Gym

Spent lunch hour in the gym today. I'm in the first phase of the winter lifting program, the so called anatomical adaptation. This involves circuits of exercises with a large number of reps and light weights. Even so it has been a chore the last three weeks as my body has been adapting to the adaptation as it were. The weird thing about the gym are the denizens of course. There was one today who was the perfect example. He was a young man of modest stature. He had built up his attitude in recompense. While he was white, he was dressed as if he were otherwise. He was wearing a baseball cap and a sort of white skullcap with a neck covering behind - a ghetto Kewpie you might say. He swaggered into the weight room and got on one of the machines - the seated row. He did a few reps with a big stack of plates hooked up - no warm up. Then he walked around a bit. Finally he went over to the heavy bag and punched it a few times. Then he left. Total workout time about 7 minutes, strange, very strange.