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Gym memories
Jan. 16th, 2024 10:20 amFrom my Facebook memories: "Today's surreal life experience: chatting with a professional wrestler while lifting weights. He was really nice."
That was my first gym. I was on the point of joining Planet Fitness when I saw a flyer for a more convenient gym that was matching the PF pricing, and dropped in for a tour. It was clearly a jock gym, but with quite a few seniors on the cardio machines. Silver Sneakers had just been added to Medicare, and the gym had told all their regulars that 'the seniors are helping pay your bills so you WILL treat them well, right?"
It was also associated with professional wrestling, so when the tour came to town, the wrestlers worked out there. The day of that memory, one of them got frustrated with the crowds in the free weight area, so was working out in the weight machines-- too "wimpy" for most of the jocks. He saw that I was watching for my turn on the machine he was using, and wiped it down and adjusted it so I could alternate between his sets. He was good company!
That was my first gym. I was on the point of joining Planet Fitness when I saw a flyer for a more convenient gym that was matching the PF pricing, and dropped in for a tour. It was clearly a jock gym, but with quite a few seniors on the cardio machines. Silver Sneakers had just been added to Medicare, and the gym had told all their regulars that 'the seniors are helping pay your bills so you WILL treat them well, right?"
It was also associated with professional wrestling, so when the tour came to town, the wrestlers worked out there. The day of that memory, one of them got frustrated with the crowds in the free weight area, so was working out in the weight machines-- too "wimpy" for most of the jocks. He saw that I was watching for my turn on the machine he was using, and wiped it down and adjusted it so I could alternate between his sets. He was good company!
