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Do you watch people in the gym?

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Someone stopped me on the power plate and said 'you have a really great bum'. it was my fault as I was squatting at the time, so my !!! was on full blast.

Nonsense of course, misshapen and lots of cellulite.

However, do you watch people when you go? I know I do, but only to admire their fitness and work on a new goal or to pick up new exercises to add.

I always find it strange people say 'no-one is watching you in the gym', as I'm sure everyone does? even the men?

Although I would never go up to someone and say 'WOW you have a phat !!!'.

LOL.
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  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,551 Forumite
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    edited 23 November 2015 at 6:52PM
    Is phat a nice way of saying fat?
  • chuckley
    chuckley Posts: 4,405 Forumite
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    no but you could look at it that way if you like 'fat' asses. but it just means a nice booty.
  • april87
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    Yeah, I watch people whenever I'm on a rest period inbetween sets. I'm just being nosey and seeing what others are doing but usually at 4.30am there's not much to nosey at.
  • No, I find it rather impolite...I wouldn't want someone watching me.

    HBS x
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  • System
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    There was some woman on the treadmill next to me noseying at my settings and she said thats cool it measures your insulin levels. I was baffled and asked what she meant and she pointed to the 12% incline level! She thought incline was insulin! I couldn't contain my laughter :rotfl:
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  • Angry_Bear
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    chuckley wrote: »
    Someone stopped me on the power plate and said 'you have a really great bum'. it was my fault as I was squatting at the time, so my !!! was on full blast.
    Somebody commenting on my body in the gynm would be a pretty sure-fire way to guarantee I never set foot in one again :o

    I'd be okay if someone was commenting on my form, settings, or had a proper observation rather than a pervy comment.
    Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
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  • Sometimes on cooldown I'll have a quick look around, or if I feel someone watching me, but usually I'm focused on what I'm doing. Or on whatever I'm playing on my tablet (video wise) to take my mind off how much I actually hate exercising :o yeah I'm one of those...
    Picking myself up and trying to stay standing
  • chuckley
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    No, I find it rather impolite...I wouldn't want someone watching me.

    HBS x
    up your gym gear fashion stakes 'just in case'. I think classes are worse!
  • chuckley
    chuckley Posts: 4,405 Forumite
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    Angry_Bear wrote: »
    Somebody commenting on my body in the gynm would be a pretty sure-fire way to guarantee I never set foot in one again :o

    I'd be okay if someone was commenting on my form, settings, or had a proper observation rather than a pervy comment.
    she wasn't my type, if I swung that way, but I was bemused she touched me on the arm to stop me and say it. I had a paranoid complex the rest of the workout in all honesty.
  • I'm often nosy about what people are watching on TV or listening to on the radio and might have a little peer as I go past, especially if they seem to be enjoying it. And if someone is working out particularly hard or if there's a particularly handsome man (I'm only human!) I do notice. But I can't imagine commenting on it :)
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