{"id":738556,"date":"2026-07-02T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:31:08","slug":"what-would-you-do-my-gym-trainer-keeps-messaging-me-after-workouts-heres-what-these-5-women-did-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738556\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you do? My gym trainer keeps messaging me after workouts; here\u2019s what these 5 women did next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riya joined a neighbourhood gym after moving to Delhi. &#8220;The trainer was friendly and motivating. He&#8217;d send workout tips and remind me to stay consistent,&#8221; she recalls. She didn&#8217;t think much of it. Then the messages became more personal. &#8220;Good morning.&#8221; &#8220;Missed seeing you today.&#8221; She says she never replied to those but she noticed something else. &#8220;I started going to the gym an hour earlier just to avoid him.&#8221; One evening, she mentioned it to the gym manager. &#8220;I felt guilty, like I was making a big deal out of nothing,&#8221; says Riya. The manager took action and reminded all trainers that communication with clients should remain professional. The messages stopped immediately.<br \/>Riya says she wishes she had trusted her instincts sooner. \u201cIf someone makes you uncomfortable, you need to speak up,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riya joined a neighbourhood gym after moving to Delhi. &#8220;The trainer was friendly and motivating. He&#8217;d send workout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[317631,317627,317629,337,317625,317628,97,317626,317630,317624,317632,317633],"class_list":["post-738556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-changing-gym-trainers","tag-client-trainer-communication","tag-discomfort-in-trainer-relationships","tag-fitness","tag-gym-trainer-messaging","tag-handling-inappropriate-messages-from-trainers","tag-health","tag-professional-boundaries-in-fitness","tag-setting-boundaries-in-fitness","tag-times-of-india-column-what-would-you-do","tag-trainer-client-relationship","tag-womens-experiences-in-gyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}