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[frogrocket]

I joined a Korean Gym.

Deciding in my last 12 weeks to become G.I. Jane due to the fact that there is nothing else to do!

Today I was at the Gym, and apart from the normal Korean guys going out on the balcony for a smoke break inbetween weight reps and blowing the smoke back into the gym for those trying to exercise.....

I saw the GREATEST THING TODAY! One guy was sweating like a fiend. He reaches over and grabs a large carton of milk...MILK!!!!! Can you imagine exercising and drinking milk?!?!?!?!

REFRESHING!!!!

Ohhhhhhhhh Korea!

[Swiss James]

At my gym they serve beer- mmmm nothing like a Cass when you're on the treadmill.

[paperbag princess]

sweet, nothing like drinking a beer while doing an interval run!

[Blind Willie]

[Swiss James]

did you used to work in advertising Willie?

[katydid]

I'll never forget the woman in the loker room who was wearing bright yellow eyeshadow and had to have a ciigie before she began her workout.

[Zyzyfer]

[eamo]

[kidcharlemagne]

i sometimes drink soymilk when working out - lots of protein which is good for muscle growth.

[Lou3511]

okay frogrocket, just to rebuff the last few posters . . . no, i CANNOT imagine drinking milk while working out. i'd say less than 5% (probably less than 2%) actually drink milk WHILE working out. it is definitely anything BUT refreshing. and about soymilk having a LOT of protein??? a definite overstatement - more than regular milk, no-less, but far from a LOT. i mean, the amount of protein in a GALLON of soymilk is sufficient to help promote muscle growth after (or during, if you prefer) a workout, but i doubt few (if any) would be finishing much of a workout after drinking a gallon of any type of milk.

drinking milk while working out is definitely strange, no way around that.

beer . . . more funny than strange. but funny in the "that's just korea" kind of way.....

[Poker-Guy]

By far the strangest thing I have ever seen at a Korean gym is weightlifters shaving each others' pubes off. I work in a university that is well known for the steroid pumped weightlifters it produces. After my workout oneday I went to take a shower and a group of guys were in there shaving each others' privates clean. Go figure! I guess it's to prevent the sight of a bush as they pose. But couldn't they have done this on their own? Or at least at home?

[Zyzyfer]

[Swiss James]

[phaedrus]

[mindmetoo]

From the you know you're in Asia file: Seeing a man jogging and smoking at the same time.