 absolutely massive is what I am. Now today we have the following question to answer. Should you or should you not talk to women in the gym? Now I have spent some time on Twitter as of late because Twitter is fun again and I have seen some some videos shared of young women filming themselves in the gym lamenting the fact that there are creeps checking them out or talking to them. So I thought to respond to the question should you talk to women in the gym and should you look at women in the gym? Now first and foremost should you talk in almost all situations I would say no because it's not appropriate to go up to a random female to talk to her especially if she is into her workout. Now this applies mostly to commercial gyms where you don't know anyone there basically then of course you have different gyms so powerlifting gyms for example where you have individuals men and women who are enthusiastic about powerlifting and if you have a powerlifting woman there and if you are a powerlifter and you have a sort of natural conversation yeah that's something completely else and especially if you have a club a powerlifting club or something like that then it's normal and natural and it would be strange to not talk to people there just because they're women but in a commercial gym where you don't know people I wouldn't say that there is any need for it unless of course you know there are certain situations if there is only one powerlifting bar and you wonder how many sets she has left yeah then it can be okay stuff like that but otherwise I don't really see any point in doing it then of course if you have a local gym where you know everyone yeah then it can be natural and normal to talk to women there if you know them but the main point is that if it's a commercial gym just a normie mainstream gym where you don't know anyone I wouldn't say that it's appropriate to go up and talk to a woman unless there is a need for it say if there is only one powerlifting bench press and you are training small of junior as I can recommend you to do yeah then you sort of need to use that particular equipment and maybe she is training there you simply want to know when can I use this so I can structure my warm-up yeah then it's okay to do it so you have these situations and you sort of have to you know make a judgment call is it necessary to speak now but otherwise to just go up and small talk yeah it's not a good idea now to the second point is it appropriate to look at a woman in the gym I would say absolutely not there is no need for it then of course you know some of these women filming themselves putting up the videos on tiktok saying oh I got checked out by a creep they do this because they want to signal to the world that they are desirable oh look how attractive I am because all of these guys are checking me out that is what you're saying when they're posting this type of videos that being said it's not you know it's not acceptable it's not okay to check out a woman training either then again when we're talking about these special situations I always go into the gym I scan around look okay where which power racks are free which powerlifting bars are free because I don't want to use a weightlifting bar I want to use a powerlifting bar if I'm doing small or for example so I sort of need to look around in that sense but I don't do it to look at other individuals neither men nor women because I'm not there to look at at anyone except for my own great likeness in the mirror so that is what I do at least so yeah of course that is normal decency to not look overly much at someone when when they are training of course again if you are in a powerlifting gym and you sort of train as a team completely different but now I'm talking about this more commercial mainstream gyms where where the videos are filmed at so anyway I just thought to give my my take there I also want to mention how juicy my shoulders look due to strict press small of junior for the strict press good stuff good stuff I will actually go to the temple of iron now to train some more feels great mate so anyway thank you for watching XXO boom