As part of my ongoing series on how to do stuff, I will explain what you shouldn’t do at the small gym your apartment complex may have.
I had to work out in silence today because my iPod is down and I refuse to watch a tv while I’m lifting. Believe me, lifting weight in complete silence is a pretty tough thing to do. There is no rhythm to follow and the sound of your own grunting echoing off the walls is pretty discouraging. At the hour and a half mark of my two hour workout, something more disturbing than listening to my own sounds of pain happened. Some guy walked in, flipped on all of the lights (which I had off except one), turned the TV on, and cranked up the volume. That sounds bad enough I know, but the details of his actions make it worse. This guy turned on the TV and turned up the volume on what I think was a home shopping network, AND HE DIDN’T EVEN WATCH IT!!! He literally turned on this noise box and turned his back, it could have been on any channel and it wouldn’t have mattered to him. But wait, it gets worse. After he came in and totally ruined abs for me, he left. This guy literally did about 6 reps of some..thing, (I had never seen it) and hauled ass….LEAVING THE TV ON!!!! After faking a workout, this guy did not have the courtesy to turn off the massive distraction he caused or turn the lights off again.
So here it is, what not to do at the apartment complex gym:
Be a jackass and piss of the people already in there (your neighbors).
Honestly, why would you even go in there if you weren’t really going to do anything anyway. My only guess is that this guy is not used to dark quiet place and must have every inch of his universe loud and brightly lit. Asshole.
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