How to Understand Summer is Closing? “Crowded GYM”

Awful Gearbox
3 min readApr 3, 2019

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Are you a gym regular? The ones spend an hour nearly everday at chain gyms? Welcome back to your nightmare! Summer is closing by it is April and ghost members start to hit back to gyms!

I am a guy age around 40, hitting gym or fitness nearly last 20 years regularly. Huge? Nope just love to be mobile and have some power under aging skin. As all regulars familiar with April May rush at gyms.

Winters are always slow due to crowd. Only some evenings you need to wait turn for dumbbelles and machines. But it turns differently when calendar hit April and May!

Lets get started from begining. How Chain or Central Fitness/GYM studios happened. It is a tsunami starting from USA. Looking good and shape is always a matter. Fashion do not like fat people so you have to be in shape to fit that slim shirt. When Arnold Schwarzenegger hitting dumbbelles it is gross to be “that type of looking”. 1965 “Gold GYM” is the start of recently known fitness/gym studios. ‘80–’90 game raised by “24 Hour Fitness” and “LA Fitness” and of course “Jane Fonda Exercise” tapes! After at new millennium it gets crazier! Staying healty is managent by a system. When you hit for a different chain, looks are same but colours are different. Of course with an awful aircondition!

Let’s get back to real topic!

After September, studios stay silent only for regulars till April. Between that time faces are similiar, all people have a routine and you just give a head salute and keep doing your stuff. With April, new bought branded fitness suited people are everywhere! Oh by the way they probably wacthed hours of youtube fitness videos so they are personal trainers now. And stop by yours and say “Oh you are doing that wrong!” Really? Wow. Sure, these ones are start to talk about supplement formulas from the Day One!

Of course the most exciting of all is unproper dressing behaviour. Like above. I mean of course this is my opinion but come on what is this? For Women Strip Bar?

Patient my friend! It will all go away when it is June. These type start to disappear till August when they come back from all summer holiday and start to hit the gym for another two months. Oh they already paid for whole year!

What caused people to this seasonal fitness/gym loop? It is so called “industry”! Fashion, social media, sport brands, food porn it is a total to push you for this loop. Because “industry” push you to be look better but chain system offer you that you can make it in 60 days! Magic Formula!

I personally never see someone (man/woman) make gains in 60 days. Of course they loose some weight, then they meet at studio withsome (it is another reason why people rush in!) and they gain more weight in few weeks!

To have a long term healthy look in and out, please make good research about yourself first. Unrealistic programs and supplements is not the formula of this. Be dedicated for 200+ days of a year to yourself, then everything happen.

See you..

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