Can I please have one day where I can actually stand to be outside? I so wanted to go ride my bike this morning. When I woke up this morning, I could hear the wind roaring outside my windows. I thought it would calm down a bit and I could ride anyway. Well, I did wait a little while, but the wind never calmed enough for me to get enthusiastic enough for a shorter ride. I decided to head to the gym for a Cardio Coach workout. I did this same workout last Monday on the elliptical, but today I would use one of the RPM bikes. I changed into bike clothes, threw some warm clothes over top and headed out.
I did the Cardio Coach thing, which took about 45 minutes then continued to ride for an additional 15 minutes, so an hour on the spin bike would have to do today. The scenery sucked, but I did watch a few people. I've always enjoyed people watching. In fact, some nights at the gym it becomes a terrible distraction.
There are many types to watch. Today featured the wandering people who seemed to have attention deficit. I swear this one girl with a basketball walked by the RPM room a half a dozen times. Then there was the older dude with the tube socks pulled all the way up. Same deal, back and forth. Now granted there is a water fountain outside of the door, but one why wouldn't you bring a bottle with you and two, if you drink that much water in a short amount of time, perhaps you should have hydrated before coming to the gym.
Next, there are the clueless wanderers. These are the people who are just wandering to and from or in and out of rooms without any regards to what is going on around them. I encounter this quite a bit as some nights, I'm having to do exercises which take me the length of the gym etc. They crack me up. The eyes are looking at you, but for some reason the synapse isn't functioning to carry the message to the brain. GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY. For example the other night, I'm doing this drill and this chick walks right in front of me. I reached out grabbed her and said look out. It nearly scared the pee out of her. HELLO!?!?! Today's ditzel brain walked right into me as I exited the RPM room. I guess he was parched and his dehyrdration had begun to induce blindness. DUH! Hopefully, these cheese doodles don't walk out into traffic like they do inside of the gym.
The third group of people to watch are the regulars. This includes, "Squeeky." He is a dude that is about 5'4" tall and talks constantly in his annoying, squeeky, nasally voice. The kicker is I think he talks so loud because he's trying to talk over the music that's playing in his headphones. Hey dumbass, we can hear you, SHUT UP. He obviously has an insecurity issue because he is constantly blubbering on about the stupidest stuff. Even the people he's with start looking at him like Dude, please. He also falls into the next category - those who can't lift what they are trying to lift. He's famous for banging the machines together. CLANK CLANK CLANK or dropping the weights THUD. It irks the fire out of the trainers and others in the gym. His form sucks, and he's lifting too much hence the inability to keep the noise down.
This leads me to my last group of people - these people are about as useful as garden gnomes. You will find them leaning, sitting or standing at or on a particular machine. They aren't using it and probably have no intention of doing so, but by God they want to look good standing there. Oriental Mullet is a prime example. Asian dude with a mullet who habitually just leans on the equipment and when you ask if he's using it he says, "no I'm just standing here." Well dorkface, if you want to just stand there, don't admit it. Geez. I guess the cell phone talkers fall into this category as well. A visit doesn't go by where you don't see at least one person talking on the phone while running, pedaling or otherwise engaging in some sort of exercise. My answer to this is if you can speak in a full sentence you are not working hard enough to get squat out of your time. Hang up and leave the phone in the car. Damn people. Isn't life intrusive enough lately, can't you spend one hour at the gym with out the phone?
Ok, so this post went all over the place, but seriously, is this all a big joke or what?
4 comments:
that why i like to swim..can't hear people talking : )
Gosh. I had no idea I was missing out on so much by not going to the gym!
Wow. I might have to join that gym. Don't typical care for them, but the people watching sounds primo! :^)
Weather here sucks too if its any consolation.
You wuss- just go outside and ride!
OK, I guess I shouldn't have had that Red Bull before running today. I called God up a little bit ago and insulted him, too!
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