Is The Gym, A Place To Work Out Or Meet New People?

From meetings friends to having affairs and even finding your one true love, the gym has become quite a hotspot for a myriad of activities today. Our TV stars tell JYOTHI VENKATESH of bollyy.com what they think about this trend.

Sumit Kaul

I have always seen the gym as a place to exercise. It’s possible others may use it for other purposes, but I personally feel every activity needs an ambience and gym provides a good ambience to work out. My interaction in the gym is mostly with my trainer. I maintain a cordial relationship with everyone else. Having said that, I can imagine that some others may use the gym for networking or making friends. To each his own, but I think it’s a waste of time, money and space if you do anything other than working out at the gym.

Ramman Handa

Fitness is something that has become a passion for people nowadays and acting as a profession has fitness as a basic requirement. So, gym business has become very advanced and the infrastructure for the gym involves a very hep environment. Certainly, along with the fitness regime, people do network and modern gyms with good interiors give them a place to chill as well. And there’s no harm in meeting as many people as you can irrespective of the place where you meet them. I workout in my building gym only and certainly I have got to know so many people residing in my building through the gym. Also, this has helped me to expand my business. My WhatsApp has a gym friends group and at times we all party and plan our workouts together.

Asmita Sood

Although I have heard about such incidents from my friends, I myself don’t entertain any “friendly” advances from anyone in the gym. I barely get 15 days in a month to work out due to my hectic work schedules thus I prefer devoting my energy sincerely to my body and not chit-chatting. I talk only to my trainer and I guess that is enough!

 Shubhaavi Choksey

I honestly don’t have any views or options about this topic as it is none of my business what someone else wants to do or is doing. It is their life and their prerogative. As for me, I workout alone in my gym due to my timings and before the gym was on our building, I would only go there with my husband.

Bhanujeet Sudan Singh

 For me, the gym is a place where I go to work out and I do that for almost 2 and half hours. When I workout, I don't even realise who is next to me, I just need my machines and empty space. I don't need any company. But I have seen that people start connecting and talking and at times, they come to me and start talking as well, while I am working out, which I find really irritating. I have seen girls and boys meeting and asking each other out at the gym. I don't think it's a big thing just as earlier people used to meet at parties and have affairs, now it happens at gyms too.

Nishant Malkani

Any place of gathering where women and men come together, there's always wandering eyes and search for the right partner. Everyone in today's time is in search of the right partner, a gym is a place where a lot of good looking people come together. They are excited and have a lot of adrenaline rushing through them. It's a place where people meet and if they hit it off, there might be no looking back. But this could happen at any place, be it a club or at a house party. Though, off late people actually, take gym memberships on the basis of the kind of crowd that comes there.

 Sahil Anand

You cannot blame just the gym, networking and meeting people happens everywhere. It can be a workplace or a party anywhere. I don't network much with people because I know if I will bond, I won't be able to work out.

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