Anxiety Activator #46: 24 Hour Fitness’s Sadistic Insistence upon Covering their Gyms’ Walls with Reflective Surfaces

While torturing myself on the elliptical machine today, I became overwhelmed by embarrassment upon noting my sweaty face had turned the color one would expect to see on an albino who’d fallen asleep in a tanning bed for a week.      I thought to myself, “Self, this is just wrong. You should go home and [...]

Anxiety Activator #8: The Behavior of my Fellow Gym Patrons During the Olympics

  (This is how the pool at my gym has looked since the Olympics started airing.)  Normally, after three to four seconds on the elliptical machine, I am gasping for breath like a freshly caught trout with a Marlboro red addiction as the Whitney Huston-style sweat tsunami pouring down my flushed Irish face gives off the [...]