Rodney

If you see a lot of fluorescent spandex, it's probably a pick-up gym. Otherwise, not.

Even a regular gym usually has a couple of "queens," very in-shape women with a lot of makeup and flattering workout clothes who talk to a lot of different people (usually well-built men) and do a lot of socializing. It's pretty easy to get into a conversation with one of these, if you want to. I generally haven't found them worth talking to.

Except for the meat markets, the gym's not really a place to meet someone. It's a good place to _go_ with a woman you already know; I always liked working out with a girlfriend or potential girlfriend. In a serious gym, you're most likely interrupting women's workouts if you try a line, and that's not going to be attractive. If you're over at the juice/smoothie bar and there's a general discussion going on, however, that's something else. In that case, I'd just try to contribute to whatever conversation was going on and try to talk directly to the woman I'm interested in, as at any party.

At the meat markets, of course, it probably doesn't matter what you say, just what you look like (and optionally, what you drive).