Gym Visuals...

Workout at times can be the trickiest thing one can indulge in. Everyday exercise is recommended for good health but there is a thin line between daily workout and bodybuilding. Seeing chiseled, oil smeared,  ripped bodies of men like Hrithik, Salman or any other  such ‘hunk’ can easily make a man crave for a physique similar to theirs. But even transforming those dreams into some pre matured form of reality requires extreme dedication and patience. I hit the gym every alternate day if not daily. A muscular body which satisfies my eyes and which carries any attire I don is all what I want. What prying eyes of others feel is important, but is secondary to what the owner of the body feels and that’s me. Good hot bod of a favourite hero acts as an inspiration and a sort of milestone which one would like to reach one day. I might be the wrong person to comment correctly on how far I have reached, but it’s not the thing that I am often interested in. An idle mind and inside a gym an idle body can often end up concentrating on others rather than on self. Come on!! It’s something everyone does!! What a sincere gym session requires can turn out to be too demanding for many. My experience says that in a gymnasium you can end up in doing any of these two-either take up the pain of building your body or take up the pain in seeing others build their body. I being a follower of the former except for my initial hard fought days doesn’t strip me off my personal sensitivity to judge others who are toiling in the gymnasium. I attribute this abeyance to laziness of mine (at times) and my innate tendency to compare myself (here my body) with others.

Rotate your eyes and you can find a good variety of guys in the gym trying to achieve their bit.

A site that draws my attention at any moment (especially in the gym) is of someone walking in wearing a tight outfit. Gym is a place to look better and thus taking pride in your hard earned accomplishment is obvious. But magnifying muscularity by draping the tightest T one has in his stock can make him look immature and equally amateurish. Ultimately it’s the physique which determines the suitability of what one wears. Stout build and a tight-under sized gym vest along with the ‘hard to contain’ peeping pouch and at times the rebellious undies can be a really bad combination.

 Relentless dumbbell lifts to achieve pumped biceps is another very common practice. Craze of ‘dolle sholle’ explains why biceps turns out to be the most important part of the body’s anatomy. For a beginner it turns to be the sole body part to concentrate on and the only way to mark onset of his body building. Free hand exercise goes for a toss and other parts remain unattended to. Biceps become huge while rest of the body remains disproportionate (usually marked by a protruding belly). This is more embarrassingly exposed when one decides to wear those tight tees.

                                      

The other thing which shouts for my attention in gym on any given day is sound of someone grunting!! Awwwwwwwhhhhh, Ehhhhhhhhhh….Comeohhhhhhonnnn….Hearing those painful shouts your curiosity makes you turn around spontaneously to see who the guy is!! Who the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the gym is??  What freaking exercise is he doing and what humongous weight is he lifting?? Either the answer disappoints you when you find the guy doing the same exercise you could have done in a less exaggerated fashion or it impresses you when you find him doing something currently out of your bodily range…Nevertheless it’s not a private gym to shout in….So please try not to be Sharapova or Serena Williams…

It’s more fun to hit the gym during a festival season. Vibrancy of the approaching festivity can be easily sensed in the gymnasium too. You will get to see dozens of new faces but your experience avoids you from expecting them at gym on a regular basis. Those few weeks prior to the festival marks the short stint of such joinees. A few days in which they can at least pump up their biceps and thus look attractive to the festive crowd especially the girls is at the top of their motto. Obviously the thinking is in line with the preconceived notion of many that body does the talking!!!!

But before cynicism burdens me any further it is better I spend time inspecting myself and get overburdened by the physical weights of the gym instead.