i kind of snapped on a guy at the gym today and even though i was well within my rights to do so, i feel guilty.
he is one of those people who, when you give an inch they take several miles. originally he asked me for a spot, which i was happy enough to do. but that was not all he wanted, he wanted me to critique his program, then he wanted me to critique his form. technically that was my fault. nothing irks me more than spotting someone who is doing an exercise horribly incorrectly. i feel like by spotting that, i am somehow signing off on it. i told the guy that he really needed to bend his elbows if he intended to bench 275lbs. that prompted him to explain how the pyramid program he was running called for a set of 275 x 8 and that it was okay if the form was 'loose'. loose my azz the bar and his chest weren't even in the same area code.
but i didn't want to lose anymore time out of my workout so i went off and did my thing. then he came back to get me to watch his form on a set of declines, which i did. as i was walking past his bench later on he started to ask me something else and that's when i tweaked. i do feel guilty about it because there were other people around and i know they are unaware of how many times he interrupted my workout. so it's just going to look like the gym bully snapped at some poor guy trying to ask a question.
the sad thing was it was, for me, a really decent workout.
you know things would be a hell of a lot easier if i didn't care so much what people thought of me.
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