Loud Training

StartFragmentI have a feeling that the life of a personal trainer in a gym is very similar to that of a hairdresser, and by that I mean they all see many "clients" everyday and feel they have to make social chit chat with each one of them. At the gym I go to almost daily, not because I'm fat you understand but because I like hanging out in gyms, there is a male personal trainer who has the loudest conversational voice I have ever heard. I have tried pumping loud music straight into my ears with headphones, but even that fails to block him out. Most of the people in the gym can hear this guy, in fact most of the people in the car park can hear him, so if your having a social chit chat with him as his "client" the one thing its not going to be is private.

Now from what I can make out he has each client for about 20 minutes, I have worked this out because I do 60 minutes on the spinning bike and I hear him go through the same story three times. In fact my research has indicated that on average he changes his story every 9 days, which means as I go to the gym almost daily and do an hour on that bloody bike each time, I can look forward to hearing the same story 27 times.

On the long run up to Christmas I heard how he was going to the UK for Christmas and then Holland for the New Year, I even picked up that he was planning to drive from London to Leicester for a bit of an adventure. Needless to say Christmas came and instead of a break from this constant barrage of chit chat, the guy was still at the gym every day. So obviously his trip to the UK had fallen through or it had just been idol chitchat, either way I was disappointed, I was looking forward to some quiet training time. EndFragment

Then after Christmas, I heard how he had had every illness known to man, and indeed walked around with various bits of metal inserted into his body. Then there was the domestic dispute with the mother of his child, a fairly lengthy description of how he needed to get away for a few days and that he preferred two nights away as opposed to one. His thinking being that by the time he had driven somewhere he did not start to unwind until the next day and if he was only away for one night he has to come home just when he is starting to unwind. Thrown in amongst this was his expert view of how he thought our local rugby side was going to fair during the up coming Super 14 season and more recently his view on the BAFTA winners. If my theory is correct and I know it is, I am just bloody glad I have not had the need to go to the barbers for over 20 years.EndFragment