Hey girl ! If it makes you happy and doesn't hurt anyone else, it needs no explanation. And that's good enough.
I have a funny story along those lines -- I was at another Gold's Gym that I usually didn't go to because mine was moving locations just doing cardio. I was about 3 weeks out from a competition and had been in that gym at least half a dozen other times before. I was next to this guy on a bike who was always there when I was there but never said anything to me. Then this particular day, he started out a conversation about how intense I seemed in the gym, I looked really good, etc etc. So to be nice, I turned down my CD player and said I was training for a competition and had just a little more leaning out to do. We then got in to this discussion about how he thought he could compete but didnt' want to "get big". The guy was in his late 40s and was apprarently an actor so had to maintain this certain look. So he went on and on about how he was so lean, was taking deca, etc. etc., and thought he could totally compete. Then said something about why anyone would train so hard -- just take deca & get lean. And then said he could totally compete again.
Well I was trying to say that I was competing because it helped support a goal of mine to get in shape & then see what I could do with my body. I also said your goals had a lot to do with how you trained and what you were going for. I was trying to basically say that he would get laughed off the stage because he was too small, but that wasn't his goal, so it was fine. For me, I wanted to compete, so I was training accordingly, and frankly I love to do it. But he just wasn't really listening.
So after all this he proceeded to ask if I had a boyfriend. THEEN I saw where he was going w/ this. So I continued w/ the discussion of goals, etc. But he still wasnt' listening & kept going back to how girls really shouldn't get big and should just do cardio. I'm thinking, WTF??? He's hitting on me because I look a certain way as a result of dedicated diet & lifting -- this is substantiated by the fact that he didn't say anything to me the other times I was in the gym when he was there and I was not as lean yet. AND then he has the balls to tell me that girls should only do cardio??? So of course I was starting to get pissed off.
THEN THE TOPPER... he then asks (after he realizes he's been summarily rejected) if I'm on steroids because I seem awfully touchy all of a sudden.
What a dipshit.
So moral of the story -- men dont' know shit. They still think w/ their little heads, and the big head is simply the audio output for the little head.
When anyone makes you feel bad about yourself or to question what you are doing, first consider the source & their motivation before taking it to heart. The only person you have to impress is yourself.
I've always wondered how such a guy would respond if you told him that you would love to go out on a date w/ him if it wasn't for the raging case of herpes you have.
Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below 
I'll chat up a storm in the aerobics studio with other ladies & in the women's locker room - but make a conscious effort to be anti-social in the gym.
