Location: 24 hour fitness somewhere in Orange County,CA
Author: Weapon

As a person I am huge into physical fitness, if I am not working, I am practically living in the gym. Aside from pushing my limits daily, there are almost always at least 8's with tight pants on the stair master. Since I spend hours there, I adapted some of the basic pickup techniques and blended them into my own sense of style that allows me to play the game in an SPAM that is very hostile for a PUA: mostly because everyone is wearing an Ipod in there own world or there are plenty of good looking people around, male and female. I would sometime like to write down my own little guide on this theory to help some other people who have trouble with the gym game but since I am still new around here I don't feel comfortable trying to pretend I know it all because I obviously don't as the rest of this report will probably show.

I worked out for about 2-3ish hours, gamed my game and have a pretty target rich environment and definite interest from a few single ladies but I usually met women working out by themselves before and I wanted to try to come out of my comfort zone in the little bit of proficiency I had in the game. What did that mean my goal for the day was? It was the blonde personal trainer working behind the desk with her male counter part: greeting people as they come in and whatever else they happen to do. I could gather pretty easily that they were not together but still, he was going to be an obstacle in the way and one not easily moved when I am on the other side of desk they are behind: a natural barrier.

Since the gym I work out in is almost just one big room where everyone can sort of see everyone, I noticed indiscreetly that she had been looking at me with a bit of interest as I was working out within her sight line. That was when I decided it was game on, so I left the floor, showered and got into my non gym clothes: Lucky Brand jeans and a tight but not super tight fitted designer shirt with my Oaks pushed up on my head. Gym bag with my stuff in it over one shoulder I made my approach to the desk. The plan I had devised on the fly was to walk past like I always do but as I reach the doors to the outside world, I would take on step out and then re enter and approach the set. I was going to use the friend with a jealous girlfriend opener and set a time constraint but say I really needed advice about the whole situation and eventually after a brief conversation with the target, remark how I should get a hold of her again if I need more advice and take the number close: Keep it simple stupid.

When I finally turned around and approached it went decently, I engaged the male first and ignored the target, though I felt sort of awkward chatting up some other dude when I wanted to be talking to the HB9 next to him. With the words " own the man and you own the woman" in the back of my mind I posed the question to both of them somewhat openly in a confident manner with a smile on my face,oozing confidence.

Weapon: So I was wondering if I could get some advice. See I got this buddy who has a girlfriend he really likes but he started talking to his ex from college innocently but shes a total nut flipping out on him about it and he don't know what to do and I am not sure how to help him, what do you think?

That was about the only thing I did right in the whole thing because I completely forgot my time constraint and by the way I leaned up against the desk it looked like I was there to stay....which was probably a bad thing.

My mind running a mile I minute I was trying to think of to much shit to fast, like trying to completely ignore the target, engage the male without looking like some gay lurk trying to pick him up and getting around the natural barrier of the desk. When it comes to body language and well anything I guess, A desk can be a barrier to block people out, its why people use podiums when they are bad speakers. I figured if I could sort of lean forward over it and clear it, it would seem like I was not behind it and engaged more in the conversation. As for the opener, it seemed to work,so me and the male were engaged in conversation about it, I was hoping the HB9 would try to interject so I could neg her about it.

As everyone is sure to know, plans never go according to plan and hopefully your thinking 2 steps ahead or else your gonna be in a world of hurt. Seems I misjudged the guy a little bit because after talking about it with me for about a minute he looked over and brought the HB9 in on the conversation.

Male: What do you think? We could really use a woman's opinion

It had only been a minute, I was hoping that I could have had more time to ignore her and think of an easy neg since negging seems to be a big problem for me. Not really expecting the turn of events but using it to my advantage or so I thought, I cut in real quick to cut her off and kept engaged only with the male by saying

Weapon: Well I dunno if her opinion would be any good, might just need a guy's opinion.

Hella Lame , yeah I figured as much but it was sort of a neg so I just kept on like nothing had happened, if I was mentally scrambling it wasn't showing on the outside. Continuing to speak with the male and keeping along with the same train of thought as the opener we still discussed it, yet he kept looking at her for validation and finally when she begun to speak I could tell she had something she really wanted to say so I looked at her for the first time. I still couldn't have been doing to bad because he body language was still pretty open and she still seemed engaged and interested. When she offered her advice to me, I made sure to keep looking like I was genuinely listening but kept interjecting and pressing her. Her stepping up had placated the other male which I guess meant she was the boss or just had some sort of control over him, I was determined to make sure she knew she wouldn't placate me: I don't want what shes got, she wants what I got or least that was the game.

Things were starting to stagnate and suddenly I realized I didn't have anything else planned. I hadn't really thought this whole middle thing through though I knew I needed to isolate her from the male even though he wasn't really in the equation. Right as I was about to go into mental scramble, someone up above was looking out for me because the phone rang and she told the male to pick it up: Damn, she isolated herself for me. I thought for the first time since this whole thing went down things were finally go my way until it was just us alone looking at each and the conversation seemed to have ended or at least stalled, she was waiting for me to say something and that is when I realized: I don't know what the fuck to say, I had lost my train of thought.

Suddenly I was Tim Tebow facing down the Patriots defense, I was scrambling mentally just trying to think of anything. In just a half of a second of self doubt, my smile slipped,confidence slipped and it was over that quick. Her body language closed up and she took a step back from me, pretending to have to do something else for half a second, long enough for the guy to get off the phone and move back into the picture. It was over, in half a second but instead of hanging my head like a chump or doing something else like that, my smile was up and I was collected. Growling mentally in the back of my head I was going to try and re engage and push it all bull headed but I decided that wasn't the way to go either. Turning back to the male I decided to play this whole thing off as legit and not a pick up attempt at all.The guy seemed genuine when he told me I could come bull shit with him anytime. Leaving on good terms with both of them and sort of bowing out, I stepped out and headed off into the night a complete failure.

Positive Side To The Whole Thing: Befriended a guy who works there every night that I go at the time I go, who also works with 4 other good looking blondes, so now it shouldn't be to hard to move up and make an attempt on the other 4 using him as more of an easy in than a big obstacle.

Negative Side To The Whole Thing: Failed miserably.....enough said

Thanks for Reading!

Sincerely,
Weapon

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WEAPON

Kinesics Expert,Certified Personal Trainer and Aspiring PUA

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