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guess what i did?

  • May. 14th, 2008 at 1:05 PM
fuller / asheville
Guess what I did last night?

No, really. Guess!

You didn't guess "joined a gym", did you? Because if you know me at all, you know of my passionate hate for the gym mindset. The pain = gain. The appearance = health. All the wildly simplified equations and just the general unpleasantness of the places. Ick.

Anyhow. I joined a gym. My trainer has disappeared off the face of the earth, and I need program design help to figure out some of the dance-prep strengthening I want to do. So when [info]arovd suggested that we practice together in her gym's (fantastic slippy-floored, mirrored, nicely lit) space... eh, okay.

The environment is... not as bad as I expected. There was one poster that bothered me enough I. Um. Sorta hid it. It was a small act of subversion. We went to a yogaish workout class that I enjoyed, and the space really is fantastic. The people there were reasonably diverse. The guy who showed me around was remarkably tolerant of my continuous ripping on his profession. We'll see if the trainer recommendation he made pans out.

There are a LOT of treadmills. That? Is creepy.

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[info]moongirli wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 05:58 pm (UTC)
I'm terribly curious at to which poster was subverted?

My gym (local Y) is actually... pretty cool. My snark for the place is all about the members who a) listen to their mp3 players/cell phones really loudly, b) don't know how to properly use the machines.
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[info]keryx wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 06:31 pm (UTC)
It was a garbage can that said something like "Keep our beaches beautiful" in all big type, with "...and throw away the trash, too" in little types below.

There were just so many disturbing things about it that I couldn't look at it again.
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[info]peregrin8 wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 06:40 pm (UTC)
Ugh. I hope you hid it well!
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[info]keryx wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 07:19 pm (UTC)
I hid it by taking it off the wall & turning it backwards. It was more pointedly than "well".
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[info]queerbychoice wrote:
May. 15th, 2008 12:16 am (UTC)
I really, really, really love that you have the nerve to do things like that when stuff is offensive.
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[info]keryx wrote:
May. 15th, 2008 04:32 am (UTC)
I'm not sure it's nerve so much as just being kinda fundamentally self-involved. But I like the sound of "nerve" better.
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[info]snidegrrl wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC)
Is it a chain, or something local?
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[info]keryx wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 06:09 pm (UTC)
Gold's. It's definitely a chain. But the gym itself is small and relatively inoffensive.
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[info]snidegrrl wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 06:37 pm (UTC)
Interesting. It sounds like they treated you well when you signed up, so that's good. That's usually the number one part that sucks about signing up - the sales folks.
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[info]keryx wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 06:42 pm (UTC)
It probably helps that I made it super clear that I didn't want to hear a word about weightloss, and wasn't even interested in seeing their cardio equipment (like the big treadmill cattle pen).
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[info]firecat wrote:
May. 14th, 2008 07:47 pm (UTC)
I used to belong to a Gold's. People mostly left me alone to do my weightlifting thing, which is how I like it.
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[info]keryx wrote:
May. 15th, 2008 04:33 am (UTC)
Awesome. That is exactly what I want. A few good classes, someone to teach me how to get benefits out of the weight stuff, and space.
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