Current mood: PI**ED OFF.
Excuse the language but I'm not too happy right now.
Today, I went to the gym. All was fine. I was doing my thing, found the rowing machine has a cool little fish game thing, and was showing signs of serious improvement in strength, when an instructor came over.
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah?" (Kinda panting cause it had been a long workout)
"Can I make a suggestion?"
"Mmhm."
"Start with these." He hands me the 3kg weights, as opposed to the 8kgs I was using.
"I've done those." A loooooong time ago mate. A really long time ago.
"Yeah but you don't want to turn into popeye. Girls look silly like that. They shouldn't lift weights at all."
*thinks - what?!* "Uh, right. But I want to build strength."
"No you don't. You want to tone."
*IRRITATED AS* "No, I want to build muscle. I need to be able to lift myself up." My arms are pretty toned to be honest.
Basically he just wound me up to no extent.

On my way home, I notice another gym and I remember it from a conversation I had with a friend of mine. I go up and explain to the lovely receptionist the horrendous behaviour at my current gym. She says they get that a lot. So the main man, G, comes out and shows me round. It's smaller than my current one, but the machines are a lot more advanced, and it is more friendly. The price works out the same in the long run and I might try going for an hour or two this week or next.

I'm still going to go to gymnastics at my current gym, if I do decide to change. Especially since my membership there doesn't run out until next July.

In other news, the work I did at the gym before Mr. Rude decides to intervene was pretty impressive. I did 15 minutes on the cross trainer, 25 minutes on the rowing machine playing the fish game, 10 on the treadmill - would have been longer but I didn't have any headphones so I got bored -, then I lifted myself up (for about three seconds)! then I went and did circuits on the cardio area. Cue Mr. Rude.
I lifted up to 9kg free weights, 7-8kg on the machine with no name, 7 on the assisted dip/curl machine (a new record) and about 15-30 reps on the hip adductor & abductor. Not too bad.

But yeah. Angry at them.