Tonight I added a few stationary weight machines to my routine at the gym, a couple upper-body ones, and one where you stand, lean forward on a padded block and push with one leg at a time backwards, so that it is extended behind you. It feels like I would imagine water ballet feels. ("Ballet" sounds inflated but I don't know what else to call it.)
While I was waiting for one of the ab machines, I talked to a woman who told me she's 59, and had been away from the gym for a couple years and was just getting back into it. But she has a boyfriend, 37, who keeps her young. She's french/Spanish, and he's Jamaican, 6'4" and has two kids of his own.
I've found that since I stopped wearing headphones at the gym, I have a lot more conversations with people.
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