Gym Shim

Chrys and I recently joined a gym. It's in an up-scale locality and Chrys specifically wanted to ogle at the society-type women there. However in the past few days I have observed several different types there:

1. Society Types: These are usually in their late thirties or forties or fifties or God only knows how manys coz they don't look their age. They all look the same - flat abs, pert butts and muscled arms. They exercise with their noses in the air and later do an elaborate make-up session in the locker-room.

2. Gym Rats: These guys(mostly) tend to spend their entire day in the gym pumping weights. Cardio exercises are for sissies. The gym rats will lifts the maximum amounts of weights and pick up the biggest dumbbells. They will even shout out instructions to the new-comers and strut around inspecting all female butts.

3. Little old ladies: These are the adorable types. Diminutive and delicate, they will spend most of their time slow cycling and doing stretches. These types will be friendly will all the trainers and call everyone 'dear'.

4. Old men: They will walk in with baby steps usually accompanied by an attendant who will help them with their shoes and disappear into some discreet corner to do exercises or whatever you may call small painful movements.

5. Really fat people: These are the ones that actually need the use of the gym. But they are the most inconspicuous (as much as fat people can be). They will be rather conscious and speed up their cycling or treadmill when a Society type or a Gym rat walks by. Most of the time they are being pestered by the trainers to do one more push-up or lift the dumbbell one more time. You will find these types later gorging on pani puri or cheese sandwiches downstairs.

6. Regular people: These are far and few between. They follow the trainers around or do whatever exercises they have been told to do without making too much of a fuss. They will be polite with the Little old ladies and smile at the Old men. But, it'll not be long before they turn into the Society types or Gym rats. Dreadful!