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Posers in the Gym

Posted January 7, 2008

“Have you seen the posers?” Ruth asked.

“No. I mean, I don’t think so. Who are the posers?”

“You belong to the Y don’t you?”

“Uh huh.”

“The posers are those people that show up every year after the holidays. They take up all the machines and weight benches. They fill the pools and clog up the track. They are the people who make a New Year’s resolution and stick to it for, maybe, 10 to 14 days anyway. You won’t be able to find space to work out until the 15th or 20th. But after that you’re O.K. The posers will be gone by then.”

Posers? Yikes! I reckon I’ve been one from time-to-time, from year-to-year.

They say, “Begin as you expect to continue. Begin as you expect to end.” So, we try to begin well. Because we want to end well. Good intentions, right? They pave the way somewhere.

Well, I dropped my old club membership. And grabbed another one at a place much closer to my home. I’ve heard you won’t fulfill a membership unless the gym is within eight minutes of your home or workplace. We'll see how this works out.

Physical health is part and parcel of spiritual health. A lot of “spiritual people” forget this. So do a lot of out-of-shape people.

It’s early January. Let’s see who’s left standing on the treadmill in February when posers’ bodies pile behind the conveyor belt in a sad physical eulogy to the weakness of good intentions.