How to make new friends in the gym?
50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD
Jim McDonald
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A lot of people are joining gyms at this time of year. Some for the first time. Gyms can make you feel isolated…or part of a community. How do you approach other gym members to make new friends or become part of a community? Are some types of gyms better for this than others? Should you ever use the term “milady” in the gym?
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, 50% Factor Friday episode, where we answer all of your questions |
| 0:15.0 | if you want to get involved. |
| 0:16.6 | Involved, go to good company discord.com. Oh shit, did I lose it already? No. There's a million. |
| 0:25.5 | Oh, here we go. Okay. We're a little spoiled in this, but we probably have some tips. |
| 0:31.4 | How to build friendships inside of the gym. Oh, Lord. Oh, boy. Right? We're a little spoiled because a lot of us come from community-style gyms where that's very |
| 0:39.8 | normal to say hi. |
| 0:41.2 | It's very normal to spot and load. |
| 0:43.1 | It's very normal. |
| 0:44.4 | You know, CrossFit, Olympic weight lifting, power lifting. |
| 0:46.8 | Even the more, you know, commercially style, but powerlifting gym at all, it's pretty |
| 0:51.3 | normal to borrow chalk, to say what's up, to borrow some straps. |
| 0:55.3 | If you're just trying to lift weights in the typical commercial gym, it becomes a little bit |
| 1:00.5 | more difficult. |
| 1:01.3 | There's a little more barrier, and I get it. |
| 1:02.9 | I don't want to be talked to either at a commercial gym. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.3 | You know, I don't want to be talked to at all, but today, I was skirting over here on my electric |
| 1:09.4 | bike. |
| 1:10.4 | Skirting. |
| 1:11.6 | Skirting. Skirting. And I see on my peripheral, someone's skirting. |
| 1:14.6 | Oh. |
| 1:15.6 | And I was, oh, we got another skirder. |
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