A deltoid and bicep
Apr. 26th, 2005 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
listersgirlGym culture is very different in the mornings than it is in the afternoons. People seem somehow more hardcore -- or possibly just more grimly determined, which makes sense, because, hi! It's 6:30 in the morning. I can think of a good 20 things I'd rather be doing at that point, and most of them have some variation on the word 'sleep' in them. It's obviously the lack of sleep that makes everyone look so dour.
The hardcore thing means you get more of the scary Gym Men, the ones who look like they would beat you down if you dared to take their barbell. The ones who wear the padded shirts. And what is up with those padded shirts, anyway? What is the point? Do they need to fool themselves in the mirror in order to motivate themselves? Maybe underneath it all they're really just stick figures.
You also get the freaky Gym Women, who are sweating buckets on the stair climber when you get there, and are still going when you leave, 90 minutes later. I understand, weight loss blahblahblah, but can't you find anything else to do with your time?
[There was more that I had to say, something about always running into people because our patterns are so set, but that was this morning, and now it's after lunch and I don't remember anything. So I'm going to post this bit and pretend that was the sum total of everything in my brain.]
The hardcore thing means you get more of the scary Gym Men, the ones who look like they would beat you down if you dared to take their barbell. The ones who wear the padded shirts. And what is up with those padded shirts, anyway? What is the point? Do they need to fool themselves in the mirror in order to motivate themselves? Maybe underneath it all they're really just stick figures.
You also get the freaky Gym Women, who are sweating buckets on the stair climber when you get there, and are still going when you leave, 90 minutes later. I understand, weight loss blahblahblah, but can't you find anything else to do with your time?
[There was more that I had to say, something about always running into people because our patterns are so set, but that was this morning, and now it's after lunch and I don't remember anything. So I'm going to post this bit and pretend that was the sum total of everything in my brain.]
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Date: 2005-04-26 08:44 pm (UTC)There was one morning that a woman was singing very loudly (and for quite a while) in the showers, which was amusing at first, but it grew annoying. I have no idea who it was, though, so I can't even be all avoid-y if I see her.