Lowering the BPM....

[thoreau]

Boxing while on the elliptical seems to be a new trend - it was reported by dendren this morning on his journal - and the last few workouts to the gym - there is this guy with his iPod on - in a tech-music trance punching into the air like (as Dendren so aftly described) a kitten after a roll of yarn. and you could hear the vocal cue on his iPod track - and PUNCH - and he'd swat out in front of himself accompanied by a "I'm the butchest thing on the entire planet" grunt.

Whether he realized it or not - he was fodder for much amusement as the five or six people around him - could hear the musical crescendos - and the next awesome, masculine scream on the recording of the word - "PUNCH!". LOL!

It seems almost too multfunctional to me - I mean you are already on the elliptical and listening to your iPod - adding punching and choreography seems to me like a recipe for falling on your ass and eating some elliptical machinery on your way down. "OH there goes Jose - down again... he needs to lower the bpm...."

Now I have to admit - that I download an elliptical workout track on my iPod as well. (Link to Podrunner Cardio Tracks) But I try not to have vocal interactions or "sing along" if a favorite song cues up.

Less I become that character on someone's else's blog "omg - that muffinguy was at the gym again singing "Clang Clang Clang Went the Trolley" while on the elliptical; somewhere needs to get her off the trolley and onto the Clue Bus!?"

I guess we all need that 'something' that keeps us on the elliptical - I know I'm constantly changing stuff up so I don't get bored at the gym. How do the rest of ya'll feel about iPod useage at the gym - is someone humming to "bootylicious" while you are trying to concentrate on a lift? Do you find it makes the gym less social?

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[excessor.livejournal.com]

Less I become that character on someone's else's blog "omg - that muffinguy was at the gym again singing "Clang Clang Clang Went the Trolley" while on the elliptical; somewhere needs to get her off the trolley and onto the Clue Bus!?

First of all, there is nothing wrong with that song. If you happen to be able to choreograph it while on the elliptical, so much the better.

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There's one guy at our gym who uses earphones to hear his music but then talks to himself in a much louder voice. His self-talk is quite illuminating: Huh! Yeah! C'mon boy, you can do it! Yeah!

It's quite the joke among many people there.

The ones who use the earphones while working out (vs at cardio) just seem antisocial to me.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

you know that "our" gym - is my gym too. You don't live in the burbs no more dorothy!

[excessor.livejournal.com]

During the week I go to the Mountain View Gold's. Only on weekends am I at Brannan St Gold's. I'm bigymnal.

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

Just curious - did they give you a deal or do you have to pay a supplement per visit at one of the two? I was disappointed to learn there wasn't a package that included MV and the SM-SF gyms.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

I pay for my membership at Mountain View. Your home gym will issue a travel pass, which is good at any Gold's. Some franchises limit the number of times you can use a travel pass (Palm Springs tracks these things) but I have no problem in SF with it.

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

Ack. I was told that my San Mateo membership (I pay the extra couple bucks a month to be able to use SF) would not work in MV and that I would have to pay a fee (like a couple of bucks or something) per visit to go to MV, which is why I never go even though it's two blocks from my office.

It must have something to do with your winning personality and the fact that, unlike you, I don't look like I know how to properly operate gym equipment.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

The McCall group and the people who run SF/San Mateo Golds have mutually agreed to charge members of the other group $3. More often than not you don't have to pay it; depends on the staffer's mood. Paul usually gets in for free at Brannan because the cute guy working desk weekends likes him.

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute - Mountain View? That's the one just off Shoreline?

That's one of my 'second gyms' (whenever I am working down at Ames).

Maybe I'll see you there sometime. If I recognize you - We haven't met often enough for me to feel sure that I could pick you out of a crowd.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

I don't think we've ever actually met, so I don't know that I would know you, either.

But yes, the one off Shoreline is the one I go to during the week. I typically go between 5 and 7, give or take a half hour in either direction. Although today I was there 11 to 1 and tomorrow I'll do the same.

If you see me or think it's me, just say Hi Paul. You'll know it's me because I'll likely be wearing a tank top and I have hairy shoulders. And a beard. The combo is rare at that gym...