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Why doesn't anyone stretch at the gym?!
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fakeplastiktree



Joined: 15 Oct 2007
Location: Northeast Seoul
PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:52 pm    Post subject: Why doesn't anyone stretch at the gym?! Reply with quote
Okay, maybe it's just my gym but no one stretches! What's up with that? They just use the belt massager, which, as far as I'm concerned just flaps their fat around. Is this a fairly universal thing for Koreans or it just my gym?
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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030315/tips/5.html
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
haha, they LOVE the belt massager!! AND the sauna.... every time i want to get in the dry sauna, it's full of ajummas reading magazines and no room for me. Sad
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fakeplastiktree



Joined: 15 Oct 2007
Location: Northeast Seoul
PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
the_beaver wrote:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030315/tips/5.html

I mean AFTER exercise. I don't stretch before I exercise.
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fakeplastiktree



Joined: 15 Oct 2007
Location: Northeast Seoul
PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ciccone_youth wrote:
haha, they LOVE the belt massager!! AND the sauna.... every time i want to get in the dry sauna, it's full of ajummas reading magazines and no room for me. Sad

Awww no fair! My gym doesn't have a sauna Sad
Do those belt massagers actually do anything, though?
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
no!!! like you said, they just flap the fat around!! they're hilarious. they were popular back in the 1970's, people thought they could easily lose weight, then they realized it does nothing good. i guess koreans like them because they feel good (as far as im concerned they tickle!).

yea i love the dry sauna, but they never let me in, i swear those ajummas spend like 4 hours straight in there!!
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Dome Vans
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
fakeplastiktree wrote:
ciccone_youth wrote:
haha, they LOVE the belt massager!! AND the sauna.... every time i want to get in the dry sauna, it's full of ajummas reading magazines and no room for me. Sad

Awww no fair! My gym doesn't have a sauna Sad
Do those belt massagers actually do anything, though?


Damn it! Mine doesn't have a sauna either. That's usually the best part of going to a gym is the sauna afterwards. Crying or Very sad

Apparently those flubber flapping machines relocate fat cells. That's why they do it. That was due to some report a couple of years ago which proved that they do something.

I'm more interested in the machine that makes you upside down. Now I see no purpose in that, other than all your internal organs and blood ending up in your skull. What a wonderful feeling!
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
oh i like the upside down machine too!!! i have no idea what it does, but i get a kick out of it. i try to do sit-ups sometimes while on there.

it's something i wouldn't be caught dead doing home....
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lohengrin



Joined: 16 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
the upside down machine is supposed to stretch the kinks out of your spine

anybody else have those vibrating platform machines at their gym?
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
No.... but i've seen them at another gym.

Has anyone noticed the ajummas walking backwards on the treadmills?
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fakeplastiktree



Joined: 15 Oct 2007
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ciccone_youth wrote:

Has anyone noticed the ajummas walking backwards on the treadmills?

LOL....yes!
It always amuses me how the women at the gym barely work up a sweat and talk on their cell phones while they're "working out".
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ciccone_youth



Joined: 03 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
true!! it seems like they only go there to chill out and talk on the phone.