January at the Gym
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Okay, I am bugged. You won’t hear me spew negativity too often, but I just hate what happens at the Health Club every January. It’s like the gym is taken over by Resolution Setters. They show up, take all the good parking spots, create lines at the check-in, fill up the lockers, and crowd my favorite classes. Then 6 weeks later, they disappear.
You can’t tell me you haven’t experienced the same pattern at your gym too. And I don’t blame the health club. They do a pretty good job accommodating the extra traffic. You can’t expect the club to make any major changes knowing most of the Resolution Setters will soon return to their sedentary ways.
I go to the gym consistently 3-4 days a week and I have been doing this for many years. I am always trying to convince people why they should join a health club. I love inspiring people to exercise. So I have to ask myself why this annual surge in gym attendance gets me so riled up. I think it’s because most of the new January gym goers turn out to be short timers.
I would like to use this blog as a challenge to the Resolution Setters. Prove us gym regulars wrong. Show us you can stick with it and maybe we’ll have more respect and tolerance for you from this day forward.
I promise to show up tomorrow with a big, welcoming smile. If you promise to stick to your resolution. What do you say?
Lori, I am thoroughly enjoying your blog and your posts! But this time, I don’t know, I think a bit more compassion might be in order. I think these people who bug you are deserving of respect just for being human, for trying to better themselves, whether they stick with their resolutions or not. We don’t know why they don’t follow through: maybe they set the bar too high for their capability and set themselves up to fail; maybe an injury sidelined them; maybe a child or parent or spouse got sick and needed attention or their job become too demanding…we have no way of knowing. New Year’s is a good time psychologically to start anew, but that doesn’t mean things that held us back before will change overnight…just a thought from someone who has made plenty a resolution and has experienced all of the above reasons for quitting at least once!
I am sure you are right. And I am so glad that you added this perspective. This entry may have come off a little harsher than I intended. I think maybe I just don’t have a lot of faith in resolutions and wish people would look at every day as a new day.
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Lori,
I promise (or resolve) that you will never see me at the gym and I will never take your locker. I exercise a bunch, but have a gym-aversion.
I also have to pick and choose my activities so the outdooor/indoor driving range is the place for me. If you’re ever in Ohio, stop by. There are always parking spots there. 🙂