This California 2 wants results just for existing in male spaces.

I used to go to a gym regularly (Damnit, have to get back in the routine!) with my buddies after work. Our gym happened to be known as the one where all the hot chicks go as well. I admit I did enjoy the scenery, but I never approached women there, for a multitude of reasons.

• As other's have mentioned, I'm there to get my workout done and leave. I'm not going to break a set to chat someone up and mess up my routine.

• If I do have time between sets, I'd rather shoot the shit with my friends as we rotate on the machines. It was a good way to decompress, and I wouldn't feel guilty about spending time with my friends as long as we were lifting.

• If I talked to any strangers it was to other guys, when I was alone and needed someone to spot me, or maybe ask someone a question about lifting technique. Or maybe if we're sharing a machine.

Bottomline is that the only people that treated the gym as a social scene were people who weren't treating it as a place to exercise. If I'm going to spend time in a social scene, it sure isn't going to be at a sweaty, smelly gym. I'd rather spend my socializing time budget at a bar or lounge or something, and use my exercise time budget to actually exercise.

I would add these points relevant to the OP:

• Guys that are rich enough to pay for an Equinox membership and are hot enough to attract your interest get plenty of attention from women outside of the gym. They have no need to hit you up. And indeed, if you worked up the courage to talk to them first, they'd probably be polite but blow you off. Because they can get far better than you. Which brings me to my next point:

• I don't know what state she's in, but assuming she's in a big, bicoastal city (which is where most Equinox clubs are), she's not some extraordinarily attractive gym bunny. Like I said, I used to go to a gym (not an Equinox) in SoCal, and the girls there were much hotter than her. In all honesty, I wouldn't have even given her a second glance at our gym.

• If she's spending her time on a treadmill, she's doing it wrong. The guys she wants are in the weight room. It's like going to a yoga class and wondering why there are no guys. In most of the gyms I've been to, I've found that on the aerobic machines (treadmills, bikes, steppers, etc), were 50/50 guys and girls. Meanwhile, the weights section was like 90/10 guys/girls (closer to 99/1 in the free weights section). What's more, if I'm running on a treadmill, I don't know how you expect me to chat you up. I should be out of breath if I'm doing it right (not like her, walking on a treadmill). In contrast, in the weights section, guys will be taking a break between sets, so there's at least a chance that someone might say something to you.

• if a guy who's serious about fitness wants to chat up a girl, he's going to prefer someone who's also serious about fitness. We know who those girls are. They are not the ones spending a half hour walking on a treadmill (unless you're 60 years old, obese, or rehabbing an injury, that's not a workout), or the ones who occupy a weights machine but just sit there texting rather than doing their set and getting off (ask me how much this pisses me off). And it certainly isn't the one taking a selfie video to post to tiktok. But if you see a girl who's coming in regularly, appears fit, and genuinely works out when she's there, then yeah, maybe you might chat her up if you both happen to be leaving the gym at the same time. If I'm in a place filled with people interested in fitness, why would I choose a person who's obviously not there for that?

• And that's before #metoo made guys stop approaching completely. Guys have been banned from gyms just for looking at women, much less talking to them. Why would I want to lose access to my gym to talk to some average-looking girl taking selfies on the treadmill while pretending to workout?

Bottomline is she's doing it all wrong, so she shouldn't be surprised at the results. But yeah, must be the guys' fault...

Is nobody going to point out that she put her head through the wrong hole on her shirt?

Ah yes... the same old story "Men are such creeps! They're always hitting on women, we don't fee safe etc etc etc" but also "Why don't men hit on us? we're so hot! They must be all gay / small dick energy / incels"

The reason why men don't hit on women in the gym is that we all know that if a woman reports a guy for 'harassing' her at a gym, then he'll get banned (#believe all women).

Equinox is a US based gym chain, so I'm not surprised. And by that I mean Western Supah-Independent-Don't-Need-No-Man-Bitches infest the USA due to their hive-mind adherence to feminutz principles, which eventually turns them into femcels.

But hey, spending money on a Gym is usually worth it -- if you're there to improve yourself. If you're like this stupid whore and are there shopping for dick, she might've missed the memo where men get their lives ruined if they approach some chick and they're not up to her sky-high standards.

Even if she doesn't scream and charge you with sexual assault for having the gall to approach her, dudes that are already ripped are there to get their workout done and then plow whatever chick they have lined up for that evening, or go back to their girlfriend waiting at home because she can't get enough of his obviously maintained physique.

Its a bit like going to church and wondering where all the prostitutes went.

You're in the wrong environment, honey. And even if you were bopping about doing fuckall somewhere else, most men really don't give a shit anymore, because your shrill feminutz 'sisters' have been pushing this anti-male message for so long that most are just happy with recreational trips to places to get their fuck on, like SE Asia and the like.

I love posts like these though, it shows me the pendulum is indeed swinging and we may pull it out of the fire.... maybe.

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/dont-hit-on-women-gym

Rule number one in the gym: DON'T TALK TO ME! This might seem like common sense to everyday gym goers, but it's not. I don't know what it is about a girl listening to music, sweating, and focusing on her workout that gives men the idea that we want to have a conversation, but we very well do NOT! Yes I'm a female, but what about that makes you think that I'm in the gym for any other reason other than to workout?

Remember that this sediment is for the invisible 80% The top 20 % got the message too and it is safer for all men to just ignore them which is now causing a meltdown. All their rules and limits go out the window for Chad; the rules are for the rest of us

I think men sadly realize that the gym is the last bastion of exclusively male clubs/establishments that used to be so common. And women are even trying to take that over for attention.

Bring back the gentleman's club and the social acceptance of male friendships without suspicion of faggotry.

I've started a sort of men's club where we smoke, drink, and talk deep things once a month - like men used to do. I'm married, but all females are banished from the house during this time on the basis of their gender. It works really well.

Ahh yesss. Social media/OLD is starting to bear its poisoned fruit. The perpetual affirmation device in her pocket cannot help her unlock the next level: boyfriend.

Most of her life training is just to sit there and see how many men have swiped right on her. So, why doesn't that happen at the gym? She is right there in front of them dressed in cute clothes! Won't some demigod Chad get her off this treadmill?

Kind of hard to hit on a girl whiles she's on the treadmill. I've done it before once, it wasn't successful.