Oct 04, 2012 4:41 AM GMT
For me it's a tie between ipod users and straight couples; I just don't bother and work around both because no matter how nicely and deferentially or confidently I ask, they almost universally flat out say "no."
Ipod users because if you ask them while they're fiddling with their playlists during a long rest break sitting on equipment they'll pretend not to know what you're asking them and make a big show of laboriously peeling off their headsets to demonstrate how rudely you've interrupted them - as if ipods confer upon them some sort of celebrity status, cone of invulnerability and license to ignore others.
Straight couples because one of them is always the alpha. If the rest break is under a minute, the man acts like you're pissing on his leg. If over a minute the woman glares at you with a "how dare you disrespectfully interrupt what's obviously a life-changing conversation" look, then ignores you and keeps on talking to her partner.
Btw, I change up my workout as I go, working around everyone 99% of the time, making lemonade out of those lemons from a muscle confusion perspective, and only ask to work in if all other options are played out.
Ipod users because if you ask them while they're fiddling with their playlists during a long rest break sitting on equipment they'll pretend not to know what you're asking them and make a big show of laboriously peeling off their headsets to demonstrate how rudely you've interrupted them - as if ipods confer upon them some sort of celebrity status, cone of invulnerability and license to ignore others.
Straight couples because one of them is always the alpha. If the rest break is under a minute, the man acts like you're pissing on his leg. If over a minute the woman glares at you with a "how dare you disrespectfully interrupt what's obviously a life-changing conversation" look, then ignores you and keeps on talking to her partner.
Btw, I change up my workout as I go, working around everyone 99% of the time, making lemonade out of those lemons from a muscle confusion perspective, and only ask to work in if all other options are played out.