First Week at the Gym

Due to the previous efforts of toning my body went in vain, I decided to give another shot at it with a different approach. Joined gym with my friend Maninder this week. Having a contrasting body type ( he's all bones ) , we set on different schedules with different meal program. The motto of his program is, EAT ! thats it. Eat every damn thing he wants to. Well, ehh things turn 180 in my case, its all Salads, fruits, black coffee ( w/o sugar ) and egg white. But am actually enjoying my diet scheme and following it regularly.

Gym as such is not a new place but yeah, I never continued it for more than a month everytime I joined . Every time you go to a gym, there are actually some stereotyped set of people which you will come across in every gym on this planet.

Starting with, the instructor..

Instructor is mostly a short, muscular ( duh .. ! ) guy who just impresses you the very first day with his cloaked concern , and after that, he'll hardly give you time. Broken english, short hair and eye popping biceps is what the gym instructor all about.

Then come the guys with already bulging out biceps. These bulky bears lift 20 kg wt.'s like pen and walk as if they have plank fitted between their elbows and side abdomen. Watching them I always wonder , how they'll get married ?

Some clean lean muscular guys are the real dudes of the place. They work out, keep a watch on the girls on their radar and spend lot of time in front of the mirror admiring themselves. 

In between somewhere , people like me ( the newbies ) come. Who have to devote more time in the cardio section (which is supposedly the best place to be ;-) ) than in the real place. The first week seems odd in which people look at you with a big ques mark on their faces -" Who is he ? Seems to be a new guy. " You tend to be 'come and go' guy who never existed in the first few days. But as the days go by, the newbies are well settled and ready to give the same ' ? ' look to the new ones. 

Then, there are the fat ones who just look so exhausted as if they have been building the pyramids. Poor ones are made to run a lot and sweat a lot. With their presence, normal ones like us are squeezed in the middle of no where, which somehow don't let us fall off the inferiority complex bar set by the bull dozers and the lean machines.

Ok, ya am coming to "them" guys.  !!

Girls, well keep all the style fledged to perfection no matter what their weighing machines say, even the chubby bubbly one's will bowl you over with the brimming attitude. 

So what should we say about the toned one's ??

All the eyes of the gym are fixed on them, trying to sneak a view of the ongoing events, which might even involve 3-4 times reflected image from the mirrors all around. And when you caught eavesdropping, you tend to look tough with extra expressions on you face for the effort you putting in your work out [ I haven't been caught though ;-) ]. 

And ya, the gym also contains a very secluded place for a private time with urself. Any guesses ?? The weighing machine !! Every person stands on the machine I tell you, but whenever you walk by it, you'll find it empty :-). Weight is more or less like age, as the figure rises, the shyness to reveal the same rises as well.