I've been working out pretty consistently 2 - 3x per week in the mornings (6 - 7am) for the last year, and there have always been a couple other people around lifting, and there has even been 1 or 2 other people doing the occasional deadlift or squat (although rarely a full squat), but something has changed.
First, I don't think people are waiting for the New Year to start working out - it's been noticeably busier since Thanksgiving.
Second, people are doing DLs, RDLs, Step-ups, full squats, planks, chin-ups...in other words, only stuff that I was doing with NROL! I don't mean just a couple people either - today there were literally about 5 or 6 of us doing exercises like this! There was a woman there that I've never seen before do full squats, deads, DB push presses and chin-ups, and everything she did was with impeccable form. I wasn't surprised it was a woman doing these exercises (the great JP members of the fairer sex proved to me long ago that weights are not just for men
), but I've never seen anybody else work out like this at the Y before. It was great!
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon? Maybe there has been some collective epiphany, or great awakening. Or maybe it's just a bizarre coincidence and it will pass in the next month
.