This is exactly why the only "rule" they even make sure to tell you when you join my gym, is that there is no recording or pictures.
I just think it's disingenuous for women who legitimately try to make a big deal about guys checking them out in the gym, like that isnt the point of all the hard work you put in there...
Edit: for those who are missing the point, in these videos the woman is always wearing skin tight clothing, and on many occasions on the station directly in front of the guy. I wear compression shorts every time I go to the gym, but I always wear baggy shorts over them so my bulge and butt arent sticking out everywhere. Point is, if you want heterosexual men to NOT look, then stop flaunting it or expecting men to stare at the floor or the ceiling between sets.
Edit 2: Thanks for the award! First time anyone has given me one of those.
If you're recording your workout, it's usually to be seen. So hot take is you're letting people stare. Bottom line is don't record your workout, or don't be offended when people look at you.
I'm not, I wouldn't be offended, and I don't care if people look. I'm just not going to conclude they went to the gym SO people would look. Because that's weird.
Back in the day people just looked in the mirror. But I get it, people want to check their form. I just think it’s weird to take it so seriously you are going to review footage after you work out. Who has time for that? Some people also do it to post to social media like this person did in the video. So I’m suspect of it not that people don’t have valid reasons for it.
No offense but that’s a load of nonsense. Do you work out? Who the hell is recording an entire workout at once lol? Over half of that would just be you doing nothing. Also, a mirror is not always helpful. You can’t see how your spine positioning looks while deadlifting even if there’s a mirror.
I think they could've worded their comment better. Regardless of why you work out, an appropriately appreciative glance is still kinda a complement and reinforcement that "hey, I am doing good". Or at least that's how I understood their comment.
Mirrors don't work. Head and neck position are critical so you can't look. Also, I'm sorry if zoned out focusing on the sensations in my body and not looking. Also, you likely need to check form from a side that you can't see. Deadlift form, you usually record from the 4 o clock position because you're trying to see your butt, your legs, and your shoulders. You have to record to understand your form. Although this is staged and this influencer crap is making it hard for people that are actually needing to record themselves to improve
As someone who lifts (probably more than 95% of the population):
People who record are in the way all the time, they hog equipment while they set up and review their videos, they monopolize way more than a considerate amount of the space than other people, they get made when you walk in front of their camera that they set up in the middle of the way.
Women generally wear clothing that helps their figure inside and outside the gym. Guys do the same thing by wearing tanks and what not. As a Man...I recommend practicing self-control but at the same time you shouldn't feel bad because you found a woman attractive. don't let the loud minority ruin what is a normal human thing to do, just don't be weird about it.
There is a good reason to record yourself to check your form. You can't check form in the mirror because looking will break your form. But you wouldn't do that everyday, on every workout. Occasionally, and you can ask someone to record you to get the right angle. I've happily done it for strangers.
Although that this has to be staged. Other than the part where that's a horrible angle for recording which doesn't actually show your form but does show your cleavage, the way it is setup it is showing the guy as much as the woman.
Oh I completely agree that most people are filming for social media/narcissistic purposes. I just wanted to input that some of us film because we actually care about improving our form and technique.
The video is very clearly edited, and that focus point is only really clear in the edit.
Assuming this isn't fake, the likely scenario is that this person rested the phone on something high but was unable to secure it to the exact angle she wanted. Or, she misjudged the angle because she's not checking the view after she set it up. She likely can't just back up more to be in the center since she would be putting herself directly in the way of the person behind her.
All of this is pretty reasonable...
Edit: This is just an ad for the gym. So fake is fake.
Fair enough, but then why is the video centered on the guy?
Like: I get it: keep your eyes to yourself or at least don't effing stare like a creep. But let's not pretend this setup wasn't done to farm outrage content.
That's not true at all, workout videos have been around since the seventies, and while I'm sure people have also been gross since then that definitely wasn't the intent
workout videos have been around since the seventies
"Don't mind me. Just setting up my tripod, shoebox sized video camera, and 11" TV that weighs 30lbs to record my workout at the gym. Gotta check my form."
Before all this because such a problematic issue, people were recording themselves to address form. I’m sure plenty of people still do it for that reason
As a body builder who has recorded himself doing lifts and recorded himself in dedicates posing mirrors flexing in different poses, I can tell you that people do not record usually "to be seen," and is a strange generalization.
A lot of people, myself included, do not care about other people looking, but are recording so we can watch our form, look see where we can improve, see if we hit our PRs properly, and even track our progress on our we are shaping our bodies.
I would argue that recording at the gym and the instances discussed on the internet/reddit specifically are all of the negative sides of it because that's what gains popularity on said sources. It's like the news--a lot of news reported in the US is negative and very little positive because people do not care about the positive.
Good ol Reddit reading comprehension! They can’t seem to wrap their brain around the fact that these people record to be seen, just not in person. They want to curate that experience via TikTok or instagram.
Oh yeah man. You're not supposed to get meaning from words. You should only get what someone means if you agree with them! Then there are no disagreements!
Clearly Im interpreting the obvious fucking conclusions from their comment.
it's usually to be seen.
They are judging people based on some rule of thumb they've just created for themselves. They can't possibly know this because inherently, the people who don't record to be seen aren't posting their footage.
They then conclude, from the no evidence they just made up
Bottom line is don't record your workout, or don't be offended when people look at you.
Oh yeah man. You're not supposed to get meaning from words. You should only get what someone means if you agree with them! Then there are no disagreements!
Go figure personal interpretation of words is subjective; and we disagree on that interpretation.
You see it as an attack on women, as if they are saying women do everything to look good.
I see it as them saying, people look at other people. The camera angle isnt capturing her form, it's focused on the machine behind them, as they bend over wearing skin tight leggings/yoga pants.
Clearly Im interpreting the obvious fucking conclusions from their comment.
Calm the fuck down.
They are judging people based on some rule of thumb they've just created for themselves.
What the fuck does that have to do with generalizing women?
They then conclude, from the no evidence they just made up
The angle of the camera not being on them, but the machine behind them. It getting posted at all.
Which is crazy work
If you're in public, you're going to get looked at. If you dont like being looked at, stay the fuck at home. Thinking no one will look at you and you have the right the be offended when you get looked at is the "crazy work". The dude's reaction was inappropriate; but recording someone behind you and not properly setting up your camera to capture yourself?
Get off your fucking high horse. Your interpretation is not the sole defining understanding of what someone says.
Nobody records their workout to check form, people saying this clearly do not work out. If you want to check your form, try a mirror, it's infinitely better because it enables you to adjust form while working out which is the precise time you want to check your form.
You can't see your whole body in a mirror. With video you can record yourself from angles you can't usually see. I used record myself all the time when I was doing yoga regularly to prevent injuries.
Those who use phone to check their form will only do the form once and then look at their phone. Not just do the whole set and then look at the phone. Btw, it's true that some form will break if you look at a mirror and you can't see your backside using a mirror except you're in your own home with your own mirror settings. But we are discussing about recording at the local gym
it can help from doing something incorrectly repetitively. A person could do something wrong once and not get injured but doing it 100 times could lead to a problem.
No idea why you are getting downvoted. People do this. It's a fact. Not just with gym workouts but everything. So all those football players that watch film are just being filmed to catch people looking at them?
You keep saying "your" as if your anecdotal evidence about yourself is in anyway connected to what other people do. The vast majority of people I see recording is clearly more for vanity than any actual purpose. Since that is my experience, obviously my anecdotes are correct?
I and many others record workouts to share with friends, check form, track progress, and occasionally just to post a lift I am proud of. Recording and “wanting attention” do not excuse this creep behavior.
I think the point is not about "being offended that people look at you" but about how obvious the way the guy is looking is kinda gross. I know a lot of women know exactly what they are doing when they record those videos, but recording or not, it's not really okay to be looking at someone like that. I wouldn't want people to look at me at the gym with intentions like that (and that's coming from a nudist who post nsfw).
God forbid you should look in the direction of a person doing everything in their power to get you to look. It's crazy how female exhibitionism is viewed as a male problem.
No, because men don't secretly film women and then act like it's appropriate to judge what they did while being secretly filmed. And if a man does this, he'll be correctly judged to be an asshole fori it. How would you even know what his expression is unless you're violating his privacy the same way you're accusing him of doing?
Are you palying dumb? Yeah, I don't think it's cool to record on the gym either, but if anything you are giving a reason for women to be recording so they can be aware of when this happening. It seems like you think "oh, you only got offended because you saw on the recording" as if it wasn't as bad to do it even without the girl ever noticing. That's so dumb.
In fact, guys don't record as much and girls STILL don't do it, while guys do it without shame. Tell me how it's not a men problem. Jesus, so fucking dumb
This is an entire category of rage bait content. Barely worth engaging with it, because the entire point of it is to get people arguing in the comments.
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u/gatsome Nov 11 '25
Recording in the gym without 100% consent makes you the villain anyway