This place is a gym - not a library!

After working out for 31 years and experiencing thousands of instances of others efforts, my own and those I know that workout with authentic intensity in a workout, I've deduced that many treat a gym like a library?! A library is a quiet, soft and gentle place that smells of old books, replete of tables and people studiously gaining more and more knowledge to better themselves, a noble effort. Sometimes these diligent readers wistfully woof down packages, crinkling them quietly - of chocolate covered cookies, small donuts and curly shaped sweets of red, green and blue. Occasionally a reader will select a hidden corner and have a Bonbon and a small container of milk. All the while, looking very serious, as if eating and reading are arch-enemies, a no-no in a library for heavens sake. What would the Librarian say?

I've also noticed both passively and actively that the gym environment has become soft, quiet and folks mildly going through the motions if you will, but not getting much from their efforts, a travesty I feel. There's more dialog and jaw muscles working than pecs, delts and most importantly the abdominal and oblique muscles! Ladies and gentlemen, getting fit makes good sense!

Isn't the gym environment supposed to be a place of getting fit and staying there? Certainly it is; of course working out within your fitness limits, safely and with purpose, along with a good work ethic. Call me old fashion, keeping it real as Randy would say on AI or John Madden putting it like it is when he calls the play-by-play on Monday night football? What happened to the passion and intensity that made gyms, gyms? What would the Fitness Coach say?

I'm not saying that the gym environment should be like a dungeon, no...but unbeknownced to the workout person, regular or just starting...working out requires a solid blue print of plans, structured background review of injuries and objectives and goals, then a lively, fun, safe and effective workout that gets...results! Are not results what folks go to the gym to get? Lose the body fat, tone up and harden muscles, get internally fit [decreasing blood pressure, lower cholesterol levels, stave off the threat of diabetes, obesity, stroke, heart disease, lower stress and feel better?] Why yes in deed! That's why I say the gym environment could use a massive boost of energy, a lively good push and some old fashion hard earned work? Eh? Yeah! Along with some rock & roll music sounding in the background, versus elevator music lulling us all asleep! Studies show that lively exciting music triggers brain chemicals to release causing physiological changes in the brain and body, enhancing the experience of a workout!

What's next, dessert trays carried around by the front desk staff and soft confections for those reading the paper whilst sitting on the leg machine and small steaming cups of cappuccino with glimmering trays made of fake silver with embroidered gym napkins? If that happens, I'm moving to the mountains to build my own gym in a cave made of rock and iron wrought from the ground with my bare hands! I'm joking, I hope!

Come on man - come on....let's get back to the basics like working out hard! Like the title reads: This place is a gym - not a library! Do ya wanna get fit, well do ya!