My gym is huge... the first time I went I was lost. Its three stories with a basketball court, spa, swimming pool, multiple exercise rooms and such. Typically I would say a gym has specific purposes: mainly to work out and maintain good health. Those purposes seem obsolete at my gym… here are just a few reasons why:
1. Typically when one goes to the gym and presumably sweats, she doesn’t care what she looks like…. WRONG. When I walk into my gym I feel like I’m in a club without the dancing and dim lighting. Girls are dolled up head to toe with their hair and make-up done. I thought a gym was for working out. Anyways, I am surprised and a bit disgusted that women need to get dressed up and look nice at a gym… where the sweat will ruin any hair and make-up anyways so why do it.
Are these women trying to grab a date? Maybe a number? I thought that disgustingly sweaty and smelly men and women would be a turn off… but maybe not for some.
2. The gym is beyond capacity at this point. I understand perfectly. It’s right after New Years and most likely everyone and their mothers probably made a new years resolution to work out more or lose weight. Since my gym is so large to see it crowded really is amazing. It’s almost as if you walked into a crowded mall and people but instead of people waiting in line to purchase an item, they are waiting for machines.
Right when you are in your groove, listening to music, really getting into your workout you look up and see someone standing right by your side… damn that’s annoying. Now you’ve lost your concentration and instead of listening to some great workout music, you are thinking, “I’m gonna be here for a while… leave and come back later”. Peace for a moment when you think your thought could become reality, until moments later he/she is still standing their and trying to glance at how long you have been on the machine. All hope is lost and now you’re just mad because you think it’s rude and now just stay on the machine longer than anticipated for the sole purpose to piss them off…. Working out should be energizing and productive.
3. Sweating is normal. Working out + an enclosed area + an increased heart rate = sweating. Everyone does it and although some believe they sweat a minimal amount, it’s still enough to show on an exercise machine. So why do some people leave their nasty sweat clearly visible on a machine they just worked out on? I have no idea but that’s why the gym provides paper towels and cleaning solution to solve this dilemma. No one wants to touch another person’s sweat and body oil… so why leave a mess after working out.
4. The noise level is a bit awkward and uncomfortable around the weights and body building machines… Wow that man is lifting a great amount of lbs. but really does he have to make that much noise while he does it? Since I am a woman and usually only work out with 10 lbs. dumb bells I have no idea if some sort of expulsion of noise is necessary when lifting massive amounts of weight, but I do know that it creates a wave of more noise. It’s intimidating enough for me to walk over and carry tiny weights for my tiny body but it sure scares the crap out of me when I hear moans and grunts loud enough to hear through my blaring music.
5. Talking. I love talking… heck all the time even but NOT at the gym. I go to the gym to work out and listen to my music at volumes probably detrimental to my ears but whatever. So when someone starts talking to me I do the typical turn of the head and pull out one of my headphones. I seem annoyed usually because I’m almost always in some sort of rhythm or counting. And almost always the first sentence I hear is something so irrelevant to the gym or working out that I am speechless. When one asks if another is done using a machine or done with some weights that’s ok… polite even, but to start a random conversation while I’m disgusting and sweaty clearly has a negative start.
Yes this all seems negative and probably disturbing. My gym should be taped and aired on television because it is so amusing at times. I love working out… I feel so much better and energized afterwards. My gym is another story among others and my expression of just a few quirks helps understand my frustration when I leave a crowded, dirty, loud gym. Now I understand all my friends who got me into a membership but warned me of such issues….
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