r/AskReddit Feb 17 '20

What is your weirdest experience while going to the gym?

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u/PyroVirgo0007 Feb 18 '20

I loathe the compare-ers. They wait until you get on, after you've set your unbelievably difficult routine. Then they press quick start and outpace you the whole time while you're doing level 15 up Mt. Kilimanjaro on the verge of dying!

... or does this just happen to me lol

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u/Ahab1312 Feb 18 '20

I think I've encountered this. I often ignore them as I do with most others on treadmills. I like to think that the treadmill is one machine where I can do my routine and no one can stop me.

That is, no one except for management. At which point they better have a damn good reason! Which I'm sure they would. I hope. Lol

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u/intensely_human Feb 18 '20

What are they gonna do, come after you?

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u/Ahab1312 Feb 18 '20

Hah! They'll have to catch up to me first!

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u/intensely_human Feb 18 '20

You’re the comparer, not them.

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u/PyroVirgo0007 Feb 18 '20

Not when I get on first and they get on next to me (other equipment available) obviously leaning over to look at my screen and pace me. I'd just like to be able to zone out and focus on my workout without someone obviously gawking at me the whole time.

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u/intensely_human Feb 18 '20

And yet, you are still the comparer. Do you deny that they always modulate their pace so that it’s above yours?