>>76347191Gonna sound like a back-in-my-day boomer, but I'm 34, only started seriously training again at 31. I had a good run when I was 22-24 though.
One of the biggest changes I've noticed in gyms between 2013-2014 and 2022-2025, besides the worse crowds and how you can't just pay for a full year membership with a couple hundred dollars in cash anymore, is the women. 10+ years ago, if you were a reasonably attractive woman in a gym full of sweaty guys jacked up on roids, old-school preworkout, creatine, or just plain natural testosterone from lifting, it was pretty much a given that guys were gonna check you out, and some dudes were gonna shamelessly eye-fuck you. Some of those guys were gonna be ugly, a cost of doing business.
At most, the women would get a real bitchy look on their face and audibly huff. A lot of them clearly thrived on the attention.
Now, everyone is terrified of being seen as a "gym creep."
Some of it is that there are just more women in regular gyms now. In the 2010s, a lot of the bitchy, "omfg a man just totally looked at me" type women went to places like Bally, but I think those all closed. Gyms require a lot of commercial space, and solely catering women and gays is probably not enough to make rent, payroll, and keep the lights on. I mostly blame the whole Instagram trend of "gym-creep-shaming" though. Even though most people hate that shit and see it for what it is, enough women and simps still feed into it to keep it alive. And even if most people hate that kind of content... well now it makes for excellent ragebait. Because of that shit, gym thots can still seek male attention by working out practically half-naked, but now they have a means to lash out when they get attention from the "wrong men."