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What is with people at the gym?
Contributed by: Sandy Clifton   on 10/23/2006

I admit I do wear makeup when I go to work but I don't pile it on so thick you need a scraper to take it off at night.

Have you ever noticed when you are at the gym and the girl next to you has a ton of makeup on? You know the type, her hair is down and she has full eye makeup on and its most likely running down her face. What is that? Do they think it looks good, and do they know what that's doing to their skin? Apparently not.

I just want to grab them and shake some sense into them. "Snap out of it, you won't snag your man with that piled on."

When I was single, I remember trying to get guys attention in the gym, but I would never take that spackle to my face and work out. What guy is going to find that attractive? I would always try to do my exercise without looking too much like a chick. I think that is the better approach.

Wearing makeup in the gym is one of my biggest pet peeves. Granted, I grew up with four brothers and I never wore makeup back then. I was always trying to blow up that GI Joe because I strapped an Easter egg on its back filled with lighter fluid or fry those ants with a magnifying glass. Sounds pretty bad being a girl and all, I know. But what can I say? I loved doing that stuff growing up.

I was never into Barbie. I don't think I ever even owned one, and if I did, it was destroyed, I am sure, by my brothers.

I think that gyms should have a short list of rules that everyone should abide by:

  1. No makeup while working out. (This includes both men and women)
  2. No neon colored spandex. (Are you aware you can see all your dimples?)
  3. Men are not allowed to wear spandex short shorts. (If I want to see a package that defined, I will go home and check one out)
  4. Men are not allowed to wear shirts with strings to pull your shirt closed. (What are we in the medieval era)
  5. Men are not allowed to "hover" over women doing their workouts. (If I wanted a sweaty person drooling on me, I would say so)
  6. Ban all cell phones. -(How could I have forgotten the most obvious one!)

If we had a gym with these rules I would join in a heartbeat. So long, caked face and tighty shorts.




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Submitted By: Karin Malchow
posted on 10/30/2006 @ 7:02:37 PM
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I once took an aqua fitness class with a lady who wore full makeup. She stayed in the shallow end.
Submitted By: raoul hayes
posted on 10/25/2006 @ 6:21:05 PM
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you forgot rule requiring women must bring towel and wipe off machines after use (yeah, this includes those queenie types who apparently think they don't sweat and god forbid would have others think they do!)
Submitted By: Rob Guthrie
posted on 10/25/2006 @ 12:17:25 PM
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I've done some extensive research and found that the majority of those who would use a colloquialism like "get over yourself" to make a point are also 97.6% more likely to sign up with a screen name of the same caliber as "lick me".
Submitted By: Scott Rohrig
posted on 10/25/2006 @ 10:21:26 AM
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Right on! But you forgot something worse than make-up; cell phones! Are we there to work out or hold a conference call?! Sheesh. Leave them in your car people; the call can wait!
Submitted By: Sandy Clifton
posted on 10/25/2006 @ 6:50:19 AM
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Ha. Im not pro anything. Did you not read the part about the women in this? What media? This is a blog not nbc news. Ha-William those are good ones.
Submitted By: William Boucher
posted on 10/24/2006 @ 9:57:22 PM
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I would like to add -No calling you biceps guns or kissing them. Also, saying "Welcome to the gun show" would be punishable by death.
Submitted By: Barbara Neff
posted on 10/24/2006 @ 12:23:14 PM
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Sounds like the gym/health club scene has not changed that much since the eighties, when I went looking as much like Jane Fonda as possible, leg warmers and all. One word for women weary of the gym scene: Jazzercise. Go to jazzercise.com to find the location nearest you.
Submitted By: Erin Williams
posted on 10/24/2006 @ 12:14:19 PM
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In college I had a roommate who would shower, straighten her hair and put on make up to go to the gym. It was amazing the two-hour preparation put in at home just for a 45-minute workout.
Submitted By: Brendan Leonard
posted on 10/24/2006 @ 11:45:28 AM
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I never wear makeup or neon-colored spandex.
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Castle Rock , CO

Sandy Clifton has posted 68 blog entries and 148 comments since joining on 1/11/2006. Sandy Clifton 's average blog rating is 4.98.
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