"Gyms are still dominated by men," says the super-fit 28-year-old, who has competed in several half-marathons and collaborated with Nike on its Training Club exercise app.
"They stop what they're doing and look at you with a smug smile that bums me out so much.
"But I won't stop running up and down just because they're staring at me, as if what I'm doing is out of the ordinary or unladylike," she told Women's Health magazine.
While the stop-and-lech is plainly a major breach of gym etiquette - or "sweatiquette" - it doesn't stop there. Male gym-goers, please read on for our list of female gym gripes. And towel this article down when you're done.
Ten ways men 'gymtimidate' women
1. Staring, furrow-browed, while we adjust the weightload on the shoulder press. We recognise this look. This is exactly the same look that men in the street give us when we parallel park, a look that says women cannot be trusted with anything metal.
2. Positioning yourselves directly behind us in an uncrowded yoga class. The gazepoint during Downward Dog is between your feet, not, ahem, up the twentysomething girl's derriere. Rest assured, all we'll be thinking about as we lie in shavasana is how creepy you are and whether we should put in a formal complaint.
3. Littering the floor around your treadmill with empty water bottles, foam rollers and towels. You might think you're manfully asserting your presence, marking your territory, the gym equivalent of spreading your thighs extra-wide on public transport. All your gym detrius makes us think of is you've regressed back to your teenage bedroom and are expecting your mum to come and pick it all up.
4. Loudly relaying your own personal Tripadvisor-esque reviews of every class and instructor as we're held captive filling our water bottles. We get it! You come here a lot! And no, we don't! Not any more - and definitely not now...
5. Offering to demonstrate the "perfect squat", because our "alignment is all wrong" and if we don't "tilt our tailbones to the correct degree" we'll "wind up in the physiotherapist's waiting room". But if that happens, it's cool, because they "have the greatest physio on speed-dial that can sort you out for just $150 a session". Thanks. We weren't even doing a squat, we were just picking up our iPhone, actually.
6. Grunting ostentatiously in the weight room. Okay, we've all heard Martina Navratilova, so we know that men don't have a monopoly on sporty grunting. But we can spot a genuine grunt from a pseudo-caveman a mile off.
7. Slithering sweatily off the treadmill and limping to the water cooler without mopping up after yourself. Wiping off your own sweat = mildly satisfying. Wiping off a stranger's sweat = completely revolting.
8. Loudly moaning about how hungover you are before class. Hangover-boasting is lowest-common-denominator humble-bragging, but in the gym it plumbs new depths of odiousness. We get that you want to prove that you're not your standard-issue gym obsessive, who pops off to bed at 10pm after a Paleo dinner. You can still work hard and party hard and still make it to the gym for a 7.10am. But faux-moaning about a hangover is the preserve of the inexperienced hedonist. True hedonists work hard to keep everything that happened last night under wraps. Because they're still a little worried about the consequences.
9. Chatting up the receptionist on your way out when there's a queue of us running late for Flywheel. We know you're all pumped up and you've just checked out your newly toned gym-body in the changing room. But said receptionist is only smiling at you because she's paid to. An eye-roll will soon follow.
10. Wearing loose shorts for yoga class. We're trying to relax and be in the moment, but all we can think about is how badly we don't want to see a flicker of flesh.
