Comments on: Ever Westernizing Gyms http://toshuo.com/2006/ever-westernizing-gyms/ Chinese, Linguistics, Science, Cultural Observations and whatever else I feel like writing about Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:03:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mark http://toshuo.com/2006/ever-westernizing-gyms/comment-page-1/#comment-8088 Mark Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:26:30 +0000 http://toshuo.com/2006/ever-westernizing-gyms/#comment-8088 Yeah, they're in the process of making a <i>California Fitness</i> branch in Beijing as we speak. I'll be able to use my member card out there, too. One thing I didn't see out there was the "chubby generation" of kids reared on Japanese junk food that we have in Taiwan. I swear I've taught nine year-olds who had bigger waistlines than their 40 year-old parents. I don't think you'll have to worry about the spandex invaders for quite a while. Yeah, they’re in the process of making a California Fitness branch in Beijing as we speak. I’ll be able to use my member card out there, too. One thing I didn’t see out there was the “chubby generation” of kids reared on Japanese junk food that we have in Taiwan. I swear I’ve taught nine year-olds who had bigger waistlines than their 40 year-old parents.

I don’t think you’ll have to worry about the spandex invaders for quite a while.

]]> By: chriswaugh_bj http://toshuo.com/2006/ever-westernizing-gyms/comment-page-1/#comment-8082 chriswaugh_bj Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:42:07 +0000 http://toshuo.com/2006/ever-westernizing-gyms/#comment-8082 I never bothered going to the gym until a month ago, but from my very limited experience and the various gyms I've seen around here, the Mainland is going the same road, but with perhaps every kind of gym you've seen in Taiwan all happily co-existing here in Beijing. And that last sentence has me so scared that I'm determined to either make enough money or rob enough banks to have my own gym built and fully functioning out in the mountains northwest of here long before the Olympics roll into town. I never bothered going to the gym until a month ago, but from my very limited experience and the various gyms I’ve seen around here, the Mainland is going the same road, but with perhaps every kind of gym you’ve seen in Taiwan all happily co-existing here in Beijing. And that last sentence has me so scared that I’m determined to either make enough money or rob enough banks to have my own gym built and fully functioning out in the mountains northwest of here long before the Olympics roll into town.

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