Would this offend you?

Just tell her: Yes honey, I'm fully aware of the adjustment, but the lower numbers are for little girls and their mommies

Sigh. Yeah, they mean well. Maybe when they grow up they'll have better sense.

Or maybe we should just snarl, "You. Me. Arm wrestling. Juice bar. Now."

I’d say was just an excuse to talk to you 😊

I read a whole reddit thread on men approaching women in gyms and giving unsolicited advice. It's very rude.

Most likely you are using bad form from using too high settings. While using high settings is intentional, bad form surely isn't and he assumed you don't know what you're doing if you're using bad form and increasing your chance of injury. I wouldn't hold it against him. Actually when I started out I did get such advice both from staff and random gym goers and 99% of it was useful or at least well intended. It wouldn't offend me at all since it already happened to me in back workouts, although it was a staff member, they thought I didn't know how to set the weight because I was using bad movements to compensate for the weight I chose. When I said I do know how to set the machine he showed me how it affected my motion range and I understood that I was working hard and dumb risking lower back injury just for fast results (that won't come because you add other muscle groups to help using bad posture).

So that's why I would not mind.

I'd just comment on her moustache and she'll eff off

Joan of Arc got burned to death cause she knew stuff about war and peace and who is a fucking fraud and who contrives to rule the fucking world when they can pull strings and stuff

it was also nobody's fucking business where her inspiration came from.

THEY were offended, not me.

Stuff here that doesn't recognize what LIFE really is
is what offends me, including mocking old or fat people like its about being immoral instead of not having a meaningful life both outward (such as being ONLY dutiful) and inward (swallowing shit all day long)

SW offends me and the clueless wasted people who fuck around here

ok HURT ME NOW U LOSERS!!!!!

sorry I read the story too fast and thought it was the usual patronization of a fat lady in the gym

this was different but not that much different but apologies to the shapely lady who wrote this lol

I probably tell them to go work on their balls because they got a big set of them offering their unsolicited advice.

No, not really. I would thank them for their advice and continue what I was doing.

I'd just point at my ears and shrug, I'm old so i must be deaf too! 🙃

Sounds similar to something that happened to my wife who is in her mid 40s. An older man kept butting in on her one-on-one with the personal trainer - whom she made an appointment with - and then towards the end of being rude with his butting in, made some kind of comment about “silver sneakers” to my wife - insinuating that she was much older like him. 🙄

Not in the slightest
Give it your best and f**k the rest

Yes, very rude, on three counts.

Firstly it seems to have been rather high-handed "advice" you did not invite anyway.

It also implies you don't know how to use the equipment properly; or that you are either not fit enough to use it as you do, or cannot plan your own exercises.

Patronizing much 🤨

{@mardrae] personally no i would not be offended . just trying to be helpful i guess . should of not took offence but said thank you for the advice but i like to do it this way

It wouldn’t. I don’t care. Nothing I can do about their perception of me. It would have bothered me a few years ago. I understand though.

Honestly, I think I’d find that funny like I’d laugh for real. If the person was very young like 14 or so I’d excuse them.

Step aside, there's a man who knows better..

I use the gym a lot and haven't had that happen. We also have our own private gym.

Yes, I'd be offended. I came to the gym to sweat, not listen to your _____.

I'd just say trying to show you how to really use this machine.

i get offended by many things people do, so probably would.

It's almost looking for the "Mind your own business" talk

Wouldn't go to a gym. Period. Waste of money to me.

I wish I had a rowing machine.

that's a piss take I would be properly offended

What did you tell him?

Yes, I’d be a bit offended at them presuming I needed that information.
If I were especially annoyed I might ask, “Did [b]you[/b] know that if you don’t work here and are not being asked for assistance you should probably mind your own business ? Did your mother teach you [b]that[/b] ?” 😳

Why should offend?

It happens.

I would not be offended...And prolly start laughing.