Shall we start with the loud grunting? how about skin tight clothing? Oh I know the buckets of sweat pouring down? How tired you end up feeling afterward? The hard breathing and ultimately crappy feeling you get when you're done! no no no i'm not talking about sex people...I'm talking about a gym.
There is so much material to write about at gyms that I really don't know where to start. So I've found myself going to the gym a lot more...probably because I've had trouble sleeping at night...so since I'm up anyways...I might as well go work out.
Psych!sense question. When you go to the gym do you focus more on yourself...or more on others?
Everyone has this funeral look on their face...seriously...all tense and held in the strongest bearing...it's sad.
In fact if we take a quick impromptu survey...I wonder if the women who go to gyms look at themselves more or the other women? I also wonder the same with men. If anyone want to coin in on that one hit the "philosophize" button and let me know your sex and which you look at more (yourself or others)...anyways...
I feel as if many of them, feel as I do. "I'm not strong enough...I don't look 'good' enough...I don't lift as much as s/he does...I can't grunt that loud..."
Whereas others may feel as if the gym is "me" time. It is time to focus on yourself and shut out the world for the next hour or so.
People will just stare into the mirrors holding their own eye sight and staring, oggling, or cursing their body. The range of emotions from anger, disappointment and frustration to the personal experience of success and triumph.
PSYCH!SENSE says, the most dominant form of biological information gathering is visual processing. If we see it, we then are more likely to believe it. The difficulty with this is that many of us go to the gym...do some leg or arm exercises and psychologically want to see the difference as soon as we're done. Even though we know it doesn't work like that...a part of us expects to see it.
We may even convince ourselves that there is a difference in that second...yet when we see someone that is just the bit more slender, toned, cut, blah blah blah...we suddenly feel not good enough again. sigh. I know I've been subject to this. Despite some of my readers not agreeing with me...you have had your moments as well ;)
What's interesting is that what has helped me continue going was not the drive for the perfect body...but instead just smiling at myself. Yes yes yes...weird! I know! but what I have been doing is simply looking in the mirror and smiling at my image.
What effect does this have? Like I said, visual cortex is the most dominant form of information gaterhing...my smiling in the mirror as my checks are red, my gut falling out of my speedo workout thong, and sweat dripping off my unmentionables just makes me laugh. I smile and suddenly realize that all is okay. My smiling at myself tells me to relax and be happy...life is too good and too short to let it bring you down.
So smile my good readers...smile, live long and prosper (was that just a star trek references...sigh...totally nerding out).
i like to zone out at the gym
ReplyDelete- i watch tv while i do my cardio to entertain myself (or according to my Shorty, I get on the machine in the back so i stare at everyone's backsides)
- and when i hit the weights i like to entertain myself by people watching... " come on lady, put some clothes on... alright dude, i fi was ripped like that i'd probably wear a thong shirt as well... come one dude, those shorts are waay too small... come on lady, get a sports bra..."
- then as i'm getting tired, listening to the latest song from Selena Gomez and the Scene, i stare at myself intently, fix my fair in funny ways and think "i should have shaved today, but damn this 3 day stubble makes me look sexy... but still not as sexy as Psych... next set"
First off juanton's comment is pretty hilarious!
ReplyDeleteSecond when I go to the gym and I'm starting on some good cardio I tend to kinda get in the zone since I prefer listening to music that'll pump me up. One I'm dying for the time to end on the machine I tend to look around and entertain myself to help pass the time. Depending on the woman and the age of the woman do I then tend to get self-conscious. You must remember women are really catty and unfortunately in order to feel better about themselves they tend to talk bad about other women around them. The gym is a really easy place to get catty because that's when we're sweaty, stinky, and usually not wearing make up so we tend to feel really insecure and start comparing ourselves to others. I may have lost my train of thought but I think I got my point across?