The Grunt
April 23, 2008
Do you grunt? That situationally specific, quasi-erotic, quasi-excruciating sound heard echoing through the gym?
I am typically *not* a grunter. If I ever do let one slip, it typically blends into the white noise of the packed club, stifled by the more manly grunts in the sweat-laden, testosterone-thick free weight room.
But today I worked out at the gym in my building. It’s nice, but small, and doesn’t have enough mirrors (a topic for another time). I started my workout with the entire gym to myself. Dark and echoey, I lifted, lunged, and pressed, bopping along to the music playing a little too loudly in my crappy sony earbuds.
Some guy walked in ruining my groove around the middle of my second set. Bastard. But I soldiered on in our awkward propinquity. After his stretches and my lunges he headed to the gazelle elliptical thing and I moved on to pushups.
Big girl pushups, bitches. F- yeah!
I got through 13 with no problem. 14 was a struggle, and on 15 I lost it.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAGH!
The unintentional grunt. It echoed. So. Awkward.
He turned. I could feel it. What was he thinking? What a freak? What a hot, grunting muscle-y chick? Doubt it.
While moderately embarrassed, I just got up and finished my workout, with a little less exuberance than before. I couldn’t afford another slip up. Not because he cared, but because I do not want to slip into the grunts-at-the-gym club. No one likes the gym grunter. I cannot be one of them.
So tell me, are you a gym grunter?
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Eva | April 24, 2008 at 12:05 am
I don’t normally grunt in the gym either unless i am struggling really hard. Although when I was in high school and learning to play tennis Monica Seles was really good and she grunted a lot and I tried to learn to grunt while playing tennis so I could be cool too. Didn’t work so well.
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Beth | May 6, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I don’t normally grunt, but I caught myself doing it twice yesterday towards the end of my hamstring workout. I definitely thought of this post while I was in the middle of it and laughed.
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BatesHorn | July 22, 2008 at 3:28 pm
You know, excessive grunting is annoying. But if you got let one out to get one more rep, to push your workout to that point where you sit on the bench, sweating, sucking wind, and thinking “Fuck yeah” Then let it go. Plus it’s a gym. If you want quiet, go to a library.