NANCY'S GYM - clothing optional

I'm back to running on the treadmill in my underpants only. That is why I hated the gym - too many rules for clothing.  Well, that and germs up the wazoo!  It's why, after selling mine before moving across the country, I recently purchased another. [To Big D and all those that use their treadmills for clothes hangers...I actually use mine!]  I teased one of my daughters that she couldn't run in just her skivvies.  God blessed her with way more up top than me.  She laughed at the reality of that for both of us.

 

Most things we ever think have already been thought up, created and then acted upon.  The majority of us are too late in our idea implementation to make a few billion with the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg or the inventor of Post-its!  I've had a few great ideas-innovative notions, but my husband has had a plethora!  Too bad capital or time got in the way.  If not, Doug would have been the innovator of video stores in the 1980's when here were none. Unfortunately recent times have shown us how video rental stores eventually landed - Blockbuster is bust. 

 

If there are such things as nudist gyms, they are not in my locale.  It seems gyms do sometimes cater to certain groups - hard core bodies, middle aged woman, those on a budget, one gender only gyms, etc...   I find the temperature way too hot in most gyms.  The temperature should be a cool 60 degrees with a breeze constantly blowing.  Clothes just increase anyone's body temperature!  If you can get cooler you can push harder, go further.

 

I wondered before work today, as I ran in my underpants totally unabridged, how much better treadmilling is without the constraints of clothes!  There is something wild and free about sweat pouring down you.  It also cuts down on the amount of sweaty clothes that have to be washed.  Likewise, there is something motivating about not wearing anything but panties - you see your flesh in motion!  If that's not a motivator then I don't know what is.  I'm thinking it may motivate the contestants on "The Biggest Loser" to work even harder.  Ratings may drop though. 

 

A client of mine, in her late eighties, was recounting to me how she knows she will need to have a care giver down the road.  Due to arthritis and injury she struggles to get her clothes on daily.  She has a wicked sense of humor - just my cup of tea she is.  I replied,  "Well, maybe just don't wear any clothes if you're not going anywhere."  Her response, "No one wants to see old flesh.  I don't even want to see my own.  It's not pretty, that's all I can tell you!"

 

Some of you might be laughing.  Others have a gross mental picture in your head of anyone running in only their pantaloons.  To others this has piqued your curiosity as to the possibility of wanting to try your own treadmill - clothes or no clothes!

 

It's a new year - time for new things, new motivations, new experiences.  Go head, try it.  At the very least try removing the wardrobe from your treadmill.