So recently I have started going to the gym and I'm trying to get in a regular routine so that it just becomes part of my life. I am a very ritualistic person and so once a habit sets in and is part of my schedule, it will be very easy to keep up.
I am starting out with 3 days a week - MWF or MTTh. Then I will move it up to 4 or 5 days a week. So far, so good.....but I have found a few things to be pet peeves at the gym and I need to vent. (Thanks for indulging me......)
1. When I started going a few times in the evening, they just asked for my membership card and scanned the barcode. Great. Then I started going in the mornings and all of a sudden it was like I needed to be fingerprinted, give a blood sample and get a background check! They made me go out to my car to get my drivers license to prove it was me - along with my membership card. UGH. REALLY?? If you are THAT concerned about it, I have a suggestion - PUT THE PERSON'S PICTURE ON THE MEMBERSHIP CARD and stop hassling them at the door! I leave my purse in the trunk of my car because I don't want to lug it in with my other stuff. Now they compromised with photocopying my drivers license and then putting the photocopy in a plastic envelope thing along with my membership card so I could just bring that in. My gosh - what a dog and pony show!
2. I go to 24Hour Fitness (the gym that is used on The Biggest Loser), so it's not some tiny little place.....and they have NO towels AT ALL. What happened to gyms providing towels?? Maybe I'm way off base on this one, but I think it's annoying. And NO paper towels in the bathroom/shower/locker room either. Normally that would be fine, but it's so freaking hot in there that once you're out of the shower and trying to put on make-up, your face is sweating again and there's NOTHING to wipe it off with! There ARE paper towels out by the exercise machines so that you can wipe your nasty sweat off of the machines after each use (see #3), so now I grab some of those when I'm heading in to the shower area so that when I'm putting on make-up afterwards, I have my scarse paper products with me.
3. Even though there are signs all over the place and "Cleaning Stations" strategically placed all over the gym, there are still annoying exercisers that think that you want to touch their nasty drippy sweat on the machine that they finish up on. If you go to my gym in the evening, you most likely will be waiting for a treadmill, so when one opens up, you are running over to it to get on it. Well as I approached the treadmill, a VERY VERY sweaty man was finishing and just jumped off and walked away. I'm telling you, the whole freaking machine was wet - YUCK! And he didn't clean it up AT ALL. The cleaning station was RIGHT NEXT to this treadmill. HOW RUDE!!!
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It depends on which gym you go to, some of them have towels. And, ever since I have had a membership there, they have checked ids, they should have told you to put a copy of your DL in your badge holder. They even offered to do it for me!
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