The Golden One - January 30, 2023


Talking to Women in the Gym!？


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

175.68346

Word count

814

Sentence count

48

Harmful content

Misogyny

9

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Hate speech

4

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Should it be OK to talk to women in the gym? And should it be okay to look at them? I give my thoughts on these questions and why it's not OK to do either. I also give my opinion on whether or not it's OK to watch a woman training.

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00:00:00.000 Absolutely massive is what I am.
00:00:05.000 Now, today we have the following question to answer.
00:00:09.000 Should you or should you not talk to women in the gym? 0.99
00:00:12.000 Now I have spent some time on Twitter as of late, because Twitter is fun again,
00:00:16.000 and I have seen some videos shared of young women filming themselves in the gym,
00:00:24.000 lamenting the fact that there are creeps checking them out or talking to them.
00:00:29.000 So I thought to respond to the question, should you talk to women in the gym? 1.00
00:00:34.000 And should you look at women in the gym? 1.00
00:00:36.000 Now, first and foremost, should you talk in almost all situations?
00:00:40.000 I would say no, because it's not appropriate to go up to a random female to talk to her, 1.00
00:00:46.000 especially if she is into her workout.
00:00:48.000 Now, this applies mostly to commercial gyms where you don't know anyone there, basically.
00:00:54.000 Then, of course, you have different gyms.
00:00:57.000 So powerlifting gyms, for example, where you have individuals, men and women,
00:01:01.000 who are enthusiastic about powerlifting.
00:01:04.000 And if you have a powerlifting woman there, and if you are a powerlifter,
00:01:08.000 and you have a sort of natural conversation, yeah, that's something completely else.
00:01:12.000 And especially if you have a club, a powerlifting club or something like that,
00:01:16.000 then it's normal and natural, and it would be strange to not talk to people there just because they're women.
00:01:22.000 But in a commercial gym where you don't know people, I wouldn't say that there is any need for it.
00:01:28.000 Unless, of course, you know, there are certain situations.
00:01:32.000 If there is only one powerlifting bar and you wonder how many sets she has left, yeah, then it can be okay. 0.80
00:01:39.000 Stuff like that.
00:01:41.000 But otherwise, I don't really see any point in doing it.
00:01:44.000 Then, of course, if you have a local gym where you know everyone, yeah, then it can be natural and normal to talk to women there if you know them. 1.00
00:01:53.000 But the main point is that if it's a commercial gym, just a normie mainstream gym where you don't know anyone,
00:01:59.000 you wouldn't say that it's appropriate to go up and talk to a woman unless there is a need for it. 1.00
00:02:05.000 Say, if there is only one powerlifting bench press and you are training small of junior, as I can recommend you to do,
00:02:12.000 yeah, then you sort of need to use that particular equipment and maybe she is training there. 0.73
00:02:18.000 Or you simply want to know when can I use this so I can structure my warm-up.
00:02:23.000 Yeah, then it's okay to do it.
00:02:25.000 So you have these situations and you sort of have to, you know, make a judgement call.
00:02:31.000 Is it necessary to speak? No.
00:02:33.000 But otherwise, to just go up and small talk, yeah, it's not a good idea.
00:02:37.000 Now, to the second point.
00:02:39.000 Is it appropriate to look at a woman in the gym? 1.00
00:02:43.000 I would say absolutely not. There is no need for it.
00:02:46.000 Then, of course, you know, some of these women filming themselves putting up the videos on TikTok saying,
00:02:51.000 oh, I got checked out by a creep.
00:02:54.000 They do this because they want to signal to the world that they are desirable.
00:02:58.000 Oh, look how attractive I am because all of these guys are checking me out.
00:03:02.000 That is what they're saying when they're posting this type of videos.
00:03:05.000 That being said, it's not, you know, it's not acceptable.
00:03:09.000 It's not okay to check out a woman training either. 1.00
00:03:12.000 But then again, when we're talking about these special situations, I always go into the gym.
00:03:18.000 I scan around, look, okay, where, which power racks are free, which power lifting bars are free,
00:03:24.000 because I don't want to use a weight lifting bar.
00:03:26.000 I want to use a power lifting bar if I'm doing smaller, for example.
00:03:30.000 So I sort of need to look around in that sense.
00:03:32.000 But I don't do it to look at other individuals, neither men nor women,
00:03:38.000 because I'm not there to look at anyone except for my own great likeness in the mirror.
00:03:45.000 So that is what I do at least.
00:03:48.000 So yeah, of course, that is normal decency to not look overly much at someone when they are training.
00:03:54.000 Of course, again, if you are in a power lifting gym and you sort of train as a team completely different.
00:04:00.000 But now I'm talking about these more commercial mainstream gyms where the videos are filmed at.
00:04:06.000 So anyway, I just thought to give my take there.
00:04:10.000 I also want to mention how juicy my shoulders look due to strict press.
00:04:17.000 Small of junior for the strict press. Good stuff, good stuff.
00:04:20.000 I will actually go to the Temple of Iron now to train some more.
00:04:25.000 Feels great, mate.
00:04:26.000 So anyway, thank you for watching.
00:04:28.000 XXO BOOM!
00:04:36.000 To be continued...