>lifting for a couple months now >decent lifts, already stronger than 90% of the gym (little over 1/2/3/4 and p sure 2nd best front squatter) >go at the same time since my first day >older regulars start introducing themselves to me >still have music in when one of them introduces himself and shakes my hand >say my name, doubt he'll remember or care (it's rare and hard to pronounce) >couple weeks later >this dude fucking says my name perfectly while I still don't know his name
guys help how can I learn his name without making shit awkward? Should I just turn my music off when he is talking to other regulars and hope to catch it? Also what relationship do you have with the gym regulars?
You either keep the music in and do the nod from a distance. OR You use the classic and refer to everyone as mate. Then if you want to get advanced you can use "matey-boy" but that's only when you need to reference a third person in your conversation. Observe... [Talking to some guy who's name you don't know about another guy who's name you don't know] - "I was talking to matey-boy over there..."
Isaac Miller
I just nod to them. At most a how are you if we pass each other.
Anthony Torres
>Lifting for a couple of seconds now >Stronger than 99% of the mature male gorilla population, lifts pushing 2/3/4/5 >Name written in ancient runic script comprehensible only to the high monks of eastern Tibet >Gym regular transcribes it in blood on the shower walls before even meeting me
Joshua Brown
You should see a doctor. You're having an episode again.
Ayden Price
Sorry, man, what is your name again?
Robert Stewart
Kek
James Fisher
acceptable the first week (thing is I didn't think he fucking knew my name either, so I was cool with it), but after like a month?
Christian Garcia
Work out a way to ask how to spell his name? "Hey man, I thought I saw you leave your towel in the locker yesterday, how do you spell your name? I swear I saw it written on there"
Samuel Davis
>"Hey man, I thought I saw you leave your towel in the locker yesterday, how do you spell your name? I swear I saw it written on there"
>"Jim. J - I - M."
Carter Wright
>hey bro >what’s your insta/snapchat/facebook If you’re an autist/smart and don’t have social media >hey dude what’s your number >hand him an empty “create new contact” >pray he fills his name in
None of this matters if you greet each other rarely and don’t talk after
Noah Gray
If you're cool with the receptionist, explain the situation and ask her.
Note: this requires that you're not an autist, which may be difficult, user.
Aaron James
Kek and mated, he may have to roll the dice lol
Xavier Sanchez
Jim G-Y-M
Hunter Butler
This gave me a hearty kek
Dylan Lopez
>>still have music in when one of them introduces himself and shakes my hand imo you deserve to get beaten up by him
Ayden Martin
Ask him his name, why the fuck americans complicate everything
>giving a shit about gym acquaintances for what purpose You can succesfully train in a gym using just 2 phrases: "are you using that?" "care to spot me?" nothing more needed
Joshua Bell
You forgot >it's all you bro
Connor Thompson
>lifting for a couple months now >(little over 1/2/3/4
>go to same gym for 7 or 8 years >talked to maybe 3 of ~15 regulars >don't know anybody by name >usually conversations last max 2 sentences, 95% time just nod at each other
You're one of those people still chasing that 225 bench after 16 months, huh?
Liam Johnson
Not OP but > yes I'm a fat fuck who used to be a couch potato playing vidya every night, until I decided to become a decent man and make my wife proud. I stopped smoking, took a gym membership and went from empty bar to 1/2/3/4 1RM in six months with sl5x5. It is doable if you follow the program and don't have shitty genetic.
Gavin Scott
>6 months >a couple months
There's a big difference here. Also, isn't hitting 1/2/3/4 supposed to mean for reps, not 1RM?
So what if i am? I just don't believe a complete beginner got to 1/2/3/4 in 2 months
Noah Rivera
LOL No thats just you. Just fucking talk to people if you want, all regulers that wonder around are just looking for someone to talk to.
Oliver Morgan
i lift in a small powerlifting gym where most people are cool. pretty much all the strong people in the gym are homies.
Ethan Ross
>lightweight baby
Jackson Clark
he would think you're gay why would he want his number? he just wants his name...
you know what I do when someone calls me by name and I don't know their name, I say "hey there, sorry what was your name again? I forgot." simple as that, nobody feels bad because everyone forgets names
Samuel Campbell
In America "a couple" refers to anywhere between 2 and 5 could even be 10 in some rare cases
Wyatt Ramirez
No, that is completely wrong. A couple means 2 in America. I am American
Isaac Morales
>I am autistic what is a colloquialism
Benjamin Jones
Bitch in this context if you use "a couple" to mean more than 2, 3 at the most, you are telling lies. Doesnt matter if it's used coloquially or not - nobody says a couple to mean 10 dumbfuck
Liam Bell
You know how the word literally is used commonly? You're autistic if you can't see couple having its meaning changed in a similar manner
Christian Walker
Still ok, just ask
Benjamin Edwards
I don't know what part of America you're in but a couple usually means 2, sometimes 3 or 4 if not used literally. Couldn't imagine ever using it for 10 unless i was being rhetorical
Luke Gray
>a couple can mean anything other than 2 nigga wtf.
Liam Young
So you are basically agreeing that total beginner to 1/2/3/4 in 2 months is an outlandish claim? You're saying that couldn't be what he meant right?
Jacob Torres
>jerked off to videos of my ex wearing almost the exact same thing in op pic that i bought her >very low chance i will be with someone as hot again
I've been talking to a guy at the gym for like 8 months and forgot his name at pretty much the beginning. Who cares. Just don't use his name ever.
Andrew Butler
I don't talk to anyone at my gym, I almost always have a hat and earphones on. Used to have a friend from work as a gym buddy but he quit on me and tried veering towards meme exercises towards the end anyway.
Will be moving in the summer though so maybe I can try to make friends at the next gym.
I unironically do this at work, not sure but it seems like people are starting to notice that I cant tell the majority of them apart.
Colton Mitchell
What a complete beta faggot. A true alpha would just say "hey man i didn't get your name" and fucking ASK Grow some balls faggot.
Nolan Gonzalez
I dated a girl for a month before knowing her name once.
Samuel Brown
fucking lol’d hard
Anthony Hughes
he probably doesnt care if you are honest about you not remembering, that is if he feels like chill man. and if he does care for some reason, well you learn something new every day
Jayden Gutierrez
>lifting for a couple months now >decent lifts, already stronger than 90% of the gym (little over 1/2/3/4 and p sure 2nd best front squatter) How do people do this? Do I just have shitty genetics?
Cameron Carter
I'm chasing 225 bench after 2+ years of 4 days a week :-(
Carter Smith
Depends on if one is referring to beers or not
Jeremiah Rivera
this is the only normie non autistic way to handle this.
Jack Jones
its called lying
Ryder King
oof
Jacob Butler
Just say you forgot his name. It's really not that hard.
Charles Perez
>true alpha sometimes I forget that the majority of fit thinks that being able to make simple everyday human contact makes you an alpha how do you people even survive?
Aaron Murphy
>doesn't exaggerate his lifts by 400% on a Tibetan winter hat knitting forum never gonna make it
Lincoln Nelson
CAN I GET A SAUCE ON THIS INAGE
Nathaniel Rivera
I'm horrible with names but made it a point to remember 4-5 people at my gym. Now it's coming effortlessly.
Wyatt Diaz
fuaaackk reverse googling that image yields some good result at google images.
In America a couple is always 2, once you want to say 3 or 4 you use the word few. Ex: I’ve been lifting for a few months.
Andrew Bell
This is the most autistic shit I've read today. Sounds like me.
Alexander Walker
I'm pretty sure it rhymes with vulva.
James Ross
No it's not.
Cameron Harris
Next time you see him, talk to him, just say hi. Then say "Oh and what was your name again? Sorry im bad with names. I know you remembered mine which must've been hard, everybody gets it wrong." Then when the conversations over , write it down in your phone. He remembered your name, be cool to him, don't call him "bro" forever. As long as you're nice and confident when you talk to him it's not gonna be akward
Luis Evans
oh that's rich
Owen Perez
Yes it is, and people who us a couple to mean more than two are brainlets. If you "couple" something, you join two things together. If you say, "what a cute couple!" you are referring to one man and one woman. A couple means two, period.
I prefer the far superior >go for it With occasional thumbs up if it feels appropriate
Camden Garcia
I dont care about politics but people like you are the reason the world will be declining.
Jose Kelly
>hey bro what's you name again? >No, no, last name. I was talking to someone the other day and didn't know it to ask if they knew you
Tada.
Parker Ward
Those are called "couplings," not "couples," and they are called couplings because you couple an end of the coupling with the end of another piece of pipe. You couple a male end to a female end.
Andrew Lopez
Read some Orwell, nuspeaker. Words matter.
Jordan Bennett
oh fuck do you have more of her??
Isaac Perez
>basic white girl
You really want to see more of this? Theres so much of this same cookie cutter shit everywhere already
>lifting for a couple decades now >decent lifts, stronger than the guy with congental muscular dystrophy, can dl the bar for reps, p. sure I'm the 2nd best spotter >full name is Jeremy (I don't have a last name) >mfw they printed the name on my gym card with only one spelling mistake
Does the receptionist want to fuck me?
Jordan Foster
Okay this one's pretty fucking hilarious
Julian Wright
for a beginner, 1 plate ohp and 4 plate deadlift is almost impossible in a couple months, unless you were already obese.
