Originally Posted by
Dizaster
As I said, I thought about this one at work today (yes I have a boring job), so get your pen ready.
The Gym is a PERFECT place for "social proof".
Women have been programed to subconsciously analyze situations for 100,000's of years... Women may look like they are zoned into their workout and ignoring everything (to avoid people interupting them), but if you went and asked any one of them, they could immediately point out every single attractive girl and high status guy in the whole place.. Even if she doesn't know how, her mind automatically knows these things...
If a high status guy came walking into a tribe 10,000 years ago, the women would automatically be able to tell just by how other people are reacting to them and the vibe the put out..
Here's the best things you can do.
1. Take a lady friend to work out with you... Better yet, take 2 or 3. Even if you have to pay for them to get in yourself, it'll do wonders for your social status just having a couple of girls talking to you a fair bit while your in the gym... Don't hang over the machine's while they are exercising.. Do your own thing, and try as much as you can to have them hanging over YOUR machine. Even if they aren't hugely attractive and other women in the gym feel like they are more attractive than your girls, it will still trigger their "social proof" gene, which tells them that "hey, that guy has girls around him that seem to like him.. Obviously he is safe and not some weird murderer".. They may also feel a little jelous, consiously or unconsiously that those girls are getting attention from you and they aren't.
A HUGE thing of women being attracted to men is knowing that they have other women in their life, and that other women accept you.
2. Make friends with as many guys in the gym as possible.. Say hi to them all the time, work in with them on different machines, ask for advice from them, give them advice.. Basically just be really friendly with as many guys as possible. Especially the ones that YOU perceive as high status.
When you walk into the gym and 50% of the guys in their say Hi to you as you walk through, girls are going to notice this and it says a TONNE of good things about you... 1) you are socially adapt 2) other men accept you 3) you have a big social circle, which women are wired to appreciate (back 10,000 years ago, a big social circle meant increased chances of survival 4) helping other guys out shows your a bit of a leader.. A leader of men is a HUGELY attractive quality, showing you in a "alpha male" light.
3. Make friends with ALL the staff at the gym. Apart from the huge roid heads, the gym staff and instructors are the next people on the social totem pole in the gym... If you walk in and are chatting and saying Hi to all the instructors, again it's showing a TONNE of good things.
4. Especially make friends with the female instructors. Ask them for help often and then while they are showing you, ask them how their night is going etc etc. Lean back in your machine and have them look like they are the ones eager to talk to you. This is conveying to all the other women in the gym that other high status women see value in you.
5. If eventually you do have other women talking to you, don't stand next to them while they work out like you are "gaming them", try to create the situation as often as possible where you are working out, and they look like they are gaming you.
It might take a couple of weeks to build up a good friendly relationship with most of the guys and staff at the gym, and convince a female friend or 2 to come with you to the gym,,,, but once you get all this happening, TRUST ME, women in the gym WILL have noticed you.. And will actually think about you on occassions during their workout, and will be PLEASED that you say hello to them.. Their brains will be like "hey, this high status guy is talking to me, I better say hi to him"...
As apposed to just being a quiet loner in the gym that doesn't talk to anyone, then suddenly you come up and say hi to a girl out of the blue, and she feels like "oh my god, what is this weird guy coming up and talking to me for.. Is everyone watching? This is embarrassing getting hit on like this"
Another thing is, girls are VERY in tuned to their surroundings... If she has already seen that everyone else around accepts you and is okay with you talking to them, she will automatically accept and be okay with you too.. She will feel comfortable also that everyone else is seeing you talk to her, and would feel dumb NOT being nice and social with you.. She'll feel dumb and alienated if she DOESN'T try to get along with you..
As apposed to you never talking to anyone, then when you talk to her, she will immediately feel like her value is getting lowered to below everyone else in the gym just by talking to you... She'll feel like she's being judged by everyone...
If you are a person everyone talks to, she will want to do the same..
Trust me, these points are HUGGGGGEEEEEE, and will absolutely be the difference between the girl having the immediate urge to either accept you, or reject you... It's that simple..!
Get ALL these going, and girls will WANT to meet you.. A LOT will often look at you (you'll notice, trust me), and you might even have a couple say hello to you..
Good luck buddy! ;D