Gym Etiquette 101: Handling Space Invaders
There are many ways to invade someone’s space at the gym or to have yours invaded. CONVERSATIONS Someone reading a book or wearing headphones and [...]
Gym Etiquette: Sweating and Hydrating
Sweat happens. An article published in the Huffington Post in August, 2013[1] said that each of us has two to four million sweat glands. That’s [...]
Gym Etiquette 101: Coming Out of the Closet
It is time to come out of the closet…in clothing terms, of course. CLOTHES Exercise clothes shouldn’t be too tight or too baggy. Jocks, if [...]
Gym Etiquette 101: Texting and Tweeting
Texting or tweeting (we’ll call it TT for short) while seated on a weight bench does not count as exercise. Your fingers probably don’t need [...]
Gym Etiquette 101: the pet peeves
A gym is much like an adult playground, so it’s good to know how to get along with the others in the sandbox. Instead of [...]
Strengthen Your Body & Your Character: Embracing Gym Etiquette
We like to think of ourselves as inhabiting a civilized world, living in a time and place where extending such courtesies to those around us would be a natural course of action. However, as any of us who have ventured past our own front steps can attest, such behaviors are sorely lacking in many realms, including, sadly, the gym.