#vindikstom: gyms that are like a club

I would love to be such an incredibly fit girl who gets her positive energy from exercising and can't go a day without it. Sounds delightful. Unfortunately, the reality is different: I often find myself on the tennis court, which I really enjoy, but those extra little workouts I do on the side are purely so I can eat and drink what I want. Every time I arrive at one of those classes, I feel like I'm the only one there.

What is this trend that suddenly every gym wants to have the vibe of a club? To start with, I'm as night-blind as they come, so I can't see a thing in such a dark hole, but I can't say anything about it because the music is so loud that no one can hear me anyway. Am I in the Chin Chin Club or in the Saints & Stars? Who's to say?

You can't see the difference in the outfits, because nowadays the majority gets ready to work out. Full faces of makeup, tight high ponytails in matching sets... And then there's someone like me, who is just happy to be there at all, with a bare-faced look and a shirt that absolutely doesn't match my workout pants. Once, I tried to cover up my dark circles before working out, but since my face always turns so red, it became a very strange color combination with the light concealer, and I looked completely unpresentable.

How do those girls do it? I always sweat buckets and my face is like a lobster, but when I look around, everyone else always looks good enough to eat. Did they do the same class as me or did they just walk in?

That's the only advantage of those dark spaces: no one can see that I'm really a fish out of water, or at least I feel that way. I'll be glad when this hype is over, because my ears can't handle that pounding music too well either — and within five seconds, I'm so overstimulated by all the lights and bass sounds that I just want to dive back into bed. Can all those impressions be a little less for this grandma?