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fakeplastiktree
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Location: Northeast Seoul
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 Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: Why doesn't anyone stretch at the gym?! |
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| 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
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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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.  |
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fakeplastiktree
Joined: 15 Oct 2007
Location: Northeast Seoul
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: |
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I mean AFTER exercise. I don't stretch before I exercise. |
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fakeplastiktree
Joined: 15 Oct 2007
Location: Northeast Seoul
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| 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. |
Awww no fair! My gym doesn't have a sauna
Do those belt massagers actually do anything, though? |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:02 am Post subject: |
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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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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| 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. |
Awww no fair! My gym doesn't have a sauna
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. 
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
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: |
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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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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:19 am Post subject: |
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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
Location: Northeast Seoul
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| 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
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: |
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true!! it seems like they only go there to chill out and talk on the phone... i never take my cell phone into the gym area, i think it's odd.
i also tried walking backwards but it's kind of difficult! |
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anyangoldboy
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| it's good to lenghten out your stride...that's why they do it...There is something good about it...A lot of sports people have to run backwards when they play sports like nfl and nba |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Dome Vans wrote: |
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 tried googling "belt massager" but it was just a whole bunch of trying to sell me one. Where's the info? |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Draz wrote: |
| Dome Vans wrote: |
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 tried googling "belt massager" but it was just a whole bunch of trying to sell me one. Where's the info? |
Phew, that took a bit of searching!!
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=102896&start=0
Not too sure still if it's true. |
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