Let's be real, a lot of people notice. I dunno how many people came up to me to tell my form is wrong and then demonstrate some silly stuff. I dunno how many times I noticed people doing dumb exercises. I dunno how many times I did a dumb exercise myself.

Also I'm an average-height slightly chubby Filipino male. If I were a hot chick, I can only imagine what would happen.

I think gym anxiety does have its roots. I generally got over it by thinking that everyone there is stupid.

I don't know if this is maybe a difference in cultures between here and there. Generally here people don't really "butt" in. If you ask someone for help they normally pretty helpful but won't just go up to you and be like "oh you wrong" etc. It was actually one of the things I was worried about but everyone I spoke to said that almost never happens and from my limited experience I've never seen it either. I was pretty surprised about the number of hot women at the gym when I go though, man some of those older women make me feel ashamed at how fit they are compared to me.

ComaDose

Canada10357 Posts

October 04 2014 11:32 GMT

#61586

i laugh at the ripped old foreign men doing the strangest exercises. like some kinda overhead dual cable lunge. no one says anything negative for the most part in my experience. i also pretend no one is intereseted enough to count the weight. the only thing I am embarased about is i use the smith for heavy squats. i go alone tho.

mordek

United States12705 Posts

October 04 2014 12:39 GMT

#61587

I was really tempted to share some advice to these guys doing cleans yesterday. Caught the weight with their wrists while shooting their feet out to sumo width. It was not pretty but the one guy that was doing them halfway decent was kinda leading them so meh. You do get nervous when it looks like they're going to hurt themselves but if they're doing some weird cable exercise I could care less

Usually when I say something people are cool about it.

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

October 04 2014 13:31 GMT

#61588

On October 04 2014 12:03 Cixah wrote:

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Gamer world problems.

Had fun playing SMASH with soniv. Good games :3

^.^

mordek

United States12705 Posts

October 04 2014 13:34 GMT

#61589

First game in pally arena, warlock starts coin flame imp undertaker then alpha wolf into just straight curve out. I manage to stabilize with Lord of the Arena into Guardian into Tirion into hammer his zombie chow because I can't keep anything on the board to defender of argus. He gets me to one (I have two more Guardian of kings in hand) and has Hellfire... ugh.

red_

United States8474 Posts

October 04 2014 13:39 GMT

#61590

If you're an adult chances are you're either going to feel like my unsolicited advice is an affront, or you're going to think you know better. I know that's not 100% true but it's true enough that I tend not to help anyone who doesn't approach me asking for it. I sometimes make exceptions for younger guys that I've seen around enough to have a feel for their gym attitude and am fairly sure they'll appreciate the pointers.

mordek

United States12705 Posts

October 04 2014 13:47 GMT

#61591

Nooooo it's a Van Cleef!!!!!
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phyvo

United States5635 Posts

October 04 2014 16:24 GMT

#61592

That legendary deck limit. I wish...

Gahlo

United States35174 Posts

October 04 2014 16:29 GMT

#61593

New, Homestar Runner song. Yeeeeeees.

Dark_Chill

Canada3353 Posts

October 04 2014 16:33 GMT

#61594

The weirdest thing about the gym for me is that there are women there, but I've never seen anyone hit on them. It's sort of uncanny, really.
And when I realized this, I realized something about the gym that would probably make life for newcomers way easier: no one cares. You're paying like 30-40 a month to work out, so you only want to work out. Kind of funny actually, the only thought that crossed my mind when a hot girl is there "oh, she's hot" and then get back to working out.
Basically, no one cares what you're doing or how much you're lifting, because they're too busy caring about what they're doing :D

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

October 04 2014 17:27 GMT

#61595

why y'all gotta be dissin' on dixieland

Gahlo

United States35174 Posts

October 04 2014 17:34 GMT

#61596

On October 05 2014 02:27 jcarlsoniv wrote:
why y'all gotta be dissin' on dixieland

The cups are too small.

Ketara

United States15065 Posts

October 04 2014 17:34 GMT

#61597

Oh my god new animu season day.

I have been waiting an entire year for this.

wei2coolman

United States60033 Posts

October 04 2014 17:39 GMT

#61598

how's sm4sh so far? pretty good? How does it run on the 3ds?

phathom321

United States1730 Posts

October 04 2014 17:41 GMT

#61599

It runs pretty well on the 3ds. There's a few small lag spikes here or there but nothing huge. Only real complaint is that playing smash with the 3ds controls is weird. I personally don't like it for an action game but to each his own.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

October 04 2014 18:13 GMT

#61600

The controls are pretty much the reason I chose not to buy the game after playing the demo. It's probably a lot better with rebindable keys, but my initial experience with the demo was too awkward for me to take the risk.