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How to Pick Up Someone at the Gym. The health club is a great place to meet someone – here's
how to work it, while you work out. You will need Flattering gym clothes Cleanliness Consideration
Observation skills and the price of a smoothie. Step 1. Wear well-fitting, up-to-date gym
clothes, but don't look like you're trying too hard. Ladies, go light on the makeup.
Step 2. Take a quick shower before you start working out so that the sweat coming out of
your pores is clean and odorless. Don't forget deodorant, and never wear dirty exercise gear!
Donning the same outfits repeatedly – even if they're freshly laundered – will give
the impression you're not washing your workout wear. Step 3. Obey gym etiquette, like not
hogging machines and wiping them off when you're through. You'll have a hard time picking
someone up if your fellow exercisers hate you. Step 4. When it comes to the machines
and free weights, don't take on more than you can handle. At worst, you'll hurt yourself.
At best, you'll turn bright colors, make strange noises, or look like a show-off. Step 5. Just
because people are more *** clad at the gym than at the office doesn't give you the
right to drool over exposed body parts. Instead, if someone strikes your fancy, compliment
their form or fitness progress. That kind of flattery will get you everywhere. Step
6. If you see a hottie struggling to adjust weights or a seat height, casually offer to
help – just don't come across as an arrogant gym savior, or you'll be met with eyerolling.
Don’t shy about asking for advice, either. Jump on the machine next to a sexy specimen
and ask for tips on using it. Step 7. Observe people's schedules so you can arrange a "chance"
run-in outside the gym, where you'll have a better shot at having a private conversation.
Step 8. Many gyms have smoothie or juice bars. If you do manage to engage someone in convo,
offer them a post-workout treat. Did you know Forty percent of single women say the gym
is a good pickup place, according to one survey.