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Your gym trainer insists on giving you personal training; he gets up, close and personal trying to help you perfect the squat/crunches or a so called gym buddy starts texting a bit too often .
If you've faced these situations in your gym, chances are they are warning signs! Sooner you deal with them, better it's for you.
The obsessive trainer
Such trainers start by acting super friendly (and helpful) and instantly gauging your fitness goals. Taking advantage of your need to achieve these fitness aims, they embark on their own trip. IT professional Vibha Sehgal shares her experience. "I have worked out with various personal trainers. And I was always of the opinion that gym trainers are harmless souls who are just trying to help us achieve our physical goals. Until one day I met one in my new gym. He became too friendly and personal which I didn't mind initially, since he was a competent trainer. But I guess I gave him a wrong signal and he started acting obsessive. He started calling me at odd hours and would taunt me if he spotted me talking to anyone else in the gym. It got a bit too much and I shortly changed my instructor."
The groping instructor
These are the most dangerous of the lot and should strictly be kept at arm's length. They try to feel you closely on the pretext of instructing you. Shikha Sharma shares her ghastly experience, "I found this really good instructor in my gym. Two weeks under his training and I experienced a remarkable difference in my fitness level. But I realised eventually that he always tried to touch my private parts. Initially, I tried to turn a blind eye to his ways, since I was getting close to my fitness goals. But I think that gave him a boost. Once he crossed all limits when he tried to kiss my back and press his private part on me. I was taken off guards. I never returned to that gym again."
The naughty gym buddy
You guys became friends in the first few days of your joining the gym. You soon exchange numbers and thereon he's been picking you up from your place and dropping you back from the gym. Along the way, you start sharing fitness tips. It seems alright till he breaches the comfort level. "Over a short period of time Milind, my ex-gym buddy and I became friends. Since he used to stay close to my place, we started travelling to the gym together. Things were okay till our relationship was restricted to my gym hours, but soon he started to demand that he wanted to meet me outside the gym. On two occasions I found him waiting outside my place. With time, his behaviour got over bearing and soon my boyfriend started to feel uneasy. Finally I had to show him his place. It involved a lot of unpleasantries, but I think it was important to nip the bud in its nest," recalls call centre executive Sugandha Vig.
If you've faced these situations in your gym, chances are they are warning signs! Sooner you deal with them, better it's for you.
The obsessive trainer
Such trainers start by acting super friendly (and helpful) and instantly gauging your fitness goals. Taking advantage of your need to achieve these fitness aims, they embark on their own trip. IT professional Vibha Sehgal shares her experience. "I have worked out with various personal trainers. And I was always of the opinion that gym trainers are harmless souls who are just trying to help us achieve our physical goals. Until one day I met one in my new gym. He became too friendly and personal which I didn't mind initially, since he was a competent trainer. But I guess I gave him a wrong signal and he started acting obsessive. He started calling me at odd hours and would taunt me if he spotted me talking to anyone else in the gym. It got a bit too much and I shortly changed my instructor."
The groping instructor
These are the most dangerous of the lot and should strictly be kept at arm's length. They try to feel you closely on the pretext of instructing you. Shikha Sharma shares her ghastly experience, "I found this really good instructor in my gym. Two weeks under his training and I experienced a remarkable difference in my fitness level. But I realised eventually that he always tried to touch my private parts. Initially, I tried to turn a blind eye to his ways, since I was getting close to my fitness goals. But I think that gave him a boost. Once he crossed all limits when he tried to kiss my back and press his private part on me. I was taken off guards. I never returned to that gym again."
The naughty gym buddy
You guys became friends in the first few days of your joining the gym. You soon exchange numbers and thereon he's been picking you up from your place and dropping you back from the gym. Along the way, you start sharing fitness tips. It seems alright till he breaches the comfort level. "Over a short period of time Milind, my ex-gym buddy and I became friends. Since he used to stay close to my place, we started travelling to the gym together. Things were okay till our relationship was restricted to my gym hours, but soon he started to demand that he wanted to meet me outside the gym. On two occasions I found him waiting outside my place. With time, his behaviour got over bearing and soon my boyfriend started to feel uneasy. Finally I had to show him his place. It involved a lot of unpleasantries, but I think it was important to nip the bud in its nest," recalls call centre executive Sugandha Vig.
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