Ask A Genius 793: Rick Hates Workouts
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/09/18
[Recording Start]
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s your favorite kind of workout?
Rick Rosner: Well I don’t like aerobics at all. I just hope to get some aerobic fitness out of just doing whatever. When I had a job there were a lot of stairs if you didn’t take the elevator. So I feel like that was good for that. I do weight machines pretty quickly. Since Covid, I try to get in and out of the gym really fast because I don’t want to catch Covid from some knucklehead gyms have a lot of knuckleheads who don’t believe that Covid is so bad. So I try to do four sets a minute, just do like five reps, move the peg in the machine or the dial or whatever changes the weight in the machine and do another set and knock out, then go from machine to machine.
Today I did something like 40 sets in roughly eight minutes at a gym that I don’t normally go to because I feel like it’s a bucket of blood for having knuckleheads that might give me Covid but my other gym isn’t open on Sunday, so I risked it. But I got in and out of there, did sets on three different machines; 37 sets, eight minutes. Before Covid, my favorite workout used to be to take a book in and read between sets, still do three sets a minute but a set takes five or eight seconds to do. Three to five reps and then read for 12 seconds, maybe 20 seconds and then do another set. Even so, like, people see you have a book on a machine; they won’t take 20 seconds to see if you’re actually using the machine. They think you’re using the gym as a library.
Anyway, those people are assholes. But I haven’t been able to do that since Covid because I can’t afford to spend 20 minutes in the gym because that raises my chances of getting Covid, so no reading at the gym. Looking forward to maybe someday when I can go back to doing that.
[Recording End]
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