Do it for your own reason rule

I know it's a joke strip, but don't worry about being judged at the gym, only the 1% bottom dregs of gym goers do that. Most of us know it's difficult and respect you for trying, we won't bother you unless you might injure yourself.
And that woman is quietly getting jacked af, look that massive back in her last panel
- I have never had any thoughts about anyone in my gym beyond "I hope no-one heard me fart on that last squat."
  
  My only thought is "please let the squat rack be free please let the squat rack be free, yay! Squat rack! What's that smell?"

This idea that other people are looking at you and judging you at the gym is pure paranoia and a bit of a case of "main character syndrome"
- No, it’s years of PE trauma.
  
  No one is looking at you, you are not the main character. You're just a background NPC to them.
- Lol you clearly don't go to the gym if you're saying this. Went to the YMCA as a kid and saw elliptical politics that made my middle school that literally split us into "teams" by economic class look tame in comparison. Because of the death of the third place in western society, any activity that isn't where you sleep or work becomes a third place, where people are kind of inherently judging the people around them, to fulfill this. All the shitty people you went to high school gym with are mostly the same people now, and need a place to continue their bullshit. Some will grow past this, but by that point the next generation of gym shitheads is ready.
  The only way I agree with your comment is if you said "people at the gym aren't judging you any more than people outside the gym already do". Maybe it's just the area I live, but everything becomes a game of judgement. It's one thing to say "yeah I'm being judged by other people and I don't care". But to determine that you aren't being percieved at all off of this idea is more delusional than the idea that you are being percieved.
  
  My experience is in line with @TJmCAwesome@feddit.nu
  Maybe you have a case of the main character syndrome or some social anxiety yourself
  
  I guess it's easier when your're an older white dude, you can just kind of melt into the background and stay off people's radars. It's probably way harder when your trans.

Last time on DBZ:
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Next time on DBZ:
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- His power levels are off the charts!
  
  He’s been yelling and making that spirit bomb for at least 3 episodes!

I always appreciate the digglet dudes around anime expo, costume is just at least a year of getting ripped AF and the work SHOWS.
- pix?

my thoughts at gym:
grumble I'm tired and want to go home but I'm glad I came
oh hey it's that person, they're making progress rock on
ah rehab exercises? bummer. Good on them doing the work to get better
Wow that person is jacked, they must be working so hard
Oh no the thing I want to use it taken. Oh well I'll wait
- Should I poop now or wait until after my set?
  Is that a fart?
  
  If you're going to use the leg press just go sooner rather than later.
- Adding to those:
  [Song Lyrics]
  Good lord, that lady is tiny but she lifts some serious iron. She could kick my ass. (there's a very short but very built young woman who works out at the same time&place as me)
  Oh boy, cardio. I hate it here :D

I can almost guarantee that nobody cares about who you are or what you're doing at the gym. Everybody is focused on their own bodies.

Only partly related, but at the gym my BF works out at, the buffest, most ripped guy is this older gent who has the nickname 'Kratos'.
Why? Because if you gave him some makeup he'd look exactly like Kratos from Dad of Boi.