In recent years we have seen a lot of videos from the gym from people filming themselves or filming others while training at the gym.
In today’s day and age, everybody has a smartphone with a camera, so obviously, we are seeing way more videos from the gym nowadays compared to 10 years ago when smartphones were kinda new.
Bodybuilder and influencer Joey Swoll have been on a mission to change toxic gym behavior.
Joey has responded to many gym bullies that label other people as creeps in the gym, and film others to humiliate or embarrass.
Joey Swoll believes the gym should be a positive environment where everyone feels welcome and isn’t judged.
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Sadly this is not the case in many public gyms, as we have seen many videos of people filming others in the gym for likes and attention.
Joey Swoll has responded to these gym bullies, and many of them have apologized for posting videos of others in the gym to make fun of them.
While others have deleted the video and their channel due to negative backlash from followers of Joey Swoll.
So far, Joey has been successful in making the gym a more safe place for everyone.
Joey has also talked about how many people feel intimidated to go to public gyms and don’t have the courage to take the first step.
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These videos circulating on the internet of gym bullies filming others in the gym isn’t helping the situation.
Recently Joey responded to a woman who called a man giving her an unsolicited spot a “creepy old man”.
Joey Swoll responded to the woman and gave his opinion on the matter:
I had a ton of people tag me on this video, I want to offer a different perspective, I’m not saying she is wrong, I’m not saying the man isn’t a creep. I just have a few questions first is this : I that all this man did for you do label him as a creep and post this video, you know to post this video can be very harmful for him, it’s very malicious; imagine if his daughter, his son, his wife, the people in his community see this. This is very damaging to his reputation and to post this online to go viral like that, to pin this to your page, if all he did was spot you. Did he follow you around the gym after? After he finished spotting you did he make an inappropriate comment, did he hit on you, did he do something else to be considered a creep because from this video i don’t see anything that really makes him a creep. You say he was watching you before your set, maby he saw you were doing a heavier weight than last set, maby you were struggling and needed a spot. You know we see all these video on Tiktok on social media, that we applaud, that we love and people come in and safe the day and spot a stranger. We can’t have a double standard, now there is a couple of things you could do, when first walked up and you were at the top of your rep you could have said “no thank you, get away” That would have been fine, also why did you go to hit that extra rep at the end where he did spot you. You know this video could have easily be something positive, something that shows the brother and sisterhood of iron, something that shows that it doesn’t matter what age or gender you are, we are all there to support each other, to help each other out and this man could have done a great thing, and to tell you the truth he spotted you perfectly if anything this could be that one video that demonstrates this is how you spot people from the elbows. He did a fantastic job
