Going to the gym ruins your hearing...apparently
There's not much about a gym that's all that damaging to hearing. I mean...you do go to that one that prohibits making excess noise and clanking stuff around.
Ah, but that's merely a small reason people go to that particular gym. People are mostly there to get free bagels and watch TV. There's also "That Guy" who's there mostly to walk around and talk to people while they go through their workouts and tell them what a great workout he's going to have, but never seems to do anything. But back to the TV watching bit...
Cardio sucks. You're largely stationary while pretending to run, bike, climb stairs, or do whatever goofy motion an elliptical trainer is supposed to resemble. You never actually get anywhere, the scenery never changes, and you have to do this for at least 20 minutes. If you're like me, anything more than about three minutes of doing this kind of stuff and accomplishing nothing is roughly intolerable. To fix this, gyms have installed tvs all over the place so you can at least watch something changing while your immediate surroundings are fixed. When the local sports channel would show the condensed replays of the previous night's hockey game, this was about the best thing ever, but they've stopped doing that in favor of (and I'm not making this up) a TV show showing 2 guys in a radio studio doing a radio show where they talk about sports. This is a disgrace. Here I am, moving while not moving watching two guys on TV who are actually on the radio not moving talking about other people moving. It's maddening. There's precious little else worth watching at that hour of the morning, but I digress.
Once you've decided on a channel to watch, you plug in your headphones and allow the world to disappear. The problem here is one of three things:
- Either my $10 gym headphones from Walmart are far superior to everyone else's
- People at the gym no longer have any sense of hearing
- The gym is full of people trolling the next innocent schmuck who happens to use that particular piece of cardio equipment
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