Fact of life: there will always be douches at the gym. It is always these douches that will ruin the gym experience and I think some people don’t want to go to the gym because of these douches and their judgmental douche attitude. Knowing this, you now can take steps to make sure you aren’t one of these douches. Or you can read along and feel/share my pain.

I will split these up into the order of when you will see these douche behaviours at the gym. These are the ones I have personally experienced and if you yourself have been a victim of gym douchiness please comment below.

1. Girls with Makeup

This isn’t a douchy behaviour that will hinder me at the gym but it’s still a vain douche thing to do. I’m going to put it out there: if you are working out with make up on, just stop.

Until very recently I was doing a full time summer job and this meant I had to get to the gym by 6:00 am, my gym happens to be an all women’s gym. This isn’t by any large bit of planning, it’s just the closest gym to my house. Anyway, when I get there, there are only about 4 women working out – so pretty empty for a two-storey gym. I then go to the locker room and there I see three girls all applying their makeup and straightening their hair! This isn’t after they have finished but just as they are about to work out.  I know this because they are always on the treadmills next to me.

So my question is WHY?! Excluding you there are five other women sweating it out and about 2 staff members. Why is it so important to impress these seven people? Is it a comfort thing? Because I know that you probably had to get up extra early to do all of that and that isn’t exactly comfortable.  Also we sweat at the gym and because we are running – it is impossible for that not to happen – so why would you want to worry about runny mascara? That also doesn’t sound comfortable to me.

There is also the question of straightening your hair. WHY are you straightening your hair that goes up into a pony tail and that will get messy as you work out anyway? I hope you do realise you will probably want to straighten your hair afterwards?

Actually if you are a girl that wears make up at the gym and/or straightens hair at the gym, can you tell me why? I promise I won’t attack you, it is just so baffling to me!

2. People who judge/make things a competition

I’ve been going to the gym long enough that I put myself through decent levels of difficultness.  In other words you can say that I’m in the healthy/average category of fitness. I’m pretty proud of that considering how rubbish I was two years back.

I like to push myself and feel a sense of achievement when I get to a higher level/can go for a longer time. So as you can see this is about personal achievement. I thought that is the way to go about the gym, but apparently not!

So, so, so many people have to look at your screen as you are working out! It is ridiculous. There are middle aged women smirking slightly because they cycle faster than me, or can run faster than me. It’s also annoying when they are doing the smirking thing, and running faster than you but are also running on flat road. Lady, if you stopped looking at my freaking screen and looked at the gradient of my treadmill you will see that I’m running uphill.

If I do happen to go faster than Miss Screen Peeker beside me, she amps up her speed. This is quite hilarious as they tend to overdo this and two minutes later have to go back to walking pace while I keep my pace.

3. Stealing Showers

This has only happened to me once, but it was enough of a douche move that deserves to be on the list.

So I had just finished my work out and I went to the locker to grab my things for the shower. I put my things, neatly folded on shower stall bench and hung up my towel. This also happen to be the last shower stall available.  I then realised I forgot my water bottle. I quickly got out of the locker room and grabbed it. As I returned I see my clothes on the bench outside the stalls but no towel, I turned to where the shower was and I saw that it was still unoccupied and my towel was still hanging over the shower door. .

So logically I took my clothes and moved to the shower area.  As soon as I got to the door, this chick, from out of freaking nowhere cuts me off and says “Sorry, but this is my stall.” She then proceeds to close the door in my face. What a cow.

She didn’t explicitly say it, but I can put two and two together, and so I say she is probably the same chick who put all my clothes out of the stall. At least they were still neatly folded (note sarcasm).

4. People taking up more room at mirrors then necessary.

In the gym locker room I’m at there is a mirror the length of the wall and then there is a counter underneath as long as the mirror is. There is ample space but for whatever reason, some people still take up a third of that space.

So imagine that there is woman just putting her make up on after she has hit the gym. She has the contents of her makeup bag strewn left and right of her and also has her face towel and water bottle a mile away from her, leaving plenty of space between the items. She has her giant gym bag on the counter, which is just… there. She doesn’t need it right now or even 15 minutes later. She needs it after she has gotten herself prepped to leave the gym – it could have been perfectly fine on the floor. This woman is also standing in front of one of the three hairdryers. Two of the hairdryers are currently in use.  She has finished using the one she is in front of, but can’t even shuffle two steps so someone else can use it. Now try to factor personal space between the woman’s items and your own and there goes a third of the space.

Usually you will meet one of these people in the peak hours, sometimes even two. It’s just a really douche thing to do! There is no other explanation except for being selfish and inconsiderate of others.

Take note of these four things and avoid it like the plague, unless you aspire to be a douche. Also be prepared for this sort of behaviour – it’s a douchy world out there ladies and gents.

If you have experienced any of these kinds of behaviour or have other things to add to this list, please just comment, I am always fascinated by the level and amount of gym douche bags in the world.

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If you don’t like tea, read this and you may want to reconsider.  Mmmmm… tea…

This was done by 17und on Tumblr, you should check out the Tumblr link for more cute but healthy facts :3

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If you aren’t aware of how much crap they are putting in fast foods and are not slowing (if not stopping) your intake then this image might make you think twice.

What you are looking at is chicken kidney according to KFC analysts. This wasn’t something dumped after they found it, this was actually served in KFC as a part of their Gladiator Box. Mmmm, Yum. Note: Sarcasm.

The poor guy to whom this was served was 19 year old Ibrahim Langoo, from Essex in England. He and a friend bought a Gladiator Box and shared it between them. She got the burger, he got the chicken pieces. And luckily for him, he has a habit of picking the chicken off the bone.

He then took a picture of it and went to the counter to complain. He then posted the picture on his facebook where it was shared almost 500 times.

His account after finding what was in his meal goes like this:

The caption under the facebook picture reads: For all those that wanted to show their friends and families, here is the reason to never go to KFC ever again.

KFC in return to his claim of a chicken brain said this:

Even if it was a kidney and is harmless it just shows you the standards of KFC and other fast food chains! It’s not even chicken meat! What it is is fried kidney. So yummy. Again, Note: Sarcasm.

So the next time you go to a fast food chain, imagine taking a bite out of that. Who knows, you actually might.

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Summer is Strawberry season! Whoo hoo! And what this means is that you can snack on strawberries, without feeling guilty! Want to know why?

One cup of strawberries contains roughly 39 calories, or 160 kilojules (which isn’t much at all!). They also are stuffed with antioxidants, fibre, vitamin C and  folate. For those who are looking to lose a few kilos they are also fat free and low-GI. This means you feel fuller for longer.

Even if you aren’t looking to put a few kilos away you should still be munching on these beauties. It is known that strawberries combat diabetes and heart disease by keeping your blood glucose stable and levelling your energy levels. They also reduce their cholesterol.

The  Warwick University Medical School has published that strawberries stimulate the Nrf2 protien which apparently:

“… increase our in-built defences to keep cells, organs and blood vessels healthy and which can reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular problems such as heart disease and diabetes.

So don’t feel guilty about serving up strawberries and cream … although I’d suggest more strawberries and less or even no cream! “

Sound advice.

So go forth and snack on the superfruit known as Strawberries.

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