Would You Stay or Would You Go?
It's been awhile since we've had a real-life strange encounter while exercising. Thankfully this morning provided an excellent opportunity to make up for lost time.
Here we go.
You are using the rowing machine, located in a corner of your gym's "spin room" and immediately next to a giant mat used for a variety of exercises - both group and individual. No shoes allowed.
About 15 minutes in, a group of 8 young Marines fresh off an Afghanistan deployment come into the room and start wrestling on the mat. This appears to be a survival exercise, though it also is helping with the post-war stress these young men may suffer.
You are happily rowing along. Goyte and Florence and the Machine are pumping through your mp3 earbuds when out of the corner of your eye, you see a pair of wrestlers moving toward you. They flip a few more times and land right under your machine, after smacking into it of course.
You stop. They stop. They disengage their holds and another pair starts in at the other end of the mat. They too can't seem to contain themselves and soon you are again feeling like an innocent bystander thrust into an R-rated WWF match.
At this point do you:
a.) Stop working out on the machine and move to the cardio room?
b.) Ask one of the young men to maybe sit between the mat and your machine to act as a barrier?
c.) Continue rowing as if nothing is going on?
Here we go.
You are using the rowing machine, located in a corner of your gym's "spin room" and immediately next to a giant mat used for a variety of exercises - both group and individual. No shoes allowed.
About 15 minutes in, a group of 8 young Marines fresh off an Afghanistan deployment come into the room and start wrestling on the mat. This appears to be a survival exercise, though it also is helping with the post-war stress these young men may suffer.
You are happily rowing along. Goyte and Florence and the Machine are pumping through your mp3 earbuds when out of the corner of your eye, you see a pair of wrestlers moving toward you. They flip a few more times and land right under your machine, after smacking into it of course.
You stop. They stop. They disengage their holds and another pair starts in at the other end of the mat. They too can't seem to contain themselves and soon you are again feeling like an innocent bystander thrust into an R-rated WWF match.
At this point do you:
a.) Stop working out on the machine and move to the cardio room?
b.) Ask one of the young men to maybe sit between the mat and your machine to act as a barrier?
c.) Continue rowing as if nothing is going on?
