If you go to the gym often and also at roughly the same time, at some point you will have come up with names for your gym buddies (the people you always see at the gym) yourself. Because you don't really know them, but then you say more: “God, there’s that chick with that bizarrely good body again.”

In your head, right. Just let me enjoy people-watching during my gym session. I still run into these types sometimes.

That guy who sweats like crazy

He gets on a bike, types in what I think is always 900 kilometers, because he’s always on it for so long! Standing, sitting, standing, sitting. A kind of spinning class, but extra long. There isn’t an ounce of fat on this man, he always has a sweatband around his head and a little bike shorts on. He’s nice though, because he nods very kindly and when he’s really in the zone, his bike is in a huge puddle of sweat.

That girl who seriously only does something for a quarter of an hour

A little bit on the steps, then a little bit on the crossfit machine and then just a little bit in the abs area. There, done.

That man who just works out in normal clothes

I always find that a bit strange. It’s not necessarily a pair of jeans, but he definitely hasn’t changed. Just no gym clothes, so to speak. And then a bit on the treadmill. It seems so uncomfortable to me. By the way, he is an old man. Maybe putting on gym clothes is a bit too much effort for him and he has to exercise just because the doctor says so, but he really doesn’t feel like it.

That very thin girl

Who mainly stands on the treadmill and does crossfit while I would think: go hang out with the weights a bit to get a little more body. Because then you’d be even prettier.

That guy with that huge muscular body who prefers to look at himself in the mirror rather than play with the weights

He always has some music on. Good body, well, maybe a bit too muscular. But then he lies down on a bench and presses those weights to the ceiling ten times, after which he gets up again. Then he walks around the bench for a bit and sits down to look at himself in the mirror. Takes at least 5 minutes. And then he starts again with those weights for ten times.

Those people you know are really here every single day

I find that impressive. And also a bit boring. Seems to me.

That woman who keeps chatting with everyone

And calmly leans against a cross trainer for half an hour while her conversation partner is sweating over there. That kind of woman you duck away from when she walks into the room. Afraid of a little chat.

Those who never clean their equipment.

Such an incredibly small effort. Just do it. Much fresher.