Thursday, September 9, 2010

Gender Equations at Gym

Few months back i joined one gym as i was constantly bugged by this feeling that my curves have started becoming obvious and i feel uncomfortable when people constantly stare at me. It's a well balanced gym in the sense that it is visited by almost equal number of girls or women and boys or men ( I will refer to women as girls and men as boys from hereafter to keep up the spirit of gym). This gym is so unlike those ubiquitous Gold's Gym present at the first floor of every locality where the only body parts given focus are biceps and chest, which girls wont like for obvious reasons and hence do not visit such gyms. After successfully being able to wake up and go there for last few months, though a bit irregularly, I recognized certain gender behavioral patterns there.

Most Girls wants to get pampered and Most Boys wants to show macho.
She will never learn the way to do a particular exercise. No matter how many times a trainer has explained her, how to lift her leg, every morning she will come with a fresh mind to forget it again so that when the next time trainer explains, she can complain that she cant do it because it is so complex to lift a leg. She will show tantrums and trainer will try to motivate her and if this relationship has been going on for quite some time he may even scold her when she says, 'I don't want to do it'. I wonder, Why do they come then? Oh yes, to get pampered.
Boys are all Macho. The most usual sight is a boy carrying an unusual grimace of indescribable facial expressions as if they are the real masochist sustaining a huge pain while lifting weights. If you look around you may find a girl nearby. Oh, the efforts are not to lift the weight but to get her attention. Yes, gravity is ignored for girls. (Thank God, Newton didn't do so) . This may be the best time when he may lift a larger weight and may even beat the poor ant on the ratio of weight lifted to their own body weight. Also, there is no greater humiliation for him than she lifting a larger weight than him at the same machine. Both He and She has affinity for mirror in gym though the parts looked into are different. He will try to find machismo in his image and She will look for admiration in her image.

Boys are born coaches while girls don't enjoy the coaching profession so much.
If He sees a girl doing weights, the girl is likely to get a expert advice from him, 'Do it like this', 'Movement should be complete', 'Do it Slowly', and 'Concentrate' . Whoa! looks like some tips to get orgasm. Of course there will be trainers around but they prefer to watch this exercise as if it is some kind of voyeuristic pleasure.

Almost all girls will carry their cellphones to gym and will make sure that they check it once every five minutes or the cellphone checks them back.
Cellphone also come handy when she is alone and gets the feeling that a boy is thinking to strike a conversation. She will simple pretend to be busy with cellphone and will avoid the conversation successfully. Oh Boy, its better to be a cellphone. Boys on the other hand do not usually carry their cellphones to gym though they constantly look for mobile numbers.

Girls join a program to shed their extra kilos while boys join a program to grow muscles.
 This is the story at every gym. Nothing to explain here. Treadmills and aerobics rooms are the domain of girls while dumb-bells are for dumb boys. She wants to lose and He wants to gain (the weight).

Girls get more time of trainers than boys.
This is the rule of Nature that Girls are privileged to get more attention. No one can deny them the luxury of attention. So She would come all dressed in Reebok and Nike fits and would immediately seek a trainer. Who cares to pay for personal trainer when trainers are at your service madam? He will struggle to get a trainer even if he has paid for a personal one. So boys end up helping themselves. It's a tough competition out there for a boy to get some attention and for guys with unimpressive body and no machismo (such as me) chances are so slim that He might only end losing all his gym fee.

Enough of these observations. Let me focus on my curves so that no one else can focus on them.