Unsolicited advice in the gym...

[Bubblemonkey]

What’s the nicest way to tell people to piss off? Getting mighty fed up with people making comments.

What kind of gym is it?

I've never had anyone make a single comment at my budget gym, except asking if they can jump in between sets.

What are they saying? are they correcting your form or just being chatty?

Need more info. If you’re doing weights and your form is crap you should be told as you’ll do yourself an injury

It’s a bog standard chain gym. The same guy has commented on being stood literally a couple of inches too far away more than once... never comments when the boyfriends about. Always when I’m on my own which is a bit intimidating 😒

Had someone tell me girls don’t squat when I probably squat more than what this guy weighs 😂

Had some scrawny arrogant prick tell me deadlifts should hit the floor when they were Romanian which don’t.

Had someone tell me girls don’t squat
This makes no sense at all. All women squat,in every gym, all the time. I find it impossible to imagine anyone believing otherwise

There’s not too many girls who do free weights. Or even lifting at all. I have a 92.5kg squat. Not bad when we supposedly don’t squat lol

Obviously very few women (and men) squat that much. But every gym I've ever been to, including mine, has women lifting all day every day. More in the studio than the free weights area.

To say women don't squat at all is just crazy talk.

Argh, how annoying for you. Can you just ignore, or set up your bar for, ooo 80kg, get up close to him the next time he does it, and say "Mate, just squat that bar or fuck off."

At my gym - where men and women use the free weights, although last night it was mostly blokes - a commercial chain gym, but really friendly, people of all ages & a lot of active PTs, I'd probably go to the manager or front desk, and ask them to keep an eye out for the guy, or have a quiet word.

I tell you want though, I was doing my sets of squats last night and I was squatting 40kg (I'm not too much of a beast like you @Bubblemonkey, sadly - I only get to around 60kg as my top weight for squats!) and trying to change the plates & could I get those bloody safety catches back on the bar! Strong af, but can't manage the safety rings. I could have done with an interfering bloke, even with the embarassment of it.

I’d quite literally tell him to fuck off then

Never had this and I am often the only female in the free weights area. And I am not intimidating at all (5 foot and 47 kilos 😂). Tell him you don't need any advice.

How annoying!! I would tell him to get ducked, I've never been in a gym where women aren't doing a squat of some variery.

Could you wear headphones and when he tries to talk to you pull an ear out and say "sorry trying to concentrate, can't chat right now" put the ear back in and carry on?

Girls don’t squat? I’m pretty much that’s all they do 😂