Absolutely. Everyone started somewhere, vast majority of the time everyone at the gym is rooting for you. And the people who aren't are probably not worth respecting enough to care at all about their opinion
it can be scary to talk to strangers at the gym, but I've had nothing but good experiences asking for help whether it's form checks, spotting, asking to work in if the equipment you need is being used (help them load/unload their weight if you do this!), or even asking for help finding some weights or equipment (i wasn't sure if the gym I was at had 2.5lb plates, asked, dude helped me look between his sets and found some). Of course there are always the occasional assholes, but I think they're pretty rare, especially if you're not an asshole first
I'm so sick of how this word has become a slur for any guy that isn't a "Chad"
You can barely even approach a woman respectfully without coming off as a creep for having the audacity to approach a woman at all.
You don't even have to be ugly you just have to have the wrong "vibe" which means anything other than being a well off attractive man with no hint of emotional baggage.
This isn't even a solitary incel talking point it's even brought up by women about how men no longer approach them.
Almost like every man who isn't overly attractive with a well paying job being labeled a "creep" has caused most men to just say "fuck it it's not worth the effort"
And you can call me an incel but the statistics don't lie that men have stopped approaching women because it's not worth the potential headache
I hear this over and over by the likes of you. What does that even mean? You walk up to random strangers and expect not to come of as a creep? Yeah right...
statistics don't lie
Ah yes all the numbers ans studies you've provided lol
Here is a intreresting fact:
Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime.https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics
10 years ago when I started going to the gym I was ugly as fuck. Pimples in my face, fucking 55kg (121 American bullshit), weird face due to fucked up teeth. A buffed dude noticed me in my 2nd week and started to talk to me and asking me to reach his weights for him, spot, etc. He told me that he started skinny AF too and I would grow eventually. I think if it wasn't for that, I would drop the gym and hate it for the rest of my life.
Everyone had to start somewhere. This applies to the dedicated gym people and they are well aware of the struggles of coming into the gym as a newcomer. Most people in the gym are too focused on their workouts to judge other people. Those who do are actual losers and posers with insecurities
Yeah, in my experience gym goers are pretty helpful and will ask if they can help if they see someone not too familiar with excersises.
When I was for the first time in a gym I had no idea what I was doing and was just randomly going from tool to tool. Someone saw that asked me if I had a traiing plan. Of course I didn't and he made me a simple one and gave it to me the next time I was there and explained some basics to me and how I should mofify it for what I wanted to achieve.
I agree, though often negative expecations come from expetiences too. If you got bullied in high school, the idea that there are people who want to help you becomes alien.
Being terminally online is not always the root cause of a skewed view of reality. It's one step away from anxiety alone.
Boys used to come up to me in the gym and try to flirt by telling me that I'm doing my lifts wrong. I've been lifting for years and it used to make me so mad. Everything changed during covid tho and now no one talks to anyone else in the gym. It's nice ig but my ego misses the casual flirting 😔