Men are flocking to female-dominated yoga and Pilates classes — and women are enraged: ‘We all secretly hate you’

Posted by author February 1, 2025 Fitness

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Several social media mavens are sparking controversy for decrying the presence of men in their boutique fitness classes, saying that yoga and Pilates should be strictly for girls.

The men, so they say, are always “grunting,” “slurping” and “heavy breathing” in the workout classes, with their “annoying” behaviors disturbing the rest of the females in attendance.

Alexandra Gulla, a Miami-based TikTokker, griped about a particular man who disrupted her “zen” hot yoga class with his behavior by doing “push-ups before class started” and was breathing heavily, grunting and “slurping his water” during the group workout, which is meant to be “quiet” and “peaceful.”

“It is 7 in the morning, why must you take up more space than you already naturally do?” she lamented in a TikTok video. “Why can’t you be seen and not heard?”

She added: “We all secretly hate you.”

Other women feel similarly to Gulla, such as a content creator named Riley, who admitted in a viral clip that her “day is automatically ruined” if there is a man in her Pilates class.

While some users called Riley’s remarks “sexist” — and some men even chimed in that they are now hesitant about attending classes given the judgment — many TikTokkers agreed with Gulla, calling the behavior obnoxious and irritating.

“Why must men make so much unnecessary noise just existing,” questioned one fed-up female.

“Or when they make a show of grabbing heavier weights like WE GET IT,” lamented another.

One user wrote: “Sometimes men come in my Pilates class for god knows why but when they breathe obnoxiously it’s so irritating. Like you;re in a woman’s space back off!!!”

“They’re never considerate,” complained another woman.

“Had to stop going to morning hot yoga bc a guy was sweating on my mat and that has never happened to me next to another girl,” commented one person.

“One time I went to a yoga sculpt with a man in the front row that THREW his 25lb dumbbells on the ground EVERY time we finished with them. Like sir, just set them down. You’re going to hurt someone,” recalled another.