Showing posts with label effort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label effort. Show all posts

2.27.2012

The Motions

I go to the gym three or four times a week and I see all kinds of people in there. Most are actively engaging in trying to improve their health through exercise. Some are merely going through the motions of doing it, probably on doctor's orders or spousal demands or something.

The other night I was getting started with a warm up row as I usually do (rowing engages nearly all of your body and is an excellent way to get your body primed for more). A minute or so into my row, a woman sits down at the rowing machine next to me. I think nothing of it and keep rowing my row. When I do happen to look up and glance over, I notice she's barely rowing and the display on the machine isn't even on.

Of course this piques my curiosity and I now start to surreptiously observe her. She half-assed her way through a few minutes of rowing then switched to a bike nearby and half-assed her way through some very un-engaged pedaling, again without bothering to turn on the display (the bikes at my gym require you to pedal before the display comes up). Now, I'll grant you, perhaps she was having a down day and just wasn't feeling it and just wanted to grind out a little something and then go home.