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Is going to the gym for crazy people?

Posted - March 14, 2017

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  • Yes .... Yes it is . I used to go to a gym ... I'm sane now cos I hang myself in someone's great room 4 times a week.   #stephhang yessss:)
      March 14, 2017 9:08 PM MDT
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  • 2960
    Yes. Go be a farmer and get exercise the "natural" way.
      March 14, 2017 9:18 PM MDT
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  • I used to go running or walking every lunch time. On the way from the office I passed a gym where people ran or walked on treadmills. I was forced to run around the Sydney Harbour foreshore where I had to endure wind and sun and put up with the smell of salt water. I think I was the crazy one.
      March 14, 2017 9:38 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    It's for anyone who wishes to go.
      March 14, 2017 10:16 PM MDT
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  • Even crazy people?
      March 15, 2017 9:14 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    Sure.
      March 15, 2017 12:43 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    Too many new and strange diseases going around.  Sitting in someone else's sweat is not appealing to me.  Nor swimming in their dirt and pee.  Zumba is the only ok thing to do at a gym for me. Due to an injury, I am unable to do Zumba at all right now. 
      March 15, 2017 4:54 AM MDT
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  • 5835
    insanity - doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results

    exercise - doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results
      March 15, 2017 6:18 AM MDT
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  • BOYA!
      March 15, 2017 8:46 AM MDT
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  • 20
    No.    Depends on the gym i suppose.   I am an overweight middle aged woman who did feel uncomfortable at one of two local gyms but then Planet Fitness opened a gym in our town and its awesome!   Its a majority overweight normal people, very affordable and bright and cheerful.     That gym is for anyone.  I actually like going there.    
      March 15, 2017 8:12 AM MDT
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  • 20
    No.    Depends on the gym i suppose.   I am an overweight middle aged woman who did feel uncomfortable at one of two local gyms but then Planet Fitness opened a gym in our town and its awesome!   Its a majority overweight normal people, very affordable and bright and cheerful.     That gym is for anyone.  I actually like going there.    
      March 15, 2017 8:12 AM MDT
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  • But consider what people do at a gym.  One lifts heavy objects and sets them down. Then lifts them again.  Then sets them down.  Repeatedly! and for no compensation.  Then one gets on a treadmill runs and runs getting nowhere.  Isn't life already like this?  After this one complains about how sore one is.  And one pays to do these things!  Finally one is surrendering to specious, culturally imposed ideas about body size.
      March 15, 2017 8:56 AM MDT
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  • Yeah, all 24,000 of them at Rupp Arena to watch Kentucky play are crazy. :)

      March 15, 2017 8:38 AM MDT
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  • This reference eludes me.  But yes, crazy people tend to congregate.
      March 15, 2017 8:49 AM MDT
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  • It exhausted me to read this.
      March 15, 2017 9:16 AM MDT
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  • Good lord!  What makes you think I  own athletic wear?
      March 15, 2017 11:09 AM MDT
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  • Plus consider the disadvantages of the "great outdoors".  Mosquitos, gnats, dog piles,  rabid squirrels, tripping over a tree root. So, is the outdoors so "great"?
      March 15, 2017 11:27 AM MDT
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  • Sounds dangerous.  And just for you, did you know "gymnasium" means, "the naked place" in ancient Greek?
      March 15, 2017 11:41 AM MDT
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  • 7792
    Maybe for some of the people that compete professionally, but for the regular person, it's the best move you could ever make to look and feel better physically. The issue I have with gyms is that there are way too many people around me while I exercise. I'd rather do all of that at home. I'd have all the privacy I'd ever need, but that's just me.
      March 15, 2017 11:12 AM MDT
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  • Consider this.  One goes to the gym and picks up a heavy object then sets it down.  This is repeated till one is in pain.  This is done not only without compensation but one pays a gym fee to engage in this self abuse!  God's blood!  This is insanity!   Or one runs and runs on a tread mill.  Running and running going nowhere.  Most of us already do that 40 hours a week, but at least there is some compensation.
      March 15, 2017 11:39 AM MDT
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  • 7792
    Self-abuse? Only if you're juicing up. Change often involves a little pain, but what you gain is a body that's healthy than the one you had before a person that start his/her journey. Your mind also changes to be more confident. Although some people change into arseholes. This post was edited by Zack at March 15, 2017 12:10 PM MDT
      March 15, 2017 12:09 PM MDT
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  • No pain is no pain.
      March 15, 2017 1:35 PM MDT
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  • 11006
    Yes. Everyone I see at my gym is crazy except me.
      March 15, 2017 1:52 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i dont think so, i think theyre smart to go, im not smart cause i dont go
      March 15, 2017 6:00 PM MDT
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