Does Jow Forums make friends at their local gym?

>be me
>super autism but trying to improve
>convince myself I can manage to go to the gym alone for once.
>get to the benches and start panicking because I don't have a spotter
>start my warmups and get up to my working weight
>A guy that looks a bit smaller than Brian Shaw is walking past and says 'oi mate you need a spot?'
>mfw he encourages me and counts my reps and I breeze through my workout

Thanks Mr Giant for saving my autistic ass.

That guy got arrested for keeping livestock locked in a hot van. it was for a religious ceremony or something.

fuck you fucking guys

i fell for the meme to be friendly at the gym and now i have to pound everybodies fist and make small talk with them everytime we are next to eachother

This don’t make friends at the gym. Most fools want to talk the whole time.

Perfunctory small talk is the price of a healthy social life. If that's too much, you can always go back to being the no-friends, lonely schizoid dude who rehearses phone calls and avoids people he knows at the grocery store.

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My single worst quality is not being able to talk to people. I think every friend I have I either met through another friend or they were the one to initiate the conversation. I fucking hate it but I'm determined to change my life as a whole. Not just getting fit but training my mind to not be a fucking retarded fat bean.

I train at a gym with competitive powerlifters and oly lifters, but I'm not one myself yet.
You can only get in if you have prior experience and you have to sign a rules sheet that you shouldn't interfere or correct someone unless that person asks you to.
Which is good, but the vibe is so serious that it's hard to make friends or strike up a conversation if you're not in the close circle of oldfags

Just small talk

Explain the pic.

It's a logic puzzle. One guy knows the month, one the date. The guy with the month doesn't know her birthday, so that month must have more than one option. The guy with the day knows the date, so there must only be one option for that number. There are only two options with a single number. And he knows the date from that. So it has to be one of two options, either the the 18th or 19th. But if it was the 19th then the month guy would know it too, since there is only one option for that. So the correct answer is June 18th. The month guy figured it out when the day guy said he knew.

Why should I talk to anyone at my gym? They are all brosplit faggots that are too afraid to touch a barbell. Fuck those guys. I've been hitting the gym for about 4 months and I have never said a word with anyone. Maybe they think I am the autistic guy of the gym but who fucking cares. I hate them more than they hate me. The only time I spoke with someone was when a guy was doing bench press on smith (lmao) and somehow he managed to throw the fucking barbell on his chest. I was between sets at the time and happened to be passing by the exact moment this happened so I had to help the poor guy. He said thanks and we did some small talk about how he managed to almost decapitate himself in a fucking smith machine. Now I have to say hello to him everytime he sees me because '' I saved his life haha''.

>tfw making friends at the gym
>tfw good tips on lifting but I am at the gym 90 minutes bullshiting when I could be out in 59

Hell no
Once u talk to them once they are like stray dogs they keep coming back for more

every fucking lifter in my gym is some kind of pathetic and i could obliterate them in a fist fight, or mental fight, or any kind of competition, they're either: retarded high school kids, retarded college boys, retarded old men in denial of their age

Ok I thought I was the only person to know this

Eat shit. I have absolutely nothing I want to say to anybody at the gym I go to. It is not a fucking club, it is not a fucking corporate staff mixer, it's a god damn gymnasium.

I just started lifting and I'm a fatty. Even if I did talk to someone id have nothing good to talk about.

I also don't want to have someone feel obligated to mentor me or some shit. If they come up and give advice awesome, but I'm not gonna fuck with other people's time.

One day I won't be a fat looser who knows nothing about lifting so I'll talk then but I don't want to say dumb shit in front of people and make myself a dumb fat retard instead of a quiet fat retard.

bruh

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I've made several gym "friends" but not REAL friends (you know, those you hang with, hit the bars, etc)

how do I make real friends? I need friends in my life. Every saturday night I want to go clubbing in hopes I get laid, yet I have nobody to go with, and I'll look like a massive autist if i go there all alone

Use tinder if you wanna get laid

It takes time I think. And it gets harder the older you get, at university and such it's easier to get a group of friends, once you have a job it gets awkward to "ask people out".
I moved cities so often and I'm told I seem very reserved and even dismissive so I don't even get invited to things by my colleagues and such, which hurts quite a bit. Once I'm out I can hold a conversation well and seem friendly I think.

Struggling all my life with that resting bitch face and general hyper self consciousness about coming across like a sperglord. Not making excuses but social gains are harder than any weightloss.

>Every saturday night I want to go clubbing in hopes I get laid

you and every other chump that goes out at night

God damnit even the girls in my gym have it downpat. There's a competing INBA Pro I can feel judging me every time I lift.

Ya I’m phone posting on a road trip with a few of them right now

Sauce

What kind of turbo loser mega nerd u gotta be to TALK at the gym?? Dam shawty okAy

I go with a friend of mine, he often has people walking up to him and trying to talk to him. These same people ignore me. He doesn't even try to be outgoing, people just fucking approach him and act like I'm not there. Feels bad man

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No, guy with the day did not know the date at first, he only found out after month guy said he didn't know the date. It's not 18 or 19. Since month guy knows it's not 18 or 19 but doesn't know the date, it's not june since june only has one option other than 18. After month guy spoke, day guy knew it wasn't june, and since he learnt the date from this, the day he got must have been 17 which appears either in august or june. Day guy saying he knows now makes month guy realise it's august 17 too.

based

I made friends with the girl at the front desk, she liked to babble to me for a while but now she usually ignores me when I say how's it going, probably because she knows I'm not really interested in her. Being friends with girls you don't want to bang is a meme.

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fuck school

CAN I GET SAUCE ON THE VIDEO

I save the chatter for my assistance exercises. While I'm doing the Big 3, I don't let anything distract me. By the time I get to the working sets I've visualized the lift a hundred times.

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He probably feels like you worked hard to get there and complimented you for that

I go at 2am, slowly started seeing the same regulars:

>Le black man just coming off shift
>Intimidating Eastern European who talks to no one
>Virgin in hoodie obviously doing SS/SL
>40+ boomer watching videos on the treadmill
>Janitor who is tight with regulars

It's an odd mix but I enjoy it.
We acknowledge each other with a nod and that half smile/puckering lips thing people do when they're not too familiar with each other.

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Been thinking about the picture for a bit.

It's easy since we know that Albert has the month and Bernard the day. Albert can then have only one of 4 months.

The only way Albert can claim that Bernard doesn't know the month is that if Albert's month doesn't contain unique day date.

The unique day dates are 18th, (June) and 19th (May), therefore Albert doesn't have June or May and after being told, Bernard knows that it cannot be June or May either.

Bernard now can know what the date is if his day is unique in July/August months (15, 16, 17) and it cannot be 14, since then he wouldn't know whether it's July or August.

Now Albert has a pick of 3 days left, July 16th, August 15th or August 17th. Since he claims to know what the date is from these three, it means that his month has to be July, since if it was August, then he wouldn't know whether it's 15th of August or 17th of August.

Therefore it has to be July 16th.

Please correct if wrong.

I'm at a PL gym now and it's thrown my relativity out of whack, but I still keep my Gold's membership because it's super cheap and they are 24/7 now. Going back to Gold's, you do get the rare fucking monster that lifts heavy, but I'd say on average I see youngish males averaging these for the 4 big lifts 85/155/185/200. It's funny going back there because I remember 6 months ago being all nervous and seeing everyone lift more than me, and now I'll go in and just be the monster in that gym. I'm only doing 145/205/315/365 for reps too.

Has anyone gotten a gf from the gym?

I see all these cute girls at the gym. some even stare at me but I dont know if its against the rules to talk to them

Nah, I haven't made a friend in a long time. I'll make small talk with people when it's appropriate, but I've never been good at turning that into some kind of a relationship.

heh I know that feel, benching 2pl8 and feeling strong because everyone else does less

If they're staring definitely talk to them, you lucky fucker. I'm good looking facially but unfortunately am 5"6 so I hardly get any eye contact which blows ass. Fuck you you better chat the next cutie who makes eye contact like that, it's the first sign of attraction you stupid fucker.

if you catch them staring, squint your eyes and stick out your tongue at them

I'm a student at a big state school, so I either know someone from outside the gym or I don't bother. I refuse to even look at chicks, just distraction from my workout and I can approach them litteraly any other time. I keep to myself and my podcasts/ music, and occasionally ask for spots if i'm going particularly heavy, or I'll just bring a friend specifically to spot me for one lift

Also summer classes are dope because I can go the the gym anytime and it's not crowded like it is in the fall semester when every virgin is in the gym for three weeks trying to change their life

>I'm good looking facially but unfortunately am 5"6 so I hardly get any eye contact which blows ass
but im 5'5 and only ok facially.

do you look like you lift?

Holy fuck, I just got this exact bonus test in my calculus class.

I wonder which category you fall into

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imagine being this pretty
life just isn't fair

>"nice lift"

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It's all filters and make up, my friend.

You're right; Albert's confirmation indicates that he knew it was in July.

Every single time. Every single FUCKING time I go to my local gym, I’ve noticed that some girls will go out of their way to work out right the fuck next to me- when there are PLENTY of open machines that are farther away.

Do these thots expect a conversation? Are they getting closer to mock my lmao3pl8 squat? I mean, I clearly have my fucking headphones in and meanmugging my goddamned reflection in the mirror

>Decide to go cardio
>Guy gets on treadmill next to me
>Pulls out mobile phone and starts talking in Hindi
>30 minutes treadmill
>Guy next to be talking loudly on phone the entire fucking time

I made no friends that day.

I'm not there to make friends, fag.

Most people (and women) like to subconsciously be near others. It cannot be helped. At least it means that they don't find you absolutely repulsive.

No, i fucking hate talking to people.
Sometimes I try and end up looking like a fag/autist, sometimes people smile/talk to me and I end up looking like an asshole/autist.

It gets absolutely annoying after some time. Most of these women are wearing clothes that cover just about 20% of their body’s surface area and I don’t want to be *that* guy caught staring so I just don’t fucking look at them

Yep
>hi frank
>Hello Joe
Took me weeks to say hi to him, hes huge and only knows me because im the only other one there at 2am

Not only do I unashamedly stare at erect female nipples poking through 1/10 of an inch of fabric but I also stare at their ass, legs and pussies. Because life is to short to care if thots think you're a creep.

>unashamedly

Shamelessly

No. Since I'm one of maybe 3 regulars who actually look muscled among endless fat and dyel people the only people who greet me are the muscled PTs who run the place and one young fat fella (honestly hoping he's gonna make it desu).

The rest apparently believes that every time I exercise I'm doing it to mog them.

cheryl's a fuckin cunt that likes to play head games

girls make a conscious effort to be near you if they're interested in you, user. Say Hi and ask their name.

>girls make a conscious effort to be near you if they're interested in you
How true is this

brainlet here, could you explain
>The only way Albert can claim that Bernard doesn't know the month is that if Albert's month doesn't contain unique day date.

>The unique day dates are 18th, (June) and 19th (May), therefore Albert doesn't have June or May and after being told, Bernard knows that it cannot be June or May either.
a bit more?

I don't see how May and June can be eliminated like this. If Bernard had one of the non-unique dates within May or June, how would he be able to know the month based on that?

Pretty true. But it doesn’t mean she wants to fuck your brains out. Just spark a light conversation and see how it goes. If you get one word answers, abort mission.

lmao amerimutts baka

Bernard only knows the month after Albert says that he knows Bernard can't know the month with the date.

> If you get one word answers, abort mission.
And if she keeps speaking, and were at work, can she simply be bored?

>i want to fuck you fucking guys
>i fell for the meme to be friendly at the gym and now i have to pound everybodies ass and make love with them everytime we are next to eachother
sounds hot

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No.

I watch movies and listen to books or music.

And murder the weights.

And stretch.

Albert knows only month.

Albert is certain that Bernard cannot know the date from the month that was given. (either May, June, July or August)

If Bernard has a date with a unique number, he knows what the date and month is, for example if he was given 19th, then he knows that it's 19th of May, since there is no other date with 19, unlike if he was given 16, in which case it could be 16th of May or 16th of July.

The only way that Albert can be certain is if his month only contains dates that are repeated elsewhere, so we can discard months that have days that don't repeat, since if there is date that doesn't repeat, there is possibility that Bernard was given that date and knows what the actual date and month is.

So the only date that don't repeat are 19 (May) and 18 (June), so we can discard both May and June, since if Albert was given these months, then he couldn't say that he's CERTAIN that Bernard doesn't know, since if they were these 2 months it would be possible that he has either 19 or 18, in which case he knows it's 19th of May or 18th of June respectively.

Tried to explain from all angles I can think of, hopefully it's pretty obvious now.

Ramon Rules the World
Isabella scene

Yes. I made friends with a group of Indian rugby players in my gym and they invite me to their restaurants where I get fucked up and drink curry.

A good trick is to ask her name, but don't tell her yours. She's interested enough in you if she asks your name. You can exchange numbers from there. Good luck user.

I get to the gym already dressed and with my shoes on. I nod at the guy at the desk on the way in and immediately head to my first excercise and begin. I don't talk to anyone, I take short rest times. absolutely no fucking around. I'm out of there in an hour and a bit

nope, but I made some enemies when I stole a dumbbell set while a guy was resting

He sounds based. But I follow - a compliment only matters if he's strong and if you were proud of your lift.

not gonna make it

This, I already have so many people to answer same questions again and again everyday, don't need this at my gym

I have a lot of people in the gym that I talk to in between sets.
It's mostly about lifting, macros and gay shit like that.
I wouldn't call them friends though

I feel like I'm getting there. Started going 3 days a week instead of once every two and people seem to be being friendlier. It's a small gym so everyone seems to know each other. Staff will say hi to me or jokes with me sometimes, getting smiles from other patrons, though I'm still really socially awkward. Feels pretty wholesome desu, makes me look forward to going. Everyone there seems to be genuinely trying to improve themselves. You've got the ones who've "made it", both male and females, and you got the new ones too.

So anyway, my gym crush smiled at me at me as I walked in, kept looking over at me, smiled again when I caught her looking, but still can't get myself to talk to her. I haven't really "made it" so I convinced myself she's just being friendly. It's hard to tell is she just wants the attention/validation or if she's inviting me to talk to her. She definitely smiled at me two separate times and looked my way five or so times. She didn't seem to be trying to get attention from anyone else, so maybe it's real?

From a quiet guy, I just recommend to go, do your lifts, try to have a positive mindset, you'll attract more friends that way and don't assume someone is going to be a certain way because of their looks.

Anyone who can't solve this in 5m should start lifting with his fucking brain.

True. Sometimes their routine will actually take them to the same spots as you, but other times they'll change the order to be around you. One thing you should remember is that pretty girls are usually well-socialized and comfortable with talking to new people, even if you aren't. Light flirting/banter isn't really a big deal to them as long as they consider you attractive. They need validation constantly and they'll like you if you give it to them in a non cringey way.

I genuinely do not know how to strike up conversation with random people so, no. I dont have friends at my gym.
>inb4 just small talk bro
My brain is a mess I cant "just" anything, I overanalyze the simplest shit

I’ve only talked to two people at the gym, one was a guy who asked if I was a cyclist and an older woman who asked where I buy my workout shorts

Every time I go the same people are always there, so I imagine that if I ever did need to talk to someone we would probably get along alright

Cheryl is a fucking bitch

I agree with what you say about not wanting to waste people's time but something I realised while ago is that in general most people love being asked for help, and this doesnt just apply for gym but really anything, there is just something about sharing your knowledge and making others better that feels amazing.
I like you am new to gym and every person I have had help me were fantastic, ethusiastic people, one even explained to me his whole program when I didnt even ask for it
As long as you genuinely smile, say thank you and don't nag them i'm sure it wont annnoy them and might even make their day
Yes one day you won't be a fat loser and you can talk then but it won't happen overnight. You have to start somewhere, start socialising as soon as you can and start small if you have to.

You got this user

>wants to talk to you
>doesn't actually talk to you but expects you to read her signals
I'm glad I'm either gay or too depressed to care for thots

July 16th reeee

Why do people even talk to each other, I'm too jaded and I've been aloof for so long that I don't even think about thinking about daring to even make "acquaintances" anymore, being a misfit for so long turns you into a person that looses the ability to even want to socialize with other people. I've literally almost completely lost the ability to connect with people as I age, must be something to do with lower levels of oxytocin production.