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    Image of ShanghaiLil ShanghaiLil
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    I used to get sexually harassed at the gym. There was an employee there who would offer me free tanning on the unspoken condition that he got to "check in" midway through and peep at my junk. Then I turned thirty, and it stopped happening. I miss all that...
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    Straight guys go the the gym? Wow! Factoid of the day!
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    Image of Y. Edwin Boos, Why? Y. Edwin Boos, Why?
    12/03/09

    @BettyCrocker: Of course we do. It's a great place to meet guys.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/03/09

    @Y. Edwin Boos, Why?: Bada-bing!!!
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    Image of NoelleBlue NoelleBlue
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    I thought cleavage remarks at the gym were par for the course? Really, if I don't get stared at I must be *failing*.
    (this is a joke. I am now at an all woman's gym. Mostly for the Zumba, but the total lack of grunting male-ness while I sweat and flail about is rather fantastic.)

    I find it fitting that a story about the US's messed-up health/fitness culture has a picture of a Bollywood actress (Shilpa Shetty) and her most likely Indian trainer. Americans: not even turning out sexy enough workout pictures for blog posts. Collective fail!
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    12/03/09

    @NoelleBlue: What I want to know is WTF are people wearing that you can even see cleavage at the gym? How can you see cleavage in a well-fitting sports bra and/or tee?
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    Image of NoelleBlue NoelleBlue
    12/03/09

    @Mama Penguino: Perhaps the secret there is in the "well-fitting"? I've seen some fairly plunging fitted workout shirts before! It's usually in those tanks-sports bra combos.

    There are also, of course, the sports-bra-only wearers, whom I salute for their extreme confidence.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    Sooo basically the Battery Park Swim and Fitness club is a place for twelve year olds? Bra-strap snapping? I'm just saying if you're going to SEX HARASS, at least be more creative to really impress the girls, like whipping out a fresh peen and a ruler right after emerging from the pool. Less than 80% rigidity gets an Enzyte coupon!
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    Image of restless restless
    12/03/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Shrinkage!
    Sorry, I keep trying to post an image, won't let me.
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    Image of restless restless
    12/03/09

    @restless:
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/03/09

    @restless: Yes. Mostly this.
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    12/03/09

    @restless: No animated gif? Disappointing.
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    Image of restless restless
    12/03/09

    @Mike Byhoff: Even betterer.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    Oh, that's nothing. I train in what used to be considered a typically all-male sport of MMA, and the comments at dojos and schools are unbelievable. Enough to make a feminist even angrier! Kidding, but the hazing is pretty intense. When I was a beginner, my sensei use to routinely look down my gi and make rude comments about my "girls". Whatever. Dudes didn't realize, I have 3 brothers and a lot of male cousins. I have probably heard everything you could imagine when in comes to nastiness towards females.

    It's time women started sexually harassing men back. Ladies, next time you walk by a construction site, start make comments about their package. It'll totally freak them out.

    Or smack a guy on his ass as he walks by you at your local gym. Or, even worse, walk right up to him and talk to him at close range, then watch him get flustered and tongue-tied. Cat got your tongue? Phhht!!!
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    Pope John Peeps II promoted this comment Edited by restless at 12/03/09 3:18 PM restless was starred restless was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/03/09

    @restless: that sounds like a terrible gym. No respect. And from a teacher? cripes. No discipline at the top means no discipline ever.
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    Image of restless restless
    12/03/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: It is disrespectful and immature, esp. for the amount of money I pay at that dojo. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Needless, I'm looking around at other MMA schools and programs.

    Their arrogance and lack of discipline in that area translates to their students, too. I hear people saying some whack shit to each other that is totally unacceptable. I understand for some people part of fighting is getting psyched up by shit-talking, but it gets outta hand sometimes.

    Whatever. I get to punch 'em in the head eventually so it all evens out in the end ;)
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    12/03/09

    @restless: You could probably sue the shit out of that dojo and put them out of business. You don't have to take crap when you're a paying customer just like the other paying customers. They're treating you so badly because they're assholes who learn only from negative consequences. And so far there's been no negative consequences to them.
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    Image of restless restless
    12/03/09

    @Wrapitup: Yeah, but harassment cases are whack and really hard to prove. There has to be evidence, and it has to be extreme, not just some rude comments. So how do you go about doing that—tape record it? Get first-hand witnesses? I doubt any other students would have the courage to speak up against these guys.

    After all, these are martial artists, and part their program is ruling by fear. Students are there to learn discipline, and some of it will be harsh compared to what is acceptable in say, an office environment. Also, these guys are really young, inexperienced, unsophisticated, also possibly uneducated or from bad working-class neighborhoods—not that that's an excuse. They are like non-university frat boys, and they have all sorts of douchey hazing-type behaviors. The comments I object to the most are the ones about how I look. What am I supposed to do to cover up being a woman?!

    I vote with my feet. And my pocket book. Or simply beat them at their own game, which, happily in my sport, allows for beat-downs!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/03/09

    @restless: It's just bullshit though. I do thai boxing and where I go there's a lot of respect. Anything else just isn't tolerated. Every MMA school out there that raises bullshit idiots just makes the sport look that much worse, like a neanderthal fat farm for violent frat boys rather than a serious, but really fun sport. If it's ever going to advance and be an art MMA has to start embracing the more mental side of things. Good on you for sticking to it. Women who can fight are great.

    Edit: although one thing. Properly, a school should not be run by fear but by respect. A teacher should keep a class in line and should be capable of throwing down if necessary. But if you're afraid of a teacher, that's not a healthy environment.
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    Image of restless restless
    12/03/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Hearted! Thanks so much for your support. It IS a great sport, and I love it. I'm not gonna let a bunch of idiots turn me off from it. It's too bad some "boys" forget there was a scholarly tradition tied to the martial arts: samurais used to be an educated class of warriors. But, we'll prevail. After all, we are fighters.
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    Best workout video

    [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of cpjones cpjones
    12/03/09

    @mfnher: Agreed, it's one of my favorite videos ever as a closeted teenager.
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    12/03/09

    @cpjones: I feel like I need to hit the showers as soon as it hits the 2 second mark.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    You mean that humans are addicted to some bizarre combination of sex and self-destruction leading to an endless self-defeating cycle of self-recrimination, if you listen to SCIENCE? SCIENCE always seems to miss the forest for the SCIENCE trees.
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    Image of sanyucat sanyucat
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    The only thing that's degrading about my gym, the 92nd Street Y, is that sometimes you'll be running on the treadmill and find out via their closed-circuit TV that someone is downstairs is giving a talk -- someone like Elie Wiesel or Bill Clinton or Madeline Albright -- and that you're a vain idiot who will die alone for wanting to run off your chocolate muffin* instead.

    *not a euphemism for anything; actual chocolate muffin
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    Is it me or can anyone else look at this picture and hear our personal trainer du jour uttering a dulcet "C'mon, baby, three more. Daddy needs, that's it, one..c'mon, girl, give it to--two..., now this last one, baby is gonna be all you, that's it, now look at me...There you go. (A pregnant pause.) So, whaddya say the first round of wheatgrass is one me today?"
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    I've concluded that if you eat Twinkies on a treadmill, you'll kind of break even. Also, if you drink whiskey while polevaulting, you'll break even more.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    As long as meth is still an acceptable tool for weight loss, I think we're all OK.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/03/09

    @DahlELama: then we'll have skyrocketing dentist bills. You just can't win!
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    12/03/09

    @DahlELama: Yes. As Helio notes and Dr. Spaceman so eloquently asks on 30 Rock: "How important is tooth retention to you?"
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    12/03/09

    @homoviper: I am always down for crazy surgical options.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    12/03/09

    @Mike Byhoff: Organ reduction and bone shaving!
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    12/03/09

    In reply to Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
    As Andrew Hamilton said, "The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery. Now, put yo titties on the glass, Guuurrrlll!!! U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!!!"
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    12/02/09

    In reply to Related: Smaller Kids Smaller
    But it's the stupid babies that need the most attention.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/01/09

    In reply to Punch Jerks at Work, Urge Scientists
    Fuck yeah! Was just talking about this the other day. So wish we had one free, "punch the front of that guy's face in" pass. Not thousands, but just one golden free pass. So you'd really have to save it up, use it wisely, and knock the ba-dookey hell out of some complete and total piece of turd-flesh.

    *Babies and pregnant women excluded. Bosses, pricks on the subway, racist fear mongers, brown-nosing little twerps with bad hair...all game for the punting.
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    Image of blix blix
    12/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Please call the pass a George McFly.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/01/09

    @blix: Heh. Yeah.

    Not sure what we'd do about Glenn Back though. We'd have to sell tickets...
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    Image of Better to Eat You With Better to Eat You With
    12/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I'm afraid I'd need one pass a year. Can we buy them from really nice people who would never hit anybody?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/01/09

    @Better to Eat You With: See now that's where it gets tricky. If one person has too many than we'd have to find a way to police it. The government might want to then know who and why said person needs to be punched so hard they pee...there could be sanctions and rules...just taking away from the poetic notion of making some asshole really, really, earn the thwapping of his life.

    So complicated.

    We don't want to restrict it. It should be organic. One of those, "You deserve it. You know you do. So brace yourself, fuckface, this will be epic. THWAP!" kind of moments. And then life goes on.
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    Image of Better to Eat You With Better to Eat You With
    12/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: And, you know, in those cases I'm generally prepared for consequences, so this will work out fine.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/01/09

    In reply to How Are We Whipping Our Kids Into Fighting Shape?
    Also, can we finally start tracking gym classes? I get that there are all kinds of arguments why maybe you shouldn't separate smart kids out from lame kids in English, but gym, really?

    If you just let the hyper-competitive jocks be their own god-damn gym class, and let the rest of us do some tai-chi or some shit, everyone would be happier about exercise.
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    12/01/09

    @braak: It seems like a lot of the comments are dealing with chubby teenagers who may have other issues contributing to their disdain for movement - like general adolescence. What about the elementary and tween set where children are more likely to engage in "play" as opposed to "blood sport?" Aren't they equally podgy?

    I'm not sure if this was regional or a sign of the times (I grew up in) but I recall the President's Physical Fitness Program (or something like that) where all of us little ones had to engage in minimal strength training and aerobic exercise in gym class - primarily before middle school. Do programs like this no longer exist?
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