THERE are times when selfies are not enough, so we ask the resto’s or cafe’s wait staff to take our photos.
I don’t know if they’ve been trained to do this but I noticed they tend to use the portrait mode where we look like sardines squeezed into this narrow space. Floating above us are the ceiling and lights as if they’re the photo’s main subjects and we are the afterthought.
Which reminds me of a gym friend’s new term for photographer. She deletes the letters p and h. Gets mo?
Perhaps it’s the happy hormones that we get out of the workouts or the happy vibes at the gym or we’re too busy exercising, there’s no time anymore for negativity and pessimism. Our sense of humor is always alive and kicking as we realize that the grass is indeed greener on our side of the fence.
And whenever we, the gym rats, er, gym friends eat out, one of us now avoids eating sweets so he could maintain his 17-percent total body fat. Ahem. Each time we tell him to order some dessert or cake, he says, Aha! You want to increase my body-fat percentage! He wants to be called as the Tom Holland of Cagayan de Oro. Haha. He’s indeed a lookalike. Ahem.
But upon learning that the gym’s coaches have five-percent total body fat, I’m not laughing anymore.
By the way, 17 is my favorite number and how I wish I have that body-fat percentage, too. But as of July 17, mine was 28.8 percent.
Yes, July 17—there’s my favorite number again.
So, that’s what gym classmates talk about: body fat. And we share our “before” photos with each other., with the 180-pound me as my “before.”
On August 27, the eve of CDO’s fiesta, the Abs Workout, which I didn’t join, and Fit Punch had ten participants each.
With Manny Pacquiao’s favorite, “Eye of the Tiger,” as the Fit Punch’s Muzak, the harder our punches became.
On the day of the fiesta, the Zumba morning class had an attendance of 15, and I had my gym workout afterwards, proving that the exercise sked at Anytime Fitness is indeed anytime, with no vacations whatsoever, not even for the city fiesta.
Some gym classmates, including me, did rush home after the Zumba and workout to have enough time to change their gym attire to something more suitable for their respective fiesta invites.
A fiesta is always an excuse to indulge in a feast but I won’t write about the buffet’s menu. My low-carb doctor and personal trainer are my Facebook friends and if they will read this column, hmmm, good luck na lang to me.
If one stays with Anytime Fitness for at least a year, surely he can’t blame it for making him Anytime Fatness although exercise plays only a 20-percent role in weight loss. The major part is food which contributes 80 percent.
Anytime Fitness is open 24/7, giving its clients no reason to be lazy. At almost midnight on Saturday evening, we were about to go home after some nightlife nearby, when we decided to drop by the gym which is on the same floor as our nightlife venue. I wasn’t expecting people to be there since it was bedtime already. But—surprise! surprise!—people were still exercising at that ungodly hour, with one arriving just when we were leaving the gym. Please define commitment.
