Dear New Year Resolutioners . . .

By: Paulina Prazmo

Dear New Years Resolutioners,

Where did all of you come from? As I return to start another term and continue on with my weekly workouts at The Pulse, I am astounded that with the size of our change-rooms, I am not able to find a single empty locker.

Back in the day (in 2012) the gym was as empty as my wallet. Throughout the struggle of finding a locker, I couldn’t help but giggle at your chitter-chatter of “I’m going to lose like 10 pounds this week” and “Seriously, I’ll be going to the gym every day.” These fresh and oh-so-innocent pledges of becoming a gym regular.

Every treadmill is taken and machines are occupied by the first-timers reading the instructions (usually in pairs, because who really wants to look like a newbie at the gym). Weights and clamps are misplaced and thrown about with reckless abandon while gaggles of you keeners titter with your friends right smack in the middle of the gym about your ‘fab’ new workout! Good luck trying to find a good spot in that one fitness class you loved going to. And have fun waiting in that line rivalling TwelvEighty’s on a Thursday night.

And yet, despite my complaints, I know that I must confess to the truth that once upon a time, there were gym regulars bemoaning me. I was once in your running shoes. It all boils down to the weeding out of the not-so-dedicated to get to the motivated. So to you, yes you there, with the resolution of working out and getting fit: on behalf of the gym regulars, I ask that you make the decision rather quickly to either stick with it, or stow away those (super trendy) sweatbands for 2014.

Until then, please at least wipe your bike seat.

Sincerely,

A Patiently Waiting Gym Regular