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Joined a New Gym Down the Street

Joe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:28:47 +0000

Just a quick entry regarding the new gym that I joined, which is located down the street from where I live. The place is called Snap Fitness and it’s interesting because it’s not really a “staffed” gym. In other words, when you join you get a membership card that unlocks the front door between the hours of 5am and 11pm everyday of the week. There is no office or locker rooms or anything like that – just workout equipment.

Actually, given the smaller size of the location where I joined it would be surprising if they could fit a locker room or an office in the building! The gym has got to be less than 1,000 square feet in total space, but the truth is that it carries itself very well. There are separate male and female bathrooms and a desk that serves as the “office.” Behind the desk is a set of cubby holes that serve as your personal locker, too. It’s really a genius setup for a smaller scale gym.

The other thing that makes this gym unique is that, due to its small setup, it really is not made to handle a high number of members working out at the same time. In fact, since I joined last Saturday I’ve been at the gym three times. The first two times I attended were at night on Saturday and at night on Sunday and when my roommate and I showed up there was no one there. The lights were actually off when we arrived (they automatically turn on via motion sensors when you walk in the door).

The third night I attended the gym there was a classic clod hopper on the treadmill next to me. And with that, the next chapter of gym stories on this blog seems to have begun!

Creepy Fool Gets Arrested at Monmouth University

Joe — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:59:29 +0000

My alma mater had a really gross incident occur yesterday. In case you haven’t heard, a creepy old goof ball was arrested at Monmouth University yesterday for planting a video camera in the men’s locker room. What a filthy, disgusting scumbag this jerkoff was, huh?

There are so many issues here that it’s not even easy to discuss all of them in one sitting. Why was this creepy old bastard allowed to join the gym at Monmouth University if he wasn’t an alumnus and wasn’t local to the university? For those of you that don’t know, he wasn’t from the local area.

Further, why was he allowed on campus in the first place if he had an old access card? If the guy’s sole purpose is to go to the gym because he’s a “member” and his card indicating that membership is expired…then shouldn’t he NOT be on campus?!

And what really pisses me off is the reaction that one of the students had to the entire thing:

“Doesn’t bother me,” he said. “I really don’t care.”

That pretty much sums up 99% of the students that I’ve ever met while at Monmouth University or that I’ve met since I’ve become an alumni advisor to my fraternity at Monmouth University. I deal with kids who go to school all over this state and virtually none of them would have had that completely uncaring reaction. And good Lord, if I had my way I’d take this pervert and give him a few minutes with some of those guys that he so desperately wanted to see naked.

I have no problem with the fact that this weirdo likes dudes, but I have a HUGE problem with him invading the privacy of these unsuspecting students to get off. That’s just disgusting and I hope he get what he deserves.

80’s Rock Out at the Gym

Joe — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:31:23 +0000

Tonight was a fun night at the gym. Finally, some weirdness to write about on my blog! It seemed to me that the requirement to be working out at Gold’s tonight was that you had to either have a mullet or a 1980’s metal band crazy hair style.

Actually, it was kind of funny to watch from the upper level on the cardio machines.

And I’d much rather write a blog entry about people at the gym having weird hair than I used to write about it my old gym – creepy old men who stay around the locker room a bit too long…

On a side note, I got a nice workout in. Good times.