|I spend about two hours of my life six days a week at Fit for Life in Cranford, NJ1, and so far, the results have been amazing. I’m up about 25 pounds in muscle mass since December2, and I’m looking to bulk up another 10 pounds in the next few months.
As much as I love working out, the gym, and all the things involved, there’s a few things I’ve noticed in my brief experience that I find utterly ridiculous and things I find absolutely fascinating.
A fair number of guys use steroids
If you regularly attend a gym, and no homo of course, but you probably spend a good amount of time taking a gander at other men working out, you might become a little insecure with your physique, especially with a couple of the guys sporting WWE-esque muscle mass.
I had the chance to speak to one of these testosterone-filled pieces of meat and, while not admitting to currently doing them, noted that he did once do steroids for a few months to speed up the muscle-growth process. He also told me that he knows a group of guys in the gym who have done/are doing steroids and that there’s no way they would have gotten as big as they are without them.
It’s a bit disheartening to go to the gym for months, see some improvement and then look over at the guy next to you with 20-inch biceps and wonder what you’re doing wrong or what he’s doing right. It’s insecurity at its finest.
Alas, Tommy Juicehead is likely to suffer from some of the many adverse effects of anabolic steroid usage. So, don’t feel too in awe of a guy who likely has issues with getting it up due to his love of artificial testosterone.
Walking on the treadmill doesn’t do shit
This is mostly directed at women, since they are the prime offenders of this law of logic.
I think it’s a waste of money when people sign up for a gym membership to walk on the treadmill; spend the $350 a year and buy a treadmill or just go outside and walk. If you’re going to waste your time with walking, might as well not waste money.
Walking doesn’t do much of shit, unless you’re like 1/2 of Americans and suffer from being both overweight and lazy. Walking is great exercise for old folk but for anyone under the age of 50, walking a 1/4 mile on a treadmill 3 days a week isn’t going to change anything.
If you’re a woman at the gym, we will look at you
Outside of a non co-ed prison, the gym probably has the largest disparity between men and women who attend on a regular basis. To prove this, while at the gym today, I counted the number of men and women in attendance and the ratio was 11 men for every 1 woman. The gym is basically a huge sausage party.
So, if I see you doing glute exercises, I’m going to look at you, for at least a second. You might be only 3-stars in looks, but you’re the only woman I see, so my instincts are going to kick in.
I’m here to get muscles, not make friends
I take my workouts very seriously. I come in, I work out, I shower, I leave. I don’t have time to make any BFFs, especially with a bunch of tools who look like human celery when they work out3.
Some of the guys at the gym are kind of cool, but even those guys are spooks. I know 2 or 3 guys who are very popular at the gym and are all nice fellows, but even those dudes are a bit bland once you get to know them a bit.
Meeting a spotter or two is never a bad idea, but I think trying to make friends at the gym is all types of wrong; either you meet someone who will fuck up your workouts with nonsensical conversation or you meet someone you have to introduce to others as “this guy I met at the gym”.
Yeah. Exactly.
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1 Catherine Burke // Jun 1, 2009 at 9:53 am
Beyond the adverse effects of anabolic steroids – those guys really aren’t all that hot. They look like roided-up freaks. I’ll take the lean, toned, normal guy any day.
And any woman who goes to the gym and expects men not to look at her really shouldn’t be working out in public. It’s not like a girl can’t get all the benefits of a gym in her own livingroom. Unless you consider men checking you out a benefit. As some of us do.
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