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Join a Gym or a STudio?
December 2004
by Linda McGrath
Don't do it! For those of you contemplating signing your life away to a gym, top ten reasons why a yoga membership is much better.
- We let you freeze your membership if you want to have a life and go somewhere.
- You don't have to commit to 5 years and your firstborn.
- The fluorescent, “am-I-still-at-the-office?” lighting.
- The smell of rubber, old sweat and Brut cologne.
- If you're a girl, no big guy in striped lycra shorts is gonna come up to you and ask you if you work out.
- If you're a man, no big guy in striped lycra shorts is gonna come up to you and ask you if you work out.
- The yoga classes at gyms are… well, we won't go there.
- You don't have to still stand by the bike at 6:15 when you signed up for the 6:00 slot and stare at the lady who's too busy reading her National Enquirer to acknowledge you.
- Long muscles are in. Face it, there's nothing sexy about the guy who can bench press his own weight but can't tie his shoes.
- Going to the gym is a drag! When you can sneak out of work early and come to yoga, it's always a treat. You'll brave any traffic, steal any parking spot – because you know you'll come out feeling like a million bucks. How often do you feel like that about going to the gym?
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