Gym etiquette Question: Working in?
So I’ve been going to the gym on and off again since my uni days (currently m34). I just wanted to ask: is working-in on a machine with another gym goer still a thing?
I remember at the uni gym, it was pretty common if you wanted to use a machine and the person using it had a many sets left, you would just ask them if you could work-in (alternate during each other rest times). They’d usually be okay with it. And similarly I’d get asked and it seemed pretty normal. This was obviously for machine cable work, and not on things that required lots of set-up (bench).
Nowadays I think it’d be pretty weird to ask a stranger at the gym if I could work in. Seems like a social no-no.
I just want to know if anyone else has felt this change or if I’m on my own here. Was it always weird to work in and I was just too naive in my uni days. Or is this Covid culture change. Or is this all in my head.