• corus_kt@lemmy.world
    125·
    11 months ago

    I know it’s a joke strip, but don’t worry about being judged at the gym, only the 1% bottom dregs of gym goers do that. Most of us know it’s difficult and respect you for trying, we won’t bother you unless you might injure yourself.

    And that woman is quietly getting jacked af, look that massive back in her last panel

    • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.netEnglish
      33·
      11 months ago

      I have never had any thoughts about anyone in my gym beyond “I hope no-one heard me fart on that last squat.”

        • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
          13·
          11 months ago

          That’s the smell of dedication, the smell of a hero who went above and beyond. Inhale it with pride, as you are deemed worthy to follow in their footsteps.

  • TJmCAwesome@feddit.nu
    82·
    11 months ago

    This idea that other people are looking at you and judging you at the gym is pure paranoia and a bit of a case of “main character syndrome”

      • TJmCAwesome@feddit.nu
        5·
        11 months ago

        No one is looking at you, you are not the main character. You’re just a background NPC to them.

        • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
          13·
          11 months ago

          Thing is, it’s not about being “the main character”. Some people had a really rough time in school and for them it can feel that they’re being judged by others even if most people aren’t. Childhood trauma and psychological conditions are really complex and even if you can “logically” reason something to be true, your anxiety and your emotions are really really good at convincing you that your fears aren’t unfounded.

    • LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      15·
      11 months ago

      Lol you clearly don’t go to the gym if you’re saying this. Went to the YMCA as a kid and saw elliptical politics that made my middle school that literally split us into “teams” by economic class look tame in comparison. Because of the death of the third place in western society, any activity that isn’t where you sleep or work becomes a third place, where people are kind of inherently judging the people around them, to fulfill this. All the shitty people you went to high school gym with are mostly the same people now, and need a place to continue their bullshit. Some will grow past this, but by that point the next generation of gym shitheads is ready.

      The only way I agree with your comment is if you said “people at the gym aren’t judging you any more than people outside the gym already do”. Maybe it’s just the area I live, but everything becomes a game of judgement. It’s one thing to say “yeah I’m being judged by other people and I don’t care”. But to determine that you aren’t being percieved at all off of this idea is more delusional than the idea that you are being percieved.

  • FunkyMonk@kbin.social
    45·
    11 months ago

    I always appreciate the digglet dudes around anime expo, costume is just at least a year of getting ripped AF and the work SHOWS.

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    44·
    11 months ago

    my thoughts at gym:

    • grumble I’m tired and want to go home but I’m glad I came
    • oh hey it’s that person, they’re making progress rock on
    • ah rehab exercises? bummer. Good on them doing the work to get better
    • Wow that person is jacked, they must be working so hard
    • Oh no the thing I want to use it taken. Oh well I’ll wait
    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
      4·
      11 months ago

      Adding to those:

      • [Song Lyrics]
      • Good lord, that lady is tiny but she lifts some serious iron. She could kick my ass. (there’s a very short but very built young woman who works out at the same time&place as me)
      • Oh boy, cardio. I hate it here :D
  • velovix@hedge.town
    26·
    11 months ago

    I can almost guarantee that nobody cares about who you are or what you’re doing at the gym. Everybody is focused on their own bodies.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    9·
    11 months ago

    Only partly related, but at the gym my BF works out at, the buffest, most ripped guy is this older gent who has the nickname ‘Kratos’.

    Why? Because if you gave him some makeup he’d look exactly like Kratos from Dad of Boi.