Pencil Shavings

Monday, July 04, 2005

California Fitness

Did you know that California Fitness has more female members than male? Surprising isn't it? When I go to the YCK gym, it is almost 90% male. One of the reasons suggested for this discrepancy is that a lot of women at California Fitness join for the classes: pilates, yoga, kick-boxing, etc., rather than for the weights. California Fitness is a veritable hothouse of fitness activity. All kinds of gleaming contorted bodies on specialised equipment; running, stepping, stretching, straining... The atomsphere borders on the fanatic -- nothing at all with what I associate with running. But the up side of the gym is that it provides wonderful clean towels, the kind where you want to burrow your face in over and over again, not to mention the soap, shampoo, conditioner and hairdryer. It makes exercising very convenient.

4 comments:

Mostly Another Gaudy Grouch In Exile said...
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Mostly Another Gaudy Grouch In Exile said...

Only goes to show that women's money is the easiest to earn. Gyms like yck offer membership at 1/6 of california fitness' price. Men, if not lazy, are stingy/thrifty. .

Anonymous said...

If life is a pencil and every hour represents some shaving, how short this thing we call being alive is, n'est pas? So why waste it with all these musings? Just get out and live, my pensive Pencil.

mis_nomer said...

Sembler Fatigué - I didn't know YCK offered a membership? Men are also less interested in pilates.

Anonymous - Ah.. but better to sprinkle the shavings here than to bury it unsaid, unspoken, unfelt?