I HATE the gym in January
I HATE the gym in January
#1I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 10:52amJust a quick rant. I am just back from my 2nd attempt this morning to get into my gym. Ist attempt at 9:00. Every parking space filled. Decided to run errands and try again at 10:30. This time I got a space but when I got inside every single treadmill and eliptical machine was taken. Every January the same thing - all these New Years resolutionists sign up, hog all the equipment and then bail out by February. Oh well, just a few more weeks...
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#2re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 11:03amI know exactly what you mean! I always plan on taking about 2 weeks off from the gym in January, to let the resolutionists get it out of their system...
JohnBoy2
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Tom1071
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#4re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 11:38amAmen to that! I'm off to the gym after work and I know it'll be horrible there! Last year the fad lasted well into Feb as well ugh. I know I should be posative and encourage people to keep fit-but not when I'm trying to work out!
StockardFan
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#5re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 11:40am
I KNOW!!!!! I have to get to the gym by 8:45 to make sure I get a bike for a 10:00 Spinning class. Who are all these new people? GET OUT OF OUR CLASS!
But you're right. They'll be gone in a few more weeks.
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#6re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 11:42amThat is why I'd NEVER be caught dead in the gym!
#7re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 12:49pm
Of course, it's Jan and we are all magically on diets and everyone is at the gym now... wait a few more weeks and you'll see the regulars again. Sometimes it depends on the gym too because I HAD a membership at a Ballys back home and around 4:45a, the line would already be there because they only had like 5 elipticals!
After, I changed to Powerhouse and no problems. At night, I heard it was a meat market with make-up et al but that does nothing for the metabolism!
StockardFan
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#8re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:11pmYeah, I belong to Bally's too. And when I would go at 5 AM it was still crowded. But there is no way I could go at that time now that I'm a mom. Have to get the kid up, dressed for school, fed, lunch made and on the bus!
#9re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:13pmHa! This is too funny. I need to get my @ss back to the gym, and keep on thinking "I'll just wait a couple of weeks to get back into it."
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#10re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:21pm
This is my 4th week of a new regimen based on Bill Phillips's Body for Life.
It's 6 days a week--4 cardio, 1 upper body, 1 lower body--but the cardio sessions are only 20 minutes, so you're in and out quickly. The upper and lower workouts are about twice that long, plus I do abs every workout.
It's hard for me to get the gym 6 days a week, but it used to be hard getting myself there 2 or 3 days.
#11re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:23pm
Well, none of you have to worry about me crowding your gyms. You're welcome.
StockardFan
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#12re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:28pm
PalJoey, my husband did that Body for Life a few years ago and he lost a ton of weight (he needs to go back on it IMO...LOL)
Thanks for not stealing my spinning bike, Brian!
#13re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:31pmIt's a good workout. I like filling out the little boxes that chart your progress. Did he do the diet too?
wexy
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#14re: I HATE the gym in January
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:34pm
Very true, its is horrible and not only is it tough getting on machines, its tough showering and changing and getting back to the office.
But every year they're gone by the end of February.
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#15Exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:59pmTo me exercise is like a sadistic lover. I break the habit and congratulate myself on accepting myself as I am. Then it draws me back and I find myself sweating and enduring torture by equipment designed by those who have never suffered from a metabolic joke. When I have once again tired of being taunted by the stares of the gym jocks, pulling muscles and struggling to tone my non-existent abs I quit again and vow never to return. So far this year I am sticking to my New Year's resolution: forget the torture and stock up on the Ben & Jerry's. It's working well.
#16Exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 2:09pmFebruary seems like a long way away.....I may have to start tossing people off treadmills soon.
StockardFan
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#17Exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 2:27pm
PalJoey, yes he did the work outs and the diet. It REALLY worked for him. I think the hardest part was giving up his beer for 6 days out of the week. HAHA!
danmag, I know. I'm seriously ready to start kicking some ass.
#18Exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 2:39pm
Look at it this way. these guys are keeping the rates low for the rest of us. Think what they'd have to charge if they didn't have this little bonus, free money month.
But I can empathize. last January I went in one night and hopped on the only empty treadmill. After a minute or two a newbie/January girl came over from across the gym and told me she was supposed to be next and pointed to her purse on the floor in front of the treadmill. I looked at her like she was nuts and kept walking.
She told me (who'd been going to this gym for ten years) that this was how they saved machines here, and pointed to her purse again. I told her I didn't use that system and picked up my pace.
When she realized that I wasn't getting off, she started yelling at me. The guy at the desk noticed the commotion, so I motioned him over. When he got there, I calmly lied and told him that this girl had come up out of nowhere and hit me. He, having known me for years, believed me and promptly tossed her ass to the curb.
#19Exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 2:41pmThe purse guarding the treadmill? Classic.
#20exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 3:13pmmy exercise bike in the basement keeps hiding itself. i can never seem to find it when i want to exercise.
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#22exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:02pmArtscallion, your story cracked me up. In DC the crowd usually lasts for the first two weeks of the new year and then goes back to normal.
#23exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:27pmart...that EXACT same thing happened to my husband...are we married?!
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#24exercise is overrated
Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:40pmThey leave their purses there--with money in them?
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