Training Partner?

[daddyuk]

Do you have a training partner? Is it a friend, work colleague or family member?

I train with my wife at the moment and it is going very well.

[decz]

I have been lifting solo for so long now that when I recently lifted with a friend I feel like they were in my way. There are a few other regulars at the gym that solo like me, we all sort of have this unspoken agreement that we are willing to help spot each other when needed. Otherwise, it's just me and my music.

[Clinos]

I've had one real training partner in the past who would spot for/with me and occasionally we'd mirror each others workouts and would motivate one another so it was pretty beneficial. I haven't had one in a few years now since I mainly workout alone and at home. When I do go to the big gym I take a friend along but she doesn't do weights just cardio so I use those gym days as cardio days. Still pretty motivating.

[daddyuk]

So I was in the "hole" whilst squatting and my wife got me out of it when I failed. She was the person that I trusted to get me out .

[Clinos]

So I was in the "hole" whilst squatting and my wife got me out of it when I failed. She was the person that I trusted to get me out .

Mentally or physically?

[70chevellegsp]

Been lifting with my wife for 20+ years. Before that a good buddy and I worked out all thru college. Can't always be up for a workout, so it's nice to have someone haze/badger/mock/demoralize you into doing your workout.

[ljimd]

Used to train with my brother but he died Oct '14.
I train alone now.

[ljimd]

well that sure sux...

condolences

Thanx, he was a good dude. (Beat my scrawny azz twice on stage too!!)

[paolo59]

It's been a long time since I worked out with anybody. I did enjoy it, but I do find that I can get through a workout much more quickly when I hit it alone. There are several couples who work out at the same time that I do in the evenings. I like seeing it. It's just nice, seems like. They will hit certain exercises together, and do any number of others apart. I can tell you one thing, I don't much like the 3 or 4 who come in together, joined at the hip, and all do the same thing one after another. Ha! Lord help the poor fool who wants to use a particular machine, or one of 5 different sets of DB's that are strewn all over the floor. LOL There is always a whole lot of jabbering going on as well. I guess it might be motivating for them, but it's a royal pain for anybody and everybody else in the gym.

[Mark1T]

No one I know wants to go to the gym to workout at 4:30am.

I'm a loner and I train alone. That's the way it gotta be.

[NorwichGrad]

I usually train alone. But once a month, usually on a Saturday, I visit my friend 30 minutes away. He owns a WL gym and there are usually at least 6 lifters, and we all max out.. Great times..

[Fishman15]

So I was in the "hole" whilst squatting and my wife got me out of it when I failed. She was the person that I trusted to get me out .

Cool, I like the safeties myself. Not nearly as emotional or hormonal or whatever...

[KeepItMoving]

I train the same way i drink. Alone.

[JimmyJonny]

I partner up on bench days only. We met when he and I where the only ones in the gym and he got stapled by 225.

[Guinea-pig]

I train the same way i drink. Alone.

That you Thorogood ?

[Squid24]

Once Tax season is over, my wife and I train together, but stuff she wants to do, so for me it's 4:30 am alone time and the safety bars ....

[mcbourque]

I've started training my sons (now 14 and 16) when they turned 12. They make great lifting partners

(and now that my youngest will join my oldest in HS next year, they can train together at the HS gym - yeah me! mom of the year )

[daddyuk]

Mentally or physically?

Funnily enough both but at different stages in my life.

[2nd_chance]

My wife sometimes, but she just switched to mornings and I don't workout in the AM.

[ElrondHubbard]

[decz]

We met when he and I were the only ones in the gym.....

Broke Back Mountain opening scene.


For those of you who switch from PM to AM lifting, how long did it take to get adjusted to lifting in the morning? Do you feel like your workout is as good as it was in the PM?

[Squid24]

Broke Back Mountain opening scene.


For those of you who switch from PM to AM lifting, how long did it take to get adjusted to lifting in the morning? Do you feel like your workout is as good as it was in the PM?

I was in my early 20's when I worked out in the PM, but back in those days I was competing and my workout buddies were very motivating to workout with. Always gotta stay motivated and more focused these days working out by myself