![]() ![]() Just as I was finishing up my 19th and 20th rep, one of the trainers came behind me and corrected me on my form telling me to pull my shoulders back. Towards the end of my set of 20 hanging leg raises, my shoulders started to slouch a bit forward since I was tired and my arms were shaking. This past Thursday I went into work early like usual to complete a Chest, Back, and Abs workout. I love going into the gym early in the morning because there’s usually hardly anyone else there and I have my pick of the machines/weights for the most part, which is usually unheard of with all of the New Year’s Resolutioners in the gym during January and February. Recently, I’ve been heading into work an hour or so before I’m scheduled to start in order to get in a workout (I shower there before I get going on my work day). ![]() The best perk of working at a gym would have to be that I get to use the facilities for free! Gyms in San Diego can be crazy expensive, so that is totally awesome. Not as an instructor or anything, but I do marketing and social media stuff for them. Posted on DecemMaCategories Uncategorized 4 Comments on Don’t be a hypocrite.If you’ve read my blog before, then you probably know that I work at a gym. It’s one of the easiest ways to save a life. Become a battle buddy for someone who’s trying to turn it around. ![]() Instead, offer to take that fledgling fitness fanatic under your wing. Don’t be the cheerleader who can’t wait for everyone to fail in their goals and clear space on “your” favorite machine. Don’t become part of the shit talkers standing around armed with a protein shaker bottle and a judgemental eye. So to my friends committed to fitness, I have a challenge for you this year. Far too often, the gyms in America are a throwback to high school era shenanigans where the “jocks” make fun of the people in honors classes.Īnd so, in a country facing an obesity epidemic of epic proportions, people avoid the gym because they don’t want to wind up the next viral youtube video or meme simply because they tried to put their health as a priority. These people who are deemed lazy are frequently extremely hard working and more “successful” in life than the “bro” talking shit about them at the gym. We judge them harshly, ignoring the fact that many who are overweight hold important and stressful positions. We have a horrible problem in our society of assuming that overweight people are lazy. Here’s the reality regarding why most people don’t start a gym program–it’s not because they are lazy–it’s because they are scared. How quickly we forget from whence we came. As if they weren’t beginners once themselves. They can’t wait to sit back and make someone who was already scared to come in the first place to be the butt of their jokes in a private chat group (at best) or on World Star HipHop (at worst). These are the same folks who spent the last year making fun of people who don’t work out who now feel compelled to make fun of them for coming in and working out. Sadly, more often than not, they are greeted with quite a bit of hypocrisy from the self-proclaimed “gym lords” who are now upset they have to share the equipment. We are just a few short days away from the annual pilgrimage of New Year’s resolutioners heading to your local gym.
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