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?

Comments

[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.