My Kind Of Workout
Overheard at the gym today: “I’m training harder than ever, man. I even came to the gym on my off day to go in the steam room.”
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There’s a woman at my gym who does that. She calls it the “executive workout.” She claims it is a workout because she sweats in the steam room.