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The gym is always a good source for blog material whether it is me complaining about another 300 workout, bitching about the rundown condition of the place or just commenting on the people there.  Today I am 2 for 3.

Before I left for the gym I couldn’t find my Timex I have been using to time the workout.  Once I got started I was very glad I didn’t bring it.  My ass was dragging.  I dropped off 10 reps or so, the most significant of which was a -9 on the floor wipers.  Yesterday at the gym I did hard abs and as a result they were sore before I even got started.  By the time I got to 35 I felt like I could tear something so I stopped. 

I was getting both annoyed and amused by a black guy that was back in my little room.  He is in good shape and from what I have heard from other people at the gym he used to be a pseudo serious body builder type.  I don’t quite understand how though.  His intensity level seems to be shit.  He lallygags around the gym doing much more resting than exercising.  He was sitting on the one ab machine observing me busting my ass for most of my routine.  I found it annoying.

However I had to smile when after I was done with my workout and was cleaning up my equipment, the guy was on the roman chair doing leg lifts.  The funny part was he had the bottom of his shirt in his mouth so he could watch his abs while he was doing the exercise.  It just looked ridiculously vain.