It's scientifically proven that exercise releases endorphins and endorphins are linked to the feeling of happiness. Thus, exercise makes you happy. It's free therapy. And because when you exercise you sweat and sweat is the result of increasing your body's temperature, exercise also keeps you warm. It's also free heat. I vouch that exercise, more specifically exercising at Hulk's during the winter, is also a true testimony to who really wants it -- who really wants to change and transform their body into a better, stronger, healthier version. So in a way, it's also a free indicator to us coaches.
It was a slow day. It was a predictably slow day because it was also a snow day. The temperature outside took a drastic sharp drop and snow arrived in an overdose amount. I woke up today and was shocked to be greeted by snow flurries and a nasty chill. Consequently, the club had gone from feeling like a refrigerator to that of a freezer over night. Despite the extreme nasty chilly weather outside and inside the club, the more hardcore of members showed up for training, all 26 of them. It was our lowest attendance in months and we expect this week to be a slow week as members adjust to this nasty cold winter weather. "Santa heard your wish to go to Canada so he brought it to you here in Korea", one member joked to me. "Stupid Santa," I responded, "I wanted my friends and family to come, not Canada's weather!"
I was supposed to start my Marcothon 2014 challenge today with a morning run but that definitely didn't happen when a couple of friends woke me up super early with their concerned texts about the icy running conditions outside. I'm all about the winter running, it's my favourite, but running on ice isn't exactly running. It's called sliding and waiting for that much anticipated fall on the tail bone. One of the rules of the Marcothon is that if you're not already doing treadmill running then don't start but given the fact that Korea is absolutely brutal with it's lack of snow plowers and salting of roads, I really had no choice. Ran on the treadmill today and was reminded just how much I majorly dislike it. For forty minutes I ran with really nothing to look at by my own reflection in the mirror starring back at me and for forty minutes I fought the ever-growing temptation to step off the treadmill and yell "forget this!".
Work ended with our late night cute couple that comes in around 11pm and then we started our Monday night party. "Why the Monday night party?" many ask, well who likes Mondays? Exactly, most don't. So while Monday may get a bad wrap by most, we celebrate it because it's usually our busiest day and why not celebrate it?! Mondays are very good to us so to kick off the start of a fresh new week and our most successful day, we have an after hours party. Today we didn't have much to celebrate in that it was slow today at the club but some members showed up late in the evening expecting and wanting to celebrate. Our party started right at midnight, went till a little after 2am and ended with members seriously asking us if they could sleep over... hahaha. "I think you'll freeze to death" was my excuse as to why they couldn't and I really wasn't joking. If you think it's cold in the club when there are people here and the coal burner is roaring, try being here when everyone is gone, the temperatures outside drop and the coal burner dies down. Starting tomorrow night, we will have to wake up every 2-3 hours to run the water in the club for a few minutes -- the juice bar tap, the guy's group shower room taps, the girl's shower room tap, and the washroom tap. Waking up every 2-3 hours is brutal but what's worse is waking up to frozen taps and then having to figure out how to thaw out frozen pipes or call in the professionals if it gets too bad, like it did last year... twice.
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