Gyms ought to provide their members – their customers – with the best possible experience for fitness and health. Instead, they cut corners and make the facility and equipment the biggest challenge of your workout.
One of the biggest obstacles to a good workout is just getting through the gym’s front door. I don’t mean this in a motivational sense – I mean literally having a gym employee remember to get out of bed and go open the club. The 5:00 am keymaster ought to feel a lot of pressure….
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed paperwork to run for president last week. He’s running as a Democrat, but the terms Democrat/Republican, Left/Right mean little today. What animates U.S. politics now is the ruling class vs. the people class. Take a glance at Kennedy’s announcement remarks: “My top priority will be to end the corrupt merger…
I just finished a book called The Curse of High IQ. The premise is that, because of the way standard deviations work, having an IQ of just 130 means that the daily activities and decisions of almost everyone around you are incomprehensible. Let me give you an example. The gym in my condo building is…
One of the iconic Seinfeld dialogues is when Jerry, George, and Elaine discuss the right way to respond when someone sneezes. Jerry asserts that if you want to make a person feel better after sneezing, you shouldn’t say “God bless you,” but rather “You’re so good looking.” Exiting the gym today, I got to thinking…
Even though the schedule on my gym’s door says it opens at 5 am, I appreciate that the staff member with the key always arrives early and lets us in. An extra five or ten minutes on a busy workday makes a difference, and I get some additional gym time before the 6 am crowd…