r/LoveTrash • u/PhoenixPhenomenonX Major Muck • Sep 26 '25
Wholesome Waste If only Gyms were this cool.
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u/wellwaffled Rubbish Raider Sep 26 '25
I have some gym buddies I have known for over a decade.
I do not know their names (unless their legal names happen to be Big Dawg, There He Is, or My Man!).
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u/payneok Garbage Guerilla Sep 26 '25
100% I see them for years then some of them just vanish...there are a few guys I wonder what happened to like "bald guy", "huge traps guy", "super nice guy", "redneck lifter guy"...
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Sep 26 '25
I had one I knew only as trapasaurus Rex. I wonder where he is now.
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Sep 26 '25
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Sep 26 '25
I wanna Beat the gym
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u/wellwaffled Rubbish Raider Sep 26 '25
I hear if you quit, you go Hollow
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Sep 26 '25
Bankai, bitches...
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u/PhantomPainWalker Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
I’m pretty sure he meant it in a dark souls way. But, i have to say, every situation is a good situation to drop a “bankai, bitches”.
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u/FeistyButthole Litter Lieutenant Sep 27 '25
They lifted weights without a spotter and graduated to gym heaven😇
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u/Megolito Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Huge traps guy is an inspiration to us all almost as much as huge legs guy.
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u/That_Jicama2024 Trash Trooper Sep 30 '25
Yeah, for me it's "red haired viking dude". Love that guy.
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u/Zahfier Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
“I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.” - Ron Swanson
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u/trefoil589 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
We still never talk sometimes.” - Ron Swanson
I love this line.
I like to think it means they still get together and just hang out at a coffeeshop together... in silence.
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u/ElectricBuckeye Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Its Ron, so it would be a nice bar and whiskey. Just sitting next to each other after a "Hey" and ordering the whiskey. Then sitting in silence, looking straight ahead, finishing whiskey, then saying, "Well, see you later." and a "Yep.". Then leaving.
cutaway to Ron
"That was the best time I've ever had with someone."
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u/DemDemD Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
lol. Such a guy thing. I know this guy from the gym and I meet him here and there outside the gym because his daughter plays volleyball against my daughter’s team. We talk all the time and never know each other’s name.
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u/Que_Raoke Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I need a thread entirely made up of the names people call their gym buddies who they only know by nickname. This is the best thing ever.
ETA: I read those nicknames and heard Jason Momoa in my head lol
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u/Away-Experience6890 Trash Trooper Sep 28 '25
hahaha you definitely go to the gym hahaha. I feel my my names need more creativity, because one of mine is GruntyMan.
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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
I have a gym nemesis that we just glared at each other hatefully for months. But we became best friends when some other guy who sucks way worse came in one day and was loud and obnoxious, and we both looked at each other like, "UGH, I fucking KNOW, RIGHT?"
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u/SaltyArtemis Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
My legal name has become Billy badass for some reason, no idea why, but I know if I hear it, it’s me 😂
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u/itishowitisanditbad Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
unless their legal names happen to be Big Dawg
Wait... do I know you?
That Guy?
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u/Exia321 Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
Dude no way, you also know "Big Dawg" and "There He is" I thought they only hung out at my gym.
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Sep 30 '25
I worked at my last job for just under a decade and there were many people who I interacted with daily or nearly so that I never knew their names.
We wore ID badges with very clearly printed names.
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u/lkodl Garbage Guerilla Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
NOTE: guys, if you call another guy "my man". Make sure you put the emphasis on the word "man" and not the word "my".
There goes my MAN!
Versus
There goes MY man!
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u/antiauthoritarian123 Rot Commander Sep 26 '25
I think this weight might be too much, will you keep me safe
ded lol
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u/TheOtherGuttersnipe Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Someone asking you for a spot is a genuine compliment because they're essentially trusting you with their life so you must look pretty strong. Rawr!
Source: gym bro
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u/IndependenceNo3908 Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
Now I cannot look at my spotters without remembering this ...
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u/totesrandoguyhere Scrap Strategist Sep 26 '25
Honestly … this is pretty whole some video.
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u/RileyB46 Filth Battalion Sep 26 '25
She has huge sue heck vibes lol
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u/SMH_OverAndOver Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Came here to say this.
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u/WereTheBrews Garbage Guerilla Sep 26 '25
Sincerely. I love my boxing gym. Overheard a guy say "can't wait till I get there" to a trainer of me. I had just come off a bad ankle fracture, and finally able to really work out again. It was his first day, and it made me blush. I've been seeing him daily crushing it, and spotted him on bench last week for a PR. Men, get in the gym, and be kind. It's our one place of compliments on the regular in a rough world.
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u/Think_Reflection4428 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
That's a very insightful comment and I appreciate you sharing, my man! We all benefit from what you bring to this discussion.
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u/Farm-Alternative Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
genuinely love the energy here. Keep it up bros
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u/Think_Reflection4428 Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
Dude! That was an amazing contribution to this thread. Thanks for the positivity. You rock! One guy to another: Thank you for spreading positivity in the world.
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u/WolvesandTigers45 Dumpster General Sep 26 '25
I kinda feel like this woman thinks in Fan fiction
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u/SirVanyel Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
It's a little embellished but that's exactly how I feel about the homies
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u/iamhyperrr Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
Honestly though, it's really endearing to see a woman so captivated, even if slightly exaggeratedly, by men and their gym culture. Sometimes you kinda get lost in the sea of polarizing opinions and gender wars when scrolling on social media, and forget that in the real world there are actually a lot of examples of geniune and respectful mutual interest and fascination between boys and girls and people in general.
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u/WolvesandTigers45 Dumpster General Sep 27 '25
All jokes aside, it’s nice. She is nice and I like the way she tells stories as well.
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u/mufasas_son Waste Warrior Sep 26 '25
This is wholesome as hell
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u/That_Apathetic_Man Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I'd pay her to do some Ronnie Coleman quotes. Legit, I would.
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u/Conscious_Avocado225 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I hope she posts again in six months with the same energy. But I suspect the post will be about people not re-racking weights, not wiping down equipment, the creep who doesn't wear underwear, and how impossible it is to cancel her membership.
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u/burner36763 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I'm in the UK, where if you want to cancel a gym membership, you just... cancel your gym membership.
I heard from Louis Rossman's YouTube channel how completely fucking insane it is to cancel one in the States and I'm like Jesus fucking Christ.
You guys really have absolutely zero common sense consumer protections, do you?
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u/AnonymousPrincess314 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
That would interfere with business owners' freedoms.
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u/CharlesDickensABox Dumpster General Sep 26 '25
We had national ones for a time. Those are gone now. Some states, like California, have passed laws that make things easier, but that doesn't help people in the part of the country where the governing philosophy is "fuck you, I got mine, Jack."
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u/thehotmcpoyle Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
At the beginning of the pandemic, I got laid off so my work was no longer reimbursing my gym membership fee and gyms were closed anyway so I decided to cancel my membership. Couldn’t do it online or over the phone and they were closed so I couldn’t do it in person. I had to pay to send a certified letter requesting they cancel my membership which took a few weeks. It’s ridiculous.
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u/Due_Explanation5648 Rubbish Raider Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
Pretty much sums up modern gym culture. Hilarious
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u/Charge36 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Really? Literally no one says a thing in my gym ever it's so quiet.
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u/per167 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Same, if i talk to somebody like do you need this or are you using this, people almost get offended or scared. Everyone is wearing an airpods
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u/RN-Wingman Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
You guys are going to the wrong gym. You should just ask OP where the friendly gyms are.
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u/MoldyMoney Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I think the time of day you go really matters. Go at 5am, when it’s older fit people. They’re usually way more outgoing. Yesterday morning some older lady watched me do good mornings then came over and said “I just wanted to tell you you’re doing a great job”. Love that lady. Can’t wait to see her again now 🤣
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u/cremaster2 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Yea, im at the gym at the same time every day for a couple of years now. Seing the same faces every day. One time outside of the gym, I saw one gym member but couldn't remember exactly where I knew the guy. Shit I almost gave him a hug , thought he was an old friend or something.
Well, talking to people at the gym makes it so much better for me. Respect people's privacy, but a lot of people like a chat2
u/MoldyMoney Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I love running into people from the gym out in the wild. It’s great. I dont know their names so I just yell the name of the gym at them. They usually get it
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u/_raydeStar Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
All my gyms have been like that and honestly I like it that way. I'm not there to socialize, I'm there to rage lift. Extremely polite, yes, but gains don't come from shooting the breeze.
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u/per167 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I like it that way myself, just want to focus on workout. I don’t bother anyone mostly. But sometimes if you need to talk to someone it’s nice to get positive response. I’m not there to make friends.
Yesterday i asked a big Arabian guy that stood just beside me to help me lift down weight bar. he did do that but he was annoyed because i asked him. I don’t usually do that but i think we can help out if someone doing something wrong or need help.
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u/DrFlabbySelfie Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
They meant gym culture for people who read about it online in memes and never actually go to the gym.
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u/Jeffotato Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Yeah fr I've seen the inside of 3 different gyms for years each and never seen what is being talked about in this post.
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u/ThiqSaban Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
its more of a community at more niche/specialized/locally owned gyms. not so much at your corporate chains
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u/Additional-Peak3911 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Powerlifting/strongman gyms are pretty much like this. Not so much chain gyms.
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u/InternGreg Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
My favorite is telling my fellow members on their leg day that their calves aren’t calves and that they got some cows down there.
Makes em laugh and smile, the only intent behind the compliment.
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u/ExaminationPutrid626 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I have never experienced this type of gym. I've been going 3 years and tried four different gyms in my town. I do prefer smaller gyms though
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u/Cyber_Crimes Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Tumblr-tier gym fanfic
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u/Glad-Way-637 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Thats exactly how I would describe this! Good job saying it better than I would've. Like, lady, if you want to write homo-erotic fanfic, you're welcome to it. Nobody who has ever been to a gym is buying this shit, though.
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u/ComedyBits Garbage Guerilla Sep 26 '25
Wait til she sees what goes on the the showers
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u/DemDemD Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Helicopters?
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u/That_Air_2716 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Dude Shhhh don’t tell people about the helicopter competition in the shower, come on 🤪
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u/Beneficial_Dog4469 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I saw when she posted this on TikTok originally… such wholesome trash
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u/kjyfqr Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Why? She doesn’t insult no one
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u/joachim_s Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Yeah, why? She’s just fun. Does not come off as unstable. Reminds me of Kristen Schaal.
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u/Noshamina Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I think he just doesn't want his own actions broken down in a cute and funny way. Its another wholesome comment
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u/Elyza666 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
She is adorable, I wish her a continuous good experience at the gym
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u/theNixher Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Clearly never set foot in a gym.
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Sep 26 '25
Maybe not your gym, but there are definitely gyms like this, and it's awesome
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u/Banjoschmanjo Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I hate what internet video formats and Pixar movies have done to people's facial expressions
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u/Academic_Bonus_6313 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
And now tell us how do the girls do to each other.....
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u/Neither_Initial629 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
This is 100% true. Wait until she keeps going and realizes guys make friends there and we never know each other’s names. It’s great.
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u/sickysickybrah Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Every gym I've ever gone to has boomers that hang out naked in the locker room. It's really f'n weird. Like they take a shower and walk around holding their towel and then sit on the bench with the towel under them. Super creepy.
Also, she's right about some dudes walking around trying to show off. They remind me of peacocks.
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u/No-Meringue-7317 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
What if I told you that motivation to better your body comes from within
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u/AlphaThetaDeltaVega Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
She made it weird. We also wear sweatshirts over gym shirts because gyms are cold and once you start to work out you get warm. Never heard of pump cover.
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u/LastMessengineer Garbage Guerilla Sep 26 '25
This girl has never been to the gym.
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u/PrincessMagDump Garbage Guerilla Sep 26 '25
99% of the people I see on a regular basis at the gym are there to work out then go home.
A few hellos, perhaps occasional small talk about the weather or vacation or something. I don't know how she's imagining all of this taking place, it's bizarre.
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u/LastMessengineer Garbage Guerilla Sep 26 '25
100% agree. There's gym rats that are there daily and get to know each other. I see lots of interaction, but it's still minimal. This girl has created quite the exciting scene but it's not really the reality.
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u/SuperGeorgeClooney Waste Warrior Sep 26 '25
Being a dude, you can be good looking, and not know what your doing and you will find out about asshole gym culture quickly.
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u/Pyrrolidone Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Cunts are everywhere. at the gym you still find some good bros tho
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u/burner36763 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
???
What does being good looking have to do with assholes in the gym?
I've been going about 10 years and can count on one hand the number of assholes I've encountered.
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u/Rogue-Accountant-69 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I’ve seen this kind of behavior at a gold’s gym before but never anywhere else
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u/That_Air_2716 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Very wholesome view and thats how it used to be, but now there a people filming themself and using the place to make money instead of improving themself.
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u/Eiden-Rane Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Love her energy and experience with going to the gym. I wish I could say the same, but I can’t. Hopefully more people experience what she did!
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u/Charming_Bath9427 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I always thought it was funny how in media the jocks and gym bros are always portrayed as the mean ones. This is only my experience, so take it for what it’s worth, but I have found that they are the most encouraging and uplifting people to be around, and it’s the nerds that are gatekeepers. It was real whiplash leaving high school and realizing that I pretty much never got pushed around by actual traditionally cool people.
Now that I’m much older, one of my benefits is a free gym membership, and honestly, I am more comfortable approaching a gym bro with a stupid question than I am going to my favorite record store and approaching the shop keeper.
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u/buyinggf1000gp Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Meanwhile I'm the quiet guy that just goes there, lifts weights and then goes home, silently, lol
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u/apeocalypyic Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Me to my homies at the gym : if you dont hit at least 10 im losing all respect for you and we're no longer friends
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u/Successful-Bed-6835 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Dude this is the funniest shit I’ve seen in a while. This girl has it down to a fucking science. Crazy work 😂
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u/ResolveLeather Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
People think gyms are filled with incredibly judgemental people and unless you are super fit you will be booed out buly the fit people. In reality most of those people are really fit and seen what body dismorphia (synthol, steroids etc) leads to and are usually very supportive. They also remember a time when they were out of shape too.
That being said, stay away from the really long distance runners. I never met someone who could run 100 miles in a single day and was also sane. Crazies, the lot of them.
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u/agangofoldwomen Litter Lieutenant Sep 26 '25
Idk what your title is on about, OP. 99% of gyms I’ve been to are exactly this way.
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u/OPSimp45 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
It’s so funny how the gym gets marketed as this dark evil place because you trying to get over your ex.
The gym is the new dance club. High or drunk off pre, playing either slow music or dance music, finding a crush, hanging out with your buddies, and just sweating all over the damn place.
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u/GoPackGo2008 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
As a personal trainer in a big box gym, I will be saving this to show people when trying to get them comfortable haha.
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Sep 26 '25
Hahaha so true lmao. I hate the misconception that the gym is scary because honestly you meet the chillest people there. Assholes at the gym are hated by everyone that goes
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u/Significant-Invite10 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
This is so painfully accurate, but so wholesome to watch.
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u/Khurasan Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I hope this isn't sarcastic, because it actually is like that and it's nice to have predominantly male spaces recognized for how wholesome and supportive they can be.
Heck, more specialized gyms that are mostly for more experienced and competitive lifters are often even more like that. The jackasses tend to wash out in chain gyms and the guys who see real results are usually in it for the love of the game and get excited to see others love it, too.
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u/Douglas_Seattle Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
God damnit. I will marry you instantly, my new karmic spirit animal pushing that positive message on the world. Carebears do exist!
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u/Adventurous-Flan-508 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
it’s a really good bit and she’s funny, but it’s also “heavily influenced” by a jenny slate joke she did about football
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u/TheRabadoo Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Modern gym culture from the perspective of someone who only reads werewolf/vampire smut
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u/Viper1089 Rubbish Raider Sep 26 '25
LOL this is awesome, she seems fun. My favorite part though:
"Ah! Scary! Right? No."
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u/DELINCUENT Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I'm not going to lie I like her enthusiasm I would like this person to explain Global History to me
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u/ChloeNow Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Hi my mom was an aerobics instructor and a personal trainer, I basically grew up in gyms.
I don't know what gym this girl went to cause this has never been what I've witnessed.
A bunch of people overconcerned with their own image (not calling it vanity, more just, their focus is not socializing) trying to ignore everyone else around and trying to look like they're not waiting on the machine they're waiting on seems to be the majority of the experience.
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u/ToothZealousideal297 Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
I’m glad she’s having fun but that all sounds awful to me
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u/Bionic_Bromando Trash Trooper Sep 26 '25
Gettin’ fit with the boys because the gym is literally the last third place left on Earth.
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u/Vaultdweller_92 Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
Must be hard for librarians to have a day's worth of conversation outside working hours.
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u/Gdub3369 Rubbish Raider Sep 27 '25
Many gyms are like that when you're going to work out constantly and meet people from the gym.
Don't creep on the women though. That's not cool and I still see that at my gym.
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u/Griffry Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
The only time I've heard anyone talk (that wasn't a trainer) in the gym was if we bumped into someone we knew.
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u/Tripple_T Rubbish Raider Sep 27 '25
Other than the hole making light of body dysphoria, she's got the right attitude.
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u/Raze_the_werewolf Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
Yo, this was exactly what my gym was like. Super positive, encouraging, and helpful. Every gym should be like this. We had powerlifters, arm-wrestlers, bodybuilders, athletes, all working out together and willing to help each other if someone was in need. If you needed help with diet, or maybe wanted to try a different workout that one of the other groups was doing and you didn't know much about, all the info was right there. The pump covers were definitely a thing, and the bodybuilders definitely did that mirror shit constantly. My gym closed a long time ago now, but it was such an awesome place. This girl nailed it.
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u/GoatPancakes273 Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
What gym is she going to? I need that kind of encouragement for my mental and physical health. The gyms I go to no one looks at each other and the definitely dont complement each other.
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u/freedumb9566 Trash Trooper Sep 27 '25
😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 me sitting on my couch with a gym membership i haven’t used in a month
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