Jim in the Gym - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - Gym Beginners Starter Pack

[MangaDex]

 

[ZeeVee]

At both the gyms where I’ve had memberships, I never heard anybody mack a person for being new, and if there’s judging going on — which of course there is, there always is, it’s part of the human condition — it’s all done quietly inside people’s own heads.

Mainly, the thing that identifies a new person is that they never put anything away after using it. And push plates off the ends of bars onto the floor and then leave them there, instead of putting them on the storage pins, because everybody knows nothing says “gym” like a lot of matte black plates on the matte black rubber matted floor. Fitness and trip hazards go hand in hand like protein shakes and horrible, horrible flavoring.

 

[A_Sheriff]

Hhhh that’s a lot of funny materials there buddy thanks 🙏 a lot @ZeeVee

 

[ZeeVee]

@A_Sheriff: oh, you’re here? Well, in that case, here's an answer to a question in a recent comic: you look better in gym mirrors partially because gyms typically arrange their lighting to help that happen, but mostly because you nearly always stand further away from the mirror in the gym than the one in your bathroom. Focal depth makes things look different, and up to a point more distance makes people look better. (Consider how different selfies look when taken from up close vs. when taken at arm's length vs. when taken in a mirror from a few steps away.)

 

[A_Sheriff]

@ZeeVee so that’s what it is it’s all about distance from the mirror and right lights position awesome but when you see progress it gives you hope and when you return to see it was all bullshit it feels really mean to me