Unsolicited Advice

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Former Member
Do you offer unsolicited advice to other swimmers at the pool? Fix their form? Give workout suggestions? Etc. Or do you keep your mouth shut?
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  • Reminds me of a few times I've had unsolicited weight training advice at the gym. It seems like some men like to give us womenfolk pointers (even when they don't seem particularly athletically competent themselves). The fact that they are men makes them experts, you know... In my experience it is absolutely impossible to go to a gym without receiving unsolicited advice. I'm not female and I don't think I look especially feminine so it doesn't appear to be directed at a specific gender, but some guys, (yes they are typically guys) apparently just can not resist offering unsolicited advice in the gym. What really pisses me off is, how can these guys think that they can tell me what I should be doing, when they don't even know what I am trying to accomplish? I actually really don't like working out in a gym for exactly this reason. I now do my dryland training in my basement alone or with my daughter. I will not be offended if she offers advice.
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  • Reminds me of a few times I've had unsolicited weight training advice at the gym. It seems like some men like to give us womenfolk pointers (even when they don't seem particularly athletically competent themselves). The fact that they are men makes them experts, you know... In my experience it is absolutely impossible to go to a gym without receiving unsolicited advice. I'm not female and I don't think I look especially feminine so it doesn't appear to be directed at a specific gender, but some guys, (yes they are typically guys) apparently just can not resist offering unsolicited advice in the gym. What really pisses me off is, how can these guys think that they can tell me what I should be doing, when they don't even know what I am trying to accomplish? I actually really don't like working out in a gym for exactly this reason. I now do my dryland training in my basement alone or with my daughter. I will not be offended if she offers advice.
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