Gym:Where Everyone Wants To Be You, And You Want To be Everyone

I just love the gym! I had ideas of what my gym experience would be like. I will be surrounded by sexy males and females. People whose bodies are rightly proportioned. A place where I'll meet people who are so obsessed with their own appearance and care for their bodies enough not to want to ruin them.

Although some of those ideas proved to be true, most of them were on the contrary!

People in the gym, the gym I go to at least, are not physically fit. I wanted to find a person in the gym that would inspire me to be like them, but I found none! I may sound a bit critical, but I was a bit disappointed. I had high expectations of what I was going to find in the gym! 

The problems people in gym face are various!

Some people go to the gym without having any idea of what they want to achieve out of their workout sessions. Some people might come and ask you what workout you are performing, if you explain it to them, they want to do it also. I can't help but wonder if that was what they were aiming to do when they decided to come to the gym for that day.

Other people, luckily, have a clear goal of what they want to achieve, but they are using maps that are taking them to the wrong direction. A person may want to increase size, but they resort in having a high level of reps in their sets! While the simple trick that most people apply is that if you want to increase size, you have to perform a set having only 8-12 repetitions. I would give my opinion and my advice, but people who go to the gym have an extra amount of arrogance. So I let them work hard for nothing! OH, I am bad!

The last group of people is the one who have a misconception of what the ladies refer to as a sexy body. I speak for many ladies when I say, ''It's not the upper body and big arms only that make the ladies think that you are good looking.'' I know this guy at my gym who stresses mostly on his upper body. He looks like a human version of Johhny Bravo cartoon, no offense. He has a big upper body but a very embarrassing lower body. His thighs are so small and calves are tiny. So, what kind of body do ladies want? Simple, an X-shaped body. It simply means that you have to have broad shoulders, slim waist and big calves and thighs. So you should have a workout program that focuses on all those body parts!

As on the blogs title, there is another problem that happens in the gym. That problem is that many people want to be other people. I consider myself to have a modest looking body, but  most guys admitted that they want to have a body like mine. Funnily, I want to have their bodies too. I look at a guy and am like I'd like to look like you. How funny. So when a person tells me that they want to have a body like mine, I tell them that I want to have a body like theirs too. 

To cure that problem, I think many people should consider figuring out their goals before hitting the gym. You should undergo some kind of measurements to figure out how you ought to look like. For example, there is a measurement in Bodybuilding.com whereby you put you wrist measurement and they tell you how you're other parts such as  their chest, shoulders and waist should look like.

Another method that I find useful is to have a role-model. For example, My model is the model David Gandy. So, I know his body mass index and ensure that mine matches his. For example, David Gandy's body mass index is 24.3, so to achieve the same body mass index I'd need to weigh at about 73 kilograms. After figuring out his body mass index, I start looking at his measurements. I look at his chest measurements and try to match mine and his. I look at other parts of his body and do the same.

That is all for today, If you want to share your gym experience and problems that people face, you are welcome to comment.

The Misbehaving Cyber-World

I love the cyber-world, but there are sometimes that I want to howl at it. I mean you might have numerous contacts in your phone book but get no phone call. How pathetic! What is the point of having all those numbers if they are going to just be there, like ornaments! I seem to have taken a liking to complain lately, but I do have a reason to. The cyber-world just showed me a bitter-sweet kind of experience.

After long hours of ogling at my computer, I decided to make some useful phone calls. All of them had to do with my college application process. I try to call my number one source of college Information namely Nurdin, but he decided not to pick up. "Maybe he did not hear it," I made an excuse for him. It will be only fair to add that this is the third time that I had tried to call him today. After realizing that I will not succeed getting through Nurdin, I decide to call a backup source of Information namely Akhl. They are both Muslims. But interestingly, she does not pick up also. Maybe they are praying or giving out petitions, after all, it was 6 pm. 

I decided to call my Professor who I totally know that is Christian, or at least his name is a big tell. His name is Professor So. I called for a long time and the last time I did, he hang up on me. My phone's screen just wrote 'Line Busy' which means that he had dismissed my phone call. I have no right to complain, but I have every right to be mad. 

I finally resorted to talking to my uncle. His name is Erc! I called him just to hear my phoned saying that he is not available at the moment and that I should try to call him later. As if I have the time to call him later! I will be so occupied with .... whatever I am usually busy with.

                                                Things turn around    

I actually thought that I had some sort of cyber Ju-ju on me. I usually don't want to make myself focus on such absurd thoughts. So to divert my thoughts, I start playing a brain-racking game called Scrabble. I love that game in so many ways. It also could be that playing it makes me look and fell geeky. And plus, I hate the simple stuff, no offense to anyone reading this who likes simple games. After all it is just someone's choice and preference.

I am so immersed in my game when suddenly a text came from Akhl

Akhl:    Hey Robin

Me:       Hey Akhl, Did you go to college to apply

Akhl:      Yes I did actually.Last week! I had to take my result sleep and deliver it to the admission office. The whole process could take you like a week. What about you?

Me:  I did nothing, I was expecting an SMS or something confirming that I was accepted in college.

Akhl: No silly, you have to  do that tomorrow! Bye....Check you sometime soon!  

I felt like an idiot! I don't know why I didn't know this early. But there is no point of sitting down and pout. With that information in mind, I decided to call my uncle and update him too. This time, he picked up his phone promptly. He seemed a little down, though, but I had to to talk to him. He told me that we will have to talk in some days. That was such a typical accountant method!

I resort to quit the cyber-world and deal with the real world. I started to socialize with my family. Not so long I hear my notification sound beeping like it's on loop. I check my phone to find SMS from four different people. I was happy that after all, my contacts are not ghosts. I wanted to chat, but I was not in the mood. But the thing that I've always learned is that you need to be there for people when they need you. So I decided to heed their call and chat with them.

Our conversations were funny and very informal. It was a typical youngster chat, with all the cliches! 

Although I didn't want to be rude, I had to wish them all good night. I was tired and my phone's battery was running low. A thing about us youngsters is that when you wish them goodnight, they act as if the conversation has just started. That is a good thing. It shows that you have meaningful and funny conversations. But sometimes, a guy just needs to go to bed! And that is what I did. I went to bed and ignored the texts, hope they didn't mind.

While feeling slightly guilty for not replying their texts, I couldn't help but be angry. I was angry with the cyber-world. WHY CAN'T THE CYBER-WORLD BE ACTIVE WHEN YOU WANT IT TO????

 

My New Hobby

Two days ago I woke up to find myself bored and having nothing. I don't want to seem dramatic, but the nothing I meant is that I felt lost. I was and still am on a college holiday, but it seems so long! I have nothing to do, and as you must have guessed, I am an introvert. Maybe that is just something I tell myself so that I miss out on all social invitations. It's not that I cannot handle social encounters, it is just that I feel drained after socializing with people. I usually just want to lay low and enjoy an interesting book or listen to a podcast. So you can say why my holidays seem to suck.

 I mean I can't just wake up early in the morning to do the same things and follow the same schedule. I started to ask myself what I would do that would consume me and  make me so into it that I would not feel lonely. I had a hard time figuring out what to do as a hobby. I considered reading novels  but figured out that I read as a part of my schedule. So reading can't possibly be my hobby because I do it subconsciously. It reached a point that I was about to give up on finding out my calling.

 As soon as I began to lose hope, I decided to procrastinate by watching a TV show. That TV show is so chick-lit, but I found it to be interesting. The TV show is called awkward. It stresses on the life of a girl who seems to have a hard time being a teenage girl. I liked that show because I can relate to that girl in so many ways although I am a guy. The main character of the TV show is Jenna. She is the girl whose life is being portrayed throughout the whole movie. Jenna uses blogging as a way to vent out the stress in her life. I thought it was amazing! So, just like that I started this blog.

 I plan to share my daily experiences and draw out a lesson out of them. I hope and am sure that you can relate to them because if you are a teenager, then we face the same things. Maybe not exactly the same things they can be of the same nature. So this blog is to share my thought with countless fellow youngsters like me worldwide. I hope we can enjoy our cyber-connection together. I will be happy to see all of your comments and experiences.