I've been to about 7 different gyms and every gym seems to have a number of characters in them. I'll have to qualify this thread by saying I'd be considered one of the characters because I'm asocial when I train. If you're not training with me I'll avoid eye contact or stare through you and just focus on me. No doubt, I'm not there on a social call. People find that weird so I'd guess I'd be considered one of the characters. Anyway, I frequently see a couple I call Sado and Masico. The guy plays a domineering, macho drill seargent role as he "trains" his wife, incorrectly I might add, with movements that are so weird looking they defy common sense, I'd have to guess that he must have made them up or modified them from the real ones. At one point, for example, he had a forty five pound plate on her stomach as she was doing what looked like flies but her arms were locked out straight, unlike conventional flies. As the dude barked directives at his chick I looked around to read the faces of other gym members and they looked just as amused or nonplused. They too were searching faces to see if others were taking notice of the spectacle. Seems like a classic mysoginist/narcissist but if that's what they are both into...to each there own I guess. Than there's this couple my girl friend calls "WWF" who pull up in a big hummer with his platinum blond girlfriend who plays the role of cheerleader during his set but also looks scanning the room seemingly for reactions. She plays drums on his butt right before each set. He wears a wifebeater and frayed baseball cap, all tattoed out, pierced nipples overload, and makes loud noises leading up to his set, as in look at me everyone! At least, that's how it comes across to me. The two of them are looking around and seem very self-conscious - almost uncomfortable in the gym but their trip seems to be about putting on a show. I notice these people between major muscle groups when I sit down on a bench and take a break and it occurs to me, wow, so that's what's going on when I'm not in my own world. Interesting. Carnavalesque.
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