What is your purpose at the gym

• Simon Dean

  3 May 07, 15:39

  I will start the ball rolling by giving the most common examples.
  
  1)"Train" to socialise?E.g do a few exercises here and there and spend most of the time talking.You go to the gym mostly just to hang out with your friends.
  
  2)Train for aesthenics/fat loss?
  
  3)Strength?
  
  4)Sports?
  
  My priorities in order are 3) and 2).
  
  I dislike training with people who fall under 1) catergory.I am serious about training and detest people who come to the gym to make small talk.
• mhcampboy

  3 May 07, 15:40

  People pay 100s of dollars per month.. let them chat if they wishes to...
• Patrik

  3 May 07, 15:41

  Number 2
  Same as you,i dislike people who waste their time at the gym.
  There are alot of strange people you will get to see at the gym.
  
• Simon Dean

  3 May 07, 15:43

  Originally posted by Patrik:

  Number 2
  Same as you,i dislike people who waste their time at the gym.
  There are alot of strange people you will get to see at the gym.
  

  They can waste their money/time, its theirs afterall.But i dislike if they interfere with my training by making small chat.
  
  
• airgrinder

  3 May 07, 15:43

  to look like tay ping hui, body wise.
  
  whahahahahahah
  
  sigh....my gym membership just expired....
• pierre^^

  3 May 07, 15:48

  I go gym watch tv one
  
• Patrik

  3 May 07, 17:17

  Originally posted by Simon Dean:

  They can waste their money/time, its theirs afterall.But i dislike if they interfere with my training by making small chat.
  
  

  I always finish my workout within 45 minutes whereas people spend 2 hours.
  Its like,if u are not working out,den dun occupy the benches and sit down there and chit chat with ya friends.
  
• Simon Dean

  3 May 07, 17:39

  Originally posted by Patrik:

  I always finish my workout within 45 minutes whereas people spend 2 hours.
  Its like,if u are not working out,den dun occupy the benches and sit down there and chit chat with ya friends.
  

  true..
• manyu882

  3 May 07, 23:24

  34chatting lo... usually 30s to 1 minute of chatting every set interval,
• Por_Favor

  6 May 07, 08:27

  Train for 2 and 4....for the sports part is soccer
• siaokau

  6 May 07, 08:49

  My purpose at the gym is to make ppl feel better about themselves and go to the gym more regularly/maintain their gym membership. The gym pays me to stay fat and exercise in front of other gym members daily.
• galapogos

  6 May 07, 23:31

  Actually as long as they don't interfere with me, I'm ok with them bicep curling all day long. Hey, less competition for the power rack, bench press and dumbbells right? Imagine if everyone you see in the gym were squatting, deadlifting, bench pressing and diong oly lifts. You'd have to wait 5 hours for your turn!
  
  So, in a way, be thankful for these people and their ignorance
• Por_Favor

  7 May 07, 01:40

  Originally posted by galapogos:

  Actually as long as they don't interfere with me, I'm ok with them bicep curling all day long. Hey, less competition for the power rack, bench press and dumbbells right? Imagine if everyone you see in the gym were squatting, deadlifting, bench pressing and diong oly lifts. You'd have to wait 5 hours for your turn!
  
  So, in a way, be thankful for these people and their ignorance

  lolz...alot of gym newbies, first thing they aim for is bicep curls, cuz they think that it would work out the entire arm...
  
  To be fair, when i first started off too, I also thought the same way...through experience n stuffs that i realised that bicep curls are not the way to go...
• alwaysdisturbed

  7 May 07, 01:47

  be in good shape.
  
  to be better off while playing sports
  
  interest.
• citymax

  31 May 07, 12:25

  juz to impress my wife lor...
• cApitaland

  5 Jun 07, 21:02

  My purpose is to lose fat. Gain strength. Still new to gym only started this year so I dunno alot of terms...
• Trump_Card

  5 Jun 07, 21:05

  2 , 3 and 4 ... However the last time i've been to a gym was 2 years ago ... Now my muscles all convert to fats already ...
• borntolive

  6 Jun 07, 13:54

  lol seriously speaking i train to look good,
  
  how heavy i can lift doesnt concern me as long as i look better
• FireAndHell

  9 Jun 07, 15:52

  My purpose is to burn off all the pent up energy in me by working on hard cold steel with the follow on benefits of muscle building, strenght and energy. No time to chitty chat!
  
  Might as well go to some crap pubs, drink and kill my liver if i wanna chitty chat.
• Chuichi Koshiramaru

  10 Jun 07, 08:50

  Good, I always go to the gym alone, never like to talk during training.
  I fall under category 2.
• Kenashi

  10 Jun 07, 09:00

  look at gals
  
  just joking
  
  i don't go to gym anymore, don't want to pay for something that i don't need i exercise on my own, i can be as fit as i wanted to
• Ito_^

  10 Jun 07, 09:06

  some exercise is good.
• Simple_Bear

  12 Jun 07, 01:39

  I just want to get as big as possible...
  
  
• fishbuff

  12 Jun 07, 07:24

  cat 3.
• forum_dude

  12 Jun 07, 08:49

  TRAIN TO LOOK GOOD(60%) AND OSO FOR STRENGTH(40%)
  
  BICEP CURL RARELY DO BUT STILL GOT DO BUT I DON CARE