This Morning @ Work

• This Morning @ Work by Gambrinus on 14 Apr, 2010 07:58
• I got to work with a real good friend of mine, who is also B&B  , last night.  People walk up to take over for day shift.  One asked so how did it run last night?.......My buddy says "Well we both had hair at the beginning of the shift"      I don't care who you are that's funny    Just thought I'd share. 
• #1 by D.A.L.U.I. on 14 Apr, 2010 08:15
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  That's great, and I think not only I, but many others, may borrow that one sometime in the future!
• #2 by Argyle on 14 Apr, 2010 08:24
• Someone years ago actually once used that line or a similar one prior to doing a presentation to a group of leisure managers, i.e. he had hair when he started on this project.  It was a great intro actually.
• #3 by D.A.L.U.I. on 14 Apr, 2010 08:34
• Quote from: Argyle on 14 Apr, 2010 08:24

  Someone years ago actually once used that line or a similar one prior to doing a presentation to a group of leisure managers, i.e. he had hair when he started on this project.  It was a great intro actually.
  

  Those guys must have really had a very rough version of "leisure"!   I think I prefer a less intense version, at least since I don't have any more to lose it would seem.
• #4 by Argyle on 14 Apr, 2010 08:37
• It was me working with them that was the challenge!!  I used to manage a project about making the fitness industry more accessible for disabled people.  Had a bit of an impact in the states actually linking with a guy from Chicago.  But trying to make such an image conscious industry include wheelchair users and people with learning difficulties etc was more than a little challenge!
• #5 by pdxtodd on 14 Apr, 2010 08:42
• That's hilarious.   I'm going to use it as my intro for a conference that I'm speaking at next month.   
• #6 by D.A.L.U.I. on 14 Apr, 2010 09:45
• Quote from: Argyle on 14 Apr, 2010 08:37

  It was me working with them that was the challenge!!  I used to manage a project about making the fitness industry more accessible for disabled people.  Had a bit of an impact in the states actually linking with a guy from Chicago.  But trying to make such an image conscious industry include wheelchair users and people with learning difficulties etc was more than a little challenge!
  

  I see the point, although from my long experience as a customer of fitness facilities, I have seen lots of wheelchair users that use the equipment, and unfortunately many other people working out who obviously had "learning disabilities", they just weren't conscious of how badly impaired from a mental point of view they were, at least IMO considering how they conducted themselves.  But seriously, although I've never seen evidence where the "industry" actively seeks participation by such a population, I've never seen them discouraged either.  And, post New Year's Resolution time--lots of people with serious weight issues--to the point of disability--show up, but quickly drop away.   
• #7 by Argyle on 14 Apr, 2010 10:02
• My wife used to work for a commercial fitness chain and they used to send staff out to shopping centres to look for young and attractive people!!  Can you believe it.  Perhaps it is worse in the UK.  Also we had all kinds of problems engaging some of the corporate giants.  In the UK though we have a really big local government fitness sector and they tend to be a little more socially responsible. 
• #8 by D.A.L.U.I. on 14 Apr, 2010 10:19
• I can only speak for New Orleans and the places I've visited traveling for work.  At home, Katrina wiped out my old gym, a really rough and ready place run by a former NFL player.  It wasn't fancy but it had everything anyone could want, free weights, machines, cardio/vascular equipment--bikes, elliptical trainers, etc., indoor track, pool, nice people overall except it had a high number of Steroid Stallions--down to shooting up in the locker room.  But Katrina seriously damaged the building and it was Kaput.  I moved out to a place run by one of the four non-profit hospitals--the only ones that came back after the Storm.  Of course all these accept the disabled and some are there w/ special trainers for disability rehab.  A few others have opened, & I'm thinking of moving gyms--but that's a very serious move for me.
  On the road, a stand alone at the home office in Upstate New York, not too bad & complimentary w/ the hotel we use, in other cities I've found the hotels have a deal w/ Gold's mainly.  They're okay, but due to my nature, nothing like my regular gym, where I can just plug into my iPod, and mindless enter my routine, without  having to look for anything.  But, I've never seen or heard of the "search" for "young and attractive."  That's kind of "sick" in my mind, although a couple of weekends ago another guy & I were the only people in the Hammer Strength room, when a trainer walked in w/ about 8 rather "ample" people and immediately took over a lot of the equipment in a circuit training program.  As we cleared out, I mentioned to the other guy--who is also sly-- that it looked like the old Elizabeth Taylor movie, Elephant Walk.  He put it down to greater numbers for the trainer, more $$$--and he was probably right.  It's one practice there that kind of puts me off, but so did the Muscles & Needles crowd. 
• #9 by revived on 15 Apr, 2010 02:38
• haha that is brilliant!