Gym culture question - ‘working in’
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When I was a yoot the idea of ‘working in’ - letting someone who wanted to use the machine you’re using do his sets between yours - was the default.
With young people it seems less so. I never ask directly, but I’ll ask ‘how many sets you got left?’ I find that if they’re 40+ they usually offer to let me work in, if they’re young they just answer the question.
What do you see?
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It's been a while since I've worked out in a gym. I had Oprah's Stedman work in with me one time. One gym I worked at long ago had a healthy population of gang members and police working out there. I had an African American workout buddy who had both brands and tattoos. I only knew his name as "Snake". If you saw Snake, you wouldn't want to mess with him or his friend Conrad who looked like he could pick up a building. I remember working in one time when Snake and his friends were benching. They were doing a ladder workout on bench and on the downside of that - but as soon as I worked they started trash talking each other if someone couldn't outlift me. If I lifted 225 x 12, the next you thing you heard was "no, way you can lift that 12.." You then knew the guy would lift more than 12 if it killed him.
I've thought of rejoining a Planet Fitness to do a few things I can't do at home - might be worth the $15 a month to have that. Still, I hate waiting on equipment. I can work out far more efficiently at home.
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It's been a while since I've worked out in a gym. I had Oprah's Stedman work in with me one time. One gym I worked at long ago had a healthy population of gang members and police working out there. I had an African American workout buddy who had both brands and tattoos. I only knew his name as "Snake". If you saw Snake, you wouldn't want to mess with him or his friend Conrad who looked like he could pick up a building. I remember working in one time when Snake and his friends were benching. They were doing a ladder workout on bench and on the downside of that - but as soon as I worked they started trash talking each other if someone couldn't outlift me. If I lifted 225 x 12, the next you thing you heard was "no, way you can lift that 12.." You then knew the guy would lift more than 12 if it killed him.
I've thought of rejoining a Planet Fitness to do a few things I can't do at home - might be worth the $15 a month to have that. Still, I hate waiting on equipment. I can work out far more efficiently at home.
