Word: workouts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With winter barely over, wannabe hardbodies around campus are racing to lose those midnight-munchie pounds. But like most workout endeavors, a trip to the MAC hardly satisfies this desire for immediate gratification. During "peak" times (7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekends), one can expect to wait half an hour for any given piece of butt-blasting equipment...
...veterans recognize the futility of sign up sheets in reserving the coveted machines. The successful workout warrior eyes the prospects, stakes out his or her territory, then plies the line-waiting trade with the cunning born of years of experience...
...More anxious types pace back and forth behind their target treadmill, conspicuously checking the user's workout time. Exercisers respond to these pesky onlookers in a variety of ways. Some smile and acknowledge their presence, while most covertly shield the time window with a sweatshirt or book. Yet another blatantly restarts her machine when she reaches the limit...
...When he skated, I watched in awe," Weinstein recalls of his coach. "When I was 12, during Olympic trials, he wrote my workout program. From then on, we started working together...
After introducing myself, I entered the room without bowing (a newbie faux pas) and started stretching out. We began to warm up, and the workout combined with my nervousness and the MAC's armpit-hot rec rooms led to copious amounts of sweat. Pig-like would have been an accurate description, but I was trying to avoid too much self-deprecation...