I’m currently having to go to a different gym because my regular one is being renovated and is closed for 10 days. Nightmare.
Although it has amused me at the Other Gym (it’s the big UK chain rival, the competition is fierce…) to see so many faces I recognise from my darling Gym Group Hastings looking as bewildered as I feel.
And frankly, furious.
Nothing’s in the right place… The rowing machines are weird… It doesn’t have the right kind of medicine balls (they’re too hard). There’s only one water fountain and you have to go upstairs to use it. If they’re doing a class in the ‘studio’ you can’t get at the 2-8 kilo hand weights.
There’s only one clock in the whole damned place (I need to time minutes without fiddling with my phone) and it’s weird and unhelpfully positioned. The Gym Group gym has two clocks with clear second hands on both walls, so you can see one whichever direction you’re facing and can count your minutes with zero hassle.
Munter munter munter.
With all this irritation, I…
