My gym is exactly like this Erick Prydz’ “Call on Me” video, minus the hot 80′s girls exercising in spandex.
Yesterday I saw a guy in my gym locker room pour a scoop of protein powder in his mouth and wash it down with tap water. The same day I saw a girl dance a salsa-macarena hybrid in front of the weight room mirror (I’m guessing for its cardiovascular benefits). And a week ago, a guy sprinting on the treadmill was pumping his fist in the air… yelling, “Yeah! Yeah!” He was listening to a Walkman, which amplified the level of crazy I was witnessing.
These characters, they pale in comparison to the time I saw a guy in the weight room do ab crunches on the universal pulleys, with a black hood covering his head. I couldn’t see his face, but I knew where the loud grunting was coming from. If he were standing next to a guillotine in 1700′s France, I could understand his choice of headgear, but how a black hood helps the abdominal muscles I don’t know.
Especially since many of the saner New-Year’s-resolution newcomers are beginning to quit, the more peculiar regulars have been standing out more than ever.
No. My gym doesn’t have hot girls exercising in spandex. Just a bunch of strange-ers who commit to the gym year round.
That’s why I hesitate in calling those who recently stopped coming to the gym “quitters”. Maybe they’re just the sane ones who realized that guzzling Myoplex, or dedicating an entire hour to hamstrings and triceps, or Balboa-ing oneself for that “runner’s high” day in and day out is just… crazy.
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Filed under: Fitness Rant | Tagged: abs, cardio, carrots, hangin' tough, pilates, yoga
Crazy you say? Crazy people are just those you do not understand, and more likely, you don’t want to understand. For me, one type of crazy is the person who is manipulative and/or controlling.
In the realm of fitness crazies there are those who are either under-ambitious or over-ambitious. In general, gym crazies who have next to zero ambition are usually depressed junk food eater fatties. Vicious cycle, difficult to understand. More rare is the unfit person who trains all day every day. This person is the craziest of all and therefore the most difficult to understand. Both types neglect their bodies, one is ignorant and lazy, the other is ignorant and has an inflated ego.
Everyone wants to look a certain way so that they can attract sex. It’s a symbol of health, power, endurance. At the end of fightclub, Edward Norton gets the girl and balance is restored. Fitness should be about allowing yourself to do fun activities, not about looking a certain way, but without a doubt everyone who claims that they don’t care what other people think is living a powerful illusion.
1-2 hours a day workout is neither a huge chunk of your day or likely to be damaging to your body. Professional athletes do 4 times that. If it’s your job then fine, work out ffs.
To summarize, it’s easy to say someone is crazy, but really everyone is crazy in their own way. Nobody is perfect except for me, and to even hint that anyone is in anyway is crazy is just crazy on your part.