It was a dark Monday morning when I laced up my shoes and drove to the gym, all the while dreading my workout. My eyes started to droop as I walked up the staircase, and I stopped in my tracks. I ...

One of the biggest reasons I don't like going to the gym, besides actually having to go to the gym and do something other than sitting on a yoga mat, is that I don't like being judged. The ...

Pursuing a hot body became as much a part of my past as estrogen. I began to love my no-frills gym and all its members in their spectacular ordinariness. Tracy Brady is a communications executive, ...

I'm sure I'm a big hit on the aerobics equipment at the gym. Almost everyone is hardwired into an iPod or fixated on the overhead television. A few on the bicycles are reading a newspaper or magazine.

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