Workin' it out

[samaritan1975]

Hit the gym at 6 am this morning; 2.5 mile treadmill run (23:30), 30 minutes abs, 10 minutes cooldown. I felt really good; enough to feel winded, but not like I killed myself. I want to work out a schedule for myself- concentrate on different areas in succession- if I'm going to run... really run... I don't want to worry about abs, for example. Think I'll work that out today sometime.

I think I might've made some kind of social faux pas in the gym. This girl- sorry, young woman- was doing her own thing in front of me as I did my abs work. I wasn't really paying attention till she did something akin to a hurdler's stretch, and I happened to see on her sock a logo of two 'B's, the second one 'inverted' against the other.

Those of you who are fans of 80s sci-fi movies know what I was thinking when I saw the logo. Those that don't, it looked something like this:



That's the logo from the movie, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. So I asked this girl, who doesn't know me from Adam, what the logo meant. She said she had no idea, she got those for Christmas. "Do you know what it means?" she asked. So, I had to show my geek cred and tell her that it was from an old 80s sci-fi movie. She did that little laugh- ladies, you know the one- where it's more humoring the silly man who's talking to you? Yeah. So, she's either forgotten it, which is likely, or will be telling friends about how this dork in the gym tried to use her socks as a pick up line. *shrug*

Maybe I'm just being self-concious. I always worry that I'm giving off the wrong vibe when I talk to a girl in the gym, like I'll say or do something that makes her think the only reason I'm talking to her is to try to hit on her.  The irony is that the gym is the last place I'd try to 'hit on' a gal, were I even single (happily married now as it is, and I never really 'hit on' girls anyways).

Anyways, better things- I'm proud of myself of getting back on the bandwagon of keeping in shape.  Once a couple of things pan out, I'm going to be looking into training again- there are a couple of places in Tyson's I've been considering- one was mentioned to me the other day, via one of my LJ's friends' comments field, the other is literally a block away down on Tyco Rd (which includes CrossFit training).  This may or may not preclude the capoeira classes I've mentioned before- or vice versa; largely depends on which demos I like more, what the schedules are, and what I'd get for membership fees.

Comments

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Your best "defense" is to not care. You weren't trying to pick her up, so if she thinks you were - meh. Laugh it off. If your line was "Nice feet, I'll bet the smell good" then yeah, you were out of line. The only way to reasonably approach someone, even if you are trying to pick them up, is usually to voice a common interest.

Sad really - liars, players, all misrepresent their intentions to trick people into lowering their defenses, while people who honestly hit on people lose out by being direct.

The gym is weird - you look your best there, but you're working - so do you wnat to be bothered? It's a tough balance.

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that last line of yours- that's why the gym just seems 'taboo' to me. In my mind, people go there to work out, get their mind off things, try to improve- not to present themselves to be sized up like some kind of mating ritual.

You're right, of course- about not caring as a defense. In review, I said nothing other than where I had seen the logo, so I thought she might've seen the movie. So, she likely forgot about it too. I'm not going to lose sleep or anything, it was just that 'vibe' I got for a moment is all.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Look at it like this - if she runs off and tells her friends about how some dick hit on her in the gym, she is bragging about her status: "Wow, I'm so far above this loser who hit on me, I sure have status way beyond that. I sure am cool, and way outrank such a dork. What a dork, and wow am I cool by contrast." Notice the insecurities?

Feel glad you helped her temporarily address her issues with all the deep nutritional value of cane sugar.

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

Ah, reminds me of high school. ;)

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

I didn't know of the one in Fairfax (I just found info that says it's on Waples Mill- is it in the Fitness Center there, I wonder?), but the one I'm thinking of on Tyco is the American Fight Club (http://www.afcva.com/)

The biggest benefit, like I said, is that it's literally a block down the road. And the classes are late enough that I could make it even if I had to close the fedwire market. I *think* they offer a discount for employees here, too, but that might just be wishful false-memory at work. :)

I think this is different from Capital JJ (the Gracie school, right?); I haven't called them to ask about fees, though. (Incidentally, my memory might be failing- didn't Caique BJJ used to share space with Capital KM way back when?)

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it seems that Capital BJJ (gracieva.com) has a place out near Dulles (closer to my house). Huh.

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will. :)

You know what's funny, I can't find any differences (via online reserach) between haganah & krav maga. *shrug*