Sights and Sounds from the Gym

Last week as I was working out in the gym with my headset on and not looking at anyone, a man stopped by my machine and kindly told me that if I continued using the machine the way I was I was going to blow out my knees. He then proceeded to show me how to use that machine and many other machines giving me helpful hints on all the other machines as well. He told me that I should only work all legs or arms or shoulders or my back not a mixture of them. Then when I got ready to go up and do cardio, he told me that I needed to make sure that when I was on the treadmill, I needed to make sure the elevation was at 15. Oh my!!! There was no way that I could do that...I only ever went as high as 7. He also told me that he had weighed 253 and now he was 23o something. Ummm, he only had lost 20 pounds and he's giving me advice...oh wow! By the end he had added at least 15 min. to my workout that I started late and given me some useless advice.


In the locker room at a gym, you should make sure all your goodies are covered at all times. There should be no hanging out in nothing or blow drying your hair in socks alone. Yet today as I walked into the locker there was a chick in tennis shoes and black socks and nothing else! She was toweling off, so I thought maybe then she would put on clothes, but oh no! She grabbed her bag and went to the sinks, where she proceeded to blow dry her hair, naked! I walked over to the sinks and brushed my teeth, but couldn't stop thinking that she needed to put on clothes. When her hair was dry, she brought her bag back to my section and then FINALLY got dressed. On went the bra, on went the shirt, on went the skirt. Then she walked out. Ummm.....no underwear! What!?!?! Oh my what a crazy lady! I kept wanting to say something to the ladies in the locker room, whom I've been changing with for over a year now, but I worried that the crazy lady would over hear me....oh just wait till tomorrow.