Personal training is a business of proximity. It's personal, physical, and driven by relationships. Not only are people sweaty and often wearing little clothing, but the gym is about as democratic a place as any other in modern life.
By this I mean that lines of demarcation in status are nonexistent, and often turned on their head. I can't think of any other place where a 50-year-old stockbroker might approach an 18-year-old bartender, ask to "work in," and then worry about how the 18-year-old might respond. Or where a man or woman asks a total stranger to spot their max-effort lift, putting them squarely inside the lifter's physical space.
On one hand, this is what makes the gym such a wonderful, even utopian place. On the other, it also opens the gym and its trainers to a host of sexual harassment issues.
Some of this is inevitable. Trainers touch clients, clients reveal intimate life details between sets, and the conversation often turns to what, in any other context, could be...
Source: Trainers In The #MeToo Era: What's Appropriate And What's Not?
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