Is the Gym a good place to find a date?

[ScottyDoc]

Is the Gym a good place to find a Date?

Yes? No? Maybe? Elaborate on your answers please!

[DreamWeaver]

Personally I like to seem some spandex wrapped azz in the gym... It's nice for the eye candy keeps the test up!! I don't tiink that the gym should be used as a place for dating gernerally but if you were to meat somebody you really like then I don't think it would be wrong to ask them out. Just that I don't want to see the gym turn into a singles bar type atmosphere. You sholdn't be going to the gym to meet women, it's a place to be about your business. If however you were to strike up a friendly relationship with someone and over time grew to like them I don't see anything wrong with you asking her out. I mean at least you know she takes care of herself. Now if she is there just to get picked up by guys, well that is not the girl I am talking about... you can meet that type in a bar.

[jaymode]

This is kind of being discussed here:
Aproaching hotties at gym

[Resolve]

Not if your workout looks like the guy's in the pic...

[oufinny]

Lots of hot women go through Metroflex and everyone talks most of the time. Our gym is small so you know who has BFs pretty much within the first few times they are there as it always gets mentioned. I have yet to hit on anyone at that gym since I became a member, probably why I don't have any issues with people there. That said, I was shameless when I was at 24 hour fitness cause I really just didn't give a crap what anyone said, I was one of 200 people in there. 9 times out of 10 though, women aren't too excited to talk to you or are bad at showing interest cause they appear insecure all sweaty and in unflattering clothes. I found this out from a girls friend who apparently liked me but didn't have the stones to own up to it so I lost out; as much my fault as hers.

[AZMIDLYF]

About the only thing I could say to this would be the fact you have a common interest to start with. From there it's anyones guess...

[ScottyDoc]

I started this thread because I know a lot of people have mixed feelings on this issue... Some are of the mind-set that the gym is a sacred place where you go to work and then leave, others view it as a social gathering place, and others will use it as a mix of the two! Personally, I use it as a mix of the two, I am way too personal and personable to just workout and not get to know the people around me, I usually know all the men and less of the women, just because I tend to workout in the area where way more men are training as compared to women, but I still get to know all the regulars of both sexes. I definitely agree with AZMIDLYF that the gym is someplace we at least both have in common and then from there... well??? But there is also the opinion that women are there to workout and don't want to be talk to, flirted with, and/or hit on! Anyway, my overall two cents is as long as it is done in a friendly casual manner and you get to know someone before diving right in and treating it like a singles bar and trying to gather as many phone numbers as possible, etc. then it is ok!

[DreamWeaver]

I started this thread because I know a lot of people have mixed feelings on this issue... Some are of the mind-set that the gym is a sacred place where you go to work and then leave, others view it as a social gathering place, and others will use it as a mix of the two! Personally, I use it as a mix of the two, I am way too personal and personable to just workout and not get to know the people around me, I usually know all the men and less of the women, just because I tend to workout in the area where way more men are training as compared to women, but I still get to know all the regulars of both sexes. I definitely agree with AZMIDLYF that the gym is someplace we at least both have in common and then from there... well??? But there is also the opinion that women are there to workout and don't want to be talk to, flirted with, and/or hit on! Anyway, my overall two cents is as long as it is done in a friendly casual manner and you get to know someone before diving right in and treating it like a singles bar and trying to gather as many phone numbers as possible, etc. then it is ok!

Yah it's not a place to find a date but if you meet someone special, come on you have ask her out for a beverage... I am ommitted from this scenario being a happily married man but if I were single it's not such a bad place to find quality women. Just be a gentleman. If you're just looking to get with someone for a night, then best take that to the bar.

[prld2gr8ns]

People go to the grocery store just to shop, doesn't mean you can not meet someone there. Hell, I know a lot of people that met and started dating at church. Now if that's not sacred then I don't know what it.

[DreamWeaver]

People go to the grocery store just to shop, doesn't mean you can not meet someone there. Hell, I know a lot of people that met and started dating at church. Now if that's not sacred then I don't know what it.

yah that's the point I was trying to make as well, if you meet the right person, it doesn't matter where it is. Can't let opportunities like that go to waste.

[3clipseGT]

I met my wife in the gym. Well she worked there and made my protein shakes.

[TheDarkHalf]

Yeah the only downside to dating someone from the same gym....if it doesn't work out then you still have to see them on the regular. Same reason why I would not date anyone from work.

[3clipseGT]

Imo work is far diff then the gym. Changin jobs is far harder the changing gyms. But i see where you are coming from.

[ScottyDoc]

Wow... all very excellent points! There are definitely pros & cons on both sides, I like DW's opinion of not necessarily going with the intention, but never closing the door to the opportunity to meet that "Perfect Someone!"

[prld2gr8ns]

Is the gym a funeral or a family gathering? No? Then finding a date there could work. Unless you consider dropping plates as "play time with the kiddies" or "mourning the loss of your soul patch", then I would consider you look into meeting girls at the psych evaluation.

[ScottyDoc]

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[DreamWeaver]

I met my wife in the gym. Well she worked there and made my protein shakes.

See that's what I am talking about....

Yeah the only downside to dating someone from the same gym....if it doesn't work out then you still have to see them on the regular. Same reason why I would not date anyone from work.

yah that would be a bit uncomfortable but I wouldn't change gyms because of it...

[jwa254]

If you wanna strike up a conversation with someone, do it. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. There's no right place to meet someone.

[ScottyDoc]

If you wanna strike up a conversation with someone, do it. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. There's no right place to meet someone.

I totally agree with your above statement, I mean there is no right or wrong place to meet anyone, when it is right it is right.

What I am talking about are people who go to gyms or specifically target men or women in the gym because it is a good place to find fit bodies, get my drift?

[southpaw23]

I think the best thing to do is keep it casual and friendly, which is why I like to walk up to women at the gym and say..."hey... I noticed you over there breaking a sweat. How about you trying breaking me now?" Wink and then walk away.