I had a roommate the first half of 2003 who was/is an excellent and creative certified personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness. He emailed me a couple of weeks ago saying he knows I have a b-day coming up at the end of the month and what would I like for my b-day? From him? What else? I wrote that I wanted free personal training. Of course this is considered theft of 24 Hour Fitness resources if we do it at a gym that employs him. Here’s the email conversation (in pertinent part only):

Trainer: If you want we can do more functional training at like a park or something like that.
Me: I’m game!
Trainer: I think I am gunna find somewhere with big hills hehehehe
Me: sounds good to me!
Trainer: okie time to dig out my torture devices, lol
Me: hey, if I wanted to be lazy and have an ineffectual workout, why would I even contact you? I’d just sit around at home and eat lard.
Trainer: lmao, cause you would never do that unless someone put you in a severe depressive state

I love how well my friends know me.
So training this afternoon at 2:30 at a (fairly) local park. I hope I can do a pull-up and not embarass myself.