You guys rock. Thank you for all of your geeky suggestions. I’m currently going through all of them and am trying to see what’s available. There’s already so many I love. I think I’m going to have a difficult time choosing. I will announce the winner by the end of the weekend. Oh, the suspense!!
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In the meantime, let me babble to you about my beef with the gym.
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I’m new to the gym. I don’t know all of the ins and outs or any of the rules* for that matter. Ask me how to work a machine? I will laugh in your face. I have no idea what I’m doing. I go there and pretend to look busy. Okay that’s a lie. I have figured out the treadmill** and the bikes. It helps that I’m a people watcher because I have a feeling I’d get bored very quickly prancing along like a gazelle on the treadmill. I’ve noticed that spandex is a favorite at this particular gym. Is it like that everywhere? Why do people wear such tight clothes to the gym? It doesn’t look comfortable at all. Personally I’d like to be comfortable while I introduce my quadriceps to the elliptical machine. Elliptical, meet my quadriceps; Quadriceps, meet shock. And thongs? Really? I had a wedgie today and all I could think about was that wedge.*** I would think a thong would really distract me, but then again I’d probably have to wear it so no undie lines showed through my skin tight pants.
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Then there are some people, women mostly, who get really dolled up to sweat. I’m talking applying make-up in the bathroom pre-workout. I get it. You never know who you might run into at the gym. It just seems like a waste of time to me.
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And finally, sweat. People sweat. It’s natural. It’s expected and encouraged at a gym. But sweet mother of jeebus get some ventilation or air fresheners in there! I don’t know if I was walking next to an extremely sweaty and stinky gentleman or what. But all I know is it was not pleasant.
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I sweat rainbows. Sometimes roses, but mostly rainbows.
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* I can’t eat a donut on the treadmill, what?
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** I’m too afraid to run on the treadmill. Walk, don’t run. Thank you.
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*** Okay fine…and a donut.
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I always wear yoga pants to the gym, tight until the calf, because I don’t need any excess fabric to help my thighs rub together, thanks. And I have to admit, I don’t wear any underpants under yoga pants. And I most certainly would never ever wear a thong to work out. I won’t even wear a thong to kickball, no vigorous movements in a thong.
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Oh, the strange goings-on at the gym! I have a teeny apartment-complex gym, and there is ALWAYS this teenage girl there (who weighs MAYBE 110 pounds, so shut up, teenagers) with a full face of makeup, tiny “workout” clothes, and horrendous form as she does…stretches? I have no idea. Oh, and she ALWAYS brings her cell phone with her. I doubt that she is that important, but what do I know?
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i have been guilty of the thong under long tightish pants (for yoga!) BUT not the makeup. then when you sweat, the sweat rag comes away all covered in foundation..? ick.
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Ugh. Gyms. Hates it.
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I used to belong to the Y and there were so many women there all dolled up. I don’t get it either.
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I stopped going to Bally Total Fitness her because it always smelled like a construction worker’s armpit when you walked in. I now go to the brand new 24 Hour Fitness a block from my house and it’s FANTABULOUS!
I don’t sweat a lot so if I’m still in makeup from work it’s alright (which I don’t wear all that much anyways) but if I go when I wake up in the morning–no makeup. I saw a lady walk into the gym all dolled up from maybe the nearest hooker corner—she looked like the gal in Grease at the end in those spike heels and skin tight black pants. Hilarious!
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I don’t go to the gym because I am paranoid about people watching me when I work out. Add in the factor of people looking CUTE when they’re exercising, and I want to be nowhere around them because they’ll make me look awful.
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I do like running on a treadmill, though. I just don’t have the motivation to do it, so kudos to you for going to the gym consistently and working out!
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About the make-up, what is up with that. I know girls who even before a basketball game (playing in it) or anything would put on a full layer of new coverup and etc., even though they just re-did it an hour ago. / NEVER wear a thong to work out again is what I would say. Try wearing looser shorts and just panties. Who’s gonna know? / Personally, I don’t go to the gym because there are ways I can work out without paying a monthly fee and have people watching me. Plus it does smell like an old gym sock – but worse, one being used! / Oh, and to the person who was making fun of a teenager always having her cell, we never know when someone might call! Sorry, but just had to get that out of my system.
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Lol nice blog!
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Yeah…. the more you go to the gym, the more you get used to the..’aroma’ of the place!:D
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Kind regards!
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pKay.
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My gym is actually a country club filled with the over 40 group. I chose it based on that fact alone. It keeps me away from the skin tight spandex group that take over the other big gym in my town. Although- I do know of one woman who works out with a FULL face of make up on. Mascara, eyeliner, bronzer, blush, LIPSTICK. Seriously. It’s hard not to notice and not laugh!
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Ah! thank you! The gym freaks me out more than anything. Luckily, I have friends who I would make take me to the gym and show me how to use the machines, so I wouldn’t look stupid wandering around pulling on things then breaking them and running away. I think I can almost fake confidence now on most of the weight machines.
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underwear lines are no good.
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Teehee, if that little kitten was in my gym…I’d go! :O
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