare their bodies with those around them, when many of those around them who look pretty good are lifting lighter with much much better form. When I see someone lifting with good form it tells me they've done their research and are taking lifting seriously rather than using it as an ego booster.

 

[liffalot]

CLEARLY your right sir. I go to the GYM ON MY TIME to HELP MYSELF get bigger. im not there to help anyone else, and I could care less about making friends in the gym. I dont go there for that s***. I go to be bigger and stronger.

HOWEVER, IF someone does talk to me IN BETWEEN sets, I dont mind and am very friendly and sincerly try to help the person. As long as they dont tank it overboard and start asking me everything there is about working out. A quick question doesnt bother me. But I dont go there to make friends or help others, your right

You and everyone else man. Any serious lifter comes into the weightroom to help themselves get bigger.......but that doesn't mean you have to shun others who are clearly impressed by some aspect about you, and would benefit from the sharing of your knowledge.

Between sets is all I was saying. Nobody likes to get jawed at during sets, and there isn't anything wrong with telling someone youre going to go do a set and cutting it short if you're really worried about your rest time.

I'm just saying, acting like a fucking cock and ignoring everyone makes them want you to work out at home just as much as you do.

 

[thecompound]

50/50, I will help anybody with open arms or form or in general. I just really don't want to hear about your crazy run in with the cops downtown at the bars a week ago. But the helping is indeed a good thing and might cause a sort of butterfly effect of good form and technique, but everything else can go. Especially when you get that one friend that talks and talks and talks and you kind walk away a little bit backwards to show nicely that you got to get liftin and something else gets brought up and it starts over haha. Laaaaame

 

[tjbr]

I will tell you what will immediately lose my respect... using the word "swag"

 

[Yonkers666]

People that are dedicated and leave their ego at the door

Sammmme here

 

[shirlene29]

if the damned gym is clean and has a decent range of stuff and is well laid out...
also, I like that my own gym has towels and bottled water in baskets all over the gym and has spa products for the locker room/shower (but Im a girl this stuff matters to me)

I couldn't give a rats ass about anyone else there
at.all.


boys are silly

 

[snorkles]

I have to go with form on this one. I'm super anal about my form and if I manage to get bad form at some point in a lift I make sure to correct it immediately. I currently have a few guys at my gym that lift heavy weight with god awful form. They tend to give everyone that cocky ass smile like they are doing something special. The best part about it the guys are pretty damn small (look like they don't even workout their legs). Just drives me nuts when they give me that cocky smile, makes me just wanna ask them to compare their bodies with those around them, when many of those around them who look pretty good are lifting lighter with much much better form. When I see someone lifting with good form it tells me they've done their research and are taking lifting seriously rather than using it as an ego booster.

very good point mate

 

[louisiana]

Im impressed by the very out of shape person in the gym trying to be in better shape. They could be anywhere else but they are in the gym trying!! I have a deep passion and heart for people starting out giving it their all to be heathy and fit.

 

[Cutiebolic]

Im impressed by the very out of shape person in the gym trying to be in better shape. They could be anywhere else but they are in the gym trying!! I have a deep passion and heart for people starting out giving it their all to be heathy and fit.

This x 10000 if they're there ED...

I am impressed by people who have the physique and an inversely proportioned ego. The guy or girl with the six pack who smiles and greets the front desk person, puts back his/her weights.

A well-developed bod and a nice smile doesn't so much impress me but might make me drool