So i joined a gym. It is going great and all. Within three sessions have lost 2 kilos. The instructors are plain sadists. They just push me from one exercise to the other and for an hour and a half i am exercising almost non stop. But then without any pain i wont be able burn off the layers of fat that i have gathered over the year.
What irritates me though are the posters at this gym. Actually what irritates me are posters in any gym in general. All one sees are posters of muscular guys and a few women flexing every concievable muscle in their body with a big toothy grin. Most of them have impossible bodies sculpted painstakingly by them over a period of many years. Barely 0.1% of the people who go to the gym will ever be able to shape out their body like that . Forget that even the darn instructors are not comparable to the posters. So why exactly do they have these posters around. What does it communicate? To me it says ,' Look here you weener , look at my body , dont salivate or hope. You aint never gonna get the body i have and hence my toothy mocking grin'.
And what the hell is going to the gym about. Presently if one observes the situation in India which has a sizable population of obese people the main motive of going to the gym is to lose weight and not to build up a body. True , there are the occasional bunch whjo go to a gym purely for building up their bodies. at least in the gym i go to i can safely claim that most of them come for weightloss. And what the gym is communicating is that we will make you muscular. Instead why has not any form of gym communication not concentrated on the main aspect of going to the gym. It is not about the body but about the mind. Exercising after a certain point is less about physical effort and more about mental strength. The strenght and the drive required to push oneself towards a certain goal is phenomenal. Very few people manage to do it. So i belive they should be communicating us this aspect. Telling us about how we need to push ourselves mentally. Also show realistic bodies and use indian models.
Another aspect about body building is that i do not consider it to be a sport. Though all the practioners claim about it being a sport but it surely aint. Standing on stage , flexing one's muscles and being judged by a portly politician looking for new recruits to his security team aint exactly a sport. Also by all accounts Body Building is a vain thing to do. In a gym, there are mirrors all over so that one can even watch every little twitch of one's ass in the mirror. totally vain i say. After a good work out one can see people flexing in front of the mirror and checking out their own muscles and maybe show it off to the accidental on looker at the gym.
What irritates me though are the posters at this gym. Actually what irritates me are posters in any gym in general. All one sees are posters of muscular guys and a few women flexing every concievable muscle in their body with a big toothy grin. Most of them have impossible bodies sculpted painstakingly by them over a period of many years. Barely 0.1% of the people who go to the gym will ever be able to shape out their body like that . Forget that even the darn instructors are not comparable to the posters. So why exactly do they have these posters around. What does it communicate? To me it says ,' Look here you weener , look at my body , dont salivate or hope. You aint never gonna get the body i have and hence my toothy mocking grin'.
And what the hell is going to the gym about. Presently if one observes the situation in India which has a sizable population of obese people the main motive of going to the gym is to lose weight and not to build up a body. True , there are the occasional bunch whjo go to a gym purely for building up their bodies. at least in the gym i go to i can safely claim that most of them come for weightloss. And what the gym is communicating is that we will make you muscular. Instead why has not any form of gym communication not concentrated on the main aspect of going to the gym. It is not about the body but about the mind. Exercising after a certain point is less about physical effort and more about mental strength. The strenght and the drive required to push oneself towards a certain goal is phenomenal. Very few people manage to do it. So i belive they should be communicating us this aspect. Telling us about how we need to push ourselves mentally. Also show realistic bodies and use indian models.
Another aspect about body building is that i do not consider it to be a sport. Though all the practioners claim about it being a sport but it surely aint. Standing on stage , flexing one's muscles and being judged by a portly politician looking for new recruits to his security team aint exactly a sport. Also by all accounts Body Building is a vain thing to do. In a gym, there are mirrors all over so that one can even watch every little twitch of one's ass in the mirror. totally vain i say. After a good work out one can see people flexing in front of the mirror and checking out their own muscles and maybe show it off to the accidental on looker at the gym.
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