I've been a Personal Trainer for many years now (you have NO idea how much you get hit on in that line of work), but thought I'd share a little pickup secret for those of you with the balls to give it a go.

Yoga

Yep, good old fashioned yoga classes. With an aim to mix up my training in 2011 I went to my first ever yoga class down my gym this mmorning. Pretty much as I expected, there were 22 girls and 1 guy. Me.

Don't get me wrong, 50% of them were there because they blatantly needed to get some fucking exercise, but the other half were trim, tight bodied girls, generally in their mid to late 20s with the odd MILF dotted about.

Fortunately i've done Pilates for years so could keep up in the class but constantly noticed in the mirrors various women checking me out. A guy in yoga is a bit of a rare entity.

Anyway, after the class as we were packing up the matts I went over to this really nice looking girl and said "well that wasn't so bad for my first time", after which she responded "really? You looked like you knew what you were doing" and I said "oh, watching me were you?" and gave her a cheeky smile. She blushed and we chatted for a couple of minutes before she said she had to go and shower so she could get back to work, but I had my phone on me and was able to number close her.

So, if you've got the stones to wobble about on one leg for an hour, yoga classes are a potentially untapped source of women.

On a side note, my usually very sore muscles feel great, so double win

Insightful. Many are probably career women, without many other ways of meeting men. Plus if they've been into it for a while, they can probably get their legs behind their head

Flexibility = triple win

Yeah, this is good although I would be worried that its so obvious I would be there for the women (although a small part would be because Yoga is good for you) that it would make me uncomfortable.

I'm also looking at joining a dance class.

BCB, out of interest, how did you manage to get her number in that situation?

To be honest, i'm getting into it for the physical benefits first, the potential PU second

Ah OK mate.

Spent probably two or three minutes chatting about various training methods and explaining why girls who use tread machines end up walking like dinosaurs (good story to build some humour up with) and when she said about going to have a shower I simply suggested we should get together for lunch one day and discuss things more, which she said "that sounds cool", so I got her number. Simple. Just using what I have, which in this case is a LOT of knowledge about fitness

I do. My personal trainer was a right ladies' man. He used to walk around the gym slapping the women on the ass and laughing he had so much confidence.

I did once date a girl that turned him down though. He'd been chasing her for ages. She said that he was totally not her type and too much of a poser.

Yoga-riffic update

Went back to yoga again today. I counted 31 women, more of which are hot (well, 7+) than not. Not too shabby considering that's based on them in their sweats with no make-up on. As usual I stand near the front and use the mirrors to glance around the room. After 5 minutes of the class a girl comes in late who's a solid 8 and puts her mat down at the back of the room. I caught her eye and she flashed me a little smile.

The next 35 minutes passed with us exchanging glances over the room and at the end, everyone gets up to leave, and once most people have gone it's just her, me and the instructor left in the studio.

I know the instructor as i've spoken to her a few times so we chatted a little bit about various training things (DHV as I'm a PT) whilst the girl stuck around stretching (i was pretty confident she was waiting to chat to me) - I also noticed she was MASSIVELY flexible. The instructor left and I went over and said "i am so jealous of your flexibility. What's the background; yoga, gymnastics or something else?"
She giggles and says "actually something else"
"go on" I say and sit down.
"well, i'm in the circus"
"I should have guessed" I reply. "You DO look like a clown"
She laughs again and stops stretching and sits facing me.

We spend 10 mins talking about her job (she's a trapeze artist), the fact I'm trying to get into PE teaching.

Lots of laughing by both of us, and I think about number closing but realise I don't have my phone on me.

I pipe up "I'd suggest we swap numbers but who brings their phones to the gym huh?"
She then says something awesome. "Yeah... Erm, well I'll be in the sauna just after 12 tomorrow. You should come and meet me in there"
"Sounds good", I say

I say goodbye and tell it was nice to chat and i'll see her tomorrow. She finishes by saying "I hope so"

So, yet again the yoga class is working it's magic. Just need to not overdo it as there are limited people in there and I don't wanna create a hostile environment is I close too many, so I reckon stick to the top one or two and a time and go from there

Yoga-riffic update

Went back to yoga again today. I counted 31 women, more of which are hot (well, 7+) than not. Not too shabby considering that's based on them in their sweats with no make-up on. As usual I stand near the front and use the mirrors to glance around the room. After 5 minutes of the class a girl comes in late who's a solid 8 and puts her mat down at the back of the room. I caught her eye and she flashed me a little smile.

The next 35 minutes passed with us exchanging glances over the room and at the end, everyone gets up to leave, and once most people have gone it's just her, me and the instructor left in the studio.

I know the instructor as i've spoken to her a few times so we chatted a little bit about various training things (DHV as I'm a PT) whilst the girl stuck around stretching (i was pretty confident she was waiting to chat to me) - I also noticed she was MASSIVELY flexible. The instructor left and I went over and said "i am so jealous of your flexibility. What's the background; yoga, gymnastics or something else?"
She giggles and says "actually something else"
"go on" I say and sit down.
"well, i'm in the circus"
"I should have guessed" I reply. "You DO look like a clown"
She laughs again and stops stretching and sits facing me.

We spend 10 mins talking about her job (she's a trapeze artist), the fact I'm trying to get into PE teaching.

Lots of laughing by both of us, and I think about number closing but realise I don't have my phone on me.

I pipe up "I'd suggest we swap numbers but who brings their phones to the gym huh?"
She then says something awesome. "Yeah... Erm, well I'll be in the sauna just after 12 tomorrow. You should come and meet me in there"
"Sounds good", I say

I say goodbye and tell it was nice to chat and i'll see her tomorrow. She finishes by saying "I hope so"

So, yet again the yoga class is working it's magic. Just need to not overdo it as there are limited people in there and I don't wanna create a hostile environment is I close too many, so I reckon stick to the top one or two and a time and go from there