korea gym

so as everything is changing i feel i must evolve or well what other option is there? so one step is to join a gym. i personally love the outdoors so i oppose gyms and treadmills but i have yet to find a good running place so i joined a gym for one month. they kind of speak english there. i kind of speak korean, so we have a really good time.

yesterday i signed up and did my thing. well this morning i went in because i had plans after work. so i go in and run on the treadmill for about 20 minutes. i went to get some water before heading downstairs to look at the weights and not really do much of anything, when one of the trainers comes up to me. she asks me some questions and points to some machine in a room. i hear something about fat but really thats about all. something about did you come yesterday...yes but only for a little bit. so i just agree to join her in the room. she asks me to take off my shoes and then wipe the sweat off of my feet - i just assume thats what she says. but i am quickly making a list of new words to learn to make life easier. :) so this machine without intrusion at all, gets my Body mass index, ratio of waist to hips, fat, etc, etc and gives her a nice little printout. might i add that i am currently the same weight as when i played soccer in high school (whoo hoo) - but i eat too much ice cream and ddoekpokkee. so she said only a little bit now. hahaha!

so after trying to explain the printout to me we decided to head downstairs to the weight machines. here she had me do each of the machines and helped me checking which muscles i was using - you know the stuff that a trainer should do. in america i feel like i would have to pay alot of money for that! but its all included in the 60,000won price - basic. unless she asks for something later. hahaha! so she went through the machines and then left me to finish on my own, including the 30 more minutes of running she wanted from me. oye.

but after it was over she came up to me and thanked me - why, i don't know. but she will study english - and i will study korean i told her- which by the way i need to figure out how to say i will study korean in korean...and she is happy to work with me. overall it was a great time. surprising, entertaining and fruitful, both a mental and physical workout.

i love this place.