What is really a gymbro?

Within admiring, wondering, or misunderstanding, here we guide you about the good and the bad of being so.

 

If you are one of these guys who spend your every free time by training or standing at the gym, if you’re updated about supplements, if you pay your membership timely, if you’re watching in very detail what you eat (what includes how, how much, when, and why), if you’ve turned an expert to decode the nutritional facts charts – anyway, if your personal and social life spins around the gym, you’re maybe a gymbro (from gym brother).

 

By extension, at least in Peru, gymbros are these training partners whom you share the same right lifestyle at the same right place, as much as the relationship that began at the gym can transcend to other circles of your life.

 

“In general, the gymbros begin by sharing the same machine, and they soon match their whole life to work out the same muscle group, to use the same supplement, and even reaching the moment that if one of them leaves the gym, the other one follows him,” a trainer tells us.

 

When yes, when not

The gymbros can turn real communities, the gymfrats (from gym fraternity). For the people who don’t belong to the fitness world, this can wonder them and even a trigger to make fun (there are many memes about), but for many professional trainers, meeting gymbros is a serious matter because they can be capable to move customers agreeing or disagreeing, depending on the experience they have at the gym.

 

“everyone who are trainers today started being gymbros upon a time ago,” they add us.

 

There are also who use the term to mask a romantic or sexual relationship that began at the gym rooms. First of all, it’s not bad to fall in love with your gymbro, but it would be good not to use it as an euphemism for avoiding to say lover or friend with benefits, especially if you go to a medical check due to some little sexual health problem – the medical doctors are not fool, although you think so.

 

Benefits & risks

Is it good or bad to be a gymbro, fitness freak, or gym-rat? Like we use to say here, it depends on the situation.

 

• Positive – your time is better organized as much as you life quality visibly improves compared to the average.
• Negative – You reach to the point that you are at the gym without other reason than being right there believing you won’t be happy somewhere else.

 

• Positive – Your gymbro turns your main motivator for never giving up the training, as much as the sparring-type methodologies work wonderful for you.
• Negative – Going to the gym depends on your gymbro goes to. If he doesn’t go, you don’t go. In other words, you nullify your proactivity.

 

• Positive – You’re not easily teased by the advertising when it’s about to introduce you some new product.
• Negative – You become freak, turning you into a compulsive buyer of every supplement, apparel, clothes, method, or ‘miracle’ that is advertised.

 

• Positive –Your gymfrat is not only in good times, but in bad and especially worst times either.
• Negative – Believing your gymfrat is the only posse which you can aspire to.

 

• Positive – your gymbro Will ever encourage you to achieve a new asset.
• Negative – Your gymbro pushes you to behave the opposite to the sport.

 

Have in mind…

After that, being a gymbro  is not bad at all even provided you know how to take it locked at the gym, or if it suddenly becomes a great physical support and emotional support. But if it begins to infest your other dimensions, get concerned – maybe, you need professional support to see what is going you wrong.

 

Finally, dont confuse a gymbro and a gympro, who is the guy training aware at a gym because he lives through his body, whether a competition or a career which the physique is key (models, artists, security agents, lifesavers). In fact, a gympro knows he must give the necessary dedication to the training, but he is also aware he must keep a physical, mental, or social balance.

 

Would you like to share us your story as a gymbro? Tell it to us on our Twitter account or at chulucanasgym@gmail.com. Maybe, it would be good to post it.