Brenda Barrios-fasching

Lessons from the Gym Brenda Barrios-fasching

KRYSTAL'S MOM has set the ultimate goal for an overweight, middle aged woman. Since becoming widowed she has packed on the pounds and now with the wedding of her only daughter just months away she has vowed to join a gym as a means to become a lean, healthy, vibrant mother of the bride. Setting out to pick the perfect workout facility proves eventful to say the least beginning with a less than welcoming encounter with a fist shaking desk clerk at the local gym. Little does the rude desk clerk know but this gym is about to change forever now that Krystal's mom has joined the membership ranks! Handing over her worn and tattered credit card to pay for a two year membership Krystal's mom embarks on her new adventure into gym life. For someone who's only form of exercise is pushing a grocery cart through the dairy aisle, taking a walk on a programmable treadmill provides Krystal's mom with the first of many lessons to follow on the inner workings of a fitness facility. Walls do not bend and neither do snippy anorexic desk clerks - Lesson number 1!