i dated my trainer -- i think that is about as much into dating somebody from the gym as you can get!!

I am currently dating a man I met at the gym.... my trainer Going on a year and a half

I look like a disaster at the gym... so nope, if I was not married, I doubt I would get a date at the gym.

Every single guy I've ever seen/chatted with at a race is a total jerk, egotistical, and just all around stuck up. Obviously you saw me come in at a slow pace, so do you think telling me that you finished in half my time is going to make me think you're awesome? Take your skinny bones elsewhere!

When I'm running, I just want to be left alone; that's the whole point!

"all the time" is too much. I dated a guy from the gym once, and have been asked out at the gym several times. Always shocks me because I sweat like a beast and am bright red at the gym. I certainly wouldn't be asking me out...

I would but NOT the trainer....

I've been asked out there several times, but I've always had a boyfriend at the time.

In college especially, I've seen girls going to the gym in full makeup to be social. But, I'm there to work. It's not that I'm opposed to it, it's just not my mission.

I go to an all women's gym now, and I thought it would end this. But, I've ended up meeting quite a few lesbians.

I can't imagine anyone ever finding me attractive at the gym - I've got the whole red-faced, disgusting hair, super-sweaty look. also, being interrupted in my workout would bug me.

My friend met her husband at the gym! And another is going to get engaged soon to her BF she met at the gym. Totally makes sense - you share a common love of exercise & fitness....

I met my current boyfriend at the gym and it is a great relationship. Exercising is extremely important to me, I go to the gym nearly every day and it is not something I am wiling to compromise on so it is nice to date someone who understands that and spends as much time at the gym as I do. I also love that I am a sweaty mess at the gym and he finds that attractive, I dont have to be all dolled up to look good to him. We work out together now and are currently training to run a marathon:)

I've been asked out by folks at the gym.. I've even thought about dating my trainer.. lol. But I wouldn't. I think that would make things awkward if it didn't work out. I'm at the gym quite a bit and really wouldn't want to see him that often...

I think socializing (which leads to dating possibilities) is a normal at the gym. It's only awkward or invasive if somebody is bothering you while you are actively working out. Chatting a little by the doors or the water fountain (or after the race) is cool. I met my boyfriend at the swimming pool.

Sinnamon I agree with you.If you break it would be uncomfortable...especially if you break up when you've just renewed your annual membership..lol. Besides, I'm from a culture that wouldn't approve of me dating my trainer (even if he was the hottest thing on earth).

What culture is that, I wonder???

I also look far from my best when I work out vigorously - I get the whole sweaty, drippy, bright-red-faced thing, plus I wear glasses that slide down my face and a sad, floppy ponytail. And sometimes, a giant t-shirt. Hot stuff. However, I've already got a fella, so I actually prefer not being oggled when I'm just trying to work out. It makes me feel self-conscious and awkward, whereas (oddly) looking totally average and not getting attention is calming, somehow.

Ugh I dated a trainer at my "big box" gym 5 years ago, but we actually didn't start dating until we kept running into each other outside the gym (I look like hell at the gym haha, so he would have NEVER approached me there). Horrible. While we were dating and after (didn't last that long) I saw him flirting with everything in spandex. You'd think I'd learn but I recently dated a trainer from my small little gym, with similar results. LESSON FINALLY LEARNED - never date a trainer! I would date a "regular" person from the gym. Whoever I date has to be athletic and hopefully moreso than me, cause I don't want to be able to beat them at things all the time.

Well my gym is at my work now so that would mean a whole bunch of other issues, but there's a weekly 5K I run in the summers (usually with my boyfriend) and I swear if he leaves me alone for a second I invariably get hit on. I've been trying to get my single friends to go there but they don't run!

I would welcome the opportunity! I spend most of my time there, and don't want to give up any of those sessions. And most of the men I know outside the gym are couch potatoes. Then again, as mentioned many times above, I look and smell something awful at the gym. So chances are very slim (no pun intended).

One of my good friends who I meet at the gym about 15 years ago, met her husband at the gym about 5 years ago.

I always look like crap when I'm working out and when I was dating, I did not want future boyfriend-material guys to have the first impression of me being sweaty and smelly and all red-faced. But I have gone on running dates before...meeting someone for the first time over coffee and planning a date where we worked out together later on. At least that way, he knows you clean up nicely.

When I was in college, I would get hit on at the gym and I never understood it. I was there to work out and most definitely did not want to be noticed. Never dated anyone from the gym.

Now if I go to the gym, it's with my hubby, so no need to worry about getting hit on.

I had a friend who just broke up with a guy she met at the gym and it's really awkward because it was a bad breakup. She's going to the gym now when she thinks he wont' be there. I couldn't do that.

I met my husband at the gym. We used to work out at the same time and kept eyeing one another. I guess you can say the rest is history! We even wore our running shoes to the reception!

No, I've always been attached when I attended the gym. I'm a faithful person, so I always declined the offers I got.

Believe it or not according to many great looking men over drinks- being a bartender- we women at the gym: 'are not ignored so much as part of a big mass of others since we're not there for anyone else but ourselves, it's my time' and 'those guys that do oggle need to be hurt for giving license to those women who were once on the edge of being ogglers themselves' and 'would be hard to consider dating because face it not even jessica simpson would smell, look or be clean during a workout and 'even Megan Fox would make me feel sorry for her if she were desperate enough to focus on looking good instead of just being hardcore at the gym'. I have to say these are the coolest boys and the ones you want to work out with... if they'd want it that is.