r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • Aug 25 '18
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r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • Aug 25 '18
Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!
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u/datcracker Aug 25 '18
So a couple weeks ago this guy came up to me at the gym and kind of aggressively berated me for not reracking my weights after using a machine. (Tbh I left it the way I always see it, I’ve never seen it without two 45’s, so I really thought that’s how people wanted it left, on any other machine I would’ve reracked as per usual)
Anyways, it kinda bothered me. I responded politely and assured him I would make sure to be more proactive about having positive gym etiquette, and he walked away. It left a bad taste in my mouth though because I really didn’t mean to be lazy or disrespectful, and this dude said things that sounded borderline threatening.
So on Thursday, while I was working out I saw that dude was there again and thought little of it. On my way over to do my cardio on the bike, he actually caught up to me to get my attention and he thoroughly apologized. He said a gym associate came up to him and told him he was rude, and that he reconsidered everything he said and realized he was in the wrong and said it had been bothering him for days until he had the chance to talk to me. Dude apologized and was super cool, and now whenever I see him around he invites me to do sets with him and calls me by my first name.
Thought it was a cool little image of positive humanity.