Sunday morning

So I slept in a little bit this morning but then got off my ass and hit the gym. I had a freaking great run Tuesday evening but today not so great. My body has not been cooperating this week. Swelling, pain, etc in multiple joints. Its sucks.

Anywho for the freak parade at the gym. I saw one guy who was totally on roids. He was jacked crazy. Totally lop sided. He was very top heavy. Then there was a woman who was wearing skinny jeans!!! Skinny jeans people, in the gym. They only time I really saw her was when she was using the Tricep cable machine to stretch her arms. It was a very funny sight. People were staring. She was on her knees with her arms stretched up behind her head. It was quite the sight.

LG

drama

I openly admit I don't know everything, I don't but damn I am passionate about what I do and I want to be the best at my career. I passed up the same job twice and it was the biggest freaking career mistake of my life. Now I'm so torn. I moved back to Florida, which I didn't want to do, for a job that I felt was going to be a better career move from the job I was at. Was it a good career move yes, but was it worth leaving my great co-workers, hell no. I now work with two guys mainly. One is my front desk and one is my PTA. My front desk is fine but he does have a whole lot of down time which he mostly spends on the phone with his family. The other pet peeve is that he leaves before the last patient is even done. I can deal with that. The PTA I cannot stand. He acts like he is better then everyone and like he knows it all. He acts like I don't know shit. He doesn't care what I write in my plan of care. He makes my patients do things I don't agree with and when I've politely brought it up he just blows it off. He walks in the morning like his shit doesn't stink. I overheard him talking about something a couple weeks ago and questioned him later and he openly lied to me. I'm just so over it. He's used to working with mostly guys and I'm not sure if thats it or what. I would give up the great paycheck I have down here compared to what I was making in SC to have my old co-workers back! I miss them like hell!

LG

Sunday

I went to the gym yesterday morning. My new sunday morning routine. My ass should be at church but since I can't find one that I feel at home in yet I find my home in the gym. I hopped on the treadmill first. I watched the gym go from fairly not busy to full on busy. My run started out crappy but I pushed on. The second half of my run was much better. Someone mentioned the gym I go to being full of meat heads and guys on steroids. This is true. Its amazing the juiced up guys. Its such a wife variety though. It really is a good social experiment.

The Butch Woman

(Sidenote:This was Thursday night but the site was down so I couldn't post it until now)

Well Tonight I went to the gym for the first time in a week and a half. As I was walking in "the butch woman" was in front of me and opened the door for me. "The butch woman" is one of the many characters at the gym. Let me give you a little bit of a picture. Long long stringy blond hair pulled into a ponytail, not pulled up but pulled together in a ponytail. If you cut her hair and saw her from the back she could easily be mistaken for a guy sadly enough.

My other rant for the night is this. There was a guy who was wearing a tshirt with the sleeves cut off and ripped all the way almost to the bottom, so gapping arm holes. Ok to each their own, but! He had a freaking tight ass under armor shirt under. Why have a sleeveless shirt on with gapping holes but yet have a tight under armor shirt under?!?!?!?

I wasn't at the gym long since I didn't have much time and I still wasn't feeling that great but this is just the beginning of many stories to come.

LG

Origin

This blog is born out of two of my loves, people watching and working out. Recently due to the layout of my gym and some pharmaceutical intervention I've been able to revisit both loves. First to the odd part of that last statement. Over the last 2 years I've had some cardiac issues that limited me from working out. Over the last couple months due to the great work of my cardiologist here in Orlando we've been able to get my heart in a place where I've been able to begin working out regularly again. Meanwhile the gym I go to has 95% of the cardio equipment on the second floor. This works out perfectly for me bc I can get my jog on and people watch and observe the majority of the people lifting weights. I have full view of all the weight machines, the racketball courts, the 2 rowing machines and a row of stair climber machines. The only area I can't see are the pool and the free weights. I still have a great view from above of all the people using the weight machines and people walking around.

I'm starting this blog because I've observed so many interesting people over the last few months. Everyone from "the spiky hair woman", "the butch woman", wrist roller kid, and all the hardcore weightlifter guys. I've had so many stories that I've shared with friends, co-workers and patients of mine. I feel like this will be a good outlet to share stories and hopefully keep myself motivated to hit the gym.

I hope everyone enjoys and maybe even gets them to go hit the gym because after all, you never know what you will see!

LG