Sounds made up. I’ve never interacted with a single person at the gym, ever.

Depends on the gym you go to imo. More commercial gyms there’s almost no interaction but more privately owned or specialty gym (powerlifting, strongman, etc) - these interactions happen a good bit.

This sounds like the gym I used to go to. It was mostly massive powerlifters and female Instagram influencer…all super serious into fitness. And guys would ask me to spot them all the time, and we would often share racks and chat. The girls mostly kept to themselves, but the dudes were all pretty chummy with each other.