How many gym friends?

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Curious for all you avid gym goers, how many friendships have you made while actually at the gym?

Was just thinking with all the years, I probably should have at least 1 or 2 to show for attending. Curious on how others stack up.
 

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Over the past 10 years I've gotten to know about a dozen guys whose schedules overlap with mine regularly. While we enjoy chatting in the locker room or in the gym, none have become close friends. On the other hand, I have a couple old friends from my town and colleagues from work who joined my gym over the years. We've gotten to be better friends seeing each other at the gym.

I'm fairly focused on exercise at the gym and never expected it to be a place I'd form deep friendships, but I've been happily surprised at how social (in a surface level way) it's been. A nice mix of guys of all backgrounds, sexualities, races and ages from college dudes to 80 year-old guys. I'm not a big extrovert, but folks strike up pleasant conversations all the time. I also am one of the rare guys who takes group exercise classes (there are rarely more than 2 guys in those classes but they are awesome, don't knock them until you've tried them) so those guys usually say hi too.
 

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I have guys I talk to at the gym but it doesn't carry over to anything else.
(the gym is on the campus of my employer, so we do occasionally cross paths on work-related matters)
 

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While I try not to socialise while working out, most of my friends now are other guys, straight or gay, who work out. It's because not only do we have the same interest in lifting, but we also have the same sort of lifestyle, a term that I hate, but I'm using it for lack of a different term. We all eat well, avoid alcohol and recreational drugs (and yes, some, but not most, of them do enhancements for their bodybuilding), and our high comes from lifting rather than from smoking dope or getting drunk.
 

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Like above in the almost two years I've been going to the gym I've met and made friends with about five other men of various ages and a couple of women.

All of us come from different backgrounds and have different jobs. We all like weight lifting and talk in the gym shower and locker room.

None of it has carried out of the gym. .
 
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I've made one friend who I consider one of my best friends. Another one that I get together with every week or so outside of the gym. Sometimes, our wives join us for dinner. A couple other guys I talk with outside the gym.

Every single person I train with is or was a competitive athlete so we're all serious about what we do and that helps create a bond.
 
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