Creepy guys/girls staring at you while working out?

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  • Cutting4life
    Cutting4life Posts: 505 Member
    When am working out I am in the zone. Everyone else is dead to me so I would not notice anyways. It is so bad, most likely if you get in my way I most likely will run you over if am running or doing any calisthenic exercise.

    that feel
  • Nightterror218
    Nightterror218 Posts: 375 Member
    its not just the guys who are staring. I caught a couple cougars at the gym this weekend watching me doing deadlifts and bent over rows. After that felt like eye were boring into the back of my head.
  • carlos13th
    carlos13th Posts: 40 Member
    Trying to say that women should dress differently to avoid leery stares is standard victim blaming. Maybe tight pants and a sports bra are the most comfortable thing to work out in. No matter how attractive a girl looks we all have the ability to not stare and leer. Sure they may catch your eye once in a while but im pretty sure most of us are sensible enough to realise that staring at a girl in the gym is unlike to make her comfortable.
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    How do you know he ran at 6.5 mph? I mean, that's awfully specific.

    Oh, and I got cat called today minding my own business walking home from the gym without a shirt on. It totally freaked me out. I'll probably never wear my shirt again.
  • carlos13th
    carlos13th Posts: 40 Member
    How do you know he ran at 6.5 mph? I mean, that's awfully specific.

    Oh, and I got cat called today minding my own business walking home from the gym without a shirt on. It totally freaked me out. I'll probably never wear my shirt again.

    She was the one running at 6.5

    You might get cold.
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    How do you know he ran at 6.5 mph? I mean, that's awfully specific.

    Oh, and I got cat called today minding my own business walking home from the gym without a shirt on. It totally freaked me out. I'll probably never wear my shirt again.

    She was the one running at 6.5

    You might get cold.

    Thanks. My short attention span strikes again . . .
  • babyj0
    babyj0 Posts: 531 Member
    i love it. I especially do the splits so that they walk into something and embarrass themselves! muahahaha

    This is what I would say. Lol Big deal. Ignore it.. unless he follows you out, I would call police/tell manager.
  • EngineerPrincess
    EngineerPrincess Posts: 306 Member
    In most cases this happens because of how someone is dressed. As I said If this is NOT the case talk to the gym manager. If that is not helpful if possible look into another fitness club or an alternate time to attend the gym.

    Yes, yes, we know. You manly men are just so unable to control yourselves around women who make you realize that women have boobies and whatnot. It's so hard on you. However do you handle the strain, going around every single day not being a total *kitten* when some woman is flashing her ankle or something in front of your tender, virgin eyes?

    You poor poor men. How difficult a strain it must be, to act like a decent human being no matter what another adult whom you have no control over chooses to put on in the morning.

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    ^All of this. :flowerforyou: Victim blaming, ftw. :grumble:

    THIS, I was reading this topic to share a funny story about my school gym, and then got really really angry when among the FIRST responses people showed that they've been brainwashed by a flaw in our culture.

    It is NOT THE FAULT of a girl for getting creeped on, whether she is wearing a sports bra or a burka. It's the fault of the guy for being creepy. I hope someday every parent spends more time teaching their boys to be gentlemen than demanding their girls to cover up by shaming them if they don't. It'd work a lot better.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    America's general prude upbringing and sesationalism of sexuality has really effected men and women.

    *heh at ankle flashing. lol.
  • CindyRip
    CindyRip Posts: 166 Member


    So, do you have any workout stories with any creepiness factors?

    So I am assuming you are looking for creepy stories as opposed to convicting this person as a serial creeper and this thread got a little off track. Here's a story for you -- So my son is talking to me on the phone, walks into the fitness center looking for his girlfriend who I will add at this point is pretty good looking. He is in there around 5 min turns around walks out the door to see if she is waiting outside. He gets out the door on the sidewalk and this dude rushes out the door and starts yelling at him for ogling this dude's girlfriend. My son tells him, "Man, I have no clue what you are talking about or who your girlfriend even is." The man says his girlfriend told him my son had been staring at her for a long time, and threatens to beat him up if he catches him around her again. About that time my son's girlfriend walks up and asks what the problem is. The mans mouth apparently fell open and everything got really quiet, after a long silence the man shook my son's hand and apologized, saying he had apparently mistook him for someone else. This may not be creepy, but it still is strange and funny.
  • robdel302
    robdel302 Posts: 292 Member
    THIS, I was reading this topic to share a funny story about my school gym, and then got really really angry when among the FIRST responses people showed that they've been brainwashed by a flaw in our culture.

    It is NOT THE FAULT of a girl for getting creeped on, whether she is wearing a sports bra or a burka. It's the fault of the guy for being creepy. I hope someday every parent spends more time teaching their boys to be gentlemen than demanding their girls to cover up by shaming them if they don't. It'd work a lot better.

    Lack of discipline; most of these guys can't stay focused on their workouts to keep their eyes off other women. Or they're in the gyms for completely wrong reasons. Too bad they can't figure out their lack of focus in the gym will be a huge turn off for you ladies that truly are driven.

    I have a friend who competes back at my home-station who once asked me why I never said hi to her in the gym. I told her it's because those of us that are serious about fitness already know the ladies have enough trouble with guys talking to them in-between sets. The stories she shared about the creepers were seriously disturbing. One guy was able to recite every workout she did that day. I told her best thing to do about creepers is just say hi to the guys with amazing physiques. Most of them keep the conversation short and the fact that you acknowledge each other will subtly crush a creepers ego since he can't compete. This would stop the creeps from trying to talk to you at the very least.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    Some of us manly men are remarkably discrete. In fact, some of us older bulls help guide the hormone-laden younglings with a smack upside the head when they forget their manners. Just saying...

    :laugh:
  • EngineerPrincess
    EngineerPrincess Posts: 306 Member
    And now I'm actually going to share my story lol. Not quite as creepy luckily.
    I was in my university's gym (my school has a rep for having "not attractive" students. If they totaled brains and beauty together into a final score we'd be off the charts comparatively, brains are sexy people, but nevermind that's not the point of my story) and the gym was full as usual due to low self esteem levels. I went there to do yoga after realizing there was no room in my dorm to fully extend my arms without hitting something immovable. I'll use punctuation to illustrate the scene:

    Large built-in foam floor for yoga is the solid line, and the dotted line is the mirror. There are weight racks in front of the mirror.
    _______________ -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    x

    I am x on this map. If I were to plot each of the weight lifting guys as Ys,
    _______________ -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - gym and weight area extends 50 feet this way -->
    x .........................Y.....Y.....Y
    ................Y..................Y....Y

    Then another girl walked in and went to the stationary bikes, illustrated by this OO, and the distribution shifted and I was mostly saved.
    _______________ -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    x................................................. Y...........Y.....Y
    ........................Y.......................... Y
    ...................................................................... OO

    Edit: had to adjust with .....s as the spacing came out poorly
  • TheMaliciousBunny
    TheMaliciousBunny Posts: 16


    So, do you have any workout stories with any creepiness factors?

    So I am assuming you are looking for creepy stories as opposed to convicting this person as a serial creeper and this thread got a little off track. Here's a story for you -- So my son is talking to me on the phone, walks into the fitness center looking for his girlfriend who I will add at this point is pretty good looking. He is in there around 5 min turns around walks out the door to see if she is waiting outside. He gets out the door on the sidewalk and this dude rushes out the door and starts yelling at him for ogling this dude's girlfriend. My son tells him, "Man, I have no clue what you are talking about or who your girlfriend even is." The man says his girlfriend told him my son had been staring at her for a long time, and threatens to beat him up if he catches him around her again. About that time my son's girlfriend walks up and asks what the problem is. The mans mouth apparently fell open and everything got really quiet, after a long silence the man shook my son's hand and apologized, saying he had apparently mistook him for someone else. This may not be creepy, but it still is strange and funny.

    Ahaha! That's horrible, but also funny (: Thanks for being the first person on the 2ND(!!!) page to actually post their story (:
  • ttippie2000
    ttippie2000 Posts: 412 Member
    Am I the only person who has actually ever administered an 'attitude adjustment' to a stalker? Bloody flock of sheep!
  • HapaHaole92
    HapaHaole92 Posts: 85 Member
    I stare at cute guys and I've seen guys stare at me. I've only ever gone up to one guy at the gym and given him my number and then he never called and I switched gyms.
  • Andy_83
    Andy_83 Posts: 270
    My flat mate used to put on make up when she went to the gym then complained when the 'wrong' blokes stared. I had little sympathy :).

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