The same way you don’t meet someone for the first time and marry them the following day, is exactly the same way you don’t just randomly ask any guy in the gym to be your gym partner. There is more involved to it than just the two of huffing and puffing together as you workout. A gym partner is the equivalent of having your own personal trainer as well your own personal trainee. This is because, your partner will watch you workout and correct you when you are wrong, and vise versa. So here are some of the qualities that you look for in a gym partner.

• Think Goals and Ambitions

This is the one thing that you both must have in common if you are to work in perfect synchrony. Placing a gainer and a cutter together is asking for trouble. A cutter needs to concentrate on weights and cardio while a gainer needs to exercise a bit less intensely than they used to. Mix those two up and the gainer is likely to drag down the cutter because of his lower work out intensity. Before you can even inquire what someone else’s goal is, you must have yours clearly defined.

• Think Skill Level

The both of you must be at the same or a least almost the same technical and skill level. How can your gym partner check on your technique if he doesn’t know how perfectly done curls look like? Yet again, the one that is less skilled will end up dragging down the one with higher skill along with him.

• Think Availability

Just the same way you cannot marry someone who is already marred, is the same way you can’t have a gym partner who is taken by someone else. If they are available in terms of commitment, they also need to be available for the workouts at a time that is also convenient for him or her.

• Think Consistency and Punctuality

Believe me the last kind of drama you want is getting a gym partner who will call you an hour later than you were to start working out, only to tell you that they won’t be going to the gym on that day.

• Think Common Interest

Imagine that you are afraid of hospital and needles; now imagine having a medical doctor of a surgeon as your gym partner. He then rumbles on and on and on about the many freak accidents that happened on that day and vividly describes how some patients looked like! You will be shocked and appalled and I highly doubt whether the two of you will hang out to grab a bite after hitting the gym.

• Think Gender

it is normally advisable to stick to your gender when looking for a gym partner. Hormones run high when working out and things might get complicated when your gym partner is from the other gender, unless of cause you want to work out with your big brother who hit the gym some months before you did.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit http://www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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