[Chazz]

Originally Posted by Army Guy

You don't belong in TV cause you don't look your age?
During our recent stay at our villa, twice when my wife and I were at the Fitness Center at Colony, we had this happen. Each time, the people that confronted us treated us this way. The first time was when me and the wife got in the very corner area of the Fitness Room on the mats they provide at the center to do some ab exercises. The area we use for only 12 minutes, (yes I have timed it!) is 5 ft by 6 ft and is in the very back corner. We were told by several we were in their way and blocking one of the machines. I first thought what the heck difference does it make, if I am blocking the machine versus if I was using it for 12 minutes? Yet I times them the next day and they constantly were suing machines for 40+ minutes each! But they basically told us, we didn't belong there in "THEIR" gym. We saw them several times over the course of our stay at TV and each time they gave us that attitude. The next time, is the best one, me and the wife again were in our same little area and we had just used two of the hand weights. We put them down for a second and were preparing to do a 60 second stretch before using the hand weights again. This woman comes up to us and asks if we are done with them and I told her no that we were using them one more time after we stretched for 60 sec, but then they were free to her. Well she proceeds to walk over to the Attendent Counter and tells the Attendent about it!! Next thing we know the Attendent comes over while we are stretching and I had to tell her the same thing!
It all boils down to we do not get respect for being a Village resident cause we don't look old enough!!
I know we should not complain about that!

Army Guy

The other issue, besides age discrimination might be optimizing the available space at the fitness center. Not quite sure I'm visualizing exactly where you were setting up for ab work, but I'm going to guess that it was near the hand weights. Although it is not self evident, the area by the mirror, where the floor mats are hung, makes an excellent ab workout area in terms of your safety and the best use of the small space in the gym. With the influx of people to TV in the coming weeks and months, it's even more important to make the best use of space to enable all members to get the most out of their sessions.

As to the age issue, I get the same treatment that I did when I was a kid looking forward to getting a few years older. Now, I'm trying to accept the comments a compliments. https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/images/smilies/redface.gif