Is there no other gym you could go to? It sucks working out in a shitty gym. In a good gym, there will be people looking out for others who might have terrible form and picking on others will generally not be tolerated. Everyone has to start somewhere and looking at your body while lifting weights to get a better understanding of how things should move when exercises are done correctly is key to progress. As for the food chain thing . . . ha! Speak for yourself. We might all be red and shitty on the inside but I am coal and gold on the outside. Just remember that we as animals have very few natural predators because we are exceptionally fantastic at our ability to kill other things, though of course not with our bare hands. There are plenty of things for the predators of the oceans to eat and we are generally not among those things. But yes, there is little we can do singularly against the war machines our nations use to keep each other in check.