Clown night at the gym
Tonight was just one of those nights at the gym first of all my gym is at a sports centre that has a indoor netball and basketball and it seems that just as I was getting to the gym netball training was finishing and all the netball mums were picking up their little darlings. These are a breed of people who drive around in a little bubble with no concept whatsoever that there might actually be someone else on the road. The road into the sports centre complex is fairly narrow but plenty of room to pass should you slow down and actually keep to your side of the road. I literally almost had five head on collisions within a space of about 500metres so my blood was boiling before I even started.
Then I set up to do my deadlifts and just as I was ready to do a set this tool grabs a couple of 20pound dumbells and parks his ass about 3 feet in front of me. I am sorry but I do not need to have an ass in my face when I am trying to lift. If you see someone set up somewhere do your hero curls somewhere else, there were about 4 people in the gym at that stage so it was not like there was a lack of space.
It seems to be that time of year here in tassie as summer approaches more people seem to think that rockin up to the gym to do a few arm curls and bench presses will offset a beer and chips diet. At least you might only see them 2 or 3 times tops before the lure of the pub gets too much. But they will come in packs and spend more time sitting where you want to work than actually achieve anything.
There was also a young kid who was managing to do what I can only describe as some sort of reverse shrug with a whopping 10 pounds on the pin loaded chest press machine he was pumping the reps out as fast as he could but through a range of motion of about 3/4 of an inch.
There was something else tonight that I think I overheard. There is this girl who has just started training and has a bit of weight to lose. BUT she works hard and is obviously trying. Anyway I thought I overheard her saying to the trainer that she feels like people look at her in the gym as if she isn’t supposed to be there. It really made me sad because she is in exactly the right place and is trying to get healthy. I was going to say something to her but I didn’t want to interupt her session with her trainer and besides that I wasn’t 100% sure I had heard her right because I had my MP3 going. If anyone thinks that people are unwelcoming in the gym please know that I would rather share the gym with someone who works hard than any of the other tools I have talked about tonight and that the skinny guy is probably just as self concious about working out around bigger and stronger guys because I know I am! We are all just on different points of the same journey.
And now for something completly different….. I found a pretty cool track in the bushland near my place that gives me a decent 5k-ish loop although I didn’t get the greatest run in because I turned the wrong way and got a little bit geographically embarressed and then the track came out in a street that I didn’t expect so I had to walk a bit to work out where I was…. next time though will be a great run through the bush!
October 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I hate dancing around people in the gym to get my workout in. I much rather run on my own, or with one other. Way to persevere.