First visit to the gym

Today marks my first visit to the College Square gym (may there be many more). The gym is not bad; it's pretty big and has a wide variety of weights, equipment and exercise charts. It was fairly empty too. I felt rather self-conscious in my over-sized YMCA t-shirt (given foc when I moved in), but it was too late to change.

After some warming up, I went to the treadmill and with an air of confidence, keyed in 5.5km/h. After a few load groans, the treadmill started moving. That was when I realised that it was much too fast and sheepishly adjusted it to a more comfortable speed of 3.9km/h. After the treadmill, I went around looking for dumbbells (the non-human kind) and finally spotted two lying on an exercise machine. One lift was enough to make me drop the dumbbells hastily back onto the machine. It was then that I noticed one of the female gym-users looking at me with an odd expression on her face. It dawned on me that she had been using these weights and had just set them down for a while.

Trying to ignore the lady and the idea that my palms are probably covered in her sweat, I finally managed to locate more dumbbells. I selected the lightest one (1.5kg) and proceeded to do a grand total of three lifts for each arm. I can only imagine what a pathetic and wimpy picture I must have made.