Some fit guy came up to me and improved my form and I was shocked.. is it normal for strangers to help each others like this?
>>36944339
Yes
>>36944339
Yes. At least in small gym.
Do you happen to be german or Scandinavian to be that shocked at spontaneous human contact ?
fucking PNW fucks avoid each other hard fuck this gay earth I need help
>>36944371
Nope. I'm actually a mix of African/Australian. I was doing arm curls and I was told to extend my arms further.
>>36944339
Why was he checking out your form to begin with?
Gay......
>>36944450
The guy is huge I can't really be mad at him.. I should feel humble for the advice. Glad to know it's the norm.
>normal for strangers to help each other
in most cultures, it is
A guy told me I was going too much forward in my squats, then I was like "thanks, I didn't realize that", and then he showed me how a squat was supposed to be
Later on I realised he just didn't know the difference between low bar and high bar. I thought I was leaning too much forward on my low bar squats but I had a friend check it and the bar is always directly over midfoot
>>36944427
African dad?
>1 month into lifting
>been going to gym at 11pm to avoid crowds sometimes 5am
>go in at 10am one day because more confident with what I'm doing
>weight lifting room full of dyels, power racks are all free
>go to power rack where guy is watching himself do db flys in its mirror
>ignore and load up
>start squatting
>guy screams loud and drops his last dumbell and hops off his bench
> “scuse me m8 just noticed your form there and your back is slightly arched”
>”oh really I was actually wondering about that because I can't see myself”
>”yeah and you're going too low”
> computer switches itself on at home
> double clicks angry pepe folder
>”just see your head there pointing down.. what you need to do m8 is to have your head u-
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>-p and don't go so low, i'm only telling you m8 because I got a really bad back injury from doing squats and my pt at the time showed me proper form, I don't do them really because my injury was so bad, im just looking out for you m8, here can I show you?”
>proceeds to squat with the most horrifically concave back, head pointing skyward, presumably towards god, it wont be long now