Tuesday, May 16, 2006

it's a robot thing...

Was at the gym yesterday…alone...and being rather tired of doing resistance training (read: lift weights) all by myself, I attended a Bodycombat class.

Well…this was my third Bodycombat lesson and it’s interesting how different instructors teach the same class differently. They all seem to target different parts of the body…I know, because I’ve been aching in different parts for every class.

Anyway, yesterday’s class seemed to target the upper chest and shoulder blade…for now, I can hardly shrug without feeling some degree of pain. But, no matter.

To cut a long story short, I discovered not only was I not very fit (I was panting like a dog after 20mins and even zz doesn’t pant so much), but that humans have come to be so dependent on the system of things that they have ceased to become thinking beings. More or less, that is.

I think that we have become so used to being told what to do, when to do it and how to do it, that we have conveniently stopped thinking altogether. We’ve all become mindless robots! It was never as glaringly obvious as yesterday, toward the end of my Bodycombat class.

Here’s what happened.

We were warming down and were doing some very light exercises, i.e. leg raises and tummy crunches. After a series of rather taxing leg raises, the instructor started beating her butt to help ease the muscle tension that had been accumulating there. You know, the massaging kind…whereby you gently hit the achy area to relieve tension?

And guess what? The entire class started to do the same. The people were copying the instructor’s reflex action of easing muscle ache.

And mind you, it wasn’t part of the Bodycombat syllabus…because I caught her very brief snort of disbelief that the entire class (with the exception of a few) was following her reflex action of…beating their butts!!

It was so funny!!!

Robots! We’re all becoming unthinking, stupid robots, I tell you.

XxX,

audrey at 17:26

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