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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t talk to me. 
Don’t crowd someone when there is plenty of open space. There is a man at my gym who loves throwing-the slam ball, medicine balls, and generally everything loud and heavy. Great! But he does it right on top of people, including when I was seven months pregnant, even when there was opportunity to have a ton of personal space. It was jarring and not always controlled. It got so bad that I considered speaking to the staff about it. Why?[/quote]

Why? Maybe he didn’t think you “belonged” at the gym since you were 7 months along and this was his wuss passive-aggressive way of communicating that.

I’m a petite woman, and while most of the male lifters at my gym are/were absolutely fine, there were definitely some blowhards with antiquated beliefs.[/quote]

There aren't any guys who think women "don't belong at the gym".[/quote]

There are guys who think women do not belong in the weight room. They are OK with them doing cardio or going to the Zumba class or maybe use the bands to shape their a**, but get pretty judgmental of women doing upper body work. My husband is one of those. [/quote]

For real? These people exist and you are still married to one of them?

I am a woman who only uses the weights at the gym and never have I experienced any men who act like I don't belong there. Many of the men have actually been quite supportive and commented on how hard I work and how my form is always excellent.

Now I can see getting annoyed by the people, men and women, so take up weigh room space lifting light weights for 3000 reps or that clearly have no plan and are just doing random stuff, but getting upset or thinking someone doesn't belong just because of their gender is weird. [/quote]

Yep, still married to him, but this thing is not helping. It is not like he would try to intimidate any woman intentionally at the gym, but that is his opinion. [b]There should be no upper body muscle on a lady.[/b] The problem is that working my upper body is my favorite thing so he is a bit out of luck here.[/quote]

Women already have upper body muscles, as do men.  Human anatomy 101.  I (unfortunately) get what you're saying, but this is an extremely weird hill for him to die on.[/quote]

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