{"id":32055,"date":"2012-02-01T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T01:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32055"},"modified":"2020-06-29T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T01:04:54","slug":"some-things-never-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32055","title":{"rendered":"Some things never change"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Both Jen and I signed up for a gym, since now that I\u2019m a full-time employee with a degree of sustainable income.\u00a0 This development makes me happy, because I have always enjoyed going to the gym when I used to go, and over the span of the last four years of not having a gym to go to, I have grown unsatisfied with the degradation of my physical conditioning.\u00a0 Needless to say, I look forward to the anticipation of improved physical conditioning, the revitalization of muscles that I\u2019ve felt have shrunk a little bit, and the day I realize that pants feel looser around the waist.<\/span><\/p>\n

As of now, I\u2019ve gone twice, and personally I feel great.\u00a0 It felt good to be in a gym where I can get back to my old routine of running on a treadmill as well as mixing up a combination of free and machine weights.\u00a0 I don\u2019t feel tremendously sore like the first time ever at the gym, which means I\u2019m not in too terribly bad shape, which I suppose is a good thing.\u00a0 I look forward to ironing out a routine and adhering to it in coming weeks and months.<\/span><\/p>\n

But man, I have to say, the meatheads.\u00a0 Yeah, I know, no gym is without them, but this particular one is, well, wow.\u00a0 I sort of knew it would be like this, considering it\u2019s a gym right in the middle of Atlanta, but I\u2019m still a little astonished, having seen it for myself in person now.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing just how much posing and fake working out goes on in this place; it\u2019s equally parts amusing, entertaining, creepy and sad.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My old-old gym was kind of out in the suburbs, and I had a little bit of flexibility in my work schedule, to where I could get in, workout, and leave without much overlap of when the after-work meatheads showed up.\u00a0 My old gym was a private gym, on-site to where I was working, so sure, there were a handful of genuine meatheads, but since it was a private gym, and a small one at that, they were fairly negligible, if not avoidable outright.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this gym, so many meatheads.\u00a0 And the schedule in which I\u2019ve been working out, it\u2019s like prime meathead time.\u00a0 So many ripped gay dudes on steroids who walk around on ten minute breaks in between doing anything, so that everyone can see just how jacked their arms are.\u00a0 You know it\u2019s bad when there\u2019s a disclaimer in the men\u2019s locker room about the detrimental effects of taking\u00a0too many<\/em>\u00a0steroids.\u00a0 Not just any steroids, but\u00a0too many.<\/em>\u00a0Then there are the hardcore failed black professional athletes that scream loudly and slam weights down on their final reps before taking their own ten minute breaks.<\/span><\/p>\n

But my favorites would have to be the creepy 50-year old meatheads, who sure, are in very muscular shapes, but you know they\u2019re at the gym for reasons other than to get their reps in.\u00a0 There\u2019s one who goes around with a gigantic beer gut who apparently has no idea how to read what machines are for, and bogarts the\u00a0standing calf raise machine<\/a>\u00a0for some bastardized overhead shoulder presses that don\u2019t even allow him to get any degree of adequate extension.\u00a0 Oh, and he takes 10 minute breaks in between everything too, but camps the machines so that nobody else can work in between, while he ogles all the female members in the club.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s Apollo Creed, who literally looks like he could be Carl Weathers back from the Rocky movies, who is sure, in great shape still, but dresses like he came out of the workout montage of\u00a0Rocky III<\/em>, and has an unsavory habit of slamming down weights before taking ten minute breaks in between lifts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meatheads at the gym are nothing out of the ordinary, but you\u2019ll have to excuse my amusement by them these days.\u00a0 It\u2019s been such a long time since I\u2019ve had any regular repetition at any gym that I can\u2019t help but be fascinated by their amusing and predictable behavior.\u00a0 And being in such a central location for meatheads at a prime time for meatheads, I have a feeling I\u2019ll be accumulating lots of behavioral study during my tenure at this gym.\u00a0 I enjoy watching people, and considering the club\u2019s cable television is really only like 15 channels which 12 of them are news, two are NFL circle-jerking, and the last one being reruns of\u00a0The Office<\/em>, I\u2019m sure meathead central will offer up more potential for amusement in the long haul.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Jen and I signed up for a gym, since now that I\u2019m a full-time employee with a degree of sustainable income.\u00a0 This development makes me happy, because I have always enjoyed going to the gym when I used to go, and over the span of the last four years of not having a gym … Continue reading Some things never change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,37,83,15],"class_list":["post-32055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-gym","tag-job","tag-observations","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32057,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions\/32057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}