How to Get Hit on in the Gym

Just go to a “regular” gym and do some CrossFit.

Or, not even some CrossFit, just some Olympic Lifts.

Or, not even some CrossFit or some Olympic Lifts but a Burgener warmup with a wooden pole.

Or, not even some CrossFit or some Olympic Lifts or a Burgener warmup but some simple shoulder mobility pass-throughs.

“That looks tough,” a (cute) guy said to me as I did my shoulder rotations with the pole. I smiled. I mean, it is tough. But it’s tough like rolling out your muscles is tough, not like clean-and-jerking 135 pounds is tough.

Then I began the Burgener in earnest, and when I got to the overhead squats, another guy, a (cute) trainer, said, “wow, that’s awesome.” I said, “it’s just a wooden bar,” and he said, “It’s hard enough to isometric squat like that without even anything!”

True.

I got into another gym today (I’m trying out all the gyms in Aspen) and hit the weights. It’s not set up much for Olympic lifting, so I was in the middle of the floor, next to all the big guys doing 100# dumbbell presses (really. he asked another guy to spot him.), with all the skinny-boob-jobbed ladies on the cardio machine staring down from the balcony. Sigh. Aspen.

Anyway, I had a sweet workout, got to lift heavy weights and sweat and be reminded that CrossFit, as mainstream as it’s becoming, it still so far off some people’s radars it’s ridiculous.

Also, girls still don’t snatch or clean-and-jerk, ever. But I do! 😀