How Gyms Make Money (2015)

Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by legerdemain on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:18PM (#38887303)

  > Finally I must add, all the friends (more like acquaintances) you make
  > at the gym are absolutely crucial to motivate oneself and also just have
  > a positive social interaction.

Eh, been going to a gym weight room for 10 years and it's damn lonely and demoralizing. I'm sure it's different in tiny one-room Olympic weightlifting gyms or whatever.

I'm not in my 20s anymore and I'm not actually that athletic, so 10 years of looking for a gym buddy have yielded nothing for me. Otherwise, the people I recognize at the gym are either the ones who camp out a piece of equipment or just walk around chatting others up and apparently never lifting anything.

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by kylebenzle on Saturday January 06, 2024 @12:27AM (#38888703)

If you have been trying to make a gym friend for 10 years and have not been successful you need to take a long hard look at yourself.

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by legerdemain on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:15AM (#38889563)

Help me read this as something other than a slur on my character.

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by cwillu on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:26AM (#38890218)

This doesn't belong on this site.

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by 6510 on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:17AM (#38888951)

Work on your war cry!

Seriousness aside, I ask fitness folk online what the point is of a gym. If you are serious about it (they are) surely you buy your own equipment and train in the comfort of your own home?

One said he does have his own equipment and that [while people would deny it] the gym is entirely for social interaction.

I suggest watching, broScienceLife, most of his videos are bad, actually they are all bad.

https://www.youtube.com/@BroScienceLife/videos

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by legerdemain on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:14AM (#38889558)

What should I suggest to my downstairs neighbors when I do deadlifts?

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by 6510 on Saturday January 06, 2024 @04:33PM (#38895711)

Less weight, put it down gently? If you are a nerd about it you know that Eccentric contractions build more muscle than concentric.

If I know I'm going to bother my neighbors (with parties for example) I buy them gifts and talk with them about it. Sometimes they just want to party along. Can adapt the schedule etc

Gyms are not forbidden if it makes sense?

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by iosnoob on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:17AM (#38888953)

Funny how serious / loner type people often open up when you ask them to help spot your bench press. At least that's been my experience, that moment of them helping you out at your vulnerable time somehow lowers the guard / the friction to chatting

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Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) by throwaway2037 on Saturday January 06, 2024 @09:37AM (#38891750)

+9000. Asking for a spot on a personal big lift is a huge opening to talk with people. The before and after are a great opportunity to be emotionally vulnerable -- "oh, can I do it?" ... "oh, thanks for the 1kg help on the last rep. I really needed that!"

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