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That wonderful glow you feel when leaving the gym
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Over the decades, I've done some swimming, some dance/yoga classes, and a smidgen of gym work.
I've emerged from the gym, feeling sometimes exhausted, but usually also feeling a kind of pleasant glow. I'd always associated it with a body exercised and a satisfaction well earned.
I'm currently catsitting for friends. They're abroad, and I pop in to feed the cats and make sure the house is alright.
Because there are problems with the heating in my house, they've said I was welcome to use their shower. As it's a marbled bathroom the size of my second bedroom, with heated marble floor and ginormous powerful shower, I'm naturally more than happy to use it.
Anyhow, trotting back home, I suddenly realise that I've got that "after gym glow" feeling. And then the realisation sets in that all those years of thinking that it's a glow well earned was a flawed assumption, and it's merely me feeling well scrubbed, warm, and walking outside whilst feeling like that! Doh.
I've emerged from the gym, feeling sometimes exhausted, but usually also feeling a kind of pleasant glow. I'd always associated it with a body exercised and a satisfaction well earned.
I'm currently catsitting for friends. They're abroad, and I pop in to feed the cats and make sure the house is alright.
Because there are problems with the heating in my house, they've said I was welcome to use their shower. As it's a marbled bathroom the size of my second bedroom, with heated marble floor and ginormous powerful shower, I'm naturally more than happy to use it.
Anyhow, trotting back home, I suddenly realise that I've got that "after gym glow" feeling. And then the realisation sets in that all those years of thinking that it's a glow well earned was a flawed assumption, and it's merely me feeling well scrubbed, warm, and walking outside whilst feeling like that! Doh.
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Sounds like a great discovery to me - all the glow and none of the effort!0
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I feel like that when I come out of the swimming pool. I think it's the combined effect of a lung full of bleach fumes, 15 minutes hopping around a cold changing room trying to pull my jeans over my wet legs, and the blast of freezing air from walking to the car park!
Still, it's certainly bracing and it does give me a lovely "healthy" glow!"I may be many things but not being indiscreet isn't one of them"0 -
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Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »The trouble I find is that glow, together with the bleach fumes, really gives me a craving for chip shop chips with loads of salt......
Oh great - now I've got a craving for chips with salt n vinegar... bang goes the diet!:hello:0 -
Just pay your friends £50 a month to use their shower twice a month for the fully virtuous gym glow
Maybe £45 with cat feeding discount.0
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