9/28/2023 0 Comments ResolutionersIf you hold up fitness icons as your ideal and refuse to accept anything less than perfection you’re likely going to be disappointed. If your sole goal for going to the gym is to lose weight and look better you’re in for a long haul. With God as my witness, I will stick it the man. The kind of people who hurt themselves trying to get their fingers around the body society tells them they need to have. People in spandex flexing in the mirrors. You know the people I’m talking about, the jock who used to be able to lift 400 pounds back in high school but hasn’t touched a weight set in twenty years and just dropped a huge amount of weight on his chest, or the people who are struggling with how to do exercise x, y, or z and failing miserably at all of them. January is rough, though, because my normally placid gym ( The JCC in Albuqerque) gets chock full of people for a few weeks. I also use the time to think about plot lines for books, solve complicated problems at work, and other such things. ![]() Punching, kicking, and lifting weights let me get my aggression out safely. ![]() I gave up on that whole lose weight look better crap a number of years ago when I realized I like food too much to ever look like a sculpted bronze god. ![]() Personally, I go to the gym because it keeps me sane. There are a short-ton of people who are experts already blogging about exercisingīut January is that magical part of the year when half the country decides – with a sweaty, wheezy cry – to get its collective ass to the gym to lose weight, look better, or any of the myriad reasons people have for suddenly deciding exercise is something they want to do.I’m not exactly the Bronze God I claim to be.I don’t usually blog about exercise for a few reasons:
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