I love working out at home now, but when I lived in Florida I was a member at this awesome gym! I would go there after work and work out for two or three hours and never get bored. Everybody knew everybody else, and everyone worked in with everybody because they had to share equipment. And, after working out, a big group of us would go down the street and have a big meal. I've never felt like such a part of something like I did there! It was as if just because you worked out there, you were automatically "all right" and people considered you their friend. It was like a social event where everybody lifted weights and did power aerobics. So, it's all about the atmosphere at the gym. That's what makes it a place where people will want to go to work out. If people enjoy themselves, they'll continue to go.
Since moving back to Indiana from Florida several years ago, though, I haven't found a gym yet that even comes close to what I found in Florida. Most people at the gyms around here just seem to be 1) Snotty, stuck-up prissies who think they are the best thing since sliced bread, 2) Muscle-head jocks who think
they are the best thing since sliced bread, or 3) Overly made-up girls not even remotely interested in working out and only interested in being looked at (God forbid they break a sweat and lose their perfectly-styled hair). Nope. That's not for me. I'll stay at home rather than get my eyes stuck in the back of my head from rolling them so much at all the lame people at the gyms around here!! (I live in an area where it's all about the size of your bank account and what kind of car you drive that makes you an important person -- and that's apparent at the local Bally Fitness Center and Gold's Gym. ACK! YUCK!)
I wish I could have brought that Florida gym to Indiana with me!
And my apartment (I loved my apartment down there)!
I'll come down off my soapbox now. :7
