slosh down the pepper!

California "growers" style

I did a body analysis at California Fitness last night. Whoa.. the results were depressing. 27% of fat in my body! Incredulous! Why then did my scientific oregon electronic scale with body fat analysis reported only 23% fat in that very morning?!

"$3000++ machine leh" TB gawked while maintaining delight at his own 19.6% (not that it's very fit/healthy, just slightly lower than his $30 scale reported). But my SO is almost $300, can! Cheated. Or maybe overtly enthusiastic California Fitness 'tries' to improve customers' motivation by tipping the scale a bit here and there?

That was just one part of the sales presentation. F, the little malay man who 'invited' us down to the centre once again showed us around the facilities with a more hurried, more skeptical fashion than the previous Saturday (our 1st visit following receipt of a 7-day VIP pass from SMRT challenge pack). "Procedures" to gaining a 10-day VIP pass, in coincidence with the centre's 10th year anniversary in SG.

The other section of the sales talk involved a pretty big-sized man who spent nearly 30-45mins trying to establish a very convincing argument.. "Buy one year get one year free! Additional 6 months free for each couple who signed up together... $56 per month for All-Clubs access", "10 persons per day are allowed this special offer only..". Yar.. then he topped it off to say, "doesn't mean that each day got 10 vacancies you know? we are also accomodating people who were rejected the previous day..." Ultra contradictory! Still so very special offer or not?!

TB decided to use his usual 'pendulum-style' of planting a check-mate by swinging towards the extremes: "If you ask me to make a decision today, I will definitely walk away." Ha! Fat fitness consultant got no choice now: "Of course, we definitely respect your choice of assessing the gym facilities and your considerations first. Let me give you a 2-week free pass. We will give you a call again in 2 weeks..."

Time checked. 10pm! Though not at all bought over by Mr Fat and the aggressive-looking fitness centre, glee was still written all over my face. Not exactly time wasted what! I stepped on a $3000 machine for at least 3 mins! Got free body analysis, doubled complimentary membership from 7 days to 14 days, and spent 1.5 hours in a aircon environment which otherwise could be aimless plodding down orchard road.

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Tried out the gym this evening. Hmm.. not bad leh. Thought the treadmill was smoother than those in Planet Fitness. More resistance & weight training machines. So many patterns. And the hairdryer, wah! Big and powerful! But bad thing: gotta bring own padlock, no place to put shoes, dirty lockers since people probably put their shoes inside them when they bathe (just like me). Interesting stuffs: woman security guard stationed inside the changing room; perhaps of the amount of both actual and potential nudity present.

My cheque for Planet Fitness corporate membership is still not yet processed. I wonder when California will be coming up with its $1 per day offer again with my company!

Rating: 7 out of 10.

posted by slingwoof @ 8/03/2006 10:11:00 PM