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PT 2: Is It Rude To Compliment Committed Newbies At The Gym?!

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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If you see a newbie in the gym really putting up a sweat, is it cool to compliment them on their commitment? Or is it rude? Let’s talk about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:01.5

I've seen the Hers and I've seen the hymns at this jam and I've always wondered should I say something to them or not and

0:07.8

Cassie tweaked my thinking on it a couple of days ago and since that happened I have received the same video over and over and over again on

0:17.2

Instagram so I want to bring this back up because I don't want it to be an explosive experience but I want to do the right thing.

0:24.0

I was telling Cassie and I asked her as Cassie has been talking about like doing like some

0:29.2

ten or 15 minute workouts just to get back into the swing of things and I had mentioned to

0:33.4

Cassie because she's been very open with us about her battle with her weight for an

0:37.5

entire life and I think anybody that goes to a gym on a regular basis which I have been going to this one gym on and off mostly on for the last seven and a half eight years

0:47.6

So I know my way around there really really well and I know who the regulars are and I know who the newbies are and you especially see them in like January and February, right?

0:56.0

And each and every year, come like March, I see some that have obviously been new to the gym and are sticking it out for three or four months

1:06.9

and they're on the treadmill and they are clearly honestly overweight but and they're going at the slowest speed and I think

1:14.5

they're gonna try to do something a little bit ambitious but they're motivated to

1:18.1

lose weight now so you can see them in there and they are really working hard.

1:24.2

And I thought for the longest time,

1:26.1

when I see that, I really admire that.

1:27.8

People that go into the gym, it's an uncomfortable situation,

1:30.8

if you haven't been there, you might feel like their eyes on you all the time, which

1:35.3

is what Cassie brought up the other day, which normally they are not, but when I see somebody

1:39.5

in there over and over and over again, it motivates me watching them bust their ass.

1:45.4

So I had thought about a couple of different times mentioning to this one woman and there's

1:49.3

been a guy also that I see in there every day.'re working out at the same time and I just wanted to figure

1:55.4

out some way to give them some kind of encouragement like dude I see you I see you busting

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