> It's common to advise hitting on the gym, which I just started doing last week. Funnily, the gym is the place where I last noticed my awkward behavior :) Fun

> It's common to advise hitting on the gym, which I just started doing last week. Funnily, the gym is the place where I last noticed my awkward behavior :) Funny, gyms are really much less judgmental than many other places--like bars a bit, but moreso elite college classrooms--in that hey, every strongman was once a skinny little dude, those early stages of building up that first muscle are really hard, there's easy gainer fat men and hard gainer guys with perma-sixpacks. Really a lot of tolerance. And funny enough, the really gigantic guys mostly don't want to say anything--one gym had celebrity athletes in it, it was rude to go up and talk--but sometimes they're super nice guys, in some cases because they sell steroids, but that doesn't take away their super-sweet positive disposition. The gym can be anywhere. Unless of course it's a gym that makes its money from the subscription and getting nobody to go, like those places full of mirrors and shit. Ask yourself when entering a gym: is this fit for a Rocky movie? Those are the best ones, there's lots in Santiago, crazy cheap and the weights weigh the same as at an expensive gym, same metric system. The poverty of the gym will make you better. The expensive gyms have their appeal, the equipment is really good a lot of the time, and in one gym in Santiago I found a tibialis machine, which I've never found anywhere else but like anywhere anywhere, not even in the gyms at Stanford...maybe the football team has one, but I doubt it. I won bouts thanks to that training, because my tibialis was too strong for an ankle lock.