Are Gyms Places of Temptation or Occasion of Sin

[jrabs]

I belong to a very utilitarian gym - no juice bar, no pick up scene. I have never seen anyone at my gym that is a temptation. Course I am way to busy with my painful workout to notice my weightlifting neighbor.

Plus smelly and sweaty people are not a turn on.

 

[Phemie]

You mean all that spandex and all?

I’ll tell you frankly that the only effect the younger women have on me is that if we get on the treadmills at the same time, I’ll be darned if I’m going to get off before they do! I can run just as long as they can, even if they are 20 years younger than me.

Yeah, in my mind.

When I went the gym there used to be a man in his 60s exercising and I, a woman of 30 at the time, refused to call it a day until he did. I have to credit him for keeping me in shape.

 

[Phemie]

I voted no.

How can a smelly pit of Hades, designed for physical torment, be any sort of temptation unless you’re tempted to run home, shower, and nap?

Now THAT’S my kind of gym. Not for me the pounding rhythms of places like CURVES. Give me a weight room and no music and I’m happy.

 

[Joannm]

Now THAT’S my kind of gym. Not for me the pounding rhythms of places like CURVES. Give me a weight room and no music and I’m happy.

I usually wear my IPod at the gym. I have specific music that I work out to/ When I am on the treadmill you hook it into a port so you can hear the sound on the TV. I watch the cooking shows while I am on the treadmill. Somehow that doesn’t seem right…

 

[Phemie]

I usually wear my IPod at the gym. I have specific music that I work out to/ When I am on the treadmill you hook it into a port so you can hear the sound on the TV. I watch the cooking shows while I am on the treadmill. Somehow that doesn’t seem right…

I can’t stand ear buds and my head set is not conducive to exercising so no music for me.

As for watching TV, I always wished I could hook up my TV to the exercise bike and use the bike as a generator. That would be motivation to exercise.

 

[PaulinVA]

I can’t stand ear buds and my head set is not conducive to exercising so no music for me.

As for watching TV, I always wished I could hook up my TV to the exercise bike and use the bike as a generator. That would be motivation to exercise.

The ear buds that come with iPods are hard plastic and hurt. Have you tried these? They go in your ear and have a silicone earpiece.

Amazon Sennhieser earbuds

 

[Enoch]

It seems like every time I go to the “Y” the there is a bicycling class going on right next to me cranking up the cheesy 80’s tunes. If hearing “Karma Chameleon” cranked up to 100 decibels at 6:00am isn’t a temptation killer, I don’t know what is.