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.
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…
Once you find yourself diagnosed with a case of tendinosis, you’re committed to a rehab program for life. Even after you finish your stint of physical therapy, you’re not fully healed. Think of tendinopathy as a line on a graph. The line may rise above or fall below the threshold of pain depending on how…
Each day after my workout, I find myself getting dressed next to a guy who is clearly homeless. Instead of unpacking a gym bag, he carries into the locker room a camping-style backpack with a compartment for a sleeping bag. He doesn’t seem like he’s preparing to exercise, but more like he’s found a place…