To Gym or Not to Gym??

Well I must admit this was NOT easy for me... Maybe the Kodachaadri experience provoked me or maybe it was the BPCL issue (Which I still maintain is non-existent)... But despite the many taunts/ good wishes/ non-caring insults, I maintain again I did this out of 2 reasons:-
1) Utter Boredom in holidays
2) Hey I need to lose some weight and its not a state secret

So on November 18 I decided to go join the gym again after a nearly 3 year gap (Thats right I used to go to the gym since I was 15, No wonder I am of average height..Sigh) and this time it was a lot better as I could handle some work-out techniques I couldnt earlier. Also I now got 3 friends there to help breeze through the ~1.75 hrs of daily action: Or so I thought!!

Take a look at the center stage of the Zen Gym:-

Believe me its an impressive place, proof being the joining here of erstwhile members of 2 other gyms in surathkal.. This place has close to 300 members (Maybe more, I really do not know) and all sorts of people come here- The hunks and the.. ahem.. pudgy! So the immense density drives us to come early afternoon (2 pm) and stay till we are physically exhausted (4 pm). But lest you be fooled by the 2 hours of intense workout, let me break the bubble and let you know that the average work out time is closer to 1 hour than 2.. :D

So here I am trying to lose weight while also developing a muscular structure (WTF??? Sounds ironic but entirely true) but then I realised why my friends are Rated-R for once you remove "r" from "friends" you get "FIENDS"... Brrrrr... When Darshan (1 of the other 3) kept telling me Shiva & Gokul (You guessed it, the other 2) kept overkill with excess weights during the work-outs I dismissed him as an exxagerant- Woe is me when I felt the shoe on the other foot! After 2 weeks I must lost more water (Sweat you fools!) than ever before, and surely I am fitter now. But about the weight I am a skeptic, my trainer promises a miracle drug of sorts which I am to get soon.. Lets see what happens!

P.S We are not small punks working out for no reason, the other 3 hit weights very few people do and I am getting there slowly and steadily! Here is Darshan at the Shoulder/Chest machine:-

A glimpse of Gokul in the mirror and I was handling the camera obs.. Shiva was, well, getting his favourite music CD on the player!