Smoothest Come On

[Mystical]

Ok...so you are working out, headphones on, dumbells all over around your feet, sweat dripping from your back, legs, forearms...then it happens...MR. WANNA BE LAID strolls by and just opens his mouth....

I'm interested in some of the lines/comments you women are getting out there b/c some of these are friggin rediculous, a waste of my time and plain aggravating. Not to mention...my rest between sets has now turned into a minute and a half...What do you do WITHOUT making them feel totally stupid??????

For example...I took a week off from a gym b/c I joined another (SO I am obsessed) and when I went back to the first gym, this guy was like: I have not seen you in a week. I've thought about you and I have something for you...O..K...(I have never spoken to him before): He leaves, comes back and he has in his hand a 200+ page book written by Arnold S. and asked me to look over it...I did and there on page one was his phone number!!!

Then you have that typical guy that wants to "Teach" you the "Right" way to do ab crunches and you look at his tummy and realize that he must be at least 18mon. pregnant...

O..K...I am losing it here!!!!

[Viola]

Now that is funny.

I joke around with the guys but they know that I am happily married. Lighten up a little. If you have that many guys approaching you then you must be nice to look at. Take it as a compliment.

When they try to flirt I quickly bring my husband into the conversation so they don't get the wrong idea.

[freaker]

The Arnold book is a funny one. I'm a guy so I can somewhat understand where these guys are coming from. I have this one friend who asks out every girl it seems. I go out to eat with this guy and he's already asked out every single waitress and he keeps asking them out. I tell him that I went to Walden Books and he starts telling me about all the girls he tried to ask out there. I can certainly understand how attractive women at gyms can get annoyed with these guys, and why a lot of them probably end up going to women's gyms. I've never pulled out a cheesy line at the gym, but I am a trainer so I have occassionally tried to correct people's forms. I don't bother so much these days, because whether it's the skinny high school kid doing bent-over rows with his back rounded and I have to even wonder whether he is trying to do bent-over rows or upright rows. Or whether it's the people who do their obliques on the hyperextension, no one seems to want to be told their form is wrong. I saw a lady doing the hyperextension sideways. She was attractive, but certainly no spring chicken, and I was really just interested in helping her. So instead of asking her what the hell she was trying to do and telling her that she was asking for an injury, I simply told her that there were a lot better ways to work her obliques. She tells me that she used to own a gym and knows what she's doing. If she did own a gym, it sure didn't show. Now there was one situation recently where I tried to help a really attractive girl with her form. It probably didn't help that I was telling her about her bad form 20 minutes after she'd done the exercise, and that she probably gets hit on in the gym a lot, but she didn't seem to take it very well. I told her she should keep her arms back doing tricep pushdows, she gave me a look like I was trying to hit on her and said something to the extent of not being comfortable with that form. The problem was that her boobs were about twice as big as her arms. I guess I could have simplified it by saying "You need to keep your arms behind your boobs, they're way too forward if you keep them in front of your boobs like you do." Now I'll admit I wouldn't have minded talking to her on a personal level and I had seen her around and never talked to her before, but I wasn't trying to get her number by talking to her. These guys probably never see you outside the gym so they figure it's their only chance to talk to you. I'm sure if the right guy talked to you in the right way at the gym it wouldn't be such a bad thing.