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Inevitably when the new year begins, all gyms generally experience an influx of new goers, no matter how small a gym is, like my small but serviceable work gym.\u00a0 There\u2019s this one guy that I\u2019ve noticed being new to the gym in my building, primarily because he\u2019s Asian, and there are maybe like 3-4 of us in this entire building that I\u2019ve bothered to know exist.\u00a0 He\u2019s probably around my age, give or take five years, and it seems like that he must have been casually active prior to coming to my gym, since it\u2019s not like he\u2019s a fat blob or anything.<\/span><\/p>\n But what has caused this guy to become the subject of a brog post is typically what lots of things elicit from my head do that ultimately end up as brog post fodder: questionable annoyance.<\/span><\/p>\n Basically by virtue of being Asian, going to the same gym I do, doing a few exercises that I do, having a similarly intended hairstyle as I do, and even wearing Jordans to the office, I\u2019ve decided that this guy is basically a lamer version of me, ripe for criticism and immortalization in my brog that nobody reads.<\/span><\/p>\n Hear me out though, he\u2019s not a lamer version of me just because he\u2019s not actually me, it\u2019s just that he falls overwhelmingly short in the world of standards that he isn\u2019t aware of that I\u2019ve set for him, making him, the lamer version.<\/span><\/p>\n For starters, the guy seems to barely works out for more than a half hour whenever I\u2019ve seen him.\u00a0 He does one set of a variety of things, and if there\u2019s one thing that\u2019s been engrained into me from exercise is that sets and repetition is where growth is, and the fact that lame me is doing one set of a few things, and then wraps it up, to me, seems like a tremendous waste of time and effort.\u00a0 Like today, he did some dumbbell curls, walked on the treadmill for like five minutes, did some assisted pullups, and used the rower machine which is always a surprise because I was convinced for the longest time nobody but me used it in my building, which adds to his list of commonalities with me.<\/span><\/p>\n But when I hit the lockers after wrapping up my workout, he came in to start dressing out, which perplexed me considering how deep into my workout I was in when he even showed up in the first place.\u00a0 Lame me couldn\u2019t have spent more than like 20-25 minutes out on the floor, to which has me thinking, why even bother coming to the gym for such a short and inadequate workout?\u00a0 Could it even be called a workout?<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, lame me didn\u2019t even shower.\u00a0 I get that he had what could barely be construed as a workout, but he still went through some physical activity, and I know myself, it takes next to nothing in order for me to get a sweat broken, especially if I\u2019m mentally prepared to workout.\u00a0 And if I sweat, I want to shower, and the shower is almost as important and critical to the whole ritual of hitting the gym, to the point where if showering is not available, then the workout as a whole, can be in question on if it will even happen.<\/span><\/p>\n But lame me goes straight to the locker, and starts pulling out his clothes and gets right back into his office slave garb, content to be potentially sweaty and potentially stinky from exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n And this is where I notice his choice of sneakers, which are a two-tone navy and white Air Jordan 1\u2019s, the best shoes there are.\u00a0 Now I typically save my J\u2019s for special occasions, but I do rock my Pandas as my daily shoes, to which Dunks are basically J1 clones, so lame me also shares a similar aesthetic when it comes to sneakers, annoyingly adding to the correlations that make him, a lamer version of me.<\/span><\/p>\n So to summarize, man is Asian, goes to my gym, does a few similar exercises that I do, tries to wear his hair similarly to how I do, seems to like the same shoes that I do; but works out significantly less than me, doesn\u2019t shower, and based on his conversations in the locker room with company that I wouldn\u2019t keep, seems to kind of be an Uncle Tong right-leaning Republican.<\/span><\/p>\n In conclusion, a lamer version of myself.\u00a0 And to anyone who understands the gif above, I wouldn\u2019t really lose any sleep if a similar fate happened to my lamer version as what happens to Harold and Kumar\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inevitably when the new year begins, all gyms generally experience an influx of new goers, no matter how small a gym is, like my small but serviceable work gym.\u00a0 There\u2019s this one guy that I\u2019ve noticed being new to the gym in my building, primarily because he\u2019s Asian, and there are maybe like 3-4 of … Continue reading Check it out, the lamer version of me<\/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":[98,100,199,109,83],"class_list":["post-50415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-bathroom","tag-comparison","tag-exercise","tag-gym","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415","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=50415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50417,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions\/50417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}