Keeping Fit - Soho Style
Well I joined the gym (Fitness Last or some such they are called) and have been attempting to get back into some kind of exercise routine.
The problem I've found though is this is not the kind of gym I'm used to. Where I'm from...
men are men and sheep are scared!
No that's Wales I believe. Joke - Wales is lovely place and well worth a visit.
Sorry bad jokes - no I meant to say the gyms I'm used to are either located in an old [dark satanic style] mill or some dimly lit, windowless industrial unit. They tend to have a large number of free weights, a few weights machines and couple of odd rowing / cycling / cross-trainer / running machines.
They predominantly tend to be filled with over muscular guys who seem to spend alot of time in awe of their own image - oiling themselves and flexing their muscles in front of the mirrors in a kind of solo-sexual manner, wandering around part dressed in a kind of closet homo-erotic manner.
Soho is well... different.
There are still those types there but there seems to be much more in the way of fully camp guys as well. This is strange as I would never imagine the two groups sitting well together. Also there seems to be far less in the way of free-weights but both these types seem to congrigate around them, which is not a problem.
What really pisses me off though is that there's only 3 weights benches and you inevitably get some t**t doing a set of weights exercises then bloody sitting on it for 10 minutes, looking at either himself or the other occupants, twiddling his thumbs before doing another set and then repeating ad-infinitum... arrrrgggh!!!
My attitude to gyms is somewhat more "fast and furious" but not in a solo-sexual, self-image adoring Vin Diesel, muscle mary kind of way. I want to get in, get done and get out as fast as possible. I'm not their to socialise, because I like the strip lighting, wanting to read the celebrity mags or sit around looking buff. I like to circuit train - do a set of arm exercises, do a set of leg ones, repeat again, etc. then go and do some cardio stuff - with no break in between.
I guess I'm ranting, maybe I should find another one, less occupied or go at completely unsociable hours but this is London - it's packed everywhere!!!
The problem I've found though is this is not the kind of gym I'm used to. Where I'm from...
men are men and sheep are scared!
No that's Wales I believe. Joke - Wales is lovely place and well worth a visit.
Sorry bad jokes - no I meant to say the gyms I'm used to are either located in an old [dark satanic style] mill or some dimly lit, windowless industrial unit. They tend to have a large number of free weights, a few weights machines and couple of odd rowing / cycling / cross-trainer / running machines.
They predominantly tend to be filled with over muscular guys who seem to spend alot of time in awe of their own image - oiling themselves and flexing their muscles in front of the mirrors in a kind of solo-sexual manner, wandering around part dressed in a kind of closet homo-erotic manner.
Soho is well... different.
There are still those types there but there seems to be much more in the way of fully camp guys as well. This is strange as I would never imagine the two groups sitting well together. Also there seems to be far less in the way of free-weights but both these types seem to congrigate around them, which is not a problem.
What really pisses me off though is that there's only 3 weights benches and you inevitably get some t**t doing a set of weights exercises then bloody sitting on it for 10 minutes, looking at either himself or the other occupants, twiddling his thumbs before doing another set and then repeating ad-infinitum... arrrrgggh!!!
My attitude to gyms is somewhat more "fast and furious" but not in a solo-sexual, self-image adoring Vin Diesel, muscle mary kind of way. I want to get in, get done and get out as fast as possible. I'm not their to socialise, because I like the strip lighting, wanting to read the celebrity mags or sit around looking buff. I like to circuit train - do a set of arm exercises, do a set of leg ones, repeat again, etc. then go and do some cardio stuff - with no break in between.
I guess I'm ranting, maybe I should find another one, less occupied or go at completely unsociable hours but this is London - it's packed everywhere!!!
posted by Northun Munki in Oxford Circus at 10:17 AM
2 Comments:
I "joined" a Gym also. The same chain as you. I've been once. It was packed and I couldn't go on any fucking machine. I now get off the bus 2 stops early and walk. I might even walk fast in the park soon, if I'm feeling game.
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