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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
You are assuming that they are trying to lose weight.
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Yep. That's what this thread is all about.
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I see people who are overweight reading on a machine. I am assuming that they are trying to lose weight but who knows.
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I'm basing my remarks on comments I've heard overweight people say. I really have no other information source other than what I see as I walk past them and look in the windows. As you say, a lot of people just want to say 'I go to the gym and work out.' I have one acquaintance who is a member of a club called 'Riverside Health Club.' But God forbid anyone asks him if he's been to the 'health club.' His immediate reply is "You mean have I been to the gym? Yes, I go to the gym every other day." I guess the name 'health club' doesn't carry the same macho respect as 'gym.'
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I do have this internal conversation on a regular basis at the gym.
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If that helps you to achieve your goals, it's good.
I never go to the gym. I tried for several month while in Japan, but it was just too boring for me. Nice group of people there at the times I went, and I enjoyed the camaraderie, but after a few months it just got to be a drag shlepping there and back every other day, spending two hours making three circuits of the machines to work each muscle group. I do miss the comedy of watching several guys who would lift free weights for 5 minutes then flex in front of the mirror for the next 10. I didn't lose much weight during those several months but I did increase muscle tone. For the past two years I've used fast, long walks around town to lose weight, and ordinary calisthenics at home (100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 straight leg raises,) to rebuild muscle. Now that I've added Fencing exercises to the mix, arm and leg muscle mass is increasing, weight is staying down, and stamina is building up. Based on this past International Fencing competition's results, this combination works for me at age 67. As you say, I won't worry about how others do it.
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