Evan MacKenzie

Losers.

I've always wanted to do this, but never have.
You walk up to someone in the gym and ask them "Hey, what what they are training for?" I'd bet you 9 out of ten would look at you dumbfounded because they don't want to admit that it's just vanity (That, and they don't know what dumbfounded or vanity mean). Then you say, "No, I mean, what sport do you do that you are lifting weights for? Are you a cyclist, do you play football or soccer, you know?"

"Uh, I'm just here to lift weights."

"So you don't actually do anything then?"

"Uh, I guess not."

My wife and I started going to spin class last fall when the days got shorter (boring!). The instructor was complaining because when the Hillsboro Aquatic Center (which has a pool, weight room and other fitness stuff) was closed DURING THE SUMMER, he didn't have anywhere to work out. He said he has a bike that he occasionally rides to the gym, but apparently the thought of doing something other than driving to the gym to work out was completely foreign to him. What kind of society do we live in that people think like this? That is SO WRONG!

OK, that's the end of my Thursday morning rant.

-Evan
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On Behalf Of Heather VanValkenburg
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:53 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: [OBRA Chat] OT- Social Hour at the Squat Rack

Enough about number sizes and onto a very serious issue...

WHAT'S WITH ALL THE GUYS (I don't see women doing this) AT THE GYM THAT COME
TO JUST HANG OUT? Seriously, they come in, they hang out and talk to their
buddies, (usually in the way), they LOOK like they might be there to
workout, since they are wearing the approprite workout attire, but they
don't lift a single weight. I mean, you don't just accidentally drop by the
gym to hang out, right? What's up with that?

Does this happen where you work out?

Are you one of THEM?

What should we call THEM?

-Heather VanValkenburg

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