Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Men Are Hotter In The Morning?

Maybe it's just my gym, but I've found that hotter guys tend to be at the gym first thing in the morning compared to the evening crowd. There also seems to a drastic attitude difference between the two. It's almost as if the guys in the mornings are there to actually work out and the guys in the evening are more concerned with scoping the scene and posing. Of course, that Stand & Model approach to gym time has absolutely nothing to do with the around 70-80% of members being Friends of Dorothy… I'm sure that has no effect on the attitude...

I've come to quite like gyming in the mornings though. The people are more pleasant, there's less of them, and as I mentioned above they are much hotter, which is a key motivator in the "I want to look like that" department. The pleasantness could be due more to it being 5:30 am which means no one in there is quite awake yet, but still… having less people in the gym is quite nice too.

I know my husband thinks I'm insane for getting up at 5am just to go to the gym, but the way I figure it is I either do that or go in the evenings which usually takes me longer due to the crowds in the gym. Not to mention I'm just generally annoyed with life by the time my work day is done and I've sat on the CTA for an hour and a half. Oh, and the mens just aren't as hot.

I still go in the evenings sometimes, usually because when my alarm goes off at 5 am my body and mind tell me that I must go back to sleep for another hour, but I'm trying to phase that out and make my mornings more gym centric. I also like that there are fewer reasons to not go to the gym that early compared to the evenings. At night there's always something I that need to do, someone we need to meet, or dinner that needs to be cooked, but not so in the mornings so if I go in the AM then I can be free to entertain or play house husband for the evening.

The downside is that 5 am is hella early. Yes, working out gets my blood pumping and wakes me up and provides some energy for the day, but by noon or so I'll be dragging bad. Nothing that some coffee or tea can't fix, but still, I'd rather not have to rely on caffeine to get through the day.

So, I sum this us thusly:

Working out in the morning Pros
Hot guys
Less crowded gym
Pleasantness
More time in the evenings

Working out in the morning Cons
It's damn early
I have to get up early
Crazy people are up early
I might be tired throughout the day, due to waking up early

2 comments:

River said...

Where the heck you work out, at my cardinal gym I'm the hottest guy there, and that is not an ego thing. A bunch of old dudes...and the women...not much better.

Then again I go to the gym to become healthier, the eye candy doesn't matter to me.....but it doesn't hurt. ;)

Cubbyish said...

It's a gym in the city, right near my place. To be fair, my neighborhood is pretty young in general, and lots of gays live in my 'hood too. We don't have as many old foggies as you 'burbs kids do!