Unit Two Blog Assignment

Shapes, Shaping, Sculptured, or Just Relaxing

An athletic club is a community full of assorted people. Each individual is there for different or like reasons, but all everyone is part of the community of looking better and feeling better. Working out is normally a singular event, yet you could do aerobics or something like. Going to the gym is not easy or convenient, yet the same people manage to find their way to the front doors on a regular basis. All these people are from different backgrounds to include gender, culture, religion, or economic status, but all have a common thread. All will be groaning, sweating, or may even hurt themselves in an effort to be healthier and look better.

Their goals are very independent in a way only known to them. Some are there to drop inches or maybe some weight. Others are there to become healthier then when they arrived. This is also a place to find a new friend or date for the younger crowd but this would be the anomaly. Many stand next to the machines more then they use them in an effort to capture the gaze of another. Some of the people may be there to walk slowly on a treadmill at their doctor’s order in an effort to increase their lifespan, while others have illusions of transforming their bodies into gods or goddesses.

All these people use many of the same machines to lift weights, walk, or run to increase their heart rate regardless of their size and shape. Some are skinny and some are overweight, while others are already a part of the beautiful group. That does not stop them all from being in the same gym area to complete their individual goals and aspirations. Two strangers may be side by side on the tread mill and never communicate other then to glance once in awhile in acknowledgment of their presence. The younger man might even offer to spot the old guy who wants to increase his bench press to remind him of once was in his younger days.

Where do I fit? My wife and I both go to the gym to increase our chances of living longer, looking better, and more important; to spend time with each other. I no longer push the heavy weights which once made people turn their heads once in an awhile, but still enjoy lifting the assorted weights and seeing muscles stress under the pressure. I have no illusions of having a sculpture body or breaking any weight lifting records. My wife and I always feel better both in mind and spirit when we finish working out. My beautiful wife walks or jogs on the treadmill with goals of losing inches or weight. She feels good about the inches she has lost, but she will always be the most beautiful woman in my eyes…regardless.