Mason West
March 16, 2017 04:16
The difficult part about LA Fitness was getting past the employees, one of whom wanted to put me in a training program appropriate for a high school football player who didn't make the grade for the Longhorns. My approach to physical fitness might be so casual that it's invisible to the steroidal chap who put me through his paces, but I survived his hard sell for a personal trainer, and I was cut loose on the spa-like, remarkably clean, and comfortable facilities of LA Fitness. A host of machines stand ready to challenge any muscle I care to flex, and any given series of machines will flex every muscle. There are free weights and machine weights, treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, and rowing machines. A major selling point for me was the pool because I can work my muscles and be contemplative all at once. I don't know if it does anything for fitness, but I love the sauna with its dry heat and smell of baking redwood as a treat for climbing whatever hill I set before myself that day.