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Handling unsolicited and incorrect gym advice

💚 healthsocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

A gym goer reports difficulty politely declining or correcting unsolicited and technically incorrect exercise advice from other gym members without appearing rude or arrogant.

Who's affected: The reporter

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A pocket-sized card or digital cheat sheet with polite, non-confrontational scripts for declining gym advice.
  2. A community-sourced mobile app that provides 'social etiquette' templates for common gym interactions.
  3. A gym-wide policy or signage campaign encouraging a 'mind your own workout' culture to reduce unsolicited interference.
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Real voices

“How do you politely respond to a fellow gym goer that appears to be giving wrong advice?”

Source: Stack Exchange (fitness) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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