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Question: Every January my husband heads off to the gym. He manages to make it through for a few weeks. He moans, he groans and we all suffer while he is trying to ‘get back in shape’. Then his enthusiasm begins to subside and little by little he finds his way back into the recliner every evening. I know he would feel better if he kept up the workouts and we waste a lot of money on a gym membership that only gets used a few times a year.
Answer: There are certain genes that men were born with. Fortunately females escaped those particular genes. One is the ‘jumping up to touch every awning that they walk under’ gene. The second is the ‘grunting’ gene. When you are in the gym, you never hear a female grunt because we were not blessed with that gene. The third gene is the worst. This gene causes the male to actually believe that if the heaviest thing he has lifted in the last year is the remote, he can enter the workout world, conquer it in a week and pretend he is back in college.
I can always tell these workout jocks. They workout the first work day after January 1 and when you see them the next day, they cannot straighten out their arms. By the end of the week, they are having trouble straightening up. They decide to take a couple of days off to let the wounds heal and the best place to heal is.....the recliner. That’s all she wrote until the next January.
You will probably never be able to change your man unless he agrees to some serious counseling. Just make sure the ibuprofen is handy and the heating pad is working. It won’t do any good to nag or make suggestions. He has to reach his own conclusions and solutions about getting in shape and staying healthy.
If you want to try something new this year, you could purchase him a few sessions with a personal trainer for Christmas. Maybe if he got some pointers on how to workout properly and systematically, he might just continue using that gym membership for the entire year. It’s worth a try.
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