For some reason (I don't know why), conversation about "my guns" and the "spinach" that I eat came up at after-Mass Coffee. Why, I ask to myself? And is it that noticeable that I'm working out again. I wasn't even wearing a t-shirt that I had to shrink in a dorm dryer machine for five hours to get it to fit the right way. So what do I say? Yeah--I eat spinach like it's my job.
Laughs abound.
The sad part: it's so true. Spinach in my salads; spinach instead of lettuce on sandwiches; spinach as part of the DeBeers project; spinach, like the oatmeal, just about everywhere. Spinach is oh-so-good. And to think--I used to HATE that stuff. Once upon a time, I couldn't pay me to eat spinach. So I would hide it. I would throw it away. Once, at dinner at the Papparazi, I ate it totally against my will, but only with more butter than a batch of toll house cookies would take.
But now, I'm a big fan of that nice, leafy, green tastiness. And so I chuckle to myself (I've been doing that a lot lately.) "They" were all right, 10 to 20 years ago: "you don't know what you're missing. You'll regret it later..."
And the guns? Well, the popeye jokes abound. "Neal, your arms are like popeye. Where's your spinach now?" Or "Neal, show me where the beach is!" Ha Ha Ha. Some speculate that I only work out on my biceps and chest. Honestly, though, I don't. Just ask the people at Boston Sports Clubs. But back to the guns--I think it's all the deadlifts, wood choppers, and the hanging from the pull up bar type-exercises. All secondarily rely on the biceps.
Perhaps I should take this up with a personal trainer? But how do I take it the problem up with him/her? "Yo-I've been eating a lot of spinach and I think my biceps and chest are huge. Can you help me?" I'm sure the people who ONLY work out on beach muscles would reply "that's a problem?" Eh, kind of apparently... when you're five-foot-nothing, a hundred and something (as opposed to nothing--I'm not Rudy!).
By the way, the beach is that way...
but is it the beach you want to head off to?
scandalous. meet me there.
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