The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Is it wrong to look at girls in the gym?
If it’s wrong then why do the all wear form fitting clothing or even more like a sporty bra? Why do some of their workout moves look a little like sexual movements (though they do have a legit exercise component)?
I've been visiting India for a bit, long enough that I was convinced by my mom and brother to join their upscale gym (and to shell out a ridiculous amount for a PT). I also have the luxury of comparing it to the one I nominally subscribe to in Scotland, not that my attendance metrics were great there either.
India has liberalized enough that the Common Gym Thot (Scortum Gymnasium Vulgare) are abundant and IUCN-classified as Least Concern. Alongside them, there exist much more modest specimens: women who actually want to work out, and those from more conservative backgrounds.
It is abundantly obvious to me that the current practice of wearing form-fitting and highly revealing clothing is far from strictly necessary, at least for performance purposes. You don't want to use the elliptical or deadlift in a burqa (not that I've seen that), but you don't need to show off camel-toe either.
(Not that I'm complaining, I don't go to the gym to look at hot women, but it's a perk)
I can only conclude that revealed preference is to be noticed, presumably visually. Attention from attractive, successful men is desirable, being magnetic to all the other straight men is an undesirable but unavoidable side effect. It matters who does the looking.
Look, just look. Don't stare. Don't salivate or click pictures. You'll be fine. Ideally it'll motivate you to lift harder, unless you desperately need about 20ml of blood.
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