A 36-year-old woman has caused a stir after revealing her gym has started banning women over the age of 24 from working out during peak hours. She shared her story on the popular UK-based forum ...

“[Am I being unreasonable] to think this is unfair?” the woman asked in a community post Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared ...

Women exercising in gyms often face harassment and negative comments about their bodies, warns a new study. Researchers in ...

Gyms that cater exclusively to women aren’t anything new. As far back as 1964, Elaine Powers Figure Salons tried to entice more women to work out — even though the chain was created by a male ...

After working out at a Gainesville gym, Valerie Mederos returned to her car, ready to drive home, when a man surprised her by knocking on her window. She didn’t know it yet, but he had followed her ...

The topic of female-only gym spaces has always been one of hot debate but the owners of two training studios have revealed why it’s so important. Diana Johnson and Felicia Oreb, who now own women-only ...

Music plays, sweat glistens, and laughter echoes through the fitness studio. It's not a dance party, it's women working out. In one room, they're doing yoga under dim lighting, while in another, women ...

Founders Katie Wetzel and Erin McDevitt opened Gain Gym in Reynoldstown last month as a women-only fitness space, driven by their experience with Atlanta’s competitive gym scene. “We realized women ...

When I think back to my time in high school and college, the message was clear: Going to the gym was for losing weight and becoming smaller. The weight room—and building muscle—was solely for guys. I ...

The gym stated that the change was made “in response to feedback and to better cater to our younger female members” The woman shared the situation on a popular community forum, where the policy ...