 Third Street Barbell Man, Salah Mike, welcome to the second standard day, place a little packed, a little bumping. I just got a little back and bicep, but we're going to chat with the folks. We've got a big question, man, how to make a community or how to find gym friends, training partners, how do you build that or how do you find that? I have my own answers, so if you want the real answers, stick around to the end. But we're going to ask a bunch of folks to see what they think, see what their journey is like. If you enjoy the style of video, man, be sure to give this thing a thumbs up. There are new videos every single day on the channel, so subscribe, let's see how to build a community, how to find a training partner. I want to ask you a question. How do you make gym friends if you have any? I mean, I feel like I'm pretty anti-social myself. A lot of times we'll say hi to me and then I'll just try to make a conversation that we have in common. So for gym, for example, a lot of people ask me, like, females specifically, like, how it feels to do a meet and how you feel going to the gym by yourself. So basically you're just really cool when everyone comes up to you. I got it. Question, Bench? So question of the day, how do you make gym friends? How do I make gym friends? I offer them a spot, if they, okay, so if they're new here, I offer spots. I ask some of the guiding questions about the gym and then, like, if they look like they're trying to work in somewhere because it's, like, usually mad busy on these days, right? I offer them a spot if we're working on the same thing. But that's pretty much it, though. That's it? Yeah, I mean, other than that, like, I don't know any other way to make gym friends, you know? You can just go up to them and talk to them, too, if they're, like, friendly. So you miss the world wide? No, you miss the world wide, right? No, no, no, no. Señor Eddie, how do you make gym friends? I don't know. I have no friends. Ow, I'm right here. I'm right here. Go to time out. Face the corner. I think you just pull up and you just talk to people and you work in with them. And then you become friends. Like, I didn't know Jerry, but now Jerry, because we're Latino and we're both creatives. So we connect because we're both Latino and creatives. Oh, shit. So is it, like, Latino month? Uh, it's women's history month, this month, I think. Shout out to all women. Oh, I got a question. How do you get such big calves? You know, I get it from my mom. She really has big, big, yeah. Shout out to moms out there. Hey! Yeah. My mom got big calves, you know. So you do no calf raises? I do no calf raises. That's a little kid. You know, I'm always on that bike. Oh, it's a little kid. You're on a bike game? Yeah, I'm on a bike game. Keep the calf game. That's Arnold's status. That is physique. How do you make gym friends? You got to spot them from behind. You got to cut them like this. Oh! Oh! You want a zesty? There is zesty. What's your go-to PR song? I'm so strong mentally that the outside externals don't really mess with my performance. And I think that if you rely on external factors for internal performance, you should probably recalculate and reassess your approach to training. Is he mentally prepared? All right. Go-to PR song. Say it one more time. Go-to PR song. Who do you love by YG? Okay. That's valid. Play it. How do you make gym friends? Don't be scared to say hi. Sometimes they're scared to say hi to you, so how about you go say hi to them. Break the ice. Don't be scared. No one's going to judge you for trying to know somebody else. Bro, thank you. Someone finally going up to people. I appreciate that. Everyone else said they're waiting on others. Smell me. I feel you. Smell me. Yeah. Smell me. PSA, please wear deodorant in the gym. I ain't trying to smell y'all. If this place is musty, there's an issue. Wear deodorant. It ain't hard. Girl talk. How do you make gym friends? Gym friends, Mike. I think a lot of it's based on the community. So, yeah, you could be at a commercial gym and be friendly and say what's up. But a lot of it has to do with the environment. The environment kind of spawns what we do. And that's literally why I opened this gym. I think little things that I try to promote like good music makes people less likely to wear headphones, makes them more likely to make eye contact and conversation. A lot of these things are cultivated on purpose. They didn't just happen without thought. How we set up the room makes people have to kind of work in together, look at each other, help spot and load. The sport of powerlifting got popular during the transition of multi-ply and single-ply lifting to raw lifting. And to multi-ply powerlift, you literally have to have teammates because you can't get your gear on and you're lifting such extreme weights in an extreme manner that you have to have spotters and loaders everywhere. And even in the raw game, you can get better on your own in the garage and stuff, but you're going to be better off with the community. You're going to be better off with spotters and loaders. You're going to be safer and encouragement from others. So although powerlifting is not like what this gym's necessary goal is, strength and conditioning and strength training force you to build a community. And so those kind of work cohesively here. And so I think putting yourself in a place where it's easier, right? The lowest like base of entry. If you go into a commercial gym, you can find a training partner and you can find friends. It's going to be real hard. Yeah. So finding yourself, in the environments to then find a training partner or a good gym friend is easier, right? Yeah. Easier for sure. Hot take though. Should headphones be banned? If this business could run itself without making money, I would ban headphones in here. You heard it here. You don't like headphones. Do you always come in and drift out to the gym? You think so? Yeah, I think so. Oh, I tried it. I don't know. I either just like completely homeless or I'll be like, I'll be like, I want to wear something cool. That's what's up. It's the best of my mood. That's sick. Yeah. Because it's a fit. So we were like, that's the best fit in the gym. So we have to make sure. Yeah. So Matt, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I'm Lucy. For sure. Looks good. Learn here. That is an outfit. All y'all that think your stringers and all that? No. That's a fit. Learn something. Don't come up in no pajamas. No. Up. Easy. Up. Come on. Dig. Easy. Stay tight. Up. I didn't see it. Easy. Ladies and gentlemen, just a little taste of second Saturday. I hope you guys enjoy these videos. I want to like display the community a little bit. And again, I've talked about why I'm not a power lifter, but why I still give back and try to be a part of the community. Because it's stuff like this. And I want to share that with some of y'all that it may be stuck in a commercial gym or on the edge of maybe even wanting to try power lifting or strength sports in general. I do recommend people compete. I think it's important for you to put yourself on the line, push yourself in an environment that you're not used to. Especially as an adult, we don't compete. We don't put ourselves out there as much. But even more so, digging into the community and finding like-minded individuals will really go far, not only for your fitness game, but for your life. So that's why we throw in these style of videos. Our second Saturdays are bumping. Every second Saturday of the month, we have a free open gym from 8 a.m. to noon. If you're in Northern California, you want to stop by. It would be for all your clothing, man. Wheel over me. Be a part of something big in yourself. Sell a mic. I'm out of here. New content every single day. We'll catch you the next one, y'all.