So I'm at the gym again today...really no surprise. Also as no surprise was the increase in the amount of people at the gym seeing as it is the first week in January. Think about it. New Years resolutions are in full force for another three weeks or so and then they will be forgotten as soon as they started. ANYWAY, I'm not here to criticize....HA who am I kidding.
So I noticed a common theme today during my gym adventure. The demographic of the gym is changing everyday!
When I first started going about 3-4 months ago it was mostly your run of the mill population that you might expect for a suburb of Boston. At first there was the Indian family, I'm gonna assume it was a mother and son, the son being fairly overweight and the mother just there because her son was....well fat. He would walk on the treadmill with the incline at about, ohhh I don't know an 85% slope at 2 mph. I was dying to tell the little (big) Indian boy that even though he may be taller than everyone while on the treadmill due to the incline, he wasn't doing a whole hell of a lot other than looking like a moron. Of course I didn't say anything, I just observed.
The other guy.....The weird fellow who INSISTS on wearing short shorts, brown socks, brown orthopedic shoes and a tank top that has a staring problem. He also thinks its a "good workout" to follow people around the gym (therefore he gets his walking in) and also use just about every machine within the building with about 5 pounds of resistance and do one set of about 5. He also likes to sit as close as possible to people. Now the reason I know this is because he say basically right next to me until I started swinging a weight around, then he backed up a total of 4 inches. Moving on.
Lastly, the two freaks who come in with their white "wife beaters" and do the same exercises every time. They also love to stare and for whatever reason will find any way possible to look at me. They'll catch a glance through the mirror, across the gym, it doesn't matter you get the point. My thing is why are you looking at me!
Okay so lastly the real reason as to why the demographic has changed is mostly due in part to (I hope) the New Years resolutions. Today it looked like the mall I like to call "Little Brazil" to me for obvious reasons, but these people like to travel in packs and it really started to piss me off at the gym today, I couldn't do anything without 4-6 people staring at me because I probably just stole their machine. Now I'm one to apologize until they did it back to me and didn't say a word, that's when I became an asshole about everything. One guy from a group of two just thought he was God's gift to the world. Strolls in all decked out (to work out?) instead he grabs the heaviest dumbbell there throws it over his head and starts grunting only to throw it on the floor and a make big scene. This all to ensure everyone knew he was lifting the heaviest weight dumbbell the gym had to offer. Then he proceeds to sit on the rack where the dumbbells are stored and pose. I just got so disgusted I walked to the other side of the gym did my thing and got the hell out of there. I'm pretty aggravated and I'm hoping the gym doesn't go down the shitter just like every other one.
So I noticed a common theme today during my gym adventure. The demographic of the gym is changing everyday!
When I first started going about 3-4 months ago it was mostly your run of the mill population that you might expect for a suburb of Boston. At first there was the Indian family, I'm gonna assume it was a mother and son, the son being fairly overweight and the mother just there because her son was....well fat. He would walk on the treadmill with the incline at about, ohhh I don't know an 85% slope at 2 mph. I was dying to tell the little (big) Indian boy that even though he may be taller than everyone while on the treadmill due to the incline, he wasn't doing a whole hell of a lot other than looking like a moron. Of course I didn't say anything, I just observed.
The other guy.....The weird fellow who INSISTS on wearing short shorts, brown socks, brown orthopedic shoes and a tank top that has a staring problem. He also thinks its a "good workout" to follow people around the gym (therefore he gets his walking in) and also use just about every machine within the building with about 5 pounds of resistance and do one set of about 5. He also likes to sit as close as possible to people. Now the reason I know this is because he say basically right next to me until I started swinging a weight around, then he backed up a total of 4 inches. Moving on.
Lastly, the two freaks who come in with their white "wife beaters" and do the same exercises every time. They also love to stare and for whatever reason will find any way possible to look at me. They'll catch a glance through the mirror, across the gym, it doesn't matter you get the point. My thing is why are you looking at me!
Okay so lastly the real reason as to why the demographic has changed is mostly due in part to (I hope) the New Years resolutions. Today it looked like the mall I like to call "Little Brazil" to me for obvious reasons, but these people like to travel in packs and it really started to piss me off at the gym today, I couldn't do anything without 4-6 people staring at me because I probably just stole their machine. Now I'm one to apologize until they did it back to me and didn't say a word, that's when I became an asshole about everything. One guy from a group of two just thought he was God's gift to the world. Strolls in all decked out (to work out?) instead he grabs the heaviest dumbbell there throws it over his head and starts grunting only to throw it on the floor and a make big scene. This all to ensure everyone knew he was lifting the heaviest weight dumbbell the gym had to offer. Then he proceeds to sit on the rack where the dumbbells are stored and pose. I just got so disgusted I walked to the other side of the gym did my thing and got the hell out of there. I'm pretty aggravated and I'm hoping the gym doesn't go down the shitter just like every other one.
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