Gonna make you sweat

It’s been advised that people should take some form of exercise, to keep the body in shape and it’s been proven to make you more happier. I do my bit of exercise when I can and my weekly routine would include this:

Monday: Gym in the morning and Tennis in the evening
Tuesday: Gym in the morning and Basketball in the evening (currently 3rd on the league ladder)
Wednesday: Gym in the morning
Friday: Gym in the morning and Indoor Cricket in the evening
Saturday: Pickup basketball during midday

Looking at that you would think of me as some health freak, but to tell you the truth, I’ve only just started going to the gym, Cricket and Tennis I just picked up and basketball I’ve loved since going to college. If I didn’t do all those things then I would find myself just wasting away in front of the PC or TV and my body shape would dramatically change. Thinking of that just gives me the shivers and I don’t want to find myself looking like this in 5 years time or so:

Source : UCL News

Now about the gym, I decided to take this up since I want to get have more strength and stamina for the sports I play, and burn off the fat that has been creeping up on me for some time. I agreed to go with a friend of mine from work, and this way, we would both motivate each other and not slack off.

It’s a bit of a daunting task when it’s your first time going to the gym. You become so amazingly body conscious and not feel so comfortable working out in front of the gym buffs. My main fear was how the regular gym goers would look down at me and how they would laugh at the weights I would attempt to do. Once I got into the routine of things, I hardly thought of anyone but just myself and focused on the task at hand. Today, though, was a day I got to workout next to a guy who we nicknamed “Dolph Lungdren”. Now Dolph has an uncanny resemblance to the movie star and is just as built as the real Dolph. Problem is though the minute he was pumping weights, a funky smell started oozing out from his body. My friend had to pretty much walk away since it just got too out of control. The way I would describe the smell is like an ingredients list:

3 parts stinky sweat
1 part old dirty clothes smell
2 part of that smell you get after doing a shit
1 part laundry powder

Quite an amazing list isn’t it? Did I tell you my sense of smell is really good along with my other senses? That’s how I was able to compile such a list. Well luckily for us, our workout was over and it was time to hit the showers then head to work. Speaking of showers, I noticed that there’s quite a difference in the mens change room in Australia and the United States. Like if you take for example, in our change room the bathrooms are walled off and have lockable doors. You also get changed in the showers and you’re done. Whilst in the United States, it’s like a sausage fest and men are just all around walking butt naked. I remembered one time while getting ready to go to the showers, one guy just randomly comes up to me and starts talking to me. I don’t have a problem with that at all but the thing is, I was sitting down on a stool while the dude was butt naked and I was confronted by his one eyed snake. All I could do was just stare down at the floor and talk.

I wasn’t even comfortable with the idea of walking around naked until I got to the showers. I guess it’s the US, it’s just a habit seeing as everyone could walk around freely and not have a care in the world. Could you even walk around naked if you were in a change room of that environment?

Not if you’re Dolph Lungdren…