Things that Make me Go "Hmmm?!"... Monday, July 15

Buying a pair of overpriced pants that, when you bend over just a bit, you can totally see your bum crack.

... hmmm...

You'd think for the price I paid they'd at least give me my money's worth in appropriate clothe.  Now despite my Korean friends saying I have a big bum, I like my Polish tush but I don't care to share it with the world. It's a conspiracy, I say.  A conspiracy between the clothing companies and underwear companies because now I have a to buy particular underwear for these pants.  After shilling out that much cash though for such pants, I can't afford the undies.  

Not running out of soap in our club's bathroom.

... hmmm...

The guys at my club can go through three bars of soap in about 2-3 weeks in the shower but we're still using the same bar or soap in the club bathroom that gets used by all our members -- both guys and gals.  It's been there long before we officially opened too.  Makes me second guess high fiving people.  Perhaps I'll stick to the "good job champ" slap to the bum like originally planned. 

Five out of seven members trying to lose weight say they don't eat after exercising because they're dieting.

... hmmm....

Perhaps the "die" in "diet" should be stressed here because their continuation of such nonscense is surely can't go on for long before their energy totally dies!  I've now taken it upon myself to question most of my members after their training about what they're going to go eat now.  There's a lot more members using our club fridge to store their post training meals and that's great, it's a sure sign that many are listening.  I'd love it if we had just one fridge for all their post-training meals, I'd gladly shill out the money if it got to this point and we needed it.

The whole Korean fascination with the so-called "ideal weight" for a woman -- 49kgs.

... hmmm...

This makes me go hmmmm all the time because trust me, I've seen a 49kg fit woman and then I've seen a 49kg "skinny fat" woman.  Weight is NOTHING.  If people are going to be preoccupied with numbers, they should pay attention to their body fat and body muscle percentages.  Tell that to some members I train though and I know they hear me but I don't think they really listen. 

The fact that you rarely hear Koreans saying a girl is too skinny.  

... hmmm... 

I think it's rather disturbing actually.

A young Korean couple visited our club today and the overly skinny boyfriend told me that his equally skinny girlfriend wants to lose weight. I asked him if he was going to join too and he said his weight was ok -- I asked because I was trying to hint at the fact that perhaps he should gain weight and muscle.  A definite strong hmmm there (with added frowning and me scratching my head too).

Looking at the female fitness models in a Korean magazine vrs a Western magazine, like Oxygen.

... hmmm...

"This is why this woman is in this magazine and not in Oxygen", I told Snickers. Skinny doesn't mean healthy nor is it what I consider fit when it's not accompanied with any kind of evident tone or muscle.  I've noticed a trend in the fitness magazine models -- Korean female fitness models have long legs that reach on for miles and equally long hair, whereas Western female fitness models have abs and shape in their arms.  And as for hair length for Western models -- hello Jamie Eason, one of the top fitness models in the fitness industry today and she sports a super short bob.  Definitely a strong sports women bod is the criteria for the Western magazines.  One of my members said I'd never make it into a Korean fitness magazine and I responded by telling him, "Thank you, I sure hope not".  My legs are too short -- I'm only 5ft 2" -- and I "look strong like man" he told me.  I'll take that as a compliment any day!!!